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  Aseem Chhabra
  Arthur J Pais

Raja Sen

Entertainment Correspondent Raja Sen gives his spin on the Academy Award nominations 2005.

My Oscar list isn't a set of predictions, it's a set of wishes: That the Academy will finally grow up and look beyond melodramatic biopics. That foreign cinema won't just be another consolatory category. That the upper lips will finally quiver with laughter.

Unlikeliest odds in the world, but here are the ones who deserve the gold.


 

BEST FILM

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Before Sunset

Sideways

The Incredibles

Kill Bill Vol 2

BEST ACTOR

Jim Carrey (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind)

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator)

Bill Murray (The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou)

Paul Giamatti (Sideways)

Jamie Foxx (Ray)




BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Peter O'Toole (Troy)

David Carradine (Kill Bill Vol 2)

Mark Ruffalo (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind)

Alan Alda (The Aviator)

JK Simmons (Spider-Man 2)
BEST SCREENPLAY

Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind)

Alvin Sargent (Spider-Man 2)

David O Russell, Jeff Baena (I Heart Huckabees)

Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor (Sideways)

Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke (Before Sunset)
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BEST DIRECTOR

Zhang Yimou (House Of Flying Daggers)

Lars Von Trier (Dogville)

Richard Linklater (Before Sunset)

Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill Vol 2)

Michael Mann (Collateral)




BEST ACTRESS

Uma Thurman (Kill Bill Vol 2)

Julie Delpy (Before Sunset)

Natalie Portman (Garden State)

Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake)

Nicole Kidman (Dogville)




BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Anne Heche (Birth)

Virginia Madsen (Sideways)

Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)

Meryl Streep (The Manchurian Candidate)

Laura Linney (Kinsey)
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