Posted on 01/31/2006 5:52:22 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
The cowboy love story "Brokeback Mountain" led the Academy Awards field Tuesday with eight nominations, among them best picture and honors for actor Heath Ledger and director Ang Lee.
Also nominated for best picture were the Truman Capote story "Capote"; the ensemble drama "Crash"; the Edward R. Murrow chronicle "Good Night, and Good Luck"; and the assassination thriller "Munich."
The Johnny Cash biography, "Walk the Line," considered a likely best picture nominee, was shut out, though Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon earned acting nominations for the film.
George Clooney picked up two nominations, as supporting actor for his role as a steadfast CIA undercover agent in "Syriana" and best director for his Edward R. Murrow tale "Good Night, and Good Luck."
Along with best-actor contender Ledger, and directing nominee Lee, "Brokeback Mountain" scored nominations for Michelle Williams as supporting actress, Jake Gyllenhaal as supporting actor and Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana for their screenplay adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story.
Although I haven't see either of these pictures, I think Phoenix is a very underrated actor. I'm a big fan of the movie "Gladiator" and after seeing it multiple times it is clear that the Phoenix was the best actor in the movie. I don't mean to take away from Russell Crowe, who did an exellent job, I just mean Phoenix was even better in his protrayal of the mentally unstable, narcisstic emperor.
I agree that Russell Crowe was GREAT in "CINDERELLA MAN" as also was that film. Everyone should see THAT after they buy the DVD, on the night of the Oscars and avoid the telecast. I also agree that Crowe is routinely dissed ("punished") by Hollywood. He's just not of the same b.s. mould as is Hollywood -- he has far more talent than the customary and whatever else he has that he takes to his roles, it sets him completley apart from the rest.
Thus, yes, there's that subtle but quite noticable zing of negativity about him that works to THEIR disadvantage, not Crowe's.
At this stage of things, I'd stand in a line to see films by Russell Crowe and Mel Gibson and Bruce Willis, as to current working actors. The rest, I see them later on DVD.
Oh, and James Gandolfini, as to television, DVD.
About Crowe, however, his publicity last year sent the cowardly Hollywooder-trenders into fever pitch of avoidance of his very name! Err, whatever it was.
Hollywood's in for a worse year next year than ever. I bet Gibson's going to continue to do really, really well at the box office with all he's producing and directing and the few it looks like he's going to star in, and Crowe's going to continue to do great work...
I also agree that Joaquin Phoenix is wonderfully talented. He was effectively and convincingly vile and loathesome in GLADIATOR and wonderfully endearing and believable as Cash in WALK THE LINE and I really do enjoy his work (LADDER 49 is great if anyone here hasn't already seen it, and you'll love Phoenix's character and Phoenix in that film).
I doubt 5 million have seen this trash - you are not accounting for much repeat viewing or other shenanigans.
Pop culture is a phenomon of the 20th century. It didn't exist in Shakespeare's time. Pop culture arose to fill the vacuum left by the increasing lack of art and increased amounts of free time. It was a kind of self perpetuating thing, capitalism and the industrial age at first filled all the time that would have been dedicated to the arts, then those same elements created more free time that people were unable to fill with the arts.
making the hulk a metaphor for a PC domestic violence story killed it too.
It went from scientist seeking knowledge to wacko testing humans to victim of domestic violence.
Hollywood is not making any STORIES that matter. It is all just cookie cutter PC. You would swear Goebles is controlling all the studios.
Exactly. I haven't been to the movies in a few years ... enough is enough. If there is something I want to see, I'll wait until it comes out on DVD.
Since that is the only movie I saw this past year; I would have to agree.
On the other hand, Walk the Line was terrific! The Academy has egg on its face.
And as Bill Murray says, "Nobody still cares about Best Supporting Actor or Best Supporting Actress."
Right. I went to see a movie about a comic book character, one of my favorites when I was a kid. I did not go to be lectured or taught.
Those 1960s Marvel comics lectured all the time though.
Glenn Beck was reading the top 50 box office movies of 2005. He had to get down to number 48 to find one that is an Academy Award nominee.
Like someone said earlier, he still hates Phoenix after seeing him in Gladiator, I hated him a long time also. So it good that he took a likeable person such as Cash. Phoenix was just so believeable in Gladiator
'War of the Worlds' got robbed.
I haven't seen Walk the Line or any of the nominees - I actually hope box office numbers continue to dwindle - just from your tagline, though, I will accept your opinion ; )
They = communists.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
I didn't read them until the '70s. I was a kid anyway, and not knowing any better, probably agreed with their agenda anyway.
Now that I am an adult I see Liberals as childish ideolgists who act like babies when they don't get their way.
Hollyweird shut out Johnny Cash because you would have had the Contrast of "The man in black" with the "men in sheep"
The contrast would have shown the absurdity of the entire homosexual movement to force acceptence of their chosen sexual fetish.
The Oscars are going to have a devil of a time promoting a show about butsex as a family event.
Willis O'brien (King Kong) I believe was Harryhausen's mentor. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad was the first movie of his that I saw as a kid.
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