2005 Academy Award Predictions…
You think it’s hard out here for pimp? You should try being a clueless blogger making wild guesses about the Oscar race. Anyway, I’m not the one being tested here. It’s the Motion Picture Academy that is being tested, and it’s failed miserably. Anyway, that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. After all, it seems to work for the professional film critics.
So, the scotch trance thing didn’t work out. Next year I’ll try dry gin.
Thank goodness the awards didn’t follow conventional wisdom too closely. At least it kept the evening mildly interesting. Nice to see that, despite its heavy use of formula and standard plots, Hollywood can still pull off the twist ending.
Category Most Likely to Win Most Deserving to Win Hmmm… Best Picture Crash Best Actor Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) Best Actress Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line) Felicity Huffman (Transamerica) Best Supporting Actor Matt Dillon (Crash) Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man) George Clooney (Syriana) Best Supporting Actress Catherine Keener (Capote) Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain) Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) Best Director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) Paul Haggis (Crash) Best Original Screenplay Stephen Gaghan (Syriana) Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale) Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (Crash) Best Adapted Screenplay Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain) Josh Olsen (A History of Violence) Best Animated Feature Howl’s Moving Castle Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Best Foreign Language Film Sophie Scholl (Germany) Paradise Now (Palestine) Tsotsi Total Scores 3 cases of raw predictability 2 awards well done 5 half-baked guesses
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