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BEST PICTURE
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night and Good Luck
Munich

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Philip Seymour Hoffman - CAPOTE
Terrence Howard - HUSTLE & FLOW
Heath Ledger - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Joaquin Phoenix - WALK THE LINE
David Strathairn - GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
George Clooney - SYRIANA
Matt Dillon - CRASH
Paul Giamatti - CINDERELLA MAN
Jake Gyllenhaal - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
William Hurt - A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Judi Dench - MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS
Felicity Huffman - TRANSAMERICA
Keira Knightley - PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Charlize Theron - NORTH COUNTRY
Reese Witherspoon - WALK THE LINE

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams - JUNEBUG
Catherine Keener - CAPOTE
Frances McDormand - NORTH COUNTRY
Rachel Weisz - THE CONSTANT GARDENER
Michelle Williams - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

BEST DIRECTOR
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Bennett Miller, Capote
Paul Haggis, Crash
George Clooney, Good Night & Good Luck
Steven Spielberg, Munich

Original Screenplay
Crash
Good Night, Good Luck
Match Point
Syriana
Squid and the Whale

Adapted screenplay
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Constant Gardener
History of Violence
Munich

Foreign Language
Don't Tell
Joyeux Noel
Paradise Now
Sophie Scholl
Tsotsi

Animated
Howl's Moving Castle
Corpse Bride
Wallace and Gromit

WOW! Go Cristina Comencini, go!!!!

Keira Knightley?
For a second I thought maybe it's Razzies...

I'm pulling for Brokeback Mountain in Best Pic, Joaquin Phoenix for Best Actor, and Reese Witherspoon for Best Actress. I can't belive Crash was nominated for Best Pic

Is it too early.....?

My Picks
Picture – Brokeback Mountain
Actor – Phillip Seymour Hoffman in “Capote”
Actress - ??? (I didn't see any of the nominated films)
S. Actor – Jake Gyllenhaal in “Brokeback Mountain”
S. Actress – Michelle Williams in “Brokeback Mountain”
Director – Ang Lee for “Brokeback Mountain”
Adapted Screenplay - “Brokeback Mountain”
Original Screenplay – “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

Predictions
Picture - Brokeback Mountain
Actor – Phillip Seymour Hoffman in “Capote”
Actress – Reese Witherspoon in “Walk the Line”
S. Actor – Paul Giamatti in “Cinderella Man”
S. Actress – Amy Adams in “Junebug”
Director – Ang Lee for “Brokeback Mountain”
Adapted Screenplay - “Brokeback Mountain”
Original Screenplay – “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

Keira Knightley deserves an Oscar just for being so gawd-damn sexy. They should have a category for "Most Gawd-Damn Sexy Female."

Keira would win, even if she weren't nominated.

Here is comes....Brokeback Mountain sweeps....yuck.

I know.

Gay cowboy movie, or heterosexual movie, it's overlong, muddled, repetitive and even formulaic. It sweeps, not because it's a masterpiece, but because it's about a homosexual relationship. I found interest only in its cinematography.

The rest of the nominations:

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

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 Noël”
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 Nikki Gooley

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 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
Rúnar Rúnarsson and Thor S. Sigurjónsson
“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

Well, thankfully Brokeback didn't make the makeup category.

That Memoirs of a Geisha was nominated for anything is heinous.

In short, a grossly disappointing batch of usual suspects.

I can't wait to see Munich, though.

I'd forgotten what a lousy year this was for movies 'til I saw this thread...I figured "Bend-over Mountain" would get a lotta' nods, since it's -- ahem -- "critically acclaimed" (yeah, read what you like into that, I don't care). Oh well. Each to his own, I suppose. Sure don't say much for the choices this past year, though.

I'm just surprised that their seems to be this hoopla over one hell of an overrated motion picture in CRASH(***/5) which actually was a decent picture, but Top 10? Hell no. Top 20? Fuck No. Top 50? Perhaps.

While I'm pissed that A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE didn't get a Best Picture or Director nomination(fuck!!!), but at least Hurt got nominated for his show-stopping 3rd-act appearance. Really, his first great movie-work in some time.

Hey, BATMAN BEGINS got nominated for Best Cinematography...good nomination.

SIN CITY should have been nominated for the following categories at least:

Best Supporting Actor - Mickey Rourke(actor-turned-boxer-turned actor nearly stole the damn movie before Owen and Willis had their chance)
Best Cinematography - Yes, its CGI but so what? I seem to remember that TRON itself in the 80's was disqualified because the Academy thought its CGI was "cheating"!

Still, here are my personal-opinion picks for all the categories, followed later possibly by what I think WILL win:

Best Picture - MUNICH
Best Director - Steven Spielberg, MUNICH
Best Actor - Philip Seymour Hoffman, CAPOTE
Best Actress - Reese Witherspoon, WALK THE LINE
Best Supporting Actor - George Clooney, SYRIANA
Best Supporting Actress - Rachel Weisz, THE CONSTANT GARDENER
Best Adapted Screenplay - A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
Best Original Screenplay - SYRIANA
Best Animated Movie - WALLACE & GROMIT
Best Art Direction - HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Best Cinematography - THE NEW WORLD
Best Costume Design - WALK THE LINE
Best Documentary - MURDERBALL(fuck the penguins!)
Best Film Editing - MUNICH
Best Make-up - REVENGE OF THE SITH(lousy group of nominations for that category!)
Best Original Music - John Williams, MUNICH
Best Original Song - I refuse to pick from this lousy lineup
Best Sound Editing - WAR OF THE WORLDS
Best Sound - WALK THE LINE
Best Visual Effects - WAR OF THE WORLDS(where's REVENGE OF THE SITH?!?!)

This year was a good year for movies, unfortunately the Academy Awards picked mostly expected picks.

Where's Last Days for best film? Best original song? Best cinematography, etc? Where's Broken Flowers, No Direction Home, or Jarhead.

At least Syriana got nominated for best screenplay. Crash doesn't deserve best picture.

Yayyyy. I'm rooting for him this year. He probably won't get it though. But he's got my vote, and that's all that matters, right?

Come on, Dally... do it for Johnny, man!

Have you seen it?

I probably won't see Brokeback Mountain. It looks like pure oscar bait crap. I'll pass. It'll sweep though.

In response to Vercetti and Ronnie:
I heard "No Direction Home" and "Sin City" were ineligible for the Oscars. The former never made a theatrical run, and the latter is full of controversy because Rodriguez dropped out of the Guild.

Here's my take:
Best Picture
'Brokeback', 'Munich', and 'Goodnight' are not surprising. Even though it was talked about a lot, I'm still surprised "Crash" made it in. And I'm so glad "Capote" made it in over "Walk the Line". The former is a great example of the possibilites of a biopic, and the latter is so by-the-numbers it's laughable. Speaking of by-the-numbers, those of you who are calling "Crash" overrated need to see "Brokeback Mountain" if you want a lesson in an average film being swooped away by the public hoopla. See the gay cowboy movie, then come talk to me about "Crash" being overrated.

Best Director
Miller is the only surprise here. And for his feature film debut, no doubt. Isn't this the first time in awhile where all the Best Director nominees match the Best Picture nominees?

Best Actor
Gladly surprised that Howard made it in.

Best Actress
Knightly? I thought she was out. Good for her.

Best Supporting Actor
I'm thrilled that Hurt made it in. The film deserved more nominations, but at least Hurt got the proper recognition.

Best Supporting Actress
No surprises.

Best Orignal Screenplay
Glad Woody got some sort of recognition. Same for "The Squid and the Whale" and "Syriana".

Best Adapted Screenplay
Glad "A History of Violence" got recognized.

Now, my personal picks for the top awards:
BEST PICTURE: Capote
BEST DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg for "Munich"
BEST ACTOR: Philip Seymour Hoffman for "Capote"
BEST ACTRESS: Reese Witherspoon for "Walk the Line".
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: George Clooney for "Syriana"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Catherine Keener for "Capote"
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: "The Squid and the Whale"
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: "A History of Violence"

Now, my predictions for the top awards:
BEST PICTURE: Brokeback Mountain
BEST DIRECTOR: Ang Lee for "Brokeback Mountain"
BEST ACTOR: Philip Seymour Hoffman for "Capote"
BEST ACTRESS: Reese Witherspoon for "Walk the Line"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: George Clooney for "Syriana"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Rachel Weisz for "The Constant Gardener"
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: "Crash"
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: "The Constant Gardener"

crash is not overrated that gay back Mountain is not if
there's anything wrong with that let's not go there

Haven't seen too many of the nominated films but here are my picks:

Best Picture: Crash

Best Actor: David Straithairn

Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney

Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon

Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz

Best Director: Paul Haggis

Best Screenplay: Syriana

Best Adapted Screenplay: Munich

Best Documentary: Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room

Best Editing: Crash

Best Foreign Language Film: Paradise Now

Best Music: Munich

If I'm not wrong, you promised a Brokeback Mountain review, right? Where is it? I'm looking forward to it, Mick!

Don't forget that Robert Altman is getting his Lifetime Acheivement Oscar thing. Should be a hoot, and I've heard that rumor that several people, instead of simply one, will present it to him. Wow, creativity at the Oscars....must be a fluke!

If I'm not wrong, you promised a Brokeback Mountain review, right? Where is it? I'm looking forward to it, Mick! [/b][/quote]

[/QB][/quote]Grazie, Mista!

Russell Crowe really deserves a Nomination for his leading role in The Cinderella Man...

I disagree. In fact that was one of the most overrated films of the year. Ron Howard keeps coming out with the most formulaic dramas. Some boxing scenes were good and Crowe was good, but not that good. Crowe was great in The Insider (his best performance) and Gladiator, but his performances since then have only been good at best, IMO.

It's a fucking shame that Last Days doesn't get the credit it deserves. I bet most of the academy didn't even see it.

I consider it one of the greatest films ever made. Definitely has a place in my top 20.