The Oscar ballots are in

Last night ballots for Academy Award nominees were due.  The votes will be counted and on Sunday, the winners will be announced.  As we did for the Grammy Awards, we'll be having some of our people over to view the festivities.  Last-time it was a tailgate party; this time a pot-luck.

And of course, for some reason, this will be live-blogged.  Honestly, it seems an attempt of my friends to keep me busy so that perhaps my mouth will occasionally not be wildly flying.  Or maybe they think that it will keep me sober.  The fools.

After the jump, the list of all nominees, with my retarded picks in bold.  (Really, they are retarded.  Only five or six of all the movies listed even found my eyes last year.  And where is Thumbsucker or Gay Sex in the Seventies or any of the other films I actually did see, anyway?)

Best Motion Picture of the Year

 

• Brokeback Mountain
• Capote
• Crash
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Munich

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

 

• Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote
• Terrence Howard for Hustle & Flow
• 
  Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain
• Joaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line
• David Strathairn for Good Night, and Good Luck.

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Judi Dench for Mrs. Henderson Presents
• 
  Felicity Huffman for Transamerica
• Keira Knightley for Pride & Prejudice
• Charlize Theron for North Country
• Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• George Clooney for Syriana
• Matt Dillon for Crash
• Paul Giamatti for Cinderella Man
• 
  Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain
• William Hurt for A History of Violence

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Amy Adams for Junebug
• Catherine Keener for Capote
• Frances McDormand for North Country
• Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener
• 
  Michelle Williams for Brokeback Mountain

Best Achievement in Directing

• George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Paul Haggis for Crash
• Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
• Bennett Miller for Capote
• Steven Spielberg for Munich

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• Crash
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Match Point
• The Squid and the Whale
• Syriana

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

• Brokeback Mountain
• Capote
• The Constant Gardener
• A History of Violence
• Munich

Best Achievement in Cinematography

• Batman Begins
• Brokeback Mountain
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• The New World

Best Achievement in Editing

• Cinderella Man
• The Constant Gardener
• Crash
• Munich
• Walk the Line

Best Achievement in Art Direction

• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• 
  King Kong
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Pride & Prejudice

Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Mrs. Henderson Presents
• Pride & Prejudice
• Walk the Line

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

• Brokeback Mountain
• The Constant Gardener
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Munich
• Pride & Prejudice

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
 

• Hustle & Flow - Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, Paul Beauregard ("It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp")
• Crash - Michael Becker, Kathleen York ("In the Deep")
• 
  Transamerica - Dolly Parton ("Travelin' Thru")

Best Achievement in Makeup

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Cinderella Man
• 
  Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Best Achievement in Sound 

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• King Kong
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Walk the Line
• 
  War of the Worlds

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

• King Kong
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• 
  War of the Worlds

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• 
  King Kong
• War of the Worlds

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

• Corpse Bride
• Hauru no ugoku shiro
• Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

• Bestia nel cuore, La
• Joyeux Noël
• Paradise Now
• Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage
• 
  Tsotsi

Best Documentary, Features

• Darwin's Nightmare
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• Marche de l'empereur, La
• Murderball
• Street Fight

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

• God Sleeps in Rwanda
• A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
• The Life of Kevin Carter
• 
  The Mushroom Club

Best Short Film, Animated

• Badgered
• The Moon and the Son
• The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
• 
  9
• One Man Band

Best Short Film, Live Action

• Ausreißer
• Cashback
• 
  Síðasti bærinn í dalnum
• Our Time Is Up
• Six Shooter