Student Predicts 2009 Oscar Winners

6 Arts & Life Editors Eva Piatek Alison Swety Campus Comment Arts & Life Alexis Sullivan Student predicts 2009 Oscar winners COMMENTARY BY havoc on her family in “Rachel MEGAN WALSH Getting Married.” Staff Writer Best Supporting Actor Nomi- The movie industry’s biggest nees: Josh Brolin, “Milk”; Robert award ceremony, the Oscars, is Downey, Jr., “Tropic Thunder”; three days away. The 81st Acad- Phillip Seymour Hoffman, “Doubt”; emy Awards will be broadcast Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”; this Sunday, February 22, and will Michael Shannon, “Revolutionary award the crème-de-la-crème of Road.” 2008 cinema. Some big names Who Will Win: Heath Ledger. (Anne Hathaway, Robert Downey, This one is pretty much locked. Jr., Penélope Cruz) and big films Two reasons why: his phenom- (“The Dark Knight,” “Tropic Thun- enal performance in the role and der,” “Doubt”) are up for awards his untimely death last year. The this year, as well as a couple (Brad other nominees aren’t much com- and Angelina), the Oscar Queen petition, so expect the late Ledger (Meryl Streep) and a deceased ac- to receive a posthumous award on tor (Heath Ledger). Oscar night. Here are the nominees along with my thoroughly researched Best Supporting Actress: Amy predictions of who will leave the Adams, “Doubt”; Penélope Cruz, ceremony with statuettes of gold- “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”; Viola en men on Sunday night: Davis, “Doubt”; Taraji P. Henson, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Best Picture Nominees: “The Button”; Marisa Tomei, “The Wres- Curious Case of Benjamin But- tler.” ton,” “Frost/Nixon,” “Milk,” “The Who Will Win: Penélope Cruz. Reader,” “Slumdog Millionaire.” The supporting categories are Who Will Win: “Slumdog Mil- usually a wild card. (Remember lionaire.” This film about an eigh- COURTESY BRETT RATNER / ABC / MCTCAMPUS last year when Tilda Swinton teen-year-old boy from an impov- ACTOR HUGH Jackman prepares to host this year’s Academy Awards. beat, well, everyone else in the erished background who lands on Jenkins, “The Visitor”; Frank Lan- performance as a gay-rights activ- Globes this year (one for support- category.) With Kate Winslet not “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” nominated in this category, that has been sweeping up all the pre- gella, “Frost/Nixon”; Sean Penn, ist. ing in “The Reader” and the other “Milk”; Brad Pitt, “The Curious for lead in “Revolutionary Road”) leaves it free for Cruz to claim the cursor awards. It has the Golden award. Possible upset could come Globe, SAG and BFCA awards, as Case of Benjamin Button”; Mickey Best Actress Nominees: Anne and has been sweeping other Rourke, “The Wrestler”. Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Mar- awards shows in the supporting from Viola Davis, who was rivet- well as ten Oscar nominations. ing as the mother of an allegedly The only thing standing in “Slum- Who Will Win: Mickey Rourke. ried”; Angelina Jolie, “Changeling”; category. Will she continue her His performance as an aging Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”; Meryl winning streak with “The Reader,” abused boy. Working against her, dog’s” way is “The Curious Case though, is the fact that she only of Benjamin Button,” which leads wrestler is being hailed as Rourke’s Streep, “Doubt”; Kate Winslet, despite the fact that the Academy greatest. But, other critics say that “The Reader.” nominated her in lead and not had twelve minutes of screen time with 13 Oscar nominations and in the entire film. star power from Brad Pitt and Langella or Penn have a shot at Who Will Win: Kate Winslet. At supporting? Winslet’s competition Cate Blanchett. taking the Oscar gold home, too. age 33, Winslet is the youngest ac- is Oscar Queen Meryl Streep (15 The Academy may want to award tress with six Oscar nominations nominations and two wins) and Whatever the outcome, the Os- cars will provide an excellent Sun- Best Actor Nominees: Richard the veteran, Langella, or Penn, to her name, and she has yet to Anne Hathaway, playing a recov- who won the SAG award for his win one. She won two Golden ering drug addict who wreaks day night break! Yevich Memorial Jazz Concert USPB reveals daily clues about comes to Scranton next week BY KELLY HAGGERTY upcoming Spring Concert band Staff Writer David Ostwald’s Gully Low This year’s Spring Concert band will be unveiled to the entire campus on Feb. 26 at noon. Every week- Jazz Band and special guest day until Wednesday, USPB will give a clue about the band and every other day the new clue will be dis- Wycliffe Gordon will perform played in the USPB office window, which faces the student forum in DeNaples, as well as on their website, “In Concert” for the First Gene www.uspb.org. USPB’s first clue is, “You have heard his voice since high school.” Anyone interested in Yevich Memorial Jazz Concert at joining the concert committee must attend the first meeting 8 p.m. March 5 in the DeNaples theater. the Houlihan-McLean Center on Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be free and open to the pub- lic. University alumnus and for- mer Scranton Mayor David Wen- zel and his wife, Janet, will spon- sor the concert in the memory of their friend Gene Yevich. Yevich, who passed away in 2005, will be honored for his dedication to the city of Scranton as an ac- complished musician, a longtime Gene Yevich firefighter and Fire Chief during the Wenzel Administration. “My father very much enjoyed Yevich performed in “The not only their music but also be- Novelaires” and “The Mediter- came friends with and enjoyed ranean Sounds” bands. Known the musicians themselves,” Boga locally for his skills on the ac- said. cordion, he also played piano, Ostwald, a world respected sang as a young man, and joined Louis Armstrong scholar and a the All-State Orchestra as a bass- member of the Gully Low Jazz ist. He and his wife, Julie, have Band, served during the Arm- three children, University gradu- strong Centennial Year as The ates Michael Yevich and Cynthis National Louis Armstrong Cen- Yevich, and Cheryl Yevich Boga, tennial Band. Gordon received director of performance music an honorary doctoral from for The University. The University during the 2006 As David Ostwald and Wyc- Commencement, where he also liffe Gordon return to Scranton served as the commencement to perform at the memorial con- speaker. He lends his musical cert, Boga recalls her father’s skills to The University com- love for their music. In the last munity by composing music for decade of his life, both Ostwald student ensembles, performing and Gordon came to know and for and with the students and respect Yevich as a musician and performing as a guest at The a friend. University..

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