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2005 CINEMATHEQUE AWARDS
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MAIN CINEMATHEQUE AWARDS PAGE WINNERS HIGHLIGHTED IN GOLD |
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| BEST MOTION PICTURE | |||||
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| Brokeback Mountain | A History of Violence | Gus Van Sant's Last Days | Caché | Saraband | 2046 |
| Both the most beautiful and the most tragic love story of this past year, and possibly the best of all time. | Cronenberg's finest film yet, showing us how society has come to be aloof and even idolize its own violence. | A swirling cinematographic orgasm of light, sound, touch, taste, scent, music, life, death and fame. | From the very opening credits, Haneke places us (against our will?) inside a world of hate and desperation. | We've waited a generation for this film, and once it appeared, we were in even more awe than we expected. | Lush and vibrant, Wong's follow-up to In the Mood for Love is like an organic and orgasmic being unto itself. |
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Runners-up (aka: the rest of my Top 10 List): Arnaud Desplechin's Kings & Queen is one of the funniest and one of the saddest films out this past year * Terrence Malick's The New World is a visual thing of beauty from beginning to end * Or (Mon Tresor), the debut film of Israeli Keren Yedaya, gives us an up close and personal look at the emotional and spiritual disintegration of a young woman * Park Chan-wook's choke-hold second part of his "revenge" trilogy, OldBoy, is an adrenaline-rushed masterstroke of savageness and brutality.Honourable Mentions: The oft-maligned and admittedly sometimes detestable Ma Mère is the both the thorn and the jewel in the crown of provocateur filmmaking * Joe Wright's debut retooling of Jane Austin's Pride & Prejudice brings a fresh new outlook on the old classic * Thailand's very own David Lynchesque auteur, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, brings us Tropical Malady, his latest dual-storied morality fable * Fernando Meirelles' internationally funded The Constant Gardener not only gives way to two of the most open-hearted performances of the year, but also does it in such a beautifully stylized manner * Junebug takes a simple coming home story and winds it into a strangely absorbing melodrama of acceptance * The Holy Girl plays at the emotions of a sexual awakening tale while at the same time taking on the ramifications of organized religion. |
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| LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: BIRTH * DOGVILLE * GOODBYE DRAGON INN * KILL BILL, VOL 2 * PRIMER * TIME OF THE WOLF |
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| BEST DIRECTOR/AUTEUR | |||||
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| Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain |
David Cronenberg A History of Violence |
Gus Van Sant Last Days |
Michael Haneke Caché |
Ingmar Bergman Saraband |
Wong Kar-wai 2046 |
| Lee, who has touched on emotion before only to a superficial level, now brings us one of the most emotionally gripping love stories ever put onto film. | Cronenberg has always pushed the envelope, but here he manages to push it further than ever, without ever once slipping into oversentimental gooiness. | Gus Van Sant learned so much by studying Bela Tarr, and he shows that again here, with the third of his "Death Trilogy". Quiet and disturbingly so. | The only repeat nominee from last year (at least in the major categories), Haneke once again proves why his is the ultimate provateur of cinema. | His first film as director in over twenty years, and he hasn't lost a single step in those intervening decades. Brilliant, subtle, genius. | Wong Kar-wai is the most elegantly dreamy Auteur working today and his latest - nearly five years in the making - is nothing shy of a dreamlike masterpiece. |
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Runners-up:
Terrence Malick brings an other-wordly foreboding to The New World * Arnaud Desplechin weaves intricate labyrnthine wonders in Kings & Queen.
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| LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: LARS VON TRIER (DOGVILLE) * MICHAEL HANEKE (TIME OF THE WOLF) JONATHAN GLAZER (BIRTH) * CATHERINE BREILLAT (ANATOMY OF HELL) TSAI MING-LIANG (GOODBYE DRAGON INN) * QUENTIN TARANTINO (KILL BILL 2) |
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| BEST ACTRESS | ||||||
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| Liv Ullmann "Marianne" Saraband |
Dana Ivgy "Or" Or (Mon Tresor) |
Emmanuelle Devos "Nora" Kings & Queen |
Natalie Press "Mona" My Summer of Love |
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi "Marion" 5x2 |
Q'Orianka Kilcher "Pacahontas" The New World |
Juliette Binoche "Anne Laurent" Caché |
| Age has not slowed her down. Liv is as grand now as she was as a young actress back in her early days with Ingmar. | In her first starring role, Ivgy is shattering as both daughter and 'mother' to her mother. | Devos gives the kind of performance that makes you think she may really be the universe upon herself that her character is. | A gutsy, earthbound performance from the strangely erotic Natalie Press. | A brilianly nuanced powerplay of a performance. | Like the wind itself, Malick's camera makes love to her, and righfully so. | Class and charm combine to give the power this role needed. |
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Runners-up:
Keira Knighley in Pride & Prejudice * Connie Nielson in Brødre
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| LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: JULIE DELPY (BEFORE SUNSET) * NICOLE KIDMAN (BIRTH & DOGVILLE) IMELDA STAUNTON (VERA DRAKE) CATALINA SANDINO MORENO (MARIA FULL OF GRACE) * ISABELLE HUPPERT (TIME OF THE WOLF) KATE WINSLET (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) |
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| BEST ACTOR | ||||||
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| Heath Ledger "Ennis Del Mar" Brokeback Mountain |
Daniel Auteuil "Georges Laurent" Caché |
Mathieu Amalric "Ismaël" Kings & Queen |
Tony Leung "Mr. Chow" 2046 |
Ralph Fiennes "Justin Quayle" The Constant Gardener |
David Strathairn "Edward R. Murrow" Good Night, and Good Luck. |
Terrence Howard "D-Jay" Hustle & Flow |
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Runners-up:
Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence * Erland Josephson in Saraband
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| LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: VINCENT GALLO (BROWN BUNNY) * PAUL BETTANY (DOGVILLE) * DON CHEADLE (HOTEL RWANDA) JEFF BRIDGES (DOOR IN THE FLOOR) * PAUL GIAMATTI (SIDEWAYS) * KEVIN BACON (WOODSMAN) |
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| BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS | |||||
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| Michelle Williams "Alma Del Mar" Brokeback Mountain |
Amy Adams "Ashley" Junebug |
Ziyi Zhang "Bai Ling" 2046 |
Rachel Weisz "Tessa Quayle" The Constant Gardener |
Ronit Elkabetz "Ruthie" Or (Mon Tresor) |
Maria Bello "Edie Stall" A History of Violence |
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| LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: CATE BLANCHETT (AVIATOR) * NATALIE PORTMAN (CLOSER) * PATRICIA CLARKSON (DOGVILLE) SOPHIE OKONEDO (HOTEL RWANDA) * LAURA DERN (WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE) VIRGINIA MADSEN (SIDEWAYS) |
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| BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR | |||||
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| Jake Gyllenhaal "Jack Twist" Brokeback Mountain |
Matt Dillon "Jack Ryan" Crash |
Terrence Howard "Cameron Thayer" Crash |
Danny Huston "Sandy Woodrow" The Constant Gardener |
Jeff Daniels "Bernard Berkman" The Squid & the Whale |
Donald Sutherland "Mr. Bennet" Pride & Prejudice |
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| LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: CLIVE OWEN (CLOSER) * BEN GAZZARA (DOGVILLE) * DAVID CARRADINE (KILL BILL 2) THOMAS HADEN CHURCH (SIDEWAYS) * PHIL DAVIS (VERA DRAKE) MARK RUFFALO (ETERNAL SUNSHINE & WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE) |
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| BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY | |||||
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| 2046 Wong Kar-wai |
Caché Michael Haneke |
The Squid & the Whale Noah Baumbach |
Kings & Queen Arnaud Depleschin & Roger Bohbot |
Junebug Angus MacLachlan |
Saraband Ingmar Bergman |
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Runners-up:
Or (Mon Tresor) * Last Days
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| LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: BIRTH * DOGVILLE * ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND * VERA DRAKE * PRIMER KILL BILL, VOLUME 2 |
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| BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY | |||||
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| Brokeback Mountain Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana |
A History of Violence Josh Olson |
Pride & Prejudice Deborah Moggach |
My Summer of Love Pawel Pawlikowski |
The Constant Gardener Jeffrey Caine |
Ma mère Christophe Honoré |
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Runner-up: The Beat That my Heart Skipped |
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| LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: BEFORE SUNSET * CLOSER * THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR * SIDEWAYS * YOUNG ADAM WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE |
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| BEST FIRST FILM | |||||
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| Or (Mon Tresor) Keren Yedaya |
Schizo Gulshat Omarova |
Junebug Phil Morrison |
Kontroll Nimrod Antal |
Me and You and Everyone We Know Miranda July |
Pride & Prejudice Joe Wright |
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| Runner-up: Paul Haggis for Crash | |||||
| LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: GARDEN STATE * DOOR IN THE FLOOR * PRIMER * THE RETURN MARIA FULL OF GRACE * SKY CAPTAIN & THE WORLD OF TOMORROW |
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| BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM | |||||
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| 2046 | OldBoy | Kings & Queen | Saraband | Cache | Or (Mon Tresor) |
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| Runners-up: Ma Mère * Tropical Malady * The Holy Girl | |||||
| LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: ANATOMY OF HELL * BLISSFULLY YOURS * FATHER AND SON * GOODBYE DRAGON INN * THE RETURN THE TIME OF THE WOLF |
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