27 December, 2012
Still the best animated film of this or any other decade.
2000 - 2009
Total Films I’ve Seen: 1296
Films That Make the Top 5 in Any Category: 48
Best Film Not to Make the Top 5 in Any Category: No Country for Old Men
Film of the Decade: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Worst Film of the Decade: Captivity
Worst Best Picture Nominee of the Decade: The Blind Side
Worst Film of the Decade Made by a Top 100 Director: What Planet Are You From (more…)
28 August, 2012
The 2005 Best Picture nominees
The 78th annual Academy Awards, for the film year 2005. The nominations were announced on January 31, 2006 and the awards were held on March 5, 2006.
Best Picture: Crash
Most Surprising Omission: Walk the Line
Best Eligible Film Not Nominated: King Kong
Rank (out of 84) Among Best Picture Years: #5 (more…)
10 June, 2008
The 2005 Best Picture nominees
“It’s time to ask yourself what you believe,” Indiana Jones was told some 19 years ago (both in movie and in actual time). In his first few adventures on film both he, the hero, and we, the viewers are forced to confront the idea of actually having to believe something, to have an opinion. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull doesn’t ask that of its viewers. It is the fifties science fiction story reborn in a modern summer blockbuster. The only people who will wonder whether to believe in the new film are the same kind of nuts who spend their spare time expounding theories that the Pentagon wasn’t hit by an airplane. That doesn’t mean films don’t ask us to confront our beliefs. It just means this summer’s adventure fare is not the best choice.
So let’s take a look back a couple of years. To the 2005 Oscar race to be exact, not only because a group of films came out that asked us to confront our beliefs but because those beliefs that were confronted have a resonance in the world at large today. (more…)
