Diary: March 2006

A wonderfully varied Oscars year

What a great Oscars year. Here at nofreelist, we're too lazy to check the statistics to see whether this has happened before, but it was awesome to see a different film win each of the six major categories:

• Best Motion Picture of the Year - Crash (2004) (Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman)
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005)
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005)
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - George Clooney for Syriana (2005)
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener (2005)
• Best Achievement in Directing - Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Okay, so Crash was, as far as I'm concerned, an upset in many senses of the word, but it was extremely refreshing to see such a varied list of winners (compare with last year, where Million Dollar Baby (2004) won four of these main six).

by pearly on Tue 7 Mar 2006 at 10:11 AM — permalink / add a comment

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