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Brokeback Mountain is leading the field of nominations for the 2006 Oscars. Here is the full list of nominees: Best picture Brokeback Mountain Crash Goodnight, and Good Luck Munich Capote Best director Steven Spielberg - Munich Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain Paul Haggis - Crash Bennett Miller - Capote George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck Best actor Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line Terrence Howard - Hustle and Flow Best actress Dame Judi Dench - Mrs Henderson Presents Felicity Huffman - Transamerica Charlize Theron - North Country Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice Best supporting actress Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain Frances McDormand - North Country Amy Adams - Junebug Catherine Keener - Capote Best supporting actor George Clooney - Syriana Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man Matt Dillon - Crash William Hurt - A History of Violence Best foreign language film Don't Tell (Italy) Joyeux Noel (France) Paradise Now (Palestinian territories) Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Germany) Tsotsi (South Africa) Best animated feature film Howl's Moving Castle Corpse Bride Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit Best adapted screenplay Brokeback Mountain Capote The Constant Gardener A History of Violence Munich Best original screenplay Crash Good Night, and Good Luck Match Point The Squid and the Whale Syriana Best music (score) Brokeback Mountain The Constant Gardener Memoirs of a Geisha Munich Pride and Prejudice Best music (song) In the Deep - Crash It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp - Hustle and Flow Travelin' Thru - Transamerica 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 Best visual effects The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe King Kong War of the Worlds Best cinematography Batman Begins Brokeback Mountain Goodnight, and Good Luck Memoirs of a Geisha The New World Best art direction Goodnight, and Good Luck Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire King Kong Memoirs of a Geisha Pride and Prejudice 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 short film Ausreisser (The Runaway) Cashback The Last Farm Our Time is Up Six Shooter Best costume design Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Memoirs of a Geisha Mrs Henderson Presents Pride and Prejudice Walk The Line Best make-up The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Cinderella Man Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Best 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 Sound editing King Kong Memoirs of a Geisha War of the Worlds Best film editing Cinderella Man The Constant Gardener Crash Munich Walk The Line Lifetime Achievement Award Director and writer Robert Altman Story from BBC NEWS: |
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| 'Tiresome' Tom Cruise wins Razzie Twenty-four hours before the Oscars, Tom Cruise has suffered the ignominy of being awarded a Razzie - at a ceremony marking Hollywood's worst moments. He won the award for "most tiresome tabloid target" for his "antics with fiancee Katie Holmes". Earlier Brokeback Mountain won best feature and best director at the Independent Spirit Awards. The ceremonies are part of the build-up to the main event, the Oscar ceremony on Sunday night. The organisers of this year's Razzies have dubbed 2005 "a very bad year for movies", making it a good year for the Razzies. The "most tiresome" category was introduced this year to salute "the celebs we're all sick and tired of". In the "most tiresome tabloid target" Tom Cruise won ahead of... Tom Cruise - also nominated for attacking psychiatry and anti-depressant drugs in a TV interview. However, the clear winner in the Razzies overall was the movie Dirty Love, which not only won worst picture, but worst actress for Jenny McCarthy, worst screenplay and worst director. The worst actor award went to Rob Schneider for Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, while Paris Hilton won worst supporting actress. Provocative In the Independent Spirit Awards there was no out-and-out winner, with four films that are also vying for Oscar glory picking up two ISAs each. Brokeback Mountain won the best feature award and best director for Ang Lee, while Capote, Transamerica and Crash also took two awards. The ISAs are presented to low-budget films deemed to show originality, provocative subject matter and a high degree of independent financing. Often they honour different films to the Oscars, but this year many of the winners are also Oscar nominees. Capote's Philip Seymour Hoffman took the best male lead award and the film won best screenplay (by Dan Futterman); Transamerica won for Felicity Huffman's female lead and first screenplay (Duncan Tucker); and Crash won for supporting male (Matt Dillon) and first feature. The 78th Academy Awards take place at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on Sunday, with Brokeback Mountain leading the field with eight nominations. Ang Lee has a best director nomination for the cowboy romance, building on his Bafta and Golden Globe success, while its star Heath Ledger is up for best actor. The Academy has shunned blockbusters in its best picture category in favour of Brokeback Mountain, race drama Crash, Capote's study of a relationship with a murderer and the political Munich and Good Night, and Good Luck. HAVE YOUR SAY The two films hailed as groundbreaking and controversial - Brokeback Mountain and Crash - should win Oscars Bow, West Midlands, UK On Friday UK bookmaker William Hill cut Crash's odds from 8/1 to 6/4 but still put Brokeback Mountain ahead at 1/2. Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck, and Memoirs of a Geisha - adapted from the best-selling book by Arthur Golden - all share six Oscar nominations. British actresses Dame Judi Dench and Keira Knightley will go head-to-head for the best actress Oscar, for Mrs Henderson Presents and Pride and Prejudice respectively. British actor Ralph Fiennes missed out on an Oscar nomination for The Constant Gardener, but co-star Rachel Weisz is in the running for best supporting actress. UK movie Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit vies with Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and Howl's Moving Castle for the best animated film award. Badgered, by UK film-maker Sharon Colman, competes in the animated short film category, while Six Shooter and Cashback compete in the live action short film section. Last year's Oscars ceremony saw Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby take the best picture prize while its stars Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman won acting awards. Story from BBC NEWS: |
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| Razzies pluck 2005 movie turkeys By Jackie Finlay BBC News, Los Angeles The cameras were primed and the front pages were at the ready for the Golden Raspberry awards, the annual celebration of the year's worst movies. Last year's event shot to prominence in its traditional Oscar-eve slot when Oscar-winner Halle Berry turned up to receive her award for worst actress. Could the 26th staging of the Razzies this year in Hollywood keep the press and public interested? Would Tom Cruise pay a surprise visit to collect his trophy for most tiresome tabloid target? Surprises were hinted at - but in the end Cruise and his fellow nominees stayed away. However, there were no disappointments when it came to the choice of winners. Chairman John Wilson told the audience that 2005's poor year at the box office meant it was a bumper year for Razzie voters. The hardest part for members was keeping their list to just five nominees in each of the categories, he said. Water pistol Cruise did indeed take the most tiresome tabloid target award, a suspiciously convenient new category. It was a joint win with fiancee Katie Holmes, for Cruise's performance on Oprah Winfrey's couch, his wedding proposal at the Eiffel Tower and the constant news on Holmes' pregnancy - all at the same time the pair had movies to promote. The show's cast had a great time with a volley of jokes at Cruise's expense, including squirting a golden water pistol - recalling the time Cruise didn't see the funny side when he was squirted by a British TV crew at a movie premiere. And it carried on from there. The one-hour Razzies show at the rundown Ivar theatre in Hollywood had the deliberately cheap and amateur feel of a cheery club review atmosphere. It was a clear contrast to the enormous glitz-fest of the Academy Awards - and the dose of healthy disrespect for Hollywood's failures was as welcome as an Alka-Seltzer after an over-rich dinner. Each winner was entitled to a gold-spray painted model of a raspberry on top of a mangled Super 8 film reel, worth $4.97 according to Mr Wilson. None was collected by its intended owner - although Darth Vader appeared complete with mask and light sabre to collect the worst supporting actor prize for Hayden Christensen in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Snakes on a Plane Without any star turns, the emphasis was on the imaginative and extensive insults hurled at the films voted the worst of 2005. Dirty Love, a comedy about a woman dumped by her boyfriend starring former glamour model Jenny McCarthy, won four awards, including worst film. Mr Wilson enjoyed pointing out that the film made less than $58,000 at box offices worldwide. Worst supporting actress Paris Hilton came in for plenty of attention for her remake of the 1953 Vincent Price film House of Wax. "There are certain names who when you hear that they're going to make their first movie, you think - 'that'll be a Razzie'," said the award presenter. And Ashlee and Jessica Simpson would be forgiven for avoiding Mr Wilson for the next year or two - they may have avoided a raspberry, but their performances in Undiscovered and the Dukes of Hazzard were roundly laughed at. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Son of the Mask, Dukes of Hazzard, Bewitched and House of Wax had been nominated in several categories but ended up with one award each. Mr Wilson ended by predicting next year's nominations could include Poseidon, Wolfgang Petersen's remake of the 1972 disaster classic The Poseidon Adventure, and Snakes on a Plane, directed by David R Ellis, in which an assassin on a flight over the Pacific lets loose a crate of deadly snakes. He also held out the hope of a bigger theatre for next year's event. But if the Razzies want to continue to build on their recently raised profile, they will have to w**k harder to attract those celebrities ready and able to laugh at themselves. Story from BBC NEWS: |
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| Oscars 2006: The winners Here is the list of winners and other nominees from the 78th Academy Awards, held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on 5 March: Best picture Winner: Crash Brokeback Mountain Good Night, and Good Luck Munich Capote Best director Winner: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain Steven Spielberg - Munich Paul Haggis - Crash Bennett Miller - Capote George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck Best actor Winner: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line Terrence Howard - Hustle and Flow Best actress Winner: Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line Dame Judi Dench - Mrs Henderson Presents Felicity Huffman - Transamerica Charlize Theron - North Country Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice Best supporting actor Winner: George Clooney - Syriana Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man Matt Dillon - Crash William Hurt - A History of Violence Best supporting actress Winner: Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain Frances McDormand - North Country Amy Adams - Junebug Catherine Keener - Capote Best animated feature film Winner: Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit Howl's Moving Castle Corpse Bride Best foreign language film Winner: Tsotsi (South Africa) Don't Tell (Italy) Joyeux Noel (France) Paradise Now (Palestinian territories) Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Germany) Best original screenplay Winner: Crash Good Night, and Good Luck Match Point The Squid and the Whale Syriana Best adapted screenplay Winner: Brokeback Mountain Capote The Constant Gardener A History of Violence Munich Best documentary feature Winner: March of the Penguins :thumbsup: Darwin's Nightmare Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Murderball Street Fight Best cinematography Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha Batman Begins Brokeback Mountain Goodnight, and Good Luck The New World Best visual effects Winner: King Kong The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe War of the Worlds Best art direction Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha Goodnight, and Good Luck Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire King Kong Pride and Prejudice Best film editing Winner: Crash Cinderella Man The Constant Gardener Munich Walk The Line Best sound mixing Winner: King Kong The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Memoirs of a Geisha Walk The Line War of the Worlds Sound editing Winner: King Kong Memoirs of a Geisha War of the Worlds Best music (song) Winner: It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp - Hustle and Flow In the Deep - Crash Travelin' Thru - Transamerica Best music (score) Winner: Brokeback Mountain The Constant Gardener Memoirs of a Geisha Munich Pride and Prejudice Best costume design Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Mrs Henderson Presents Pride and Prejudice Walk The Line Best make-up Winner: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Cinderella Man Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Best short film Winner: Six Shooter Ausreisser (The Runaway) Cashback The Last Farm Our Time is Up Best animated short film Winner: The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation Badgered The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello 9 One Man Band Best documentary short subject Winner: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club God Sleeps in Rwanda The Mushroom Club Lifetime achievement award Director and writer Robert Altman |