How are the Oscar Nominations different from the expectations from the past Award winners this season.

For example, I heard so much about how the SAG / PGA / DGA were going to be indictators on the Oscar Nominations.

How good were those theories and any thoughts on the same / surprise nominations at the Oscar Nomination that you were expecting?

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Like no Walk the Line and including Munich and especially how this is the first group that included KEIRA KNIGHTLEY.

Golden Globes matched the Oscars on only 2 picks this year. Not even a musical nom.

The story of the morning is Walk the Line not being nominated.

William Hurt was passed up by the BFCA, Globes and SAG.

There are 2 huge suprises for me.

1.Kiera Knightly getting a best actress nom
2.Star wars not getting a visual effects nom

Off to work but I bolded some for later that I thought were alittle surprising based on recent talk

AND POSTED THE FULL LIST FOR YOUR CHOICES

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PICTURE
"Brokeback Mountain" -- Focus Features/River Road Entertainment; Focus Features
"Capote" -- Sony Picture Classics
"Crash" -- Lionsgate
"Good Night, and Good Luck" -- Section Eight/2929 Entertainment/Participant Prods.; Warner Independent Pictures
"Munich" -- Universal Pictures

ACTOR
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Capote"
Terrence Howard, "Hustle & Flow"
Heath Ledger, "Brokeback Mountain"
Joaquin Phoenix, "Walk the Line"
David Strathairn, "Good Night, and Good Luck"

ACTRESS
Judi Dench, "Mrs. Henderson Presents"
Felicity Huffman, "Transamerica"
Keira Knightley, "Pride & Prejudice"
Charlize Theron, "North Country"
Reese Witherspoon, "Walk the Line"

SUPPORTING ACTOR
George Clooney, "Syriana"
Matt Dillon, "Crash"
Paul Giamatti, "Cinderella Man"
Jake Gyllenhaal, "Brokeback Mountain"
William Hurt, "A History of Violence"

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, "Junebug"
Catherine Keener, "Capote"
Frances McDormand, "North Country"
Rachel Weisz, "The Constant Gardener"
Michelle Williams, "Brokeback Mountain"

DIRECTOR
George Clooney, "Good Night, and Good Luck"
Paul Haggis. "Crash"
Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain"
Bennet Miller, "Capote"
Steven Spielberg, "Munich"

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"Crash"
"Good Night, and Good Luck"
"Match Point"
"The Squid and the Whale"
"Syriana"

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
"Brokeback Mountain"
"Capote"
"The Constant Gardener"
"A History of Violence"
"Munich"

Best animated feature film of the year:
“Howl’s Moving Castle” (Buena Vista)
Hayao Miyazaki
“Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” (Warner Bros.)
Tim Burton and Mike Johnson
“Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit” (DreamWorks Animation SKG)
Nick Park and Steve Box

Best foreign language film of the year:
“Don’t Tell” Italy
“Joyeux Noël” France
“Paradise Now” Palestine
“Sophie Scholl - The Final Days” Germany
“Tsotsi” South Africa

Achievement in art direction
“Good Night, and Good Luck.” Art Direction: Jim Bissell
(Warner Independent Pictures) Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” Art Direction: Stuart Craig
(Warner Bros.) Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
“King Kong” Art Direction: Grant Major
(Universal) Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and
Simon Bright
“Memoirs of a Geisha” Art Direction: John Myhre
(Sony Pictures Releasing) Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau
“Pride & Prejudice” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
(Focus Features) Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

Achievement in cinematography
“Batman Begins” (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Rodrigo Prieto
“Good Night, and Good Luck.” Robert Elswit
(Warner Independent Pictures)
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Dion Beebe
“The New World” (New Line) Emmanuel Lubezki

Achievement in costume design
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (Warner Bros.) Gabriella Pescucci
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Colleen Atwood
“Mrs. Henderson Presents” (The Weinstein Company) Sandy Powell
“Pride & Prejudice” (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
“Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox) Arianne Phillips

Best documentary feature
“Darwin’s Nightmare” (International Film Circuit) Hubert Sauper
A Mille et Une Production
“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot
(Magnolia Pictures)
An HDNet Films Production
“March of the Penguins” (Warner Independent Pictures) Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau
A Bonne Pioche Production
“Murderball” (THINKFilm) Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
An Eat Films Production
“Street Fight” Marshall Curry
A Marshall Curry Production

Best documentary short subject
“The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty Dan Krauss
of the Bang Bang Club”
A Dan Krauss Production
“God Sleeps in Rwanda” Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman
An Acquaro/Sherman Production
“The Mushroom Club” Steven Okazaki
A Farallon Films Production
“A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson
of Norman Corwin”
A NomaFilms Production

Achievement in film editing
“Cinderella Man” (Universal and Miramax) Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
“The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features) Claire Simpson
“Crash” (Lions Gate) Hughes Winborne
“Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks) Michael Kahn
“Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox) Michael McCusker

Achievement in makeup
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch Howard Berger and Tami Lane
and the Wardrobe” (Buena Vista)
“Cinderella Man” (Universal and Miramax) David Leroy Anderson and Lance Anderson
“Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith” Dave Elsey and Annette Miles
(20th Century Fox)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Gustavo Santaolalla
“The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features) Alberto Iglesias
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing) John Williams
“Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks) John Williams
“Pride & Prejudice” (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“In the Deep” from Music by Kathleen “Bird” York and Michael Becker
“Crash” (Lions Gate) Lyric by Kathleen “Bird” York
“It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” from Music and Lyric by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman
“Hustle & Flow” and Paul Beauregard
(Paramount Classics, MTV Films and
New Deal Entertainment)
“Travelin’ Thru” from Music and Lyric by Dolly Parton “Transamerica”
(The Weinstein Company and IFC Films)

Best motion picture of the year
“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Diana Ossana and James Schamus, Producers
A River Road Entertainment Production
“Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics) Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven,
An A-Line Pictures/Cooper’s Town/ Producers
Infinity Media Production
“Crash” (Lions Gate) Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers
A Bob Yari/DEJ/Blackfriar’s Bridge/
Harris Company/ApolloProscreen
GmbH & Co./Bull’s Eye Entertainment
Production
“Good Night, and Good Luck.” Grant Heslov, Producer
(Warner Independent Pictures)
A Good Night Good Luck LLC Production
“Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks) Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and A Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Barry Mendel, Producers
Pictures Production

Best animated short film
“Badgered” Sharon Colman
A National Film and Television
School Production
“The Moon and the Son: An Imagined John Canemaker and Peggy Stern
Conversation”
A John Canemaker Production
“The Mysterious Geographic Explorations Anthony Lucas
of Jasper Morello” (Monster Distributes)
A 3D Films Production
“9” Shane Acker
A Shane Acker Production
“One Man Band” Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews
A Pixar Animation Studios Production

Best live action short film
“Ausreisser (The Runaway)” Ulrike Grote
A Hamburg Media School,
Filmwerkstatt Production
“Cashback” (The British Film Institute) Sean Ellis and Lene Bausager A Left Turn Films Production
“The Last Farm” Rúnar Rúnarsson and Thor S. Sigurjónsson
A Zik Zak Filmworks Production
“Our Time Is Up” Rob Pearlstein and Pia Clemente
A Station B Production
“Six Shooter” (Sundance Film Channel) Martin McDonagh
A Missing in Action Films and
Funny Farm Films Production

Achievement in sound editing
“King Kong” (Universal) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Wylie Stateman
“War of the Worlds” (Paramount and DreamWorks) Richard King

Achievement in sound mixing
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic and Tony Johnson
and the Wardrobe” (Buena Vista)
“King Kong” (Universal) Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick,
Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline and John Pritchett
“Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox) Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Peter F. Kurland
“War of the Worlds” (Paramount and DreamWorks) Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ronald Judkins

Achievement in visual effects
“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney and
and the Wardrobe” (Buena Vista) Scott Farrar
“King Kong” (Universal) Joe Letteri, Brian Van’t Hul, Christian Rivers and
Richard Taylor
“War of the Worlds” (Paramount and DreamWorks) Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randy Dutra and
Daniel Sudick

Major shocks:

- BBM not getting an Editing nomination
- Walk the Line not getting Picture
- Keira Knightley
- William Hurt instead of Maria Bello
- Perfect match between DGA, Director and Picture - how boring...
- Memoirs very strong in the tech department, beating Kong
- Batman Begins and The New World getting something
- BBM not getting an Editing nom


Munich didn't surprise me that much, actually..

So BBM not getting an editing nom shocked you twice?

Good list. Don't have much to add except that good strength shown from Munich, getting all the major noms.

maybe ??? Supporting actress was alittle more tighter than actor

and I just realized they gave it to the dying actress ( in the movie )

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SUPPORTING ACTOR
George Clooney, "Syriana"
Matt Dillon, "Crash"
Paul Giamatti, "Cinderella Man"
Jake Gyllenhaal, "Brokeback Mountain"
William Hurt, "A History of Violence"

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, "Junebug"
Catherine Keener, "Capote"
Frances McDormand, "North Country"
Rachel Weisz, "The Constant Gardener"
Michelle Williams, "Brokeback Mountain

Strathairn and Knightley are not shocks. Most of us expected Strathairn to be nominated since mid-year, and Knightley was pretty much a lock back in November.

Even though the supporting actor catagory wasnt so hot this year and if Hurt didnt get nominated Howard or someone from Crash was gonna get a nod instead I dont really think he's that deserving of a nod. I mean he's basically in one scene, he did a great job in that one scene, but again it's ONE scene.

Howl's Moving Castle getting in is a major surprise for me, in a good way.

Yeah, but (no offense to you) Corpse Bride getting a nomination is disappointing all the same, even though it was going to happen.

It's gotta be better than the alternatives, though. (ChickLit or Madcar)

just a question on Knightley > anyone have ideas on breakdown of the voters that gave her a nomination here when being excluded from everywhere else in other major awards or I missed her name.

AND A BIG LAUGH TO HER NOT GETTING A BAFTA NOMINATION.

There is no official voter count.

The Academy doesn't release voter stats.

Yep. That was intentional

Honestly, it's even a bigger shock for me than Walk the Line missing picture..

And the non-inclusion of the bigger hits in the animated category, of course.. (in a good way, like Michael said)

Nominations that I, among others, predicted, but am nonetheless disappointed to see materialize:

Charlize Theron
Frances McDormand
Paul Haggis

Seems AMPAS really liked Pride & Prejudice....good for them.

as I didn't follow all of the late award shows....

what happened to Match Point, I know it got Screenplay, but when did that fall off the list as lots were at least talking/debating Picture/Director/Supporting Actress.