The 2006 Oscar nominations were released today. I know a lot of people hate the Oscars… but for some reason it’s my favorite time of year. Here’s the nominieees list with who I think should win bolded. Leave your predictions in the comments section below.
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 ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR
HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE
TIM BURTON’S CORPSE BRIDE
WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
KING KONG
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
BATMAN BEGINS
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
THE NEW WORLD
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTSPRIDE & PREJUDICE
WALK THE LINE
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
CAPOTE
CRASH
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
MUNICH
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE
ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
MURDERBALL
STREET FIGHT
BEST 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
ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
CINDERELLA MAN
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
CRASH
MUNICH
WALK THE LINE
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
DON’T TELL
JOYEUX NOèL
PARADISE NOW
SOPHIE SCHOLL – THE FINAL DAYS
TSOTSI
ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
CINDERELLA MAN
STAR WARS: EPISODE III REVENGE OF THE SITH
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES
(ORIGINAL SCORE)
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
MUNICH
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES
(ORIGINAL SONG)
“In the Deep” – CRASH
“It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” – HUSTLE & FLOW
“Travelin’ Thru” – TRANSAMERICA
BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
CAPOTE
CRASH
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
MUNICH
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
BADGERED
THE MOON AND THE SON: AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION
THE MYSTERIOUS GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF JASPER MORELLO
9
ONE MAN BAND
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
AUSREISSER (THE RUNAWAY)
CASHBACK
THE LAST FARM
OUR TIME IS UP
SIX SHOOTER
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
KING KONG
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
WAR OF THE WORLDS
ACHIEVEMENT IN 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
ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
KING KONG
WAR OF THE WORLDS
**** THIS IS AN OUTRAGOUS JOKE THAT STAR WARS REVENGE OF THE SITH IS NOT NOMINATED. LIKE IT OR HATE IT, IT’S EFFECTS BLEW EVERYTHING ELSE ON THIS LIST AWAY HANDS DOWN WITHOUT QUESTION. AS A FORMER VISUAL EFFECTS PRODUCER ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT THIS CONFIRMS THAT HOLLYWOOD HATES GEORGE LUCAS***
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
CAPOTE
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
MUNICH
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
CRASH
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
MATCH POINT
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE
SYRIANA
So there you have it. Your thoughts?
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WHERE THE HELL IS SIN CITY IN ALL OF THIS NOT ONE NOMINATION. HOLLYWOOD HAS GONE VERY SOFT. I DON’T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS IF YOU READ THE COMICS AND WATCH THE MOVIE YOU WILL BE IN AWE AT HOW AMAZING MICKEY ROURKE WAS IN SIN CITY, AND HOW WELL RODRIGUEZ WAS ABLE TO TURN THE COMICS INTO CINEMA AND EIRECT THE MOVIE
The reason we don’t see the awards mirroring the publics views is fairly simple…the public is a bunch of beer swilling, wife beating, under-educated, middle American idiots. As I am sure most of you are too. I read over this whole forum and all I saw was people commenting about SWE3, and making juvenile comments about BBM. I am so glad I do not need to interact with people like you on a daily basis.
Even posting here makes me feel like I am lowering myself. Anyways, make whatever comments you like I am not going to waste my time coming back here, but I do enjoy the fact that many of you will probably waste your time posting what you consider to be very clever retorts. I think you should, it will most certainly make you feel better about yourselves and your rather pointless opinions.
Yours in Christ,
-Van
Very few composers are as talented,innovative as Danny Elfman,the creator of the score for Batman,Big Fish,Edward Scissorhands,CORPSE BRIDE(what happened to the nominations).Who is running this awards,really? Totally,out of sync ,with the public.And look at the other great artists What happened to Star Wars nominations?Completely ignoring these marvelous artists like Danny Elfman and George Lucas !!! Fantasy always gets the shaft!!!And what is with this Brokeback Mountain? Truly Not the great film,everyone is touting,give me a break! Sincerely,but not happliy yours,Beve Most people want to see fantasy,not stupid “love stories about two guys! Now a love story between a robot and human,much better,more believable,lol!
It’s like you don’t have ears.
MEANDERING?!! BANAL?!!!
DANNY ELFMAN IS ONE OF THE BEST ALL AROUND FILM COMPOSERS OUT THERE TODAY AND JUST BECAUSE HE WASN’T TAUGHT BY TEACHERS OR DOESN’T HAVE A DEGREE YOU MINDLESS PEOPLE CHOOSE TO IGNORE HIM BECAUSE HE DOESN’T FIT YOUR PATHETIC IDEA OF STANDARDS!
THE ONLY TIME HOLLYWOOD OR PEOPLE IN GENERAL RECOGNIZE GREATNESS IS WHEN THE PERSON IS DEAD, AND BY THAT TIME IT’S TOO LATE!!!
AND THE ONLY THING HOLLYWOOD WILL RECOGNIZE ANYMORE ARE WOMEN WITH OVERSIZED BREASTS AND BLONDE HAIR THAT CAN’T ACT WORTH A DAMN AND A HORRIBLE RENDITION OF BATMAN!
I honestly give up on Hollywood.
They’re worthless.
I think that the most deserving nominations are those for Walk the Line and I will definitely be rooting for Joaquin and Reese to win those. I think its interesting that Heath Ledger got a nod for best lead actor and jake gyllenhaal is nominated for supporting actor. They are both lead in my opinion. For lead actresses I think that Naomi Watts should have been nominated for King Kong. I saw the movie and the only impressing thing in my opinion was her work in it. I havent seen this version of pride and prejudice but I have heard that keira knightlys nod is well-deserved. hm, this should be interesting.
Amen to that thesecretsafe.
Seriously thats total shit to snub Revenge of the Sith.
I am not going to say it is clearly the winner but why isnt it even nominated?
War of the Worlds had some good effects but they didnt create an entire galaxy,countless characters and vehicles AND A LAVA PLANET!?!?!?
Fucked up.
Hey Hamid, as you can see, no one is crying out for any acting, screenplay or direction nominations for Sith, it’s the technical awards that Sith has been robbed off really. But youre ABSOLUTELY right about McDiarmid though.
Drewbacca says, “Star Wars was so by far the best film as VFX go. It doesn’t matter if you think it’s dorky or not even that good. The number of effects shots per second is ridiculous. The amount of work that went into it and how great it turned out is virtually incomprehensible”.
Oh And Drewbacca, you want a Wookiee kiss from me? ;-)
Instead of Brokeback, should’ve been any of the following:
Cinderella Man
Walk the Line
The New World
A History of Violence (shut up John)
The Squid and the Whale
Pride and Prejudice
***I also wish Sin City would’ve been recognized a little more for something. Not best picture, but something.
***Why was Ron Howard not nominated for best director?
***DARREN, I’m glad somebody else noticed Amy Adams on the list. I’d love to see her win for that adorable role. Although all the actresses in the category gave great performances.
-Drewbacca
moviepatron.com
I’m disappointed the great Ian McDiarmid wasn’t nominated for best supporting actor in Revenge of the Sith. His was easily the best performance in the film. In fact, of all three prequels. As for the claim Hollywood hates George Lucas – come on, the Academy gave him the Irving G Thalberg award for lifetime achievement in producing in 1992. Let’s be honest, he hasn’t done anything seriously Oscar worthy in the last decade. The prequels are all technical marvels and apart from McDiarmid, they hardly deserved nom’s for acting, screenplay and direction.
you didnt think that this posting wouldnt get a comment from Marla now did you? so here we go.
Best Actor: i’m goin for Philip Seymour Hoffman. I have yet to see Capote but i have seen many previews and he amazes me in that. the voice and the look just really screams oscar. plus i loved the dude in “Twister”.
Best supporting actor: pretty good list. I’m gonna vote for Paul Giamatti becuase i think he’s the same as Philip Seymour cuz they both have been around the same while and started off will small roles and became so GOOD. and i thought he’s win the globe but George has been cleaning up this year so there’s a posibility that he could win instead. I’m also a big fan of Mr. Gyllenhaal and i’m glad he got a nomination but i’d rather him have gotten one for Jarhead.
Best Actress: REESE! i think she was a stronger performance than Joaquin Pheonix. she blew me away. screw felicity huffman, Reese owns!
Best Supporting Actress: Nothin great. i guess Rachel Weisz cuz she won a Globe
Best animated Film: as far as animation goes..The Corpse Bride. but overall enjoyment and story..Madagascar.
Best Cinematography: The New World. but Batman Begins was a surprise.
Best Costume Design: Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Directing: Steven Spielbergs Munich. I LOVE him. Get it! He was born to get it.
Best Film Editing: Crash.
Best Original Screenplay: Crash
Best Adapted Screenplay: Either Capote or Munich
Best Visual Effects: King Kong because it was nothing i’d ever seen B4
Best Sound Mixing: King Kong
Best Sound Editing: War of the worlds because thats always been key when i watch a speilberg mnovie, whenever a car lands or there’s a door opening or SOMETHING, its always on key.
Best Makeup: Narnia…i guess…
Best Origianl Score: Brokeback Mountain
Best Picture:Munich
Now, i know Brokeback mountain is up for what…8 awards?! but i saw it and i wasnt blown away by it. its not the best picture of the year. i dont know what the hype is all about. yes go gay pride! but i have no doubt that Munich is the best picture of the year… or Capote..(i’m stickin with spielberg) I hope the Academy doesnt disappoint me in that area. having brokeback win everything and leave everyone else with nothing. like LOTR, ugh! thank god those movies are done!
Cheers.
Thine Prophet in the comments section hath said after the People’s Choice telecast:
https://www.themovieblog.com/archives/2006/01/audio_edition_january_11th_2006.html
“It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” – HUSTLE & FLOW !!! Now, I’d like to see who performs that song in fron of a live audience. Remember how it goes?
“You know it’s hard out here for a pimp
When he’s tryin to get this money for the rent
For the Cadillacs and gas money spent
(1) Because a whole lot of bitches talkin shit
(2) Will have a whole lot of bitches talkin shit…”
But, again, there really isn’t a lot of orginal songs to choose from, although wasn’t there a “new” song in ‘The Producers”?
I agree with “Sin City”- but even if Mickey Rourke or Clive Owen got it they would be long shots. Anyway, of this list, there is little I can disagree with except the overrating of ‘Brokeback Mountain”. I think “Crash”, which is picking up momentum (indeed, even Terrance Howard, who had a great year for an actor last year, appeared in ‘Crash’ and was the lead in ‘Hustle’ the latter for which he is nom’d, deserves that nom all the way) might give ‘Mountain’ a run for its money. I think ‘Crash’ will pull an upset. (note: Cinderella Man should have been there)
But- Ang Lee will get best director.
Now, for other knick knacks:
*I agree slightly with “PG” up there; the writer’s categories are major categories, and being a hopeful spec scripter myself who hangs out at peer review sites like Zoetrope and Triggerstreet, and goes to Austin Film Fest/Heart Of Screenwriters Confrence now and then, I can understand the criticism to a degree. It is a strong valid point. However, another strong valid point is that John meant no disrespect.
Best Script (adapt) : Brokeback.
Best Script (o): Good Night, Good Luck.
*I agree that ‘Grizzly Man” should have been considered for Best Doc. But, this is the category which has always been contreversial for its ommisions in years past. I’m just thankful the hokey “Dust To Glory” about Baha racing isn’t there. But it should be between the Pengies and Murderball. Since the Pengies had been a huge hit and is widely knwn, the film will be passed over. I say Murderball.
*Star Wars getting shut out of FX nom is insane. I suppose because ILM had two other pix in the running…but ‘King Kong”?! Holy crap. Thus, Narnia will win. In a related issue, someone will notice this error, and Sith will get best makeup for an apology.
*I’m glad Batman Begins got a cinematography nod. Won’t win though, it will go to, in my opinion, Good Night and Good Luck.
*Someone up there said Cillian Murphy was overlooked. Perhaps. But in my view, not for Batman, but for Red Eye.
*I luv Keira Knightley, but Reese has the lock. But hey—lookie there! Amy Adams for ‘Junebug’! Now there’s a welcome surprise.
*Supporting: Rachel Weisz has it.
Actor: Hoffman. But everyone deserves to be there. Snubbed: Eric Bana, Russell Crowe
Supporting Actor: Giamatti. Hands down. Also decent noms, but alas, no Mickey Rourke.
No CGI in animation this year. That speaks volumes…oh, Wallace & Gromit. Who else?
screw Corpse Bride, “John Campea’s favorite movie of last year”!
Hahahahaha
-Sealer out.
Keira Knightley for Best Actress? Keira Knightley for Best Actress? Keira Knightley for Best Actress?
Maybe it’s because I just can’t get that robotic voice from Domino out of my head.
“I am a bounty hunter…”
SW not getting nominated is puzzling but it does not matter Kong has this locked up.
Shane,
re: Brokeback Mountain
Don’t see it. It is one of the most over-rated films in recent memory. The “gay thing” is inconsequential. What is important is that nothing ever happens to progress the story. Two guys meet, fall in love, then proceed to ruin their marrigaes and children’s lives. There is a total lack of intensity in any of the scenes.
No one ever confronts them regarding their secret. Mostly because no one knows about it. I can’t express how dissappointed I was in this film after hearing so many great things about it. The cinematography was excellent and the acting was above-average, but again over-rated.
Read my full review at:
http://www.moviepatron.com/moviereviews/b/brokeback.html
-Drewbacca
moviepatron.com
ok, here we go….
1-
Star Wars was so by far the best film as VFX go. It doesn’t matter if you think it’s dorky or not even that good. The number of effects shots per second is ridiculous. The amount of work that went into it and how great it turned out is virtually incomprehensible.
2-
Remove “Brokeback Mountain” and sub in “Cinderella Man” for best film and it’s nearly a perfect list. I was so happy “Crash” was nominated.
3-
It would’ve been nice to see “The New World” on the best pic or best director list. Not to mention achievement in costumes…holy crap! What was the academy watching? Or weren’t they?
4-
I spotted three locks:
…Brokeback for best pic (unfortunately)
…Witherspoon for best actress
…Giamatti for best supporting actor
5-
Phillip Seymour Hoffman is very under-rated. I’ve said so for years. However, I don’t think he should win for Capote. An impersonation is totally different than a performance. If he played this role on SNL he would get great laughs and everyone would think he is joking.
6-
“Cinderella Man” was basically shut-out. Other than Giamatti, it should’ve been nominated for best picture and Ron Howard for directing it. Make-up? Whatever. I do think it should win for editing though; based only from those amazing boxing matches.
7-
Later.
-Drewbacca
moviepatron.com/oscars06.html
Everyone says that Brokeback Mountain is a great love story, one of the best of all time. My question is the following. Would this film still be as criticially acclaimed if the lovers in the movie were more of the “traditional” sort. For example, a rancher hires a cowboy to work the ranch and falls in love with the ranchers married daughter, and she falls in love with him. Would this still be getting 8 Academy nods? If not, isn’t it then fair to call this just “a gay cowboy movie”?
It’s just a thought I had. I have not seen it yet, but plan to when I get the chance.
Oddly enough I’m rather pleased with this year’s slate of noms for Best Film as they were the only eligible ones I would have gone with–all the best of 2005 for me were Asian films released in North America eons after the rest of the world.
I am constantly astonished at all the brouhaha over “March of the Penguins” and am convinced that the majority of the population has never watched Animal Planet (except for the cops show maybe, and that pet psychic), National Geographic or even a run-of-the-mill nature doc on Wild Discovery. Convinced.
And yes, the Best Animation category proves that there is a God.
I don’t care about Star Wars, so can’t get fussy over that.
hello all. i definitely disagree that star wars should be nominated for visual effects. dont get me wrong, i am a HUGE star wars fan, but, consistantly, the effects werent there. in every single scene that had animated characters, they would slide around and not be tracked properly into the scene. the walk cycles on all the clones were TERRIBLE. the effects, for the most part didnt improve from episode 1 and they didnt do anything groundbreaking or new. they told the story and thats what they needed to do. i mean, yeah, they looked a lot cleaner than both e1 and e2, but it wasnt anything new. plus, george needs to learn about depth of field. there is no reason that when watching a huge battle scene, that you can look anywhere on the screen and see perfectly clear what is going on. thats why all three of the prequels looked liked polished video game cinematics.
John, I couldn’t agree more.
Personally, I liked “Murderball” better than “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” but I can perfectly understand why that documentary has more power behind it. It was a great film.
I haven’t seen enough of the other top-rated films yet, but it doesn’t look like the greatest year so far.
Thanks for everything you do. Good luck with the Bloggies. (I hope they don’t check ISPs to go along with all of my e-mail addresses.) :)
Tayster: I didn’t see Charlie, but Elfman’s songs for Corpse Bride were the most banal music I’ve EVER heard. Tuneless, meandering, characterless, indistinguishable. I’ve never heard anything like ’em. By the end of the film, whenever a song started up I couldn’t stop laughing.
I think Campea agrees, no?
I don√Ǭ¥t care about the Oscars this year: Jon Stewart, Robert Altman, Munich√Ǭ¥s presumably loss in favour of BBM… and, yes, no nomination for Sith in special FX.
Sometimes, I happen to feel like Gandalf when he confronted the Balrog.
Oh yeah, I forgot. In a year when Danny Elfman does the score and songs for two movies (Corpse Bride and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory), it’s amazing that the Academy still continues to ignore him.
One day he will win. He might be dead and getting a lifetime achievement award, but he’ll win something.
I think it’s too bad that Tim Burton finally gets noticed by the Academy, and he has to be against Nick Park. (I love Nick Park movies and don’t mind that he’ll win.)
I haven’t seen a lot of the movies nominated this year, but I will say that Reese Witherspoon blew me away. I was never a big fan of her “Legally Blonde”-type roles, but HOLY COW, she was awesome as June Carter.
As for the snub on Sith, it really doesn’t surprise me. I mean, I was hoping it would get a nomination for EFX, but oh well.
I’m still shocked that Batman Begins was even noticed by the Academy.
On a related topic, I was kind of hoping that Cilian Murphy (Batman Begins) would get nominated for Supporting Actor, but go Paul Giamatti!
And finally, I think when John Williams wins best original Score again this year, they should change that award’s name to the “John Williams Award For Best Original Score.”
It is a fitting comment on the relatively dismal state of the motion picture business, and the general lack of high quality films, a phenomenon that has contributed substantially to sharply reduced movie theater attendance and DVD sales, that you have chosen to put the writers of all the Academy Award-Nominated films at the very end of the list of nominees, after categories like sound editing and sound mixing.
The lack of respect given to writers and their work, in terms of their actual contribution to the identity and character of virtually all fiction films, embodied in your list, lies at the heart of much of what is wrong with Hollywood movies. Actors, directors, producers and sound mixers do not create what films are all about – their heart and soul – writers do.
In future, perhaps you would consider putting the writers’ categories at, or at least near the top of the list, where they belong. You would be doing a small service not only to writers, but the entire motion picture industry.
Nice website.
Keira deserved her nomiantion, and so did Spielberg for Munich. Pluss i vote for Munich for best picure.
That King Kong was nominated and Sith wasn’t is a joke. several sequenses in taht movie is laughable, for instance the stampede. EVERYTHING in Sith beats that. I hope WOTW win.
And then there is Batman Begins. Screw the others. This is the best movie i saw last year. I understand why it wasn’nt nominated for Best Picture, but what i don’t undersyand why it wasn’t nominated for more of the technical awards.
The best pictures are bunk, being nothing but self-congratulatory liberal lightweights. Good Night/Luck was somewhat memorable, but the others will have vanished from the public mind by June at the latest.
Sin City got utterly snubbed. Should have got Best Direction at the very least.
The New World should be there for Best Picture, Director, and Actress.
March Of The Penguins should’ve gotten a Best Picture nod, but alas the penguins weren’t gay. (Maybe one or two closet cases.)
Russell Crowe’s lead in Cinderella Man should’ve gotten a nom, but he wuz robbed.
2005 was a great year for supporting actors, and the Academy missed most of them. Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins), Ben Kingsley (Oliver Twist), Craig Bierko (Cinderella Man), Ed Norton (Kingdom of Heaven), Christian Bale (The New World), and Andy Serkis (King Kong), are all snubbed, snubbed, and snubbed again. The only one they got right was the ever reliable Paul Giamatti.
Heath Ledger should have been nominated for Best Vacuous Prettyboy. The only way he’d have got my vote.
If Joaquin wins, I won’t balk, he was fabulous.
However, my vote is for Philip Seymore Hoffman, I absolutely loved him in Capote.
I think the the Revenge of the Sith snob is stupid but expected. Hollywood has never like George Lucas and they never will. As for best actor. I saw all the performances and I got to tell ya, the one that hit me the most was Joaquin Phoinex in Walk the Line. I mean, I grew up in South Carolina, and in the south Jonny Cash is a legend. I was expecting to hear a Cash voice over when I heard it was going to be made. Then I heard Phoinex was doing his own singing. Like most, I didnt see how it would work. Jonny Cash has such a unique voice and seemed almost impossible to resemble. Then I saw the movie. It was amazing. And Phoinex couldnt have been closer if he tried. So in my eyes he deserves to win hands down.
Hey Triflic, what an intelligent analysis of why Sith wasnt nominated. Youre very smart, I wish I had your brain.
I kind of thought that King Kong deserved the SFX award but agree that for the (relatively) small scale WOTW to be nominated while the all out spectacle of ROTS is not does come across as a snub.
The only reason why I would care about this year’s Oscars is the visual effects award, which obviously now Sith will not get.
Does it help ease the pain that 2 other nominees were visual effects made by ILM? Oh I know now who will win it too.
Oh, on the Star-Wars thing…perhaps many folks judged based on the fact that Kong, Narnia & War of the Worlds actually felt (within reason) grounded in the ‘real-world’. StarWarsE3 felt more like an animated film than anything tangible. The quality of the animation was good, the integration/suspension of disbelief was not there…
Maybe it should have ended up in the Animated category…but then again, the three pictures nominated are all waaay better than the latest from Lucasfilm.
SURPRISE #1 – Kiera Knightly nominated as best Actress??!!?? (To be fair, I’ve not caught Pride & Prejudice)
SURPRISE #2 √¢‚Ǩ‚Äú The high quality of choices for Animated Picture √¢‚Ǩ‚Äú No Robots, No Madagasgar and God Forbid, no Chicken Little. In fact all the noms are non-CGI…VINDICATION of sorts for those toiling folks in more traditional forms of animation, and it’s always nice to see a nod for Miyazaki, although, judging by boxoffice numbers, it doesn’t stand much of a chance against Wallace or Bride. Either way, it will be a deserved win in this category for any of the three.
SURPRISE #3 – William Hurt (supporting actor) for A History of Violence…interesting choice…too bad no Maria Bello for Best Supporting Actress
SURPRISE #4 – Batman Begins for Cinematography…!
SURPRISE #5 – Complete Snubbage for StarWars Ep3’s Visual Effects…I wouldn’t be visiting the Starwars Forums today if I were you…
Non-Surprise #1 – No Grizzly Man documentary nomination, as for some reason Herzog’s Doc wasn’t even on the pre-nomination list, despite being significantly recognized (numerous places) as one of the best documentaries around the world
Non-Surpise #2 √¢‚Ǩ‚Äú No love for THE NEW WOLRD (except Cinematography which is well deserved)√¢‚Ǩ¬¶It√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s a shame really√¢‚Ǩ¬¶A Best actress nom for Q’Orianka Kilcher would have been well deserved…Best Actress is a very weak category this year, with the academy going after usual fav’s in un-remarkable roles…(Witherspoon Excepted…she is very solid in Walk the Line)
Non-Surprise #3 – No Walk the Line Best Pic. Doesn’t deserve it, but both actor Noms are well deserved..it’s a case of performance trumping picture…
I was really impressed with the special effects in King Kong and War of the worlds. Haven’t seen Narnia. I don’t remember being impressed by anything in Star Wars III.