Oscar nominees out.

[The Germanator]

http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/osc_03nominees.html

Here is who I hope wins....

Best Picture: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Directing: Fernando Meirelles for City of God

Actor: Bill Murray in Lost in Translation

Supporting actor: Benicio Del Toro in 21 Grams

Actress: Keisha Castle-Hughes in Whale Rider

Supporting Actress: Holly Hunter in Thirteen

Best Original Screenplay: Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola

Best Adapted Screenplay: American Splendor by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman

Best Foriegn language film: Opinion N/A

Best Animated Feature Film: Finding Nemo

Achievement in Art Direction: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Achievement in Cinematography: City of God

Achievement in Costume Design: Last Samurai


Best Documentary Feature: My Architect

Best Film Editing: City of God

Achievement in Makeup: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Best Original Score: Finding Nemo

Original Song: Opintion N/A

Achievement in Sound: Master and Commander

Achievement in Sound Editing: Master and Commander

Best Visual Effects: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Best Documentary Short: Opinion N/A

Best Animated Short Film: Opinion N/A

Best Live-Action Short Film: Opinion N/A

[GiMpY-wAnNaBe]

pretty good line up, although i doubt that PotC will win the makeup award. I hope it does win something though, because movie is uber-good

[Jonbo298]

Hopefully LotR gets Best Picture. Peter Jackson deserves it after all the hard work put into this movie and the great results of that hard work.

[DimHalo]

I would love for Pirates and LotR to get some awards. Both movies are awesome. I don't really have much of a valid say in what should win though, I haven't seen the majority of those movies.

[jeepnut]

Hopefully LotR gets Best Picture. Peter Jackson deserves it after all the hard work put into this movie and the great results of that hard work.

I think even if it doesn't win best picture, he could still be satisfied with the billions of dollars that the movies have made.

[Ginkasa]

Sean Astin wasn't nominated for best supporting actor.

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Someone will have to die.


*shrugs and walks away*

[Perfect Stu]

there should be a 'best acting ensemble' award....the acting in Lord of the Rings was very very solid but I don't think I could nominate any individual.

[Dyne]

...Whoa, I didn't even know half those movies existed. I guess I'm not an avid movie-goer.

[Canyarion]

Crap. While I was typing, I got logged out and had to retype everything.. Ok:

Twin Sisters from The Netherlands!! :rolleyes:

Hope LotR wins things. Best movie. PJ 'deserves' it.

Johnny Depp best actor? He made PotC, without him it's NOTHING.

[Stonecutter]

Alone I don't think that any of the LotR movies should be Best Picture, but if it's going to one of them, it should be RotK.

I think they should just give LotR some kind of lifetime achievement award. I understand that RotK might get the award as a testament to the greatness of the trilogy, but Master and Commander or Seabiscuit deserve best picture over RotK.

[Null]

master commander or seabiscuit? wow. your the only one i ever heard say that. hehe

Lost in Translation and Mystic River deserve it HEAVILY as the top 2. followed by LotR, then its a toss up between the last 2 because i dont feel neather of thoes 'truely' belong there. Seabiscuit very good film. not great tho.

Mystic River and Lost in Translation deserve many of the ones they are nominated for. 2 Wonderfuly Great films.

I think theres a couple catagories, at least one that Matchstick Men coulda been up for. but oh well.

And i hope Big Fish gets it for best score, altho thats highly doubtful with what its up against. but hey, always good to hope for stuff. hehe.

[Ginkasa]

...Whoa, I didn't even know half those movies existed. I guess I'm not an avid movie-goer.


A lot of Oscar movies are small independant films that aren't released outside of film festivals or select cities. A lot of these indie films depend on the Oscars to give them some publicity to get them known. The director's and actors/actresses win awards and go on to bigger (but not necessarily better) movies.

S'why a lot of people were upset when they tried to stop the Academy from giving the judges individual copies of the movies, meaning they would have to go out to see them on their own. If the judges were given copies of the indie films, they probably wouldn't see them at all and the indies would not gain that publicity.

That's far more information that you (didn't) ask for, but who's counting?


*shrugs and walks away*

[Null]

actually pretty much all of thoes were released in theatres everywhere.

A lot start off at select cities then go to the rest later on. we had to drive an hour to see Lost in Translation when we went. We didnt want to wait a week for it to come to the theatre near us. hehe

[The Germanator]

I always have to drive at least 35 minutes to go to a movie theater, it sort of sucks...and it's about an hour or hour and 15 minutes to the independent theaters in Philly. There are a few movies up there that were mainly in indie theaters like City of God, Thirteen, American Splendor, and any of the documentaries among others...Though usually those movies get smaller nominations like script, or editing, or best adapted screenplay, something like that.

[Perfect Stu]

I'm so happy Seabiscuit got the nomination...that movie was GREAT. I think it has a chance at winning best cinematography.

I think Chris Cooper deserved a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in that movie, too. He won last year for Adaptation and to me he's one of the best actors out there.

[DimHalo]

A lot of Oscar movies are small independant films that aren't released outside of film festivals or select cities. A lot of these indie films depend on the Oscars to give them some publicity to get them known. The director's and actors/actresses win awards and go on to bigger (but not necessarily better) movies.

S'why a lot of people were upset when they tried to stop the Academy from giving the judges individual copies of the movies, meaning they would have to go out to see them on their own. If the judges were given copies of the indie films, they probably wouldn't see them at all and the indies would not gain that publicity.

That's far more information that you (didn't) ask for, but who's counting?


*shrugs and walks away*
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