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| 31 JAN 2006 at 7:14pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | On the whole - a pretty ordinary line-up. Lots for Brokeback as expected (leading the pack with 8 noms), thankfully some big ones for Munich as well including Film and Director (5).
The acting nominations are in many ways entirely predictable - expect Keira Knightley somehow managed to sneak in with a Best Actress nod (are they insane????!?!). Interesting Amy Adams - completely unheard of making the list - more of that in future would be great - actual talent and no politics getting recognised. Of course, winning is a different matter.
Actually I've just had a thought - winning Best Actress is usually the kiss of death on a young career - let's all hope Keira's got what it takes!
George Clooney must be rubbing his hands with glee having been nominated for three different things - his acting, his directing and his writing. Not bad.
John Williams also has to compete against himself (again) in the Score catagory.
A slow year for the animated film - three nominations, almost a dead cert for Wallace and Gromit I should think, but good for Tim Burton picking that up.
I hope Batman wins cinematography just to hear the winner's name called out - the marvellous Wally Pfister.
In fact most of the blockbusters have got one or two nods apiece - King Kong, Star Wars, War of the Worlds, Narnia, Harry Potter, even Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Otherwise all of them have had a pretty well deserved snubbing outside the technical catagories.
Results: March 5th!
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| 31 JAN 2006 at 8:05pm |
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Status : Offline | I'm a bit miffed that History of Violence wasn't given more nods, and I'm really surprised that March of the Penquins was snubbed (though I seem to remember it was on a technicality). Otherwise, it's nice to see some new faces and even unfamiliar ones nominated. They really should get rid of the best song category, though. Let the Grammys do that.
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| 31 JAN 2006 at 8:51pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | It's alright Colpet - "March of the Penguins" got a well deserved Best Documentary nomination - which I think was its only eligible catagory.
I agree about the song catagory though, it is a bit strange isn't it?
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| 31 JAN 2006 at 10:12pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Damn Dom, you beat me with posting the Oscar noms!
On the whole, no really big surprises here (woohoo, go Brokeback Mountain!). Though I must say that the Oscars so far are the only award ceremony to give Munich that much credit (eg it didn't even get a best drama nod at the Globes). Whether it's justified or not, I can't tell yet, haven't seen it yet myself.
Also, too bad that The Constant Gardener seems to have been the major victim of the Academy's like of Munich, as it was denied both best pic and best director's nominations. :-/ Too bad, one of the best films of last year. Rachel Weisz will probably still take home the Best Supporting Actress statue.
Also, where is Sin City in the technical categories? If there's one film that outclassed most blockbusters style-wise, it's this one. It should at least have bagged a nom for art direction.
And for me the song category can stay, as long as it features songs that were actually used in the film and contribute something to it. eg, if that category would not excist, someone like Aimee Mann would not have gotten recognition for her work on Magnolia, while her work definitely contributed to the movie's quality. Still don't understand why she didn't win though. Nevertheless, some songs play vital roles in some movies and in that respect fulfill the same role as the soundtrack.
Hm, I just noticed Giamatti's nomination for Cinderella Man. I'm sure he's fine in that, but it does seem to reek of the Academy's 'we messed up last year by not nominating him (for Sideways), let's make it up this year' attitude.
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| 1 FEB 2006 at 1:04am |
kuddlesPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | I too am dismayed by the absence of A History of Violence, as well as Grizzly Man in the documentary section. While I agree that it's a pretty predictable list, there isn't anything on there that I think is painfully undeserving, which usually isn't the case. Philip Seymour Hoffman better win for Best Actor.
What an awful year for songs in movies. Apparently the academy agreed, because the nominee list was paired down to three instead of the usual five.
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| 1 FEB 2006 at 1:59am |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By kuddles (1 FEB 2006 1:04am)
What an awful year for songs in movies. Apparently the academy agreed, because the nominee list was paired down to three instead of the usual five.
Yeah, I wondered about that as well. Thought this category used to have nominations as well. Maybe there was idd a lack of good choices. That doesn't explain though why Brokeback Mountain's title song was not nominated. I thought A Love That Will Never Grow Old by Emmylou Harris would have been a garantee winner for the best song oscar.
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| 1 FEB 2006 at 6:45pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | You're right about Sin City Wimli, I didn't think of that. :-?
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| 1 FEB 2006 at 9:46pm |
anthonyJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Well another year and the streak is safe. The streak being the lack of a film winning all four acting awards. It has never happened and it will not happen this year because no film was nominated in all four acting categories.
Two films came very close. They were nominated in all four categories and won three of the four nominations. Anyone know the two films?
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| 1 FEB 2006 at 10:20pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By anthony (1 FEB 2006 9:46pm)
Two films came very close. They were nominated in all four categories and won three of the four nominations. Anyone know the two films?
I know this one: Gigli & Catwoman.
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| 1 FEB 2006 at 10:28pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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I can name quite a few films that won best actor and actress for the same film - One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Network, Silence of the Lambs, As Good as it Gets.... but as for supporting actor or actress in addition... that's trickier. Got to be Network at a guess for one - but couldn't tell you who won the supporting statue.
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| 1 FEB 2006 at 10:46pm |
anthonyJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (1 FEB 2006 10:20pm)
I know this one: Gigli & Catwoman.
That is the correct answer only according to The History of the Oscars by James Frey.
DomBrewer is correct that one of the films is Network. Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway won leading awards. An actress named Beatrice Straight won a supporting award (I never understood this one; she is only in one or two scenes; she played William Holden's jilted wife). Ned Beatty was nominated but did not win the supporting actor award.
Guessing the other film may depend on the kindness of strangers. :
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| 2 FEB 2006 at 4:30pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | By that it can only be "Streetcar named Desire" - but I didn't remember that at all. Interesting that Brando - the best performance of the four was the one that didn't win!
By popular opinion the "Big 5" oscars are Actor, Actress, Director, Film and Screenplay - and they have only gone three times to the same film "It Happened One Night" back in 1934, "One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest" and "Silence of the Lambs".
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| 2 FEB 2006 at 8:22pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By dombrewer (1 FEB 2006 6:44pm)
You're right about Sin City Wimli, I didn't think of that. :-?
Well, I guess they didn't have a Wally Pfister on board.
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| 2 FEB 2006 at 8:26pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | And to counterbalance all the Hollywood goodness, here are the nominations for the Golden Raspberries, awarding the year's biggest crap and garbage films. Plus, providing a good laugh in addition.
Worst screenplay;
* Bewitched - Written by Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron & Adam McKay
* Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo - Written by Rob Schneider, David Garrett & Jason Ward
* Dirty Love - Written by Jenny McCarthy
* The Dukes of Hazzard - Written by John O'Brien
* Son of the Mask - Written by Lance Khazei
Worst director
* John Asher - Dirty Love
* Ewe Boll - Alone in the Dark
* Jay Chandrasekhar - The Dukes of Hazzard
* Nora Ephron - Bewitched
* Lawrence Gutterman - Son of the Mask
Worst remake or sequel:
* Bewitched - Sony/Columbia
* Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo - Sony/Columbia
* Dukes of Hazzard - Warner Bros./Village Roadshow
* House of Wax - Warner Bros.
* Son of the Mask - New Line Cinema
Worst screen couple:
* Will Ferrell & Nicole Kidman - Bewitched
* Jamie Kennedy & ANYBODY Stuck Sharing the Screen with Him - Son of the Mask
* Jenny McCarthy & ANYONE Dumb Enough to Befriend or Date Her - Dirty Love
* Rob Schneider & His Diapers - Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
* Jessica Simpson & Her “Daisy Dukes” - The Dukes of Hazzard
Worst supporting actress:
* Carmen Electra - Dirty Love
* Paris Hilton - House of Wax
* Katie Holmes - Batman Begins
* Ashlee Simpson - Undiscovered
* Jessica Simpson - The Dukes of Hazzard
Worst supporting actor:
* Hayden Christensen - Star Wars III: No Sith, He's Supposed to Be Darth Vader?!?!
* Alan Cumming - Son of the Mask
* Bob Hoskins - Son of the Mask
* Eugene Levy - Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and The Man
* Burt Reynolds - The Dukes of Hazzard and The Longest Yard
Most tiresome tabloid targets:
* Tom Cruise & His Anti-Psychiatry Rant
* Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Oprah Winfrey’s Couch, The Eiffel Tower & “Tom’s Baby”
* Paris Hilton and…Who-EVER!
* Mr. & Mrs. Britney, Their Baby & Their Camcorder
* The Simpsons: Ashlee, Jessica & Nick
Worst actress:
* Jessica Alba - Fantastic Four and Into the Blue
* Hilary Duff - Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and The Perfect Man
* Jennifer Lopez - Monster in Law
* Jenny McCarthy - Dirty Love
* Tara Reid - Alone in the Dark
Worst actor:
* Tom Cruise - War of the Worlds
* Will Ferrell - Bewitched and Kicking & Screaming
* Jamie Kennedy - Son of the Mask
* The Rock - Doom
* Rob Schneider - Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Worst picture:
* Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo - Sony/Columbia
* Dirty Love - First Look Pictures
* Dukes of Hazzard - Warner Bros./Village Roadshow
* House of Wax - Warner Bros.
* Son of the Mask - New Line
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| 3 FEB 2006 at 4:59pm |
anthonyJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By dombrewer (2 FEB 2006 4:29pm)
By that it can only be "Streetcar named Desire" - but I didn't remember that at all. Interesting that Brando - the best performance of the four was the one that didn't win!
That's it. Kim Hunter, Karl Malden and Vivien Leigh all won; Brando lost out to Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen.
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| 3 FEB 2006 at 8:11pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Go Ewe Boll! Whoop!
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| 5 FEB 2006 at 1:54pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By dombrewer (3 FEB 2006 8:10pm)
Go Ewe Boll! Whoop!
I agree! He certainly deserves to win an award for his rich and distinguished career. plus, I wouldn't be surprised Mr. Boll would believe someone actually likes his work when he gets that 5 Dollar Golden Raspberry.
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| 8 FEB 2006 at 7:18pm |
anthonyJourneyman
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Status : Offline | It's tough to be excited about the Oscars now that a far more significant event has been announced in the movie industry. The March 2006 issue of Vanity Fair will feature a still nude photo of both Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley. I swear, I haven't been this juiced up since they ran that lite beer commercial where the two women wrestle in their bikinis and high heels and fall into that pool.
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| 8 FEB 2006 at 7:26pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Is there really anything worth seeing if Keira Knightley poses nude?
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| 5 MAR 2006 at 11:53pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | For what it's worth...
The award (might/should) go to....
The main name or film listed is for who I think will win, the name or film in brackets indicates who I would like to win. If they are one in the same, there are no brackets. You know the score.
Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Actor, supporting: Jake Gyllenhaal (Matt Dillon)
Actress: Reese Witherspoon (if Keira Knightley wins I will.... be most displeased.)
Actress, supporting: Michelle Williams (Rachel Weisz)
Animated: Wallace and Gromit
Art Direction: Memoirs of a Geisha
Cinematography: Brokeback Mountain
Costume: Memoirs of a Geisha
Directing: Brokeback Mountain (Munich)
Documentary: March of the Penguins
Doc Short: God Sleeps in Rwanda
Film Editing: Munich
Foreign Film: Sophie Scholl
Make-up: Narnia
Musical Score: Munich
Music Song: Travellin' Thru
Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain (Munich)
Short, Animated: One Man Band
Short, Live: Cashback
Sound Editing: King Kong
Sound Mixing: Walk The Line
Visual Effects: King Kong
Writing (Adapted): Brokeback Mountain (Munich)
Writing (Original): Crash
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| 6 MAR 2006 at 4:49am |
jujigatameSchattenjger
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Status : Online | I really don't think Crash deserved that. I really think Best Picture should have gone to Brokeback, Capote, or Good Night and Good Luck.
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| 6 MAR 2006 at 5:08am |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Well Well Well.
Most of them went with the predictions making it a fairly predictable evening it kept the big surprise to the end.
Just as you thought Jack Nicholson was going to say "Brokeback Mountain" for the big prize Best picture he said "Crash" instead.
I'm shocked.
I thought it was the weakest of the 5 nominations.
Glad to see Phillip Seymore Hoffman win Best Actor, George Clooney winning Best Support was slightly surprising but as he was nominated for a few other ones he had no chance of getting it felt more like a "we better give him something" award. Even he said as his first comment "Ah well so i'm not winning best director then" which was funny.
Reece won Best Actress and as usual for actresses lost it in the speech. Nice to see Rachale Weiss win Best support though.
King Kong seemed to win all the sound awards and Memoirs of a Geisha all the art type ones (Well it did look fantasic).
So no clean sweep for Brokeback with Best Director for Ang Lee it's best award.
Fav award of the night went to Wallace and Gromit for Best Animated Feature. "Cracking Award Gromit"
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| 6 MAR 2006 at 5:38am |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Crash was made and released at least forty years too late.
If Crash had been released during the civil war race riots of 1964, it would have been "something".
But instead, it was an old, tired, "stereotypica-of-stereotypes" movie and characters and the most "in-your-face-but-not-in-a-good-or-original-way" film of the year.
I hated it, and thought it was a lousy film. Just plain corny.
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| 6 MAR 2006 at 3:25pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | Hahaa...I liked Crash, but haven't seen any of the other movies. I was very surprised that Brokeback Mountain didn't win best picture. Although I loved Crash, I'm not really sure that it deserved the win for all the reasons brought up already. It was not that original and not subtle enough, although none of that really bothered me. It was well played, though. But so are the other movies, most likely.
I'm not sure about Brokeback...I'm not into that kind of movie (romance, I mean). Capote is none of my real interest, either. I should probably watch Munich, but I don't enjoy that type of movie all that much.
I'm definitely going to see Good Morning and Good Luck, though.
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