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^ Star Wars was nominated for best make up.

^ Star Wars was nominated for best make up.

The idea of the Ocsars is not that the most popular movie/ actor etc. wins but the best movie. They don't always get that right but that's what they're trying to do. These are quite often the movies that not so many people have heard of as they aren't big blockbuster films which have lots of money to spend on advertising.

Elanor wrote:

^ Star Wars was nominated for best make up.

Sorry, my bad.

Yeah, you're right, but those who select nominations have a high tendancy of picking the not so best movie or actor, because it's only their opinion, right?

However I just think that comlaining about the nominations because you havn't heard of/ seen them is missing the point of the Oscars.

I will end by stating that I am simply unhappy with the nominations this year, and still believe some of them unworthy.

Author:	Elanor [ February 5th, 2006, 10:52 am ]
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Did no one posted about the Oscar nominations? Or did I just miss it? Ah well here's this list: Best Picture Brokeback Mountain Capote Crash Good Night and Good Luck Munich Best Director Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain Bennet Miller - Capote Paul Haggis - Crash George Clooney - Good Night and Good Luck Steven Spielberg - Munich Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote Terrence Howard - Hustle and Flow Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line David Strathairn -Good Night and Good Luck Best Actress Judi Dench - Mrs Henderson Presents Felicity Huffman - Transamerica Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice Charlize Theron - North Country Reese Witherspoon - Walk The Line Best Supporting Actor George Clooney - Syriana Matt Dillon- Crash Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain William Hurt - A History of Violence 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 Goodnight and Good Luck Match Point The Squid and the Whale Syriana Best Adapted Screenplay Brokeback Mountain Capote The Constant Gardener A History of Violence Munich Best Animated Feature Film Of The Year Howl's Moving Castle Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Wallace & Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit Achievement In Art Direction Good Night, And Good Luck. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire King Kong Memoirs Of A Geisha Pride & Prejudice Achievement In Cinematography Batman Begins Brokeback Mountain Good Night, And Good Luck. Memoirs Of A Geisha The New World Achievement In Costume Design Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Memoirs Of A Geisha Mrs. Henderson Presents Pride & Prejudice Walk The Line Achievement In Film Editing Cinderella Man The Constant Gardener Crash Munich Walk The Line Best Foreign Language Film Of The Year Don't Tell Joyeux Noèl Paradise Now Sophie Scholl - The Final Days Tsotsi Achievement In Makeup The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe Cinderella Man Star Wars: Episode Iii Revenge Of The Sith Achievement In Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Score) Brokeback Mountain The Constant Gardener Memoirs Of A Geisha Munich Pride & Prejudice Achievement In Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Song) "In The Deep" - Crash "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" - Hustle & Flow "Travelin' Thru" - Transamerica Best Animated Short Film Badgered The Moon And The Son: An Imagined Conversation The Mysterious Geographic Explorations Of Jasper Morello 9 One Man Band Best Live Action Short Film Ausreisser (The Runaway) Cashback The Last Farm Our Time Is Up Six Shooter Achievement In Sound Editing King Kong Memoirs Of A Geisha War Of The Worlds Achievement In Sound Mixing The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe King Kong Memoirs Of A Geisha Walk The Line War Of The Worlds Achievement In Visual Effects The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe King Kong War Of The Worlds Best Documentary Feature Darwin's Nightmare Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room March Of The Penguins Murderball Street Fight Best Documentary Short Subject The Death Of Kevin Carter: Casualty Of The Bang Bang Club God Sleeps In Rwanda The Mushroom Club A Note Of Triumph: The Golden Age Of Norman Corwin Does anyone have any thoughts on the nominations, who else should have been nominated, who should win, who will win etc. ?

Author:	Arwen the webmaster [ February 5th, 2006, 12:58 pm ]
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I was going to start a thread like this one, but you beat me to it! I'm more than a little disappointed in the Oscar noms this year (not that I usually agree with them, but still). It was a given that the obvious Academy-pleasers like Brokeback Mountain and Crash would get nominated, and other stuff seemed like it was nommed just for old-times' sake. What's with John Williams getting nominated <i>twice</i> (I think) for Original Score? And Munich, which no one really thought would get much Academy attention, seems like it got there just because it's Steven Spielberg. As a lot of you around here know, I couldn't stand Star Wars Episode III, but still, why didn't it get nominated for visual effects? Even I admit they were impressive. How could the Academy say that there were only three songs worthy of being nominated for Best Original Song? (Narnia should have gotten a nomination!) The only pleasant surprise for me was that Keira got nommed for P&P, but it's obvious that she's going to be beaten by Reese Witherspoon or Felicity Huffman (it just really, really bugs me when it's like the Academy decided they just had to come up with a few "extras" to fill all the spots, when the winner is already a shoe-in). But, I'll still tune in to watch them Maybe Christian Bale will be there!

Author:	Elanor [ February 5th, 2006, 1:10 pm ]
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Well they were announced on the 29th so I gave you plenty of time to start one I've seen both Crash and Brokeback Mountain and I think they definitly deserve their nominations. I think Crash is the better film but I would imagine Brokeback Mountain will win it. Munich I havn't seen but I have read excellent reviews of it. I agree about Star Wars 3 especially as they only have 3 noms in that category - surely it could have been there too. I thought the special effects in it were better than Narnia's. I was very suprised that Keira was nominated. She was fine in P & P but in no way that special. I think they must have been really struggling to fill the category as Charlize Theron was also nominated and all the reviews I've read say that film's terrible. I thought King Kong might have got more but I would imagine the acedemy feel it's too soon after ROTK to give PJ more noms. .

Author:	MontanaBohemian [ February 5th, 2006, 2:29 pm ]
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Thanks for posting the list! I saw it a few days ago when I was reading the New York Times. It should be an interesting year to say the least. Some interesting nominations. I mean, Keira Knightly for her performance in Pride and Prejudice?! Come on! I know it might be the year of first timers, but seriously. P&P was good, but not that good. And her performance of Lizzy wasn't up to Oscar par. But that's my opinion, and I may be a little biased on the fact that I really don't like her as Lizzy. Ha ha ha. Now, the best actor I'm kind of torn. I'd love it if Heath won for Brokeback because he was EXCELLENT. But then there's Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and although I haven't seen Capote...I think he really deserves it. As for supporting actor, I'm leaning towards Jake - of course. Other than that, I'm rooting for Wallace and Gromit, King Kong, Harry Potter and Batman Begins.

Author:	Kitoky [ February 5th, 2006, 2:46 pm ]
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Oh my gosh! The OSCARS actually nominated Harry Potter for SOMETHING?! Go HP and the GoF!

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Author:	Gwenneth [ February 5th, 2006, 4:54 pm ]
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I completely agree with Arwen. I haven't seen one movie nominated for Best Picture, and not that my views and opinions are the only ones that matter, but Brokeback Mountain is the only movie I have even heard of! (Though personally, I have no wish to see Brokeback Mountain) And I agree that Kiera was a good surprise: even though I wasn't thrilled with P&P, she did a good job of acting. As Arwen also said, she's not famous enough to get the award, though. I was surprised (in a bad way) that Narnia wasn't nominated for Best Song (I know Wunderkind is really popular). Am I right in saything that Star Wars wasn't nominated for anything? I am highly disappointed in the nominations.

Author:	Elanor [ February 5th, 2006, 6:39 pm ]
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^ Star Wars was nominated for best make up. The idea of the Ocsars is not that the most popular movie/ actor etc. wins but the best movie. They don't always get that right but that's what they're trying to do. These are quite often the movies that not so many people have heard of as they aren't big blockbuster films which have lots of money to spend on advertising.

Author:	Gwenneth [ February 5th, 2006, 10:55 pm ]
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Elanor wrote: ^ Star Wars was nominated for best make up. Sorry, my bad. Yeah, you're right, but those who select nominations have a high tendancy of picking the not so best movie or actor, because it's only their opinion, right?

Author:	Beriadanwen [ February 6th, 2006, 12:37 am ]
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I'm never happy with the Oscar Nominations...but at least last year Cate, Johnny, and Kate Winslet got noms. I'm not rooting for anyone this year

Author:	Elanor [ February 6th, 2006, 7:34 am ]
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Gwenneth wrote: Elanor wrote: ^ Star Wars was nominated for best make up. Sorry, my bad. Yeah, you're right, but those who select nominations have a high tendancy of picking the not so best movie or actor, because it's only their opinion, right? Yeah of course they don't always get it right. In every oscar ceromy there's always winners and nominations that I don't think deserved to be there. I wouldn't say it's necessarly a high tendency but yes they often don't seem to give the award to the most deserving person/ film of that year and give awards to people because they were missed out the year before or because they've done at lot of great films that havn't been rewarded. However I just think that comlaining about the nominations because you havn't heard of/ seen them is missing the point of the Oscars.

Author:	Gwenneth [ February 6th, 2006, 10:25 am ]
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Elanor wrote: However I just think that comlaining about the nominations because you havn't heard of/ seen them is missing the point of the Oscars. My comments seems to be miss-read. My point in stating that I have never heard or seen some of the Oscar nominations is that they were not picked as well as they should've, in my opinion. Though popularity is not the point, good movies will recieve a large audience, therefore helping to determine the best movies of the year, for instace.

Author:	Elanor [ February 6th, 2006, 10:43 am ]
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I did get that and that's what I was replying to in my first post. Good movies very often don't get a big audience and bad or average movies get large audiences because they are well advertised/ have famous actors in them/ are sequels/ are based on popular books etc. none of which makes a good movie. Look at the 10 top most grossing films for 2005: http://imdb.com/Sections/Years/2005/top-grossing All of them were well advertised before they came out, most of them have big stars in them and so on. But I don't think that any of the 7 films I've seen on that list were particularly out standing or Oscar worthy though they were enjoyable.

Author:	Gwenneth [ February 6th, 2006, 1:57 pm ]
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I don't think this will get anywhere. I will end by stating that I am simply unhappy with the nominations this year, and still believe some of them unworthy.

Author:	Elanor [ February 6th, 2006, 4:36 pm ]
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Aww... but arguments which never go anywhere are the most fun Quote: I will end by stating that I am simply unhappy with the nominations this year, and still believe some of them unworthy. I agree with you on the second point I don't think Keira deserved her nomination

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Author:	tim4x [ February 6th, 2006, 6:24 pm ]
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Yay LWW (It should have been nominated for more!)! I really am not impressed by this year's noms either. I've only seen 6 of them (LWW, War Of The Worlds, Corpse Bride, HP, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Star Wars). Grizzly Man should have been nominated... Grr.