Standalone Categories
Foreign Film
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| Joyeux Noel (France) |
Sophie Scholl (Germany) |
Don't Tell (Italy) |
Paradise Now (Palestine) |
Tsotsi (South Africa) |
Should Win: Joyeux Noel Could Win: Tsotsi Will Win: Paradise Now
Documentary
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| Darwin's Nightmare | Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room | March of the Penguins | Murderball | Street Fight |
Should Win: Enron Could Win: Murderball Will Win: March of the Penguins
Animated Feature
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| Howl's Moving Castle (Studio Ghibli) |
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Warner Bros) |
Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Dreamworks) |
Should Win: umm... noone Could Win: Wallace and Gromit Will Win: Wallace and Gromit They brought matching boe-ties for the statues "just in case"... Come on, Wallace won 70 awards out of 60 nominations... There was no surprise here.
Documentary Short
- 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
Live Action Short
- Ausreisser (The Runaway)
- Cashback
- The Last Farm
- Our Time is Up
- Six Shooter
Animated Short
- 9
- Badgered
- The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
- The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
- One Man Band
Completing comments about these sections as I watch the movies or at least find enough to say about them.
Foreign Film
Will Win: The first ever movie competing for Palestine is too important to overlook. Paradise Now is pretty much locked in to win. Could Win: Tsotsi has a long shot at winning as a solid South African movie gives more reason to celebrate than the classic triptic: France/Germany/Italy. Should Win: France's Joyeux Noel is a rare mix of war movie with a genuine holiday spirit, hopeful yet sober standing out among the five very worthy nominees.
Documentary
Should Win: Enron is one of the most interesting stories about the unquenched thirst for power and money. Enron's rise and fall seems to be the stuff that legends are made of, yet it's all true and the courts of justice are yet to determine the final verdicts. Could Win: March of the Penguins - awww, it's just hard to resist them. Will Win: March of the Penguins - awww I guess it's impossible to resist them.
Animated Feature
No comment. Wallace and Gromit will win, but I am hardly excited about any of the three.
Shorts
Unfortunately I haven't seen any of them. I have enough information on the Animated Shorts for a semi-informed decision, but even there the random factor is too high since these votes are truly based on personal feelings of those that watched the shorts.
Posted on February 10, 2006 10:48 PM | TrackBackThe Best Animation nominations are all rather disappointing. I had a hard time staying awake for the duration of Wallace and Gromit - and I'm a big fan of their previous outings. It was the weakest W and G by far I thought. Howl's was also one of the weaker offerings from Studio Ghibli, another favorite of mine. And Corpse Bride was...eh. I'm not sure why Madagascar wasn't nominated...it was pretty funny and had those great penguins. I thought penguins were the IN THING this year.
I was actually expecting Madagascar to make it instead of Howl. To be honest, although Corpse Bride was nowhere near The Nightmare Before Christmas and it did seem a bit of a rehash of some ideas, it was still the one that entertained me the most. Madagascar had the penguins, but other than them I did not care much for the movie.
Posted by: TheCasualCritic at February 12, 2006 04:35 PM