Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Oscar Nominations List 2006:

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"

Thursday, January 12, 2006

What to do when you're dying of tiredness - go to the ballet! As part of my new Improve Self, Repair damage to brain caused by too much laziness, am off to see Sleeping Beauty tonight thanks to last minute's myriad of tenner offers. As dear Joanna would say, you don't have to be posh to be a pilchard. Or cultured.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Best plot summary ever, Alex Garland on sci-fi Sunshine: "So you’ve got all these personalities and responses to the situation and then it all begins to go mental and they start killing each other."

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Macaulay Culkin, Anna Nicole Smith, Dennis Rodman, Celebrity Big Brother. Oh I do SO hope that's true...