Oscar Nominations

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 9:07 am

Here they are:

Best Picture
A Beautiful Mind
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
Lord of the Rings
Moulin Rouge

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

Best Actress
Halle Berry, Monster's Ball
Judi Dench, Iris
Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge
Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom
Renee Zellwegger, Bridget Jones's Diary

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

Best Supporting Actor
Jim Broadbent, Iris
Ethan Hawke, Training Day
Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast
Ian McKellen, Lord of the Rings
John Voight, Ali

Best Animated Film (New Category)
Shrek
Monsters, Inc.
Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius

Best Original Screenplay
Amelie
Gosford Park
Memento
Monster's Ball
The Royal Tennenbaums

Best Adapted Screenplay
A Beautiful Mind
Ghost World
In the Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings
Shrek

Opinions?

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 9:16 am

Here are my picks, with the old Siskel & Ebert trick of picking who should win the award as opposed to who will win it:

Best Picture
A Beautiful Mind (will win)
Lord of the Rings (should win)

Best Director
Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind (will)
Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings (should)

Best Actress
Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom (will, should)

Best Actor
Sean Penn, I Am Sam (will, should)

Best Supporting Actress
Maggie Smith, Gosford Park (will)
Marisa Tomei, In the Bedroom (should)

Best Supporting Actor
Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast (toss-up will)
Ian McKellen, Lord of the Rings (toss-up will, should)

Best Animated Film (New Category)
Shrek (will, should)

Best Original Screenplay
Memento (will, should)

Best Adapted Screenplay
In the Bedroom (will)
The Lord of the Rings (should)

Disclaimer: I have not seen all of the movies that were nominated, I'm making my picks based on what I've heard from reasonably reputable movie critics and my friends who are cinema buffs.

The Oscar field is pretty thin this year, so I can easily see three or four movies (A Beautiful Mind, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge, In the Bedroom) taking the majority of the major awards.

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 9:17 am

My Predictions according to Banned Baassie Chrystal Ball :

Best Picture
Moulin Rouge

Best Director
Ridley Scott, Black Hawk Down

Best Actress
Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge

Best Actor
Will Smith, Ali

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind

Best Supporting Actor
John Voight, Ali

Best Animated Film (New Category)
Shrek

Best Original Screenplay
The Royal Tennenbaums

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Lord of the Rings

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 9:23 am

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
Here they are:

Best Picture
A Beautiful Mind
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
Lord of the Rings
Moulin Rouge

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

Best Actress
Halle Berry, Monster's Ball
Judi Dench, Iris
Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge
Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom
Renee Zellwegger, Bridget Jones's Diary

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

Best Supporting Actor
Jim Broadbent, Iris
Ethan Hawke, Training Day
Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast
Ian McKellen, Lord of the Rings
John Voight, Ali

Best Animated Film (New Category)
Shrek
Monsters, Inc.
Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius

Best Original Screenplay
Amelie
Gosford Park
Memento
Monster's Ball
The Royal Tennenbaums

Best Adapted Screenplay
A Beautiful Mind
Ghost World
In the Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings
Shrek

Opinions?

Where did you find this?- what about score?

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 9:25 am

You can find a complete list at Oscar.com (actually the list isn't complete; it's just the major awards--those that will be televised live on prime time).

There is another story about it at cnn.com.

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 9:36 am

Thanx HLD, I already went ahead to the NYTimes and found it.

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 9:44 am

Yes!

My hero, John Williams was nominated Twice in the same category!
For best original score for A.I and Harry Potter.
In my opinion none of the scores this year were amazing, but Harry Potter's was the best, despite the fact that I am usualy partial towards LoTR.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 10:03 am

Re: Re: Oscar Nominations

Originally posted by Morlock

Where did you find this?- what about score?

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,0-1043837,00.html

Sorry i didn't have time to look for the Score section, sky hadn't posted it on their site.

SoulWound · Post by **SoulWound** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 3:13 pm

My pick's

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Sean Penn in "I Am Sam"

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Ethan Hawke in "Training Day"

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Halle Berry in "Monster's Ball" ( She is a must win )

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Marisa Tomei in "In the Bedroom"

Best animated feature film of the year
"Shrek" (DreamWorks)

Achievement in art direction
Moulin Rouge"

Achievement in directing
"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" Peter Jackson

Best motion picture of the year
"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"

Screenplay written directly for the screen
"Memento" ( Great movie i sure Winner)

Seems everywhere i go it's all Lotr But kissing

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 4:18 pm

These are my picks:
Best picture- LotR
Best director- Peter Jackson, LotR
Best Actress- don't care
Best actor- Denzel Washington, Training Day
Best supporting actress- don't care
Best supporting actor- Ian McKellen, LotR
Best animated film- Shrek (hands down)
Best original screenplay- Royal Tennenbaums
Best adapted Screenplay- LotR

What about:
Best casting?: LotR
Best soundtrack?: LotR (hands down, no argument)

Me? A LotR bias? Nooooooooo...

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Wed Feb 13, 2002 6:03 pm

It's a good turnout for the Brits this year... although they usually say that, and we don't usually win any

Should win
Will win

Best Picture:
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Best Actor:
Russell Crowe for A Beautiful Mind
I haven't seen any of the performances, so I'm not sure on this one

Best Actress:
Judi Dench for Iris
Sissy Spacek for In The Bedroom

Best Supporting Actor:
Jim Broadbent for Iris

Best Supporting Actress:
Marisa Tomei for In The Bedroom

Best Director:
Ron Howard for A Beautiful Mind
Ridley Scott for Black Hawk Down

Best Original Screenplay:
Memento

Best Adapted Screenplay:
A Beautiful Mind
LotR

Best Animated Feature:
Shrek

Best Cinematography:
The Man Who Wasn't There

Best Original Score:
LotR

Of course, I haven't seen all the nominated movies... most notably A Beautiful Mind, which doesn't open here until March...

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 5:29 pm

I've just seen "Moulin Rouge", and I must say, its much better than I thougt it would be.
I was expecting a very weird movie, with weird characters and bad music.
The start was weird, but once you get into it, you don't notice it after a while.
The music is great. They have songs by David Bowie, U2, the Beatles, Madona, Elton John, Fatboy Slim and many more.
Also Placido Domingo, one of the three tenors sings in one of the songs.
Nicole Kidman has an amazing voice.

It is simply a cute movie with great music.

ThorinOakensfield · Post by **ThorinOakensfield** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 6:38 pm

Fact is that over the past 20 years, the picture nominated for the most oscars has won the Best Picture award 18 out of 20 times.
Favors LoTR.

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 9:11 pm

Originally posted by ThorinOakensfield
Fact is that over the past 20 years, the picture nominated for the most oscars has won the Best Picture award 18 out of 20 times.
Favors LoTR.

I think the demographics are different this year, since if you look at all the categories you will see that the 5 nomination lead that LoTR has- are all in technical categories in which a Beutiful mind (BM) isn't nominated. This means that LoTR could win some or all of these 5, and then be even with BM.
Example:"the Matrix" won 4 oscars in technical categories, but wasn't even nominated in any of the 5 leading categories.
I think that history says that BM is gonna win Best picture, actor and writer.

As a side note, last week I wanted to go out to see a movie, and couldn't find anything interesting. In the next 2 weeks A Beutiful mind, Gosford park, I am Sam, In the bedroom, Monsters Inc., Black Hawk down, The man who wasn't there and Mullholand drive- are all coming out.
Needless to say, my presence here shall decrease significantly.

mediev · Post by **mediev** » Sat Feb 16, 2002 9:25 pm

I call black hawk down black hawk...propaganda.

o yse.

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Sun Feb 24, 2002 6:54 am

A Beutiful mind

I saw this last night, and I was expecting more from this movie.
This is a movie that again, like Moulin Rouge, I would not recommend it for most male teen-agers, they would simply not find something atractive about it- except of course for the absolutely Beutiful Jennifer Connoly as Russel Crowes wife.
A very short summery of the movie: The life and trials of John F. Nash (Russel Crowe) - a brillient Mathematician who develops Scizofrenia (Totaly wrong spelling, I know).
Director Ron Howard (Apollo 13, The Grinch, The Paper) sent a letter to the press asking them not to divulge more than the basic setting for the plot, which I also recommend that everyone else who sees the movie should not reveal the plot- it would totaly ruin the movie.

Specific things I would like to point out:
1. The makeup is not done very well, it is not relative with the character's age.
2.Russel Crowe gives a great performece, but the character he plays has a very annoying way of speaking- which is a bit of a turn-off.
I think he does deserve the oscar, but I'm still routing for Tom Wilkinson (In the bedroom)- I didn't see the movie- but I loved him in other movies: "The Full Monty", "The patriot"- he played General Cornwallis, and "Shakespeare in love"- he played the sponser of the play brilliantly.
3.Ed Harris (The Truman show, The Rock and many others) was great in this movie, I just wish he would play a lead character once in a while.
4.I loved the guy who played Nash's roommate- he was in "A knights tale"- he played the naked guy.

I still think this movie will take in best picture, director, acter, suppoting actress- despite the fact that I want LoTR to win.

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Sun Feb 24, 2002 8:00 am

Re: A Beutiful mind

Originally posted by Morlock
4.I loved the guy who played Nash's roommate- he was in "A knights tale"- he played the naked guy.

LOL

"The naked guy", aka Geoffrey Chaucer

Paul Bettany was definitely the best thing in A Knight's Tale. And incidentally I read an interview with him recently and he stated and went on to ignore the fact that he wasn't supposed to talk about specific parts of A Beautiful Mind

I saw In The Bedroom last weekend, Tom Wilkinson's performance was excellent, as were Sissy Spacek and Marisa Tomei. But I wasn't that impressed by the movie itself - definitely not a frontrunner for Best Picture, in my mind. And I still think Russell Crowe will take Best Actor.

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Sun Feb 24, 2002 8:06 am

How was Tom as an American? was he like Russel Crowe in L.A confidential- with his accent slipping ocasionaly, or was it American all the way?

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Sun Feb 24, 2002 4:09 pm

And the winners are...

Well, the BAFTAs (British Academy Awards) took place tonight, here's a round-up of the winners:

Best British Film - Gosford Park
Best Cinematography - The Man Who Wasn't There
Best Adapted Screenplay - Shrek
Best Original Screenplay - Amelie
Best Foreign Language Film - Amores Perros
Best Music - Moulin Rouge!
Audience Film of the Year Award - LotR (as voted for by the public)
Best Supporting Actress - Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind
Best Supporting Actor - Jim Broadbent for Moulin Rouge
Best Actress - Judi Dench for Iris
Best Actor - Russell Crowe for A Beautiful Mind
Best Director - Peter Jackson for LotR
Best Film - LotR

Good night for LotR

(it also took the awards for special FX and hair and make-up...) It's not often that the BAFTAs set the precedent for the Oscars though...

Originally posted by Morlock
How was Tom as an American? was he like Russel Crowe in L.A confidential- with his accent slipping ocasionaly, or was it American all the way?

I didn't notice it slip... but then I didn't notice anything wrong with Russell Crowe's accent in LA Confidential either...

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Mon Feb 25, 2002 3:43 am

Re: And the winners are...

Originally posted by Georgi

I didn't notice it slip... but then I didn't notice anything wrong with Russell Crowe's accent in LA Confidential either...

The first douzen times I saw it (L.A Confeidential,I realy love that movie) I didn't notice it either, but once Gladiator came out and I found out he was Australian, I saw the movie again and noticed his accent slipping.