Directors Guild and Writers Guild Nominations

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The Writers Guild announced their nominations yesterday, the Directors Guild announces their's today. I'll update this with the Directors nominations later.

 

Writer's Guild Nominations

Movies

Best Original Screenplay

Cinderella Man - Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman

Crash - Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco

The 40 Year-Old Virgin - Judd Apatow & Steve Carell

Good Night, and Good Luck - George Clooney & Grant Heslov

The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana (based on the short story by Annie Proulx)

Capote - Dan Futterman (based on the book by Gerald Clarke)

The Constant Gardener - Jeffrey Caine (based on the novel by John le Carré)

A History of Violence - Josh Olson (based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke)

Syriana - Stephen Gaghan (based on the book "See No Evil" by Robert Baer)

 

Television

This year the Writers Guild instituted Best Series and Best New Series awards that go to a show's entire writing staff.(Similar to the ensemble awards that SAG gives out).

 

Best Drama

Deadwood

Grey's Anatomy

Lost

Six Feet Under

The West Wing

 

Best Comedy

Arrested Development

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Entourage

My Name Is Earl

The Office

 

Best New series

Everybody Hates Chris

Grey's Anatomy

My Name Is Earl

The Office

Rome

 

Best Drama Episode

House - Autopsy

The West Wing - A Good Day

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Grave Danger

Veronica Mars - Normal is the Watchword

Nip/Tuck - Rhea Reynold

Six Feet Under - Singing for Our Lives

 

Best Comedy Episode

The Office - Diversity Day

Kitchen Confidential - Pilot

Malcolm in the Middle - Motivational Speaker

Desperate Housewives - Next

My Name is Earl - Pilot

Weeds - Pilot

 

Edit:

Here are the directors guild nominations. The winner of this almost always goes on to win the Oscar for Best Director. Its something like 50 out of 57 years.

Best Director

George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck

Paul Haggis - Crash

Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain

Bennett Miller - Capote

Steven Spielberg - Munich

Edited January 6, 2006 by MDH257

[Guest Vitamin X]

I think Crash could be the big dark horse pick for the Academy Awards this year, ala American Beauty in `99.

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Veronica Mars - Normal is the Watchword

YES

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Best Original Screenplay

Cinderella Man - Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman

 

There was nothing original about the screenplay to Cinderella Man.

[bob_barron 0]

::cue 3 pages of me and Jerk going at it about Cinderella Man::

 

The Best Original Screenplay Adaptations are all excellent picks.

 

Kudos to Diversity Day for getting a nod, although the MNIE piolt wasn't that funny.

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Go 40YOV.

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I think Crash could be the big dark horse pick for the Academy Awards this year, ala American Beauty in `99.

 

That'd be nice. Unfortunately, from the looks of things they're going with the dry, underwhelming-looking Brokeback Mountain, ala English Patient in 96

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Ang Lee won the Directors Guild Award. The track record is 51 out of 57 years the DGA winner goes on to win the Oscar for Best Director.

 

Here are my predictions for tomorrow's nomination. If anybody else wants to post predictions, let's put them in this thread.

 

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Best Picture

Brokeback Mountain

Capote

Crash

Good Night, and Good Luck

Walk The Line

 

Best Director

Woody Allen; Match Point

George Clooney; Good Night, and Good Luck

Paul Haggis; Crash

Ang Lee; Brokeback Mountain

Bennett Miller; Capote

 

Best Actor

Terrence Howard; Hustle & Flow

Phillip Seymour Hoffman; Capote

Heath Ledger; Brokeback Mountain

Joaquin Phoenix; Walk The Line

David Strathairn; Good Night, and Good Luck

 

Best Actress

Felicity Huffman; Transamerica

Keira Knightley; Pride & Prejudice

Charlize Theron; North Country

Reese Witherspoon; Walk the Line

Ziyi Zhang; Memoirs of a Geisha

 

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Giamatti; Cinderella Man

Matt Dillon; Crash

George Clooney; Syriana

Jake Gyllenhaal; Brokeback Mountain

Don Cheadle; Crash

 

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams, Junebug

Catherine Keener, Capote

Frances McDormand, North Country

Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener

Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

 

Best Original Screenplay

Crash

Good Night, and Good Luck

The Squid and the Whale

Match Point

Syrianna

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

Brokeback Mountain

Capote

The Constant Gardener

A History of Violence

Munich

 

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The Acadamy decided to put Syrianna in the Original Screenplay catagory and didn't tell anyone until the last minute, so that might have derailed its chances.

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Predictions

 

Best Picture

Brokeback Mountain

Capote

Crash

Good Night and Good Luck

Walk the Line

 

Best Director

Woody Allen-Match Point

George Clooney- Good Night and Good Luck

David Cronenberg- A History of Violence

Paul Haggis- Crash

Ang Lee-Brokeback Mountain

 

Best Actor

Ralph Fiennes- The Constant Gardener

Philip Hoffman- Capote

Terrance Howard- Hustle and Flow

Heath Ledger- Brokeback Mountain

Joaquin Phoenix- Walk the Line

 

Best Actress

Joan Allen- Upside of Anger

Felicity Huffman- Transamerica

Charlize Theron- North Country

Reese Witherspoon- Walk the Line

Zhang Ziyi- Memoirs of a Geisha

 

 

Best Supporting Actor

George Clooney- Good Night and Good Luck

Don Cheadle- Crash

Matt Dillion- Crash

Paul Giamatti- Cinderella Man

Jake Gyllenhaal- Brokeback Mountain

 

 

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams- Junebug

Maria Bello- A History of Violence

Catherine Kenner- Capote

Rachel Weisz- The Constant Gardener

Michelle Williams- Brokeback Mountain

 

Original Screenplay

Crash

Good Night and Good Luck

Match Point

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Squid and The Whale

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

A History of Violence

Brokeback Mountain

Capote

The Constant Gardner

Munich

[Guest Vitamin X]

Scarlett Johannson deserves a nomination for Match Point, afterh aving seen it last night. Allen deserves the director nod as well, fuck Ang Lee.

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No, Ang Lee actually did a great job with Brokeback. That's not saying Brokeback was better then Match Point, because it wasn't, but saying fuck Ang Lee is stupid.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Well I say fuck Ang Lee for The Hulk, not necessarily Brokeback Mountain. What is it about Lee's direction that made Brokeback so great, anyway? From everything I've been hearing, I thought it was more the acting than the direction...

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The two best written drama series on TV are The Shield and Over There. (Possibly the most under-rated show on TV - I'm excluding premium channels cause I don't get any)

 

"Whatever it is you think you believe in, whatever you think you live for - none of that shit matters. It's killing time!"

 

Lost? If Lost wins for best written drama that would be insane.

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Predictions for the major categories:

 

Best Picture

Brokeback Mountain

Capote

Crash

Good Night & Good Luck

Walk the Line

 

Best Director

Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain

Bennet Miller, Capote

Paul Haggis, Crash

George Clooney, Good Night & Good Luck

David Cronenberg, A History of Violence

 

Best Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

Terrance Howard, Hustle & Flow

Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain

Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line

David Strathairn, Good Night & Good Luck

 

Best Actress

Judi Dench, Mrs Henderson Presents

Felicity Huffman, Transamerica

Charlize Theron, North Country

Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

Zhang Ziyi, Memoirs of a Geisha

 

Best Supporting Actor

George Clooney, Syriana

Matt Dillon, Crash

Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man

Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain

Terrance Howard, Crash

 

Best Supporting Actress

Scarlett Johansson, Match Point

Catherine Keener, Capote

Frances McDormand, North Country

Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener

Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

 

Best Original Screenplay

Cache

Crash

The 40 Year Old Virgin

Good Night & Good Luck

The Squid & the Whale

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

Brokeback Mountain

Capote

The Constant Gardener

A History of Violence

Munich

 

Best Foreign Language Film

CRAZY

Joyeux Noel

Paradise Now

The Promise

Tsotsi

 

Best Animated Feature

The Corpse Bride

Madagadcar

Wallace & Gromit

 

Best Documentary Feature

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Mad Hot Ballroom

March of the Penguins

Murderball

Rize

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Russell Crowe and Scarlett Johansson= screwed

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Shitty Oscars this year, even worst than last. I only care about three things this year: I would like to see Terrence Howard win (even though he has the LEAST chance of winning out of the male nominees), I'd like to see Keira Knightley win for best actress (again, not happening), and I want Miyazaki to win for "Howl's Moving Castle". Everything else I take a steaming shit on.

 

The really upsetting thing to me is that, they're probably going to give an award this year to Clooney, aren't they? Fuck it.

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Hate Clooney all you want, but he deserves two of the nominations he got.

 

Scarlett Johansson not getting a nomination is just bullshit though.

 

Good to see Munich pick up some nods. I'd complain about Eric Bana and Jeff Daniels getting snubbed, but Best Actor is so deep anyway.

 

Gwyneth Paltrow really deserved recognition for Proof as well.