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TME Academy Award-Best Picture Nominee Coverage (2006)

In 1969, an Oscar statuette was given to Oliver , a musical rendition of a runaway orphan that joins a small gang of pick-pocketing boys that is led by a strange, although entertaining, hobbit-like man. A very light hearted story when considering the Vietnam conflict was still in the thoughts of everyday Americans.

That is not the case this year.

The members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have chosen to nominate a group of films that seem to represent some the most controversial and thought provoking subjects of modern time.

Vote casting members of the Academy will select either a film about modern racial tensions and social inequalities, free speech in the face of a fear mongering and overreaching government, capital punishment, “metrosexuality” and associated hate crimes, or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

After watching these films, a viewer will undoubtedly require a fat laden quadruple espresso shot Latté with one-hundred percent sugar and a copy of Dave or The Birdcage to lighten the load, so to speak.

TME is proud to present its viewers with the 2006 Best Picture Nominee special coverage.

Capote

Capote is the true-life story of the Beat writer Truman Capote, an eccentric and self-absorbed New York homosexual socialite, who goes to a conservative small town in Kansas to research and write about the brutal murders of a family for the New Yorker Magazine in 1959. [FULL REVIEW]

Munich

When I first saw the trailer for Munich , I had the impression I would watch an interesting movie about a serious modern international subject, but not an emotionally moving film. [FULL REVIEW]

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is essentially a love story involving two men, but like all love stories, the success of the film is dependent on the chemistry between the primary characters and the substantive performance by each actor. [FULL REVIEW]

Crash

Crash is a morality fable told from multiple perspectives on race, poverty and power in Los Angeles. [FULL REVIEW]

Good Night, and Good Luck.

It's not often that I leave the theatre after viewing a movie about civic responsibility, democratic idealism, and free speech and feel like going back to watch it again. [FULL REVIEW]