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Oscar Nominations 

 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

- NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORY - 78TH AWARDS

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)

Terrence Howard in “Hustle & Flow” (Paramount Classics, MTV Films and New Deal Entertainment)

Heath Ledger in “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)

Joaquin Phoenix in “Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox)

David Strathairn in “Good Night, and Good Luck.” (Warner Independent Pictures)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

George Clooney in “Syriana” (Warner Bros.)

Matt Dillon in “Crash” (Lions Gate)

Paul Giamatti in “Cinderella Man” (Universal and Miramax)

Jake Gyllenhaal in “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)

William Hurt in “A History of Violence” (New Line)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Judi Dench in “Mrs. Henderson Presents” (The Weinstein Company)

Felicity Huffman in “Transamerica” (The Weinstein Company and IFC Films)

Keira Knightley in “Pride & Prejudice” (Focus Features)

Charlize Theron in “North Country” (Warner Bros.)

Reese Witherspoon in “Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Amy Adams in “Junebug” (Sony Pictures Classics)

Catherine Keener in “Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)

Frances McDormand in “North Country” (Warner Bros.)

Rachel Weisz in “The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features)

Michelle Williams in “Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features)

Best animated feature film of the year

“Howl’s Moving Castle” (Buena Vista) Hayao Miyazaki

“Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” (Warner Bros.) Tim Burton and Mike Johnson

“Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit”

(DreamWorks Animation SKG)

Nick Park and Steve Box

Achievement in art direction

“Good Night, and Good Luck.”

(Warner Independent Pictures)

Art Direction:

Set Decoration:

Jim Bissell

Jan Pascale

“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

(Warner Bros.)

Art Direction:

Set Decoration:

Stuart Craig

Stephenie McMillan

“King Kong”

(Universal)

Art Direction:

Set Decoration:

Grant Major

Dan Hennah and

Simon Bright

“Memoirs of a Geisha”

(Sony Pictures Releasing)

Art Direction:

Set Decoration:

John Myhre

Gretchen Rau

“Pride & Prejudice”

(Focus Features)

Art Direction:

Set Decoration:

Sarah Greenwood

Katie Spencer

Achievement in cinematography

“Batman Begins” (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister

“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Rodrigo Prieto

“Good Night, and Good Luck.”

(Warner Independent Pictures)

Robert Elswit

“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Dion Beebe

“The New World” (New Line) Emmanuel Lubezki

Achievement in costume design

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (Warner Bros.) Gabriella Pescucci

“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Colleen Atwood

“Mrs. Henderson Presents” (The Weinstein Company) Sandy Powell

“Pride & Prejudice” (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran

“Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox) Arianne Phillips

Achievement in directing

“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Ang Lee

“Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics) Bennett Miller

“Crash” (Lions Gate) Paul Haggis

“Good Night, and Good Luck.”

(Warner Independent Pictures)

George Clooney

“Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks) Steven Spielberg

Best documentary feature

“Darwin’s Nightmare” (International Film Circuit)

A Mille et Une Production

Hubert Sauper

“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”

(Magnolia Pictures)

An HDNet Films Production

Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot

“March of the Penguins” (Warner Independent Pictures)

A Bonne Pioche Production

Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau

“Murderball” (THINKFilm)

An Eat Films Production

Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro

“Street Fight”

A Marshall Curry Production

Marshall Curry

Best documentary short subject

“The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualtyof the Bang Bang Club”

A Dan Krauss Production

Dan Krauss

“God Sleeps in Rwanda”

An Acquaro/Sherman Production

Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman

“The Mushroom Club”

A Farallon Films Production

Steven Okazaki

“A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age

of Norman Corwin”

A NomaFilms Production

Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson

Achievement in film editing

“Cinderella Man” (Universal and Miramax)

“The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features)

“Crash” (Lions Gate)

“Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks)

“Walk the Line” (20th Century Fox)

Mike Hill and Dan Hanley

Claire Simpson

Hughes Winborne

Michael Kahn

Michael McCusker

Best foreign language film of the year

“Don’t Tell”

A Cattleya/Rai Cinema Production

“Joyeux Noël”

A Nord-Ouest Production

“Paradise Now”

An Augustus Film Production

“Sophie Scholl - The Final Days”

A Goldkind Filmproduktion and

Broth Film Production

“Tsotsi”

A Moviworld Production

Italy

France

Palestine

Germany

South Africa

Achievement in makeup

“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch Howard Berger and Tami Lane

and the Wardrobe” (Buena Vista)

“Cinderella Man” (Universal and Miramax) David Leroy Anderson and Lance Anderson

“Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith” Dave Elsey and Nikki Gooley

(20th Century Fox)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Gustavo Santaolalla

“The Constant Gardener” (Focus Features) Alberto Iglesias

“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing) John Williams

“Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks) John Williams

“Pride & Prejudice” (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

“In the Deep” from Music by Kathleen “Bird” York and Michael Becker

“Crash” (Lions Gate) Lyric by Kathleen “Bird” York

“It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” from Music and Lyric by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman

“Hustle & Flow” and Paul Beauregard

(Paramount Classics, MTV Films and

New Deal Entertainment)

“Travelin’ Thru” from Music and Lyric by Dolly Parton

“Transamerica”

(The Weinstein Company and IFC Films)

Best motion picture of the year

“Brokeback Mountain” (Focus Features) Diana Ossana and James Schamus, Producers

A River Road Entertainment Production

“Capote” (UA/Sony Pictures Classics) Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven,

An A-Line Pictures/Cooper’s Town/ Producers

Infinity Media Production

“Crash” (Lions Gate) Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers

A Bob Yari/DEJ/Blackfriar’s Bridge/

Harris Company/ApolloProscreen

GmbH & Co./Bull’s Eye Entertainment

Production

“Good Night, and Good Luck.” Grant Heslov, Producer

(Warner Independent Pictures)

A Good Night Good Luck LLC Production

“Munich” (Universal and DreamWorks) Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and

A Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Barry Mendel, Producers

Pictures Production

Best animated short film

“Badgered”

A National Film and Television

School Production

Sharon Colman

“The Moon and the Son: An Imagined

Conversation”

A John Canemaker Production

John Canemaker and Peggy Stern

“The Mysterious Geographic Explorationsof Jasper Morello” (Monster Distributes)

A 3D Films Production

Anthony Lucas

“9”

A Shane Acker Production

Shane Acker

“One Man Band”

A Pixar Animation Studios Production

Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews

Best live action short film

“Ausreisser (The Runaway)”

A Hamburg Media School,

Filmwerkstatt Production

Ulrike Grote

“Cashback” (The British Film Institute)

A Left Turn Films Production

Sean Ellis and Lene Bausager

“The Last Farm”

A Zik Zak Filmworks Production

Rúnar Rúnarsson and Thor S. Sigurjónsson

“Our Time Is Up”

A Station B Production

Rob Pearlstein and Pia Clemente

“Six Shooter” (Sundance Film Channel)

A Missing in Action Films and

Funny Farm Films Production

Martin McDonagh

Achievement in sound editing

“King Kong” (Universal) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn

“Memoirs of a Geisha” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Wylie Stateman

“War of the Worlds” (Paramount and DreamWorks) Richard King

William Hoehne

MBN: The creation of an Internet television network

To Think Out Of the Box

We live in a nation where growing old has become virtually a crime while those between the ages of 18 and 49 are the only ones thought to have any value.

Yet besides having real economic clout those over the age of 49 also have one other very valuable commodity, "KNOWLEDGE."

Knowledge of what has came before, what mistakes have been made and what wrong turns have been taken.

Since the days of Edison and DW Griffith my family has been in either the film or television business.

We have seen the hand-cranked camera replaced by the spring ran camera then the battery powered then the digital camera.

Black and white to color to Technicolor to video.

We have seen the film companies fight tooth and nail to keep television from being born then the studios becoming the major suppliers to the networks and now owners of networks.

Television networks then fighting the advent of cable then buying cable networks as cable took their audiences away.

Then cable in a battle with satellite companies and HI-Def taking the place of standard analog broadcasting freeing bands for more and creative uses.

2006 marks the 102^nd year my family has been in the film and television business and we see now Internet pod casts and the start of broadcasting over the net.

Internet broadcasting is in its infancy like feature films, television networks and production, and cable and satellite once were.

There is no difference between this baby and the infancy of the feature film or television, cable and satellite.

All were thought to be impossible and were the products of men and women whom refused to be defeated in their quest to bring something new and exciting to the world.

At the CES in Las Vegas it was estimated that there were more then 70 million Internet users whom averaged 30 hours a week infront of a screen.

Those used to be the figures that network television would give till it was decided in the days of too much rural programming that the 18 to 49 years old were who the nets were after.

In today’s economic climate it is almost impossible to bring forth a network of any kind due to the high cost of programming.

Look no further then UPN and the WB merging.

To make a net such as MBN work you must have programming available 24 hours a day. Costs have to be kept at a minimum; far less then those of a television network or cable network or failure is guaranteed.

Today there are nets already on the internet that are depending on subscriptions and programming supplied free by others to fill in the time and it is repeats after repeats.

Repeats destroy; original programming is a must.

There was a time when shows only repeated a few shows a year, today it is over 30 weeks of repeats and 22 or less of new programming.

Where does the programming come from you need to operate?

From the thousands of creative people that come to the Natpe every year and are turned away. From every country in the world that has creative people wanting to show they can produce for our country.

From those people that helped create what we now see but have been told they are too old to be of any value.

How do you deliver what you have and make any money?

You use as many methods as possible for delivery because you’re only as good as your slowest connection.

You use broadband to deliver straight to your computer for free with commercials, you make arrangements like we are for businesses to have broadband downloading services for the shows to be downloaded either to DVD’s or I pods are whatever device they have that the program can be downloaded to.

Whom do you aim for as an audience?

Many years ago at a lecture given by the founder of Warner brothers, Jack L. Warner told us he didn’t care who came to see his films as long as they had the money to pay for a ticket.

That is our audience, anyone that has a computer or device for downloading. No demographics, just every person willing to download.

With every passing day we do more, we add more to what we have and we get one more step closer to fully being on the air.

We gladly are available to answer any questions you have.

William Hoehne & Joyce Chow

MBN