Foo Fighters gear up for Grammys
NEW YORK (AP) - Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters, once described by bassist Nate Mendel as an "accidental" band, now have ten years under their belt, are playing bigger shows than ever and are up for five Grammys for their two-disc opus In Your Honor.
With power chords, rock riffs and a fun-loving attitude that would have been unthinkable to Nirvana, Grohl's prior band, the Foo Fighters have become an unlikely torchbearer for arena-sized rock 'n' roll.
On Feb. 8, the band will have a chance to add to its previous-earned four Grammy awards, its nominations including best rock album, best rock song (Best of You) and best pop collaboration for the unlikely duet with Norah Jones on Virginia Moon.
The ambitious In Your Honor - half rock and half acoustic - could make Grammy night an eventful evening for the band, but Grohl, speaking by phone from Paris, says whether you walk out with a trophy or not, the show's mainly for the "fam."
"You get the fam all dressed up, put 'em in the same room as Mariah Carey," the 37-year-old says, "and all of a sudden your career is validated."
Grohl answered the following questions the interview.
AP: With these five Grammy nominations, I imagine you're most pumped for the best surround-sound album one?
GROHL: You know, to be completely honest, that is the one that we're the most excited about. I mean, it's great to get the best rock record and the best rock song and all that other stuff, but something as wickedly technical and bad-ass as a true 5.1 surround record, that's pretty kick-ass. That just reeks of Pink Floyd or something like that.
AP: In other categories you're up against Neil Young, U2, the Rolling Stones . . .
GROHL: Dude, the competition is stiff. I didn't even know who else was in our category. . . . We're clearly the underdog. . . . We might stand alongside Coldplay (the other best rock album nominee), but that's about it. That's where that line is drawn.
AP: Does this album feel like your crowning achievement?
GROHL: Well, they all do in a way. Every album that we've ever made has made sense at the time. Having been a band for 10 years and watched this steady ascent, everything has just sort of grown at this really natural rate. And it's been . . . great. We've never lost it; we've never freaked out; we've never really wanted to stop. . . . But this album is probably the most ambitious record we've ever made musically. It was really our intention to widen the dynamic and broaden the scope of songs, rather than just go in and make another 10-or 11-song album that they'll pull a couple singles from and you make a new T-shirt and you hit the road. It was really more about injecting some new life into the band.
AP: You played drums for Nirvana and often drum for other bands like Queens for the Stone Age. Do you consider yourself a drummer first and foremost?
GROHL: Kind of, yeah. It's not my first instrument, but it's the one I'm most connected to for whatever reason. It's just easier for me, I can turn my brain off. . . . But when I'm hanging out with six or seven drummers, it's like they don't consider me one of them, because I'm the singer of the Foo Fighters. There's a whole drummer thing that's like Highlander. When two Highlanders are in the same room with each other, they just know. That's kind of what happens with drummers, but not with me.
AP: You're currently touring Europe. Do you find American and European crowds different?
GROHL: Not so much. When you play rock music to rock kids, it doesn't matter if you're Japanese or German, everyone pretty much reacts the same. Some countries go into football chants, other countries throw Mentos at you.
AP: Is it true you guys don't play Big Me anymore because crowds throw Mentos at you? (The Foo Fighters' video for Big Me famously featured parodies of Mentos commercials.)
GROHL: About maybe two weeks into the tour, Rivers (Cuomo), the Weezer singer, knocked on our door and asked if he could come in. He's shy - it was weird, I don't think anyone had ever knocked on our dressing room door before. And he said, "Hey, I was wondering if you guys would mind if we played your song Big Me?" And we hadn't played that song in six, seven years, and we thought, "Yeah, have at it." And they played it every . . . night. And we actually started to miss it. So once that tour ended and we went back out on our own, we kinda threw it back into the set list. But we did stop playing that song for a while because, honestly, it's like being stoned. Those little . . . things are like pebbles - they hurt.
AP: In some sense, that kind of reaction is something to be proud of.
GROHL: Yeah, but I wish they were like marshmallows or something.
Spears to Guest Star on 'Will & Grace'
NEW YORK - Britney Spears will guest star on an episode of "Will & Grace," NBC announced Tuesday. The pop star will appear as a Christian conservative sidekick to Sean Hayes' character, Jack, who hosts his own talk show, on the April 13 episode, the network said.
Jack's fictional network, Out TV, is bought by a Christian TV network, leading to Spears contributing a cooking segment called "Cruci-fixin's."
As a young girl, the 24-year-old Spears was a regular on "The Mickey Mouse Club." After becoming a pop singer, she starred in the critically panned 2002 film "Crossroads."
Last September, Spears gave birth to her first child, son Sean Preston, with husband Kevin Federline.
"Will & Grace," which also stars Eric McCormack, Debra Messing and Megan Mullally, is in its eighth and final season. It airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. (EST).
'Walk the Line' Snubbed for 'Best Picture'
NEW YORK - Here are some of the surprises from Tuesday's Academy Award nominations:
• WALK ON BY: Despite earning acting nominations for stars Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, "Walk the Line" was snubbed in the best-picture and best-director categories. The crowd-pleasing, critically acclaimed story of Johnny Cash and his lifelong on- and offstage partner, June Carter, looked like a shoo-in among the top spots. Witherspoon, though, will likely end up in a two-woman race for the best-actress award with "Transamerica" star Felicity Huffman.
• ITS PLACE IN HISTORY: Taking the spot expected to go to "Walk the Line" among the best-picture nominees is "Munich," about the aftermath of the killing of 11 Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympics. The film earned five nominations, including best director for Steven Spielberg and best adapted screenplay. "Munich" had won no major awards leading up to Tuesday, and despite receiving solid reviews, it wasn't considered a serious Oscar contender.
• MAN VS. HIMSELF: One of the nominations "Munich" received was for John Williams' original score — but he'll be competing against himself. Spielberg's longtime musical collaborator also was nominated this year for his work on "Memoirs of a Geisha." The veteran composer has found himself in this situation before, including 1978 when he was up for his iconic music from both "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Star Wars." (He won for the latter.)
• THE FORCE IS WEAK: Speaking of "Star Wars," seems that barely anyone was among Academy voters. "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith," the sixth and (hopefully) final installment in George Lucas' epic galactic saga, failed to earn a nomination for best visual effects. All five previous movies either were recognized in the category or received a special achievement award for their high-tech visuals, the work of Lucas' company Industrial Light & Magic. "Sith" did get a nomination for best makeup, though — and it made over $380 million at the box office.
• WHERE IS THE LOVE?: Also receiving a surprising solitary nomination was "Match Point," for Woody Allen's original screenplay. The drama about a torrid affair between a social-climbing British tennis pro and an American actress had been hailed among film critics as a return to form for Allen, and it was the subject of a highbrow, high-profile awards campaign.
• THE INTRIGUE CONTINUES: Joining Allen among the original-screenplay nominees is writer-director Stephen Gaghan for "Syriana," a complex international tale of oil, power and corruption. That his script was nominated comes as no surprise — it's intricate, intelligent and extremely relevant. Where it was nominated is the unexpected part. "Syriana" has always been considered an adapted work, based on a memoir by former CIA officer Robert Baer, the basis for George Clooney's character. It's up for best adapted screenplay at this year's Writers Guild awards. The motion picture academy, however, chose to place the film in the original screenplay category.
• HUSTLE & BLEEP: Perhaps the most surprising nomination of all, and the one we're the most excited about, is in the original-song category: the insanely catchy "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," from the movie "Hustle & Flow" starring Terrence Howard as a Memphis pimp-turned-rapper. Since he performs the song in the movie, you know he's got to do it live on stage during the awards ceremony, right? Just like Faith Hill or Celine Dion or anyone else with a nominated song? And since Howard is up for a best-actor Oscar, you know he'll already be there. (Unfortunately, most of his graphic flow will be hustled away in the name of good taste.)
Dan Predicts
The Oscar won't actually be given out until March 5th, but if they were given out today, here are the people that I (Dan Reynish) think would win in the Six Major categories.
These predictions are based on industry buzz, the way the nominees have been acting during Hollywood's annual awards season, who has won either a SAG or Golden Globe award, and finally, on the performance in or of the film.
BEST PICTURE
Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress
Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actress
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Best Director
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Reaction to Academy Awards Nominations
Reaction to nominations for the 78th Academy Awards:
"We didn't make the film for any kind of political movement. We never expected to change people's minds. But if it does affect people's hearts, if perceptions can get altered, that's a good thing." — Heath Ledger, nominated for best actor for the gay romance "Brokeback Mountain."
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"I'll really enjoy it because it will never happen again." — Michelle Williams, on being nominated for best supporting actress alongside fiancee Ledger.
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"... I'm not certain that there's ever been a film that has a gay romance that's been embraced this way. But on the other hand the film is about a lot more than that. I've said this before, but it's sort of like saying 'Lonesome Dove' is just a story about a cattle drive." — Diana Ossana, nominated with Larry McMurtry for adapted screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain."
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"... I think I'm amazed how people everywhere have had the sensitivity to want to get into the complexity of the issue, the probability of love, the illusion of love, all those things." — Ang Lee, best director nominee for "Brokeback Mountain."
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"I'm just really delighted that this little film with big ambitions got the recognition it deserved. The only thing I wish is that some of my fellow cast members could have been recognized too." — Matt Dillon, best supporting actor nominee for "Crash."
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"I guess I'll go have a drink. I don't think my year could get much better." — Paul Giamatti, best supporting actor nominee for "Cinderella Man."
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"My eyes are so covered in tears, I couldn't see half the television. I didn't expect to cry. I thought I would be all right." — Terrence Howard, best actor nominee for "Hustle & Flow."
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"I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day. I'm in such good company." — Judi Dench, best actress nominee for "Mrs. Henderson Presents."
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"It's just beyond my wildest dreams ever. Especially having five nominations for the picture, it's a dream come true." — Michael Ohoven, producer of best picture nominee "Capote."
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"I'm feeling very euphoric, I have a glass of champagne in front of me. It is the high point of my professional life so far. I say so far because winning it would be even better, but I'll settle for this for now." — Jeffrey Caine, nominated for adapted screenplay for "The Constant Gardener."
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"We're sharing the news with a lot of people, including a lot of people in Rwanda. The news is incredibly meaningful because they realize that people care about what happened to them." — Kimberlee Acquaro, co-director of "God Sleeps in Rwanda," nominated for best documentary short.
Globes Versus Oscar!
OSCAR - Best Picture:
"Brokeback Mountain"
"Capote"
"Crash"
"Good Night, and Good Luck"
"Munich."
GLOBES - Best Motion Picture - Drama
A History Of Violence
WINNER - Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Good Night, And Good Luck
Match Point
GLOBES - Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Pride & Prejudice
The Producers
The Squid And The Whale
WINNER - Walk The Line
Here is the main proof the the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (who give out the Golden Globes) and the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are two different groups with two different agendas. Yes, the HFPA do have two categories and more nominations, but only two Golden Globe nominees were Oscar nominees: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
OSCAR - Actress:
Judi Dench, "Mrs. Henderson Presents"
Felicity Huffman, "Transamerica"
Keira Knightley, "Pride & Prejudice"
Charlize Theron, "North Country"
Reese Witherspoon, "Walk the Line."
GLOBES - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Maria Bello – A History Of Violence
WINNER - Felicity Huffman – Transamerica
Gwyneth Paltrow – Proof
Charlize Theron – North Country
Ziyi Zhang – Memoirs Of A Geisha
GLOBES - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Judi Dench – Mrs. Henderson Presents
Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice
Laura Linney – The Squid And The Whale
Sarah Jessica Parker – The Family Stone
WINNER - Reese Witherspoon – Walk The Line
On the other hand, all five Oscar nominees had been nominated for a Globe as well. Many people have said that this would be a tough year to find 5 worthy Oscar nominees, and that seems to be true with past winners - and Oscar favourites - Judi Dench and Charlize Theron nominated again. In the end, however, they did nominate the five best.
OSCAR - 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."
GLOBES - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Russell Crowe – Cinderella Man
WINNER - Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
Terrence Howard – Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
David Strathairn – Good Night, And Good Luck
GLOBES - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Pierce Brosnan – The Matador
Jeff Daniels – The Squid And The Whale
Johnny Depp – Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
Nathan Lane – The Producers
Cillian Murphy – Breakfast On Pluto
WINNER - Joaquin Phoenix – Walk The Line
In this category there were more to choose from and the AMPAS members nailed the right five. Yes, the fact that Russell Crowe wasn't nominated is interesting as he is a favourite as well, but the film did underperform, and he did get arrested when it came out for throwing a phone at a hotel clerk, so that explains that. Otherwise, this is the perfect category and the race is on!!
'Brokeback Mountain' Gets 8 Oscar Nods
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The cowboy love story "Brokeback Mountain" led the Academy Awards field Tuesday with eight nominations, among them best picture and honors for actor Heath Ledger and director Ang Lee.
Also nominated for best picture were the Truman Capote story "Capote"; the ensemble drama "Crash"; the Edward R. Murrow chronicle "Good Night, and Good Luck"; and the assassination thriller "Munich."
The Johnny Cash biography "Walk the Line," considered a likely best-picture nominee, was left out of that category, though Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon earned acting nominations.
Three films were tied with six nominations each — "Crash," "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Memoirs of a Geisha," though "Geisha" was shut out in the top categories.
"Munich," which had fallen off many awards analysts' best-picture picks after a lukewarm reception, scored well with five nominations, including director for Steven Spielberg.
"King Kong," directed by "Lord of the Rings" creator Peter Jackson, earned only technical nominations, losing out in the major categories.
George Clooney picked up three nominations: as supporting actor for his role as a steadfast CIA undercover agent in "Syriana" and best director and co-writer for "Good Night."
It was the first time ever that a contender was honored with acting and directing nominations for two different movies.
Along with best-actor contender Ledger, and directing nominee Lee, "Brokeback Mountain" scored nominations for Michelle Williams as supporting actress, Jake Gyllenhaal as supporting actor and Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana for their screenplay adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story.
Director Lee said he was gratified at the reception both homosexual and heterosexual audiences have given "Brokeback Mountain," which has proven a steady box-office draw across the country.
"I didn't know there were so many gay people out there. Everywhere, they turn up," Lee said. "More importantly, I think I'm amazed how people everywhere have had the sensitivity to want to get into the complexity of the issue, the probability of love, the illusion of love, all those things. It's not simple things you can categorize as right or wrong."
The acting categories were a mix of familiar Oscar faces such as past winners Judi Dench and Charlize Theron, veterans like Clooney, Witherspoon, Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn and Felicity Huffman gaining their first academy attention, and young performers such as Williams and Amy Adams as a big-hearted Southern waif in "Junebug."
Philip Seymour Hoffman, the best-actor favorite for his remarkable embodiment of Capote, joined Ledger in the best-actor category. Hoffman has triumphed at earlier film honors, including the Golden Globes.
Along with Hoffman, Ledger and Phoenix, the other nominees were Terrence Howard as a small-time hood turned rap singer in "Hustle & Flow" and Strathairn as newsman Murrow in "Good Night, and Good Luck."
The best-actress race presumably will shape up as a two-woman contest between Huffman in a gender-bending role as a man about to undergo sex-change surgery in "Transamerica" and Witherspoon as singer June Carter, Cash's musical companion and future wife, in "Walk the Line."
Huffman won the Golden Globe for best dramatic actress, while Witherspoon earned the Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy. Witherspoon beat Huffman on Sunday for the best-actress prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Also nominated for the best-actress Oscar: Dench as a society dame who starts a nude stage revue in 1930s London in "Mrs. Henderson Presents"; Keira Knightley as the romantic heroine of the Jane Austen adaptation "Pride & Prejudice"; Charlize Theron as a mine worker who leads a sexual-harassment lawsuit against male co-workers in "North Country."
"I am so thrilled to be nominated for something I loved working on every single day," Dench said.
"Brokeback Mountain" led a wave of independent films that scored big in the nominations, instead of the studio fare that normally dominates the Oscars. Other than "Munich," most bigger budget movies that had been on the best-picture radar, such as "Walk the Line," "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Cinderella Man," were overlooked in the top Oscar category.
The year's biggest hit, "Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith," earned only one nomination (for makeup) — but was shut out otherwise — including the visual-effects category, a blow to George Lucas and his Industrial Light & Magic outfit that has pioneered special effects. The visual effects nominees were "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe," "King Kong," and Spielberg's "War of the Worlds."
With key prizes at earlier Hollywood honors, "Brokeback Mountain" heads into the March 5 awards as the best-picture front-runner, potentially the first film with explicit gay themes to claim the grand prize at the Oscars.
The film stars Ledger and Gyllenhaal as Western roughnecks who share a summer of love while tending sheep together in the 1960s, then carry on a lifelong romance they conceal from their families. Williams co-stars as Ledger's wife, who overlooks her husband's affair to try to hold her family together.
Weisz, playing a humanitarian-aid worker in "The Constant Gardener," won the supporting-actress prize at the Golden Globes and SAG awards, giving her the inside track for the same honor at the Oscars.
Along with Weisz, Williams and Adams, supporting-actress bids went to Catherine Keener as "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee in "Capote"; and Frances McDormand as a miner coping with debilitating disease in "North Country."
Besides Gyllenhaal and Clooney, nominees for supporting actor were Matt Dillon as a racist cop in "Crash"; Paul Giamatti as a boxing manager in "Cinderella Man"; and William Hurt as a ruthless mobster in "A History of Violence."
Hurt was a bit of surprise since he only appears for a few minutes at the end of the film in scene-stealing role.
Lee, who won the Directors Guild of America honor Saturday for "Brokeback Mountain," is the clear favorite to win the best-director Oscar.
Along with him, Spielberg and Clooney, other directing nominees were Paul Haggis for "Crash" and Bennett Miller for "Capote."
It was the first time since 1981 that the same five movies were nominated for directing and best picture.
And for the first time since the animated feature film category was added in 2001 that no nominees were made using computer-generated imagery. The nominees: the hand-drawn "Howl's Moving Castle," and the stop-motion films " Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" and "Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit."
"Wallace & Gromit" creator Nick Park said he was thrilled by the nomination.
"It's fantastic," Park said, toasting the nomination with champagne at Heathrow Airport as he waited for a flight to Los Angeles. "You never know with these things. It's so unpredictable.
"You make the film for its own sake really. You don't make the film for this reason. It's just a great bonus."
Oscar 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 from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre, with Jon Stewart as host.
Here is the complete list of the 78th annual Oscar nominations announced Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:
1. Best Picture: "Brokeback Mountain," "Capote," "Crash," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Munich."
2. 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."
3. Actress: Judi Dench, "Mrs. Henderson Presents"; Felicity Huffman, "Transamerica"; Keira Knightley, "Pride & Prejudice"; Charlize Theron, "North Country"; Reese Witherspoon, "Walk the Line."
4. Supporting Actor: George Clooney, "Syriana"; Matt Dillon, "Crash"; Paul Giamatti, "Cinderella Man"; Jake Gyllenhaal, "Brokeback Mountain"; William Hurt, "A History of Violence."
5. Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, "Junebug"; Catherine Keener, "Capote"; Frances McDormand, "North Country"; Rachel Weisz, "The Constant Gardener"; Michelle Williams, "Brokeback Mountain."
6. Director: Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain"; Bennett Miller, "Capote"; Paul Haggis, "Crash"; George Clooney, "Good Night, and Good Luck"; Steven Spielberg, "Munich."
7. Foreign Film: "Don't Tell," Italy; "Joyeux Noel," France; "Paradise Now," Palestine; "Sophie Scholl -- The Final Days," Germany; "Tsotsi," South Africa.
8. Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, "Brokeback Mountain"; Dan Futterman, "Capote"; Jeffrey Caine, "The Constant Gardener"; Josh Olson, "A History of Violence"; Tony Kushner and Eric Roth, "Munich."
9. Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco, "Crash"; George Clooney & Grant Heslov, "Good Night, and Good Luck"; Woody Allen, "Match Point"; Noah Baumbach, "The Squid and the Whale"; Stephen Gaghan, "Syriana."
10. Animated Feature Film: "Howl's Moving Castle"; "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"; "Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit."
11. Art Direction: "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "King Kong," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "Pride & Prejudice."
12. Cinematography: "Batman Begins," "Brokeback Mountain," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "The New World."
13. 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."
14. Sound Editing: "King Kong," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "War of the Worlds."
15. Original Score: "Brokeback Mountain," Gustavo Santaolalla; "The Constant Gardener," Alberto Iglesias; "Memoirs of a Geisha," John Williams; "Munich," John Williams; "Pride & Prejudice," Dario Marianelli.
16. 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.
17. Costume: "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "Mrs. Henderson Presents," "Pride & Prejudice," "Walk the Line."
18. Documentary Feature: "Darwin's Nightmare," "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," "March of the Penguins," "Murderball," "Street Fight."
19. 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."
20. Film Editing: "Cinderella Man," "The Constant Gardener," "Crash," "Munich," "Walk the Line."
21. Makeup: "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," "Cinderella Man," "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith."
22. Animated Short Film: "Badgered," "The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation," "The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello," "9," "One Man Band."
23. Live Action Short Film: "Ausreisser (The Runaway)," "Cashback," "The Last Farm," "Our Time Is Up," "Six Shooter."
24. Visual Effects: "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," "King Kong," "War of the Worlds." More to come....
Academy Award winners previously announced this year:
Honorary Award (Oscar statuette): Robert Altman.
The Gordon E. Sawyer award (Oscar statuette): Gary Demos.