BEST PICTURE
Rk	LW	Picture - Studio	Comments
1	2	Crash - Lions Gate	A neck and neck race has developed as BBM has become the cultural event...
2	1	Brokeback Mountain - Focus Features	... and Crash has become the movie of local heroes.
3	3	Munich - Universal
4	4	Good Night, & Good Luck - WIP
5	5	Capote - Sony Pictures Classics

BEST DIRECTOR
Rk	LW	Director - Film	Comment
1	1	Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain	A nice prize for one of the most beautifully made films of the year.
2	3	Paul Haggis - Crash	Would be a shocker... but if a Crash win is coming, you can't discount the possibility of this dropping jaws worldwide... still, very, very unlikley
3	2	Steven Spielberg - Munich
4	4	George Clooney - Good Night, And Good Luck
5	5	Bennett Miller - Capote

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Rk	LW	Writer(s) - Film	Comment
1	1	Crash - Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco	A cake walk.
2	2	Good Night. And, Good Luck - George Clooney, Grant Heslov
3	3	The Squid & The Whale - Noah Baumbach
4	4	Match Point - Woody Allen
5	5	Syriana - Stephen Gaghan

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Rk	LW	Writer(s) - Film	Comment
1	1	Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana	You know it's coming.
2	2	Capote - Dan Futterman
3	3	Munich - Tony Kushner, Eric Roth
4	4	The Constant Gardener - Jeffrey Caine
5	5	A History Of Violence - Josh Olson

BEST ACTRESS
Rk	LW	Actress - Film	Comment
1	1	Reese Witherspoon - Walk The Line	A more transformative performance than the sex change...
2	2	Felicity Huffman - Transamerica	... but does the TV actress want it so much more that the voters get excited? Probably not.
3	3	Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
4	4	Charlize Theron - North Country
5	5	Keira Knightly - Pride & Prejudice

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rk	LW	Actress - Film	Comment
1	1	Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener	She's six months pregnant, the movie's brillaint lead, and Hollywood's new favorite close-up personailty
2	2	Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain	A great small performance... truly worthy...
3	3	Catherine Keener - Capote	One of the beloveds, but I don't think that she thinks it's her year... or much cares...
4	4	Amy Adams - Junebug
5	5	Frances McDormand - North Country

BEST ACTOR
Rk	LW	Actor - Film	Comment
1	1	Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote	The momentum came late enough and strong enough
2	2	Joaquin Phoenix - Walk The Line	Genius work... will look even better in retrospect.. but even Werner Herzog might have a hard time saving this campaign
3	3	Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow	Will look great, will charm... A Major Career Is Born
4	4	Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain	He could leap into a win... but the love seems to be on the wane
5	5	David Strathairn - Good Night. And, Good Luck

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Rk	LW	Actor - Film	Comment
1	3	Matt Dillon - Crash	This could be the shocker of shockers... the most competitive category of the night
2	1	George Clooney - Syriana	This might be where he gets his
3	2	Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man	Nah.... but now that he's cracked the cherry, he'll be back often... and with better roles
4	4	Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
5	5	William Hurt - A History of Violence

 

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February 2 , 2006

- David Poland