Sunday, March 05, 2006

Oscars

Zhang Ziyi just presented the best film editing award to Hughes Winborne for Crash. I didn't see all of her films, the ones that I saw, Rush Hour included, she did deliver some solid performance. I would say anything she got, she earned.
Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor in his title role for Capote.
Reese Witherspoon, Best Actress for Walk the Line.
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, won Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material previously produced or published for Brokeback Mountain.
Now the Best Director ... goes to Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain. The always humble and gracious Ang Lee, in closing, thanks everyone in Taiwan, Hong Hong, and China in Mandarin.
Best Motion Picture goes to ... Crash.
Brokeback got all the buzz but loses to Crash, it isn't totally unexpected but it is quite a surprise. In 2001, Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon won best foreign language film while Gladiator won Best Picture. If the pictures wins, the director loses, can't have it both ways.

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