These are the 2005 Endy Awards, wherein I pretend to give out maneki-neko statues to the best in that year in film. Awards for many other years can be found in the Endy Awards Index. Eligibility is determined by imdb date and by whether or not I've seen the movie in question. Nominees are listed in alphabetical order and the winners are bolded. And the Endy goes to. . .
Best Picture:
1. A History of Violence
2. Linda Linda Linda
3. The New World
3. The New World
4. Oxhide
5. Three Times
5. Three Times
Best Director:
1. Cristi Puiu, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
2. Nobuhiro Yamashita, Linda Linda Linda
3. Terrence Malick, The New World
4. Liu Jiayin, Oxhide
4. Liu Jiayin, Oxhide
5. Hou Hsiao-hsien, Three Times
Terrence Malick's story of the discovery of America by Europeans, and of the discovery of Europeans by America is probably my favorite film of the 21st Century thus far.
Terrence Malick's story of the discovery of America by Europeans, and of the discovery of Europeans by America is probably my favorite film of the 21st Century thus far.
Best Actor:
1. Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
2. Simon Yam, Election
2. Simon Yam, Election
3. Viggo Mortensen, A History of Violence
4. Liu Zaiping, Oxhide
5. Steve Coogan, Tristram Shandy
5. Steve Coogan, Tristram Shandy
Best Actress:
1. Luminiţa Gheorghiu, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
2. Bae Doona, Linda Linda Linda
3. Q'orianka Kilcher, The New World
3. Q'orianka Kilcher, The New World
4. Zhou Xun, Perhaps Love
5. Shu Qi, Three Times
5. Shu Qi, Three Times
Supporting Actor:
1. Tony Leung Ka-fai, Election
2. Jacky Cheung, Perhaps Love
3. Ian McDiarmid, Revenge of the Sith
4. Mickey Rourke, Sin City
2. Jacky Cheung, Perhaps Love
3. Ian McDiarmid, Revenge of the Sith
4. Mickey Rourke, Sin City
5. Jeff Daniels, The Squid & the Whale
Veteran Hong Kong actor and Cantopop star Jacky Cheung plays the movie director third of Peter Chan's lush meta-musical love triangle melodrama.
Veteran Hong Kong actor and Cantopop star Jacky Cheung plays the movie director third of Peter Chan's lush meta-musical love triangle melodrama.
Supporting Actress:
Original Screenplay:
1. Kôsuke Mukai, Wakako Miyashita & Nobuhiro Yamashita, Linda Linda Linda
2. Terrence Malick, The New World
3. Liu Jiayin, Oxhide
4. Yoshio Urasawa, Princess Raccoon
5. Chu Tien-wen & Hou Hsiao-hsien, Three Times
2. Terrence Malick, The New World
3. Liu Jiayin, Oxhide
4. Yoshio Urasawa, Princess Raccoon
5. Chu Tien-wen & Hou Hsiao-hsien, Three Times
Adapted Screenplay:
1. Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain
2. Josh Olson, A History of Violence
3. Shane Black, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
4. Tony Kushner & Eric Roth, Munich
5. Frank Cottrell Boyce, Tristram Shandy
Not a fan of the Adapted Screenplay category this year. There were probably another four or five original screenplays I would have rather nominated than some of these. Still, Tristram Shandy made me laugh, so that's good.
2. Josh Olson, A History of Violence
3. Shane Black, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
4. Tony Kushner & Eric Roth, Munich
5. Frank Cottrell Boyce, Tristram Shandy
Not a fan of the Adapted Screenplay category this year. There were probably another four or five original screenplays I would have rather nominated than some of these. Still, Tristram Shandy made me laugh, so that's good.
Non-English Language Film:
1. Election (Johnnie To)
2. Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
3. Oxhide (Liu Jiayin)
2. Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
3. Oxhide (Liu Jiayin)
4. Perhaps Love (Peter Chan)
5. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Documentary Film:
1. The Aristocrats (Paul Provenza)
2. Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry)
3. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
4. My Dad is 100 Years Old (Isabella Rossellini)
5. No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese)
I continue to believe that this is Michel Gondry's best film.
Animated Film:
1. 9 (Shane Acker)
2. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box)
3. One Man Band (Mark Andrews & Andrew Jimenez)
2. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box)
3. One Man Band (Mark Andrews & Andrew Jimenez)
Unseen Film:
1. A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon)
2. L'enfant (The Dardennes)
3. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
4. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
5. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. L'enfant (The Dardennes)
3. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
4. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
5. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
1. Domino
2. Election
3. The New World
4. Perhaps Love
5. Three Times
2. Election
3. The New World
4. Perhaps Love
5. Three Times
Cinematography:
1. Domino
2. King Kong
3. The New World
4. Perhaps Love
5. Three Times
2. King Kong
3. The New World
4. Perhaps Love
5. Three Times
Art Direction:
1. King Kong
2. The New World
3. Princess Raccoon
4. Seven Swords
5. Three Times
Seijun Suzuki's musical starring Zhang Ziyi is one of the weirdest films of the decade, and its stage is essential to its charm.
2. The New World
3. Princess Raccoon
4. Seven Swords
5. Three Times
Seijun Suzuki's musical starring Zhang Ziyi is one of the weirdest films of the decade, and its stage is essential to its charm.
Costume Design:
1. Kingdom of Heaven
2. Munich
3. The New World
4. Princess Raccoon
5. Seven Swords
2. Munich
3. The New World
4. Princess Raccoon
5. Seven Swords
Make-up:
1. Domino
2. Kingdom of Heaven
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Seven Swords
5. Sin City
2. Kingdom of Heaven
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Seven Swords
5. Sin City
Original Score:
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Broken Flowers
3. Linda Linda Linda
4. Perhaps Love
5. Princess Raccoon
Giving the nod to Perhaps Love's array of musical styles (big Broadway tunes, operetta-style monologues, pop ballads) over Princess Raccoon's folk eclecticism and Brokeback Mountain's groovy guitar.
2. Broken Flowers
3. Linda Linda Linda
4. Perhaps Love
5. Princess Raccoon
Giving the nod to Perhaps Love's array of musical styles (big Broadway tunes, operetta-style monologues, pop ballads) over Princess Raccoon's folk eclecticism and Brokeback Mountain's groovy guitar.
Adapted Score:
1. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
2. Linda Linda Linda
3. The New World
4. No Direction Home
5. Walk the Line
Japanese punk over Dylan, Wagner, Johnny Cash and one awesome concert.
2. Linda Linda Linda
3. The New World
4. No Direction Home
5. Walk the Line
Japanese punk over Dylan, Wagner, Johnny Cash and one awesome concert.
Sound:
1. Domino
2. The New World
3. Perhaps Love
4. Three Times
5. The War of the Worlds
2. The New World
3. Perhaps Love
4. Three Times
5. The War of the Worlds
Sound Editing:
1. Domino
2. King Kong
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Serenity
5. The War of the Worlds
2. King Kong
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Serenity
5. The War of the Worlds
Visual Effects:
1. Himalaya Singh
2. King Kong
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Serenity
5. The War of the Worlds
True story: when I was watching King Kong, the Empire State Building sequence, which I knew was totally fake, all special effects, was dizzying enough that it gave me an attack of vertigo and I had to watch the rest of the film lying on the floor. That's what the Endys are all about.
2. King Kong
3. Revenge of the Sith
4. Serenity
5. The War of the Worlds
True story: when I was watching King Kong, the Empire State Building sequence, which I knew was totally fake, all special effects, was dizzying enough that it gave me an attack of vertigo and I had to watch the rest of the film lying on the floor. That's what the Endys are all about.
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