'CHICAGO' SCORES BIG IN OSCAR NOMS
SPLICEDwire's 2003 Oscar Scorecard

OSCAR NOMINEES
 YEAR-END FODDER
WHAT: 75th Annual Academy Awards
WHEN: Nominations on 2.11.2003, Awards on 3.23.2003


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 OSCAR NOM INTERVIEWS
Adrien Brody Adrien Brody
Best actor nominee for
"The Pianist"
Salma Hayek Salma Hayek
Best actress nominee for
"Frida"
Nicholas Cage as Charlie Kaufman Charlie Kaufman
Screenplay nominee for
"Adaptation"
David Hare David Hare
Screenplay nominee for
"The Hours"
Stephen Daldry Stephen Daldry
(from 2000)
Best Director nominee for
"The Hours"
David Hare Michael Moore
Documentary nominee for
"Bowling For Columbine"
Bill Condon Bill Condon
(from 1998)
Screenplay nominee for
"Chicago"


 SPLICEDwire predicted
Best PICTURE
  • Sure Things:
  • "Chicago"
    "Gangs of New York"
    "The Hours"
  • Good Bets:
  • "About Schmidt"
    "Far From Heaven"
    "LOTR: The Two Towers"
  • The Competition:
  • "Adaptation"
    "Antwone Fisher"
    "The Pianist"
  • Dark Horses:
  • "Catch Me If You Can"
    "My Big Fat Greek W..."
    "Road to Perdition"

    Best DIRECTOR
  • Sure Things:
  • Rob Marshall, "Chicago"
    Todd Haynes, "Far From Heaven"
    Stephen Daldry, "The Hours"
  • Good Bets:
  • Spike Jonze, "Adaptation"
    Alexander Payne, "About Schmidt"
    Martin Scorsese, "Gangs of New York"
  • The Competition:
  • Peter Jackson, "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
    Roman Polanski, "The Pianist"
    Steven Spielberg, "Catch Me If You Can"
  • Dark Horse:
  • Denzel Washington, "Antwone Fisher"

    Best ACTOR
  • Sure Things:
  • Daniel Day-Lewis, "Gangs of New York"
    Jack Nicholson, "About Schmidt"
    Nicholas Cage, "Adaptation"
  • Good Bets:
  • Michael Caine, "The Quiet American"
    Adrien Brody, "The Pianist"
  • The Competition:
  • Richard Gere, "Chicago"
    Tom Hanks, "Road to Perdition"
  • Dark Horse:
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, "Catch Me If You Can"
    Derek Luke, "Antwone Fisher"
    Dennis Quaid, "The Rookie"
    Campbell Scott, "Roger Dodger"
    Robin Williams, "One Hour Photo"

    Best ACTRESS
  • Sure Things:
  • Julianne Moore, "Far From Heaven"
    Renee Zellweger, "Chicago"
    Nicole Kidman, "The Hours"
  • Good Bet:
  • Diane Lane, "Unfaithful"
  • And one of these:
  • Salma Hayek, "Frida"
    Meryl Streep, "The Hours"
  • Dark Horse:
  • Nia Vardalos, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

    Best SUPPORTING ACTOR
  • Sure Things:
  • Chris Cooper, "Adaptation"
    Ed Harris, "The Hours"
    Dennis Quaid, "Far From Heaven"
  • Good Bets:
  • Paul Newman, "Road to Perdition"
    John C. Reilly, "Chicago"
    Christopher Walken, "Catch Me If You Can"
  • The Competition:
  • Tom Hanks, "Catch Me If You Can"
    Dennis Haysbert, "Far From Heaven"
  • Dark Horse:
  • Ray Liotta, "Narc"
    Alfred Molina, "Frida"

    Best SUPPORTING ACTRESS
  • Sure Things:
  • Kathy Bates, "About Schmidt"
    Meryl Streep, "Adaptation"
  • Good Bets:
  • Julianne Moore, "The Hours"
    Catherine Zeta-Jones, "Chicago"
    Patricia Clarkson, "Far From Heaven"
  • The Competition:
  • Queen Latifah, "Chicago"
    Susan Sarandon, "Igby Goes Down"
  • Dark Horses:
  • Tovah Feldshuh, "Kissing Jessica Stein"
    Lupe Ontiveros, "Real Women Have Curves"
    Miranda Richardson, "Spider"

    Best ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
  • Sure Things:
  • "Antwone Fisher"
    "Far From Heaven"
    "Gangs of New York"
    "Punch-Drunk Love"
  • Good Bet:
  • "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
  • The Competition:
  • "Igby Goes Down"
    "Roger Dodger"
    "Talk to Her"
    "Y Tu Mamá También"

    Best ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
  • Sure Things:
  • "About Schmidt"
    "Adaptation"
    "Chicago"
    "The Hours"
  • Good Bet:
  • "LOTR: The Two Towers"
  • The Competition:
  • "Catch Me If You Can"
    "Nicholas Nickleby"
    "The Quiet American"
  • Dark Horses:
  • "The Pianist"
    "Road to Perdition"

    Best ANIMATED FEATURE
    "Spirited Away," "Lilo & Stitch, "Ice Age"

    Best DOCUMENTARY
    "The Kid Stays In the Picture" & "Bowling For Columbine" among others.

    Best FOREIGN FILM:
    "City of God," "Nowhere In Africa" & "Hero" among others
    Best CINEMATOGRAPHY:
    "Chicago," "Far From Heaven," "Gangs of New York," "The Two Towers" & "Road to Perdition"

    Best EDITING:
    "Adaptation," "Chicago," "The Hours," "The Two Towers," & "Gangs of New York"

    Best SOUND/Best SOUND EDITING:
    "Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets," "The Two Towers," "Minority Report," "We Were Soldiers," "Spider-Man"

    Best VISUAL EFFECTS:
    "The Two Towers," "Star Wars II," "Minority Report," "Harry Potter 2," "Spider-Man"

    Best ART DIRECTION:
    "Chicago," "Frida," "Gangs of New York," "The Two Towers" & "Catch Me If You Can"

    Best COSTUMES:
    "Chicago," "Far From Heaven," "The Two Towers," "Gangs of New York" & "Frida"

    Best MAKEUP:
    "Frida" & "The Time Machine."

    Best ORIGINAL SCORE:
    "Catch Me If You Can," "The Hours," "Frida," "The Two Towers" & either "Adaptation" or "Punch-Drunk Love"

    Best ORIGINAL SONG:
    U2's "The Hands That Built America" ("Gangs of New York"), Eminem's "Lose Yourself" ("8 Mile"), Madonna's "Die Another Day" from ("Die Another Day"), etc.
    Up for 13 awards, musical leads a strong pack that includes surprising showings for 'Frida,' 'The Pianist'

    By Rob Blackwelder

    Tuesday, February 11, 2003

    Rob Marshall's innovative musical "Chicago" nearly tied the all-time record for Academy Award nominations this morning with 13 nods (the record is 14) including Best Picture, Best Director and four acting nods for stars Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah and John C. Reilly.

    Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" and Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" were also nominated for Best Picture and widely honored with 10 and six nods respectively, although none came in acting categories.

    But the real news in this year's Oscar race is the surprisingly strong showing for "Frida" the biopic about Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, which received six nominations, including one for Salma Hayek as Best Actress, and the harrowing Holocaust drama "The Pianist," which received seven nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Roman Polanski), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor (Adrien Brody).

    Other records were set by Meryl Streep, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for "Adaptation" and bringing her career total nominations to 13 (the most ever for an actor or actress), and Jack Nicholson, whose Best Actor nod for "About Schmidt" brings his lifetime nominations to a record 12 for a male actor.

    Here the complete list of this year's Oscar nominees:

    Best PICTURE
      "Chicago"
      "Gangs of New York"
      "The Hours"
      "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
      "The Pianist"

    Early odds: It's "Chicago" vs. "The Hours."

    Best DIRECTOR
      Rob Marshall, "Chicago"
      Martin Scorsese, "Gangs of New York"
      Stephen Daldry, "The Hours"
      Roman Polanski, "The Pianist"
      Pedro Amoldóvar, "Talk to Her"

    Early odds on: Marshall, Scorsese (having never won, he's way overdue) or Daldry.

    Best ACTOR
      Adrien Brody, "The Pianist"
      Nicholas Cage, "Adaptation"
      Michael Caine, "The Quiet American"
      Daniel Day-Lewis, "Gangs of New York"
      Jack Nicholson, "About Schmidt"

    Early odds: It's wide open, but Cage is the least likely winner.

    Best ACTRESS
      Salma Hayek, "Frida"
      Nicole Kidman, "The Hours"
      Diane Lane, "Unfaithful"
      Julianne Moore, "Far From Heaven"
      Renee Zellweger, "Chicago"

    Early odds on: Kidman or Moore.

    Best SUPPORTING ACTOR
      Chris Cooper, "Adaptation"
      Ed Harris, "The Hours"
      Paul Newman, "Road to Perdition"
      John C. Reilly, "Chicago"
      Christopher Walken, "Catch Me If You Can"

    Early odds on: Cooper, but it's a very tight race between all five.

    Best SUPPORTING ACTRESS
      Kathy Bates, "About Schmidt"
      Julianne Moore, "The Hours"
      Queen Latifah, "Chicago"
      Meryl Streep, "Adaptation"
      Catherine Zeta-Jones, "Chicago"

    Early odds on: Bates or Streep.

    Best ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
      "Far From Heaven," Todd Haynes
      "Gangs of New York," Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian & Kenneth Lonergan
      "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," Nia Vardalos
      "Talk to Her," Pedro Amoldóvar
      "Y Tu Mamá También," Alfonso & Carlos Cuarón

    Early odds on: hard to say.

    Best ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
      "About A Boy," Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz
      "Adaptation," Charlie Kaufman & Donald Kaufman
      "Chicago," Bill Condon
      "The Hours," David Hare
      "The Pianist," Ronald Harwood

    Early odds on: "The Hours" with "Chicago" threatening.

    Best ANIMATED FEATURE
      "Spirited Away"
      "Lilo & Stitch"
      "Ice Age"
      "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron"
      "Treasure Planet"

    Early odds: "Ice Age."

    Best DOCUMENTARY
      "Bowling For Columbine"
      "Daugther From Danang"
      "Prisoner of Paradise"
      "Spellbound"
      "Winged Migration"

    Early odds: Well, it's not going to be "Bowling," that's all I know.

    Best FOREIGN FILM
      "El Crimen del Padre Amaro" (Mexico)
      "Hero" (China)
      "The Man Without a Past" (Finland)
      "Nowhere In Africa" (Germany)
      "Zus & Zo" (The Netherlands)

    Early odds on: No idea.

    Best CINEMATOGRAPHY
      "Chicago"
      "Far From Heaven"
      "Gangs of New York"
      "The Pianist"
      "Road to Perdition"

    Early odds on: "Gangs," "Heaven" or "Perdition."

    Best EDITING
      "Chicago"
      "Gangs of New York"
      "The Hours"
      "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
      "The Pianist"

    Early odds: To close to call.

    Best SOUND
      "Chicago"
      "Gangs of New York"
      "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
      "Road to Perdition"
      "Spider-Man"

    Early odds: "Chicago" or "Gangs"

    Best SOUND EDITING
      "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
      "Minority Report"
      "Road to Perdition"

    Early odds: "The Two Towers"

    Best VISUAL EFFECTS
      "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
      "Spider-Man"
      "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones"

    Early odds: "The Two Towers" has it all locked up

    Best ART DIRECTION
      "Chicago"
      "Frida"
      "Gangs of New York"
      "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
      "Road to Perdition"

    Early odds on: "Gangs"

    Best COSTUMES
      "Chicago"
      "Frida"
      "Gangs of New York"
      "The Hours"
      "The Pianist"

    Early odds on: "Chicago," "Frida" or "Gangs"

    Best MAKEUP
      "Frida"
      "The Time Machine"

    Early odds: "Frida"

    Best ORIGINAL SCORE
      "Catch Me If You Can," John Williams
      "Far From Heaven," Elmer Bernstein
      "Frida," Elliot Goldenthal
      "The Hours," Philip Glass
      "Road to Perdition," Thomas Newman

    Early odds: "The Hours"

    Best ORIGINAL SONG
      "Burn It Blue" from "Frida"
      "Father & Daughter" from "The Wild Thornberrys"
      "The Hands That Built America" from "Gangs of New York"
      "I Move On" from "Chicago"
      "Lose Yourself" from "8 Mile"

    Early odds: U2's "Hands"






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