7th MovieMania Awards

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8th Edition (annual poll)


Top-10:
Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain (USA)
2. Three Times (Taiwan)
3. C.R.A.Z.Y. (Canada)
4. Crazy Stone (China)
5. An Inconvenient Truth (USA)
6. The Child (Belgium)
7. Hidden (France)
8. Fearless (China)
9. Little Miss Sunshine (USA)
10. The Prestige (USA)
Runners-up:
- Tony Takitani (Japan)
- You and Me and Everyone We Know (USA)
- The Man of My Life (France)
- Akeelah and the Bee (USA)
- Good Night, and Good Luck. (USA)

Best Director: Zabou Breitman, THE MAN OF MY LIFE
RU: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, THREE TIMES

Best Ensemble Cast: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
RU: C.R.A.Z.Y.

Best Leading Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU: David Straitharn, GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.

Best Leading Actress: Felicity Huffman, TRANSAMERICA (USA)
RU: Meryl Streep, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (USA)

Best Supporting Actor: Pierre-Luc Brillant, C.R.A.Z.Y.
RU: Paul Dano, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, THE CONSTANT GARDENER (UK)
RU: Emma Thompson, STRANGER THAN FICTION (USA)

Best Original Screenplay: ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW
RU: THE MAN OF MY LIFE

Best Adapted Screenplay: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU: TONY TAKITANI

Best Cinematography: TONY TAKITANI
RU: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

Best Film Editing: (tie) TONY TAKITANI / BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU: ISABELLA (HK)

Best Art Direction: TONY TAKITANI
RU: THE NEW WORLD (USA)

Best Use of Costumes & Make-up: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST (USA)
RU: THE NEW WORLD

Best Use of Visual Effects: THE HOST (S. Korea)
RU: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST

Best Use of Sound: (tie) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST / THE NEW WORLD
RU: (tie) MUNICH (USA) / HAPPY FEET (USA)

Best Use of Action/War Sequences: FEARLESS
RU: THE HOST

Best Use of Music: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU: TONY TAKITANI

Best New Director: Ismael Ferroukhi, LE GRAND VOYAGE (France)
RU: Miranda July, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW

Best New Performer: Keke Pelmer, AKEELAH AND THE BEE
RU: Kais Nashef, PARADISE NOW (Palestine)

Best Use of Dance Sequences: RENT (USA)
RU: (tie) STEP UP (USA) / HAPPY FEET

Best Documentary Feature: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
RU: SINGAPORE GAGA (Singapore)

Best Animated Feature: MONSTER HOUSE (USA)
RU: CARS (USA)

Best Southeast Asian Film: SINGAPORE DREAMING (Singapore)
RU: (tie) GUBRA (Malaysia)


Tallies:
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN - Picture, Leading Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Use of Music
TONY TAKITANI - Cinematography, Film Editing, Art Direction
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - Use of Costumes & Make-up, Use of Sound
THE MAN OF MY LIFE - Director
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE - Ensemble Cast
TRANSAMERICA - Leading Actress
C.R.A.Z.Y. - Supporting Actor
THE CONSTANT GARDENER - Supporting Actress
YOU AND ME AND EVERYONE WE KNOW - Original Screenplay
THE HOST - Use of Visual Effects
THE NEW WORLD - Use of Sound
FEARLESS - Use of Action/War Sequences
LE GRAND VOYAGE - New Director
AKEELAH AND THE BEE - New Performer
RENT - Use of Dance Sequences
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH - Documentary
MONSTER HOUSE - Animated Feature
SINGAPORE DREAMING - Southeast Asian Film

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7 4/4th poll (i.e., 4th quarter of 2006)


Top-10:
Best Picture: The Prestige (USA)
2. The Departed (USA)
3. Little Red Flowers (China)
4. Stranger Than Fiction (USA)
5. The Man of My Life (France)
6. An Inconvenient Truth (USA)
7. Borat (USA)
8. Quinceanera (USA)
9. Casino Royale (USA)
10. Battle in Heaven (Mexico)
Runner-ups:
- Curse of the Golden Flower (China)
- Snow Cake (USA)
- Time (S. Korea)
- Midnight Sun (Japan)
- Dead Man's Shoes (UK)

Best Director: Zabou Breitman, THE MAN OF MY LIFE
RU: Martin Scorsese, THE DEPARTED

Best Ensemble Cast: STRANGER THAN FICTION
RU (tie): THE MAN OF MY LIFE / THE DEPARTED / CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER

Best Leading Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, BORAT
RU: Leonardo DiCaprio, THE DEPARTED

Best Leading Actress: Gong Li, CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER
RU: Catherine Frot, TURNING PAGES a.k.a. THE PAGE TURNER (France)

Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson, THE DEPARTED
RU: Mark Wahlberg, THE DEPARTED

Best Supporting Actress: Emma Thompson, STRANGER THAN FICTION
RU: Léa Drucker, THE MAN OF MY LIFE

Best Original Screenplay: THE MAN OF MY LIFE
RU: BATTLE IN HEAVEN

Best Adapted Screenplay: THE DEPARTED
RU: THE PRESTIGE

Best Cinematography (tie): LITTLE RED FLOWERS / BATTLE IN HEAVEN
RU: THE MAN OF MY LIFE / A BATTLE OF WITS (HK)

Best Film Editing: THE DEPARTED
RU: CASINO ROYALE

Best Art Direction: THE PRESTIGE
RU: A BATTLE OF WITS

Best Use of Costumes & Make-up: THE PRESTIGE
RU: A BATTLE OF WITS / CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER

Best Use of Visual Effects: NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
RU: ERAGON (USA)

Best Use of Sound: EXILED (HK)
RU (tie): HAPPY FEET (USA) / CASINO ROYALE

Best Use of Music: THE MAN OF MY LIFE
RU (tie): HUSTLE & FLOW (USA) / THE DEPARTED

Best Use of Action/War Sequences: A BATTLE OF WITS
RU: CASINO ROYALE

Best New Director: David Bowers & Sam Fell, FLUSHED AWAY (USA)
RU (tie):
- Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor, CRANK (USA)
- Bill Kent, THE OH IN OHIO (USA)

Best New Performer: Dong Bowen, LITTLE RED FLOWERS
RU: Emily Rios, QUINCEANERA

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7 3/4th MovieMania Awards - i.e., 3rd quarter poll

Top-10:
Best Picture: Crazy Stone (China/HK)
2. Me and You and Everyone We Know (USA)
3. Tony Takitani (Japan)
4. Adam's Apples (Denmark)
5. The Host (S. Korea)
6. Akeelah and the Bee (USA)
7. Click (USA)
8. Little Miss Sunshine (USA)
9. Thank You for Smoking (USA)
10. Singapore Dreaming (Singapore)
(Runners-up)
- The Devil Wears Prada (USA)
- Lemming (France)
- Sophie Scholl (Germany)
- Lady and the Water (USA)
- Friends with Money (USA)

Best Director: Ichikawa Jun, TONY TAKITANI
RU: Miranda July, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW

Best Ensemble Cast: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
RU: FRIENDS WITH MONEY / THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA

Best Leading Actor: Paul Giamatti, LADY IN THE WATER
RU: Anthony Hopkins, THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN (New Zealand/USA)

Best Leading Actress: Meryl Streep, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
RU: Miyazawa Rie, TONY TAKITANI

Best Supporting Actor: Paul Dano, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
RU: Simon McBurney, FRIENDS WITH MONEY

Best Supporting Actress: Yeo Yann Yann, SINGAPORE DREAMING
RU: Charlotte Rampling, LEMMING

Best Original Screenplay: ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW
RU: CRAZY STONE

Best Adapted Screenplay: TONY TAKITANI
RU: THANK YOU FOR SMOKING

Best Cinematography: TONY TAKITANI
RU: THE BANQUET

Best Film Editing: TONY TAKITANI
RU: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST (USA)

Best Art Direction: TONY TAKITANI
RU: THE BANQUET (China)

Best Use of Costumes & Make-up: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
RU: THE BANQUET

Best Use of Visual Effects: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
RU: THE HOST

Best Use of Sound: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST
RU: THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT (USA)

Best Use of Music: TONY TAKITANI
RU: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Best Use of Action/War Sequences: THE HOST
RU: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST

Best New Directo: Miranda July, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW
RU (tie):
- Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
- Jason Reitman, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING

Best New Performer: Keke Palmer, AKEELAH AND THE BEE
RU: Miranda July, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW


Tallies:
TONY TAKITANI (6): Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Art Direction, Music
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST (4): Use of Costumes & Make-up, Visual Effects, Sound
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (3): Ensemble Cast, Supporting Actor
ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (3): Original Screenplay, New Director
CRAZY STONE (1): Picture
LADY IN THE WATER (1): Leading Actor
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (1): Leading Actress
SINGAPORE DREAMING (1): Supporting Actress
THE HOST (1): Use of Action/War Sequences
AKEELAH AND THE BEE (1): New Performer

[Damien]

The use of the Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil" is especially ingenious -- the scene in which it is employed deserves to become a classic.

A shame it won't be released here, but hopefully it will find life on video. And, I agree, Uri for those of us who grew up in the film's time period. the movie is amazingly astute.

[Uri]

When C.R.A.Z.Y. opened here, Jean Mark Vallee, its director, was interviewed in an Israeli paper, and he emphasized the importance of the particular music he choose for the score and how painfully difficult it was to get permission to use it. It was made possible because it was contractually stated that the film will not be commercially released in the states. Sorry.

And yes, it is an original and very endearing movie. Especially for those of us who happened to actually be there, I mean the '60s and '70s. The way that time frame is so wickedly evoked is priceless.

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Results of the 2nd quarterly poll ... comments are welcome!


Top-10:
Best Picture: C.R.A.Z.Y. (Canada)

YAY!!!!!!

C.R.A.Z.Y. is a great -- and totally original -- movie. I hope to God it gets released in the States.

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Results of the 2nd quarterly poll ... comments are welcome!


Top-10:
Best Picture: C.R.A.Z.Y. (Canada)
2. The Child (Belgium)
3. Good Night, and Good Luck. (USA)
4. Singapore GaGa (Singapore)
5. 4:30 (Singapore)
6. Paradise Now (Palestine)
7. Invisible Waves (Thailand/Japan/HK)
8. Election 2 (HK)
9. Isabella (HK)
10. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (China)
Runners-up:
- Cars (USA)
- X-Men: The Last Stand (USA)
- Inside Man (USA)
- Where the Truth Lies (USA)
- The Last Communist (Malaysia)

Best Director: Pang Ho-Cheung, ISABELLA
RU: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardene, THE CHILD

Best Ensemble Cast: PARADISE NOW
RU: C.R.A.Z.Y.

Best Leading Actor: David Straitharn, GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
RU (tie):
- Chapman To, ISABELLA
- Takahara Ken, RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES

Best Leading Actress: Isabella Leung, ISABELLA
RU: Joan Chen, JASMINE WOMEN (China)

Best Supporting Actor: Pierre-Luc Brillant, C.R.A.Z.Y.
RU: Philip Seymour Hoffman, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3 (USA)

Best Supporting Actress: Danielle Proulx, C.R.A.Z.Y.
RU: Jodie Foster, INSIDE MAN

Best Original Screenplay: ISABELLA
RU: GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.

Best Adapted Screenplay: WHERE THE TRUTH LIES
RU: THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF GUSTAVE KLOPP a.k.a. NARCO (France)

Best Cinematography: ISABELLA
RU: SILENT HILL (USA)

Best Film Editing: WHERE THE TRUTH LIES
RU: ISABELLA

Best Art Direction: ISABELLA
RU: GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.

Best Use of Costumes & Make-up: C.R.A.Z.Y.
RU: X-MEN: THE LAST STAND

Best Use of Sound: ISABELLA
RU: X-MEN: THE LAST STAND

Best Use of Visual Effects: X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
RU: MIRRORMASK (UK)

Best Use of Music: C.R.A.Z.Y.
RU: ISABELLA

Best Use of Action/War Sequences: X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
RU: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3

Best New Director: Lee Ha, BEWITCHING ATTRACTION (S. Korea)
RU: Susan Stroman, THE PRODUCERS (USA)

Best New Performer: Kais Nashef, PARADISE NOW
RU (tie):
- Li Xiao Yuan, 4:30
- Emile Vallee, C.R.A.Z.Y.

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We are also doing quarterly polls for fun. Since many of this year's Oscar favorites were eligible in the last quarterly poll, I just share with you the results here. Comments are welcome!


7 1/4th MovieMania Awards
(Eligibility: Movies that were released theatrically in Singapore for the first time within the first quarter of 2006)

Top-10,
Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain
2. Fearless [China/HK]
3. TransAmerica
4. Three Times [Taiwan]
5. The Constant Gardener
6. Le grand voyage [Morocco/France]
7. Gubra [Malaysia]
8. I Not Stupid Too [Singapore]
9. Hidden (Cache)
10. Capote
Runners-up:
- Match Point
- The New World
- Munich
- Broken Flowers
- Proof

Best Director: Lee Ang, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, THREE TIMES

Best Ensemble Cast: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU: BROKEN FLOWERS

Best Leading Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU: Heath Ledger, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

Best Leading Actress: Felicity Hoffman, TRANSAMERICA
RU: Q'Orianka Kilcher, THE NEW WORLD

Best Supporting Actor (tie):
- Peter Sarsgaard, JARHEAD
- Anthony Hopkins, PROOF

Best Supporting Actress: Michelle Wiiliams, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU: Rachel Weisz, THE CONSTANT GARDENER

Best Original Screenplay: HIDDEN
RU: LE GRAND VOYAGE

Best Adapted Screenplay: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU: THE CONSTANT GARDENER

Best Cinematography: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU: THE CONSTANT GARDENER

Best Film Editing: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU: FEARLESS

Best Art Direction: THE NEW WORLD
RU: MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA

Best Use of Costumes & Make-up: THE NEW WORLD
RU: MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA

Best Use of Visual Effects: V FOR VENDETTA

Best Use of Sound: MUNICH
RU: THE NEW WORLD

Best Use of Action/War Sequences: FEARLESS
RU: 13TH DISTRICT

Best Use of Music: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
RU (tie):
- ELIZABETHTOWN
- THREE TIMES

Best New Director: Duncan Tucker, TRANSAMERICA
RU: Ismael Ferroukhi, LE GRAND VOYAGE

Best New Performer: Q'Orianka Kilcher, THE NEW WORLD
RU: Lester Makedonsky, HIDDEN


Tallies:
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (8): Picture, Director, Leading Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Use of Music
THE NEW WORLD (3): Art Direction, Use of Costumes & Make-up, New Performer
TRANSAMERICA (2): Leading Actress, New Director
FEARLESS (1): Use of Action/War Sequences
HIDDEN (1): Original Screenplay
JARHEAD (1): Supporting Actor
MUNICH (1): Use of Sound
PROOF (1): Supporting Actor
V FOR VENDETTA (1): Use of Visual Effects

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Thanks for this, inky. BE WITH ME is coming to a San Francisco film festival soon. Is it a must-see?

Certainly! It has been considered by many Singapore critics as the best Singapore film ever made. Director Eric Khoo had been perceived as a good short film director but so-so in making feature films. In this 3rd auteurish feature film of his (he co-directed a lousy commercial film several years ago, which doesn't count), he brilliantly weaves three fictional stories with a documentary of a courageous real-life handicapped woman - and the final scene where a fictional character embraces the real-life woman at her own real-life home will leave you speechless.

The film was invited to compete at Cannes (international competition - the first in Singapore Cinema) as well as selected to open the Directors' Fortnight. Eric opted for the latter because he knew that his film might be "buried" by a bunch of big names should he go for the competition. IThe film is reportedly received a 10-minute standing ovation at the DF opening. A big gun of Warner Bros. in London immediately phoned the Managing Director of WB Singapore and raved about this film, resulted in the latter acquiring the local rights.

Also watch out SEPET's follow-up GUBRA at SFIFF. It was world premiered in Singapore last Monday and opened here on Thursday (still pending censorship decision in Malaysia because of, again, some religiously and politically sensitive elements from their point-of-view). The film has generated mixed reviews in Singapore but I personally considered it the most mature work by Yasmin which is essentially a summary of her first two films (a bit too premature though ... we can count how many films Wong KW, HHH, Tsai ML and Kitano had made respectively before they came out with their personal "summary films", namely, 2046, THREE TIMES, THE WAYWARD CLOUD and TAKESHIS').

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Thanks for this, inky. BE WITH ME is coming to a San Francisco film festival soon. Is it a must-see?

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This is a film poll conducted on a Singapore-based film forum. Movies that were released in Singapore in 2005 for the first time are qualified. Here are the results. Comments are welcome!


7th MovieMania Awards

Top-10:
Best Picture: SIDEWAYS (USA)
2. HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (Japan)
3. BE WITH ME (Singapore)
4. THE SEA INSIDE (Spain)
5. 3-IRON (S. Korea)
6. BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI (Israel)
7. FINDING NEVERLAND (USA)
8. EROS (Italy/USA/HK)
9. PRIDE & PREJUDICE (UK)
10. MYSTERIOUS SKIN (USA)
Runners-up:
- BATMAN BEGINS (USA)
- HOTEL RWANDA (USA)
- MILLION DOLLAR BABY (USA)
- LILJA 4-EVER (Sweden)
- MARCH OF THE PENGUINS (France)

Best Director: Alexander Payne, SIDEWAYS
2. Clint Eastwood, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
3. Eric Khoo, BE WITH ME
Other nominees:
- Shemi Zarhin, BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI
- David Cronenberg, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
- Tsai Ming-liang, THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Taiwan)

Best Ensemble Cast: SIDEWAYS
2. MILLION DOLLAR BABY
3. DOWNFALL (Germany)
Other nominees:
- BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI
- CRASH (USA)
- A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (USA)

Best Leading Actor: Paul Giamatti, SIDEWAYS
2. Javier Bardem, THE SEA INSIDE
3. Kitano Takeshi, BLOOD AND BONES (Japan)
Other nominees:
- Daniel Auteuil, 36 QUAI DES ORFEVRES (France)
- Bruno Ganz, DOWNFALL
- Liu Ye, LAN YU (China)

Best Leading Actress: Hilary Swank, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
2. Gong Li, EROS
3. Annette Bening, BEING JULIA (USA)
Other nominees:
- Oksana Akinshina, LILJA 4-EVER
- Keira Knightley, PRIDE & PREJUDICE
- Chen Hsiang-Chyi, THE WAYWARD CLOUD

Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Hayden Church, SIDEWAYS
2. Morgan Freeman, MILLION DOLLAR BABY
3. Paul Giamatti, CINDERELLA MAN (USA)
Other nominees:
- Matt Dillon, CRASH
- Donald Sutherland, PRIDE & PREJUDICE
- Kevin Costner, THE UPSIDE OF ANGER (USA)

Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen, SIDEWAYS
2. Aya Koren, BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI
3. Ingela Olsson, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN (Sweden)
Other nominees:
- Thandie Newton, CRASH
- Maria Bello, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
- Sharon Warren, RAY (USA)

Best Original Screenplay: BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI
2. CRASH
3. THE WAYWARD CLOUD / 3-IRON
Other nominees:
- BAD EDUCATION (Spain)
- ELECTION (HK, 2005)

Best Adapted Screenplay: SIDEWAYS
2. MYSTERIOUS SKIN / PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Other nominees:
- BE WITH YOU (Japan)
- A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
- IN MY FATHER'S DEN (Australia)

Best Cinematography: SIN CITY (USA)
2. EROS
3. A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (France)
Other nominees:
- CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (USA)
- PRIDE & PREJUDICE
- THE SEA INSIDE

Best Film Editing: 3-IRON
2. EROS
3. ELECTION
Other nominees:
- BE WITH ME
- THE BOW (S. Korea)
- SIDEWAYS

Best Art Direction: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
2. EROS
3. A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT
Other nominees:
- LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS (USA)
- MILLIONS (UK)
- PRIDE & PREJUDICE

Best Use of Costumes & Make-up: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
2. EROS
3. BEING JULIA
Other nominees:
- THE AVIATOR (USA)
- BATMAN BEGINS
- PRIDE & PREJUDICE

Best Use of Visual Effects: SIN CITY
2. CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
3. HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
Other nominees:
- THE AVIATOR
- THE SEA INSIDE
- WAR OF THE WORLDS (USA)

Best Use of Sound: 3-IRON
2. WAR OF THE WORLDS
3. MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
Other nominees:
- THE BOW
- THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (USA)
- TWENTY-NINE PALMS (France)

Best Use of Music: SIDEWAYS
2. THE WAYWARD CLOUD
3. EROS
Other nominees:
- ALFIE (USA)
- AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
- PERHAPS ... LOVE (HK)

Best Use of Action/War Sequences: SIN CITY
2. WAR OF THE WORLDS
3. MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Other nominees:
- THE MYTH (HK)
- TOM YUM GOONG (Thailand)
- A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT

Best Use of Animated Sequences in a Live-Action Film: THE WORLD (China)
Other nominees:
- HARDCORE (Greece)
- MOB SISTER (HK)

Best Use of Dance Sequences: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
2. THE WAYWARD CLOUD
3. PERHAPS ... LOVE
Other nominees:
- INNOCENT STEPS (S. Korea)
- SHALL WE DANCE? (USA)

Best New Director: Brad McGann, IN MY FATHER'S DEN
2. Doi Nobuhiro, BE WITH YOU
3. Nicole Kassell, THE WOODSMAN (USA)
Other nominees:
- Akiyama Takahiko, HINOKIO (Japan)
- Xu Jinglei, MY FATHER AND I (China)
- Joe Wright, PRIDE & PREJUDICE

Best New Performer: Artyom Bogucharsky, LILJA 4-EVER
2. Belen Ruenda, THE SEA INSIDE
3. Sibel Kekili, HEAD-ON (Germany)
Other nominees:
- Emily Barclay, IN MY FATHER'S DEN
- Carlos Padilla, INNOCENT VOICES (Mexico)
- George Webster, MYSTERIOUS SKIN

Best Documentary Feature: MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
2. ROCK SCHOOL
3. INSIDE DEEP THROAT
Other nominees:
- THE YEAR OF YAO

Best Animated Feature: HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE
2. WALLACE AND GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
3. TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE
Other nominees:
- CHICKEN LITTLE (USA)
- CORPSE BRIDE (USA)

Best Southeast Asian Film: BE WITH ME
2. PERTH (Singapore)


Tallies:
SIDEWAYS (8) - Picture, Director, Ensemble, Leading Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Use of Music
SIN CITY (3) - Cinematography, Use of Visual Effects, Use of Action/War Sequences
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (3) - Art Direction, Use of Costumes & Make-up, Use of Dance Sequences
3-IRON (2) - Film Editing, Use of Sound
BONJOUR MONSIEUR SHLOMI (1) - Original Screenplay
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (1) - Leading Actress
IN MY FATHER'S DEN (1) - New Director
LILJA 4-EVER (1) - New Performer
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS (1) - Documentary Feature
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (1) - Animated Feature
THE WORLD (1) - Use of Animated Sequences in a Live-Action Film
BE WITH ME (1) - Southeast Asian Film