Awards
Page Index
* OSCAR coverage here
'05 FiLM BiTCH
Awards
by
Nathaniel
R
These pages contains some SPOILERS regarding the year's
films
Special Categories: Extras / Extras 2 / Scenes 1 / Scenes 2 (Tally of Noms) / Movie Mixers (Poll Games)
Best
Kiss
pucker
up. they're here
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Takuya
Kimura & Faye Wong 2046 |
Jake
Gyllenhaal & Heath Ledger Brokeback Mountain |
Connie
Nielsen & Nikolaj Lie Kaas Brothers |
Terrence
Howard & Taraji P Henson Hustle & Flow |
Joaquin
Phoenix & Reese Witherspoon Walk the Line |
Can
androids love? In 2046 anything seems possible. |
First
hesistant. Later caution thrown aside as a wife looks on. |
Grief
transforming unfriendly in-laws into a new friendship. |
Shug and DJay seek solace in each other as major changes approach. |
The
whole film is like one delayed makeout. Great chemistry. |
Finalists:
Colin
Farrell & Q'Orianka Kilcher The New World
* Brad
Pitt & Angelina Jolie in Mr & Mrs Smith
* Russell Crowe & Renée Zellweger Cinderella
Man * |
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Best
Sex/Love Scene
lets
get drrrty
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| Tony
Leung & Ziyi Zhang 2046 |
Jake
Gyllenhaal & Heath Ledger Brokeback Mountain |
Rachel
Weisz & Ralph Fiennes The Constant Gardener |
Birol
Ünel & Sibel Kelkilli Head On |
Maria
Bello & Viggo Mortenson A History of Violence |
Lots
of sex from Mr. Chow, but he's no longer in the mood for
love. |
From
rough to tender -young ranchhands falling into each other. |
Beautifully
shot romance --a romance with a lot of questions. |
Head
on indeed. Self-destructive souls finding and losing a new
love. |
From
tender to rough -a confused but eroticized marriage. |
Finalists:
Colin
Farrell & Q'Orianka Kilcher fall in poetic love in The
New World * The kinky full-lipped glory of
Jonathan Rhys Meyers & Scarlett Johansson in Match
Point * |
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Best
Musical Number from a Musical Film
the
showstoppers are
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Producers "I Want to Be a Producer" |
The
Producers "Springtime for Hitler" |
Rent "La Vie Boheme" |
Tim
Burton's Corpse Bride The Piano Duet |
Walk
the Line "Folsom Prison Blues" |
Susan
Strohman sure can stage a musical number, can't she? I don't
even like the song and I was totally with it. |
This
number nets the stage version's biggest laugh. Not quite as
funny here but still pleasingly over-the-top tasteless tacky. |
The
best moment didn't get screwed up! Mostly because its hard
to screw up. Makes you wish you were partying with them. |
Some
numbers in Corpse Bride are a shade too manic, so
this quiet and hugely charming moment pays off in sharp affecting
constrast. |
This
cliche ridden 'artist finding his voice' sequence really shouldn't
work. But boy does it. You can't wait to hear it again. |
 Finalists:
"I'll
Cover You" Jesse L Martin --Oh can that man
sing. Best vocal performance of the year despite the disappointing
film version of Rent surrounding him * Any
of the musical sequences in Walk the Line,
really. Gotta love Reese & Joaquin as June & Johnny.
This movie would have been even better if it had just been
a concert film ;) *Semi-Finalists: "When You Got It, Flaunt it" Uma letting down her hair in The Producers. So good to see actors having fun onscreen * The "Tango Maureen" in Rent is blessedly free of Chris Columbus's constant reaction shot cutting since it's a fantasy sequence. Who would be looking at it other than you? So you, the audience, actually get to watch the damn thing instead of watching people watch it. What a concept. * "Welcome Song" The first musical moment in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory is the best. Knowingly weirdo and better yet, it doesn't outstay its welcome. |
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Best
Musical Sequence from a Non-Musical Film
the
transfiguring moments are
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| Happy
Endings "How Lucky Am I?" |
Hustle
& Flow "I Told Jesus" |
Hustle
& Flow "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" |
Junebug George's Hymn |
Pride
& Prejudice Darcy & Elizabeth dance |
The
reveal of Maggie's pipes is deeply pleasurable --as is this
performance. Record a whole album, Maggie! |
The
scene that basically kicks off the entire plot --revealing
the musical love and dreams within. Love the tears. |
Very
much a movie construct, all these hoes and pimps with sudden
moving talent. But still --you can't help but love it. |
The most indelible sequence in a movie that catches you offguard
with discovery...just like this hymn that the wife witnesses. |
An
old hoary gimmick: erase or blur out crowds to spotlight a
couple. Still. Everything about this setpiece works. |
Finalists:
None. |
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Best
Action Sequence
the
armrest grippers are
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 "Braddock
vs. Baer"Cinderella Man Action-fillled climaxes, even when you know how they're going to turn out, ought to feel like they just might not go your way. This bout was impressively visceral for such a soft film. |
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"Front
Yard Bloodbath" A History of Violence Cronenberg's mastery is in ample evidence here. Super tense scene with complicated points of view, and explosive moments. Its both satisfying and sickening simultaneously. |
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"T-Rexes
Vs. Kong" King Kong I fear Kong's overlong and back-to-back-to-back setpieces may prophesy a downward turn in Jackson's films. But it's hard to quibble with this one: scary, inventive --hugely satisfying. |
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"Bar
Fight Betting" Ong Bak: Thai Warrior This movie's entire budget wouldn't pay for 60 seconds of a setpiece in a Hollywood event picture. But the fight choreography and Jaa's physicality are better special effects than you can buy. |
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"General
Grevious Attacks" Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith Much as I dislike the new SWs, the force is usually with at least one moment an episode. I was a starry eyed kid again when General Grievous whipped out not one but four lightsabers. |
Finalists:
Ong
Bak: Thai Warrior -pick a scene, any scene.
No seriously. It's all exuberantly fun to watch with frequent
jaw-dropping moves. I only picked the bar fight as top of
the heap because it's the one I remember most vividly. *
King
Kong atop
"The
Empire State Building" was pure iconic
magic *
Kung Fu Hustle all kind of bleeds together for
me action wise but I got quite a kick out of "the reveal"
of the legendary fighters living drab lives in the once-quiet
town now under seige. * |
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Traditional
Oscar categories:
Majors
/
Technicals
/ Technicals 2 (Tally of Noms)
Special Categories: Extras
/ Extras 2
/ Scenes 1 / Scenes
2 (Tally of Noms)
