Oscar Winners **Spoilers**

[Misanthrope]

I realise some people may intend to watch them tonight, so I'm typing a whole bunch of crap here so you don't float over the title and see something you didn't want to.

I'll only do the major ones. I don't think anyone but the winners give a crap about best short animated feature.

Best Animated Feature - Wallance & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Visual Effects - King Kong

Best Song - It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp (Hustle and Flow)

Best Soundtrack - Brokeback Mountain

Best Cinematography - Memoirs of a Geisha

Best Screenplay Based on another Source - Brokeback Mountain

Best Original Screenplay - Crash

Best Director - Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)

Best Supporting Actress - Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)

Best Supporting Actor - George Clooney (Syriana)

Best Actress - Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)

Best Actor - Phillip Seymour-Hoffman (Capote)

BEST MOVIE - Crash

Boo-f**king-yah about Crash winning. I've only seen two of the other best picture nominees (Munich and Good Night, and Good Luck) and it was leagues ahead of either. Will need to see the others to decide, but I'm over the moon to see that the year's only real upset was for best picture.

 

[Samwise]

Please! Crash was mediocre at best.

I haven't actually seen any of the other films in that category yet, but it doesn't say too much about them if Crash beat them all.

Crash was a painfully obvious and lazy film, with far from subtle dialogue. The filmmakers went for a decent enough message and chose to target the lowest common denominator.

I'm glad all the best actor/actresses & supporting actor/actresses won. They are all outstanding actors who deserve the recognition. I haven't seen brokeback mountain but if Heath Ledgers performance in that is anything like any of his other movies its a travesty even having him nominated.

 

[lotti]

Brokeback or Munich deserved it. Reese deserved it for her her work in Walk the Line(I saw the movie twice and have the soundtrack) but at least Ang won.

 

[Misanthrope]

Munich was an atrocious film. I'd rather have seen an overblown effects fest like King Kong win than that self indulgent trash. About an hour too long and Bana's acting was wooden at best.

 

[Generalzod]

Munich was an atrocious film. I'd rather have seen an overblown effects fest like King Kong win than that self indulgent trash. About an hour too long and Bana's acting was wooden at best.

Munich was a pathetic film, the whole of last year film releases were quite poor. I wonder why the major film studios have been losing money and blaming it own piracy what a joke......
Hollywood had to rely on the independent film studios for increase in movie takings.

 

[Misanthrope]

I know it wasn't Shakespeare, but I thought Serenity was hard done by. It had a solid, witty script and was well acted throughout. A damn side better than Munich. Same goes for The 40 Year Old Virgin - sure it was a lot of sex jokes and such, but it was critically acclaimed and quite a well done movie.

When will the Academy get over its hatred of comedy?

 

[Booyah]

Phillip Hoffman for Best actor :lol:.

I dunno, to me he's still Brandt from the Big Lebowski.

 

[Misanthrope]

Phillip Hoffman for Best actor .

Even so, Hoffman is one of the best character actors out there. He very rarely puts in a bad performance (although he did suck copious amounts of ass in Along Came Polly). He's right up there with guys like Sam Rockwell and Luis Guzman as one of the business' most reliable actors.

 

[Generalzod]

I know it wasn't Shakespeare, but I thought Serenity was hard done by. It had a solid, witty script and was well acted throughout. A damn side better than Munich. Same goes for The 40 Year Old Virgin - sure it was a lot of sex jokes and such, but it was critically acclaimed and quite a well done movie.

When will the Academy get over its hatred of comedy?

They don't even have a comedy category...

 

[Generalzod]

Even so, Hoffman is one of the best character actors out there. He very rarely puts in a bad performance (although he did suck copious amounts of ass in Along Came Polly). He's right up there with guys like Sam Rockwell and Luis Guzman as one of the business' most reliable actors.

His performance in Bogie Nights was excellent....

 

[Misanthrope]

His performance in Bogie Nights was excellent....

Likewise in Red Dragon and Punch Drunk Love.

They don't even have a comedy category...

Yeah, I know. It's farcical. The only comedy I can recall winning is Shakespeare in Love. Whilst it was a good film, I never understood what made it worthy of the best picture nod. If they refuse to acknowledge comedies in the main Best Film category - the least they could do is allow an award for them. Christ, they have one for best animated picture - which is typically so quiet that they've had to nominate trash like Brother Bear in recent years.

 

[Generalzod]

Comedy and Tragedy were has that formula gone in movies these days???
Movies like Cool hand Luke one of the best films ever made had it all........

 

[Alex28]

I've seen Crash, Munich and Brokeback Mountain, and I have to say that Brokeback is miles ahead of the other two. Whilst it is a tad squeemish at times, the cinematography is stunning, and Ang Lee knows how to make a great film (he's forgiven for Hulk). Heath Ledger was pretty damn good in it.

Seeing Capote this week - I never realised Hoffman was in so many cool movies! (and I love Punch-Drunk Love and The Big Lebowski...d'oh!)

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Best Animated Feature - Wallance & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

That's all that matters to me... if W&G hadn't won, the animation category would be a joke.

 

[Misanthrope]

That's all that matters to me... if W&G hadn't won, the animation category would be a joke.

It generally is. Each year there's only one candidate that could legitimately win it. This year there were two and one that stood no chance.

 

[hrundi99]

That's all that matters to me... if W&G hadn't won, the animation category would be a joke.

Though Howl's Moving Castle isn't one of Miyazaki's best, I think your claim is a bit over the top.

Any short list with a Miyazaki film in it is a competitive one.

Hardly a joke.

 

[lotti]

Munich was about a real event as was Walk the Line it's very hard to produce a film based on reality because you have to be true to what the movie is about especially now with the current conflict between Isreal and Palestine, during the movie I cried twice but that could be because I have Jewish heritage. Philip's next film to be released is MI3 which I'm not going to see because of a certain actor(it's been 5 years and I'm still boycotting his movies) it does look good though but I'm gonna see X3 instead. I'm really glad Ang won(so is Taiwan BTW) if you look beyond the fact it has two gay cowboys in it you see what the movie is really about which is love the love between Heath's and Jake's charactors, the love Enis has for his kids it also taught us that even in this day and age there is still a stigma about Homosexuality that we shouldn't have we've got a former gay football player, gay actors, a gay music guru. The people who say that being Homosexual is unnatural should really think about it, how can what gender a person falls in love with be unnatural you can't control it look at Enis he tried to deny it but in the end he couldn't, BTW I'm straight I'm just voicing my view on the whole homophob thing.

 

[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]

How bad was Jon Stewart as the host? After 10 minutes of watching him i was begging to have Billy Crystal back!

 

[Alex28]

Are you kidding? Jon Stewart was great as host. Gladly have him back next year.

 

[lotti]

Jon Stewart was very funny, a lot better then Chris Rock.