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06 March
2006
Tom Cruise Wins
Razzie
Twenty-four
hours before the Oscars, Tom
Cruise
has suffered the ignominy of being awarded
a Razzie - at a ceremony marking
Hollywood's worst moments.
He won
the award for "most tiresome tabloid
target" for his "antics with fiancee Katie
Holmes".
Earlier
Brokeback
Mountain
won best feature and best director at the
Independent Spirit Awards.
The
ceremonies are part of the build-up to the
main event, the Oscar
ceremony on Sunday night.
The
organisers of this year's Razzies have
dubbed 2005 "a very bad year for movies",
making it a good year for the
Razzies.
The
"most tiresome" category was introduced
this year to salute "the celebs we're all
sick and tired of".
In the
"most tiresome tabloid target" Tom Cruise
won ahead of... Tom Cruise - also
nominated for attacking psychiatry and
anti-depressant drugs in a TV
interview.
However,
the clear winner in the Razzies overall
was the movie Dirty Love, which not only
won worst picture, but worst actress for
Jenny McCarthy, worst screenplay and worst
director.
The
worst actor award went to Rob Schneider
for Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, while
Paris Hilton won worst supporting
actress.
In the
Independent Spirit Awards there was no
out-and-out winner, with four films that
are also vying for Oscar glory picking up
two ISAs each.
Brokeback
Mountain won the best feature award and
best director for Ang Lee, while Capote,
Transamerica and Crash also took two
awards.
The ISAs
are presented to low-budget films deemed
to show originality, provocative subject
matter and a high degree of independent
financing.
Often
they honour different films to the Oscars,
but this year many of the winners are also
Oscar nominees.
Capote's
Philip Seymour Hoffman took the best male
lead award and the film won best
screenplay (by Dan Futterman);
Transamerica won for Felicity Huffman's
female lead and first screenplay (Duncan
Tucker); and Crash won for supporting male
(Matt Dillon) and first
feature.
The 78th
Academy Awards take place at Hollywood's
Kodak Theatre on Sunday, with Brokeback
Mountain leading the field with eight
nominations.
Ang Lee
has a best director nomination for the
cowboy romance, building on his Bafta and
Golden Globe success, while its star Heath
Ledger is up for best actor.
The
Academy has shunned blockbusters in its
best picture category in favour of
Brokeback Mountain, race drama Crash,
Capote's study of a relationship with a
murderer and the political Munich and Good
Night, and Good Luck.
On
Friday UK bookmaker William
Hill
cut Crash's odds from 8/1 to 6/4 but still
put Brokeback Mountain ahead at
1/2.
Crash,
Good Night, and Good Luck, and
Memoirs
of a
Geisha
- adapted from the best-selling book by
Arthur Golden - all share six Oscar
nominations.
British
actresses Dame Judi Dench and Keira
Knightley will go head-to-head for the
best actress Oscar, for Mrs Henderson
Presents and Pride and Prejudice
respectively.
British
actor Ralph Fiennes missed out on an Oscar
nomination for The Constant Gardener, but
co-star Rachel Weisz is in the running for
best supporting actress.
UK movie
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the
Were-Rabbit vies with Tim Burton's Corpse
Bride and Howl's Moving Castle for the
best animated film award.
Badgered,
by UK film-maker Sharon Colman, competes
in the animated short film category, while
Six Shooter and Cashback compete in the
live action short film section.
Last
year's Oscars ceremony saw Clint
Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby take the
best picture prize while its stars Hilary
Swank and Morgan Freeman won acting
awards.
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