Snubs and Surprises of Nominees
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) -- "Kinsey" squeaked out only one nomination, "The Polar Express" didn't make it in animated feature and "House of Flying Daggers" didn't make it as a best foreign picture.
Those are some of the biggest surprises of the year, when looking to see what and who got snubbed in the 77th Academy Award nominations that were announced on Tuesday.
Obviously, the 5,808 members of the Academy didn't stomach the bisexual biopic of "Kinsey" very well because at one point it was considered a surefire nominee for best picture, and for star Liam Neeson and supporting actor Peter Sarsgaard. Director and writer Bill Condon won a writing Oscar for "Gods and Monsters" and was previously nominated for "Chicago," yet the only nomination for "Kinsey" went to Laura Linney for supporting actress, playing Alfred Kinsey's wife. She's a previous nominee for "You Can Count on Me" in 2000.
Two movies, "Closer" and "Hotel Rwanda," won two acting nominations each, but neither film made it on the best picture list. And "Closer" nominees didn't include superstars Julia Roberts or Jude Law, a previous winner and nominee, and instead picked supporting actors Clive Owen and Natalie Portman, both first-time nominees.
In the same way, "Sideways" earned supporting actor nods for Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen, but star Paul Giamatti was snubbed, like he was last year for "American Splendor."
"The Aviator" and "Million Dollar Baby" each earned three acting nominations, but that doesn't give either picture a lead because last year's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" won best picture easily without a single acting nominee.
"Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore may have shot himself in the foot for not competing in the best documentary category and instead shooting for best picture and screenplay. He didn't get into either category. Instead, the documentary category is between a personal story about a man who finds out that the priest who abused him as a boy has moved in next door, "Twist of Faith"; a guy who eats fast food and harms his health, "Super Size Me"; a film about children in brothels in India, "Born into Brothels"; the life and violent death of gangsta rap star Tupac Shakur, "Tupac: Resurrection" and a film about a camel and a nomadic family in Mongolia, "The Story of Weeping Camel."
Jim Carrey's two films of the year included the children's fantasy "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (four noms) and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (two noms), but none for Carrey.
Many past Oscar winners with showy roles were snubbed, such as Al Pacino for "The Merchant of Venice," Jeremy Irons for "Being Julia" or "The Merchant of Venice," Christopher Walken in "Around the Bend," Tom Hanks or Catherine Zeta-Jones for "The Terminal," Nicole Kidman for "Dogville" or "Birth," Cloris Leachman for "Spanglish," Kevin Kline for "De-Lovely," Renee Zellweger for "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason," Meryl Streep or Denzel Washington for "Manchurian Candidate," Robin Williams in "The Final Cut" and Sean Penn for "The Assassination of Richard Nixon."
Past Oscar nominees who at one time were likely contenders for the list, but have been left off this year, include John Travolta for "A Love Song for Bobby Long," Tom Cruise in "Collateral," Sigourney Weaver for "Imaginary Heroes," Javier Bardem for "The Sea Inside," Gena Rowlands and James Garner for "The Notebook," Peter O'Toole for "Troy" and Billy Murray for "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou." (No, no one thought that Julianne Moore would get a nomination for "The Forgotten.")
No movie about Hollywood history has ever won the top prize, so that may hurt the chances for "The Aviator" which is about billionaire Howard Hughes trying to make it as a director and dating movie starlets.
And Oscar history doesn't bode well for "Sideways," either, because the last best picture to win that was a comedy was "Annie Hall" in 1977.
Some critics thought "The Incredibles" would make it into the top five best picture contenders, rather than just be relegated to best animated feature. "Beauty and the Beast" made it in the top five one year, but that was before the animated feature category was created.
This year, "Team America: World Police" wasn't eligible for animated feature because it was all puppetry, and "Ghost in the Shell 2" and "Polar Express" seemed like they would make it in the list, but didn't. Disney's "Home of the Range" and the successful "SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" also didn't make on the list.
The popular "House of Flying Daggers" from China didn't make the best foreign language film list, but it did get a nomination for best cinematography. Korea's "Tae Guk Gi" and Lars von Trier's "Five Obstructions" from Denmark seemed to be easy nominees, but neither made the list.
Past musical nominees "Moulin Rouge" and "Chicago" seemed to have paved the way for "The Phantom of the Opera," but it didn't translate to a best picture or acting performances and earned nominations only for art direction, song and cinematography.
Mel Gibson didn't lobby for his "The Passion of the Christ" and he didn't get a best director nomination, but earned three nominations for cinematography, musical score and makeup.
Oddly enough, once again it seems that a best picture nominee directed itself because the director and best picture categories don't match up. "Finding Neverland's" director Marc Forster didn't get a best director nod, while "Vera Drake's" Mike Leigh didn't get a best picture nomination but it's his fifth nomination. It's happened many times before, but it gives Leigh a major disadvantage.
Reynolds' Fiance To Appear In His Next Movie
Canadian singer Alanis Morissette is set to make a cameo in Ryan Reynolds', her fiance, next movie. Ryan Reynolds, who can currently be seen on screen in BLADE TRINITY, will start in the movie JUST FRIENDS, which started filiming this week. In the movie Reynolds play a record executive who comes face to face with an old crush from his home town.
Morissette's cameo would "have her beats the snot out of me," Reynolds says. Anna Faris and Amy Smart also star in JUST FRIENDS.
Sxrubs On DVD!!
Buena Vista has officially announced that Scrubs: The Complete First Season due on May 17th.
Look for the set to include 24 episodes, never-before-seen "dream sequences," a retrospective documentary and more on 4 discs.
Singer Lisa Brokop finds new groove, asks Hey, Do You Know Me? on CD
TORONTO (CP) - On her new record, Hey, Do You Know Me?, singer Lisa Brokop hopes to become reacquainted with country music fans who still think of her as that cutie teen who sang Take That or Give Me a Ring Sometime.
"People who would have remembered one of my first records, to compare that to now, I've grown so much and I'm a completely different person," the 32-year-old singer-guitarist said recently from Nashville where she was preparing for a tour of Western Canada, beginning Wednesday in her hometown of Vancouver.
Brokop got her start as a teenager, releasing her first album at age 17.
Shortly afterwards she landed a lucrative record deal with Capitol Records. Executives were impressed when they heard her play a few short gigs at a showcase in country heartland Nashville as well the lead in the film Harmony Cats.
The union led to two well-received CDs, Every Little Girl's Dream and a self-titled one with radio hits She Can't Save Him and Before He Kissed Me.
Brokop and Capitol then split. The young singer took some time off and tried her hand at songwriting.
"I didn't know that songwriting was going to be so important for me," she said. "It's really a huge part of my career now."
Fast forward to 2005 and Brokop has been through three record labels as well as a run at putting out a CD independently.
But now Brokop, who has won several Canadian Country Music Awards, seems to have found a new groove. She's signed to Curb Records, home to a slew of hot country artists such as LeAnne Rimes and Tim McGraw.
Two songs from her current CD, released in early January, have been burning up the radio waves. Wildflower and Hey, Do You Know Me? made it to the top 5 on Country Music Television Canada's popular weekly countdown show.
As well, Terri Clark is going to put one of Brokop's songs, Travelling Soul, on her next record due out in March. Reba McEntire put Brokop's Secret on her last disc.
"She's definitely made a huge comeback," says Dayna Bourgoin, music director for Country Music Television Canada, which plays and has helped fund Brokop's videos since the mid-1990s.
"She's always been there. She didn't completely disappear . . . but it really did take her quite a few years to break through."
Bourgoin suspects Brokop, like so many others, got stuck in line behind the Shania-train of the 1990s.
Luckily, adds Bourgoin, Brokop has kept honing her craft.
"She just sings so powerfully. It comes from her heart. Our viewers definitely respond to her."
Brokop, who has lived in Nashville for the past decade, admits she's needed to "hop around" a little bit to find her footing in a turbulent industry.
"You don't know everything at 16," she said of her early days. "I'm much more savvy now. I've learned a lot over the years. I'm getting better at spotting a fly in the ointment."
Now managed by her older brother Dean, Brokop is hoping fans are willing to "get to know" her adult self on the current CD.
"It's a little bit deeper then maybe some of my music in the past," she admits. "That just comes from the growth that I've had in the last few years as a songwriter and personally too . . . a little heartbreak here and there doesn't hurt when you're writing songs."
Here are Lisa Brokop's tour dates:
Jan. 26: Vancouver
Jan. 27: Kamloops, B.C.
Jan. 28: Calgary
Jan. 29: Edmonton
Feb. 1: Moose Jaw, Sask.
Feb. 2: Regina
Feb. 3: Yorkton, Sask.
Feb. 5: Winnipeg
Ray Charles Finally Gets His Due in Hollywood
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ray Charles was an international star for five decades, but in Hollywood the complicated piano man was long considered box-office poison.
When director Taylor Hackford started pitching a project about the "genius of soul" more than 15 years ago, no studios were interested. Music-themed pictures are a tough sell, especially when the subject is an old, blind, black man.
"Ray" eventually got made and received an official seal of approval on Tuesday with six Academy Award nominations, including best picture, director and actor.
Jamie Foxx's eerie lead performance made him an Oscar front-runner long before the film was released to commercial and critical acclaim in late October, a few months after Charles died of liver disease.
The film has otherwise been an underdog every step of the way, since 1987 when Hackford met Charles and eventually acquired the rights to his life.
"I must say there's a little bit of sweet revenge to all those people that turned us down," Hackford told Reuters after the nominations were announced.
He was far from resentful, recognizing that if the picture had been made a while ago, it would not have starred Foxx, "and no one could have played this role like that."
Hackford and fellow producer Stuart Benjamin spent more than a decade shopping the concept to uninterested Hollywood studios. Even though Hackford had produced the 1987 moneymaker "La Bamba," about the short life of Latino rocker Ritchie Valens, most music-based projects fall flat at the box office.
Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz eventually joined the project, with the intention of bringing a studio on board. There were still no bites. So Anschutz funded the production himself, with the budget coming in at about $35 million.
Charles cooperated with the project every step of the way, even as it touched on his drug abuse and womanizing, Hackford said. That was a pleasant change, he said, from Chuck Berry, "who did everything possible to inhibit us getting the real picture of the man" in the 1987 documentary "Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll."
"With Ray ... there wasn't anything that I couldn't delve into," Hackford said. "There were no limitations that he placed on me, which was an incredible gift."
Foxx, a classically trained pianist, said the most instructive experience in preparing for the role was in observing Charles during unguarded moments from a distance.
"It was watching him when he was talking to other people, watching his mannerisms, watching how he orders his food, how he talks to his kids, how he conducts business," Foxx said.
"He made me feel comfortable, but at the same time you feel anxious," Foxx recounted. "The minute we met each other and started playing the piano to each other, it was a given that he was giving his blessing."
It wasn't until after the movie was completed in the middle of 2003 that producers elicited some interest.
Ron Meyer, president of Universal Studios, a unit of General Electric Co.-controlled NBC Universal, said he used to hitchhike across Los Angeles as a young teen to sneak into Charles' concerts in Hollywood. As a studio boss, he snapped up the rights to the film early last year.
The film grossed $73 million at the North American box office and will come out on DVD on Tuesday.
"I can't tell you how many people said people will never buy tickets to see this movie, and they were wrong and the audience proved them wrong," Hackford said. "And now this, where your peers -- the people who actually make movies and understand what goes in to making movies -- recognize this, it's just another vindication."
Oscar Snubs Michael Moore, Mel Gibson
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Moore's attempt to turn voters against President Bush failed and on Tuesday he lost his gamble as well for a coveted best-picture Oscar nomination for his incendiary documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."
The omission from the coveted category marks a major misfire for the liberal firebrand who withdrew his anti-Bush polemic from contention in the documentary category, which he won two years ago with "Bowling for Columbine," in order to focus on the big prize. No documentary has ever won the best picture Oscar.
Conservative filmmaker Mel Gibson, who performed a miracle by turning an Aramaic-speaking Jesus into a worldwide box office star with "The Passion of the Christ," also was shut out of the major award categories.
The Biblical saga generated zero buzz among Oscar prognosticators, and Gibson declined to campaign for the film he directed and funded with his own money after all the studios passed. It did, however, land three minor Oscar nominations for makeup, cinematography and score.
Earlier this month, "Passion" won a lowly People's Choice Award for best film drama to go with the two Oscars Gibson won in 1996 for producing and directing "Braveheart."
Frank Pierson, the president the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that awards the Oscars, declined to comment on what Moore's reaction would be, saying, "I'll have to call him and ask."
As for Gibson, Pierson noted that while the Australian-raised actor did not get nominated for a major prize he earned enough money from "Passion" to "set up his own studio."
The Moore snub does not mean that Hollywood has suddenly dumped its liberal orthodoxy, said conservative commentator Mark Smith.
"Perhaps Hollywood decided, 'We don't want to be reminded of our bitter defeat in November (in the presidential election), and the best way to forget it is not to talk about Michael Moore at this year's Oscars,"' said Smith, author of "The Official Handbook of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy."
Moore and Gibson were not the only notable omissions when the Academy Award contenders were announced at daybreak.
Golden Globe nominee Paul Giamatti was not nominated for his lead role as a grumpy oenophile in "Sideways," even though Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen were cited for their supporting roles in the comedy.
Both Church and Madsen said they were deeply disappointed as he was key to the film's success.
While "Finding Neverland" tied with "Ray" for second place among nominees with seven nods, its Swiss director, Marc Forster, did not make the cut. Forster and "Closer" Director Mike Nichols were the only Golden Globe nominees shut out of the Oscar race.
Two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey had campaigned aggressively for his Bobby Darin movie, "Beyond the Sea," a labor of love he directed, produced, co-wrote and starred in. But Oscar was deaf to Spacey this time.
COMIC GUY NAMED
The elusive real name of Comic Book Guy will finally be revealed in "Simpsons" episode No. GABF02, Act 1.
The blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment airs in the show after the Super Bowl on Feb. 6.
In the episode, Homer inadvertently performs a wild, crowd-pleasing dance at a local carnival and is hired by several major sports figures to choreograph their victory dances.
He is so successful that he gets tapped to choreograph the Super Bowl halftime show.
Comic Book Guy, the snobbish know-it-all, pops up in the episode clad in a "Nerds do it Rarely" T-shirt. Since the series began in 1991, his real name has never been used, although in an interview a few years ago series creator Matt Groening joked that his name was "Louis Lane."
National Film Board leads Canadian trek to Oscars with two nominations
TORONTO (CP) - Canada is Oscar-bound this year, thanks to a pair of short films co-produced by the National Film Board.
Ryan is writer-director Chris Landreth's innovative use of digital animation to look at the career and tragic decline of Ryan Larkin, a brilliant former NFB animator who ended up a panhandler on the streets of Montreal. Landreth was also nominated in the animated short category in 1996 for The End.
"It is a great honour to be recognized for this film - it was a labour of love for almost four years," said Landreth. "An Oscar nomination is a wonderful validation - it was an incredible experience the first time and I look forward to returning."
Ryan has already won more than 30 international awards, from Cannes to Canada.
Hardwood, written and directed by Hubert Davis, was nominated in the documentary short category. Making his directorial debut, Davis, son of former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis, uses interviews, archival and home movies to explore his father's relationship with his family.
"A nomination for my first film - amazing," said Davis. "It is very gratifying to turn the camera onto my family, tell our Canadian story and then have it received so well."
The film board views the nominations as a special 65th anniversary gift, having won the first of 10 Oscars back in 1941 for Churchill's Island.
"All of Canada is going to the Oscars," boasted Jacques Bensimon, government film commissioner and NFB chairman, in a statement released only moments after the nominations were announced.
"The National Film Board is Canada's public film producer and we're proud to share our 66th and 67th Academy Award nominations with each and every Canadian."
Other Canadian connections to Oscar in 2005 include the Robert Lantos-produced Being Julia, for which Annette Bening nabbed a best actress nod. Also, Paul Haggis of London, Ont., made it into the best adapted screenplay category for his script for Million Dollar Baby.
And Canadian actress Sandra Oh has a role in Sideways, which was nominated for best picture. Her husband, Alexander Payne, is nominated for best director and best adapted screenplay for the film.
'Aviator' Gets 11 Academy Award Nods
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The Howard Hughes epic "The Aviator" led Academy Awards contenders with 11 nominations Tuesday, including best picture, plus acting honors for Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Alan Alda and a directing slot for Martin Scorsese.
The boxing saga "Million Dollar Baby" and the J.M. Barrie tale "Finding Neverland" followed with seven nominations each, among them best picture and acting nominations for Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank and Johnny Depp.
Eastwood also got a directing nomination for "Million Dollar Baby."
The other best-picture nominees were the Ray Charles portrait "Ray" and the buddy comedy "Sideways."
Along with Eastwood, Jamie Foxx also scored two nominations, as best actor for the title role in "Ray" and supporting actor as a taxi driver whose cab is hijacked by a hit man in "Collateral."
Foxx's dead-on emulation of Charles has made him the front-runner in the lead-actor category.
Starring as aviation trailblazer and Hollywood rebel Hughes, DiCaprio also was nominated for best actor. He and Foxx will compete against Depp as "Peter Pan" playwright Barrie in "Finding Neverland"; Eastwood as a cantankerous boxing trainer in "Million Dollar Baby"; and Don Cheadle for "Hotel Rwanda," starring as hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, who sheltered refugees from the Rwandan genocide.
The best-actress category presents a rematch of the 1999 showdown, when underdog Swank won the Oscar for "Boys Don't Cry" over Annette Bening, who had been the front-runner for "American Beauty."
This time, Swank was nominated as a bullheaded boxing champ whose life takes a cruel twist in "Million Dollar Baby." Bening was chosen for "Being Julia," in which she plays an aging 1930s stage diva exacting wickedly comic revenge on the men in her life and a young rival.
Both actresses won Golden Globes for the roles, Swank for best dramatic actress, Bening for actress in a musical or comedy.
Also nominated for the best-actress Oscar were Catalina Sandino Moreno as a Colombian woman imperiled when she signs on to smuggle heroin in "Maria Full of Grace"; Imelda Staunton as a saintly housekeeper in 1950s Britain who performs illegal abortions on the side in "Vera Drake"; and Kate Winslet as a woman who has had memories of her ex-boyfriend erased in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
Joining Eastwood and Scorsese among directing nominees are Taylor Hackford for "Ray"; Mike Leigh for "Vera Drake"; and Alexander Payne for "Sideways."
Scorsese, arguably the most prominent modern filmmaker who has never won an Oscar, also has never delivered a best-picture winner. Considered a nominal best-picture favorite, "The Aviator" offers him a shot to finally triumph on Oscar night, though Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" is a formidable competitor.
"The Aviator" won the Golden Globe for best-dramatic film, but Eastwood beat out Scorsese for the directing prize at the Globes. Eastwood is a past Oscar winner for best-picture and director with 1992's "Unforgiven."
Along with Foxx in "Collateral," Alda was nominated for supporting actor as a senator tussling with Hughes in "The Aviator" while Freeman was picked as a worldly-wise ex-boxer in "Million Dollar Baby." The other nominees: Thomas Haden Church as a bridegroom out for a final fling in "Sideways"; Clive Owen as a coarse lover in "Closer."
For supporting actress, academy voters picked Blanchett, who plays Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator"; Laura Linney as the title character's sexually adventurous wife in "Kinsey"; Virginia Madsen as a deceived lover in "Sideways"; Sophie Okonedo as innkeeper Rusesabagina's wife in "Hotel Rwanda"; Natalie Portman as a gutsy stripper in "Closer."
It was the best year ever for black performers, who had five of the 20 acting nominations. The most previously was three, including the 2001 Oscars when Halle Berry and Denzel Washington both won the lead acting prizes.
"Sideways" star Paul Giamatti was overlooked for a nomination, a surprise given that he had been a contender for most previous film honors. Liam Neeson, who had the title role in "Kinsey," also missed out, as did the movie, which had considered a best-picture contender.
Mel Gibson's religious blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ" missed out on main categories, but did pick up nominations for cinematography, makeup and original score.
Michael Moore's gamble to hold his hit film "Fahrenheit 9/11" out of the documentary category — to boost its best-picture prospects — backfired. The movie was shut out across the board.
Moore won the documentary prize two years ago for "Bowling for Columbine."
Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me," which hilariously chronicles his monthlong feed frenzy on an all-McDonald's diet, was among the documentary nominees.
Also nominated was "Born into Brothels," "The Story of the Weeping Camel," "Tupac: Resurrection," and "Twist of Faith."
With its epic scope and dazzling re-creation of early Hollywood, Scorsese's "The Aviator" could claim the inside track as front-runner for best picture. The film won the Golden Globe for best dramatic picture.
Yet unlike last year, when "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" went in as the odds-on favorite and swept all 11 of its categories come Oscar night, the outcome is more uncertain this time.
"The Aviator" could finally bring Scorsese the best-picture and directing wins that have eluded him during his distinguished career. But Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" is a heavyweight opponent that could spoil Scorsese's chances.
The fairy-tale comedy "Shrek 2" and the superhero adventure "The Incredibles" will duke it out for the animated feature film Oscar, along with the undersea romp "Shark Tale."
Nominated for foreign-language film were Sweden's "As It Is in Heaven," France's "The Chorus," Germany's "Downfall," Spain's "The Sea Inside" and South Africa's "Yesterday."
Nominees in most categories are chosen by specific branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, such as directors, actors and writers. The full academy membership of about 5,800 is eligible to vote in all categories for the Oscars themselves.
ABC will broadcast the Oscars live Feb. 27 from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre. Chris Rock is the show's host, the first time since 1996 that either Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg or Steve Martin has not been master of ceremonies.
Here is the complete list of nominees for the 77th Annual Academy Awards:
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Don Cheadle - HOTEL RWANDA
Johnny Depp - FINDING NEVERLAND
Leonardo DiCaprio - THE AVIATOR
Clint Eastwood - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Jamie Foxx - RAY
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alan Alda - THE AVIATOR
Thomas Haden Church - SIDEWAYS
Jamie Foxx - COLLATERAL
Morgan Freeman - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Clive Owen - CLOSER
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Annette Bening - BEING JULIA
Catalina Sandino Moreno - MARIA FULL OF GRACE
Imelda Staunton - VERA DRAKE
Hilary Swank - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Kate Winslet - ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Cate Blanchett - THE AVIATOR
Laura Linney - KINSEY
Virginia Madsen - SIDEWAYS
Sophie Okonedo - HOTEL RWANDA
Natalie Portman - CLOSER
DIRECTING
Martin Scorsese - THE AVIATOR
Clint Eastwood - MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Taylor Hackford - RAY
Alexander Payne - SIDEWAYS
Mike Leigh - VERA DRAKE
BEST PICTURE
THE AVIATOR
FINDING NEVERLAND
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
RAY
SIDEWAYS
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
THE INCREDIBLES
SHARK TALE
SHREK 2
ART DIRECTION
THE AVIATOR
FINDING NEVERLAND
LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT
CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE AVIATOR
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT
COSTUME DESIGN
THE AVIATOR
FINDING NEVERLAND
LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
RAY
TROY
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
BORN INTO BROTHELS
THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL
SUPER SIZE ME
TUPAC: RESURRECTION
TWIST OF FAITH
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
AUTISM IS A WORLD
THE CHILDREN OF LENINGRADSKY
HARDWOOD
MIGHTY TIMES: THE CHILDREN'S MARCH
SISTER ROSE'S PASSION
FILM EDITING
THE AVIATOR
COLLATERAL
FINDING NEVERLAND
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
RAY
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
THE CHORUS
DOWNFALL
THE SEA INSIDE
YESTERDAY
MAKEUP
LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
THE SEA INSIDE
MUSIC (SCORE)
FINDING NEVERLAND
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
THE VILLAGE
MUSIC (SONG)
"Accidentally In Love" - SHREK 2
"Al Otro Lado Del Río" - THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
"Believe" - THE POLAR EXPRESS
"Learn To Be Lonely" - THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
"Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)" - THE CHORUS
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
BIRTHDAY BOY
GOPHER BROKE
GUARD DOG
LORENZO
RYAN
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
EVERYTHING IN THIS COUNTRY MUST
LITTLE TERRORIST
7:35 IN THE MORNING
TWO CARS, ONE NIGHT
WASP
SOUND EDITING
THE INCREDIBLES
THE POLAR EXPRESS
SPIDER-MAN 2
SOUND MIXING
THE AVIATOR
THE INCREDIBLES
THE POLAR EXPRESS
RAY
SPIDER-MAN 2
VISUAL EFFECTS
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
I, ROBOT
SPIDER-MAN 2
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
BEFORE SUNSET
FINDING NEVERLAND
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
SIDEWAYS
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
THE AVIATOR
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
HOTEL RWANDA
THE INCREDIBLES
VERA DRAKE