The Nominations Continue...

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain

• William Hurt in A History of Violence

• Frank Langella in Good Night, and Good Luck

• Mickey Rourke in Sin City

and

• Donald Sutherland in Pride and Prejudice

Honourabale Mentions to Clifton Collins, Jr. in Capote and Kevin Costner in The Upside of Anger

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• The 40 Year-Old Virgin written by Judd Apatow and Steve Carrell
• Grizzly Man written by Werner Herzog
• Happy Endings written by Don Roos
• Junebug written by Angus MacLachlan
• Me and You and Everyone We Know written by Miranda July

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Brokeback Mountain screenplay by Larry McMutry and Diana Ossana
• Capote screenplay by Dan Futterman
• Downfall screenplay by Bernd Eichinger
• A History of Violence screenplay by Josh Olsen
• My Summer of Love screenplay by Pawel Pawilkosky with Michael Wynne

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN

• 2046, William Chang; Alfred Yau
• Good Night, and Good Luck, James Bissell; Jan Pascale
• King Kong, Grant Major; Dan Hennah
• The New World, Jack Fisk; Jim Erickson
• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Alex McDowell; Colin Batty

BEST FILM EDITING

• Brokeback Mountain, Geraldine Peroni and Dylan Tichenor
• The Constant Gardener, Claire Simpson
• Good Night, and Good Luck, Stephen Mirrione
• Grizzly Man, Joe Bini
• A History of Violence, Ronald Sanders

BEST MAKEUP

• 2046, William Chang
• The New World, Paul Engelen and Joani Yarbrough
• Sin City, Greg Nicotero and Ermahn Ospina

BEST SOUND DESIGN

• Brokeback Mountain, Eugene Gearty, Reilly Steele and Drew Kunin
• King Kong, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Tom Johnson and Michael Semanick
• Last Days, Felix Andrew and Marshall Garlington
• Walk the Line, Paul Massey and Peter F. Kurland
• War of the Worlds, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ronald Judkins

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

• Downfall

Christian Berkel, Justus von Dohnanyi, Heino Ferch, Bruno Ganz, Matthias Habich, Corinna Harfouch, André Hennicke, Rolf Kanies, Thomas Krestchmann, Juliane Köhler, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Michael Mendl, Brigit Minichmayr and Ulrich Noethen

• Good Night, and Good Luck

Rose Abdoo, Alex Borstein, Robert John Burke, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Jeff Daniels, Reed Diamond, Tate Donovan, Robert Downey Jr., Grant Heslov, Peter Jacobson, Frank Langella, Thomas McCarthy, Dianne Reeves, Matt Ross, David Strathairn and Ray Wise

• Junebug

Amy Adams, Embeth Davidtz, Benjamin McKenzie, Alessandro Nivola, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Celia Weston and Scott Wilson

• Me and You and Everyone We Know

Hector Elias, Ellen Greer, John Hawkes, Brad William Henke, Miranda July, JoNell Kennedy, Collette Kilroy, Brandon Ratcliff, Natasha Slayton, Miles Thompson, Najarra Townsend, Carlie Westerman and Tracy Wright

• Pride and Prejudice

Claudie Blakely, Brenda Blethyn, Judi Dench, Tom Hollander, Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Jena Malone, Sinead Matthews, Sylvester Morand, Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, Talulah Riley, Kelly Reilly, Jay Simpson, Donald Sutherland, Pip Torrens, Janet Whiteside and Simon Woods

Nominees in the big 4 categories + Documentary, cinematography and sound editing...

Hello My Bitchez

Firstly, an apology for not posting regularly-I've been both busy and lazy, but fear not, dear readers I will make the utmost effort to post every fucking day...

I've decided not to wait a decade to see the movies listed on the left and instead start posting my own ballot. Drumroll please...

THE 2005 ARUN AWARD (?) NOMINEES

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Amy Adams in Junebug

• Maria Bello in A History of Violence

• Maggie Gyllenhaal in Happy Endings

• Michelle Williams in Brokeback Mountain

and

• Ziyi Zhang in 2046

Honourabale Mentions to Catherine Keener in The 40 Year-Old Virgin and Capote, Juliane Köhler in Downfall and Shirely MacLaine in In Her Shoes

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• 2046 (Hong Kong) directed by Wong Kar-Wai
• Clean (France) directed by Olivier Assayas
• Downfall (Germany) directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
• The Forsaken Land (Sri Lanka) directed by Vimukthi Jayasundara
• The Holy Girl (Spain) directed by Lucrecia Martel

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Howl's Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• Tim Burton's Corpse Bride directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson
• Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were Rabbit directed by Steve Box and Nick Park

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• 2046, William Chang
• Capote, Kasia Walicka-Maimone
• The New World, Jacqueline West
• Pride and Prejudice, Jacqueline Durran
• Walk the Line, Arianne Phillips

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• 2046, Peer Raben and Shigeru Umebayashi
• Brokeback Mountain, Gustavo Santaolalla
• The Constant Gardener, Alberto Iglesias
• Me and You and Everyone We Know, Mike Andrews
• Pride and Prejudice, Dario Marianelli

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• Brokeback Mountain for the song 'A Love That Will Never Grow Old'
• The Constant Gardener for the song 'Dicholo'
• Crash for the song 'In the Deep'
• Hustle and Flow for the song 'It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp'
• TransAmerica for the song 'Travelin' Thru'

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• King Kong, Scott E. Anderson, Joe Letteri, George Murphy, Ben Snow, Marc Varisco, Shawn Dunn and Atsushi Sato
• Sin City, Robert Rodriguez
• War of the Worlds, Muren, Pablo Helman, Randal M. Outra and Daniel Sudick

More nominees tomorrow...

New Blogs, Kool, Nu Box, Idol and the Gang

First of all, this is Yanik-the man who takes all the photos of us..

Click on the pic to go to his photo blog

and this is Bugoy-you can click his pic to go to his blog: The Phat One

I wanted to post these in order to show you that seemingly everyone is catching the blogging bug- for that reason I'm not going to go into extreme detail over the Kool & the Gang concert since Yanik and Asvi have pretty much covered it. That said, the concert was awesome and it was fuckin' A getting in without being checked for a ticket and then climbing fences until we found ourselves smack in front of the stage. Great great night...

I started the week pretty good too, with the Nu Box show at Barefoot on Monday night. Avant-garde Jazz isn't anything I'm particularly crazy about but the show knocked me flat on my ass. A mix of well known hip-hop with Jazz instrumentals, it felt completely alive. The best way to describe it is to think of it as mash-ups of hip-hop with jazz. And you know I flipped out when they played M.I.A.

Finally, a couple of thoughts on everyone's favourite show American Idol... They announced the top 24 today and I thought I'd weigh in on my faves

Brenna: I love her..I do. If you don't then you just do not know what you're talking about- she's a star

Bucky: All throughout the episode I kept wondering if a good male country singer got in and I'm glad to see someone did. I don't know anything about him but I'm rooting for him and if he can muster the balls to sings some Hank Williams in the coming weeks I will worship him.

clockwise from top left: Heather, Kelly, Becky and Katharine

none of 'em strike me as particularly talented or even affable (except Kelly, who can't help but remind me of my beloved Amy Adams in Junebug) but slap my ass and call me Judy if they aren't hawt...

and

The young ones: Lisa and Gedeon are both really young (16 and 17, respectively) and really talented- though neither is bringing anything new to the table. She feels like a thousand other girls we've seen on this show and he's eerily similar to John Legend

Paris hasn't been bringing it quite like she did in her fan-fucking-tastic audition but I do love her

and, finally, the two I really wanna see win this thing

Taylor, who, despite the weird body-movements, continues to intrigue me and...

I ♥ Mandisa. So classy, so charismatic and so damn talented.

That's it for today, folks. Hope you've enjoyed yourselves and remember to check out the links on the sidebar. There's some great stuff just waiting for you to discover...