Oscar’s Comeback Nominees

Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream (top); Roman Polanski, Adrien Brody in The Pianist (middle); Diane Lane in Unfaithful (bottom)

Since the 1960s, nearly every year has had at least one Oscar comeback in the acting/directing categories. Some were veterans getting their first chance at the Oscars; others were Oscar veterans getting their first nod in years.
Below are a few examples in the last 10 years. As per this list, Oscar’s comeback veterans hardly ever win.

2005
William Hurt, nominated as best supporting actor for A History of Violence. Hurt has three previous best actor nominations; the last one in 1987 was for Broadcast News. He won in 1985 for Kiss of [...]

by Andre Soares | February 1, 2006   
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Oscar 2006: Nominations

The Academy Award nominations are in.
Brokeback Mountain (above, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) led the pack with 8 nods. Crash, Good Night and Good Luck., and Memoirs of a Geisha tied with six nominations each, while Munich and Capote received five nominations apiece. Of the aforementioned six films, the one left out of the best picture race was Memoirs of a Geisha.
Even though he’s not a film, George Clooney also received multiple nominations, three in all: best director and best original screenplay (with Grant Heslov) for Good Night and Good Luck., and a best supporting actor nod for Syriana. Clooney has just made Oscar history by becoming the first actor-director to be nominated for different films in [...]

by Andre Soares | January 31, 2006   
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New York Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2005 New York Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 12, 2005
 

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
 

Best Film: Brokeback Mountain
Best Foreign-Language Film: 2046 directed by Wong Kar Wai
Best Non-Fiction Film: Grizzly Man and The White Diamond directed by Werner Herzog
Best Animated Film: Hauru no ugoku shiro / Howl’s Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor: William Hurt, A History of Violence
Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Best Screenplay: Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
Best Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai, and Kwan Pun Leung, 2046
Best First Film: Bennett Miller, [...]

by Andre Soares | December 12, 2005   
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Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award winners: Dec. 10, 2005
 

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (top); Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche in Hidden (bottom). Noticeably absent from the L.A. Critics’ list of winners and runner-ups were King Kong, Munich, Match Point, Batman Begins, Paradise Now, The New World, and Memoirs of a Geisha. “We really did end up not going with anything big,” said Henry Sheehan, president of the L.A. Film Critics Association. “There was some support for King Kong for cinematography and production design, but there was almost nothing for Munich, maybe a couple of acting votes, but very scattered.”

 
Best Film: Brokeback Mountain
Runner-up: A History of Violence
Best Foreign-Language Film: Caché / [...]

by Andre Soares | December 10, 2005   
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