The Academy Awards (Oscars) telecast will be this Sunday, March 5, at 8pm Eastern and 5pm Pacific on ABC. The host is Jon Stewart. As always, valuable MacRumors bragging rights are up for grabs based on who makes the best prediction of the winners.
Some people prefer other games to Oscar-guessing, preferring to avoid all the silliness over celebrity gossip, backroom dealing, who's wearing what, etc., but for those of us who are interested in the game, here is this year's contest.
Previous MacRumors Predict the Oscars contests:There are 54 nominated movies this year (by coincidence, the same number as last year), with a total of 109 nominations over the 24 Oscar categories. They have not yet added a snowboarding category.
Here's how to vote:
You are welcome to post other discussion about the Oscars too, here or in the previous discussion thread. However, please make it clear which movies you think will win, even if you also comment on which movies should win, so I can tell which you voted for in the contest.
See also the Bafta Award Winners thread.
Good luck!
--- MacRumors Oscar Ballot ---
Best Actor: Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote
Best Actor: David Strathairn for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Actor: Terrence Howard for Hustle & Flow
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line
Best Actress: Judi Dench for Mrs. Henderson Presents
Best Actress: Charlize Theron for North Country
Best Actress: Keira Knightley for Pride & Prejudice
Best Actress: Felicity Huffman for Transamerica
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line
Best Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana for Brokeback Mountain
Best Adapted Screenplay: Dan Futterman for Capote
Best Adapted Screenplay: Jeffrey Caine for The Constant Gardener
Best Adapted Screenplay: Josh Olson for A History of Violence
Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony Kushner and Eric Roth for Munich
Best Animated Feature Film: Hayao Miyazaki for Howl's Moving Castle
Best Animated Feature Film: Tim Burton and Mike Johnson for Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Best Animated Feature Film: Nick Park and Steve Box for Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best Animated Short Film: Shane Acker for 9
Best Animated Short Film: Sharon Colman for Badgered
Best Animated Short Film: John Canemaker and Peggy Stern for The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Best Animated Short Film: Anthony Lucas for The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
Best Animated Short Film: Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews for One Man Band
Best Art Direction: Jim Bissell and Jan Pascale for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Art Direction: Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillan for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Best Art Direction: Grant Major, Dan Hennah, and Simon Bright for King Kong
Best Art Direction: John Myhre and Gretchen Rau for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer for Pride & Prejudice
Best Cinematography: Wally Pfister for Batman Begins
Best Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto for Brokeback Mountain
Best Cinematography: Robert Elswit for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Cinematography: Dion Beebe for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki for The New World
Best Costume Design: Gabriella Pescucci for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Best Costume Design: Colleen Atwood for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell for Mrs. Henderson Presents
Best Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran for Pride & Prejudice
Best Costume Design: Arianne Phillips for Walk the Line
Best Director: Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
Best Director: Bennett Miller for Capote
Best Director: Paul Haggis for Crash
Best Director: George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Director: Steven Spielberg for Munich
Best Documentary Feature: Hubert Sauper for Darwin's Nightmare
Best Documentary Feature: Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Best Documentary Feature: Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau for March of the Penguins
Best Documentary Feature: Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro for Murderball
Best Documentary Feature: Marshall Curry for Street Fight
Best Documentary Short Subject: Dan Krauss for The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
Best Documentary Short Subject: Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman for God Sleeps in Rwanda
Best Documentary Short Subject: Steven Okazaki for The Mushroom Club
Best Documentary Short Subject: Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson for A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
Best Film Editing: Mike Hill and Dan Hanley for Cinderella Man
Best Film Editing: Claire Simpson for The Constant Gardener
Best Film Editing: Hughes Winborne for Crash
Best Film Editing: Michael Kahn for Munich
Best Film Editing: Michael McCusker for Walk the Line
Best Foreign Language Film: Don't Tell - Italy
Best Foreign Language Film: Joyeux Noël - France
Best Foreign Language Film: Paradise Now - Palestine
Best Foreign Language Film: Sophie Scholl - The Final Days - Germany
Best Foreign Language Film: Tsotsi - South Africa
Best Live Action Short Film: Ulrike Grote for Ausreisser (The Runaway)
Best Live Action Short Film: Sean Ellis and Lene Bausager for Cashback
Best Live Action Short Film: Rúnar Rúnarsson and Thor S. Sigurjónsson for The Last Farm
Best Live Action Short Film: Rob Pearlstein and Pia Clemente for Our Time Is Up
Best Live Action Short Film: Martin McDonagh for Six Shooter
Best Makeup: Howard Berger and Tami Lane for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Best Makeup: David Leroy Anderson and Lance Anderson for Cinderella Man
Best Makeup: Dave Elsey and Annette Miles for Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
Best Original Score: Gustavo Santaolalla for Brokeback Mountain
Best Original Score: Alberto Iglesias for The Constant Gardener
Best Original Score: John Williams for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Original Score: John Williams for Munich
Best Original Score: Dario Marianelli for Pride & Prejudice
Best Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco for Crash
Best Original Screenplay: George Clooney and Grant Heslov for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen for Match Point
Best Original Screenplay: Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
Best Original Screenplay: Stephen Gaghan for Syriana
Best Original Song: Kathleen "Bird" York and Michael Becker: "In the Deep" for Crash
Best Original Song: Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, and Paul Beauregard: "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" for Hustle & Flow
Best Original Song: Dolly Parton: "Travelin' Thru" for Transamerica
Best Picture: Diana Ossana and James Schamus for Brokeback Mountain
Best Picture: Caroline Baron, William Vince, and Michael Ohoven for Capote
Best Picture: Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman for Crash
Best Picture: Grant Heslov for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Picture: Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, and Barry Mendel for Munich
Best Sound Editing: Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn for King Kong
Best Sound Editing: Wylie Stateman for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Sound Editing: Richard King for War of the Worlds
Best Sound Mixing: Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic, and Tony Johnson for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Best Sound Mixing: Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, and Hammond Peek for King Kong
Best Sound Mixing: Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline, and John Pritchett for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Sound Mixing: Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill, and Peter F. Kurland for Walk the Line
Best Sound Mixing: Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, and Ronald Judkins for War of the Worlds
Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti for Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actor: Matt Dillon for Crash
Best Supporting Actor: William Hurt for A History of Violence
Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney for Syriana
Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Williams for Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener for Capote
Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams for Junebug
Best Supporting Actress: Frances McDormand for North Country
Best Visual Effects: Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney, and Scott Farrar for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Best Visual Effects: Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, and Richard Taylor for King Kong
Best Visual Effects: Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randy Dutra, and Daniel Sudick for War of the Worlds
--- end of ballot ---
Some people prefer other games to Oscar-guessing, preferring to avoid all the silliness over celebrity gossip, backroom dealing, who's wearing what, etc., but for those of us who are interested in the game, here is this year's contest.
Previous MacRumors Predict the Oscars contests:There are 54 nominated movies this year (by coincidence, the same number as last year), with a total of 109 nominations over the 24 Oscar categories. They have not yet added a snowboarding category.
Here's how to vote:
- Copy the ballot from this post.
- Post to this thread and paste in your ballot.
- Delete all but one line in each category, leaving 1 choice per category (your vote).
- Click SUBMIT REPLY.
You are welcome to post other discussion about the Oscars too, here or in the previous discussion thread. However, please make it clear which movies you think will win, even if you also comment on which movies should win, so I can tell which you voted for in the contest.
See also the Bafta Award Winners thread.
Good luck!
--- MacRumors Oscar Ballot ---
Best Actor: Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote
Best Actor: David Strathairn for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Actor: Terrence Howard for Hustle & Flow
Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line
Best Actress: Judi Dench for Mrs. Henderson Presents
Best Actress: Charlize Theron for North Country
Best Actress: Keira Knightley for Pride & Prejudice
Best Actress: Felicity Huffman for Transamerica
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line
Best Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana for Brokeback Mountain
Best Adapted Screenplay: Dan Futterman for Capote
Best Adapted Screenplay: Jeffrey Caine for The Constant Gardener
Best Adapted Screenplay: Josh Olson for A History of Violence
Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony Kushner and Eric Roth for Munich
Best Animated Feature Film: Hayao Miyazaki for Howl's Moving Castle
Best Animated Feature Film: Tim Burton and Mike Johnson for Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Best Animated Feature Film: Nick Park and Steve Box for Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best Animated Short Film: Shane Acker for 9
Best Animated Short Film: Sharon Colman for Badgered
Best Animated Short Film: John Canemaker and Peggy Stern for The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Best Animated Short Film: Anthony Lucas for The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
Best Animated Short Film: Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews for One Man Band
Best Art Direction: Jim Bissell and Jan Pascale for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Art Direction: Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillan for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Best Art Direction: Grant Major, Dan Hennah, and Simon Bright for King Kong
Best Art Direction: John Myhre and Gretchen Rau for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer for Pride & Prejudice
Best Cinematography: Wally Pfister for Batman Begins
Best Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto for Brokeback Mountain
Best Cinematography: Robert Elswit for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Cinematography: Dion Beebe for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki for The New World
Best Costume Design: Gabriella Pescucci for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Best Costume Design: Colleen Atwood for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Costume Design: Sandy Powell for Mrs. Henderson Presents
Best Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran for Pride & Prejudice
Best Costume Design: Arianne Phillips for Walk the Line
Best Director: Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
Best Director: Bennett Miller for Capote
Best Director: Paul Haggis for Crash
Best Director: George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Director: Steven Spielberg for Munich
Best Documentary Feature: Hubert Sauper for Darwin's Nightmare
Best Documentary Feature: Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Best Documentary Feature: Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau for March of the Penguins
Best Documentary Feature: Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro for Murderball
Best Documentary Feature: Marshall Curry for Street Fight
Best Documentary Short Subject: Dan Krauss for The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
Best Documentary Short Subject: Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman for God Sleeps in Rwanda
Best Documentary Short Subject: Steven Okazaki for The Mushroom Club
Best Documentary Short Subject: Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson for A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
Best Film Editing: Mike Hill and Dan Hanley for Cinderella Man
Best Film Editing: Claire Simpson for The Constant Gardener
Best Film Editing: Hughes Winborne for Crash
Best Film Editing: Michael Kahn for Munich
Best Film Editing: Michael McCusker for Walk the Line
Best Foreign Language Film: Don't Tell - Italy
Best Foreign Language Film: Joyeux Noël - France
Best Foreign Language Film: Paradise Now - Palestine
Best Foreign Language Film: Sophie Scholl - The Final Days - Germany
Best Foreign Language Film: Tsotsi - South Africa
Best Live Action Short Film: Ulrike Grote for Ausreisser (The Runaway)
Best Live Action Short Film: Sean Ellis and Lene Bausager for Cashback
Best Live Action Short Film: Rúnar Rúnarsson and Thor S. Sigurjónsson for The Last Farm
Best Live Action Short Film: Rob Pearlstein and Pia Clemente for Our Time Is Up
Best Live Action Short Film: Martin McDonagh for Six Shooter
Best Makeup: Howard Berger and Tami Lane for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Best Makeup: David Leroy Anderson and Lance Anderson for Cinderella Man
Best Makeup: Dave Elsey and Annette Miles for Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
Best Original Score: Gustavo Santaolalla for Brokeback Mountain
Best Original Score: Alberto Iglesias for The Constant Gardener
Best Original Score: John Williams for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Original Score: John Williams for Munich
Best Original Score: Dario Marianelli for Pride & Prejudice
Best Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco for Crash
Best Original Screenplay: George Clooney and Grant Heslov for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen for Match Point
Best Original Screenplay: Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
Best Original Screenplay: Stephen Gaghan for Syriana
Best Original Song: Kathleen "Bird" York and Michael Becker: "In the Deep" for Crash
Best Original Song: Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, and Paul Beauregard: "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" for Hustle & Flow
Best Original Song: Dolly Parton: "Travelin' Thru" for Transamerica
Best Picture: Diana Ossana and James Schamus for Brokeback Mountain
Best Picture: Caroline Baron, William Vince, and Michael Ohoven for Capote
Best Picture: Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman for Crash
Best Picture: Grant Heslov for Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Picture: Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, and Barry Mendel for Munich
Best Sound Editing: Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn for King Kong
Best Sound Editing: Wylie Stateman for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Sound Editing: Richard King for War of the Worlds
Best Sound Mixing: Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic, and Tony Johnson for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Best Sound Mixing: Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, and Hammond Peek for King Kong
Best Sound Mixing: Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline, and John Pritchett for Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Sound Mixing: Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill, and Peter F. Kurland for Walk the Line
Best Sound Mixing: Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, and Ronald Judkins for War of the Worlds
Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti for Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actor: Matt Dillon for Crash
Best Supporting Actor: William Hurt for A History of Violence
Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney for Syriana
Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Williams for Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener for Capote
Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams for Junebug
Best Supporting Actress: Frances McDormand for North Country
Best Visual Effects: Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney, and Scott Farrar for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Best Visual Effects: Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, and Richard Taylor for King Kong
Best Visual Effects: Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randy Dutra, and Daniel Sudick for War of the Worlds
--- end of ballot ---
