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BEST FEATURE
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck.
The Squid and the Whale
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

BEST DIRECTOR
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck.
Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin
Rodrigo Garcia, Nine Lives
Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Crash
Lackawanna Blues
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Thumbsucker
Transamerica

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)
Brick
Conventioneers
Jellysmoke
The Puffy Chair
Room

BEST SCREENPLAY
Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo, Tom Glynn, The War Within
Guillermo Arriaga, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
Dan Futterman, Capote
Rodrigo Garcia, Nine Lives

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Kenneth Hanes, Fixing Frank
Miranda July, Me and You and Everyone We Know
Angus MacLachlan, Junebug
Sabina Murray, The Beautiful Country
Duncan Tucker, Transamerica

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Amy Adams, Junebug
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Happy Endings
Allison Janney, Our Very Own
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain
Robin Wright Penn, Nine Lives

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Firdous Bamji, The War Within
Matt Dillon, Crash
Jesse Eisenberg, The Squid and the Whale
Barry Pepper, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Jeffrey Wright, Broken Flowers

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Dina Korzun, Forty Shades of Blue
Laura Linney, The Squid and the Whale
S. Epatha Merkerson, Lackawanna Blues
Cyndi Williams, Room

BEST MALE LEAD
Jeff Daniels, The Squid and the Whale
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Robert Elswit, Good Night, and Good Luck.
John Foster, Keane
Adam Kimmel, Capote
Chris Menges, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Harris Savides, Last Days

BEST FOREIGN FILM
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania) Director: Cristi Puiu
Duck Season (Mexico) Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Head-On (Germany/Turkey) Director: Fatih Akin
Paradise Now (Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/France) Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Tony Takitani (Japan) Director: Jun Ichikawa

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Director: Alex Gibney
Grizzly Man, Director: Werner Herzog
La Sierra, Directors: Scott Dalton & Margarita Martinez
Romantico, Director: Mark Becker
Sir! No Sir!, Director: David Zeiger

IFC/Acura Someone to Watch Award
Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana, director of "Cavite"
Robinson Devor, director of "Police Beat"
Jay Duplass, director of "The Puffy Chair"

Truer Than Fiction Award
Rachel Boynton for "Our Brand is Crisis"
Garrett Scott & Ian Olds for "Occupation: Dreamland"
Mark Becker for "Romantico"
Thomas Allen Harris for "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela"

AMC/American Express Producers Award
Caroline Baron, producer of "Capote" and "Monsoon Wedding"
Ram Bergman, producer of "Brick" and "Conversations with Other Women"
Mike S. Ryan, producer of "Junebug" and "Palindromes"

Hmmm, no Best Picture nom for Crash and only two noms for it overall. Not a good sign, is it?

Five noms for Capote and The Squid and the Whale each and four noms for Brokeback Mountain. However, no Best SUpporting nom for Gyllenhaal, hmm.

That's what I was thinking as well.

More good exposure for Brokeback since the movie is not out yet.

Here is what I predict:

BEST FEATURE

The Squid and the Whale


BEST DIRECTOR

Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain


BEST FIRST FEATURE

Crash

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000)

???

BEST SCREENPLAY

Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale


BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY


Miranda July, Me and You and Everyone We Know


BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Amy Adams, Junebug

BEST SUPPORTING MALE


Matt Dillon, Crash

BEST FEMALE LEAD

Felicity Huffman, Transamerica

BEST MALE LEAD


Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Robert Elswit, Good Night, and Good Luck.

BEST FOREIGN FILM

Paradise Now (Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/France) Director: Hany Abu-Assad


BEST DOCUMENTARY


Grizzly Man, Director: Werner Herzog

IFC/Acura Someone to Watch Award

???

Truer Than Fiction Award

???

AMC/American Express Producers Award

Caroline Baron, producer of "Capote" and "Monsoon Wedding"

General thoughts:

1. Crash didn't do well. No directing or screenplay and only Best First Feature;
2. Interesting that The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada got 3 noms without Tommy Lee Jones, but Best Actor category is tough;
3. Beating out other competitors in the tough category really helps Terrence Howard in Best Actor race;
4. No screenplay, supporting actor, or cinematography for Brokeback Mountain;
5. Great for The Squid and the Whale and should help its screenplay chance at Oscar;
6. GNAGL getting both BP and BD is a good sign.

This is definitely where Grizzly Man would win, as a big screw-you to the Academy.

I would also add that it's preztty interesting that Capote, despite five nods, didn't get a Best Director nom.

Not so hot for "Crash". But It doesn´t look like the kind of film afi would go for anyway...

No screenplay for "Brokeback" and "Good night, and good luck". Strange. But "The war within" and "Nine lives" have zero chances at the oscars...

No Jake Gyllenhaal could be cause they considered him to be lead, not supporting. And lead is really crowded. It also may be possible that they didn´t like him or they thought one Gyllenhaal in the nominations was enough

Also Transamerica is able to get two more noms in addition to Best Actress, so the movie itself looks to be much better received than I originally heard, then Felicity Huffman is definitely a lock now for an oscar nomination.

I'm surprised by the complete lack of Broken Flowers.

I figure Brokeback and Squid will fight it out. And BM will win.

I think she is. It´s the one performance that´s really different and showy, playing a transexual.

It did get Best Suppporting Actor (which I thought was the best performance in the movie anyway)

Michelle Williams should feel pretty good about a supporting actress nod, while Keener is definitely out of the race. It also boosted Amy's chance, but may not be enough to get in the top 5.

BTW, does anybody know what films in Oscar contention are not eligible due to budget requirement? I know A History of Violence's budget is definitely over $20M. What about The Upside of Anger? For some films that were in contention for only one or two categories, I'm not sure if they are snubs or because they are ineligible.

I think Upside of Anger's budget was around $12-15m, so Allen was snubbed. Especially when you look at that category for Lead Actresses which seems pretty thin. Maybe ISA felt the film was too "mainstream". Doesn't the ISA often prefer to reward the smaller and quirkier films and lower profile actors even if budgets are comparable? It was also at the beginning of the year which leads to awards amnesia and probably explains why Crash received relatively little attention considering what a huge breakthru at the box office it had. Then again maybe success counted against it too since it doesn't "need" ISA's "help".

yep, that is exactly what I was trying to say before when I mentioned that "Crash" may not be exactly their cup of tea.

I am also wondering about Match Point's utter absence...

Go Amy Adams!

This looks really good for Good Night, and Good Luck becoming a heavier hitter.

Crash did seem to underperform, huh?

The Squid and the Whale was well represented.

Glad to see Amy Adams nominated, and I hope she wins, and I hope she's nominated for an Oscar. I think that only about 5 of us have seen Junebug, and I think we'd all recommend it highly.

Interesting noms!

Mixed reaction to Brokeback. No love for Crash. Three Burials got some attention, hoever without Lee Jones in either Acting or Directing.

I've always considered Amy Adams more "in" than "out" for the Oscar short-list. She si the sole reason the film was even mentioned anywhere across the nation after its second week of release!

Damn right!!!!!!!!!!

Overall pretty decent.

Better than last year's choices. It will be worth watching this year.

Last year was made lame because Eternal Sunshine was found ineligible. Even though I really like Sideways.

I expect that Good Night and Good Luck and Brokeback Mountain will split Picture/Director. Or that Ledger will win actor or some funky combination of everything.

Cinematography love is good for Good Night.

Ah, no love for Crash.

Seem like decent nominations, and I didn't know TV movies were considered ( Lackawanna Blues is a TV movie, right?).

I'm sorry... but I'm kind of doing a little dance of joy that Crash was virtually forgotten. It did deserve the nominations it got though.

S-A-F-E-T-Y DANCE

Trite films shouldnt be encouraged.

I don't know how 'independent' Woody Allen movies are considered these days.