Oscar Nominations Are Announced
The 76th Academy Awards look set to be dominated by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Lost in Translation after the nominations were announced yesterday.
The two films both got nods in the Best Film and Best Director categories, and featured heavily in other shortlists with eleven nods for the Peter Jackson-directed epic and four major nominations for Sofia Coppola's romantic comedy.
Other contenders for the Best Film include Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River and Seabiscuit.
In the Best Actor category, Master and Commander star Russell Crowe will battle it out with Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl star Johnny Depp, Lost In Translation's Bill Murray, Mystic River's Sean Penn, House of Sand and Fog star Ben Kingsley and Cold Mountain's Jude Law.
The Anthony Minghella-directed romantic epic was largely snubbed in the major categories however, having been left off the Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay shortlists. Favored Nicole Kidman did not receive a Best Actress nomination.
Instead, Something's Got to Give star Diane Keaton will go up against Monster star Charlize Theron, 21 Grams' Naomi Watts, In America star Samanta Morton and Whalerider actress Keisha Castle-Hughes, who is the youngest actress ever to be nominated in the category at the age of 13.
The glitzy ceremony will take place on February 29th at the Los Angeles Kodak Theater.
A full list of nominations:
Best Picture:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
LOST IN TRANSLATION
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
MYSTIC RIVER
SEABISCUIT
Directing:
KATIA LUND and FERNANDO MEIRELLES - CITY OF GOD
PETER JACKSON - THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
SOFIA COPPOLA - LOST IN TRANSLATION
PETER WEIR - MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
CLINT EASTWOOD - MYSTIC RIVER
Actor in a Leading Role:
JOHNNY DEPP - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
BEN KINGSLEY - HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
JUDE LAW - COLD MOUNTAIN
BILL MURRAY - LOST IN TRANSLATION
SEAN PENN - MYSTIC RIVER
Actress In A Leading Role:
KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES - WHALE RIDER
DIANE KEATON - SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
SAMANTHA MORTON - IN AMERICA
CHARLIZE THERON - MONSTER
NAOMI WATTS - 21 GRAMS
Actor In A Supporting Role:
ALEC BALDWIN - THE COOLER
BENICIO DEL TORO - 21 GRAMS
DJIMON HOUNSOU - IN AMERICA
TIM ROBBINS - MYSTIC RIVER
KEN WATANABE - THE LAST SAMURAI
Actress In A Supporting Role:
SHOHREH AGHDASHLOO - HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
PATRICIA CLARKSON - PIECES OF APRIL
MARCIA GAY HARDEN - MYSTIC RIVER
HOLLY HUNTER - THIRTEEN
RENEE ZELLWEGER - COLD MOUNTAIN
Writing (Adapted Screenplay):
AMERICAN SPLENDOR
CITY OF GOD
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
MYSTIC RIVER
SEABISCUIT
Writing (Original Screenplay):
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS
FINDING NEMO
IN AMERICA
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Animated Feature Film:
BROTHER BEAR
FINDING NEMO
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE
Foreign Language Film
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
EVIL
THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI
TWIN SISTERS
ZELARY
Makeup:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
Music (Score):
BIG FISH - DANNY ELFMAN
COLD MOUNTAIN - GABRIEL YARED
FINDING NEMO - THOMAS NEWMAN
HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG - JAMES HORNER
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING - HOWARD SHORE
Music (Song):
A KISS AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW - A MIGHTY WIND (MICHAEL McKEAN + ANNETTE O'TOOLE)
SCARLET TIDE - COLD MOUNTAIN (T BONE BURNETT + ELVIS COSTELLO)
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE - THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (BENIOT CHAREST + SYLVIAN CHOMET)
YOU WILL BE MY AIN TRUE LOVE - COLD MOUNTAIN (STING)
YOU WILL BE MY AIN TRUE LOVE - COLD MOUNTAIN
