The ones that have stars * next to them are the ones i predicted

*Best Picture: Crash
*Best actor: Phillip seymour hoffman
*Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon
Best supporting actor: George Clooney
*Best supporting actress: Rachel Weisz
Best Dierctor: Ang Lee
Best Cinematography: Memoirs of a Geisha
*Best Art Direction: Memoirs of a Geisha
*Best Costume Design: Memoirs of a Geisha
*Best Documentary: March of the Penguins
*Best Film Editing: Crash
*Best Original Score: Brokeback Mountain
*Best sound mixing: King Kong
Best Sound editing: King Kong
*Best Visual Effects: King Kong
Best Adapted Screenplay: Brokeback Mountain
*Best Original Screenplay: Crash

Biggest surprise: Best Song: "Its hard out here for a Pimp"- Hustle and Flow
I thought "In the Deep"-Crash was beautiful

I'm the biggest dork i know. if i find someone more geeky than i am, that'll be it for me.

Im very pleased with the outcome this year!!!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

'crash' is the worst movie i've ever seen to win best picture. good lord.

Crash. YES!
Thank God the most over-rated film of all-time did not win...Brokeback Mountain.

My night was a happy one since Crash won over BM AND I won the big prize at our Oscar party for the most points: 2 free movie tickets and a box of Junior Mints. Hooray for me!

But the icing on the cake would've been Amy Adams in a win for "June Bug." What was so damn special about Rachel Weisz?

Anyway, overall a good night.
Jon Stewart was fine. nothing special, but good. He was good at making some stuff up as he went along. Improv is a good thing at the Oscars. Tired and gotta go to bed. Peace.

-Drewbacca
moviepatron.com

the most overrated picture of the year DID win best picture, Drew.

All 5 of these movies didn't do anything for me.

Brokeback was and is the most overrated film of all time.

ur a GOON

This was the first Oscar show that I failed to watched a single second of since 1984. Instead I watched "Serenity" again last night and went to bed early.

I cant watch the oscars live since its such a bore. So i watched it off TiVo last night and here's my thought on the show and dougs audio edition.

- don't use a music bed with vocals

- john stewart was good but for a hollywood crowd he was much too intelligent. alot of good riffs went over peoples heads

- why is jennifer lopez presenting anything or even allowed to sit anywhere near the front. shouldnt you be in a good movie to get these honors? same goes for jeniffer aniston but with less hatred.

- king kong was NOT good enough to win since it had a ton of bad visuals. star wars was great visuals from start to finish so this was rediculous.

- ben stiller wouldve been great if they exposed the joke early and just had him stuck finishing the presentation in a green bodysuit. the crowd was confused on whether it was real or not. john stewart once again made a great line that got no laughs with "nice unitard. now theres no question as to whether he's jewish"

- the rap guys accepting is a glimpse to the future of the oscars. pretty soon MTV will be called in to "energize" the awards and taking out whatever class is left in the oscars.

- it was just another night of giving awards to people who didnt necessarily deserve it this year. Over the last few years the oscars really are meaning less and less.

You know, I actuallt liked the oscars this year. I didn't see a lot of the movies, but it was entertaining. My favorite thing that happened was this-

"For all of you that are keeping score at home, here. Martin Scorcese-no oscars. 3 6 Mafia-one.(laughs are heard)"-Jon Stewart.

And the opening was funny, too.

I was very happy for Crash! This deserved the award for best picture in my opinion. But, Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar?!?!?! THE HELL! I actually like them (I have all their albums..) but what the hell, an Oscar?? Whats the world coming to?! I agree with the MTV comment..them winning is totally absurd.

Oh well, added that extra twist to the Oscars..

Just saw Walk The Line last Saturday and I didn't think that Reese Witherspoon's performance is Oscar worthy. It was an alright but nothing special. It didn't give me that "wow" when watching.

I haven't seen any of the other nominee's movies so I can't say who should have won, but for me not Reese.

Goon,

How was Crash overrated? It generated very little buzz. No one saw it in the theater and it generated only about $50 million world-wide and critically speaking, it had far less positive reviews than did Brokback.

Brokeback is ALL anyone in the movie industry has been talking about for months. Brokeback this, Brokeback that. It's become a running joke and even the word Brokeback now is part of our lexicon to mean anything feminine or gay. And when the movie just doesn't even come close to living up to the hype, that's over-rated.

Crash is a far better film overall (cause I said so) and no one really talked about it much. It is far from over-rated. In fact, I think it's under-rated. I think more people should see this film and I think they will be moved and intirgued. Not to mention the burning car scene was one of the most intense scenes of the year. I'll stop babbling now. Bye!

-Drewbacca
moviepatron.com

Best Song...

Everyone is actting surprised 36 Mafia won, but I am just surprised Dolly Parton did not, I had not even heard it until she sang it last night and I was amazed, I thought hands down she has it.

Further more, Im also not surprised a rap song won, rap can be good, but this Pimp song...um not good, I just cant see voting Academey members bobbing their heads to this song, now 8 Mile, that was worthy, this however was not.

Weird night to say the least.

Smot

"How was Crash overrated?"

its in the IMDB top 100. that alone justifies it for 'overrated' consideration. while it was around 77% on the tomatometer, those that did give it good reviews were overly enthusiastic about it. See Ebert's endless campaigning for it, for example.

in all of Crash's performances, only a few i'd even consider 'good' (ie. Cheadle) - the film is way more pretentious than other films also accused of such (ie American Beauty, Magnolia) in its message, its heavy handed, cheesy, cliched, overwrought. its phony. it never rings true anywheres at all. and oh jesus, everytime the "passion"-esque soundtrack swells up, the cue that you're watching something really deep and meaningful, i just wanted to puke.

I'd rather sit through 10 showings of Dukes of Hazzard before ever seeing Crash again.

( i keep going )

the thing about Crash is its a message movie first and a film second, and a far second at that. is the cinematography, editing, sound, acting, any of this truly great? not by any stretch at all. most of the cast are b-list and their performances reflect it.

Haggis bashes you with the message, not that theres anything wrong with the message itself, from frame 1, and doesnt let go. every single scene and story is meant to have a contrived ironic ending where it seems he's basically screaming at you through the screen "GET IT? GET IT? SEE! SEE!" - its condescending, and i wonder how many people who are into it love it just because they think it will change stupid people. Theres more depth in "Its Hard Out Here for a Pimp" than Crash.

I wonder how the hell anyone could have been shocked or surprised at any of the twists and turns and misdirection when they keep happening OVER and OVER. If people were looking for a movie with an actual message that has enough respect for the viewer not to smack you in the face with its own ambition, the Constant Gardner would have been nominated in its place. Now theres a movie thats both competently made, amazingly acted from both leads and its support, has actual surprises, intrigue, a real score, an original soundtrack, and a unique take since it was directed by the maker of City of God, and thus put more of a focus on the people of Africa than the book did. but no, the wannabe Traffic Readers Digest "Racism is Bad" movie will forever be known as the best of the year, in a year when there were more good and relevant dramas than usual. Syriana, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, all of these other movies had so much more to say..

Crash is a good movie. It was considered the best of summer 2005 by Entertainment Weekly. I understand some complaints, but the fact is, Crash is a good movie, just that there are people who disagree.

You think Batman Begins is a good movie (I sure as hell do)? Sure, the only flaw people pick at is Katie Holmes, but there are reviewers who think this film has more flaws than casting. Hell, Titanic has a fair amount of critics that think the film is over-rated, DESPITE being the top grossing film ever. There are also people bashing The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, nearly EVERY film.

You also think Bryan Singer is a bad choice for Superman? Let's have Jon Peters (from Wild Wild West) take creative control, get either Michael Bay or Tim Burton (with all due respect) as director, TRASH his comic origin, AND CAST JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE AS THE MAN OF STEEL. Complain all you want, but Singer has enough power from making this as crappy as ANY UWE BOLL FILM (if I said it once, I said it a thousand times; IT WAS GOING TO BE THAT BAD)!!!

The fact is, Crash is a good movie. Best Picture or not, it is still good! Sure, it has flaws, but don't assume shit about, "Ooh, the director wanted to do this, he was forcing that," cause that's not the case. You don't like the film, more power to ya. All good films have a divided audience.

Remember that.

Look Mr. Goon might be just a bit upset with Crash winning Best Picture because he's a closet Brokeback Mountain fan.

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i wouldnt consider Crash a good movie even if it was a direct to dvd release that got completely overlooked. by any standard i feel it is a bad film.

"All good films have a divided audience."

thats a nice cop-out to actually avoid debating any points i make against it.

i havent seen Brokeback Mountain, but if i did and wanted it to win i certainly wouldnt be in the closet about it. is liking Brokeback something to be ashamed of to you?

I thought Crash was quite a good movie. Movie of the year? No... but a solid movie nonetheless. Gerat pace, good interweiving story lines, fantastic performances by everyone except Thandie Newton and EXCELLENT dialog (the best part of the film).

But it's all subjective. I can understand someone NOT likeing it at the sametime

~John

The only award i really gave a shit about this year was Best Actor. And i am glad Phillip Seymour Hoffman won. Although Terrance Howard kicked much ass in Hustle and Flow. Hard to care about the Oscars on a whole because i haven't seen most of the movies nominated for anything. Not out of lack of desire, but out of lack of TIME.... and the fact they released most of these in limited release right around the end of the year. All of this has been discussed in much detail lately so i want blather on about it. But running my own business and raising a family really limits me to wait for DVD on everything. GAR!

I find it quite interesting, Mr. George "Clueless" Clooney, that Hollywood/The Academy is "brave enough" to tackle issues like civil rights....

Wow.... This being said on a night where the best picture was given to a film where blacks are portrayed as car-jacking thugs...The best original song went to a rap group that wrote a "song" titled "it's hard out here for a pimp"....

As always Clueless, you're uninformed, over-rated and frankly, so full of shit....yet no one in the mainstream media (all being wet for you) will call you on it.

Hey Jagmir,

You usually leave really good comments... but I've got to take exception to your last one. If all you saw in crash was "blacks are portrayed as car-jacking thugs"... then you didn't pay attention to the movie at all.

And are you suggesting that the film inustry HASN'T been a major purponent on civil rights? Are you REALLY saying that? If so, I'm dying to see you back that up.

Not trying to be a smart ass here (although I'm usually pretty good at that), I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from on this one.

Cheers.

~John

Goon,

I can totally understand someone not liking Crash. But I don't think it's a bad film by any stretch. It's thought provoking and no, I didn't think it was predictable. When I was watching it, I will confess, I wasn't thinking "wow; this is going to win best picture this year." But I loved the cast, loved the dialogue and thought the scenes were totally intense.

Sure it was a message movie, but it was also fun to watch. Brokeback was boring. Nothing ever happened. In Crash, something was always happening to keep our interest.

I'm tired of typing about it. You can not like it, but you're just not going to convince me it was more over-rated than B. Mountain. The Brokeback media buzz was just way too big. Crash was mostly an underground film and no one saw it til it came out on DVD.

-Drewbacca
moviepatron.com

It's the irony John, that's my point. Yes, only two of the blacks were portrayed in that way, but the fact that those characters existed at all shows some hypocrisy no?

I actually liked Crash, but it was made because it has obvious market-potential. Look, I'm hispanic and Hollywood really does not go out of their way to address hispanic issues and tragedies. Why? Because of $$$$$. Studies show that more blacks go to the movies, rent DVDs than hispanics. My point: Hollywood is disingenuous about their motives (most of them at least). Racism sells, period. Nothing stirs up people more than racial tensions in the movies.

Crash...best picture. 'Nuff said.

Goon, it was a good advice AND a nice cop-out. The last thing I want is to flam on The Movie Blog with no end in sight. I don't have enough time for that. Besides, I do remember our freedom of speech. All I'm saying is the movie is good and I like it. I have no big problem against you not liking Crash.

You know what, I love sitting back and listening to you guys bitch back and forth over the controversial subjects and who "Should have won" all the awards. it's just movies, guys. learn to take a break. This is why the kids choice awards are more entertaining, because it's not so saturated with know-it-alls.

This coming from someone who watches Alien Vs Predator and Dumb and Dumberer every time they come on.

EXACTLY! Instead of arguing over what happened, let's focus more on certain movies that haven't been released [in theaters] yet.

I think Goon is really just trying to go against everyone becuase he is trying not to be a part of something majority agrees with and is using anything to justify himself including his statements of him rather watching dukes of hazard 10 times than crash and even if crash was a straight to dvd movie he still wouldnt give it an ounce of credit. i think Goon is being a TOTAL GOON and is being very ignorant. i have met people who didnt think it was the best movie but no one who goes that far fetched on making a point of hatred across on the internet and if you ask me, i think its an attention thing just like punks and goths.
i mean how can you really disrespect a topic like crash?

"I think Goon is really just trying to go against everyone becuase he is trying not to be a part of something majority agrees with"

i'm one of the reviewers for spacejunk.org - if you saw my reviews there you'd see i'm anything but a troll that just tries to go against the grain. the last major oscar motion picture i was against the grain for was Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and not to this degree. I also did not enjoy Munich, however I don't hate it anywhere near as much as 'crash'.

"i mean how can you really disrespect a topic like crash?"

theres nothing wrong with a topic like crash, but theres the big problem. Crash became a 'topic', not a film. you could address the points i brought up against the film, but instead you're browbeating me for not being in the majority.

Goon, BBM is 10 times the topic movie Crash ever will be

i havent seen BBM yet, but even if that were true, that doesnt change the fact that Crash is a 'topic' movie first and a film far second. i'm sure at the very least BBM will actually have a little something called character development, with its characters acting beyond overly broad stereotypes.

Crash sucked. What exactly was the message of this "message movie?" Is it that it snows in LA at the end of a shitty movie? Does it say "We tried to be an opus movie like Magnolia (where it rained frogs in the end), Traffic, or Short Cuts but came up short? Is it that racism is the last topic that these rich and sheltered directors, actors (minus a few), and producers know anything about?

Please help. I didn't get a single "message" from this movie, except that in Crash's world, everyone is so goddamn racist that people of different races cannot even conduct normal day-to-day business with each other. If Crash's world was actually our world instead of some director's fantasy idea of the race problem, our country and many others simply would not exist. Maybe it was meant to be an exaggeration......but still, the character development, the pivotal events, and the twists are so sloppily crafted that, in the end, no one even knows where the characters stand or what the movie is really trying to say.

Oh wait I got the message now, "Make a movie about one of the most sensitive topics in modern society, add some pseudo-clever twists and lots of A-list actors, and you can win Best Picture."

Maybe a Troma movie will win next year.

"You all have forgotten to percieve properly" -Bill Hicks in response to the hype behind "Basic Instinct"

That's your opinion. I don't have a problem with that. I liked the movie, but I do notice that the movie isn't perfect (or "good enough") for everyone.

Forget opinions. This is about the Oscars, which are supposed to be the leading authority on evaluating motion pictures. The Oscars set the standard for who will get more work and what kind of movies will come out in the future. This is what we are concerned about. Opinions do not matter. The future of artistic intergrity does.

Like I said, I have no problem with what you're saying, just that there are some people who may disagree with you, but that doesn't matter.

No neil, the oscar winning formula is this. You should at least one of the following things in your movie.

1. gays
2. parapalegics
3. racists
4. the mentally challenged
5. poor, homeless, or diseased individuals
6. a historic figure
7. war

if you could put all these things in a movie, you'd win at least 1 oscar!

I just still cannot beleive that "It's hard out here for a pimp" won best original song. What in the world were they thinking? How in the world did that happen? I'm so lost.

I can't understand why is Drew so against Brokeback.It has good as well as bad aspects.We shouldn't say it was under rated only because it was queer.I think only lesbians could not agree with Ang Lee.

Drew
U should not be moviepatron if u're one-sided single-minded stubborn enough to refuse the weak points of a film "crash".U have to admit it has flaws too.

OSCAR: Well that’s it for me. No longer will I even think or even contemplate the outcome of the OSCARS. It just isn’t worth my time or trouble. This year 2006 was the worst year for movies nominated for the golden statue that I can recall.

What ever happened to the movies of years gone by? When did we get so involved with homosexuality, murder, rape and robberies? What are we doing as a society that every movie to be “GOOD”, must be based either on smut, terror, crime or the lowest form of human endeavors?

“Talk to the Animals” from the original “Doctor Dolittle” staring Rex Harrison was the song picked over four others which were up for the golden idle in 1967. I wonder how many people actually have the song in their collections. The song was picked by the so-called academy over “The Look of Love”. It has been thirty-nine years and I still enjoy hearing the look of love, but have never heard the winner played on the radio. This year however, the “Academy”, decided to nominate a piece of “smut”, that most people in their right mind would not even call music and would make “Talk to the Animals” a classic in it’s own right.
I have heard it called a lot of things. The best has been “poetry set to a beat”. The worst is “Rap Crap”. No one to my knowledge has ever called it music. Taking this type of sound that was probably popular 500,000 years ago, by “Gork and the Log Beaters” and bringing it into the 21st century is a move that will take another thousand years to repair.
The individuals who nominated, wrote and preformed “It’s hard Out Here to be a Pimp” should be in the courtroom next door to Saddam Hussein on trial for crimes against humanity.
People complained a few years back about their little girls singing the lyrics to “Madonna’s”, “Like a Virgin”. Can you imagine a cute little girl playing with her dolls, singing It’s hard to be a pimp out here?
If you missed the award show, which many people did this year (lowest ratings in years), the other songs weren’t much better. Even Dolly Parton’s song "Travelin' Through," from the movie "Transamerica," was based on a movie about a man who wanted to have an operation to be a woman.
What is it about us as a group of people that there are no stories left to be told that don’t involve the dregs of society. I’m not homophobic; as I just don’t care what the people of the world do behind their closed doors, as it is none of my business, however when they drag it out into the sunlight and display it as Art, then expect us at the viewing public to spend our hard earned money to watch it, I’m in awe of their stupidity.
I just thank God that he took John Wayne prior to this year. I pretty sure that “The Duke” would have boycotted the Oscars when he found one of the nominated movies was about two gay cowboys, sorry “sheepboys” who were in love with each other. Just imagine what the writers of “Brokeback Mountain” could have accomplished with “Red Rider and Little Beaver”, in the story “Those Wide Open Spaces?”

What will we be presented with next, a sitcom about homosexuals on “Death Row”, or Gay Astronauts using a space station as a gay lovers hideaway? If it weren’t so sad, it might even be funny.
In my younger days nobody would dare to admit to coming out of the closet and admitting they were queer. There was no connotation of “gay” in those days. An individual who chose that “lifestyle” was either a “queer” or a “fagot”.
Gay rights not withstanding, what ever happened to the “Basic human rights” of the rest of us? Lucky for all of us we are not compelled to watch, or listen to any of the crap, which is produced in Hollywood under the guise of entertainment.
Anonymous, due to the possibility of being chased down and smothered by the pimps and the “girls”.