The Alternative Oscars: 2006
My own picks for the winners and nominees in the 2006 Oscars...
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- DirectorMarc ForsterStarsWill FerrellEmma ThompsonDustin HoffmanI.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death.BEST PICTURE: Stranger Than Fiction
other nominees:
Little Miss Sunshine
A Prairie Home Companion
Letters from Iwo Jima
Notes on a Scandal - DirectorRoger MichellStarsPeter O'TooleJodie WhittakerLeslie PhillipsLife for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Peter O'Toole, Venus
other nominees:
Ulrich Mühe, Das Leben der Anderen
Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
Edward Norton, The Illusionist
Christian Bale, The Prestige - DirectorTodd FieldStarsKate WinsletJennifer ConnellyPatrick WilsonThe lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Kate Winslet, Little Children
other nominees:
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Renée Zellweger, Miss Potter
Penélope Cruz, Volver - DirectorKevin MacdonaldStarsJames McAvoyForest WhitakerGillian AndersonBased on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
other nominees:
Tom Waits, Wristcutters: A Love Story
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
John C. Reilly, A Prairie Home Companion
Michael Sheen, The Queen - DirectorRichard EyreStarsCate BlanchettJudi DenchAndrew SimpsonA veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
other nominees:
Charlotte Gainsbourg, La science des rêves
Emma Thompson, Stranger Than Fiction
Lily Tomlin, A Prairie Home Companion
Lindsay Lohan, A Prairie Home Companion - DirectorRobert AltmanStarsLily TomlinMeryl StreepWoody HarrelsonA look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.BEST DIRECTOR: Robert Altman, A Prairie Home Companion
other nominees:
Michel Gondry, La science des rêves
Marc Forster, Stranger Than Fiction
Sidney Lumet, Find Me Guilty
David Lynch, Inland Empire - DirectorMarc ForsterStarsWill FerrellEmma ThompsonDustin HoffmanI.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death.BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Stranger Than Fiction
other nominees:
Little Miss Sunshine
Find Me Guilty
Bobby
Inland Empire - DirectorGoran DukicStarsPatrick FugitShea WhighamTom WaitsA film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Wristcutters: A Love Story
other nominees:
Notes on a Scandal
The Last King of Scotland
Children of Men
The Prestige - DirectorJonathan DaytonValerie FarisStarsSteve CarellToni ColletteGreg KinnearA family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.BEST CASTING: Little Miss Sunshine
other nominees:
A Prairie Home Companion
Bobby
The Queen
Inland Empire - DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsJulianne MooreClive OwenChiwetel EjioforIn 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Children of Men
other nominees:
La science des rêves
The Illusionist
Den brysomme mannen
The Fall - DirectorMichel GondryStarsGael García BernalCharlotte GainsbourgMiou-MiouA man entranced by his dreams and imagination is love-struck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.BEST ART DIRECTION: La science des rêves
other nominees:
The Fall
El laberinto del fauno
The Illusionist
Ssa-i-bo-geu-ji-man-gwen-chan-a - DirectorSylvester StalloneStarsSylvester StalloneAntonio TarverMilo VentimigliaThirty years after the ring of the first bell, Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement and dons his gloves for his final fight against the reigning heavyweight champ Mason 'The Line' Dixon.BEST FILM EDITING: Rocky Balboa
other nominees:
Das Leben der Anderen
Letters from Iwo Jima
Stranger Than Fiction
The Fall - DirectorChris KrausStarsHannah HerzsprungMonica BleibtreuVadim GlownaAn elderly piano teacher trains a young convict at a women's penitentiary.BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Vier Minuten
other nominees:
Das Leben der Anderen
La science des rêves
La tourneuse de pages
Den brysomme mannen - DirectorDavid BowersSam FellStarsHugh JackmanKate WinsletIan McKellenThe story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life.BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Flushed Away
other nominees:
A Scanner Darkly
Happy Feet
Monster House - DirectorChris PaineStarsMartin SheenTom HanksMel GibsonA documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.BEST DOCUMENTARY: Who Killed the Electric Car?
other nominees:
An Inconvenient Truth
Jesus Camp
This Film is Not Yet Rated
The Bridge