My hands hurt....

I sit there and clap for nominees. Really, only one scream because of an omission:

BEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I love you, Maria. Joan Allen was a more expected snub. I can deal. She's been MIA all season.

Isn't it wonderful we can offically say "OSCAR NOMINEE" before:
Heath Ledger, Terrence Howard, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon, Felicity Huffman, Keira Knightley, Jake Gyllenhaal, George Clooney, Amy Adams and Jen Lindley?

(Suck it, Joey Potter.)

Dolly Parton is also now a two-time nominee.

Charlize got her second. She is my bitch.

BIGGEST SNUBS:
1. Bello.
2. Walk the Line not getting Pic after all.
3. The final Star Wars only gets one.
4. Russell Crowe, thank god!
5. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory not getting Art Direction.
6. Brokeback's Editing.

BIGGEST SURPRISES:
1. 14 first-time Nominees!
2. FOCUS getting an acting nom in each category, and with the exception of Rachel, all of them are under the age of 27.
3. No lone director.
4. Munich making it in, after all.
5. William Hurt

WORST MOMENTS:
1. Does Judi Dench really need another Oscar nomination?
2. Do Catherine and Frances really deserve to be there?
3. Munich getting Pic, Director & Screenplay.
4. No Maria Bello.

FULL LIST OF NOMINEES IS HERE.

BEST PICTURE
Brokeback Mountain - Capote - Crash - Good Night and Good Luck - Munich
(Ugh on the last one. All the others deserved it.)

BEST DIRECTING
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Bennett Miller - Capote
Paul Haggis - Crash
George Clooney - Good Night and Good Luck
Steven Spielberg - Munich
(See Picture.)

BEST ACTOR
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
Terrence Howard - Hustle and Flow
Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
David Strathairn - Good Night and Good Luck
(The strongest lineup, like, ever. See what happens you throw a phone, Russell!)

BEST ACTRESS
Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice
Charlize Theron - North Country
Reese Witehrspoon - Walk the Line
(Need to see 2 of these. Positively elated to see to Miss Knightley! Sad to not see Joan Allen, but I figured as much.)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
George Clooney - Syriana
Matt Dillon - Crash
Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
William Hurt - A History of Violence
(Hurt hams it up and gets in. This category is so weak this year I really don't care. Jake SERIOUSLY deserves this. Clooney was bleh and Giamatti is just a makeup nod.)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams - Junebug
Catherine Keener - Capote
Frances McDormand - North Country
Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
(Go Amy, Michelle and Rachel. I love Frances and Catherine to pieces, but these are easily some of their weakest performances. MARIA! MARIA! MARIA!)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Crash - Good Night and Good Luck - Match Point - The Squid and the Whale - Syriana
(Syriana is convoluted. 40 Year Old Virgin should be here instead. Everything else is very deserving!)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Brokeback Mountain - Capote - The Constant Gardener - A History of Violence - Munich
(Terrific lineup, cept Munich.)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Corpse Bride - Howl's Moving Castle - Wallace and Gromit
(Finally, they skipped the obligatory blockbuster nomination!)

BEST ART DIRECTION
Good Night and Good Luck - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - King Kong - Memoirs of a Geisha - Pride and Prejudice
(Good stuff.)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Batman Begins - Brokeback Mountain - Good Night and Good Luck - Memoirs of a Geisha - The New World
(Great stuff.)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Memoirs of a Geisha - Mrs. Henderson Presents - Pride and Prejudice - Walk the Line
(Geisha will probably take it, but it should be Walk the Line's.)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Darwin's Nightmare - Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - March of the Penguins - Murderball - Street Fight
(I saw 2 of these! WOW)

BEST FILM EDITING
Cinderella Man - The Constant Gardener - Crash - Munich - Walk the Line
(Brokeback's big snub of the morning. In case you didn't hear, the original editor of the film, Geraldine Peroni, took her life almost 2 months into production. She worked with Scorsese and her replacement, Dylan Tichenor, is an Altman protege. A nom for them seemed desinted. But I guess all those complaints of pacing kicked it out. A solid category anways!)

BEST MAKEUP
The Chronicles of Narnia - Cinderella Man - Star Wars: Episode 3
(Cinderella Man? Yes, they put so much makeup on Russell he looked like a decent person and so much on Renee she didn't look Asian!)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Brokeback Mountain - The Constant Gardener - Memoirs of a Geisha - Munich - Pride and Prejudice
(YES! BROKEBACK! Great to see very deserving Gardener and Prejudice here! Geisha was overdone. I don't even remember Munich's score?)

Best SOUND EDITING
King Kong - Memoirs of a Geisha - War of the Worlds
(Love those tripods!)

BEST SOUND MIXING
The Chroncicles of Narnia - King Kong - Memoirs of a Geisha - Walk the Line - War of the Worlds
(Love those country singers!)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Chronicles of Narnia - King Kong - War of the Worlds
(War of the Worlds should win. Kong was inconsistent an not finished. Narnia needed some work, too.)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"In the Deep" - Crash
"It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" - Hustle and Flow
"Travelin' Thru" - Transamerica
(ONLY 3 NOMINATIONS! Cleary, the other 2 would be Brokeback songs had they been eligible. BASTARD!)

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Don't Tell - Merry Christmas - Paradise Now - Sophie Scholl: The Final Days - Tsotsi
(I saw none of these! OUCH!)