Posted on 01/25/2005 5:53:22 AM PST by Borges
BEST PICTURE
THE AVIATOR
FINDING NEVERLAND
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
RAY
SIDEWAYS
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Don Cheadle - HOTEL RWANDA
Johnny Depp - FINDING NEVERLAND
Leonardo DiCaprio - THE AVIATOR
Clint Eastwood - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Jamie Foxx - RAY
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alan Alda - THE AVIATOR
Thomas Haden Church - SIDEWAYS
Jamie Foxx - COLLATERAL
Morgan Freeman - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Clive Owen - CLOSER
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Annette Bening - BEING JULIA
Catalina Sandino Moreno - MARIA FULL OF GRACE
Imelda Staunton - VERA DRAKE
Hilary Swank - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Kate Winslet - ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Cate Blanchett - THE AVIATOR
Laura Linney - KINSEY
Virginia Madsen - SIDEWAYS
Sophie Okonedo - HOTEL RWANDA
Natalie Portman - CLOSER
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
THE INCREDIBLES
SHARK TALE
SHREK 2
ART DIRECTION
THE AVIATOR
FINDING NEVERLAND
LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT
CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE AVIATOR
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT
COSTUME DESIGN
THE AVIATOR FINDING NEVERLAND LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS RAY TROY
DIRECTING
THE AVIATOR MILLION DOLLAR BABY RAY SIDEWAYS VERA DRAKE
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
BORN INTO BROTHELS THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL SUPER SIZE ME TUPAC: RESURRECTION TWIST OF FAITH
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
AUTISM IS A WORLD THE CHILDREN OF LENINGRADSKY HARDWOOD MIGHTY TIMES: THE CHILDREN'S MARCH SISTER ROSE'S PASSION
FILM EDITING
THE AVIATOR COLLATERAL FINDING NEVERLAND MILLION DOLLAR BABY RAY
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
AS IT IS IN HEAVEN THE CHORUS DOWNFALL THE SEA INSIDE YESTERDAY
MAKEUP
LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST THE SEA INSIDE
MUSIC (SCORE)
FINDING NEVERLAND HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST THE VILLAGE
MUSIC (SONG)
"Accidentally In Love" - SHREK 2 "Al Otro Lado Del Río" - THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES "Believe" - THE POLAR EXPRESS "Learn To Be Lonely" - THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA "Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)" - THE CHORUS
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
BIRTHDAY BOY GOPHER BROKE GUARD DOG LORENZO RYAN
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY MUST
LITTLE TERRORIST
7:35 IN THE MORNING
TWO CARS, ONE NIGHT
WASP
SOUND EDITING
THE INCREDIBLES
THE POLAR EXPRESS
SPIDER-MAN 2
SOUND MIXING
THE AVIATOR
THE INCREDIBLES
THE POLAR EXPRESS
RAY
SPIDER-MAN 2
VISUAL EFFECTS
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
I, ROBOT
SPIDER-MAN 2
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
BEFORE SUNSET
FINDING NEVERLAND
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
SIDEWAYS
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
THE AVIATOR
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
HOTEL RWANDA
THE INCREDIBLES
VERA DRAKE
RE: "This is a bad movie nomination list. I remember it was bad the year "American Beauty" won as well."
Correctemundo. 1999 was such a great year for the movies (the last great year to date, in fact), and the Oscar picks for Best Picture were so wrongheaded that year that I created a kind of "shadow" list of personal faves that were better than the actual nominees.
The actual BP nominees of '99 were:
American Beauty
The Insider
The Green Mile
The Sixth Sense
The Cider House Rules
Lousy list, overall. A far more satisfying and diverse list of great movies that year would have been:
The Sixth Sense
Magnolia
Being John Malkovich
Fight Club
Toy Story 2
The recent movies I have enjoyed are: I love the movie Immortal Beloved, Bend it like Becham, Waking Ned Devine, the Incredibles, the Usual Suspects, Triple X, Band of Brothers, Saving Private, Ryan and Pulp Fiction
I even like some Guy Ritchie movies. ( And I don't usually go for violence or gore)
I would like to see National Treasure.
I don't think anyone involved with those movies is a genius, or a hero. I think it is what it is... a bit of entertainment.
There are some talented people in Hollywood sure... but they are not heroes to this country for making entertainment. They do not make this country great and free- our troops and vets do that.
Let them give themselves their awards but no one should be surprised that there is a great number of people who could care less about it all. To be called ignorant for not knowing or seeing the top five favored hollywood movies shows how seriously some people take these awards. That is a sad commentary on the importance some people put upon hollywood entertainers.
BTW one of my favorite art museums is the Detroit Institute of Art. I was born and raised in Michigan and there is some very good art there!
I would add Election, Eyes Wide Shut, South Park:BLAU, Go, Topsy Turvy, three Kings. Now that WAS a great year. Have never liked Being John Malkovich though. Clearly in a minority.
RE: " I actually enjoyed Gump the first time I saw it, but it suffers badly on repeated viewings."
Same here, man. I'll never understand how Forrest Gump managed to steal Pulp Fiction's Oscar that year. PF was "only" the most entertaining, memorable, quotable, influential film of the dad-gum DECADE, after all.
Notice I have never posted to you without answering your posts.
I see why you use yourself as your only news source. That way you can rewrite everything as you see fit.
I have nothing to prove to you- and I am not trying to. But remember that everyone is related to someone else.
Gump was awful. Pulp Fiction can be watched over and over again without getting stale.
Yes, you do that quite well. Show me whewre I ever said I use myself as a news source. Go ahead and try.
I remember when Gump came out it was highly praised by conservatives. Including a then everything-he-says-is-news Newt Gingritch. I'm surprised it isn't more popular here. It's certainly well crafted.
It's much like the liberal New York old, moldy media who declared after Bush won in 2000 that they were shocked, shocked! because they didn't know a single soul who voted for him.
That list of "best movies" chalks up another one for filmmakers interbreeding to result in industry-wide myopia.
RE: "Billy Wilder.
Now there was a comic genius!"
And how. I just rented the Fortune Cookie for the first time last week, and the comedic writing in that one was just as sharp as the day it was released, and the plot (about a shyster lawyer tricking his client into feigning non-existent injuries for a big money suit) seems quite prescient today, when tort reform remains an elusive goal.
And Walter Mattheau's facial expressions could ring laughs out of a dead man.
Tom Stoppard is a freakin' genius.
Those were among the best reviewed film of the year. Aside from Passion what else would you have nominated?
I do think that the contributions of Hollywood—good bad or indifferent—are important. Not earth-shattering, but important, none the less. As I see it, if we honor those who fight for our country, we should pay attention to those things back here for which they are fighting. We don't have to give them our undivided attention, but we should at least notice the rest. Popular culture is how our country is being shaped and the shapes it is taking.
But ultimately, in the words of Oscar Wilde (I believe), "All Art is Quite Worthless."
RE: "It was the only flick I could see investing twenty dollars in, thank you. LOL"
Da-Dum-Dum! Thank you ladies and gentlemen, you'll be here all week. Try the veal...Ho Ho.
The "comic bedroom scene" in SIDEWAYS was by far the nastiest thing in the movie, but it didn't seem gratuitous, or out of synch with the rest of the movie.
It was ugly and comic at the same time, and like the rest of the film, was entirely believable, and faithful to the details. SIDEWAYS will have discerning filmgoers smiling thoughout at just how honest, uncompromised, and compelling realistic filmmaking can be when it's in the hands of the right people.
Yes but he was the only category of the movie that didn't win. It won best picture, and I think Kingsley won best supporting actor, and I think it won best musical score. But Liam was overlooked.
Hey, Borges.
Say what you will about the presence of the "wit of an Oscar Wilde play" in SIL (and it was a well-acted, superb entertainment), but Saving Private Ryan just moved me on a deeper, more emotional level. Though it did tread very familiar ground, I thought it took a familiar story (the plight of WW2 soldiers and the horror of warfare) and made it new again by infusing it for the first time with the bloody, gritty reality it deserved. There was truly the feeling in SPR that any one of the 8 could have died at any moment, and the final passages made me tear up by revealing the simplest truth of any war film I've ever seen. "Just tell me I've led a good life, tell me that it was worth it". No ammount of star power and glitz can shake a moment like that from my heart.
I understand how people responded to it. I just felt the scenes at Arlington cemetry were totally crude and not needed, the characters were ciphers and the dialogue was second rate. Can't fault the direction though.
Even worse than the year "Chicago" won?
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