December 4, 2005

Best of 2005 as of December 1

I thought I'd do a little rundown of my favourites from 2005 as of December 1. I obviously haven't seen quite a few films due to release dates for Australia (example, Walk The Line gets released here February 2...?!). But now I can actually make semi-quasi-decent looking lists of candidates. Quite a few of these will pop up in the proper end-of-year lists. However, for me, that list is not even complete by Oscar time in March (again, release dates), so...

Best Picture:
The Constant Gardener
Mysterious Skin
Look Both Ways
Pride & Prejudice
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Director:
Greg Araki - Mysterious Skin
Wong Kar-Wai - 2046
Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener
Christopher Nolan - Batman Begins
Sarah Watt - Look Both Ways

Best Actress:
Joan Allen - Upside of Anger
Cate Blanchett - Little Fish
Justine Clarke - Look Both Ways
Miranda July - Me & You & Everyone We Know
Keira Knightley - Pride & Prejudice

Best Actor:
Ralph Fiennes - The Constant Gardener
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Mysterious Skin
William McInnes - Look Both Ways
Tony Leung - 2046
Alex O'Loughlin - Oyster Farmer

Best Supporting Actress:
Sandra Bullock - Crash
Noni Hazlehurst - Little Fish
Thandie Newton - Crash
Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
Zhang Ziyi - 2046

Best Supporting Actor:
Kevin Costner - The Upside of Anger
Matt Dillon - Crash
John Jarratt - Wolf Creek
Bill Sage - Mysterious Skin
Hugo Weaving - Little Fish

Best Original Screenplay:
Little Fish
Look Both Ways
Melinda & Melinda
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
You & Me & Everyone We Know

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Batman Begins
The Constant Gardener
In Her Shoes
Mysterious Skin
Pride & Prejudice

Best Cinematography:
2046
The Constant Gardener
Crash
Last Days
Pride & Prejudice

Best Production Design/Art Direction:
2046
Batman Begins
Charlie & the Chocolate Factor
Pride & Prejudice
Sin City

Best Costume Design:
2046
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Pride & Prejudice
The Proposition
Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith

Best Editing:
The Constant Gardener
Crash
Look Both Ways
Mysterious Skin
Pride & Prejudice

Best Visual Effects:
Batman Begins
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Sin City

Best Make Up:
2046
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Sin City

Best Original Score:
2046
Crash
Pride & Prejudice
Sin City
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Original Song: (of those that I have heard)
Corpse Bride - The Wedding Song
Crash - "Sense of Touch"
Drawing Restraint 9 - "Storm"
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - "Magic Works"
Last Days - "Death to Birth"

Best Sound Design:
2046
Last Days
The Proposition
War of the World
Wolf Creek

Best Sound Editing:
Look Both Ways
Mr & Mrs Smith
War of the World

Best Foreign Language Film:
2046 (China/Hong Kong)
Howl's Moving Castle (Japan)
Yesterday (South Africa)

Best Australian Film:
The Hidden History of Homosexual Australia
Little Fish
Look Both Ways
Oyster Farmer
Wolf Creek

Best Animated/Mixed Media Film:
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Howl's Moving Castle
Look Both Ways
Sin City
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Worst Picture:
Elektra
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Illustrated Family Doctor
Oldboy
The Ring Two

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