The 78th Annual Academy Awards

[Hawk 34 0]

Very early predictions

 

Best Picture

What should win: Crash

What will win: Brokeback Mountain

 

Best Actor

Who should win: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Who will win: Heath Ledger

 

Best Actress

Who should win: Reese Witherspoon

Who will win: Reese Witherspoon

 

Best Supporting Actor

Who should win: Matt Dillon

Who will win: Paul Giamatti

 

Best Supporting Actress

Who should win: Rachel Weisz

Who will win: Michelle Williams (can't believe the after-thought girl from Dawson's Creek will have a oscar, bad enough Steve Sanders girlfriend from 90210 won two)

 

Best Director

Who should win: Paul Haggis

Who will win: Ang Lee

[Gary Floyd 0]

Good to see "A History of Violence" get a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination. Of course, it will go to "Brokeback Mountain". Shame to see Cronenberg didn't get nominated for best director. Also, while he was only in it for a few minutes, William Hurt deserves his best supporting actor nomination.

 

I hope "Wallace and Gromit" wins best animated picture. I liked "Howl's Moving Castle", but Miyazaki already has an Oscar. Plus, I really didn't like "Corpse Bride" very much.

 

I saw "Brokeback Mountain" the other day. It's good, but nowhere near as good as eveyone keeps saying it is. Of course, it will most likely take most of the Oscars, but it's not deserving.

 

I really hope Hoffman wins for best actor, he really deserves it. Best supporting actor is hard for me to choose though. Maria Bello should have gotten a best actress nomination, and Viggo Mortensen should have gotten a best actor nomination. Yes, I did really love "A History of Violence". I hope Reese Witherspoon wins best actress though, and that Catherine Keener wins best supporting actress.

[teke184 0]

After seeing the nominations, there's a four-way tie for "Best Picture Nominee I'm Never Going To Fucking Watch".

 

The only nominated movie I could see watching is Crash... I will NOT watch Brokeback Mountain, Munich, or Good Night And Good Luck and I doubt I'll bother to see Capote.

 

 

The only thing these nominations have done is confirmed to me that the Academy tends to be made up of people who have NO clue as to what a good film is and who vote politics over quality.

[teke184 0]

Goddamn double-posting...

[spiny norman 0]

The only thing these nominations have done is confirmed to me that the Academy tends to be made up of people who have NO clue as to what a good film is and who vote politics over quality.

 

As opposed to you, who knows what a bad film is without even seeing it purely based on what you think its politics may very well be.

 

I've seen Crash and Good Night And Good Luck and really enjoyed both. I was a tad surprised Crash was nominated for as much as it was. Dillon was excellent.

[Kardo 0]

I don't understand the love for Crash, to me it was so heavy handed I felt like I was sitting there being slapped by the "racism is bad" line over and over again.

[Ravenbomb 0]

After seeing the nominations, there's a four-way tie for "Best Picture Nominee I'm Never Going To Fucking Watch".

 

The only nominated movie I could see watching is Crash... I will NOT watch Brokeback Mountain, Munich, or Good Night And Good Luck and I doubt I'll bother to see Capote.

 

 

The only thing these nominations have done is confirmed to me that the Academy tends to be made up of people who have NO clue as to what a good film is and who vote politics over quality.

 

you're missing out, Good Night and Good Luck is fantastic (and slightly better than Crash, IMO)

[teke184 0]

The only thing these nominations have done is confirmed to me that the Academy tends to be made up of people who have NO clue as to what a good film is and who vote politics over quality.

 

As opposed to you, who knows what a bad film is without even seeing it purely based on what you think its politics may very well be.

 

I've seen Crash and Good Night And Good Luck and really enjoyed both. I was a tad surprised Crash was nominated for as much as it was. Dillon was excellent.

 

I normally will give their choices a chance, but their picks this year seem to be overwhelmingly political.

 

 

Munich and Good Night And Good Luck may be well-made movies but, like The Hurricane some years back, their relationship with reality is somewhat strained. That's a VERY bad quality to have in films based on actual events and hurts the enjoyment factor when so much of what you see is fudged to make political points. (This is opposed to former Best Screenplay winner Midnight Express, based on Billy Hayes' imprisonment in Turkey, where a lot of the prison sequences were overdone by Oliver Stone but the overwhelming spirit of the book was still intact)

 

As for Bareback Mountain, I've spoken to several people who've seen it and the comments were mainly "It was good but certainly not Best Picture material". It's getting a big push because of the content, which means a good film that may deserve to get nominated is on the inside track to win a prize it doesn't deserve.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Syriana was one of the most if not THE most political movie of the year and it wasn't nominated.

[Special K 0]

I actually really like Wallace & Gromit, and have since The Wrong Trousers came out.

 

It's just, I really think that Miyazaki movies are generally better than any other animated movies. Pixar's best are right up there too. Oh, and 'Castle in the Sky' was really underwhelming.

[teke184 0]

Syriana was one of the most if not THE most political movie of the year and it wasn't nominated.

 

Clooney got an Acting nod for it.

 

He also was involved with the production of Good Night And Good Luck, which is just as political as Syriana.

[bob_barron 0]

You said Bareback Mountain LOL!

 

Seriously, that one has been beaten into the ground.

[Special K 0]

Bareback Mountin' hasn't.

 

 

Now it has.

 

 

I haven't seen it yet. My friend has, and though he say he had to look away during the pup tent scene, he liked it. He said it was well acted, had a good story, and he said it was by far the most visually beautiful movie he'd ever seen.

[bob_barron 0]

Munich and Good Night And Good Luck may be well-made movies but, like The Hurricane some years back, their relationship with reality is somewhat strained. That's a VERY bad quality to have in films based on actual events and hurts the enjoyment factor when so much of what you see is fudged to make political points.

 

The movies are not documentaries, nor do they claim to be 100% factually correct.

 

Munich may not be 100% true, but that doesn't change the fact that it was one of the best made movies of the year and provides for a lot of discussion and debate.

 

As for Bareback Mountain, I've spoken to several people who've seen it and the comments were mainly "It was good but certainly not Best Picture material". It's getting a big push because of the content, which means a good film that may deserve to get nominated is on the inside track to win a prize it doesn't deserve.

 

So you're "refusing" to see a movie because you've heard it's good and it edged out another film? Lame.

 

I saw Brokeback and while I don't think it's a great movie, I thought it was very good and well done. Great performance by Heath Ledger.

 

Clooney got an Acting nod for it.

 

Which he deserved.

 

He also was involved with the production of Good Night And Good Luck, which is just as political as Syriana.

 

Syriana was much more political. And again, Good Night was a good movie no matter how political you think it was.

 

I don't understand the love for Crash, to me it was so heavy handed I felt like I was sitting there being slapped by the "racism is bad" line over and over again.

 

That's not what Crash was at all.

[bob_barron 0]

Bareback Mountin' hasn't.

 

 

Now it has.

 

 

I haven't seen it yet. My friend has, and though he say he had to look away during the pup tent scene, he liked it. He said it was well acted, had a good story, and he said it was by far the most visually beautiful movie he'd ever seen.

 

I laughed at Homos on the Range.

 

Yea, the movie is visually beautiful, one of the things I really liked about the movie. I didn't think any of the gay scenes were that bad, I just didn't see the big deal I guess.

[Special K 0]

What's everyone's worst movie for the year?

 

I'd say Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I hated that dumbass movie. I'm sure there were far worse movie, but I pretty much avoided the theaters like the plague this year. (And in general, I wait for most of the highly-rated dramas to come out on video)

[bob_barron 0]

Dukes of Hazzard.

 

I wasn't in the mood for a stupid dumb comedy and just sat there ripping it apart.

 

Burt Reynolds and Willie Nelson weren't even hilariously bad or anything!

[Ted the Poster 0]

That music video though.... damn.

 

I find it a shame that Giamatti will more than likely get the Morgan Freeman win, when he should have won Best Actor once, if not twice, already. Hoffman winning for Capote would be great, as he really deserves it. Sin City getting snubbed annoys me to no end.