ZAW1. [Past] Awards: Academy Awards for 2001: My Nominee Predictions
Submitted by dgeiser13 on Wed, 12/05/2001 - 13:52
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- Best Picture ~ A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Ali, Amélie, A Beautiful Mind, Black Hawk Down, Bridget Jones's Diary, Ghost World, Gosford Park, In The Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Man Who Wasn't There, Memento, Moulin Rouge!, Mulholland Drive, The Others, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shrek, The Shipping News, Vanilla Sky
- Best Director ~ Alejandro Amenábar / The Others, Robert Altman / Gosford Park, Wes Anderson / The Royal Tenenbaums, Joel Coen / The Man Who Wasn't There, Cameron Crowe / Vanilla Sky, Todd Field / In The Bedroom, Lasse Hallström / The Shipping News, Ron Howard / A Beautiful Mind, Peter Jackson / The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Baz Luhrmann / Moulin Rouge!, David Lynch / Mullholland Drive, Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Amélie, Michael Mann / Ali, Christopher Nolan / Memento, Ridley Scott / Black Hawk Down, Steven Spielberg / A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Bela Tarr / Werckmeister Harmonies, Kar-Wai Wong / In The Mood For Love, Terry Zwigoff / Ghost World
- Best Actor in a Leading Role ~ Brian Cox / L.I.E., Russell Crowe / A Beautiful Mind, Gene Hackman / The Royal Tenenbaums, Hugh Jackman / Kate & Leopold, Kevin Kline / Life as a House, Ewan McGregor / Moulin Rouge!, John Cameron Mitchell / Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Guy Pearce / Memento, Sean Penn / I Am Sam, Will Smith / Ali, Kevin Spacey / The Shipping News, Billy Bob Thornton / Bandits, Billy Bob Thornton / The Man Who Wasn't There, Billy Bob Thornton / Monster's Ball, Denzel Washington / Training Day, Tom Wilkinson / In The Bedroom
- Best Actress in a Leading Role ~ Halle Berry / Monster's Ball, Thora Birch / Ghost World, Cate Blanchett / Charlotte Gray, Cate Blanchett / Bandits, Stockard Channing / The Business of Strangers, Maggie Cheung / Hua Yang Nian Hua (aka In The Mood For Love), Judi Dench / Iris, Nicole Kidman / Moulin Rouge!, Nicole Kidman / The Others, Charlotte Rampling / Sous Le Sable (aka Under The Sand), Sissy Spacek / In The Bedroom, Tilda Swinton / The Deep End, Audrey Tatou / Amelie, Naomi Watts / Mullholland Drive, Reese Witherspoon / Legally Blonde, Renée Zellweger / Bridget Jones's Diary
- Best Actor in a Supporting Role ~ Jim Broadbent / Iris, Jim Broadbent / Moulin Rouge!, Steve Buscemi / Ghost World, Hayden Christensen / Life as a House, Brian Cox / L.I.E., Jamie Foxx / Ali, Scott Glenn / The Shipping News, Gene Hackman / The Royal Tenenbaums, Ethan Hawke / Training Day, Ben Kingsley / Sexy Beast, Jude Law / A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Ewan McGregor / Black Hawk Down, Ian McKellen / The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Joe Pantoliano / Memento, Tony Shalhoub / The Man Who Wasn't There, Jon Voight / Ali
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role ~ Jennifer Connelly / A Beautiful Mind, Cameron Diaz / Vanilla Sky, Judi Dench / The Shipping News, Dakota Fanning / I Am Sam, Anjelica Huston / The Royal Tenenbaums, Scarlett Johansson / Ghost World, Scarlett Johansson / The Man Who Wasn't There, Helen Mirren / Gosford Park, Frances O'Connor / A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Maggie Smith / Gosford Park, Marisa Tomei / In The Bedroom, Naomi Watts / Mullholland Drive, Kate Winslet / Iris
- Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published ~ Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh / The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff / Ghost World; Cameron Crowe / Vanilla Sky; Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies and Helen Fielding / Bridget Jones's Diary; Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman / Shrek; Robert Festinger and Todd Field / In The Bedroom; Akiva Goldsman / A Beautiful Mind; Ken Nolan / Black Hawk Down, Fred Schepisi / Last Orders; David Siegel / The Deep End; Steven Spielberg / A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
- Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen ~ Milo Addica and Will Rokos / Monster's Ball; Alejandro Amenábar / The Others; Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson / The Royal Tenenbaums; David Ayer / Training Day; Ethan and Joel Coen / The Man Who Wasn't There; Julian Fellowes / Gosford Park; Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant / Amélie, Richard Kelly / Donnie Darko; Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce / Moulin Rouge!, David Lynch / Mullholland Drive; David Mamet / Heist; Christopher Nolan / Memento; Danis Tanovic / No Man's Land
- Best Cinematography ~ Javier Aguirresarobe / The Others, Antonio Calvache / In The Bedroom, Bruno Delbonnel / Amélie, Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-Bin / Hua Yang Nian Hua (aka In The Mood For Love), Roger Deakins / A Beautiful Mind, Roger Deakins / The Man Who Wasn't There, Peter Deming / Mulholland Drive, Andrew Dunn / Gosford Park, Slavomir Idziak / Black Hawk Down, Janusz Kaminski / A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Andrew Lesnie / The Lord of the Rings, Emmanuel Lubezki / Ali, John Mathieson / Hannibal, Donald McAlpine / Moulin Rouge!, Wally Pfister / Memento, John Schwartzman / Pearl Harbor, Oliver Stapleton / The Shipping News, John Toll / Vanilla Sky, Robert D. Yeoman / The Royal Tenenbaums
- Best Editing ~ Jill Bilcock / Moulin Rouge!, Dody Dorn / Memento, Richard Francis-Bruce / Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Sim Evan-Jones / Shrek, John Gilbert / The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill / A Beautiful Mind, Pietro Scalia / Black Hawk Down, Hervé Schneid / Amélie, Tim Squyres / Gosford Park, Jim Stewart / Monsters, Inc., Dylan Tichenor / The Royal Tenenbaums
- Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing (Pick 3) ~ Amélie, Black Hawk Down, The Fast and the Furious, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Monsters, Inc., Pearl Harbor
- Best Effects, Visual Effects (Pick 3) ~ A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Black Hawk Down, Cats and Dogs, The Fast and the Furious, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Jurassic Park III, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Pearl Harbor
- Best Makeup (Pick 3) ~ A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Beautiful Mind, Hannibal, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge!, Planet of the Apes
- Best Animated Film (Pick 3) ~ Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Marco Polo: Return to Xanadu, Monsters, Inc., Osmosis Jones, The Prince of Light, Shrek, The Trumpet of the Swan, Waking Life
- Best Foreign Language Film (Submissions are here) ~ Amélie, Baran, Behind the Sun, Dark Blue World, Elling, Lagaan, No Man's Land, Our Lady of the Assassins, The Piano Teacher, Son of the Bride, The Son's Room
- Best Music, Song ~ May It Be by Enya / The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Vanilla Sky by Paul McCartney / Vanilla Sky, If I Didn't Have You by Randy Newman / Monsters, Inc., Until by Sting / Kate & Leopold, There You'll Be by Diane Warren / Pearl Harbor
- Best Music, Original Score ~ John Williams / A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Yann Tiersen / Amélie, James Horner / A Beautiful Mind, Hans Zimmer / Black Hawk Down, Patrick Doyle / Gosford Park, John Williams / Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Thomas Newman / In The Bedroom, Howard Shore / The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Randy Newman / Monsters, Inc., Angelo Badalamenti / Mulholland Drive, Hans Zimmer / Pearl Harbor, Christopher Young / The Shipping News
- Best Art Direction-Set Decoration ~ A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Ali, Amélie, A Beautiful Mind, Black Hawk Down, Bridget Jones's Diary, Ghost World, Gosford Park, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, In The Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Man Who Wasn't There, Memento, Moulin Rouge!, Mulholland Drive, The Others, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shrek, The Shipping News, Vanilla Sky
- Best Costume Design ~ Colleen Atwood / Planet of the Apes, Jenny Beavan / Gosford Park, Milena Canonero / The Affair of the Necklace, Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor / The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Shuna Harwood / Bride of the Wind, Jeffrey Kurland / Ocean's Eleven, Judianna Makovsky / Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie / Moulin Rouge!, Ruth Myers / Iris, Rita Ryack / A Beautiful Mind, Janty Yates / Charlotte Gray
- Best Sound ~ A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Ali, Amélie, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, A Beautiful Mind, Black Hawk Down, Enemy at the Gates, Evolution, The Fast and the Furious, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Hannibal, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Jurassic Park III, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Les Pacte des Loups (aka The Brotherhood of the Wolf), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Memento, Monsters, Inc., Moulin Rouge!, Mulholland Drive, The Mummy Returns, The Others, Pearl Harbor, Planet of the Apes, The Royal Tenenbaums, Shrek, Training Day, Vanilla Sky
- Best Documentary, Features (Submissions are here) ~ Children Underground, Dogtown and Z Boys, Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton, My Khmer Heart, Murder on a Sunday Morning, Promises, War Photographer, We Stand Alone Together
- Best Documentary, Short Subject ~ Artists and Orphans: A True Drama, Sing!, Thoth
- Best Short Film, Animated
- Fifty Percent Grey, For The Birds, Give Up Yer Aul Sins, Strange Invaders, Stubble Trouble
- Best Short Film, Live Action
- The Accountant, Copy Shop, Gregor's Greatest Invention, A Man Thing, Speed For Thespians
Author Comments:
As much as I abhor much of the Oscar prognastication that goes on I thought I'd take a stab at what I think will constitute the nominees come February 12th.
For my own benefit I've listed all those contestants I think have a shot, I've italicized the films or roles I've yet to see and bolded what I currently think will be nominated.
The plan is to have each Nomination Category pared down or padded out to 5 by the time the nominees are announced.
Who's comin' with me?
2/12/2002
OK, I have highlighted in yellow the eventual nominees and put a strike through nominees I didn't have on my possible nominees list.
I'm with ya on this. I'll be posting my predictions soon. Let's see if they line up.
Okey-Dokey! Now that the nominations are in I went through and highlighted in yellow what got nominated.
If you count all of the categories that I picked nominees in, this is everything except for Best Documentary, Short Subject and Best Short Film, Animated and Best Short Film, Live Action, then I was 66/96 or 68.75% correct.
My best category was Best Music, Song where I got 5 out of 5 but I relied heavily on other prognostication sites for those. Of the categories that were all me my best categories were Best Picture (4 of 5), Best Actor (4 of 5), Best Actress (5 of 5), Best Writing, Original Screenplay (4 of 5), Best Cinematography (4 or 5), Best Editing (4 of 5) and Best Effects, Visual Effects (3 of 3).
If you choose just the major categories, Picture, Director, Acting Categories, Editing, Cinematoraphy and Writing Categories, I was 37 of 50 or 74%.
I've come to the conclusion that of the major awards the Supporting Actor and Actress are the hardest to call.
I'm pretty comfortable with all of the Academy's choices in a general sense (given their past track record) but the omission of Baz Luhrmann as Best Director is big. Also, Tony Shalhoub being passed over as Best Supporting Actor when Ethan Hawke got a nomination is a minor travesty.
Great job!
Were you like me? Did you go with Memento more out of hope than logic?
At least most of the major nominations were noteworthy films, even if a few weren't and many great (arguably better) films were largely overlooked.
But Naomi Watts was flat out robbed, I tell ya'!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
> Were you like me? Did you go with Memento more > out of hope than logic?
I think it was logic. I really thought it had a legitimate chance at winning best picture. Both In The Bedroom and Memento were small films and could have easily traded places.
AFA Naomi Watts goes I haven't seen Mulholland Drive so I can't vouch for the robbery but I've heard good things all around about her performance.
I basically picked what I thought the Academy would choose not what is the best of the year in film. I hope that was clear.
You were perfectly clear indeed. When guessing at the Oscars, I noticed that most of my friend frequent Oscarwatch.com. Usually, their guesses are identical, so they end up getting the same ones right. Because of this, I usually go out on a limb with several each year, just to make things fun. When I do, I usually try to be optimistic and pick a few I really hope may win and that actually have half a chance at doing just that. This year, with the noms, I went with Memento and Watts. Ah, I should have ran with Lynch...
I was only curious if you did anything likewise.
Again, great job!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I looked at OscarWatch to get a general idea for some of the more obscure categories. More than anything I just wanted to make sure that I had remember all of the possible nominees to choose from when I made my picks.
I like to go a little out on a limb as well. For me Memento as Best Picture, Guy Pearce as Best Actor and Renée Zellweger as Best Actor were my limb picks.