The Oscars

[Jul]

It's that time of year again :D

Just wanted to let you know, in case you were wondering, that Oscar nominations are going to be announced at 5:30am (who wakes up at such an ungodly hour? :hork: ) on February 12th, 2001 and voting is taking place now as we speak to nominate people and movies for awards. Those ballots are due on February 1st, and then they'll start the voting round for the nominees after they are announced..

[Jul]

Robert Redford to Receive Honorary Oscar
January 25, 2002

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif - Robert Redford, 64, will receive an Honorary Award from the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The citation will read: "Robert Redford — Actor, Director, Producer, Creator of Sundance, inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere."

"Bob's dedication to independent filmmaking has had an enormously positive impact on the motion picture industry since he created Sundance 20 years ago, and young filmmakers for years to come will continue to benefit from the training that his institute provides and the world-class showcase that his festival offers," said Academy President Frank Pierson.

Beginning with his acting debut in the 1962 drama "War Hunt," Redford has appeared in more than 35 films including "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Way We Were," "All the President's Men" and "The Sting," for which he received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actor in 1973.

After achieving success as an actor, Redford took a turn at directing and won an Academy Award for his directorial debut for the film "Ordinary People" in 1980. He received two nominations in 1994 for directing and producing Best Picture nominee "Quiz Show."

Honorary Awards, in the form of Oscar statuettes, are given by the Academy for "exceptional distinction in the making of motion pictures or for outstanding service to the Academy." Previous recipients include Ernest Lehman, Stanley Donen, Deborah Kerr, Federico Fellini, Ralph Bellamy, Michael Kidd, Alex North and Hal Roach.

Redford's Honorary Award will be presented, along with other Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2001, on Sunday, March 24, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland®. Sunday at the Oscars will be televised live by the ABC TV beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST. A half-hour arrival segment will precede the presentation ceremony at 5 p.m.

[waltersgirl]

:beer: :thumbs:

[Jul]

Best Picture:

A Beautiful Mind
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge


Best Director:

Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind
Ridley Scott, Black Hawk Down
Robert Altman, Gosford Park
Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
David Lynch, Mulholland Drive


Best Actor:

Russell Crowe, A Beautiful Mind
Sean Penn, I Am Sam
Will Smith, Ali
Denzel Washington, Training Day
Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom


Best Actress:

Halle Berry, Monster's Ball
Judi Dench, Iris
Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge
Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom
Renée Zellweger, Bridget Jones's Diary


Best Supporting Actor:

Jim Broadbent, Iris
Ethan Hawke, Training Day
Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast
Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Jon Voight, Ali


Best Supporting Actress:

Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind
Helen Mirren, Gosford Park
Maggie Smith, Gosford Park
Marisa Tomei, In the Bedroom
Kate Winslet, Iris


Best Animated Feature:

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Monsters, Inc.
Shrek


Adapted Screenplay:

A Beautiful Mind, Akiva Goldsman
Ghost World, Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff
In the Bedroom, Rob Festinger and Todd Field
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson
Shrek, Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman


Original Screenplay:

Amélie, Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (screenplay); Guillaume Laurant (dialogue)
Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes
Memento, Christopher Nolan (screenplay), Jonathan Nolan (story)
Monster's Ball, Milo Addica & Will Rokos
The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson


Best Foreign-Language Film:

Amélie (France)
Elling (Norway)
Lagaan (India)
No Man's Land (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Son of the Bride (Argentina)


Art Direction:

Amélie
Gosford Park
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge


Cinematography:

Amélie
Black Hawk Down
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Man Who Wasn't There
Moulin Rouge


Costume Design:

The Affair of the Necklace
Gosford Park
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge


Documentary Feature:

Children Underground
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Promises
War Photographer


Documentary Short Subject:

Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
Sing!
Thoth


Film Editing:
A Beautiful Mind
Black Hawk Down
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Memento
Moulin Rouge


Makeup:

A Beautiful Mind
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge


Original Score:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A Beautiful Mind
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Monsters, Inc.


Original Song:

"If I Didn't Have You" (Monsters, Inc.), music and lyric by Randy Newman
"May It Be" The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring), music and lyric by Enya, Nicky Ryan and Roma Ryan
"There You'll Be" (Pearl Harbor), music and lyric by Diane Warren
"Until (Kate & Leopold), music and lyric by Sting
"Vanilla Sky" (Vanilla Sky), music and lyric by Paul McCartney


Animated Short Film:
Fifty Percent Grey
For the Birds
Give Up Yer Aul Sins
Strange Invaders
Stubble Trouble


Live-Action Short Film:

the accountant
Copy Shop
Gregor's Greatest Invention
A Man Thing (Meska Sprawa)
Speed for Thespians


Sound:

Amélie
Black Hawk Down
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge
Pearl Harbor


Sound Editing:

Monsters, Inc.
Pearl Harbor


Visual Effects:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Pearl Harbor

[Jul]

Courtesy of EOnline.com


"Lord" Runs Rings Around Oscar
by Mark Armstrong
Feb 12, 2002, 6:45 AM PT

Lordy, lordy: It wasn't quite a record, but The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ruled them all Tuesday morning, scoring a field-best 13 Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. :D

Peter Jackson's epic take on Tolkien also raked in a slew of technical nominations and a Best Supporting Actor nod for Ian McKellen, finishing just shy of the record 14 earned by Titanic and All About Eve. It was an expected turnout for a day otherwise filled with several surprise nominees and just as surprising snubs.

Tying for eight nominations apiece were Baz Luhrmann's eyeball-popping musical Moulin Rouge and A Beautiful Mind, the biopic of schizophrenic mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., which earned Russell Crowe his third consecutive nomination for Best Actor, as well as a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Jennifer Connelly and a first-ever directing nod for Ron Howard.

Lord of the Rings, Moulin Rouge and A Beautiful Mind will compete for Best Picture alongside Robert Altman's ensemble whodunit Gosford Park (which picked up seven nominations) and Todd Field's heart-wrenching family drama In the Bedroom, which earned five nominations Tuesday including Best Actress for Sissy Spacek, Best Actor for Tom Wilkinson and Best Supporting Actress for Marisa Tomei.

Joining Spacek for Best Actress: Nicole Kidman for her standout song-and-dance showing in Moulin Rouge, Halle Berry for her role as a death-row widow in Monster's Ball, Judi Dench for her take on author Iris Murdoch in Iris and, surprisingly, Renée Zellweger for her British single gal in Bridget Jones's Diary.

The Best Actor category took a leap for diversity, with Denzel Washington up for Training Day and Will Smith contending for Ali, marking the first time two black actors have been singled out in the category. Joining them are Crowe, Wilkinson and surprise pick Sean Penn for I Am Sam.

The ladies of Gosford Park rule the Best Supporting Actress race, with Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith nominated alongside Connelly, Tomei and Kate Winslet for Iris.

For Best Supporting Actor, Ethan Hawke scored an out-of-left-field nomination for Training Day, joining McKellen, Ben Kingsley for Sexy Beast, Jim Broadbent for Iris, and Jon Voight for Ali.

The Best Director race also took a bit of a twist, singling out two filmmakers whose movies are not up for Best Picture: David Lynch for Mulholland Drive and Ridley Scott for Black Hawk Down. Joining them are Howard for A Beautiful Mind, Altman for Gosford Park and Jackson for The Lord of the Rings.

Conversely, Moulin Rouge and In the Bedroom scored Best Picture nominations, but Baz Luhrmann and Todd Field were nowhere to be found in the Best Director category.

Other notable disses: Billy Bob Thornton, who had earned Oscar buzz for both The Man Who Wasn't There and Monster's Ball. Best Actress contenders who were MIA included Naomi Watts for Mulholland Drive and Tilda Swinton for The Deep End.

Original screenplay nominees include Guillaume Laurant and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet for the feel-good French import Amélie (which tied In the Bedroom with five nominations, including Best Foreign-Language Film), Julian Fellowes for Gosford Park, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan for Memento, Milo Addica and Will Rokos for Monster's Ball and Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson for The Royal Tenenbaums.

In the adapted screenplay category, it's A Beautiful Mind (Akiva Goldsman), Ghost World (Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff), In the Bedroom (Rob Festinger and Todd Field), The Lord of the Rings (Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson) and Shrek (Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman).

Some Industry pundits had believed Memento and In the Bedroom might have been snubbed after their screenplays failed to qualify for the Writers Guild of America's Awards because neither low-budget film was a union signatory. But both made the Oscar cut.

And Shrek looks to be the favorite in the first-ever category for Best Animated Feature, joining Disney and Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Paramount's Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Despite its critical acclaim, Richard Linklater's dizzying animated trip Waking Life was left off the list.

The 74th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, will air live on ABC March 24 at 8 p.m. ET. This year, the ceremony will take place at its new home, the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.

[Rexy]

Lord of the Rings RULES!!!! WOO HOO!!! :joy:

:thumbs: :bounce:

And I SOOOOO hope Ian McKellen wins for best Supporting Actor cause he seriously ROCKED!!

:aok:

[Carey22]

LOTR!!!!!:bounce:

[Katy]

MOULIN ROUGE RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck to Nicole!!!

[Section1Angel]

I was psyched to see memento got nominated for something. That was an awesome movie! :joy:

LOTR definately deserves some awards. :aok:

I'm sure Moulin Rouge will will for costumes....although I could not sit through this movie the costumes were good.

And please please please don't let Russell Crowe win best actor. He is so over-rated! My vote is for Sean Penn what an awesome performance.

H

[m morgan]

In the LA Times, they called it Lord of the Oscars.....So cool!

This is what movies are all about

Quality AND blockbuster at the box office.

[Paula99]

:aok: mm. You're right on, there.

[Jul]

Can't wait to see it!!! :D

[Rexy]

It's always bittersweet to watch the Oscars. I'm sure it's a honor to be nominated but not winning sucks. I have a feeling that LOTR's isn't going to win Best Picture or Director. I'm hoping that Ian McKellen wins for Best Supporting Actor though & maybe the movie wins some of the other categories.

[Rexy]

:( I'm majorly bummed about Ian McKellen.

[Carey22]

what? oh well, I'll wait. :lol
LOTR won for cinematography!! woohooo!!

[Jul]

I LOVED Whoopi Goldberg's line "For those of you keeping score, Schizophrenic Mathematician two, Hobbits 4" :lol :lol although, it came out different in the end...

who thought Jim Broadbent would win Best Supporting Actor??? and Denzel Washington beat Russell Crowe... I thought Russell had it locked for sure...

[Carey22]

For those of you keeping score, Schizophrenic Mathematician two, Hobbits 4

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!LMAO!!!!

[Jul]

Car, are you watching right now? or is it not on yet for you?? if it's not, tape it! :D

[Carey22]

im watching it, i missed the beginning 25 minutes of it though, so i think i missed halle berry's speech. and independence day is on another channel; so i am being an evil flipper. :lol

[Jul]

no, love... halle berry is near the end.. like the last hour... I'm watching the e! post show stuff now... josh hartnett is on... *HOT!!!*

[Carey22]

aw man!! Im at the part where they give the award to Sydney Poitier.

[Jul]

Sidney Poitier ROCKS!!! but, what the frell was Denzel doing with his hand while he was reading the teleprompter???

[josephine215]

Yelling and screaming woke me up, so I got to see Denzel win for Training Day. I thought they wouldn't give it to him because the role, and the movie, are so dark.

Saw Halle win on E! Can't wait to see Monster's Ball!!!

Congrats to both of them!!!