Monday, March 06, 2006

Oscar Crash

Whaaat? Crash is best picture? It was true as pundits predicted—the last minute surge for that movie helped. The Hollywood community, being mostly Californians, would really relate to that Los Angeles-based film. More importantly, the buzz around Brokeback Mountain had peaked and was already tired. In fact, get ready for the next period called Backlash Mountain. (Shit, there’s a Regal Films parody somewhere in that title there.)

The list:

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
George Clooney
SYRIANA

Achievement in Visual Effects
KING KONG
Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
Nick Park and Steve Box

Best Live Action Short Film
SIX SHOOTER
Martin McDonagh

Best Animated Short Film
THE MOON AND THE SON: AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION
John Canemaker and Peggy Stern

Achievement in Costume Design
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Colleen Atwood

Achievement in Makeup
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
Howard Berger and Tami Lane

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Rachel Weisz
THE CONSTANT GARDENER

Best Documentary Short Subject
A NOTE OF TRIUMPH: THE GOLDEN AGE OF NORMAN CORWIN
Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson

Best Documentary Feature
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau

Achievement in Art Direction
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
John Myhre (Art Direction); Gretchen Rau (Set Decoration)

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Gustavo Santaolalla

Achievement in Sound Mixing
KING KONG
Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
"IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PIMP" FROM HUSTLE & FLOW
Music and Lyric by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard

Achievement in Sound Editing
KING KONG
Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
TSOTSI
South Africa

Achievement in Film Editing
CRASH
Hughes Winborne

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Philip Seymour Hoffman
CAPOTE

Achievement in Cinematography
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Dion Beebe

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Reese Witherspoon
WALK THE LINE

Adapted Screenplay
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana

Original Screenplay
CRASH
Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco; Story by Paul Haggis

Achievement in Directing
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Ang Lee

Best Motion Picture of the Year
CRASH
Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman

Comments:
Yeah I was shocked when Crash won too hahahahha oh well, at least Ang Lee won best director. ;-)
 
kamusta si stewart as host?

xanderKhan!
 
uhm... i think he was OK, pero ibang klase ang humor niya....

i really like Billy Crystal better.
 
Ako, out of all Best Picture contenders, I only saw Crash and Brokeback Mountain. Between those two, I would pick Crash any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

BBM was good, but it lacked something. Can't really put my finger on what, but there was something missing. Plus it was a tad boring.

I thought Crash was really well-made. At the very least, its pacing was better than BBM's.
 
Yeah, I still have to see Crash.
 
Crash is great! I just wish Michelle Williams won the best supporting actress Oscar though....
 
Ako rin, I wish Michelle Williams had won.

Major Dawson's Creek geek kasi ako. Hahaha.
 
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