Welcome everybody to the 2006 Academy Animated Awards!
This thread is for Best Motion Picture and I've made some updates for this years version, showing what the details of the Best Motion Picture category all about, who won, and who else was nominated for the award.
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| Best Motion Picture Presenter: Buck Buck #1 |
You get to vote for two of the nominees. And those nominees are:
:: Memoirs of a Geisha - Lucy Fisher, Steven Spielberg, Douglas Wick
Directed by Rob Marshall
Starring Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Ken Watanabe
2005 Academy Award Winner: Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design
Based on the novel by Arthur Golden, a nine-year old girl named Chiyo, is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto in the early 1930s. Here, she learns that becoming a geisha can be the single path to wealth and independence for a woman. Under head geisha Mameha's tutelage, Chiyo becomes Sayuri, the most legendary geisha in the nation, skilled in all areas, from conversation to dance, and sought after by seemingly every man alive...except for the one whom she has secretly longed for since she began her training.
:: Snakes on a Plane - Craig Berenson, Gary Levinsohn, Sandra Rabins, David J. Taylor
Directed by David R. Ellis
Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Kenan Thompson
After witnessing the brutal murder of a prosecutor, by gangster Eddie Kim and his band of thugs, Sean Jones is escorted by FBI agents Neville Flynn and John Sanders to testify in a highly-publicized case in Los Angeles. Despite increased security for the flight, Kim arranges for a time-release crate full of snakes to be placed in the cargo hold of the plane, on which Jones will be flying from Honolulu to Los Angeles. The leis given to the passengers by airport staff upon their departure had been secretly sprayed with pheromones to make the snakes more aggressive in an attempt to bring down the plane before it reaches its destination.
:: Syriana - George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh
Directed by Steven Gaghan
Starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Siddig
2005 Academy Award Winner: Best Supporting Actor (George Clooney)
Focusing on the influence of the oil industry, intertwining tales are told detailing the country's avarice of oil. American Energy giant Connex once had control of key Mideast oil fields in an unnamed emirate ruled by the al-Subaai family. However, the country's foreign minister, Prince Nasir has granted natural-gas drilling rights to a Chinese company. Nasir's move greatly upsets the American oil industry and government. Meanwhile Killen, a smaller oil company, has won the drilling rights to key oil fields in Kazakhstan. Connex has lost production capacity and needs the Kazakh oil field to make up for it; to that end, they initiate a merger with Killen. Following a historic but shadowy merger, Connex-Killen becomes the fifth largest oil company and the 23rd largest economy in the world. Bryan Woodman is an energy analyst based in Switzerland who is hired by Prince Nasir become his economic advisor. Robert Barnes is a veteran CIA field operative who is being used by the CIA to stop Middle Eastern illegal arms trafficking.
:: Walk the Line - James Keach, Cathy Konrad
Directed by James Mangold
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Resse Witherspoon, Robert Patrick, Ginnifer Goodwin
2005 Academy Award Winner: Best Actress (Reese Witherspoon)
The film details Johnny Cash's life from his growing up as the son of a cotton picker in rural Arkansas, dealing with the death of his brother. Over the course of his life, Cash transcended from door-to-door salesman to legendary country singer and along the way, battling and dealing with his drug addiction, subsequent rescue by future wife June Carter and his famous concert at Folsom Prison.
Peace.
