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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Nominees - Oscar.com