Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Oscar Round Up

There were some upsets this Sunday at the Academy Awards. I had to look up Crash on the Internet Movie Database to see what it was all about.

Call the Reference Desk at 610-655-6355 to place hold:
Walk the Line
Constant Gardner
Crash
Memoirs of a Geisha
March of the Penguins
Chronicles of Narnia
King Kong
Hustle & Flow
Soundtrack from Brokeback Mountain


Have not yet been released on DVD:
Brokeback Mountain
Syriana
Tsotsi
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

So here they are:

BEST PICTURE
Crash
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
DIRECTING
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
George Clooney - Syriana
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
SCREENPLAY (Adapted)
Brokeback Mountain
SCREENPLAY (Original)
Crash
ART DIRECTION
Memoirs of a Geisha
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Memoirs of a Geisha
COSTUME DESIGN
Memoirs of a Geisha
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
March of the Penguins
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
FILM EDITING
Crash
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Tsotsi
MAKEUP
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
MUSIC (SCORE)
Gustavo Santaolalla - Brokeback Mountain
MUSIC (SONG)
"It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" - Hustle & Flow
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Six Shooter
SOUND EDITING
King Kong
SOUND MIXING
King Kong
VISUAL EFFECTS
King Kong

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you actually seen Crash yet? I watched it with my wife long before it was on the Oscar radar screen. Throught it was a great movie, but towards the end I felt like someone had beat me over the head with a "don't judge a book by its cover" bat. Even so, I recommended it to everyone I met.

Jennifer said...

I haven't seen Crash, yet; although I do have a hold on the library's copy. I wish I would have seen it before I read some of the post-Oscar commentaries comparing it to Brokeback Mountain. Thanks for the recommendation!