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The complete list of Oscar nominees

• I suppose the biggest surprises involved the little engines that could, small audience pictures that picked up some nominations. Everyone expected Hoffman to be nominated for his performance in Capote, but very few felt that the movie would be in the final five.
• Similarly, most people agreed that Terrence Howard deserved a nomination for Hustle and Flow, but few thought he would actually get one. I think the five guys they nominated as Best Actor are the same five I would have picked.
• Biggest disappointments, as I see it: 1) no nominations for Sin City - not even for best visual effects (???). Rodriguez and Rourke were also shut out. The Mickster was truly hosed, in my opinion, because they dug up some truly uninspired nominees in the Best Supporting Actor category. Probably only two of them even belong there at all. Matt Dillon? Maybe they thought they were choosing the five nominees for "Best Supporting Actor in Crash." And even then he might not make it! Do you think they're just paying him back for the nomination he deserved and didn't get for his brilliant comic performance in "There's Something About Mary"?(2) No Best Original Screenplay nomination for Lord of War, even though some mediocre screenplays snuck into the nominees.