DAN’S MOVIE DIGEST 161

Was it just me or is Stephen Fry’s prattling beginning to become tiresome? Ithink it would be a wise decision to dump Fry for 2007 and bring in somefresh blood. There are only so many overcomplicated descriptive sentencesyou can take before it becomes less humourous and more frustrating.

Anyway, regardless of Stephen Fry’s repetitive hosting style, the resultsfor 2006 were:

• Best Score: John Williams, Memoirs Of A Geisha
• Best Make-Up and Hair: Chronicles Of Narnia
• Animated Short: Fallen Art
• Costume Design: Colleen Atwood, Memoirs Of A Geisha
• Live Action Short: Antonio’s Breakfast
• Best Sound: Walk the Line
• Production Design: Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire.
• The Orange Rising Star Award: James McAvoy
• Special Visual Effects: King Kong
• Foreign Language Film: The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
• Carl Forman Award (First Time Filmmaker): Joe Wright, Director, Pride andPrejudice.
• Editing: Claire Simpson, The Constant Gardener.
• Michael Balkan Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema: ChuckFinch and Billy Merrell – Gaffer and Best Boy.
• Actor in a Supporting Role: Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain.
• Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, Crash.
• Actress in a Supporting Role: Thandie Newton, Crash
• Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain.
• Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film: Wallace and Gromit inThe Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Best Cinematography: Dion Beebe, Memoirs of a Geisha
• The David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction: Ang Lee, BrokebackMountain.
• Actress in a Leading Role: Reese Witherspoon, Walk The Line.
• Actor in a Leading Role: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote.
• Best Film: Brokeback Mountain
• The Fellowship of the British Academy: David Puttnam

No major surprises then, just disappointing that Brokeback Mountaindominated everything (it’s not THAT great, is it?) and a lot of Britishentries were ignored. Also a little annoying that many of the nominatedmovies have yet to be released here or failed at the US box office (GoodNight And Good Luck, Capote, Memoirs Of A Geisha, etc.).

All figures are weekend box-office gross.

• 1. Eight Below ($25.0m)
• 2. Date Movie ($22.3m)
• 3. The Pink Panther (2006) ($21.0m)
• 4. Curious George ($15.3m)
• 5. Final Destination 3 ($12.5m)
• 6. Firewall ($10.3m)
• 7. Freedomland ($7.00m)
• 8. Big Momma’s House 2 ($5.85m)
• 9. When a Stranger Calls ($5.80m)
• 10. Nanny McPhee ($5.10m)

UK TOP 10 (CINEMA)

• 1. Chicken Little (£2.18m)
• 2. Big Momma’s House 2 (£1.63m)
• 3. Final Destination 3 (£1.40m)
• 4. Walk the Line (£0.95m)
• 5. Casanova (£0.55m)
• 6. Aeon Flux (£0.51m)
• 7. Zathura: A Space Adventure (£0.50m)
• 8. Good Night and Good Luck (£0.40m)
• 9. Munich (£0.31m)
• 10. Brokeback Mountain (£0.26m)

All the following are U.K. release dates, and are subject to change.

• 24th February 2006: Proof, Dave Movie, The Matador, Capote, The Fog (2005), Lucky Number Slevin (right)
• 3rd March 2006: MirrorMask, Syriana, The Weather Man, Stay, Last Holiday, Manderley, Kidulthood
• 10th March 2006: Two for the Money, The Proposition, The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Transamerica, These Foolish Things, Evil Aliens
• 17th March 2006: Romance & Cigarettes, She’s The Man, V For Vendetta, Failure To Launch, The Pink Panther (2006)
• 24th March 2006: Tristan & Isolde, The Big White, Inside Man,Half Light, The Greatest Game Ever Played
• 31st March 2006: Slither, Shooting Dogs, Firewall, Yours Mine & Ours, Lemming, The White Countess, Imagine Me & You, Basic Instinct 2
• 7th April 2006: Ice Age 2: Meltdown, Three, Take the Lead, The Squid and the Whale, Rent, Wah-Wah, An American Haunting
• 14th April 2006: Lemming, Alien Autopsy, American Dreamz, Junebug, Just My Luck, Scary Movie 4
• 21st April 2006: The Moguls, Harsh Times, Hoot, Hostel, Confetti, CRAZY, L’Enfer (2005), Mistress of Spices
• 28th April 2006: Eight Below, Lucky You, Love & Hate, Flight 93

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