Oscars 78th Annual: Academy Award Nominations (make your pics!)

[thelefteyeguy]

List of the 78th annual Oscar nominations announced Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:

1. Best Picture:
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich.

2. Actor:
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck.

3. Actress:
Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice
Charlize Theron, North Country
Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

4. Supporting Actor:
George Clooney, Syriana
Matt Dillon, Crash
Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
William Hurt, A History of Violence

5. Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams, Junebug
Catherine Keener, Capote
Frances McDormand, North Country
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

6. Director:
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Bennett Miller, Capote;
Paul Haggis, Crash
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
Steven Spielberg, Munich

7. Foreign Film: Don't Tell, Italy; Joyeux Noel, France; Paradise Now, Palestine; Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, Germany; Tsotsi, South Africa.

8. Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain; Dan Futterman, Capote; Jeffrey Caine, The Constant Gardener; Josh Olson, A History of Violence; Tony Kushner and Eric Roth, Munich.

9. Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco, Crash; George Clooney & Grant Heslov, Good Night, and Good Luck; Woody Allen, Match Point; Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale; Stephen Gaghan, Syriana.

10. Animated Feature Film: Howl's Moving Castle; Tim Burton's Corpse Bride; Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

11. Art Direction: Good Night, and Good Luck, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pride & Prejudice.

12. Cinematography: Batman Begins, Brokeback Mountain, Good Night, and Good Luck, Memoirs of a Geisha, The New World.

13. 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.

14. Sound Editing: King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha, War of the Worlds.

15. Original Score: Brokeback Mountain, Gustavo Santaolalla; The Constant Gardener, Alberto Iglesias; Memoirs of a Geisha, John Williams; Munich, John Williams; Pride & Prejudice, Dario Marianelli.

16. Original Song: In the Deep from Crash, Kathleen Bird York and Michael Becker; It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp from Hustle & Flow, Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard; Travelin' Thru from Transamerica, Dolly Parton.

17. Costume: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Memoirs of a Geisha, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Pride & Prejudice, Walk the Line.

18. Documentary Feature: Darwin's Nightmare, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, March of the Penguins, Murderball, Street Fight.

19. Documentary (short subject): The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club, God Sleeps in Rwanda, The Mushroom Club, A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin.

20. Film Editing: Cinderella Man, The Constant Gardener, Crash, Munich, Walk the Line.

21. Makeup: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Cinderella Man, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith.

22. Animated Short Film: Badgered, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, 9, One Man Band.

23. Live Action Short Film: Ausreisser (The Runaway), Cashback, The Last Farm, Our Time Is Up, Six Shooter.

24. Visual Effects: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, King Kong, War of the Worlds.

[thelefteyeguy]

my pics:

1. Best Picture:
Brokeback Mountain

2. Actor:
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

3. Actress:
Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

4. Supporting Actor:
George Clooney, Syriana
Matt Dillon, Crash
William Hurt, A History of Violence (i have no idea...will come back to make a choice)

5. Supporting Actress:
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener

6. Director:
Paul Haggis, Crash

[Montague]

I still get a chuckle out of all the "King Kong fanboys" on the RT forum who were claiming King Kong would get a nomination for best actor (the actor=King Kong himself :lol: ) and how it would "get a ton of nominations".

As for the nominations - what the heck?

They snubbed "A History of Violence" for "Best Picture"! :mad:

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(surprised also that Star Wars got snubbed for the F/X category as well).

[ledorky]

As much as I hated 'Bareback' Mtn, they have the requisite buzz right now like that other POS overrated Boxing movie from last year.

[yayawhoo2003]

Crash should take home a few....that was a good movie!!! Not sure about Brokeback mountain yet I still havent watched it critics say good things, but most of the people I know say it was overrated. I've also heard its more liked by the whole 'annex living, starbucks drinking, hipsters' Not my words someone elses!!

[mrlarouc]

Hmmm I will probably come back later and post my full picks. Crash was outstanding, altho since it has been out so long I am less hopeful that it will do as well as it could have. However Brokeback was also very good and will likely do well based on it's performance at other awards. Walk the Line was good, but I think that it was not as good of a story and acting as Ray was last year (just to compare Biopic to Biopic! :) ). As for History of Violence, I think that it was a good story but one of the major things that bothered me about it is that Cronneberg went over the top in the first half of the movie protraying the main characters and their lifestyle as idyllic... too much! I am glad to see some Canadian representation in the fray tho! :D

Edit: oh yeah LeftEye beat me to most of the good stuff but I thought that I would add the link (http://www.oscar.com/nominees/list.html) to the Oscar site where they have clips and more details about the nominees!

[Hanniganite]

Wow, of ALL the films nominated in all the categories combined, I've only seen 7 (only Crash for picture..none of the best actor/actress films...although I did see 2/5 docus and 2/3 animated features :razz: )

[Kurtz7834]

my pics:

1. Best Picture:
Brokeback Mountain

2. Actor:
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

3. Actress:
Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

4. Supporting Actor:
George Clooney, Syriana
Matt Dillon, Crash
William Hurt, A History of Violence (i have no idea...will come back to make a choice)

5. Supporting Actress:
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener

6. Director:
Paul Haggis, Crash

I don't necessarily agree with all these choices, but my guess is this is a pretty good list of the likely winners on Oscar night. Capote could take best director though, hard to say. Also, Catherine Keener could take supporting actress.

Personally, I thought Crash was boring and overrated, but it's PC and the academy loves that. My guess is that Matt Dillon will take supporting actor for Crash. Although he will have competition from Jake G. from Brokeback Mountain.

History of Violence was a fun, fluffy film but overrated. The critics saw more depth in it than it has and it's really Cronenberg-lite, he has made far better pictures (Dead Ringers, for example.) William Hurt briefly played a cartoon character of a gangster and I don't think deserves a nomination.

[mrlarouc]

William Hurt briefly played a cartoon character of a gangster and I don't think deserves a nomination.

I totally agree. He was in the movie for what maybe five minutes. I did like the character but I am not really sure that is worthy of the nomination. I guess it is something akin to Judy Dench in Shakespere in Love a few years ago! :/

[thelefteyeguy]

honestly...i caught the first hour of "bareback" mountain...the first 30 mins i was like...wtf is going on...nothing.

and then WHAM! something happens but like...ok is this it?

this movie is highly overrated...like Monsters Ball...nothing really happens except for that one scene which made her a star.

well i guess i will finish the rest of the movie tonight.

it's ironic..but i've only watched 1.5 movies from the best pic list...most of my pics this yr got shoved by the movie snobs....time to catch up.