RENT and THE PRODUCERS in the EW Oscar Issue

Just to prove that RENT is STILL a EW darling (not to be confused with movies.com), and further evidence that THE PRODUCERS buzz is growing...

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EW's Oscar Preview List
Although it's all of the usual suspects (most likely having gone to print before Jarhead was released with a tepid response) EW always provides a good outline of what to expect come Oscar time.

Best Pic:

Munich
Syriana
Brokeback Mountain
Good Night, and Good Luck (resonates especially strongly today)
Jarhead
The Constant Gardener
Memoirs of A Geisha
The New World

Second tier (festival darlings)
Walk the Line
Capote
A History of Violence
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

The Musicals
Rent
The Producers

Lighter fare:
Pride & Prejudice
Mrs. Henderson Presents

Return to Form
Woody's Match Point

Fantasy
King Kong
Chronicles of Narnia

and finally, early releases
Crash
Cinderella Man

Best Director
Ang Lee (Brokeback)
George Clooney (Good Night)
Steven Spielberg (Munich)
Woody Allen (Match Point)
Sam Mendes (Jarhead)
Ron Howard (Cinderella Man)
Peter Jackson (King Kong)

One Time Newbies
Terrence Malick
Rob Marshall
Fernando Meirelles

First-timers
James Mangold
Bennet Miller
Susan Stroman (Producers)
David Cronenberg (History of Violence)

Finally, he who wears many hats (I say he because it's so rarely a she)
Tommy Lee Jones (Three Buriels)
Stephan Gaghan (Syriana)
Paul Haggis (Crash)

Best Actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
Joaquin Phoenix (Walk the Line)
David Strathairn (Good Night)
Russell Crowe (Cinderella Man)
Eric Bana (Munich)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Jarhead)
Heath Ledger (Brokeback)
Cillian Murphy (Breakfast on Pluto)
Tom Wilkinson (Separate Lies)
Bill Murray (Broken Flowers)
Johnny Depp (The Libertine)
Ralph Fiennes (Constant Gardener)
Tommy Lee Jones (Three Buriels)

First timers:
George Clooney (Syriana)
Viggo Mortensen (History of Violence)
Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow)
Nathan Lane (Producers)
Jeff Daniels (Squid and the Whale)

Best Actress:

Reese Witherspoon
Gwyneth Paltrow
Claire Danes
Charlize Theron (North Country)
Ziyi Zhang (Geisha)
Keira Knightley (Pride & Prej)
Radha Mitchell (Melinda and Melina)
Rosario Dawson (Rent)
O'Orianka Kilcher (The New World)
Joan Allen (Upside of Anger)
Felicity Huffman (Transamerica)
Julianne Moore (Prize Winner of Defiance, Idaho)
Natasha Richardson (White Countess)
Judi Dench (Mrs. Henderson Presents)

Supporting Actor
Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Terrence Howard (Crash)
Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Christopher Plummer (Syriana)
Ed Harris, William Hurt (History of Violence)
Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard (Jarhead)
Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Rush (Munich)
Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback)
Barry Pepper (Three Buriels)
Clifton Collins Jr (Capote)
Donald Sutherland (Pride & Prejudice)
Oliver Platt (Casanova)
Frank Langella (Good Night)
Bob Hoskins (Mrs. Henderson Presents)
Ken Watanabe (Geisha)
Ben Kingsley (Oliver Twist)
Kevin Costner (Upside of Anger)
Steve Martin (Shopgirl)

Supporting Actress
Frances McDormand (North Country)
Shirley MacLaine (In Her Shoes)
Diane Keaton (Family Stone)
Laura Linney (Squid and the Whale)
Catherine Keener (Capote)
Uma Thurman (Producers)
Maria Bello (History of Violence)
Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway (Brokeback)
Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh (Geisha)
Thandie Newton, Sandra Bullock (Crash
Ginnifer Goodwin (Walk the Line)
Hope Davis (Proof)
Amy Adams (Junebug)

And there you have it, EW's throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. We eagerly await their Oscar issue (to see who's on the cover and to see what Karger has in store - they almost always get four out of five noms right).

Updated On: 11/10/05 at 04:19 PM

I would add, from what I've heard, Jesse L. Martin to the supporting actor list.

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