ROTTEN TOMATOES: Online Film Critics Offer Their Annual Nominations

Online Film Critics Offer Their Annual Nominations

by Scott Weinberg | January 10, 2006

The OFCS, which is hosted right here at Rotten Tomatoes and (full disclosure) includes yours truly as a member, announced their year-end nominations yesterday ... and we hope you'll find a few solid surprises among the more familiar (yet obviously deserving) nominees. The winners will be announced on Monday the 16th.

BEST PICTURE

Brokeback Mountain
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck.
A History of Violence
Munich

BEST DIRECTOR

George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck.
David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Peter Jackson, King Kong
Steven Spielberg, Munich

BEST ACTOR

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck.

BEST ACTRESS

Joan Allen, The Upside of Anger
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice
Naomi Watts, King Kong
Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Matt Dillon, Crash
Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
William Hurt, A History of Violence
Mickey Rourke, Sin City

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Amy Adams, Junebug
Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Catherine Keener, Capote
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Woody Allen, Match Point
Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
George Clooney and Grant Heslov, Good Night, and Good Luck.
Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco, Crash
Jim Jarmusch, Broken Flowers

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Jeffrey Caine, The Constant Gardener
Dan Futterman, Capote
Tony Kushner & Eric Roth, Munich
Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain
Josh Olson, A History of Violence

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Christopher Doyle, Kwan Pun Leung and Yiu-Fai Lai, 2046
Robert Elswit, Good Night, and Good Luck.
Emmanuel Lubezki, The New World
Rodrigo Prieto, Brokeback Mountain
Robert Rodriguez, Sin City

BEST EDITING

Michael Kahn, Munich
Stephen Mirrione, Good Night, and Good Luck.
Robert Rodriguez, Sin City
Ronald Sanders, A History of Violence
Claire Simpson, The Constant Gardener

BEST MUSICAL SCORE

James Newton Howard, King Kong
James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer, Batman Begins
James Horner, The New World
Gustavo Santaolalla, Brokeback Mountain
John Williams, Munich

BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Aristocrats
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Grizzly Man
March of the Penguins
Murderball

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE (NON-ENGLISH) FILM

Cache
Downfall
Kung Fu Hustle
Oldboy
2046

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Howl's Moving Castle
Madagascar
Robots
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

BEST BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER

Judd Apatow, The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Craig Brewer, Hustle & Flow
Paul Haggis, Crash
Bennett Miller, Capote
Joe Wright, Pride & Prejudice

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER

Nathan Fillion, Serenity
Georgie Henley, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Tony Jaa, Ong-Bak : The Thai Warrior
Q'Orianka Kilcher, The New World
Owen Kline, The Squid and the Whale

Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society has been the key force in establishing and raising the standards for Internet-based film journalism. The OFCS membership spans the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Asia/Pacific Rim region, with journalists representing many of the most important online film-related sites including Salon, Slate, TV Guide Online, IndieWire, Netflix, Film Threat, eFilmCritic.com and the Internet Movie Database.

The Society's web site, which has been hosted since January 2001 by the highly influential film resource Rotten Tomatoes, provides the most comprehensive online listing of reviews and original interviews with the leading artists in today's cinema, plus links to the most important motion picture-related web sites.

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	March of the Penguins
	Downfall
	Kung Fu Hustle
	Junebug
	Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
	Batman Begins
	Good Night, And Good Luck
	Cach�
	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
	Serenity
	A History of Violence
	Murderball
	Transamerica
	The New World
	Munich
	The Squid and the Whale
	The 40-Year-Old Virgin
	The Upside of Anger
	Hustle & Flow
	Robots
	Grizzly Man
	Crash
	The Aristocrats
	Madagascar
	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
	Oldboy
	2046
	Broken Flowers
	Sin City
	Walk the Line
	Capote
	King Kong
	Pride & Prejudice
	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
	Cinderella Man
	Match Point
	The Constant Gardener
Celeb:	Heath Ledger
	William Hurt
	Tony Jaa
	Larry McMurtry
	Paul Haggis
	Robert Rodriguez
	James Horner
	Rachel Weisz
	Keira Knightley
	Mickey Rourke
	Bennett Miller
	Stephen Mirrione
	Christopher Doyle
	Jim Jarmusch
	Joaquin Phoenix
	Peter Jackson
	Ang Lee
	Craig Brewer
	John Williams
	Michael Kahn
	Josh Olson
	Robert Moresco
	Michelle Williams
	Owen Kline
	Terrence Howard
	Dan Futterman
	Noah Baumbach
	Matt Dillon
	Joan Allen
	Philip Seymour Hoffman
	Nathan Fillion
	Claire Simpson
	Robert Elswit
	Jeffrey Caine
	Amy Adams
	Reese Witherspoon
	David Strathairn
	Joe Wright
	Ronald Sanders
	Woody Allen
	Emmanuel Lubezki
	James Newton Howard
	David Cronenberg
	Judd Apatow
	Rodrigo Prieto
	Eric Roth
	Grant Heslov
	Catherine Keener
	Jake Gyllenhaal
	Felicity Huffman
	Steven Spielberg
	George Clooney
	Georgie Henley
	Hans Zimmer
	Tony Kushner
	Maria Bello
	Paul Giamatti
	Naomi Watts

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synergyred writes:
on Jan 10 2006 08:38 AM

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER

Nathan Fillion, Serenity

Go Nathan!

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StickyKiwi writes:
on Jan 10 2006 08:57 AM

[b]exit Syriana from the award season .....[/b]
I am glad to see that Syriana has been widely absence from a majority of the end-of-year honors. Calling the pre-release hype over-rated would be trite, but in the end the movie turned out to be a simplistic and unimaginitive (much like Crash, which I also did not like). Oil and the corruption behind it .... an imporatant topic, yes, but Syriana does not tell a complelling story (minus the kid who converts to Islam). As for the torture scene with Clooney, it was mild at best, and the direction & editing of that scene are another example of how poorly the movie's story is told: no supspense, no urgency, just routine.

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nogard64 writes:
on Jan 10 2006 08:58 AM

[b]hmmm[/b]
I'm liking it, I actually agree with most of those noms.

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bacci40 writes:
on Jan 10 2006 09:39 AM

[b]History of Violence[/b]
BOOYAHHHHH

comics related material has finally come of age....fan bois be proud.

But the score for Willy Wonka was left off....and I thought that was the best part of the movie

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lovelykeira writes:
on Jan 10 2006 11:49 AM

Way to nominate Sin City for a couple, being both good and truely original it deserves everything that it gets. I'm also happy that Crash, King Kong, Walk the Line, Cinderella Man, Batman Begins, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Downfall got some nods.

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IMAmoose24 writes:
on Jan 10 2006 12:48 PM

Really glad to see serenity making it onto there. Now what about Star Wars?...

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homeimp writes:
on Jan 10 2006 01:30 PM

[b]Online nominations - sins of omission and commisio[/b]
I am unsure just what Catherine Keener contributed to Capote. I can only surmise it was a nomination for her cumulative work during the year. If anyone can actually hum a theme from Gustavo Santoalallo's score for Brokeback Cowboy, I'd like to hear it. It's nice to see recognition for Joan Allen, Keira Knightley and Naomi Watts. Jake Gyllenhaal's is no more a supporting role than Paul Giamatti's sidekick in Sideways was last year. Compare Gyllenhaal's onscreen time with Keener's. I did not like Sin City, but it maybe did deserve nominations for cinematography and editing. Should have made the list - the score for Charlie, King Kong for Picture, Jeff Daniels and Russell Crowe for Best Actor, Ed Harris for S. Actor, Thandie Newton for S. Actress.

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