The Aviator, Robert Richardson
PRO: Longtime Oliver Stone collaborator (Platoon, Natural Born Killers ) knows a thing or two about making paranoid rich men look good
CON: Someone has to pay the price for those peeing-in-a-bottle scenes
House of Flying Daggers, Zhao Xiaoding
PRO: Poetic epic turns gravity-defying martial arts into fine art
CON: Academy voters have already crouched there, hidden that
The Passion of the Christ, Caleb Deschanel
PRO: All those rabid Christian votes have to go somewhere
CON: Oh, yeah, we remember November
The Phantom of the Opera, John Mathieson
PRO: Through magic of camera work, hideously deformed phantom transformed into hunky Gerard Butler
CON: Crashing chandelier looked scarier on Broadway
A Very Long Engagement, Bruno Delbonnel
PRO: For two hours, it won't kill the Academy to love the French
CON: How hard do you have to work to make Audrey Tautou look good?
The Aviator | Finding Neverland | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | The Phantom of the Opera | A Very Long Engagement
The Aviator | Collateral | Finding Neverland | Million Dollar Baby | Ray
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