BEST PICTURE
	Picture - Studio	HFPA	Comment
1	Munich - Universal	D	Still the serious one
2	Walk The Line - Fox	M/C	Musical... drama... love story... 2 great performancesfrom 2 young stars who are a big part of the future...
3	The Producers - Universal	M/C	The feel great comedy of the fall for adults... will a romp make it?
4	Mrs. Henderson Presents - Weinstein Co.	M/C	WWII & Dame Judi too
5	Capote - Sony Pictures Classics	D	The most accessible of the small indies
6	Memoirs of a Geisha - Columbia	D	The period spectacle will have to prove to be more than a Samurai flash
7	The New World - New Line		You know it's not a cash machine... just how good will it play at The Academy?
8	Brokeback Mountain - Focus Features		Focus seems to want to pretend that it's not a gay film. Will that work or backfire?
9	Good Night, & Good Luck	D	A film a lot of people love, but that is very, very claustrophobic. Could be the Fahrenheit 9/11 of 2005/6 awards-wise
10	Crash - Lions Gate	D	There is a hard core, but how hard and how large a number?
Globes Holdovers
	The Family Stone - Fox	M/C	A wonderful film, but Fox won't stop telling people that it's just a wacky comedy... sigh
	The Squid & The Whale - Sam Goldwyn/Sony Releasing	M/C	Tiny movie in a category that needs more titles.
And The Still Glimmering
	The Constant Gardener - Focus Features		A great movie... needs to find a new stride.
	Breakfast On Pluto - Sony Classics		A very smart, funny, rich film. But in a year of mainstream gay cinema, seems to be the movie that is not "gay enough," to the point where supporting the film is almost un-PC
	A History Of Violence - New Line		Tremendous work by Cronenberg, screenwriter Josh Olsen and the cast... but the anti group has become louder than the pros
	Cinderella Man - Universal		If Seabiscuit was Breaking Away and Ray was The Little Engine That Could, this one is Frankenstein, starring Tony Angellotti as the good doctor

 

Other Films That Will Be Campaigned - By Studio
Columbia/Tri-Star
All The King's Men	Out until 2006
Rent	The cult will show up... but will anyone else?
Freedomland
Disney
Casanova
Shopgirl	Terrific per screen...but needs more screens to prove a hit
The Chronicles Of Narnia: TL,TW & TW	A tough get to start with... needs to be a true sensation
DreamWorks
Match Point	Strong movie, but a reach for Best Picture
Focus Features
Pride & Prejudice
Broken Flowers
Fox Searchlight
Bee Season
Separate Lies
Miramax
An Unfinished Life
Proof
New Line
The Upside Of Anger
Paramount
Elizabethtown
Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
Paramount Classics
Hustle & Flow
Twentieth Century Fox
In Her Shoes
Sony Pictures Classics
The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada
The White Countess
Universal
Jarhead	Uhhhh...
King Kong
Warner Bros
North Country - Warner Bros	If it were tighter, it would have contended
Warner Indie
March of the Penguins
The Weinstein Company
The Libertine	All dark meat...
Transamerica	All light meat...

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October 27, 2005

- by David Poland