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Friday, 3rd March 2006
Keira v Dame Judi in Oscars race Who will win these?Dame Judi is in the running for her performance in Mrs Henderson Presents. Knightley is nominated for her role in Pride and Prejudice. Fellow Brit Rachel Weisz has a best supporting actress nomination for The Constant Gardener. As predicted, Brokeback Mountain leads the field with eight nominations, including best picture, best actor for Heath Ledger and best director for Ang Lee. Nominees The other best picture nominees are Truman Capote biopic Capote, race drama Crash, Steven Spielberg thriller Munich and George Clooney's McCarthy-era drama Good Night And Good Luck. The surprise omission was Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line, although its stars Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon picked up acting nominations. Clooney has two nominations - best supporting actor for his role as an undercover CIA agent in Syriana, and best director for Good Night And Good Luck. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is nominated for best animation. California The nominations were announced in Beverly Hills, California. This is the first Oscar nomination for 20-year-old Knightley and the fourth for Dame Judi, 71, who won best actress in 1999 for Shakespeare In Love. They face stiff competition for this year’s award - Charlize Theron in mining drama North Country, Reese Witherspoon in Walk The Line and the hotly tipped Felicity Huffman as a transsexual in Transamerica. Best actor will go to either Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote, Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain, Joaquin Phoenix for Walk The Line, David Strathairn as journalist Edward R Murrow in Good Night And Good Luck, or Terrence Howard as a pimp-turned-rap star in Hustle and Flow. In the best supporting actress category, Rachel Weisz is one of the favourites to win after scooping a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as activist Tessa Quayle in the adaptation of John Le Carre’s The Constant Gardener. Best director nominees are Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain, George Clooney for Syriana, Steven Spielberg for Munich, and first-time feature directors Paul Haggis for Crash and Bennett Miller for Capote. The eight nominations for gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain include best supporting actor for Jake Gyllenhaal and best supporting actress for Michelle Williams.
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