Food For Thought

Will the Harry Potter movie's ever end? Seriously, isn't that kid like 25 by now?

Random Top 10 Lists (Chevy Chase Movies)

10. Fletch Lives
9. Orange County
8. National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation
7. Spies Like Us
6. Funny Farm
5. Three Amigos!
4. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
3. Fletch
2. Caddyshack
1. National Lampoon's Vacation

Cammy Award Winner (By Category)

With the 2005 Cammy Award nominations only a week or 2 away. It is time to get the people excited about the upcoming nominations. Golden Globes, Oscars...only undercards for the only awards that truely matter...The Cammy Awards.



Best Picture

1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1999 - American Beauty
2000 - Gladiator
2001 - Memento
2002 - The Road To Perdition
2003 - Thirteen
2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Actor

1998 - Edward Norton (American History X)
1999 - Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
2000 - Russell Crowe (Gladiator)
2001 - Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind)
2002 - Daniel Day Lewis (Gangs Of New York)
2003 - Sean Penn (Mystic River)
2004 - Jamie Foxx (Ray)

Best Actress

1998 - Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare In Love)
1999 - Hillary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry)
2000 - Ellen Burstyn (Requiem For A Dream)
2001 - Audrey Tautou (Amelie)
2002 - Renee Zellweger (Chicago)
2003 - Evan Rachael Wood (Thirteen)
2004 - Hillary Swank (Million Dollar Baby)

Best Director

1998 - Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)
1999 - Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
2000 - Steven Soderberg (Traffic)
2001 - Ridley Scott (Blackhawk Down)
2002 - Joe Carnahan (Narc)
2003 - Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen)
2004 - Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Best Supporting Actor

1998 - Ed Harris (The Truman Show)
1999 - Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense)
2000 - Benecio Del Toro (Traffic)
2001 - Joe Pantaliano (Memento)
2002 - Ray Liotta (Narc)
2003 - Djimon Hounsou (In America)
2004 - Thomas Haden Church (Sideways)

Best Supporting Actress

1998 - Olivia Williams (Rushmore)
1999 - Chloe Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry)
2000 - Kate Hudson (Almost Famous)
2001 - Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind)
2002 - Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago)
2003 - Scarlett Johansson (Lost In Translation)
2004 - Natalie Portman (Garden State)

Best Breakthrough Performance

1998 - Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore)
1999 - Jamie Foxx (Any Given Sunday)
2000 - Kate Hudson (Almost Famous)
2001 - Audrey Tautou (Amelie)
2002 - Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher)
2003 - Evan Rachael Wood (Thirteen)
2004 - Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace)

Best Screenplay

1998 - Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan)
1999 - M. Night Shaymalan (The Sixth Sense)
2000 - Stephen Gagan (Traffic)
2001 - Christopher Nolan (Memento)
2002 - Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation)
2003 - Guillermo Arriaga (21 Grams)
2004 - Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Best Ensemble Cast

1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1999 - American Beauty
2000 - Traffic
2001 - A Beautiful Mind
2002 - Chicago
2003 - Mystic River
2004 - Million Dollar Baby

Best Song

1998 - Aerosmith - Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing (Armageddon)
1999 - Amie Mann - Save Me (Magnolia)
2000 - Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed (Wonder Boys)
2001 - Gary Jules - Mad World (Donnie Darko)
2002 - Eminem - Lose Yourself (8 Mile)
2003 - Mitch and Mickey - Kiss at the End of the Rainbow (A Mighty Wind)
2004 - Damien Rice - The Blowers Daughter (Closer)

Best Cinematography

2004 - Dion Beebe & Paul Cameron (Collateral)

Best Special Effects

1998 - Armageddon
1999 - The Matrix
2000 - Gladiator
2001 - LOTR: Fellowship Of The Ring
2002 - LOTR: The Two Towers
2003 - LOTR: Return Of The King
2004 - Spiderman 2

Best Sound Effects

1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1999 - The Matrix
2000 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001 - Blackhawk Down
2002 - LOTR: The Two Towers
2003 - Kill Bill: Volume 1
2004 - Kill Bill: Volume 2

Best Debut Feature Film

2001 - Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko)
2002 - Bill Paxton (Frailty)
2003 - Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen)
2004 - Zack Braff (Garden State)

Worst Film

1998 - The Thin Red Line
1999 - Double Jeopardy
2000 - Urban Legend: Final Cut
2001 - Freddy Got Fingered
2002 - The Truth About Charlie
2003 - Dreamcatcher
2004 - Van Helsing

Oscar Nominations

Best Picture

Brokeback Mountain
Munich
Good Night, and Good Luck
Crash
Capote

I Got: 5/5
Likely Winner: Brokeback Mountain

Best Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)
Joaquin Phoenix (Walk The Line)
David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow)

I Got: 4/5
Likely Winner: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)

Best Actress

Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line)
Felicity Huffman (Transamerica)
Judi Dench (Mrs. Henderson Presents)
Keira Knightly (Pride & Prejudice)
Charlize Theron (North Country)

I Got: 4/5
Likely Winner: Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line)

Best Director

Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Paul Haggis (Crash)
Steven Spielberg (Munich)
Bennett Miller (Capote)

I Got: 4/5
Likely Winner: Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man)
George Clooney (Syriana)
Matt Dillon (Crash)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain)
William Hurt (A History of Violence)

I Got: 5/5
Likely Winner: George Clooney (Syriana)

Best Supporting Actress

Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain)
Amy Adams (Junebug)
Frances McDormand (North Country)
Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)
Catherine Keener (Capote)

I Got: 4/5
Likely Winner: Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)

Best Original Screenplay

Crash
The Squid And The Whale
Good Night, and Good Luck
Match Point
Syriana

I Got: 4/5
Likely Winner: Crash

Best Adapted Screenplay

Munich
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
The Constant Gardener
A History of Violence

I Got: 5/5
Likely Winner: Brokeback Mountain

Best Documentary Feature

March of the Penguins
Murderball
Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room
Street Fight
Darwin’s Nightmare

I Got: 3/5
Likely Winner: Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room

Best Animated Feature

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Howl’s Moving Castle

I Got: 3/3
Likely Winner: Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Foreign Film

Paradise Now (Palestine)
Tsotsi (South Africa)
Joyeux Noel (France)
Don’t Tell (Italy)
Sophie Scholl (Germany)

I Got: 4/5
Likely Winner: Paradise Now (Palestine)

Best Cinematography

Brokeback Mountain
Good Night, and Good Luck
Memoirs of a Geisha
Batman Begins
The New World

I Got: 4/5
Likely Winner: Brokeback Mountain

Best Art Direction

Pride & Prejudice
Memoirs of a Geisha
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
King Kong
Good Night, and Good Luck

I Got: 3/5
Likely Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha

Best Editing

Cinderella Man
Walk The Line
Crash
Munich
The Constant Gardener

I Got: 3/5
Likely Winner: Crash

Best Costume Design

Memoirs of a Geisha
Walk The Line
Pride & Prejudice
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mrs. Henderson Presents

I Got: 2/5
Likely Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha

Best Original Score

Brokeback Mountain
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Constant Gardener
Munich
Pride & Prejudice

I Got: 3/5
Likely Winner: Brokeback Mountain

Best Original Song

In The Deep (Crash)
Travelin’ Thru (Transamerica)
It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp (Hustle & Flow)

I Got: 2/3
Likely Winner: Travelin’ Thru (Transamerica)

Best Visual Effects

King Kong
The Chronicles of Narnia
War of the Worlds

I Got: 1/3
Likely Winner: King Kong

Best Sound Mixing

The Chronicles of Narnia
King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha
Walk The Line
War of the Worlds

Best Sound Editing

King Kong
War of the Worlds
Memoirs of a Geisha

Best Documentary Short Subject

The Death of Kevin Carter
Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
God Sleeps In Rwanda
The Mushroom Club
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Cowin

Best Makeup

The Chronicles of Narnia
Cinderella Man
Star Wars Episode 3

Best Animated Short Film

Badgered
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
9
One Man Band

Best Live Action Short Film

The Runaway
Cashback
The Last Farm
Our Time Is Up
Six Shooter


All in all not a ton of huge surprises. I started out red hot before my predicting genius began to wear off when it came to the technical awards. I still did slightly better than last year coming in at 63 out of 84 right. Thats 75%. Not bad considering this year I picked more categories than last year. I'm no one year wonder after all...don't pretend you weren't thinking it.

Biggest Snubs

Star Wars Episode 3
Cinderella Man
Thandie Newton
Sin City

Biggest Surprises

Terrence Howard
Pride & Prejudice
Only 3 Songs Nominated
Memoirs of a Geisha