OSCAR NOMS. The list of Oscar nominees is online...and it seems that the Academy server is working well!

I was tickled to see the funny animated short One Man Band nominated for Best Animated Short Film. I just saw it with Finding Nemo at MOMA, where it was a big audience-pleaser. It would go well with trailers at theatrical screenings. The nominees for Best Animated Short Film and Best Live-Action Short Film will be screened at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International (111 East 59th Street).

Looking over the other nominations, I was pleased to see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillan) nominated for Achievement in Art Direction. I saw it at an IMAX theater, which was very flattering to the production design.

It was also good to see The New World (Emmanuel Lubezki) nominated for Achievement in Cinematography. The photography is breathtaking.

The nominees for Best Documentary Feature are

Darwin’s Nightmare
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
March of the Penguins
Murderball
Street Fight

The nominees for Best Documentary Short Subject are

The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
God Sleeps in Rwanda
The Mushroom Club
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

The documentary short subjects are scheduled to be shown at MOMA starting at 2:00 pm on Sunday, February 26, 2006.