"Brokeback" rides off with 8 Oscar nominations

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - "Brokeback" rides off with 8 Oscar nominations

Posted: 1/31/2006 10:17:53 AM EDT

Well, there goes the 'Wild West'...

"Brokeback" rides off with 8 Oscar nominations
Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:26 AM ET

By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group of art house movies with serious social themes dominated the Academy Award nominations on Tuesday, led by the lovelorn cowboys of "Brokeback Mountain," which scored eight nominations including best film.

"Brokeback Mountain" has swept through early critics' and media awards and became the clear front-runner for the year's best film. It earned Oscar nominations for Ang Lee as best director, Heath Ledger as best actor, Jake Gyllenhaal as best supporting actor and Michelle Williams in the best supporting actress category.

Despite wowing critics, the media and now Oscar voters, "Brokeback" faces a pitched battle for best movie because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has never before given its top honor to a film with an overtly gay love story.

"I thought it was a small work of love," director Lee told Reuters. "I never thought it would play like this."

He added that he was particularly pleased at the number of nominations across all categories because so many of his actors and crew members had worked hard on the film.

Among the films challenging it are race relations drama "Crash," which has made a comeback in the Oscar hunt after failing to win big at the Golden Globe Awards, and George Clooney's "Good Night, and Good Luck," a tale of newsman Edward R. Murrow's attack on McCarthyism in the 1950s.

Both of those movies had six nominations apiece, and "Good Night" earned David Strathairn, who plays Murrow, a nomination for best actor.

Also on the list for best film were "Capote," which tells of writer Truman Capote's manipulation of a murder defendant for his book, "In Cold Blood," and Steven Spielberg's "Munich," about the moral price Israel paid for going after people who killed their athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

"Capote" and "Munich" both scored five nominations each. The nominations mark something of a comeback for "Munich," which earned mixed reviews, small audiences and had seemed to fade from the Oscar race in recent weeks.

"It is a great group of nominees. It is the year of the really good movie," said Academy President Sid Ganis.

LOSERS & WINNERS Continued ...

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Posted: 1/31/2006 10:19:17 AM EDT

[#1]

I hear it's up for some Woodies too.

Posted: 1/31/2006 10:20:18 AM EDT

[#2]

I wonder if they'll have to use the back entrance into the building.

Posted: 1/31/2006 10:21:31 AM EDT

[#3]

yee haw. this movie moved me.

Posted: 1/31/2006 10:25:12 AM EDT

[#4]

And yet, "Hollywood" doesn't understand why why their audience base keeps growing smaller.

Posted: 1/31/2006 10:26:26 AM EDT

[#5]

No love for Narnia huh?

I guess that you just can't make it in Hollywood anymore unless you are up with Sodomites.

And the movie industry wonders why people don't go the movies anymore.

Posted: 1/31/2006 10:27:36 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Despite wowing critics, the media and now Oscar voters, "Brokeback" faces a pitched battle for best movie because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has never before given its top honor to a film with an overtly gay love story.

homo-loving hollywood is pitching a tent for this movie

Posted: 1/31/2006 10:28:12 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
And yet, "Hollywood" doesn't understand why why their audience base keeps growing smaller.

Not that I usually watch actors congratulate themselves, but I will definitely be boycotting this year's show. I also will not click on any links that would indicate an interest in the Oscars or that hideous movie.

Posted: 1/31/2006 10:35:04 AM EDT

[#8]

Two cowboys in this here bar:

Dusty: "I figger "Brokewhatever Mt" gettin' all them Best Pitcher awards hurt the Oscars-show ratings this year."

Jake: "Hurt 'em? Hell, it RECTUM!!!"

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