January 31, 200620 yr Performance by an actor in a leading role Philip Seymour Hoffman in ?Capote? (UA/Sony Pictures Classics) Terrence Howard in ?Hustle & Flow? (Paramount Classics, MTV Films and New Deal Entertainment) Heath Ledger in ?Brokeback Mountain? (Focus Features) Joaquin Phoenix in ?Walk the Line? (20th Century Fox) David Strathairn in ?Good Night, and Good Luck.? (Warner Independent Pictures) Performance by an actor in a supporting role George Clooney in ?Syriana? (Warner Bros.) Matt Dillon in ?Crash? (Lions Gate) Paul Giamatti in ?Cinderella Man? (Universal and Miramax) Jake Gyllenhaal in ?Brokeback Mountain? (Focus Features) William Hurt in ?A History of Violence? (New Line) Performance by an actress in a leading role Judi Dench in ?Mrs. Henderson Presents? (The Weinstein Company) Felicity Huffman in ?Transamerica? (The Weinstein Company and IFC Films) Keira Knightley in ?Pride & Prejudice? (Focus Features) Charlize Theron in ?North Country? (Warner Bros.) Reese Witherspoon in ?Walk the Line? (20th Century Fox) Performance by an actress in a supporting role Amy Adams in ?Junebug? (Sony Pictures Classics) Catherine Keener in ?Capote? (UA/Sony Pictures Classics) Frances McDormand in ?North Country? (Warner Bros.) Rachel Weisz in ?The Constant Gardener? (Focus Features) Michelle Williams in ?Brokeback Mountain? (Focus Features) Best animated feature film of the year ?Howl?s Moving Castle? (Buena Vista) Hayao Miyazaki ?Tim Burton?s Corpse Bride? (Warner Bros.) Tim Burton and Mike Johnson ?Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit? (DreamWorks Animation SKG) Nick Park and Steve Box Achievement in art direction ?Good Night, and Good Luck.? (Warner Independent Pictures) Art Direction: Jim Bissell Set Decoration: Jan Pascale ?Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire? (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Stuart Craig Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan ?King Kong? (Universal) Art Direction: Grant Major Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Simon Bright ?Memoirs of a Geisha? (Sony Pictures Releasing) Art Direction: John Myhre Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau ?Pride & Prejudice? (Focus Features) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood Set Decoration: Katie Spencer Achievement in cinematography ?Batman Begins? (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister ?Brokeback Mountain? (Focus Features) Rodrigo Prieto ?Good Night, and Good Luck.? (Warner Independent Pictures) Robert Elswit ?Memoirs of a Geisha? (Sony Pictures Releasing) Dion Beebe ?The New World? (New Line) Emmanuel Lubezki Achievement in costume design ?Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? (Warner Bros.) Gabriella Pescucci ?Memoirs of a Geisha? (Sony Pictures Releasing) Colleen Atwood ?Mrs. Henderson Presents? (The Weinstein Company) Sandy Powell ?Pride & Prejudice? (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran ?Walk the Line? (20th Century Fox) Arianne Phillips Achievement in directing ?Brokeback Mountain? (Focus Features) Ang Lee ?Capote? (UA/Sony Pictures Classics) Bennett Miller ?Crash? (Lions Gate) Paul Haggis ?Good Night, and Good Luck.? (Warner Independent Pictures) George Clooney ?Munich? (Universal and DreamWorks) Steven Spielberg Best documentary feature ?Darwin?s Nightmare? (International Film Circuit) A Mille et Une Production Hubert Sauper ?Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room? (Magnolia Pictures) An HDNet Films Production Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot ?March of the Penguins? (Warner Independent Pictures) A Bonne Pioche Production Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau ?Murderball? (THINKFilm) An Eat Films Production Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro ?Street Fight? A Marshall Curry Production Marshall Curry Best documentary short subject ?The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club? A Dan Krauss Production Dan Krauss ?God Sleeps in Rwanda? An Acquaro/Sherman Production Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman ?The Mushroom Club? A Farallon Films Production Steven Okazaki ?A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin? A NomaFilms Production Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson Achievement in film editing ?Cinderella Man? (Universal and Miramax) Mike Hill and Dan Hanley ?The Constant Gardener? (Focus Features) Claire Simpson ?Crash? (Lions Gate) Hughes Winborne ?Munich? (Universal and DreamWorks) Michael Kahn ?Walk the Line? (20th Century Fox) Michael McCusker Best foreign language film of the year ?Don?t Tell? A Cattleya/Rai Cinema Production Italy ?Joyeux No?l? A Nord-Ouest Production France ?Paradise Now? An Augustus Film Production Palestine ?Sophie Scholl - The Final Days? A Goldkind Filmproduktion and Broth Film Production Germany ?Tsotsi? A Moviworld Production South Africa Achievement in makeup ?The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? (Buena Vista) Howard Berger and Tami Lane ?Cinderella Man? (Universal and Miramax) David Leroy Anderson and Lance Anderson ?Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith? (20th Century Fox) Dave Elsey and Annette Miles Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) ?Brokeback Mountain? (Focus Features) Gustavo Santaolalla ?The Constant Gardener? (Focus Features) Alberto Iglesias ?Memoirs of a Geisha? (Sony Pictures Releasing) John Williams ?Munich? (Universal and DreamWorks) John Williams ?Pride & Prejudice? (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) ?In the Deep? from ?Crash? (Lions Gate) Music by Kathleen ?Bird? York and Michael Becker Lyric by Kathleen ?Bird? York ?It?s Hard Out Here for a Pimp? from?Hustle & Flow? (Paramount Classics, MTV Films and New Deal Entertainment) Music and Lyric by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard ?Travelin? Thru? from ?Transamerica? (The Weinstein Company and IFC Films) Music and Lyric by Dolly Parton Best motion picture of the year ?Brokeback Mountain? (Focus Features) A River Road Entertainment Production Diana Ossana and James Schamus, Producers ?Capote? (UA/Sony Pictures Classics) An A-Line Pictures/Cooper?s Town/ Infinity Media Production Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven, Producers ?Crash? (Lions Gate) A Bob Yari/DEJ/Blackfriar?s Bridge/ Harris Company/ApolloProscreen GmbH & Co./Bull?s Eye Entertainment Production Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers ?Good Night, and Good Luck.? (Warner Independent Pictures) A Good Night Good Luck LLC Production Grant Heslov, Producer ?Munich? (Universal and DreamWorks) A Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures Production Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Barry Mendel, Producers Best animated short film ?Badgered? A National Film and Television School Production Sharon Colman ?The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation? A John Canemaker Production John Canemaker and Peggy Stern ?The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello? (Monster Distributes) A 3D Films Production Anthony Lucas ?9? A Shane Acker Production Shane Acker ?One Man Band? A Pixar Animation Studios Production Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews Best live action short film ?Ausreisser (The Runaway)? A Hamburg Media School, Filmwerkstatt Production Ulrike Grote ?Cashback? (The British Film Institute) A Left Turn Films Production Sean Ellis and Lene Bausager ?The Last Farm? A Zik Zak Filmworks Production R?nar R?narsson and Thor S. Sigurj?nsson ?Our Time Is Up? A Station B Production Rob Pearlstein and Pia Clemente ?Six Shooter? (Sundance Film Channel) A Missing in Action Films and Funny Farm Films Production Martin McDonagh Achievement in sound editing ?King Kong? (Universal) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn ?Memoirs of a Geisha? (Sony Pictures Releasing) Wylie Stateman ?War of the Worlds? (Paramount and DreamWorks) Richard King Achievement in sound mixing ?The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? (Buena Vista) Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic and Tony Johnson ?King Kong? (Universal) Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek ?Memoirs of a Geisha? (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kevin O?Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline and John Pritchett ?Walk the Line? (20th Century Fox) Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Peter F. Kurland ?War of the Worlds? (Paramount and DreamWorks) Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ronald Judkins Achievement in visual effects ?The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? (Buena Vista) Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney and Scott Farrar ?King Kong? (Universal) Joe Letteri, Brian Van?t Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor ?War of the Worlds? (Paramount and DreamWorks) Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randy Dutra and Daniel Sudick Adapted screenplay ?Brokeback Mountain? (Focus Features) Screenplay by Admin McMurtry & Diana Ossana ?Capote? (UA/Sony Pictures Classics) Screenplay by Dan Futterman ?The Constant Gardener? (Focus Features) Screenplay by Jeffrey Caine ?A History of Violence? (New Line) Screenplay by Josh Olson ?Munich? (Universal and DreamWorks) Screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth Original screenplay ?Crash? (Lions Gate) Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco Story by Paul Haggis ?Good Night, and Good Luck.? (Warner Independent Pictures) Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov ?Match Point? (DreamWorks) Written by Woody Allen ?The Squid and the Whale? (Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sony Pictures Releasing) Written by Noah Baumbach ?Syriana? (Warner Bros.) Written by Stephen Gaghan Link I've seen almost all of the big nominated movies up there besides Brokeback Mountain so here would be my picks: Best Picture: Munich (Brokeback will win though) Actor: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Capote (Virtual Lock) Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man (Got F'ed for Sideways this kindof makes up for it) Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Walk The Line (Good momentum, although Huffman may win) Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardner (Personal choice) Best Director: Steven Spielberg "Munich" (considering Academy politics no way in hell he will win) Best Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit (Personal choice) Best Documentary: Murderball (One of the best pictures of the year, not just Doc.)
January 31, 200620 yr I'm very surprised New World was accepted for this year's awards. I'm fairly certain it was released in most theaters after January 1st. Anyway, the biggest snub was 'Walk the Line' not gettin the nom.
January 31, 200620 yr Wow am I behind this season.... only one of the best film noms I saw was Crash. Seriously I can't remember a year when there were so many movies out I wanted to see, yet I wound up seeing almost none of them. :plain
February 1, 200620 yr This is who I WANT to win, not who WILL win: Best Picture: Crash (My favorite movie of the year, by a lot) Actor: Terrance Howard (His performance in Hustle and Flow was mesmorizing, the picture was only 8/10 - but he owned that role; especially if you compare DJay to Terrance in real life, the difference is just stunning.) Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti (Though Matt Dillon's performance in Crash was a very good one) Actress: Reese Witherspoon (Eh...Not a great group of candidates) Supporting Actress: Michelle Williams (Yes, I did go see Brokeback Mountain) Best Director: Paul Haggis for Crash Best Animated Film: Corpse Bride (Only one I saw) Best Documentary: March of the Penguins (Didn't see Murderball, will try to
February 1, 200620 yr That Best Actor category is booked solid. I agree that Hoffman will win, but Terrence Howard was awesome too. Heath Ledger was great. No one talks about David Strathairn, but he was terrific, as well. I didn't see Walk the Line. Actually, I didn't see Capote either. I'm going to be annoyed when Brokeback Mountain wins because it really wasn't that good, and everyone I've talked to about it says the same thing. Beautiful looking movie with some great performances. The love story honestly wasn't that moving, and it has nothing to do with the characters being gay. It's just that the movie started jerking ahead in time way too quickly and sharply for you to get deeply involved. Munich is my favorite of the nominations. Had King Kong been nominated, I would've been torn...but I think Kong was hurt by it's underachieving at the BO. Oh, and Murderball was awesome...haven't seen March of the Penguins.
February 1, 200620 yr That Best Actor category is booked solid. I agree that Hoffman will win, but Terrence Howard was awesome too. Heath Ledger was great. No one talks about David Strathairn, but he was terrific, as well. I didn't see Walk the Line. Actually, I didn't see Capote either. I'm going to be annoyed when Brokeback Mountain wins because it really wasn't that good, and everyone I've talked to about it says the same thing. Beautiful looking movie with some great performances. The love story honestly wasn't that moving, and it has nothing to do with the characters being gay. It's just that the movie started jerking ahead in time way too quickly and sharply for you to get deeply involved. I agree with that. Though I did enjoy it, it really wasn't best picture worthy in my opinion - I really think Crash is quite a bit better. In regards to Terrance Howard in Hustle and Flow, if you did not see that film, you must! Coming from suburbia, I went into Hustle and Flow with little hope (Plot - Black pimp has midlife crisis and wants to become a rapper) - but Terrance Howard gives an epic performance as one of the most memorable characters I can remember. BTW - "You Mormons are some brave mother f***ers..."
February 2, 200620 yr Pretty predictable, but I'm pissed Ep. III didn't get more nominations for technical awards.
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