BEST PICTURE
	Picture - Studio	HFPA	Comment
1	Munich - Universal	D	Ladies & Gentlemen, your winner.
2	Memoirs of a Geisha - Columbia	D	Somehow, a strong leader needs a strong opposition. Geisha is the only major glam weight in the race and so this will likely become the battle (which Geisha can't win)
3	Walk The Line - Fox	M/C	The movie opens next week... has anyone heard?
4	Capote - Sony Pictures Classics	D	The designated arthouse film.
5	The New World - New Line		Ads from WeinsteinCo & Fox and lax push from Universal on their musical make this heavy seem weightier again.
t-6	Mrs. Henderson Presents - Weinstein Co.	M/C	Can Harvey pull a new train?
t-6	The Producers - Universal	M/C	Monkey & Munich lower the bar
8	Brokeback Mountain - Focus Features		The sheep come home to roost soon
9	Good Night, & Good Luck	D	Fading a litte... not fading out, but just getting muted... soon to compete with Clooney's Syriana
10	Fresh Meat Of The Week Syriana - Warner Bros.		Word is that it may be too challenging for some... but so was Traffic
Globes Holdovers
	Crash - Lions Gate	D	There was a big summer push on the film, but it never seems to have gotten traction
	Breakfast On Pluto - Sony Classics	M/C	Got a surprsing BFCA Critics choice nod... mainstream tastes could launch a surprise
	The Family Stone - Fox	M/C	Still waiting on a change of pitch... but some bad word of mouth has started rolling... the kind that comes when a film perceived as glib gets uncomfortably serious
The Still Glimmering
	Rent - Columbia		Could power into a Musical Globes nomination... or not... Rentrobates Unite!
	The Squid & The Whale - Sam Goldwyn/Sony Releasing		Big at the beachfront Oscars
	The Constant Gardener - Focus Features		Needs more constant attention
	A History Of Violence - New Line		Deliver those DVDs tomorrow!
The Comically Hyped Contender Of The Week
	King Kong - Universal		Jackson & Co broke the rules with Rings... The 6th Sense, Jerry Maguire, Ghost, On Golden Pond, sure. Da monkey? Nah.

 

Other Films That Will Be Campaigned - By Studio
Disney
Casanova	With Producers and Henderson in the game, a tough road for a lov-ah
Shopgirl	These are the Danes of our lives
The Chronicles Of Narnia: TL,TW & TW	Quickly turning into the unintentionally Secret Santa of the season
DreamWorks
Match Point	Very, very solid. A return to a Woody form that never was... except in half of Crimes & Misdemeanors
Focus Features
Pride & Prejudice	Pride before a....
Broken Flowers	Should they be chasing actress nods in a thin year, especially for The Globes?
Fox Searchlight
Bee Season	Not much buzz
Separate Lies	Not separate enough for me... no lie.
Miramax
Proof	Gwynnie Globie
New Line
The Upside Of Anger	Actor nod hopeful
Paramount Classics
Hustle & Flow	Get Terrence Howard a slot or die tryin'
Twentieth Century Fox
In Her Shoes	Warren's been getting airtime... can Shirley?
Sony Pictures Classics
The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada	Running like a (dead) man with his head on fire
The White Countess	Merchant Ivory swan song
Universal
Jarhead	Empty Mental Jacket
Warner Bros
North Country - Warner Bros	Aoen Flux couldn't save its Best Picture chances
Warner Indie
March of the Penguins	Pequins wobble, but they don't pull down... Best Picture nominations
The Weinstein Company
The Libertine	Means to be deep, but mostly Depp
Transamerica	Desperate To Have His Penis Removed Housewife

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November 10, 2005
- by David Poland