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Oscar Noms!! Oscar Noms!! AP/YahooNews:
'Brokeback Mountain' Gets 8 Oscar Nods
Tue Jan 31,12:43 PM ET The cowboy love story "Brokeback Mountain" led the Academy Awards field Tuesday with eight nominations, among them best picture and honors for actor Heath Ledger and director Ang Lee. Also nominated for best picture were the Truman Capote story "Capote"; the ensemble drama "Crash"; the Edward R. Murrow chronicle "Good Night, and Good Luck"; and the assassination thriller "Munich." The Johnny Cash biography "Walk the Line," considered a likely best-picture nominee, was left out of that category, though Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon earned acting nominations. Three films were tied with six nominations each "Crash," "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Memoirs of a Geisha," though "Geisha" was shut out in the top categories. "Munich," which had fallen off many awards analysts' best-picture picks after a lukewarm reception, scored well with five nominations, including director for Steven Spielberg. "King Kong," directed by "Lord of the Rings" creator Peter Jackson, earned only technical nominations, losing out in the major categories. George Clooney picked up three nominations: as supporting actor for his role as a steadfast CIA undercover agent in "Syriana" and best director and co-writer for "Good Night." It was the first time ever that a contender was honored with acting and directing nominations for two different movies. Along with best-actor contender Ledger, and directing nominee Lee, "Brokeback Mountain" scored nominations for Michelle Williams as supporting actress, Jake Gyllenhaal as supporting actor and Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana for their screenplay adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story. Director Lee said he was gratified at the reception both homosexual and heterosexual audiences have given "Brokeback Mountain," which has proven a steady box-office draw across the country. "I didn't know there were so many gay people out there. Everywhere, they turn up," Lee said. "More importantly, I think I'm amazed how people everywhere have had the sensitivity to want to get into the complexity of the issue, the probability of love, the illusion of love, all those things. It's not simple things you can categorize as right or wrong." The acting categories were a mix of familiar Oscar faces such as past winners Judi Dench and Charlize Theron, veterans like Clooney, Witherspoon, Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn and Felicity Huffman gaining their first academy attention, and young performers such as Williams and Amy Adams as a big-hearted Southern waif in "Junebug." Philip Seymour Hoffman, the best-actor favorite for his remarkable embodiment of Capote, joined Ledger in the best-actor category. Hoffman has triumphed at earlier film honors, including the Golden Globes. Along with Hoffman, Ledger and Phoenix, the other nominees were Terrence Howard as a small-time hood turned rap singer in "Hustle & Flow" and Strathairn as newsman Murrow in "Good Night, and Good Luck." The best-actress race presumably will shape up as a two-woman contest between Huffman in a gender-bending role as a man about to undergo sex-change surgery in "Transamerica" and Witherspoon as singer June Carter, Cash's musical companion and future wife, in "Walk the Line." Huffman won the Golden Globe for best dramatic actress, while Witherspoon earned the Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy. Witherspoon beat Huffman on Sunday for the best-actress prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Also nominated for the best-actress Oscar: Dench as a society dame who starts a nude stage revue in 1930s London in "Mrs. Henderson Presents"; Keira Knightley as the romantic heroine of the Jane Austen adaptation "Pride & Prejudice"; Charlize Theron as a mine worker who leads a sexual-harassment lawsuit against male co-workers in "North Country." "I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day," Dench said. "Brokeback Mountain" led a wave of independent films that scored big in the nominations, instead of the studio fare that normally dominates the Oscars. Other than "Munich," most bigger budget movies that had been on the best-picture radar, such as "Walk the Line," "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Cinderella Man," were overlooked in the top Oscar category. The year's biggest hit, "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith," earned only one nomination (for makeup) but was shut out otherwise including the visual-effects category, a blow to George Lucas and his Industrial Light & Magic outfit that has pioneered special effects. The visual effects nominees were "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe," "King Kong," and Spielberg's "War of the Worlds." With key prizes at earlier Hollywood honors, "Brokeback Mountain" heads into the March 5 awards as the best-picture front-runner, potentially the first film with explicit gay themes to claim the grand prize at the Oscars. The film stars Ledger and Gyllenhaal as Western roughnecks who share a summer of love while tending sheep together in the 1960s, then carry on a lifelong romance they conceal from their families. Williams co-stars as Ledger's wife, who overlooks her husband's affair to try to hold her family together. Weisz, playing a humanitarian-aid worker in "The Constant Gardener," won the supporting-actress prize at the Golden Globes and SAG awards, giving her the inside track for the same honor at the Oscars. Along with Weisz, Williams and Adams, supporting-actress bids went to Catherine Keener as "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee in "Capote"; and Frances McDormand as a miner coping with debilitating disease in "North Country." Besides Gyllenhaal and Clooney, nominees for supporting actor were Matt Dillon as a racist cop in "Crash"; Paul Giamatti as a boxing manager in "Cinderella Man"; and William Hurt as a ruthless mobster in "A History of Violence." Hurt was a bit of surprise since he only appears for a few minutes at the end of the film in scene-stealing role. Lee, who won the Directors Guild of America honor Saturday for "Brokeback Mountain," is the clear favorite to win the best-director Oscar. Along with him, Spielberg and Clooney, other directing nominees were Paul Haggis for "Crash" and Bennett Miller for "Capote." It was the first time since 1981 that the same five movies were nominated for directing and best picture. And for the first time since the animated feature film category was added in 2001 that no nominees were made using computer-generated imagery. The nominees: the hand-drawn "Howl's Moving Castle," and the stop-motion films "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" and "Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit." "Wallace & Gromit" creator Nick Park said he was thrilled by the nomination. "It's fantastic," Park said, toasting the nomination with champagne at Heathrow Airport as he waited for a flight to Los Angeles. "You never know with these things. It's so unpredictable. "You make the film for its own sake really. You don't make the film for this reason. It's just a great bonus." Oscar nominees in most categories are chosen by specific branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, such as directors, actors and writers. The full academy membership of about 5,800 is eligible to vote in all categories for the Oscars themselves. ABC will broadcast the Oscars live from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, with Jon Stewart as host. ___ On the Net: http://oscars.org | |
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I have a lot of catching up to do. I haven't seen most of those. | |
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Spats said: I have a lot of catching up to do. I haven't seen most of those.
they might put some of them out on the dvd someday. | |
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Yeah, but i like to see the films before the Award show. | |
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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 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 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 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 Adapted screenplay “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Screenplay by Larry 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.) 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Still gotta see MUNICH, HUSTLE AND FLOW, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and SQUID AND THE WHALE. VOTE....EARLY | |
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Hustle and Flow wasn't Oscar Worthy in the least.
Terrence Howard is an amazing talent but it sucks to see this man get a nod when he's playing a god damn pimp. *Puts on Black Militant Dashiki and leather glove* Dynamic Savior Said: Also, do you think that ugly people are God's cruel joke on humanity (like the platypus and the heterosexual) or another form of population control? | |
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