Met an old friend tonight for dinner and an early New Year's celebration. We were both pretty looped when we got it into our heads to name the top ten films of the year. Hey, everyone else is doing it; why shouldn't we?
We couldn't agree on the numbering so we finally decided to just list them alphabetically. Here are our choices:
Brokeback Mountain
Cinderella Man
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
History of Violence
Junebug
Match Point
Munich
The Squid and the Whale
Syriana
There were several movies in which we admired a particular actor's performance without thinking the film itself matched the quality of the acting. Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote and the ape in King Kong come to mind (I told you we were were looped).
After we listed our ten best, we tried to pick our five Oscar nominations for best movie. Here they are:
Brokeback Mountain
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Match Point
Munich
By then, our sense of camaraderie was stretched to its max and we limited ourselves to single votes for the best acting awards:
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) and David Straithairn (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Best Supporting Actor: Don Cheadle (Crash) and George Clooney (Syriana)
Best Actress: Maria Bello (History of Violence) and Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
Best Supporting Acress: Diane Keaton (The Family Stone) and the Mother Penguin (March of the Penguins)
I'm looking forward to seeing the actual nominations.
Off to take an aspirin or two or three.
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