You know all the endless speculative lists of contenders to get nominations for the Oscars? Yeah, they were right – Brokeback Mountain is so far ahead of the pack that we might as well all go home.
Brokeback Mountain has got eight Oscar nominations, including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Scene Of Brown Love (Not Seeing It Go In Category).
With the unenviable task of going up against Brokeback Mountain in
this year’s Oscar nominations are Joaquin Phoenix (Best Actor) for his ‘look,
I’m playing a dead singer! You love this kind of thing’ role in Walk
The Line, William Hurt and Paul Giamatti for their equally mindblowing
supporting roles in A History Of Violence and Cinderella Man
respectively, and Wallace And Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit for Best Animated Feature. We know that Brokeback Mountain wasn’t nominated
for Best Animated Feature, but it may as well have been.
Here’s the list of all the important nominations for the Oscars:
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams – Junebug
Catherine Keener – Capote
Frances McDormand – North Country
Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actor
George Clooney – Syriana
Matt Dillon – Crash
Paul Giamatti – Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal – Brokeback Mountain
William Hurt – A History Of Violence
Best Actress
Judi Dench – Mrs Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman – Transamerica
Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice
Charlize Theron – North Country
Reese Witherspoon – Walk The Line
Best 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
Best Picture
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich
And, yes, you’ll be pleased to know that War Of The Worlds did get that all-important Sound Mixing nod.
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