And the oscar goes to…

March 6, 2006

 

 

Whew..a e few surpises at the oscars!..Crash snatched the best picture that is supposed to go to brokeback mountain(wow,impressive..the academy is preventing controversial films to be very more controversial..haha)Everybody is saying it was the biggest upset in this year’s event.In the other category,a hip hop song about pimps won an oscar for best original song(not that i dont like that kind of music,it isnt that just musically great because it is composed of just beats and low sub sounds and samples..haha.though the lyrics and voice compensates for that).

Brokeback mountain’s score by Gustavo Santaolalla won the oscar for original score(i own a cd of the soundtrack and its a great emotional one,though i thought john williams would win).Santaolalla said:

“Thank you so much, members of the Academy. I’m so proud to have work in this movie “Brokeback Mountain.” A movie that once again showed us that love is what makes us all very similar, in spite that we can be so different.”

Legendary director Robert Altman receives the honorary award…Memiors of a geisha did pretty much better(3 oscars to gome with is pretty good)…Tsotsi(thug in english) nabbed the oscar for best foriegn language film and director Gavin Hood gaved the audience and the whole world a great speech(one that gives me a chill):

“God bless Africa. Wow. I have a speech, it’s in my pocket, but that thing says 38 seconds. But mine’s way too long. Go to tsotsi.com and there is a huge long list of people. Because I’m accepting this not for myself. This is for best foreign language film. It is sitting right there to start with. Please stand up Presley Chweneyagae and Terry Pheto. My two fantastic young leads. Put the cameras on them, please. Viva Africa. Viva. I’ve got ten seconds. Ten seconds I just want to thank my fellow nominees who I’ve become deep friends with. We may have foreign language films, but our stories are the sames your stories. They’re about the human heart and emotion. It says please wrap. Thank you so much. Thank you to the Academy. Thank you.”

Its a true winner!(now im getting a dvd of this with the soundtrack cd!).Ang Lee did won for brokeback mountain(best director).It would have been great if they won the best picture though they won the best adapted sceenplay and best score.All i can say is,its a very nice peice of film whatever the controversy is..haha..

 
Winners List chronologically ordered(first award given to final):

Highlighted ones are my correct guesses. : ) 


Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
George Clooney
SYRIANA

Achievement in Visual Effects
KING KONG
Joe Letteri, Brian Van’t Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
Nick Park and Steve Box

Best Live Action Short Film
SIX SHOOTER
Martin McDonagh

Best Animated Short Film
THE MOON AND THE SON: AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION
John Canemaker and Peggy Stern

Achievement in Costume Design
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Colleen Atwood

Achievement in Makeup
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
Howard Berger and Tami Lane


Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Rachel Weisz
THE CONSTANT GARDENER

Best Documentary Short Subject
A NOTE OF TRIUMPH: THE GOLDEN AGE OF NORMAN CORWIN
Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson

Best Documentary Feature
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau

Achievement in Art Direction
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
John Myhre (Art Direction); Gretchen Rau (Set Decoration)

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Gustavo Santaolalla

Achievement in Sound Mixing
KING KONG
Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
“IT’S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PIMP” FROM HUSTLE & FLOW
Music and Lyric by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard

Achievement in Sound Editing
KING KONG
Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
TSOTSI
South Africa

Achievement in Film Editing
CRASH
Hughes Winborne

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Philip Seymour Hoffman
CAPOTE

Achievement in Cinematography
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Dion Beebe

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Reese Witherspoon
WALK THE LINE

Adapted Screenplay
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana

Original Screenplay
CRASH
Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco; Story by Paul Haggis

Achievement in Directing
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Ang Lee

Best Motion Picture of the Year
CRASH
Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman
 

 

 

Oh well, 11 out of the 24 awards.not that bad for a film buff..hahahaha!