Guilds Awards 2006 nominees

The nominees for the Directors, Screen Actors and Writers Guilds Awards were mailed out a few days ago, apart from a slight glitch where a Director was nonimated then hastily removed, there’s not huge surprises.

For all three sets of nominations – the Directors, Writers and Screen Actors – just head to the full story…

Writers Guild:

Original Screenplay
Cinderella Man, Screenplay by Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman, Story by Cliff Hollingsworth, Universal Pictures
Crash, Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco, Story by Paul Haggis, Lions Gate Films
The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Written by Judd Apatow & Steve Carell, Universal Pictures
Good Night, and Good Luck, Written by George Clooney & Grant Heslov, Warner Independent Pictures
The Squid and the Whale, Written by Noah Baumbach, Samuel Goldwyn Films

Adapted Screenplay
Brokeback Mountain, Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, Based on the Short Story by Annie Proulx, Focus Features
Capote, Screenplay by Dan Futterman, Based on the Book by Gerald Clarke, Sony Pictures Classics
The Constant Gardener, Screenplay by Jeffrey Caine, Based on the Novel by John le Carré, Focus Features
A History of Violence, Screenplay by Josh Olson, Based on the Graphic Novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, New Line Cinema
Syriana, Written by Stephen Gaghan, Based on the Book “See No Evil” by Robert Baer, Warner Bros. Pictures

Screen Actors Guild:

Actor:
Russell Crowe, Cinderella Man
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck

Actress:
Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Charlize Theron, North Country
Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Ziyi Zhang, Memoirs of a Geisha

Supporting Actor:
Don Cheadle, Crash
George Clooney, Syriana
Matt Dillon, Crash
Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain

Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams, Junebug
Catherine Keener, Capote
Frances McDromand, North Country
Rachel Weisz, Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams, Brokeback

Ensemble:
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Hustle & Flow

Directors:

Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney, Good Night, Good Luck
Paul Haggis, Crash
Bennett Miller, Capote
Steven Spielerg, Munich

Poor James Mangold would have had a terrible fright to have suddenly seen his name in the announcement for Walk the Line only to have it pulled a few minutes later in another email! Ooops!

So what do you think? Anything you totally disagree with, anything that shouldn’t be there, or something that should? What do you think this bodes for the Oscars, bearing in mind these are usually a very good indicator of what’s to come?…