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YEAR-END FODDER
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WHAT: 76th Annual Academy Awards
WHEN: Nominations on 1.27.2004, Awards on 2.29.2004
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SPLICEDwire predicted...
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Best PICTURE
Sure Things:
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Master & Commander..."
"Mystic River"
Good Bets:
"Cold Mountain"
"Lost in Translation"
The Competition:
"In America"
"The Last Samurai"
"Seabiscuit"
Dark Horses:
"Something's Gotta Give"
"Pirates of the Caribbean..."
"Finding Nemo"
"Big Fish"
Best DIRECTOR
Sure Things:
Clint Eastwood, "Mystic River"
Peter Jackson, "LOTR: Return of the King"
Peter Weir, "Master & Commander"
Good Bets:
Sofia Coppola, "Lost in Translation"
Anthony Minghella, "Cold Mountain"
The Competition:
Gary Ross, "Seabiscuit"
Jim Sheridan, "In America"
Edward Zwick, "The Last Samurai"
Dark horses
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, "21 Grams"
Nancy Meyer, "Something's Gotta Give"
Best ACTOR
Sure Things:
Bill Murray, "Lost in Translation"
Jack Nicholson, "Something's Gotta Give"
Sean Penn, "Mystic River"
Good Bets:
Russell Crowe, "Master & Commander"
Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean"
The Competition:
Ben Kingsley, "House of Sand & Fog"
Jude Law, "Cold Mountain"
Tom Cruise, "The Last Samurai"
Dark Horses:
Peter Dinklage, "The Station Agent"
Paul Giamatti, "American Splendor"
Best ACTRESS
Sure Things:
Diane Keaton, "Something's Gotta Give"
Charlize Theron, "Monster"
Naomi Watts, "21 Grams"
Good Bets:
Jamie Lee Curtis, "Freaky Friday"
Nicole Kidman, "Cold Mountain"
The Competition:
Jennifer Connelly, "House of Sand & Fog"
Evan Rachel Wood, "Thirteen"
Dark Horse:
Scarlett Johansson, "Lost in Translation"
Scarlett Johansson, "Girl With a Pearl Earring"
Best SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sure Things:
Sean Austin, "LOTR: Return of the King"
Albert Finney, "Big Fish"
Tim Robbins, "Mystic River"
Peter Sarsgaard, "Shattered Glass"
Good Bets:
Alec Baldwin, "The Cooler"
The Competition:
Paul Bettany, "Master & Commander"
Benicio Del Toro, "21 Grams"
Ken Watanabe, "The Last Samurai"
Dark Horse:
Djimon Hounsou, "In America"
William H. Macy, "Seabiscuit"
Best SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sure Things:
Patricia Clarkson, "Pieces of April"
Marcia Gay Harden, "Mystic River"
Holly Hunter, "Thirteen"
Renee Zellweger, "Cold Mountain"
Good Bets:
Ellen DeGeneres, "Finding Nemo"
The Competition:
Scarlett Johansson, "Lost in Translation"
Dark Horses:
Laura Linney, "Mystic River"
Shohreh Aghdashloo, "House of Sand & Fog"
Hope Davis, "American Splendor"
Maria Bello, "The Cooler"
Frances McDormand, "Something's Gotta Give"
Best ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Sure Things:
"Finding Nemo," Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds
"In America," Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan
"Lost in Translation," Sofia Coppola
"Thirteen," Catherine Hardwick & Nikki Reed
"Something's Gotta Give," Nancy Meyer
The Competition:
"21 Grams," Guillermo Arriaga
"A Mighty Wind," Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy
Best ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Sure Things:
"American Splendor," Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
"LOTR: Return of the King," Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Philippa Boynes
"Master & Commander," Peter Weir
"Mystic River," Brian Helgeland
"Seabiscuit," Gary Ross
The Competition:
"Cold Mountain," Anthony Minghella
Dark Horses:
"Girl With a Pearl Earring," Olivia Hetreed
Best ANIMATED FEATURE
"Finding Nemo", "The Triplets of Bellville"
Best DOCUMENTARY
"The Fog of War"
"Capturing the Friedmans"
"My Flesh & Blood"
and/or "The Weather Underground"
and/or "Bus 174"
Best FOREIGN FILM:
"The Barbarian Invasions"
"Good Bye, Lenin!"
"Monsieur Ibrahim"
"Osama"
"The Return"
Best CINEMATOGRAPHY:
"Cold Mountain"
"Kill Bill: Volume 1"
"Master & Commander"
"The Last Samurai"
"Seabiscuit"
(Dark horse: "Peter Pan")
Best EDITING:
"Cold Mountain"
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Master & Commander"
"Mystic River"
And either "Seabiscuit"
or "Kill Bill: Volume 1"
Best SOUND/Best SOUND EDITING:
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Master & Commander"
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
Best VISUAL EFFECTS:
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Master & Commander"
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
Best ART DIRECTION:
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Master & Commander"
"Peter Pan"
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
"Cold Mountain"
Best COSTUMES:
"Down With Love"
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Master & Commander"
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
"The Last Samurai"
Best MAKEUP:
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Monster"
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
Best ORIGINAL SCORE:
"Big Fish"
"Girl with a Pearl Earring"
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
"Seabiscuit"
Best ORIGINAL SONG:
No predictions. Don't care.
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Several surprise nominations for the 76th annual Academy Awards don't include the expected 11 nods for 'Rings'
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
The final installment of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy led the Oscar nominations this morning with 11 nods, and the Academy announced a few surprises too, the most notable being the Best Actress nomination of 14-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes for "Whale Rider," a sleeper-hit independent film from Australia about a Maori girl trying to prove her worth as a tribal leader.
Castle-Hughes' nod stirred industry speculation about the marketing campaigns for the films "Thirteen" and "Lost in Translation," both of which featured praised performances from teenage stars (Evan Rachel Wood and Scarlett Johansson, respectively) whose names were getting considerable Oscar buzz -- most of it about how they would be overlooked because of their ages (14 and 19), and about how Focus Features may have blown Johansson's chances by campaigning for her as a supporting actress when she was clearly the film's lead.
Also garnering more notice than expected was "City of God," a Brazilian film released last January about youth gangs in Rio de Janeiro. The film was nominated for Best Directing (by Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Cinematography.
The strong showing of Jim Sheridan's immigrant fable "In America," turned some heads as well, with nods for Samantha Morton as Best Actress and Djimon Hounsou as Best Supporting Actor.
Another shock to the Oscar system was the absence of either a Best Picture or Best Director nod for "Cold Mountain," not because the Civil War epic was anything special, but because the marketing juggernaut of Miramax Films hasn't been denied a Best Picture nomination in more than a decade.
Here the complete list of this year's Oscar nominees:
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
"Lost in Translation"
"Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World"
"Mystic River"
"Seabiscuit"
Early odds on: "Lord of the Rings"
Sofia Coppola, "Lost in Translation"
Clint Eastwood, "Mystic River"
Peter Jackson, "LOTR: Return of the King"
Kátia Lund & Fernando Meirelles, "City of God"
Peter Weir, "Master & Commander"
Early odds on: Peter Jackson
Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean"
Ben Kingsley, "House of Sand & Fog"
Jude Law, "Cold Mountain"
Bill Murray, "Lost in Translation"
Sean Penn, "Mystic River"
Early odds: It's between Bill Murray and Sean Penn.
Keisha Castle-Hughes, "Whale Rider"
Diane Keaton, "Something's Gotta Give"
Samantha Morton, "In America"
Charlize Theron, "Monster"
Naomi Watts, "21 Grams"
Early odds: Theron in a walk.
Alec Baldwin, "The Cooler"
Benicio Del Toro, "21 Grams"
Djimon Hounsou, "In America"
Tim Robbins, "Mystic River"
Ken Watanabe, "The Last Samurai"
Early odds on: Tim Robbins.
Shohreh Aghdashloo, "House of Sand & Fog"
Patricia Clarkson, "Pieces of April"
Marcia Gay Harden, "Mystic River"
Holly Hunter, "Thirteen"
Renee Zellweger, "Cold Mountain"
Early odds on: Zellweger has a slight edge, but it's wide open.
"The Barbarian Invasions," Denys Arcand
"Dirty Pretty Things," Steve Knight
"Finding Nemo," Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds
"In America," Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan
"Lost in Translation," Sofia Coppola
Early odds on: "Lost in Translation"
"American Splendor," Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
"City of God,"
Bráulio Mantovani
"LOTR: Return of the King," Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Philippa Boynes
"Mystic River," Brian Helgeland
"Seabiscuit," Gary Ross
Early odds on: "Return of the King"
Animated Feature:
"Brother Bear"
"Finding Nemo"
"The Triplets of Bellville"
Early odds: "Nemo" has it locked up.
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Best FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
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"The Barbarian Invasions" (French Canada)
"Evil" (Sweden)
"The Twilight Samurai" (Japan)
"Twin Sisters" (The Netherlands)
"Zelary" (The Czech Republic)
Early odds on: "The Barbarian Invasions"
"Balseros"
"Capturing the Friedmans"
"The Fog of War"
"My Architect"
"The Weather Underground"
Early odds on: "The Fog of War"
"City of God,"
"Cold Mountain"
"Girl With a Pearl Earring"
"Master & Commander"
"Seabiscuit"
Early odds on: "Master & Commander"
"City of God,"
"Cold Mountain"
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Master & Commander"
"Seabiscuit"
Early odds on: "Return of the King"
"The Last Samurai"
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Master & Commander"
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
"Seabiscuit"
Early odds on: "Master & Commander" or "Return of the King"
Finding Nemo
"Master & Commander"
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
Early odds on: "Master & Commander"
"LOTR: Return of the King,"
"Master and Commander"
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
Early odds on: "Return of the King"
"Girl With a Pearl Earring"
"The Last Samurai"
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Master & Commander"
"Seabiscuit"
Early odds on: "Return of the King"
"Girl With a Pearl Earring," Dien van Straalen
"The Last Samurai," Ngila Dickson
"LOTR: Return of the King," Ngila Dickson
"Master & Commander," Wendy Stites
"Seabiscuit," Judianna Makovsky
Early odds on: "Girl" or "King"
Makeup:
"LOTR: Return of the King"
"Master & Commander"
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
Early odds on: It's a dead heat.
Danny Elfman, "Big Fish"
Gabriel Yared, "Cold Mountain"
Thomas Newman, "Finding Nemo"
James Horner, "House of Sand & Fog"
Howard Shore, "LOTR: Return of the King"
Early odds on: Shore won for the first "Lord of the Rings" movie, so he's probably out, and that leaves it wide open.
"Into the West" from "LOTR: Return of the King"
"A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" from "A Mighty Wind"
"Scarlet Tide" from "Cold Mountain"
"The Triplets of Belleville" from "The Triplets of Bellville"
"You Will Be My Ain True Love" from "Cold Mountain"
Early odds on: Who cares?
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