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Tuesday, January 27, 2004   Oscar. Here are the actual nominees. My ballot is below (Subject to change - one benefit of not actually being a voting member of the Academy.) Best Picture 21 Grams Lost in Translation School of Rock Kill Bill, Vol. 1 All The Real Girls Next 10: American Splendor, Bad Santa, Cabin Fever, Capturing the Freidmans, Intolerable Cruelty, Irreversible, May, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Spider, Stone Reader Best Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - 21 Grams Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation Richard Linklater - School of Rock Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill, Vol. 1 David Gordon Green - All The Real Girls Next seven: Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Joel and Ethan Coen - Intolerable Cruelty, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini - American Splendor, Alan Rudolph - The Secret Lives of Dentists, David Cronenberg - Spider, Gaspar Noe - Irreversible Best Actor Sean Penn - 21 Grams Billy Bob Thornton - Bad Santa Bill Murray - Lost in Translation Philip Seymour Hoffman - Owning Mahowny Campbell Scott - The Secret Lives of Dentists Next six: Jack Black - School of Rock, William H. Macy - The Cooler, Ben Kingsley - House of Sand and Fog, Paul Giamatti - American Splendor, David Strathairn - Blue Car, Ralph Fiennes - Spider, Nick Nolte - The Good Thief Good 'ol movie fun: Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and George Clooney - Intolerable Cruelty Best Actress Naomi Watts - 21 Grams Zooey Deschanel - All The Real Girls Monica Bellucci - Irreversible Charlize Theron - Monster Angela Bettis - May Next six: Uma Thurman - Kill Bill, Vol. 1, Keisha Castle-Hughes - Whale Rider, Jennifer Connelly - House of Sand and Fog, Agnes Bruckner - Blue Car, Evan Rachel Wood - thirteen, Frances McDormand - Laurel Canyon Best Supporting Actor Matt Helms - Cabin Fever Peter Sarsgaard - Shattered Glass Billy Bob Thornton - Intolerable Cruelty Benicio Del Toro - 21 Grams Alec Baldwin - The Cooler Next eight: Judah Freidlander and James Urbaniak - American Splendor, John Hurt - Owning Mahowny, Sid Haig - House of 1,000 Corpses, Eugene Levy and Fred Willard - A Mighty Wind, Robert Tsai - School of Rock, Harry Altman - Spellbound Best Supporting Actress Scarlet Johansson - Lost in Translation Melissa Leo - 21 Grams Hope Davis - American Splendor & The Secret Lives of Dentists Catherine O'Hara - A Mighty Wind Miranda Richardson - Spider Next five: Jacqueline Kim - Charlotte Sometimes, Sheri Moon - House of 1,000 Corpses, Maria Bello - The Cooler, Shohreh Aghdashloo - House of Sand and Fog, Holly Hunter - thirteen Notable line delivery: Jordan Ladd in Cabin Fever: "He asked for our help and we set him on fire." Notable gesture: In 21 Grams, Clea DuVall, still in the pool, calls out to Naomi Watts. Watts turns, and Duvall displays her middle finger. Watts smiles. Notable still shot: A streetwise, pre-New Main Street Singers Parker Posey in A Mighty Wind. Notable dancing while wearing a clown costume to entertain the children's ward of a local hospital: Patricia Clarkson in All The Real Girls (with help from Paul Schneider). Best Original Screenplay Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation David Gordon Green - All The Real Girls Quentin Tarantino - Kill Bill, Vol. 1 Craig Lucas - The Secret Lives of Dentists Guillermo Arriaga - 21 Grams Best Adapted Screenplay Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini - American Splendor Patrick McGrath - Spider Vadim Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto - House of Sand and Fog ? ? Best Cinematography Darius Khondji - Anything Else Harris Savides - Gerry Robert Richardson - Kill Bill, Vol. 1 Rodriego Prieto - 21 Grams Andrew Lesnie - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Next three: Tim Orr - All The Real Girls, Roger Deakins - Intolerable Cruelty and House of Sand and Fog, Chris Menges - The Good Thief Best Documentary Capturing the Freidmans - Andrew Jarecki Spellbound - Jeffrey Blitz Stevie - Steve James Stone Reader - Mark Moskowitz Lost in La Mancha - Keith Pepe & Louis Fulton Honorable mention: Mexican Vacation! - Esselle posted by Linus | 7:17 AM		blog-o-rama Recidivism. Leoville. Clap Clap. Antidisingenuous. Me again. film Avary. Baaab. Boo Seh Mee. Charlie. Cheshire Christley. Crazy Look-em-ups. Cri. D'Angelo. Denby/Lane. Drew. Dupont. Ebert. Elvis. Erickson. Frazer. Gallo. Greencine Daily. Harry. Heilman. Henderson. Hoberman, et al. Jerk. Kelly. Kim. LAKS. MCN. Meta. Milk Plus. The Movie Blog. NYT. Overbeck. Paddock. Panayides. Private Joker. 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