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: "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."
Clearly, but what a marvelous list that is! The bench was so deep in 1999 that it's a small wonder the Oscar managed to muff it up as badly as they did, wasting slots on bloated, self-serving piffle like the Insider and the Green Mile.
I's add Bringing Out the Dead to your list, and I'm glad to see you mention the criminally overlooked, scathing gem Election with it's astounding performance by Reese Witherspoon as power-mad high-schooler Tracy Flick (also un-nominated at the Oscars, Jeez!).
I don't like watching trash, gratituous violence, and other junk so what I see at the theater is limited. I really enjoyed "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Incredibles," the latter of which was nominated for Best of in appropriate categories.
My other remark was meant to indicate that hollywood most often these days promotes and rewards trash, junk, meaningless death, no morals, yada yada yada, the lowest common denominators. That is their myopia. They have lost their ability to lift their eyes and get out of the hole they dug for themselves a few decades back. They need to come up and "breathe the free air again."
If your complaint is rewarding 'lowest common denominator' you should be happy this year since the Best Picture nominees were not 'big' mass marketing films by any means. There are good movies all the time you just have to look for them.
RE: "Pulp Fiction can be watched over and over again without getting stale."
You can say that again. I probably watch it once a month without fail, and I NEVER grow tired of it. It's sheer joy-- a movie that makes love to the entire art of filmmaking and leaves the viewer restless for more, even after 2 1/2 hours.
That is why I feel it is important to keep our traditions and celebrations as close to normal as we can,esp. while we are at war.
If Hollywood weren't so openly left of me , and able to make such a negative impact upon our government and military-then I would appreciate their value to our country a good deal more than I do. That being said there are some goodwill films and film making people and to them I give credit and I wish Hollywood would give them awards. The others I will never respect.
I've always wished that more conservatives would go into film production. It's clearly a market gap. Besides it's not some govt industry. It's open to anyone. Kevin Smith financed Clerks on his credit card!
He was the definitive "Oscar Madison."
My favorite role, though, was his turn in the apocalyptic film, Fail-Safe.
How much of an impact does Hollywood actually have? Too often, people confuse the players for the game.
Didn't catch what movie you are discussing, but Ben Kingsley (if you are talking about him) never won a best supporting actor Oscar. His Oscar history is:
Best Actor 1982-- Gandhi (Win)
Best Supporting Actor 1991-- Bugsy (Nomination)
Best Supporting Actor 2001-- Sexy Beast (Nomination)
Best Actor 2003-- House of Sand and Fog (Nomination)
An absolutely wonderful site for Oscar information, including every nominee in every major category in the history of the Oscars, is www.filmsite.org
Show me where I said I get the news from myself. Show me, or STFU and quit lying.
RE: "Even worse than the year "Chicago" won?"
Hey, at least Chicago was a truly spectacular entertainment, with flashy acting and hummable musical numbers galore ("All That Jazz" rocks the house). Some Hobbit-heads may have preferred the Two Towers, but my personal fave film of that year was Martin Scorsese's engrossing epic Gangs of New York (with Daniel day-Lewis in a for the ages performance as the intelligent and unique villain Bill the Butcher), which I persist in admiring even though most film fans seem to have branded it an overlong turkey. Such is life, I guess...
RE: "I don't like watching trash, gratituous violence, and other junk so what I see at the theater is limited."
Don't go there. One person's trash is another's treasure, and that is never more evident than in the movies. My grampa, for instance, used to consider practically any movie featuring sex or nudity to be "trash", whereas I view some movies that are comparatively "clean" but utterly useless and offensive to the intellect (like "Christmas With the Kranks") as trash.
I do. I scour for them because I love watching a good movie. Hollywood would Make My Day if they'd get a larger store of cleaner, more edifying material and make it into first-rate movies. They've done it before and they can do it even better now. If they would but try.
One thing I love about FR is that it gives me tons of tips on movies, new and old. Same with books.
Two Towers was a fantastic movie as was Gangs of New York. I would not have even nominated Chicago, but the producers of Chicago did what Mel Gibson refused to do--pushed like crazy for nominations and then votes. When you release a movie that early in the year, then release it on DVD before the nominations are even considered, people will forget, or think it came out the year before and is not eligible.
BTW- I would be glad to point out to you where you led everyone to believe that you use yourself as a news source.. they can go an look at every post you made to me. How is that?
You are very serious and touchy about your hollywood stars and movies being called into question aren't you?
RE: "My favorite role, though, was his turn in the apocalyptic film, Fail-Safe."
Didn't see that one, I'm afraid to say. How about Matthau's underrated work as the harried police officer matched against Robert Shaw's subway-hijacker in the crackling terrorism actioner The Taking of Pelham 123?
I think Diva is enjoying the attention she is getting a little too much. Time to put her on "ignore"? She's basically acting like a troll anyway.
"Everyone" = YOU.
How you ever twisted my personal belief that sources, like all humans, have a particular political slant and agenda as me saying I only believe what I see with my own eyes, I'll never know.
It is simply stupid to assume that no one comes with an agenda.
You are very serious and touchy about your hollywood stars and movies being called into question aren't you?
Not really. I have spent the past 4 years on FR laughing hysterically over the "Boycott Hollyweird" crowd. They amuse me.
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