How about some nominations for Song, Movie, TVShow, Book & Dem of the year

So I'm watching the 247th award show for 2005 (Radio Music Awards) and I'm thinking, damn there are too many award shows out there and they are all giving awards to people who personally I don't think really did anything that qualify as worthy of an award. Of course that took about 5 minutes into the show and I ended up turning off the TV. Only reason I considered watching it was for some bizarre reason Led Zeppelin was actually nominated for an award (When did they get back together??!!). So who knows who won.

Anyhow, let's put together our list of top winners in the Entertainment field. Who was the best out there. I'll try not to get too specific - but here are the unofficial rules of our award show:

It needs to be something that was publically available to the mainstream. Maybe your nextdoor neighbor's cousin published an underground rant against the existance of God but unless I can find that on Amazon.com it doesn't count. All movies/books/music must have been released in year 2005 (for Actor/Actress their role must have occured in a movie that was released during 2005). As for the political/activist stuff - they must have served during 2005 or done something significant during 2005.

So the categories for the Best of 2005 according to DU are the following (all must have been released in year 2005): (Please nominate only one person)

• Movie of the Year:
  
• Movie Actor of the Year:
  
• Movie Actress of the Year:
  
• TV Show of the Year:
  
• TV Actor of the Year:
  
• TV Actress of the Year:
  
• Political Talk Show of the Year:
  
• Fiction Book of the Year:
  
• Non-Fiction Book of the Year:
  
• Album of the Year:
  
• Song of the Year:
  
• Senator of the Year:
  
• Representative of the Year:
  
• Democrat of the Year:
  
• Activist of the Year:
  
• Most memorable event of 2005:
  

Easily HAS to be the Crystal Meth Driven Life story in Atlanta.

Didn’t have an opinion on all the categories:

Movie of the Year: King Kong
Movie Actress of the Year: Amy Adams, she’d better get the Oscar for Junebug
TV Show of the Year: Arrested Development
Political Talk Show of the Year: Bill Maher’s
Album of the Year: Ben Folds’ Songs For Silverman
Song of the Year: Todd Snider’s Beer Run, (don’t know or care if it was released in 2005)
Most memorable event of 2005: Waking up married on New Year’s Day, was single 24 hours earlier

TV Show: Arrested Development and The Colbert Report (tie)

TV Actor: Jason Lee--My Name Is Earl, Stephen Colbert (tie)

Tv Actress: Frances Conroy (that's her name right?) Six Feet Under

Fiction book: Middlesex--Jeffery Eugenides (I think it came out this year anyway)

Non-Fiction book: ah, that's tough. Three way tie: A Million Little Pieces--James Frey (again, I think it's from 2005, might not be), Don't Get Too Comfortable--David Rakoff, and The Areas of my Expertise--John Hodgman

Movie: The 40 Year Old Virgin

Actor: Steve Carel

Senator: My man Russ!

Representative: John Conyers

Democrat: Uh...How about Barbara Boxer

Activist: Cindy Sheehan

Memorable event: Katrina

The rest of them I can't decide or can't think of any.

Is it as funny as it looks to be?

hilarious because it's supposed to be an "almanac." It's full of charts and useful helpful facts about squirrels and our fifty states.

The list of 700 hobo names alone makes it worth a read.

Won the Pullitzer in 03, came out in 02.

It is the best novel I have read, bar none.

Because that's how much I like it. It's the first modern novel I've loved in a long, long time.

And I still think about it every month. What a compelling and moving book. I cried at the end. The solidification of the Christ imagery at the end was a thing of beauty. Glad to find someone else moved by it also.

# Movie of the Year: Walk The Line
# Movie Actor of the Year: -
# Movie Actress of the Year: -
# TV Show of the Year: Arrested Development
# TV Actor of the Year: -
# TV Actress of the Year: -
# Political Talk Show of the Year: Real Time With Bill Maher
# Fiction Book of the Year: -
# Non-Fiction Book of the Year: -
# Album of the Year: Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
# Song of the Year: Queens Of The Stone Age - "Burn The Witch"
# Senator of the Year:
# Representative of the Year:
# Democrat of the Year:
# Activist of the Year: Cindy Sheehan
# Most memorable event of 2005: Terri Schiavo

Movie of the Year: "Mysterious Skin"

Movie Actor of the Year: Joseph Gordon-Levitt in "Mysterious Skin"

Movie Actress of the Year: Carly Schroeder in "Mean Creek"*

TV Show of the Year: "Arrested Development"

TV Actor of the Year: Larry David in "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

TV Actress of the Year: Felicity Huffman in "Desperate Housewives"

Political Talk Show of the Year: "This Week"

Fiction Book of the Year: "Black Hole" by Charles Burns

Non-Fiction Book of the Year: "Prelude to Terror" by Joseph Trento

Album of the Year: Patti Smith "Horses - 30th Anniversary Edition (with 2005 live album)"

Song of the Year: "Oxygen" by Willy Mason

Activist of the Year: Cindy Sheehan

Most memorable event of 2005: Live8

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* "Mean Creek" didn't open in the UK until around May this year, although it had played in the States at several film festivals in 2004. But it's such a brilliant performance from someone so young, I have to nominate it!