Monday, December 1, 2008

2005












64 Films Screened

Numbers in bold indicate number of screenings

A
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) 6
Monster in Law (Robert Luketic) 7

A-

The 40-Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow) 2
The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles)
King Kong (Peter Jackson) 2
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Match Point (Woody Allen) 2
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki) 2

B+

Brothers (Susanne Bier)
Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney) 2
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Junebug (Phil Morrison)

B
The Family Stone (Thomas Bezucha)
In Her Shoes (Curtis Hanson)
Jarhead (Sam Mendes)
Murderball (Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro)
Red Eye (Wes Craven)

B-
Capote (Bennett Miller)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
The Edukators (Hans Weingartner)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney)
Must Love Dogs (Gary David Goldberg)
Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
Transamerica (Duncan Tucker) 2
The Upside of Anger (Mike Binder)
Walk the Line (James Mangold)

C+
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (Darren Grant)
Flightplan (Robert Schwentke)
Havoc (Barbara Kopple) 2
Mrs. Henderson Presents (Stephen Frears)
The Producers (Susan Stroman) 2
Wedding Crashers (David Dobkin) 2

C

The Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam)
Crash (Paul Haggis) 2
Memoirs of a Geisha (Rob Marshall)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman) 2
Prime (Ben Younger)
An Unfinished Life (Lasse Hallstrom)
Waiting... (Rob McKittrick)
War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
The World's Fastest Indian (Roger Donaldson)

C-
Derailed (Mikael Hafstrom)
Heights (Chris Terrio)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
Proof (John Madden)
Rumor Has It... (Rob Reiner)

Shopgirl (Anand Tucker)
Sin City (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez) 2

D+

Madagascar (Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath)
March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
The New World (Terrence Malick)
North Country (Niki Caro)

D
Bewitched (Nora Ephron)
Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman)

D-
Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
Stay (Marc Forster)
The Ring Two (Hideo Nakata)

F
Bee Season (David Siegel and Scott McGehee)
Hide and Seek (John Polson)
Hitch (Andy Tennant)
Ma Mère (Christophe Honoré)

Major Diva Cup Award Nominees:

Best Picture

The 40-Year Old Virgin
Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Monster in Law
Mysterious Skin

Best Director

Woody Allen, Match Point
Judd Apatow, The 40-Year Old Virgin
Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Fernando Meirelles, The Constant Gardener

Best Actor

Ralph Fiennes, The Constant Gardener
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
Vince Vaughn, Wedding Crashers

Best Actress
Joan Allen, The Upside of Anger
Dame Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
Jane Fonda, Monster in Law
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Diane Lane, Must Love Dogs

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Dillon, Crash
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
Terrence Howard, Crash
Tyler Perry, Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Andy Serkis, King Kong

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Junebug
Isla Fisher, Wedding Crashers
Wanda Sykes, Monster in Law
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

3 comments:

Michael Parsons said...

You sat through Crash twice. You deserve a crown

J.D. said...

Diane Lane?

Dame James said...

Michael: The first time was by choice, the second was not. Both were pretty painful, although, unlike most, I don't think it is the worst Best Picture winner ever.

J.D.: I originally had Reese for Walk the Line but I replaced her with Lane. While Reese's performance diminishes in my mind with time, Lane's only get stronger. I told you that 2005 was an f-ed up year!