LOS ANGELES (Top40-Charts.com) - The 75th annual Academy Awards winners list (Sunday 23/3/2003) in Los Angeles).
The best-picture Academy Award for the flashy musical "
Chicago" was one of the only predictable elements of a ceremony that included three key wins for the Holocaust drama "The Pianist" .
On a night when the war with Iraq set a somber tone, Adrien Brody took best-actor and Roman Polanski earned the directing prize for "The Pianist" against higher-profile front-runners. The Japanese film "Spirited Away" won for feature-length animation against cartoon behemoths from Hollywood.
Eminem took the best-song Oscar against a field that included veterans Paul Simon and U2.The ceremony included an angry indictment of the Bush administration from documentary winner Michael Moore and a tearful moment of empathy for war victims from Brody.
With six awards, "Chicago" was the main winner at a ceremony where pageantry took on greater solemnity because of the U.S.-led war on Iraq.
" Chicago" became the first musical to win best picture since 1968's "Oliver!" Catherine Zeta-Jones, supporting-actress winner for "Chicago," was the first performer to win an Oscar for a musical since 1972.
Nicole Kidman won for lead actress as author Virginia Woolf in the somber drama "The Hours." Chris Cooper earned the supporting-actor Oscar for the twisted Hollywood tale "Adaptation."
Kidman, Cooper and Zeta-Jones had been acting front-runners, but first-time nominee Brody was something of a longshot in the best-actor field, where each of the other contenders already had at least one Oscar. Jack Nicholson of "About Schmidt" and Daniel Day-Lewis of "Gangs of New York" had been viewed as best bets to win the lead-actor trophy.
" The Pianist" was based on the life of Holocaust survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who eluded the Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto. Brody told the Oscar crowd the film was a tribute to Szpilman, and he fought back tears as he said the role gave him a taste of the dehumanization that comes with war.
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Adrien Brody
THE PIANIST
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Chris Cooper
ADAPTATION
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Nicole Kidman
THE HOURS
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Catherine Zeta-Jones
CHICAGO
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
SPIRITED AWAY
Hayao Miyazaki
ART DIRECTION
CHICAGO
John Myhre (Art Direction); Gordon Sim (Set Decoration)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
ROAD TO PERDITION
Conrad L. Hall
COSTUME DESIGN
CHICAGO
Colleen Atwood
DIRECTING
THE PIANIST
Roman Polanski
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE
Michael Moore and Michael Donovan
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
TWIN TOWERS
Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port
FILM EDITING
CHICAGO
Martin Walsh
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
NOWHERE IN AFRICA
Germany
Directed by Caroline Link
| | MAKEUP
FRIDA
John Jackson and Beatrice De Alba
MUSIC (SCORE)
FRIDA
Elliot Goldenthal
MUSIC (SONG)
8 MILE
'Lose Yourself'
Music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto; Lyric by Eminem
BEST PICTURE
CHICAGO
Martin Richards
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
THE CHUBBCHUBBS!
Eric Armstrong
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
THIS CHARMING MAN (DER ER EN YNDIG MAND)
Martin Strange-Hansen and Mie Andreasen
SOUND
CHICAGO
Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella and David Lee
SOUND EDITING
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
Ethan Van der Ryn and Michael Hopkins
VISUAL EFFECTS
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
THE PIANIST
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
TALK TO HER
Written by Pedro Almod�var
HONORARY AWARD
HONORARY AWARD
Peter O'Toole
|
