Skandies: #3

Picture: United 93 (203/19)
Director: Paul Greengrass, United 93 (239/22)
Actress: Penélope Cruz, Volver (186/19)
Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (247/21)
S. Actor: Robert Downey, Jr., A Scanner Darkly (209/18)
S. Actress: Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada (202/18)
Screenplay: Rian Johnson, Brick (224/17)
Scene: Nude wrestling, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (164/14)
Undistributed 2004: The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade) (84/4)

[Only the enormous black bar for Borat makes this funny to me.]



HISTORY:

This is Greengrass' first appearance in the top 20.

Both Streep and Baron Cohen have already been outlined, as this is the second citation this year for each. (As I said, it's Streep's third "nomination.") Downey, like Gordon-Levitt, makes it two in a row, having placed at #3 in the lead category last year for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang; he was also #10 in 1998 for Two Girls and a Guy. Cruz is new.

Brick is Johnson's first screenplay.