Oscar Nominations announced

www.oscar.com ^ | 1/25/05

[Borges]

BEST PICTURE

THE AVIATOR
FINDING NEVERLAND
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
RAY
SIDEWAYS

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Don Cheadle - HOTEL RWANDA
Johnny Depp - FINDING NEVERLAND
Leonardo DiCaprio - THE AVIATOR
Clint Eastwood - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Jamie Foxx - RAY

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Alan Alda - THE AVIATOR
Thomas Haden Church - SIDEWAYS
Jamie Foxx - COLLATERAL
Morgan Freeman - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Clive Owen - CLOSER

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Annette Bening - BEING JULIA
Catalina Sandino Moreno - MARIA FULL OF GRACE
Imelda Staunton - VERA DRAKE
Hilary Swank - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Kate Winslet - ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Cate Blanchett - THE AVIATOR
Laura Linney - KINSEY
Virginia Madsen - SIDEWAYS
Sophie Okonedo - HOTEL RWANDA
Natalie Portman - CLOSER

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

THE INCREDIBLES
SHARK TALE
SHREK 2

ART DIRECTION

THE AVIATOR
FINDING NEVERLAND
LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT

CINEMATOGRAPHY

THE AVIATOR
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT

COSTUME DESIGN

THE AVIATOR FINDING NEVERLAND LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS RAY TROY

DIRECTING

THE AVIATOR MILLION DOLLAR BABY RAY SIDEWAYS VERA DRAKE

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

BORN INTO BROTHELS THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL SUPER SIZE ME TUPAC: RESURRECTION TWIST OF FAITH

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

AUTISM IS A WORLD THE CHILDREN OF LENINGRADSKY HARDWOOD MIGHTY TIMES: THE CHILDREN'S MARCH SISTER ROSE'S PASSION

FILM EDITING

THE AVIATOR COLLATERAL FINDING NEVERLAND MILLION DOLLAR BABY RAY

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

AS IT IS IN HEAVEN THE CHORUS DOWNFALL THE SEA INSIDE YESTERDAY

MAKEUP

LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST THE SEA INSIDE

MUSIC (SCORE)

FINDING NEVERLAND HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST THE VILLAGE

MUSIC (SONG)

"Accidentally In Love" - SHREK 2 "Al Otro Lado Del Río" - THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES "Believe" - THE POLAR EXPRESS "Learn To Be Lonely" - THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA "Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)" - THE CHORUS

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

BIRTHDAY BOY GOPHER BROKE GUARD DOG LORENZO RYAN

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY MUST
LITTLE TERRORIST
7:35 IN THE MORNING
TWO CARS, ONE NIGHT
WASP

SOUND EDITING

THE INCREDIBLES
THE POLAR EXPRESS
SPIDER-MAN 2

SOUND MIXING

THE AVIATOR
THE INCREDIBLES
THE POLAR EXPRESS
RAY
SPIDER-MAN 2

VISUAL EFFECTS

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
I, ROBOT
SPIDER-MAN 2

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

BEFORE SUNSET
FINDING NEVERLAND
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
SIDEWAYS

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

THE AVIATOR
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
HOTEL RWANDA
THE INCREDIBLES
VERA DRAKE

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

RE: "What are "Oscars"?"


Don't be an a**, the Oscars are the Academy Awards statuettes and you dad-gum well know it.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

well- you don't know my sources of information.. now do you? But then again you don't really know much at all since you could not have possibly been alive forever and seen everything with your own eyes. And that seems to me to be what you are saying is your reliable news source;yourself.

[Mat_Helm]

A film that focused on a more balanced telling of Christ's life including his mission and teachings may have been worthy but a 2-plus hour splatter-fest doesn't necessarily cut it regardless of how much it may mean to a specific target market.

You obviously don't understand the meaning of the passion in the title. The Passion is the period of the crucifiction and death of Jesus on the cross. That is the prurpose for the flim which is not a work of nonfiction, but the first film ever depicted exactly as witnessed by the Gospels, which means to witness. The splatter-fest as you call it is tame compared to hollywood such as Torentino films or Spielberg and Saving Private Ryan, plus the fact that His death gained salvation and life for everyone. The fact that this is a christian nation founded upon biblical principals built into our laws and with billions of christians world wide how can you call that a narrow target audience when it was not even done in English??????? The first ever movie with such an impact done with subtitals.......Other moives couldn't even compare and all those nominated will be forgoten in a year while the POTC will be legendary over time.

[Military family member]

I saw the Passion of the Christ, and I liked it, but I did not think it was one of the top five movies of the year. Top 10, but not top five.

My problem withe much of the complaints is that everyone seems upset that has chosen to honor these films and not others, that Hollywood is out of touch, etc.

The Oscars, as are the Emmys, Tonys and Grammys, awards given from within each industry, just like Free Republic honors its own each year. Nobody ever said they were anything else, and making more of these awards than that to me is foolish (which I don't believe you have done).

I taught Art Appreciation course for a few years, so I too find great joy in seeing masterpieces--both old and new. My background is in Theater and English Literatur, but my father was on the Michigan Art council for years, and I grew up going to art galleries.

I look at motion pictures, for the most part, as just another form of art but in a different medium, like oils differ from pastels or watercolors, or sculpture differs from painting. All have their inate value, and of course, some works are better than others.

Perhaps a comparison can be made here as to why Passion of the Christ didn't make it. Leonardo painted both the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, but most critics would point toward the latter as being the better work.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

RE: "The Passion wasn't nominated for Best Picture? Outrageous!
I guess we'll boycott the Oscars this year.
Maybe I'll go out on February 27 and purchase the DVD instead and watch it again."


Whoa! Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was skunked for Best Picture, and Kill Bill: Volume 2 and The Life Aquatic weren't nominated for anything at all. I guess I'll have to boycott the ceremony because they didn't read my mind and select my personal favorites...that'll show 'em to disagree with me.

//Heavy sarcasm off//


Really, though. It was a great and moving film for certain, but DAMN, if you read only FR you'd think that the Passion was the only good movie that came out last year. Don't be so tunnelvisioned...

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

The Wayans brothers are the bubonic plague of cinematic, satirical comedy.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

RE: "I may not be a movie student.. but Shakespeare in Love comes to mind here.That was a "critical darling" of a movie too, wasn't it?"


I agree wholeheartedly. The oversight of the classic Saving Private Ryan in 1998 in favor of the cute but slight Shakespeare in Love was one of the Academy's biggest screw-ups in the 1990's. But like the man said at the end of Some Like It Hot "Well, nobody's perfect."

[Military family member]

You mean J.Lo, don't you (former In Living Color dancer).

I'm not sure I agree with that sentiment. Just because someone does comedy doesn't necessarily mean that he or she is a bad actor.

Could you watch Bosom Buddies and imagine what Tom Hanks has done since? Or how about watching old Rawhide episodes with Clint Eastwood and picture what he has done lately?

[Bella_Bru]

You seem to have some deep seated issues. I don't know why you are such a misery on this thread. You haven't seen any of the films up for Best Piucture. Fine, that's your right. You don't like Hollywood. Fine. Some of us do like it. What's your problem?

well- you don't know my sources of information.. now do you?

Oooooh...lemme guess...you know people deep inside, right? I also don't buy claims from internet posters.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Billy Wilder.

Now there was a comic genius!

[kellynla]

It was the only flick I could see investing twenty dollars in, thank you. LOL

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

RE: "No of course, they had to choose the movie with nudity in it. Now don't get me wrong, I quite frankly liked seeing Gweneth Paltrow with her top off, but the movie was not better than "Ryan"."


The film with the nudity in it-- just what are you trying to imply? Please don't tell me you're one of those guys who view the sight of a man's head being blown off of his shoulders as somehow more acceptable that the sight of a woman's breasts?

Saving Private Ryan was the far better picture, but what an absurdly silly reason to criticize it for ("mommy, the boobies scare me...waaaah!").

[GVnana]

I've only see one Wayans on film, what was it, "Major Payne". My kids liked that movie.

I give "In Living Color" three snaps in a Z formation!

[Borges]

I actually think they made the right choice between SPR and SIL. The former trod over ground much travelled over previously but the latter had the wit of an Oscar Wilde play. The script of SPR really was second rate. They did the right thing by honoring Spielberg, who's brilliant direction resuced what could have been a completely ordinary war movie.

[Bella_Bru]

And that seems to me to be what you are saying is your reliable news source;yourself.

No, that isn't what I said. I simply said that I take everything with a grain of salt. Healthy skepticism is a good thing. I prefer to look at all sides of a subject and hear the opinions of sources from both sides, and then form an opinion.

[malakhi]

Oooooh...lemme guess...you know people deep inside, right?

But she doesn't know anything about any of the movies nominated.

Yeah, I'm buyin' it. [rolls eyes]

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

RE: "I'm wondering how they could overlook the actress (Morgenstern?) who played the Virgin Mary in The Passion for Supporting Actress"


I agree. Maia Morganstern made a touching Mary, managed to convey almost entirely through her weathered face and deep eyes conflicting emotions: the emotionally crushing foreknowledge of her Son's execution, balanced by the comfort of knowing that her Son's death was a necessity to change the fates of the entire world (the fulfillment of His very reason for coming in the first place).

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

That was a great comedy!

Fortunately, it was done by Damon Wayans, not his-much less talented-younger siblings.

They have box sets of "In Living Color", the first few seasons-I believe-on DVD, now.

[GVnana]

My faves: the gay movie critic/gossip and Homey the Clown.