Academy Award Nominations

[Magpiespower]

As always, the machinations of Hollywood has seen quite a few undeserving nominations.

A few Australian nominess - Heath Ledger, Dion Bebee and for the third year in a row we have a nomination in the Best Animated Short category - Anthony Lucas for “The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello.”

Most interesting category for me is Best Documentary where "March of the Penguins" is up against "Murderball."

Best Picture
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night, And Good Luck
Munich

Best Director
Ang Lee - "Brokeback Mountain”
Bennett Miller - “Capote”
Paul Haggis - “Crash”
George Clooney - “Good Night, and Good Luck.”
Steven Spielberg - “Munich”

Best 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.”

Best Actress
Judi Dench - “Mrs. Henderson Presents”
Felicity Huffman - “Transamerica”
Keira Knightley - “Pride & Prejudice”
Charlize Theron - “North Country”
Reese Witherspoon - “Walk the Line”

Best Supporting Actor
George Clooney - “Syriana”
Matt Dillon - “Crash”
Paul Giamatti - “Cinderella Man”
Jake Gyllenhaal - “Brokeback Mountain”
William Hurt - “A History of Violence”

Best Supporing Actress
Amy Adams - “Junebug”
Catherine Keener - “Capote”
Frances McDormand in “North Country”
Rachel Weisz - “The Constant Gardener”
Michelle Williams - “Brokeback Mountain”

Best Adapated 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”

Best 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”

Best Cinematography
Wally Pfister - “Batman Begins”
Rodrigo Prieto - “Brokeback Mountain”
Robert Elswit - “Good Night, and Good Luck.”
Dion Beebe - “Memoirs of a Geisha”
Emmanuel Lubezki - “The New World”

[Wedgie]

I can't believe Chicken Little didn't get nominated for anything, WTF is going on with the Acadamy these days?

[Footy Chick]

Im a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE penguin freak ( u should see my house!) so like yourself MP, I'll be watching in anticipation for the winner in that category also. Considering it took more money at the box office than some big budget films, its bound to be a shoe in...

[ORDoubleBlues]

Agree about the undeserving nominations MP.
Remember when Denzel Washington won best actor for Training Day, when it was nowhere near his better roles. Should have at least been nominated in '92 for Malcolm X but of course a movie with that sort of subject matter would have a line drawn through it.
Should be called the "Hollywood Politics Awards".

[JK]

Got Joaquin Phoenix at 12/1 .. Here's hoping he can buck the trend of PSH taking it out in the other recent awards!

[Magpiespower]

Agree about the undeserving nominations MP.
Remember when Denzel Washington won best actor for Training Day, when it was nowhere near his better roles. Should have at least been nominated in '92 for Malcolm X but of course a movie with that sort of subject matter would have a line drawn through it.
Should be called the "Hollywood Politics Awards".

That's often the way it goes.

The Academy gives out a lot of 'make-up' Oscars to people who should already have one.

So they take home Oscar for lesser performances or films. In addition to Denzel there has been...

Russell Crowe in Gladiator.
Paul Newman in The Color of Money
Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman
John Wayne in True Grit

Among a host of others.

This year, Paul Giamatti will get Best Supporting Actor for his fine performance in Cinderella Man after being shamefully snubbed for Sideways (didn't even get a nomination) and, to a lesser extent, American Splendor.

It's not just the Oscars - politics comes into play at nearly every awards ceremony. Hell, even the local AFI's are beset by politics. And filmmaking had nothing to do with Michael Moore winning the Palm D'Or at Cannes a few years back.

Bloody French.