Oscar Nominations

The nominations for the 78th annual Academy Awards were announced this morning.

I've highlighted the movies I've seen and the movies I want to see before the Academy Awards are handed out.

Best Picture:

• Brokeback Mountain
• Capote
• Crash
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Munich

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 Actress:

• Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
• Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
• Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice
• Charlize Theron, North Country
• Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

Best Supporting Actor:

• George Clooney, Syriana
• Matt Dillon, Crash
• Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
• Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
• William Hurt, A History of Violence

Best Supporting Actress:

• Amy Adams, Junebug
• Catherine Keener, Capote
• Frances McDormand, North Country
• Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
• Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

Best Director:

• Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
• Bennett Miller, Capote
• Paul Haggis, Crash
• George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
• Steven Spielberg, Munich

Best Foreign Film:

• Don't Tell, Italy
• Joyeux Noel, France
• Paradise Now, Palestine
• Sophie Scholl -- The Final Days, Germany
• Tsotsi, South Africa

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain
• Dan Futterman, Capote
• Jeffrey Caine, The Constant Gardener
• Josh Olson, A History of Violence
• Tony Kushner and Eric Roth, Munich

Best Original Screenplay:

• Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, Crash
• George Clooney and Grant Heslov, Good Night, and Good Luck
• Woody Allen, Match Point
• Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
• Stephen Gaghan, Syriana

Best Animated Feature Film:

• Howl's Moving Castle
• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
• Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Art Direction:

• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• King Kong
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Pride & Prejudice

Best Cinematography:

• Batman Begins
• Brokeback Mountain
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• The New World

Best Sound Mixing:

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• King Kong
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Walk the Line
• War of the Worlds

Best Sound Editing:

• King Kong
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• War of the Worlds

Best Original Score:

• Brokeback Mountain, Gustavo Santaolalla
• The Constant Gardener, Alberto Iglesias
• Memoirs of a Geisha, John Williams
• Munich, John Williams
• Pride & Prejudice, Dario Marianelli

Best Original Song:

• In the Deep from Crash, Kathleen Bird York and Michael Becker
• It's Hard out Here for a Pimp from Hustle & Flow, Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard
• Travelin' Thru from Transamerica, Dolly Parton

Best Costume:

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Mrs. Henderson Presents
• Pride & Prejudice
• Walk the Line

Best Documentary Feature:

• Darwin's Nightmare
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• March of the Penguins
• Murderball
• Street Fight

Best Documentary (short subject):

• The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
• God Sleeps in Rwanda
• The Mushroom Club
• A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

Best Film Editing:

• Cinderella Man
• The Constant Gardener
• Crash
• Munich
• Walk the Line

Best Makeup:

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Cinderella Man
• Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith

Best Animated Short Film:

• Badgered
• The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
• The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
• 9
• One Man Band

Best Live Action Short Film:

• Ausreisser (The Runaway)
• Cashback
• The Last Far,
• Our Time Is Up
• Six Shooter

Best Visual Effects:

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• King Kong
• War of the Worlds