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Everybody in the Pool! Oscar Noms Are Out!
Posted by Todd Brown at 9:09am.
Posted in Random Geek Talk .
Yes, boys and girls, the nominations have been announced for the awards ceremny that everybody loves to hate! And let’s not kid ourselves, we’re all going to pay attention if only so that we have something to gripe about the next day. And here’s another reason to pay attention: it’s the Twitch Oscar Pool! Yep, jump on in, poolies ... we’re giving you all the more reason to gripe ... read on for the details.
Okay ... here’s how this is going to work. The pool costs two bucks to enter. If we have a tie for the winner then the entire pool will be split evenly amongst those tied. If no ties then the winner takes 50% of the pot, second place gets 30%, and third place 20%. We will use a plus/minus scoring system with every correct pick giving you one point and every incorrect pick costing you two. Yes, it is possible to score in the negatives. You do not have to pick a winner in each category but it’s just more fun if you do ... Entries should be sent in using the Paypal button at the bottom of the following nomination list: You must include your picks in the Paypal notes! I need to have the name and email of each entry and all of their picks in the same place to make this manageable! Got it? Good ...
All of us Twitch writers will be posting our lists well in advance, so let the smack-talk begin!
Best Picture:
“Brokeback Mountain,”
“Capote,”
“Crash,”
“Good Night, and Good Luck,”
“Munich.”
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.”
Actress:
Judi Dench, “Mrs. Henderson Presents”;
Felicity Huffman, “Transamerica”;
Keira Knightley, “Pride & Prejudice”;
Charlize Theron, “North Country”;
Reese Witherspoon, “Walk the Line.”
Supporting Actor:
George Clooney, “Syriana”;
Matt Dillon, “Crash”;
Paul Giamatti, “Cinderella Man”;
Jake Gyllenhaal, “Brokeback Mountain”;
William Hurt, “A History of Violence.”
Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams, “Junebug”;
Catherine Keener, “Capote”;
Frances McDormand, “North Country”;
Rachel Weisz, “The Constant Gardener”;
Michelle Williams, “Brokeback Mountain.”
Director:
Ang Lee, “Brokeback Mountain”;
Bennett Miller, “Capote”;
Paul Haggis, “Crash”;
George Clooney, “Good Night, and Good Luck.”;
Steven Spielberg, “Munich.”
Foreign Film:
“Don’t Tell,” Italy;
“Joyeux Noel,” France;
“Paradise Now,” Palestine;
“Sophie Scholl - The Final Days,” Germany;
“Tsotsi,” South Africa.
Adapted Screenplay:
Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, “Brokeback Mountain”;
Dan Futterman, “Capote”;
Jeffrey Caine, “The Constant Gardener”;
Josh Olson, “A History of Violence”; T
ony Kushner and Eric Roth, “Munich.”
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.”
Animated Feature Film:
“Howl’s Moving Castle”;
“Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”;
“Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit.”
Art Direction:
“Good Night, and Good Luck.,”
“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,”
“King Kong,”
“Memoirs of a Geisha,”
“Pride & Prejudice.”
Cinematography:
“Batman Begins,”
“Brokeback Mountain,”
“Good Night, and Good Luck.,”
“Memoirs of a Geisha,”
“The New World.”
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.”
Sound Editing:
“King Kong,”
“Memoirs of a Geisha,”
“War of the Worlds.”
Original Score:
“Brokeback Mountain,” Gustavo Santaolalla;
“The Constant Gardener,” Alberto Iglesias;
“Memoirs of a Geisha,” John Williams;
“Munich,” John Williams;
“Pride & Prejudice,” Dario Marianelli.
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.
Costume:
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,”
“Memoirs of a Geisha,”
“Mrs. Henderson Presents,”
“Pride & Prejudice,”
“Walk the Line.”
Documentary Feature:
“Darwin’s Nightmare,”
“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,”
“March of the Penguins,”
“Murderball,”
“Street Fight.”
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.”
Film Editing:
“Cinderella Man,”
“The Constant Gardener,”
“Crash,”
“Munich,”
“Walk the Line.”
Makeup:
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,”
“Cinderella Man,”
“Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.”
Animated Short Film:
“Badgered,”
“The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation,”
“The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello,”
“9,”
“One Man Band.”
Live Action Short Film:
“Ausreisser (The Runaway),”
“Cashback,”
“The Last Farm,”
“Our Time Is Up,”
“Six Shooter.”
Visual Effects:
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,”
“King Kong,”
“War of the Worlds.”
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Reader Comments
Fabio 01/31/2006 @ 9:42am
Bennett Miller my ass!! Fernando meirelles should have been on the list for best director.
Toros 01/31/2006 @ 10:14am
yay! this is gonna be fun!
Swarez 01/31/2006 @ 10:41am
Good show. My friends produced one of the short films, The Last Farm.
fannyslacks 01/31/2006 @ 11:39am
i agree about Fernando Meirelles.. get rid of Paul Haggis along with Bennet Miller, stick Fernando and Noah Baumbach in there.
Datura 01/31/2006 @ 12:37pm
No surprises here.
GoldLeader 01/31/2006 @ 2:08pm
Hmm, I think China and Korea chose poorly when submitting films for Oscar consideration.
China should have gone with Perhaps Love and Korea should have submitted Sympathy For Lady Vengeance. They probably still wouldn’t have gotten nominated, but I think they would have had a better shot with those two films than with The Promise and Welcome To Dongmakgol.
mike rot 01/31/2006 @ 4:17pm
I’m definately in, although I am fairly crap at guessing what the academy deems worthy. I am going to go against my best judgment and vote for The New World for cinematography because it rightfully deserves it, whether or not the Academy thinks so.
Also, I think the animated feature category is a tricky one to predict.
quadshock 01/31/2006 @ 6:05pm
what exactly does “cinematography” mean? I’ve wondered for a while now but never remembered to ask (hopefully I’ll remember to check for the answer)
And Goldleader, Perhaps Love was Hong Kong’s pick since it was a HK film…
Todd 01/31/2006 @ 7:59pm
The cinematographer is responsible for camera choices, film stock, lenses, lighting, things like that. Some directors like to be real hands on in those areas, in which case the cinematographer is a glorified cameraman, but then there are people like Christopher Doyle who elevate everything they work on ...
quadshock 01/31/2006 @ 8:06pm
oh so it’s pretty much the production quality…
thanks!
Jim Tudor 02/01/2006 @ 1:57pm
In film school they told us that the cinemotographer is responsiblie for the mood and feel of the film, and I’ll agree with it in terms of lighting. That definition may be short-changing the Art Department (my home in the world of film production), but the concept of art direction is more understandable to most folks.
Anyway, about the Oscars - ZZZzzzzzz....
This is seriously going to be the lowest rated Oscar show in a loooong time. Jon Stewart cannot save this.
I predicted a while ago that “Brokeback” would be too hot-button to win an Oscar, but since it’s winning everything else, and has the most noms (the two big indicators that foretell the Academy Award best picture winner), let’s not kid ourselves. I’m fine with it winning (it was my #9 of the year), but it will never be a mainstream favorite for obvious reasons.
Which begs the question, should an Oscar winner be not only a great, solid, accomplished film, but also a popular (ideally, a ziegiest-capturing) film? Granted, this year, “King Kong” is the only massive crowd pleaser of 2005 that’s also Oscar-worthy, but should it be connsidered a snub?
Every few years, the Oscar goes to a “Titanic” or “Return of the King”, perhaps in an effort to win back the attention of mainstrean movie-goerss and not lose social relevance. “Return of the King” is getting to be a while ago.
Anyhow, just glad Terrence Howard made the cut.
JiM
Adam Lopez 02/01/2006 @ 1:58pm
Count me in on the pool fellas.... BTW: Constant Gardener was SOOOO best Pic/Director material, I’m with you all fellas on that one. Saw Brokeback, and quite frankly couldn’t see what all the fuss was about. Pretty quiet and boring film for me and the Missus. Anybody seen CRASH… have it sitting on my DVD shelf at home. Might be time to watch it.
fannyslacks 02/01/2006 @ 2:00pm
crash sucks, in my opinion.
Adam Lopez 02/01/2006 @ 8:25pm
Shame on you Academy for overlooking the following, some of my favourite ‘mainstream’/indie/arthouse films of 2005:
THE ARISTOCRATS- Best Documentary (sooo funny, and the acceptance speach would have been a beauty: “So this guy walks into an office and...”
CONSTANT GARDENER: Best Pic & Director (My #1 ‘mainstream’ film picks for these two awards)
IN GOOD COMPANY best actor (Dennis Quaid), script.
OLD BOY, TASTE OF TEA and C.R.A.Z.Y. all MIA in the Foreign Film category
HITCH-HIKER’S GUIDE: visual FX, song (So Long and Thanks for All the Fish) and score
40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN best actor (Steve Carrell - YES seriously if they can nominated Depp for Pirates they can nominate Carrell for his tour de farce)
MIND GAME & STRINGS - for Best Animation
TRISTRAM SHANDY/ A COCK & BULL STORY - for Acting (Steve Coogan et al), ‘Script’, Direction, Picture, you name it!
WORKINGMAN’S DEATH from Documentary. If you saw this stunning doc from Germany at TIFF you’ll know exactly why this film should be there.
KISS KISS BANG BANG-Best Supporting Actor (Val Kilmer. Yup I’m shocked too) and Script
KING KONG for Best Picture & Director (C’mon if they can hand the trophies out to ‘Titanic’ in this category, at least give Jackson a nod.
Oh well, what do you expect from “The Academy”?
- Adam
P.S. Todd, what’s the Twitch deadline for Oscar Picks?
Jimmy White 02/01/2006 @ 10:22pm
I rarely see eye to eye with the “Academy”, so I guess the best way to make picks is to go against my better judgement.
Chazy Sciota 02/02/2006 @ 6:55am
The really sad thing is NO nominations at all for SIN CITY… I mean, Christ, they didn’t think it deserved a nod for Best MakeUp, or Visual Effects, or Art Direction?
Just goes to show you the stranglehold the unions have on the Academy. You drop out of the DGA to co-direct a movie (sharing directorial credit is against union rules) and look what it gets you!
F**k the Oscars up their arses!
Christ 02/02/2006 @ 12:24pm
why do people even bother?
Adam Lopez 02/03/2006 @ 8:01pm
Hey Chazy, you’re so right. Sin City was STUNNING. They should at the very least give it a technical Oscar for groundbreaking filmmaking. But like you said, once El Troublemaker lost his Guild status for making that film, the film probably lost all chances of official recognition. Screw ‘em, Robert is having the last laugh: According to Rotten Tomatoes.Com, in North America alone, Sin City took over $70 mill at the box office, $40 mill in video rentals and although it doesn’t track it, almost certainly double ($80 mill) that in DVD sales. That would make it more successful than any of nomineess for Best Picture (the highest gross I believe is only about $40 mill). Who’s laughing now, ‘Academy’..... your stuffy Union members or the guy you threw out for wanting to honour his talented co-director?
Kurt 02/16/2006 @ 5:55pm
Kurt’s Picks:
Best Picture:
“Brokeback Mountain,”
Actor:
Joaquin Phoenix, “Walk the Line”;
Actress:
Reese Witherspoon, “Walk the Line.”
Supporting Actor:
Paul Giamatti, “Cinderella Man”;
Director:
Ang Lee, “Brokeback Mountain”;
Foreign Film:
“Tsotsi,” South Africa.
Adapted Screenplay:
Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, “Brokeback Mountain”;
Original Screenplay:
Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco, “Crash”;
Animated Feature Film:
“Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit.”
Cinematography:
“The New World.”
Original Score:
“Brokeback Mountain,”
Documentary Feature:
“March of the Penguins,”
Visual Effects:
“King Kong,”
Kurt 03/05/2006 @ 8:27pm
Whew, predictions all over the place...Crash? Huh? Two best pictures in a row from a screenwriter who I think is more obvious than a Sledgehammer over the head...Subtlety just doesn’t do it these days (or perhaps at the Oscars, it never has...)
Still managed to finish positive by Todd’s HARSH scoring system…
+1