Disney Oscar Noms (Johny Depp! Finding Nemo! Destino! etc)

[Jake Lipson]

Oscar nominations are in (and firstly, NO, Finding Nemo is NOT a Best Picture nominee, so Beauty and the Beast still holds the first-and-only record.)

Disney jumped out at me in the following categories:

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
<b>Johnny Depp - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL</b>
Ben Kingsley - HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
Jude Law - COLD MOUNTAIN
Bill Murray - LOST IN TRANSLATION
Sean Penn - MYSTIC RIVER

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
<b>BROTHER BEAR</b>
<b>FINDING NEMO</b>
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE

MAKEUP
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
<b>PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL</b>

MUSIC (SCORE)
BIG FISH
COLD MOUNTAIN
<b>FINDING NEMO</b>
HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
<b>BOUNDIN'</b> (This is Pixar's newest short, which will play before The Incredibles in November.)
<b>DESTINO</b>
GONE NUTTY
HARVIE KRUMPET
NIBBLES

SOUND
THE LAST SAMURAI
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
<b>PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL</b>
SEABISCUIT

SOUND EDITING
<b>FINDING NEMO</b>
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
<b>PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL</b>

VISUAL EFFECTS
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
<b>PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL</b>

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS
<b>FINDING NEMO</b>
IN AMERICA
LOST IN TRANSLATION

Good luck, Nemo! I hope you find the deserved Oscar glory! Good luck, Pirates of the Caribbean! Let's hope you loot Johny Depp his first Oscar, and some other awards too!

And of course good luck to everyone else, too. I'm hoping LOTR sweeps all of its categories but am really upset that none of the actors got a nomination (especially Sean Austin.)

All Oscar noms can be seen <a href=http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nomineelist.html target=blank>here</a>.

[Mushu2083]

All right! Go Nemo! Go Nemo! It's your birthday. I hope Nemo wins animated feature film. Kinda disappointed that it's not nominated for Best Picture but oh well. We can't have EVERYTHING we want now can we?

[indianajdp]

Well, too bad PotC is gonna get knocked around by RotK in every category it's nominated. Hopefully one of those nods will come through.

[Joe Carioca]

Oscar nominations are in (and firstly, NO, Finding Nemo is NOT a Best Picture nominee, so Beauty and the Beast still holds the first-and-only record.)

I can't deny I'm happy becase of that! Long live "Beauty"!

I really wish "Brother Bear" would grab the Best Animated Feature award, but it seems the least likely to win.

[Luke]

Here are the nominees in categories Jake did not post, for those to lazy to click the link:

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alec Baldwin - THE COOLER
Benicio Del Toro - 21 GRAMS
Djimon Hounsou - IN AMERICA
Tim Robbins - MYSTIC RIVER
Ken Watanabe - THE LAST SAMURAI

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Keisha Castle-Hughes - WHALE RIDER
Diane Keaton - SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
Samantha Morton - IN AMERICA
Charlize Theron - MONSTER
Naomi Watts - 21 GRAMS

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Shohreh Aghdashloo - HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
Patricia Clarkson - PIECES OF APRIL
Marcia Gay Harden - MYSTIC RIVER
Holly Hunter - THIRTEEN
Renée Zellweger - COLD MOUNTAIN

ART DIRECTION
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
THE LAST SAMURAI
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
SEABISCUIT

CINEMATOGRAPHY
CITY OF GOD
COLD MOUNTAIN
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
SEABISCUIT

COSTUME DESIGN
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
THE LAST SAMURAI
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
SEABISCUIT

DIRECTING
CITY OF GOD
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
LOST IN TRANSLATION
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
MYSTIC RIVER

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
BALSEROS
CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS
THE FOG OF WAR
MY ARCHITECT
THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
ASYLUM
CHERNOBYL HEART
FERRY TALES

FILM EDITING
CITY OF GOD
COLD MOUNTAIN
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
SEABISCUIT

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS
EVIL
THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI
TWIN SISTERS
ŽELARY

MUSIC (SONG)
"Into the West" - THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
"A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" - A MIGHTY WIND
"Scarlet Tide" - COLD MOUNTAIN
"The Triplets of Belleville" - THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE
"You Will Be My Ain True Love" - COLD MOUNTAIN

BEST PICTURE
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
LOST IN TRANSLATION
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
MYSTIC RIVER
SEABISCUIT


SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
DIE ROTE JACKE (The Red Jacket)
MOST (The Bridge)
SQUASH
(A) TORZIJA ([A] Torsion)
TWO SOLDIERS

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
AMERICAN SPLENDOR
CITY OF GOD
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
MYSTIC RIVER
SEABISCUIT

Glad to see that Finding Nemo's score is recognized. Not too surprised it didn't get a Best Picture nomination. Hope Lost in Translation wins.

[Joe Carioca]

I'm glad "City of God" got all the nominations it did, but I'm still surprised they didn't give it a "Best Foreing Language Picture" nomination.

[STASHONE]

I'm happy to see that Roy got a nomination!!

[Jake Lipson]

Well, too bad PotC is gonna get knocked around by RotK in every category it's nominated. Hopefully one of those nods will come through.

Unfortunately, ROTK did not recieve any acting nominations (which seems to mean that the Academy STILL only sees it as a CGI spectacle, which is a shame) so I think Johny Depp will win his Oscar for Captain Jack Sparrow. Otherwise, yeah, I'm expecting ROTK to win all of its 11 (!) categories. It really got snubbed though as far as the acting goes. Sean Austin deserved Best Supporting Actor. And BIG FISH got SNUBBED! The score was great, but really, that's its only nomination? It was better than that.

[Luke]

Unfortunately, ROTK did not recieve any acting nominations (which seems to mean that the Academy STILL only sees it as a CGI spectacle, which is a shame) so I think Johny Depp will win his Oscar for Captain Jack Sparrow.

No way Depp will beat Bill Murray, nor should he, in my opinion. Though Depp's performance was entertaining. If Murray doesn't get it, Sean Penn will.

[Jack]

WOW!!!! Cold Mountain got shut out from the Best Picture oscar nom!!

Glad to see Seabiscuit in there - that deserves a nomination.

Also happy to see Depp get an acting nom. Didn't expect that, but its certainly deserved.

Big Fish should've gotten Cinematography for sure. The scene where "time stops" is the most beautiful scene of the year.

[quasi72]

DESTINO
that is great news. However... I am dying to see that short film. Is there any way they are releasing it. Where? How?
I'm dying to see it

[Luke]

DESTINO
that is great news. However... I am dying to see that short film. Is there any way they are releasing it. Where? How?
I'm dying to see it

It's running before certain theatrical prints of "Calendar Girls" and will be coming to DVD sometime later this year.

[quasi72]

wow, thanks for the quick response!!!

[Satoshi]

I'm absolutely shocked that Cold Mountain didn't get a best picture oscar. I never saw the movie but it has all the ingredients that scream "oscar".

Pretty cool that POTC got all those nominations, though I'll be rooting for LOTR: ROTK over it.

[Jake Lipson]

Big Fish should've gotten Cinematography for sure. The scene where "time stops" is the most beautiful scene of the year.

Oh, yeah, Big Fish got snubbed big time. Exellent film that mixes the reality the Academy so loves with the fantasy they seem to disregard (which is why I'm guessing it got ignored.) But I would have given it a Best Picture nom myself. Cinematography definately, and also definately Best Editing. The way they successfully balanced the fantasy stories and the grounded reality of it was great. It's the same quality found in Secondhand Lions. Very disappointed to see Big Fish unimportant to the Academy (although I would've rooted for ROTK over it anyway.)

[Ernest Rister]

Finding Nemo is a better film than ROTK (but then, many films this year were better than ROTK)...

[Satoshi]

Finding Nemo is a better film than ROTK (but then, many films this year were better than ROTK)...

You better start running....*prepares to tackle ernest*

[Luke]

Finding Nemo is a better film than ROTK (but then, many films this year were better than ROTK)...

I agree!

[2099net]

I'm surprised Depp's been nominated. It's not an "Oscar" performance [*] and I'm certain the nomination is more to do with the Academy acknowledging their past indiscretions to Depp in previous ceremonies. (I'm still bitter Depp got no recognition for Edward Scissorhands or Ed Wood).

As for Lord of the Rings, it was obvious from the Fellowship of the Ring that the final "chapter" would get all the acclaim from the Academy. Personally, I'm not sure Peter Jackson deserves best director (!), as now more than ever there's a blur between actual directing and simply technical co-ordination. I'm by no means suggesting Jackson is a 'hack' or anywhere near it (so please don't hate me!), but I'd rather have the best Director award won by a director who has a small budget, small cast and just a couple of cameras. After all, the bigger the film, the bigger the crew and creative staff. It's hard to judge a director on what is obviously a massive collaboration with hundreds (if not thousands) of individual's input. I wonder if the Academy Awards need to categories for directing these days…?

[*] Sorry, but it's not. He doesn't stand a snowball's chance of winning, it's not the performance the Academy looks for.

[Ernest Rister]

The category is Best Actor, not "Best Performance in a Drama". Depp was sensational, his performance is probably one of the most indelible and popular star turns since Tom Hanks' work in Forrest Gump. I think the race is between Sean Penn and Bill Murray, with Murray being the sentimental favorite, but if Murray and Penn split the vote, then he *does* have a chance at winning. No one thought Marcia Gay Harden had a chance for Pollack either. "Best Actor" is going to be one of the more suspenseful categories to watch this year.