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The contest rules, guidelines & prizes will be announced on the 31st of this month.
We are also running a contest (no official cash prize, but very creative) on the movie board, which details will be up in the iBox there shortly..........
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=1466
If you are a movie buff and love prizes make sure to mark both boards and check back soon!!!!
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Prizes as of this moment (subject to change before the contest begins); your CHOICE of......
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1. DVD bundle pack (at least 5 new movies of your genre preference***, but would love to make it a custom pack....they will ALL be POPULAR titled films.)
or
2. Best Buy Gift Card (not sure of the $$$ amount, depends on the interest in the contest)
or
3. A six month/year Premium Membership (again depends on the interest)
or
4. An equal cash donation to the charity of your choice
This is a movie related contest, I would love to give a movie related prize, but I am willing to be flexible. Hence all the choices for prizes above. Also, the winner has the right to choose his/her prize in private....totally up to them.
Let's have some fun and good luck to all!!!!!
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Contest Rules
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There are a total of 24 categories for the 78th Annual Academy Awards.
For this contest there is a point system per category.
The points are set up in somewhat of an importance factor. Basically this was done so that it would be harder to have a tie.
There are a total of 170 points that can be earned.
All you need do is read each category below. There are multiple choice letters beside each nominee.
When selecting your entries, simply place the number of each category and the letter that you choose next to it. Example: 1c 2e
Please select a letter for all categories.
In the event of a tie, I ask that when you submit your answers that you also give a running time of the Oscars in minutes. Example: 193 minutes.
When COMPLETELY FINISHED please post publicly your choices.
The deadline for this contest will be through March 5th 2006, by 4 pm, changes can be made up until that date, but they must be presented publicly.
The prizes will be deteremined by the number of participants.
***I (lobogotti) am going to compete, but I cannot win prizes. So If I happen to win, the runner up in points gets the prizes.
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And the Nominees are...................
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1. Performance by an actor in a leading role……....9 points
a. Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)
b. Terrence Howard in “Hustle & Flow” (Paramount Classics, MTV Films and New Deal Entertainment)
c. Heath Ledger in “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)
d. Joaquin Phoenix in “Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox)
e. David Strathairn in “Good Night, and Good Luck.” (Warner Independent Pictures)
2. Performance by an actor in a supporting role……….8 points
a. George Clooney in “Syriana” (Warner Bros.)
b. Matt Dillon in “Crash” (Lions Gate)
c. Paul Giamatti in “Cinderella Man” (Universal and Miramax)
d. Jake Gyllenhaal in “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)
e. William Hurt in “A History of Violence” (New Line)
3. Performance by an actress in a leading role……….9 points
a. Judi Dench in “Mrs. Henderson Presents” (The Weinstein Company)
b. Felicity Huffman in “Transamerica” (The Weinstein Company and IFC Films)
c. Keira Knightley in “Pride & Prejudice” (Focus Features)
d. Charlize Theron in “North Country” (Warner Bros.)
e. Reese Witherspoon in “Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox)
4. Performance by an actress in a supporting role……….8 points
a. Amy Adams in “Junebug” (Sony Pictures Classics)
b. Catherine Keener in “Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)
c. Frances McDormand in “North Country” (Warner Bros.)
d. Rachel Weisz in “The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features)
e. Michelle Williams in “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)
5. Best animated feature film of the year……….5 points
a. “Howl’s Moving Castle” (Buena Vista)
Hayao Miyazaki
b. “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” (Warner Bros.)
Tim Burton and Mike Johnson
c. “Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit”(DreamWorks Animation SKG)
Nick Park and Steve Box
6. Achievement in art direction……….6 points
a. “Good Night, and Good Luck.” (Warner Independent Pictures)
Art Direction: Jim Bissell
Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
b. “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (Warner Bros.)
Art Direction: Stuart Craig
Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
c. “King Kong” (Universal)
Art Direction: Grant Major
Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Simon Bright
d. “Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau
e. “Pride & Prejudice” (Focus Features)
Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
7. Achievement in cinematography……….6 points
a. “Batman Begins” (Warner Bros.)
Wally Pfister
b. “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)
Rodrigo Prieto
c. “Good Night, and Good Luck.” (Warner Independent Pictures)
Robert Elswit
d. “Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Dion Beebe
e. “The New World” (New Line)
Emmanuel Lubezki
8. Achievement in costume design……….6 points
a. “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (Warner Bros.)
Gabriella Pescucci
b. “Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Colleen Atwood
c. “Mrs. Henderson Presents” (The Weinstein Company)
Sandy Powell
d. “Pride & Prejudice” (Focus Features)
Jacqueline Durran
e. “Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox)
Arianne Phillips
9. Achievement in directing……….9 points
a. “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)
Ang Lee
b. “Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)
Bennett Miller
c. “Crash” (Lions Gate)
Paul Haggis
d. “Good Night, and Good Luck.” (Warner Independent Pictures)
George Clooney
e. “Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks)
Steven Spielberg
10. Best documentary feature……….8 points
a. “Darwin’s Nightmare” (International Film Circuit)
A Mille et Une Production
Hubert Sauper
b. “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” (Magnolia Pictures)
An HDNet Films Production
Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot
c. “March of the Penguins” (Warner Independent Pictures)
A Bonne Pioche Production
Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau
d. “Murderball” (THINKFilm)
An Eat Films Production
Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
e. “Street Fight”
A Marshall Curry Production
Marshall Curry
11. Best documentary short subject……….6 points
a. “The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club”
A Dan Krauss Production
Dan Krauss
b. “God Sleeps in Rwanda”
An Acquaro/Sherman Production
Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman
c. “The Mushroom Club”
A Farallon Films Production
Steven Okazaki
d. “A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin”
A NomaFilms Production
Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson
12. Achievement in film editing……….5 points
a. “Cinderella Man” (Universal and Miramax)
Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
b. “The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features)
Claire Simpson
c. “Crash” (Lions Gate)
Hughes Winborne
d. “Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks)
Michael Kahn
e. “Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox)
Michael McCusker
13. Best foreign language film of the year……….8 points
a. “Don’t Tell”
A Cattleya/Rai Cinema Production
Italy
b. “Joyeux Noël”
A Nord-Ouest Production
France
c. “Paradise Now”
An Augustus Film Production
Palestine
d. “Sophie Scholl - The Final Days”
A Goldkind Filmproduktion and Broth Film Production
Germany
e. “Tsotsi”
A Moviworld Production
South Africa
14. Achievement in makeup……….7 points
a. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
(Buena Vista)
Howard Berger and Tami Lane
b. “Cinderella Man”
(Universal and Miramax)
David Leroy Anderson and Lance Anderson
c. “Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith”
(20th Century Fox)
Dave Elsey and Annette Miles
15. Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)……….7 points
a. “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Gustavo Santaolalla
b. “The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features) Alberto Iglesias
c. “Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing) John Williams
d. “Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks) John Williams
e. “Pride & Prejudice” (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli
16. Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)……….7 points
a. “In the Deep” from “Crash” (Lions Gate)
Music by Kathleen “Bird” York and Michael Becker
Lyric by Kathleen “Bird” York
b. “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” from“Hustle & Flow” (Paramount Classics, MTV Films and New Deal Entertainment)
Music and Lyric by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard
c. “Travelin’ Thru” from “Transamerica” (The Weinstein Company and IFC Films)
Music and Lyric by Dolly Parton
17. Best motion picture of the year……….10 points
a. “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)
A River Road Entertainment Production
Diana Ossana and James Schamus, Producers
b. “Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)
An A-Line Pictures/Cooper’s Town/ Infinity Media Production
Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven, Producers
c. “Crash” (Lions Gate)
A Bob Yari/DEJ/Blackfriar’s Bridge/ Harris Company/ApolloProscreen GmbH & Co./Bull’s Eye Entertainment Production
Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers
d. “Good Night, and Good Luck.” (Warner Independent Pictures)
A Good Night Good Luck LLC Production
Grant Heslov, Producer
e. “Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks)
A Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures Production
Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Barry Mendel, Producers
18. Best animated short film……….7 points
a. “Badgered”
A National Film and Television School Production
Sharon Colman
b. “The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation”
A John Canemaker Production
John Canemaker and Peggy Stern
c. “The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello” (Monster Distributes)
A 3D Films Production
Anthony Lucas
d. “9”
A Shane Acker Production
Shane Acker
e. “One Man Band”
A Pixar Animation Studios Production
Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews
19. Best live action short film……….7 points
a. “Ausreisser (The Runaway)”
A Hamburg Media School, Filmwerkstatt Production
Ulrike Grote
b. “Cashback” (The British Film Institute)
A Left Turn Films Production
Sean Ellis and Lene Bausager
c. “The Last Farm”
A Zik Zak Filmworks Production
Rúnar Rúnarsson and Thor S. Sigurjónsson
d. “Our Time Is Up”
A Station B Production
Rob Pearlstein and Pia Clemente
e. “Six Shooter” (Sundance Film Channel)
A Missing in Action Films and Funny Farm Films Production
Martin McDonagh
20. Achievement in sound editing……….5 points
a. “King Kong” (Universal) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
b. “Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Wylie Stateman
c. “War of the Worlds” (Paramount and DreamWorks) Richard King
21. Achievement in sound mixing……….6 points
a. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” (Buena Vista)
Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic and Tony Johnson
b. “King Kong” (Universal)
Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
c. “Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline and John Pritchett
d. “Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox)
Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Peter F. Kurland
e. “War of the Worlds” (Paramount and DreamWorks)
Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ronald Judkins
22. Achievement in visual effects……….5 points
a. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” (Buena Vista)
Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney and Scott Farrar
b. “King Kong” (Universal)Joe Letteri, Brian Van’t Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor
c. “War of the Worlds” (Paramount and DreamWorks)
Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randy Dutra and Daniel Sudick
23. Adapted screenplay……….8 points
a. “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)
Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana
b. “Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)
Screenplay by Dan Futterman
c. “The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features)
Screenplay by Jeffrey Caine
d. “A History of Violence” (New Line)
Screenplay by Josh Olson
e. “Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks)
Screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth
24. Original screenplay……….8 points
a. “Crash” (Lions Gate)
Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco
Story by Paul Haggis
b. “Good Night, and Good Luck.” (Warner Independent Pictures)
Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov
c. “Match Point” (DreamWorks)
Written by Woody Allen
d. “The Squid and the Whale” (Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sony Pictures Releasing)
Written by Noah Baumbach
e. “Syriana” (Warner Bros.)
Written by Stephen Gaghan
Participants
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lobogotti........ 1a 2c 3e 4d 5c 6c 7b 8a 9a 10c 11b 12d 13e 14a 15a 16b 17a 18e 19d 20a 21d 22b 23d 24c....203 min
no3putts1....... 1a 2a 3e 4d 5b 6a 7b 8b 9c 10c 11a 12c 13b 14c 15a 16a 17a 18e 19e 20b 21d 22c 23e 24a....196 min
lady1242........ 1c 2b 3d 4e 5b 6b 7b 8b 9d 10c 11c 12b 13d 14a 15e 16b 17a 18e 19a 20c 21a 22b 23b 24a....192 min
dbleagl.......... 1a 2b 3e 4d 5b 6c 7b 8b 9a 10c 11b 12d 13a 14b 15a 16c 17a 18e 19e 20a 21d 22c 23a 24b....189 min
occams razor. 1a 2d 3e 4e 5c 6d 7b 8b 9b 10c 11b 12c 13d 14a 15a 16b 17a 18d 19a 20a 21d 22b 23a 24a....183 min
djr63.............. 1a 2d 3a 4b 5c 6b 7b 8c 9a 10c 11b 12c 13b 14a 15c 16b 17a 18e 19c 20c 21b 22a 23a 24a.....193 min
Churak........... 1a 2c 3e 4c 5c 6a 7d 8a 9d 10c 11b 12d 13d 14b 15e 16b 17b 18e 19c 20a 21d 22b 23b 24b.....194 min
Susie924........ 1a 2a 3b 4e 5c 6d 7d 8a 9a 10c 11b 12c 13a 14a 15a 16c 17a 18b 19e 20a 21d 22c 23b 24a.....182 min
junkmasterg... 1a 2c 3e 4e 5c 6c 7e 8a 9a 10c 11b 12c 13a 14c 15b 16c 17b 18e 19b 20c 21e 22b 23a 24a.....198 min
spockster202.. 1a 2b 3b 4c 5b 6d 7d 8e 9d 10c 11b 12c 13c 14c 15a 16b 17c 18e 19e 20a 21e 22a 23a 24d.....183 min
florist805........ 1a 2b 3e 4a 5c 6c 7b 8d 9a 10c 11b 12c 13c 14a 15a 16c 17a 18e 19d 20a 21d 22b 23a 24a.....210 min
REDFISHER.... 1a 2d 3e 4c 5a 6c 7a 8a 9a 10c 11b 12c 13c 14c 15a 16c 17b 18c 19d 20c 21b 22c 23a 24e.....193 min
The_Free_Nebula. 1c 2a 3c 4e 5c 6d 7a 8d 9a 10c 11a 12c 13e 14a 15e 16b 17a 18e 19c 20b 21d 22b 23b 24a.....200 min
mnfats............ 1a 2a 3e 4d 5b 6b 7d 8a 9a 10c 11b 12e 13e 14a 15c 16a 17a 18e 19e 20b 21d 22a 23a 24e.....185 min
hopscotch...... 1a 2c 3c 4e 5b 6b 7b 8a 9a 10e 11b 12a 13a 14c 15e 16a 17a 18d 19e 20b 21d 22a 23b 24a.....188 min
eviltweety...... 1a 2b 3a 4e 5b 6d 7d 8d 9a 10c 11b 12d 13e 14c 15c 16c 17a 18e 19c 20c 21d 22b 23a 24a.....202 min
Howsmusic4U. 1d 2d 3b 4e 5c 6d 7d 8b 9e 10c 11b 12e 13c 14a 15b 16a 17a 18c 19e 20c 21b 22a 23b 24a.....191 min
TreyVrai......... 1c 2d 3a 4e 5b 6d 7d 8d 9a 10c 11b 12d 13e 14c 15c 16c 17a 18e 19c 20c 21d 22b 23a 24a.....185 min
Sputnik........... 1a 2b 3b 4d 5a 6e 7a 8d 9a 10c 11b 12d 13e 14a 15b 16a 17b 18e 19e 20c 21d 22a 23e 24e.....185 min
creekjumper... 1a 2c 3b 4d 5c 6d 7d 8b 9a 10c 11c 12c 13e 14a 15a 16c 17a 18e 19e 20a 21d 22b 23b 24a.....188 min
docfager......... 1a 2a 3b 4e 5c 6d 7d 8b 9a 10c 11c 12c 13c 14a 15c 16c 17c 18e 19e 20b 21d 22b 23b 24b.....191 min
The Original dpb5!. 1a 2b 3e 4d 5c 6c 7b 8a 9c 10c 11b 12d 13e 14c 15a 16b 17a 18e 19d 20b 21d 22b 23d 24c.....198 min
SpringRain......1a 2d 3b 4e 5c 6d 7d 8b 9c 10e 11d 12c 13b 14c 15b 16c 17a 18e 19d 20a 21b 22a 23a 24a.....207 min
SpringRain..... 1a 2d 3b 4e 5c 6d 7d 8b 9c 10e 11d 12c 13b 14c 15b 16c 17a 18e 19d 20a 21b 22a 23a 24a.....207 min
GCHC............. 1a 2c 3e 4e 5c 6d 7d 8b 9a 10c 11c 12c 13c 14a 15c 16c 17a 18e 19e 20b 21d 22b 23b 24a.....187 min
chief............... 1a 2a 3b 4e 5c 6d 7d 8b 9a 10c 11c 12c 13e 14a 15c 16c 17c 18e 19e 20b 21d 22b 23b 24a 190 min
