Monday, January 02, 2006

AWARDS SEASON 2005: Gay cowboys stomp on Aragorn

Awards season continues apace. After the Golden Globe nominations, we now have the results of 3 separate polls of movie insiders: the New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC); the National Board of Review (NBR) and the LA Film Critics (LAFC). I stand by my predictions that in the Globes and Oscars, the gay cowboys will win over more deserving flicks such as Capote, Walk the Line and A History of Violence. So far, I have been proved correct. For what it's worth, I've also asterisked the critics' choices that I agree with. It's especially good to see Terrence Howard getting a big shout out for the tremendous Hustle and Flow.

BEST PICTURE:
Brokeback Mountain (NYFCC & LAFC) Good Night and Good Luck (NBR)
BEST ACTOR: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (NYFCC) Philip Seymour Hoffman*, Capote (NBR & LAFC)
BEST ACTRESS: Reese Witherspoon,
html">Walk the Line (NYFCC) Felicity Huffman*, Transamerica (NBR) Vera Farmiga, Down to the Bone (LAFC)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: William Hurt,
A History of Violence (NYFCC & LAFC) Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain (NBR)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Maria Bello*, A History of Violence (NYFCC) Gong Li,
Memoirs of a Geisha (NBR) Catherine Keener, Capote (LAFC)
BEST DIRECTOR: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain (NYFCC, NBR & LAFC)
BEST SCREENPLAY:
The Squid and the Whale (NYFCC & NBR) Capote* (LAFC)
BEST FOREIGN FLICK: Wong Kar Wei's
2046* (NYFCC) Hidden/Cache*** (LAFC)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: 2046* again! (NYFCC) Good Night and Good Luck, (LAFC)
BEST BREAK-OUT PERFORMANCE: Terrence Howard, Hustle and Flow****(NYFCC & LAFC)

2 comments:

  1. On the money with your predictions!

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  2. What happened to Kung Fu Hustle? There's no justice in These United States.

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