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I wonder if that suicide bomber film will win anything after all those protests in Israel and the lobbying that has been done over the last couple of weeks.
Posted: 00:48 Mar 06 2006
2006 Academy Awards
It's that time of the year again. Hollywood's annual slap on the back, rolling the red carpet out in large quantities, showing off the latest fashions, praying the presenters are funny and the speeches aren't too cringe-worthy.
The hot favourites this year are Brokeback Mountain, Crash and Walk the Line. Unfortunately i've not seen any of those films yet, so i can't comment, but they've all reviewed well, so there you go.
A list of categories and nominations follows. It's not a super-duper all-inclusive list, so if there are any missing, feel free to add them below with yours thoughts on who should and shouldn't win, who shouldn't even be nominated and other enlightened opinions.
Best picture
Brokeback Mountain
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich
Capote
Best director
Steven Spielberg - Munich
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Paul Haggis - Crash
Bennett Miller - Capote
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
Best actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck
Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
Terrence Howard - Hustle and Flow
Best actress
Dame Judi Dench - Mrs Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
Charlize Theron - North Country
Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice
Best supporting actress
Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
Frances McDormand - North Country
Amy Adams - Junebug
Catherine Keener - Capote
Best supporting actor
George Clooney - Syriana
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
Matt Dillon - Crash
William Hurt - A History of Violence
Best animated feature film
Howl's Moving Castle
Corpse Bride
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best adapted screenplay
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
The Constant Gardener
A History of Violence
Munich
Best original screenplay
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Match Point
The Squid and the Whale
Syriana
Best music (score)
Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Memoirs of a Geisha
Munich
Pride and Prejudice
Best visual effects
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
King Kong
War of the Worlds
Best cinematography
Batman Begins
Brokeback Mountain
Goodnight, and Good Luck
Memoirs of a Geisha
The New World
Best art direction
Goodnight, and Good Luck
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha
Pride and Prejudice
Best make-up
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Cinderella Man
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Best sound mixing
The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha
Walk The Line
War of the Worlds
Best film editing
Cinderella Man
The Constant Gardener
Crash
Munich
Walk The Line
Lifetime Achievement Award
Director and writer Robert Altman
(Edited by Maffrew 05/03/2006 22:37)
The hot favourites this year are Brokeback Mountain, Crash and Walk the Line. Unfortunately i've not seen any of those films yet, so i can't comment, but they've all reviewed well, so there you go.
A list of categories and nominations follows. It's not a super-duper all-inclusive list, so if there are any missing, feel free to add them below with yours thoughts on who should and shouldn't win, who shouldn't even be nominated and other enlightened opinions.
Best picture
Brokeback Mountain
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich
Capote
Best director
Steven Spielberg - Munich
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Paul Haggis - Crash
Bennett Miller - Capote
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
Best actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck
Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
Terrence Howard - Hustle and Flow
Best actress
Dame Judi Dench - Mrs Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
Charlize Theron - North Country
Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice
Best supporting actress
Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
Frances McDormand - North Country
Amy Adams - Junebug
Catherine Keener - Capote
Best supporting actor
George Clooney - Syriana
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
Matt Dillon - Crash
William Hurt - A History of Violence
Best animated feature film
Howl's Moving Castle
Corpse Bride
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best adapted screenplay
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
The Constant Gardener
A History of Violence
Munich
Best original screenplay
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Match Point
The Squid and the Whale
Syriana
Best music (score)
Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Memoirs of a Geisha
Munich
Pride and Prejudice
Best visual effects
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
King Kong
War of the Worlds
Best cinematography
Batman Begins
Brokeback Mountain
Goodnight, and Good Luck
Memoirs of a Geisha
The New World
Best art direction
Goodnight, and Good Luck
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha
Pride and Prejudice
Best make-up
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Cinderella Man
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Best sound mixing
The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha
Walk The Line
War of the Worlds
Best film editing
Cinderella Man
The Constant Gardener
Crash
Munich
Walk The Line
Lifetime Achievement Award
Director and writer Robert Altman
(Edited by Maffrew 05/03/2006 22:37)
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Posted: 00:48 Mar 06 2006 
Some reasonable results with a glaring exception. Ang Lee's superb Brokeback Mountain loses Best Picture to that trite, utterly-disposable limousine-liberal polemic on race relations Crash.
So you been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl
Play ethnicky jazz to parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin' that you know how the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul
In more positive frame of mind I'm mighty pleased with the animation Oscar for Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Clooney's win and quality acceptance speech, and that at least Brokeback landed Best Director. King Kong notched up some technical awards, but, I'm pleased to say, no acting gongs, which is fair enough, and no one film dominated, which is always good, but again, Crash!?! That makes Forrest Gump's win look fair by comparison.
So you been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl
Play ethnicky jazz to parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin' that you know how the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul
In more positive frame of mind I'm mighty pleased with the animation Oscar for Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Clooney's win and quality acceptance speech, and that at least Brokeback landed Best Director. King Kong notched up some technical awards, but, I'm pleased to say, no acting gongs, which is fair enough, and no one film dominated, which is always good, but again, Crash!?! That makes Forrest Gump's win look fair by comparison.
Posted: 16:39 Mar 06 2006 
I saw Brokeback Mountain and really liked it a lot. A good story, terrific acting, wonderful cinemtography, and on and on. But I never thought it would win Best Picture. I would have been pleased if it had won. But I just thought the more conservative members of the Academy wouldn't vote for it for Best Picture. But I have no evidence for that statement, so...
I do hear that Crash was (is) getting a lot of play in Los Angeles. It has opened up this huge discussion about race relations in the city apparently. Maybe that has something to do with it getting a big push in the last couple of weeks. Most of the Academcy members live out there. I haven't seen Crash, so I don't know if it's deserving. In fact, it isn't playing anywhere around where I live. But since it did win, I hope to see it. I'm not expecting much though, because I've heard just as many people say they didn't like it as say they did.
I was also glad to see George Clooney win. Loved his speech. Wish he had won for Good Night and Good Luck. Though I loved the movie for its subject, I really never thought a very quiet, serious, almost documentary style movie like that would best the competiion it had. Still, as they say, it was nice to be nominated.
I probably wouldn't have watched as closely at all if it weren't for Jon Stewart, the host. Love that guy. He does a really great political humor show here called The Daily Show. Don't think he was at his best at the Oscars, but his presence was enough to get me to watch.
I do hear that Crash was (is) getting a lot of play in Los Angeles. It has opened up this huge discussion about race relations in the city apparently. Maybe that has something to do with it getting a big push in the last couple of weeks. Most of the Academcy members live out there. I haven't seen Crash, so I don't know if it's deserving. In fact, it isn't playing anywhere around where I live. But since it did win, I hope to see it. I'm not expecting much though, because I've heard just as many people say they didn't like it as say they did.
I was also glad to see George Clooney win. Loved his speech. Wish he had won for Good Night and Good Luck. Though I loved the movie for its subject, I really never thought a very quiet, serious, almost documentary style movie like that would best the competiion it had. Still, as they say, it was nice to be nominated.
I probably wouldn't have watched as closely at all if it weren't for Jon Stewart, the host. Love that guy. He does a really great political humor show here called The Daily Show. Don't think he was at his best at the Oscars, but his presence was enough to get me to watch.
Posted: 23:38 Mar 06 2006 Don't know how I managed to omit Good Night, and Good Luck from my post, thanks for reminding me. I rated it highly both as a damning indictment of today's media torpor and yesterday's media courage. The cool, monocrome directing evoked the era perfectly, and what a stroke of genius to have the sweaty, slurred demagogue play himself.
by Sandia
I was also glad to see George Clooney win. Loved his speech. Wish he had won for Good Night and Good Luck. Though I loved the movie for its subject, I really never thought a very quiet, serious, almost documentary style movie like that would best the competiion it had. Still, as they say, it was nice to be nominated.
Posted: 16:15 Mar 07 2006