Persistent Illumination

OK, so I went to see Brokeback Mountain last weekend. It was good, but not that good.

The story was a bit interesting, though what I REALLY loved were the mountains and the natural scenes. That, and the actors' and director's combined ability to take Heath "Knight's Tale" Ledger and Jake "Donnie Darko" Gyllenhal and make us forget all about their acting pasts. For a few brief hours, they seemed to be real cowboys.

Well, gay cowboys, that is.

Who apparently never figure out "hey, we're gay, it's the 60's, we're right next to California. Why don't we just move on out to San Francisco and live our lives there?"

Aaaanyways...scroll way down to see my picks (Blogger and tables don't seem to be getting along at the moment)

Contenders	Safe bets	I'd prefer
Best Picture Brokeback Mountain Capote Crash Good Night, and Good Luck Munich	Brokeback	Crash
Adapted Screenplay Brokeback Mountain Capote The Constant Gardener A History of Violence Munich	Brokeback	Capote
Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman Terrence Howard Heath Ledger Joaquin Phoenix David Strathairn	Hoffman	Hoffman
Best Actress Judi Dench Felicity Huffman Keira Knightley Charlize Theron Reese Witherspoon	That "Housewives" girl	Charlize Theron
Supporting Actor George Clooney Matt Dillon Paul Giamatti Jake Gyllenhaal William Hurt	Gyllenhaal	Giamatti
Supporting Actress Amy Adams Catherine Keener Frances McDormand Rachel Weisz Michelle Williams	Williams	Weisz
Director Ang Lee, Brokeback Bennett Miller, Capote Paul Haggis, Crash Clooney, Good Night Spielberg, Munich	gay cowboys	racial tensions
Original Screenplay Crash Good Night, and Good Luck Match Point The Squid and the Whale Syriana	Sea creatures	Match Point
Animated Feature Film Howl's Moving Castle Corpse Bride Wallace & Gromit	Howl	Howl
Cinematography Batman Begins Brokeback Mountain Good Night, and Good Luck Memoirs of a Geisha The New World	Brokeback	Batman/Geisha
Music Brokeback, Santaolalla Gardener, Iglesias Geisha, John Williams Munich, John Williams Pride, Marianelli	John Williams	John Williams (but for the other movie)
Costume Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Memoirs of a Geisha Mrs. Henderson Presents Pride & Prejudice Walk the Line	Geisha	same
Documentary Feature Darwin's Nightmare Enron March of the Penguins Murderball Street Fight	Penguins	is there any other choice?
Visual Effects Narnia King Kong War of the Worlds	Kong	same

What do YOU think?