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Before The Academy AwardsOscar-Winning Western Movies

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2005 Oscar Awards
Nominations were announced ?? January 2006; polls closed ?? February;
the 78th Academy Awards show was televised 5 March 2006

complete listings of 2006 Academy Awards for films of 2005
A.M.P.A.S. site  •   Internet Movie Database

And the winner is...

   "Crash" [2005]
full credits from IMDb

"A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin"
[indep Aug 2005]
won Oscar for Best Documentary Short  A Note of Triumph / Golden Age of Norman Corwin Oscar-winning docu short   40-minute documentary film about Norman Corwin's radio braodcast on VE-Day of World War II (8 May 1945); Co-produced by Corinne Marrinan, co-produced & directed by Eric Simonson; won Oscar for Best Documentary Short
Direct Cinema Ltd. color DVD [12/2008] for $29.95
full credits at IMDb

"Brokeback Mountain"
[Focus Features/Paramount Sept 2005]
Ang Lee won Oscar for Best Director   Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana shared the Oscar for Best Script Adaptation   Gustavo Santaolalla won Oscar for Best Original Music Score   Brokeback Mountain movie directed by Ang Lee  
Brokeback Mountain movie poster starring Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal  
This may not be yer 'classic' Western, but it has cowboys and horses and a love story, and it was nominated for 8 Oscars – and the film made its production costs back in the first week of release. In 1963, a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy meet while herding sheep in the mountains of Wyoming; their decades-long bond is profound and passionate and poignant and ultimately tragic.
Directed by Ang Lee; co-produced & script by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, based on the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx; starring Heath Ledger [1979-2008], Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Michelle Williams & Anne Hathaway; won Oscars for Best Director, Best Script Adaptation & Best Original Music Score, also nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (HL), Best Support-ing Actor (JG), Best Supporting Actress (MW) & Best Cinema- tography; won 4 BAFTA Awards (plus 5 noms); won C.S.A., D.G.A., P.G.A. & W.G.A. Awards, 2 Independent Spirit Awards, and a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
Focus Features Collector's Edition widescreen color DVD [1/2007] 2 disks for $14.99
Universal widescreen color DVD [4/2006] for $9.99
Focus Features soundtrack CD [11/2005] 17 tracks for $14.99
full credits from IMDbofficial movie site
11"x17" poster from Amazon for $2.99 {sic}
27"x40" poster from Amazon for $12.99

"Capote" [2005]
full credits from IMDb

"Good  Night,  And,  Good  Luck"
[Warner Independent Oct 2005]
Good Night, and Good Luck poster  TV newsman Edward R. Murrow airs a story about a man discharged from the Navy without a trial. Murrow is accused of being a 'Communist sympathizer', and the C.B.S. news team goes on the offensive. "See It Now" airs a series of shows detailing the lies and un-Constitutional tactics of Senator Joe McCarthy, leading to McCarthy's censure by the U.S. Senate. Co-written & directed by & co-starring George Clooney; starring David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey Jr., Frank Langella. with Joseph McCarthy via archive footage; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Script, Best Actor {DS, of course), Best Cinematograpy & Best Art Direction {no wins}
Warner widescreen b&w DVD [3/2006] for $14.96
full credits from IMDb; official moviesite

"Howl's Moving Castle" aka 'Hauru no ugoku shiro'
[Toho Japan Nov 2005; U.S.A. June 2005]
Directed by Hayao Myazaki; Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, won 3 Annie Awards,
won Mainichi Film Concours for Best Film; full credits from IMDb

DVDs & videos, posters, books and more on
Magic Lantern's Hayao Miyazaki Page

"Memoirs of A Geisha" [2005]
full credits from IMDb

"Syriana" [2005]
full credits from IMDb

"Walk The Line" [2005]
full credits from IMDb


Screen World Volume 56 / Films of 2005 book edited by Barry Monush & John Willis  
"Screen World Volume 56: The Films of 2005" [2006]
Edited by Barry Monush & John Willis

Applause Books 9x7½ pb [4/2006] out of print/used
Applause Books 9¼x8 hardcover [4/2006] out of print/used

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