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Oscar Nods -- And All That Jazz
11 February 2003 (StudioBriefing)
Motion picture academy members faced the music and gave Chicago 13 nominations, including best picture, the first time a musical had been so lavishly honored by the academy since the heyday of the genre more than a generation ago. Moulin Rouge was nominated for a best picture Oscar last year and the animated musical Beauty and the Beast was nominated in 1991, but researchers were scouring the record books this morning to see when another musical had been showered with 13 Oscar nominations. At an early morning news conference, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Frank Pierson and Oscar winner Marisa Tomei announced the nominees for the 75th annual awards, set to be handed out on March 24. Other nominees in the best picture category included Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Pianist. Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, with 10 nominations, came in second, followed by The Hours, with nine nominations. The following are the nominees in the top categories:

Best Actor: Adrien Brody, The Pianist; Nicolas Cage, Adaptation; Michael Caine, The Quiet American; Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York; Jack Nicholson, About Schmidt.

Best Supporting Actor: Chris Cooper, Adaptation; Ed Harris, The Hours; Paul Newman, Road to Perdition; John C. Reilly, Chicago; Christopher Walken, Catch Me If You Can.

Best Actress: Salma Hayek, Frida; Nicole Kidman, The Hours; Diane Lane, Unfaithful; Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven; Renée Zellweger, Chicago.

Best Supporting Actress: Kathy Bates, About Schmidt; Julianne Moore, The Hours; Queen Latifah, Chicago; Meryl Streep, Adaptation; Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago;

Director: Rob Marshall, Chicago; Martin Scorsese, Gangs of New York; Stephen Daldry, The Hours; Roman Polanski, The Pianist; Pedro Almodóvar, Talk To Her.

Adapted Screenplay: About a Boy, Screenplay by Peter Hedges and Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz; Adaptation, Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman; Chicago, Screenplay by Bill Condon; The Hours, Screenplay by David Hare; The Pianist, Screenplay by Ronald Harwood.

Original Screenplay: Far From Heaven, Written by Todd Haynes; Gangs of New York, Screenplay by Jay Cocks and Steve Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan, Story by Jay Cocks; My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Written by Nia Vardalos; Talk To Her, Written by Pedro Almodóvar; Y Tu Mamá También, Written by Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón.

Surprise: Documentary Gets WGA Nod
7 February 2003 (StudioBriefing)
Michael Moore was apparently bowled over when he got the news that his Bowling for Columbine had received a nomination for best original screenplay from the Writers Guild of America for its annual screenplay awards -- the first time a documentary has ever been nominated. "I didn't submit this to the Writers Guild," Moore told today's (Friday) Los Angeles Times, "because in the past I knew they don't nominate documentaries. But United Artists did." Other best-screenplay nominees: Antwone Fisher for Antwone Fisher; Todd Haynes for Far From Heaven; Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan for Gangs of New York; and Nia Vardalos for My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Nominees for adapted screenplay: Peter Hedges and Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz for About a Boy; Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor for About Schmidt; Charlie Kaufman and (his fictional partner) Donald Kaufman for Adaptation.; Bill Condon for Chicago; and David Hare for The Hours. The awards are due to be presented at ceremonies in New York and Beverly Hills on March 8.