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2005 CINEMATHEQUE AWARDS

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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
2046 Christopher Doyle, Kwan Pun Leung & Yiu-Fai Lai	Brokeback Mountain Rodrigo Prieto	The New World Emmanuel Lubeski	Last Days Harris Savides	The Constant Gardener Cesar Charlone	Pride & Prejudice Roman Osin
An obvious choice since the Cinema of Wong Kar-wai normally equates itself with a seductive visual beauty anyway - and his latest is no different.	The mountains! The clouds! The dusty back roads! The empty horizons! The hot and heavy mountaintop pup tent sex scenes!	The resplendent photography and never-stopping camera makes us feel as if we, the viewer, are part of the very nature of the film itself.	Gus Van Sant & Harris Savides finale in their "death" trilogy may be the weakest entry, but the look is still a flawless and tender tempest.	Fragmented and hallucinatory, the roving camera of this political thriller plays perfect partner to it's brilliant screenplay & acting.	Full of breathtaking tracking shots and seemingly impossible weaving shots, Osin helps to make Austin seem fresh again.
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Runners-up: Christian Berger's solid straight-forward work on Haneke's Caché makes us wonder the entire way through, is it live or is it Memorex? * Robert Elswit (who has worked most notably in the past with P.T. Anderson) gives us photography on Good Night, and Good Luck. that can be described, in two words, as elegant, and exquisite * The swirving yet simple photography of Peter Suschitzky on Cronenberg's A History of Violence (a director he has worked with on nearly every project) is the perfect visual companion piece to this tale of redemption gone awry * Weerasethakul's Tropical Malady (w/ cinematography by the trio of Pengpanitch, Tanapanitch & Vialard) looks just like the inconsolable breathtaking fantasy that it is. Honourable Mentions: Adam Kimmel's combination of a desolate Kansas landscape and a smoky back-roomed Manhattan turn an otherwise blandish Capote into a much better film that it should have been * Laurent Brunet's as-close-as-close-can-get photography work on the unfairly under-valued Israeli drama Or (Mon Tresor), is nothing shy of a stark little supernova * Gyula Pados' work on Kontroll works well with the dark-edged strobe-lit undergrounds of the story * Ryszard Lenczewski gives a pollon-filled tragic look to My Summer of Love * Richard Deakins' electrified look for the otherwise mediocre Jarhead gives the film its few bright (yet eerily so) highlights. Special Mention: The three-storied Eros, with the triumverate of Marco Pontecorvo on the Antonioni segment, Soderbergh acting as his own DP on his portion and Christopher Doyle (who you can see above as one of the actual nominees) doing his magic on the delicious Wong Kar-wai morsel. ***Christopher Doyle (Hero) and Harris Savides (Birth) were both nominated last year as well. Savides went one step further and won the award.
LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: BEFORE SUNSET * BIRTH * DOGVILLE * HERO * PRIMER * TIME OF THE WOLF

BEST ART DIRECTION / PRODUCTION DESIGN
2046 William Chang	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Alex McDowell	Frank Miller's Sin City Jeanette Scott	The New World Jack Fisk	King Kong Grant Major	Good Night, and Good Luck. James D. Bissell
Lush and sexy, just like the film itself.	Other-wordly in that ever so twisted Tim Burton manner.	It's not just the photography and f/x elements..the set design too is fantastic.	The beauty of the production make us all feel as if we are looking through a new world.	An Art Deco masterpiece of design, from cragged Skull Island to thirties NYC.	Pure elegance in every nuance of the design.
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Runners-up: Judy Becker's subtle work on Brokeback Mountain should not go unnoticed * Seong-hie Ryu makes OldBoy a visual marvel * Sarah Green gave a lived-in honesty to Pride & Prejudice. Honourable Mentions: Balázs Hujber's darkened flourescent designs of Kontroll make the whole film a creepy melange of esoteric stunningness * Yôji Takeshige and Noboru Yoshida, along with director Hayao Miyazaki bring the bubbling Howl's Moving Castle to vivid life * * The World's Li-zhong Wu brings an amusement park to fulfillment.
LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: BAD EDUCATION * DOGVILLE * THE INCREDIBLES * THE LIFE AQUATIC * KILL BILL, VOL 2 HERO & HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (combined nomination)

BEST FILM EDITING
2046 William Chang	Frank Miller's Sin City Robert Rodriguez	Last Days Gus Van Sant	The Constant Gardener Claire Simpson	Oldboy Sang-Beom Kim	Caché Michael Hudecek & Nadine Muse
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Runners-up: A History of Violence * Brokeback Mountain * Kings & Queen Honourable Mentions: King Kong * The New World * Or (Mon Tresor) * Kontroll
LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: COLLATERAL * CLOSER * HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS * INFERNAL AFFAIRS * KILL BILL VOL 2 ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

BEST SOUND
2046	King Kong	Frank Miller's Sin City	Saraband	Kontroll	Last Days
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LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: BROWN BUNNY * FATHER & SON * GOODBYE DRAGON INN * PRIMER * ZATOICHI THE TIME OF THE WOLF

BEST SOUND EFFECTS EDITING
King Kong	War of the Worlds	Howl's Moving Castle	Kung Fu Hustle	Frank Miller's Sin City	Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
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LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: DAWN OF THE DEAD * POLAR EXPRESS * PRIMER * SPIDER-MAN 2 ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND * SKY CAPT & THE WORLD OF TOMORROW

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
King Kong	War of the Worlds	Batman Begins	Kung Fu Hustle	Frank Miller's Sin City	Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
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LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: THE INCREDIBLES * LIFE AQUATIC * POLAR EXPRESS * SPIDER-MAN 2 ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND * SKY CAPT & THE WORLD OF TOMORROW

BEST MAKE-UP / HAIR DESIGN
FRank Miller's Sin City	The World	The New World	King Kong	Or (Mon Tresor)	2046
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LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: BAD EDUCATION * DAWN OF THE DEAD * HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS * VERA DRAKE THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST * THE LIFE & DEATH OF PETER SELLERS

BEST COSTUME DESIGN / CONTEMPORARY
Kontroll	Last Days	Or (Mon Tresor)	OldBoy	The World	Broken Flowers
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LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: BAD EDUCATION * THE INCREDIBLES * KILL BILL VOL. 2 * MOOLAADE THE LIFE AQUATIC * SPIDER-MAN 2

BEST COSTUME DESIGN / PERIOD
Pride & Prejudice	Walk the Line	Breakfast on Pluto	Good Night, and Good Luck.	The New World	2046
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LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: BEING JULIA * THE INCREDIBLES * KILL BILL 2 * LIFE AQUATIC * MOOLAADE * SPIDER-MAN 2

BEST COSTUME DESIGN / FANTASY
Frank Miller's Sin City	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride	Kung Fu Hustle	Star Wars Episode III: revenge of the Sith	Charlie & the Chocolate Factory	King Kong
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LAST YEAR'S NOMINEES: THIS AWARD WAS NOT GIVEN OUT LAST YEAR

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