BEST PICTURE
Rk	LW	Picture - Studio	Comments
1	2	Brokeback Mountain - Focus Features	The only Oscar BP nomination lock... not a lock to win... but a lock for nomination
The Battling Middleweights
2	4	Walk The Line - Fox	The closest thing to a commercial favorite... but Fox can't let it be forgotten
3	1	Munich - Universal	If it falls out, the year of Universal Oscar Domination will be the year with no Universal Best Picture nominations. too many titles spoil theTbroth?
4	3	The Constant Gardener - Focus Features	Directors, writers, actors...
5	6	Good Night, & Good Luck - WIP	In good shape, but not dominant in any way
6	5	Capote - Sony Pictures Classics	Phil Hoffman is another one of the rare locks, but with an unfamiliar writer and director, could fall
7	8	A History Of Violence - New Line	A movie with a strong following... and passionate detractors
8	-	Crash - Lions Gate	Still alive.. will the people who love it choose it first?
Way Outside Shots
-	-	Match Point - DreamWorks	It's good. But it's not great. And no point of real passion.
-	9	King Kong - Universal	Even though the box office fall is way overstated, the taint and the smell of banana breath make it rough
-	-	The New World - New Line	When you tell people the movie is not the movie, they aren't going to vote for the movie

 

Other Films That Will Be Campaigned - By Studio
Columbia/Revolution
Memoirs of a Geisha
Rent
Disney
Casanova
Shopgirl
The Chronicles Of Narnia: TL,TW & TW
Focus Features
Broken Flowers
Pride & Prejudice
Fox Searchlight
Bee Season
Miramax
Proof
New Line
The Upside Of Anger
Paramount Classics
Hustle & Flow
Twentieth Century Fox
The Family Stone
In Her Shoes
Sam Goldwyn/Sony Releasing
The Squid & The Whale
Sony Pictures Classics
Breakfast On Pluto
The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada
The White Countess
Universal
Jarhead
The Producers
Warner Bros
North Country
Syriana
Warner Indie
March of the Penguins
The Weinstein Company
The Libertine
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Transamerica

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January 5, 2006
- David Poland