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Oscar 2006

2006 Academy Awards
2006 Academy Award nominations: January 31, 2006
2006 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on March 5, 2006
2006 Oscar Ceremony
2006 Oscar Nominations
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: © AMPAS
 

Best Film
Brokeback Mountain, Diana Ossana and James Schamus
Capote, Caroline Baron, William Vince, and Michael Ohoven
* Crash, Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman
Good Night and Good Luck., Grant Heslov
Munich, Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, and Barry Mendel

Best Foreign Language Film
La Bestia nel cuore / Don’t Tell (Italy)
Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas (France)
Paradise Now (Palestine)
Sophie Scholl – Die Letzten Tage / Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (Germany)
* Tsotsi (South Africa)

Best Documentary, Features
Darwin’s Nightmare, Hubert Sauper
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, [...]

Writers Guild Awards 2006

2006 Writers Guild Awards
2006 WGA Award winners: February 4, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (top); Matt Dillon in Crash (bottom)
 

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURE
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
CINDERELLA MAN, Screenplay by Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman, Story by Cliff Hollingsworth, Universal Pictures
* CRASH, Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco, Story by Paul Haggis, Lions Gate Films
THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, Written by Judd Apatow & Steve Carell, Universal Pictures
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, Written by George Clooney & Grant Heslov, Warner Independent Pictures
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, Written by Noah Baumbach, Samuel Goldwyn Films
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
* BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, Based on the Short Story by Annie Proulx, [...]

Producers Guild Awards 2006

2006 Producers Guild Awards
2006 Producers Guild of America’s Golden Laurel winners: January 22, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain
 

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURE
* BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Diana Ossana
James Schamus
CAPOTE
Caroline Baron
William Vince
Michael Ohoven
CRASH
Paul Haggis
Cathy Schulman
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK
Grant Heslov
WALK THE LINE
James Keach
Cathy Konrad
 
ANIMATED MOTION PICTURE
CHICKEN LITTLE
Randy Fullmer
MADAGASCAR
Mireille Soria
ROBOTS
Jerry Davis
John C. Donkin
William Joyce
TIM BURTON’S CORPSE BRIDE
Tim Burton
Allison Abbate
* WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
Claire Jennings
Nick Park
 
TELEVISION: LONG-FORM
EMPIRE FALLS (HBO)
INTO THE WEST (TNT)
LACKAWANNA BLUES (HBO)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Halle Berry
Vincent Cirrincione
Shelby Stone
Nellie Rachel Nugiel
* THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS (HBO)
Freddy DeMann
George Faber & Charles Pattinson
WARM SPRINGS (HBO)
Mark Gordon
Celia Costas
Chrisann Verges
 
TELEVISION SERIES: COMEDY
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT (FOX)
Ron Howard & Brian Grazer
David Nevins
Mitchell Hurwitz
John Levenstein
Richard [...]

Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Central Ohio Film Critics Association award winners: January 12, 2006
 

Viggo Mortensen, Mario Bello in A History of Violence
 
Best Film: A History of Violence
Runner-up: Brokeback Mountain
Others in the Top-Ten List:
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Good Night and Good Luck.
Munich
Murderball
Crash
Sin City
Pride & Prejudice
Batman Begins
Best Director: David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Runner-up: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Lead Performance: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Runner-up: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Supporting Performance: Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Runner-up: Amy Adams, Junebug
Actor of the Year: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain, Casanova, Lords of Dogtown, The Brothers Grimm
Runner up: Terrence Howard
Best Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain
Runner [...]

St. Louis Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards
2006 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association award winners: January 8, 2006
 

 

Best Film Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee
Runner-up: Good Night and Good Luck. by George Clooney
Best Foreign-Language Film Tsotsi (South Africa) by Gavin Hood
Runner-up: 2046 (China) by Wong Kar Wai
Best Documentary March of the Penguins by Luc Jacquet
Runner-up (tie): Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room by Alex Gibney, Mad Hot Ballroom by Marilyn Agrelo
Best Director Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Runner-up: George Clooney – Good Night and Good Luck.
Best Actor Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Runner-up: Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
Best Actress Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
Runner-up: Felicity Huffman – Transamerica
Best Supporting Actor George Clooney, Syriana
Runners-up (tie): Mickey Rourke – Sin City, [...]

Florida Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
2005 Florida Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 24, 2005
 

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
 

Best Film: Brokeback Mountain
Best Foreign-Language Film: Kung Fu Hustle by Stephen Chow
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Junebug
Best Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain
Best Documentary: Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog
Best Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto, Brokeback Mountain
Paul Kael Award for Breakthrough Performance: Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow, Crash, and Get Rich or Die Tryin’
 
Florida Film Critics [...]

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Awards and Nominations

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain

Unless otherwise stated, all awards/nominations for Brokeback Mountain are for the year 2005.
Academy Awards: 3 wins (best director, Ang Lee; best adapted screenplay, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana; best original score, Gustavo Santaolalla);

5 additional nominations (best film; best actor, Heath Ledger; best supporting actor, Jake Gyllenhaal; best supporting actress, Michelle Williams; best cinematography, Rodrigo Prieto)

American Cinema Editors: 1 nomination (best-edited dramatic feature, Geraldine Peroni and Dylan Tichenor)
American Society of Cinematographers: 1 nomination (best cinematography – feature film, Rodrigo Prieto)
Australian Film Institute (AFI) (2006): 1 win (best actor – foreign film, Heath Ledger)
Boston Society of Film Critics: 2 wins (best film; best director, Ang Lee);

also, runner-up for best actor (Heath Ledger)

British Academy Awards: [...]

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN II – Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Review: Part I
Much of the publicity surrounding Brokeback Mountain has focused on presenting Ledger and Gyllenhaal as hetero off-screen studs playing homo on-screen studs, as if "acting gay" — a couple of rough kissing scenes and a simulated sex act — is per se both a display of thespian courage and an example of great screen acting. Whatever those actors’ sexual orientation may be, perhaps it’s true that they have been brave to tackle those roles.
That said, in their scenes together Ledger and Gyllenhaal are utterly incapable of conveying, whether through a spark in the eye or a quivering in the voice, the passion that Ennis and Jack are supposed to feel for one another. The chemistry [...]

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