76th Academy Awards nominees Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORY for 76th Academy Awards

76TH AWARDS

Best motion picture of the year

• Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Producers
• Lost in Translation Ross Katz and Sofia Coppola, Producers
• Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir and Duncan Henderson, Producers
• Mystic River Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt and Clint Eastwood, Producers
• Seabiscuit Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Gary Ross, Producers

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Johnny Depp in
• Ben Kingsley in House of Sand and Fog
• Jude Law in Cold Mountain
• Bill Murray in Lost in Translation
• Sean Penn in Mystic River

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Alec Baldwin in The Cooler
• Benicio Del Toro in 21 Grams
• Djimon Hounsou in In America
• Tim Robbins in Mystic River
• Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Keisha Castle-Hughes in Whale Rider
• Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give
• Samantha Morton in In America
• Charlize Theron in Monster
• Naomi Watts in 21 Grams

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Shohreh Aghdashloo in House of Sand and Fog
• Patricia Clarkson in Pieces of April
• Marcia Gay Harden in Mystic River
• Holly Hunter in Thirteen
• Renée Zellweger in Cold Mountain

Best animated feature film of the year

• Brother Bear, Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker
• Finding Nemo, Andrew Stanton
• The Triplets of Belleville, Sylvain Chomet

Achievement in art direction

• Girl with a Pearl Earring Art Direction: Ben Van Os; Set Decoration: Cecile Heideman
• The Last Samurai Art Direction: Lilly Kilvert; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau
• Art Direction: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Alan Lee
• Art Direction: William Sandell; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
• Seabiscuit Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall; Set Decoration: Leslie Pope

Achievement in cinematography

• City of God Cesar Charlone
  
• Cold Mountain John Seale
  
• Girl with a Pearl Earring Eduardo Serra
  
• Russell Boyd
  
• Seabiscuit John Schwartzman

Achievement in costume design

• Girl with a Pearl Earring Dien van Straalen
  
• The Last Samurai Ngila Dickson
  
• Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
  
• Wendy Stites
  
• Seabiscuit Judianna Makovsky

Achievement in directing

• City of God Fernando Meirelles
  
• Peter Jackson
  
• Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola
  
• Peter Weir
  
• Mystic River Clint Eastwood

Best documentary feature

• Balseros Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domenech
  
• Capturing the Friedmans Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling
  
• The Fog of War Errol Morris and Michael Williams
  
• My Architect Nathaniel Kahn and Susan R. Behr
  
• The Weather Underground Sam Green and Bill Siegel

Best documentary short subject

• Asylum Sandy McLeod and Gini Reticker
  
• Chernobyl Heart Maryann DeLeo
  
• Ferry Tales Katja Esson

Achievement in film editing

• City of God Daniel Rezende
  
• Cold Mountain Walter Murch
  
• Jamie Selkirk
  
• Lee Smith
  
• Seabiscuit William Goldenberg

Best foreign language film of the year

• The Barbarian Invasions Canada
  
• Evil Sweden
  
• The Twilight Samurai Japan
  
• Twin Sisters The Netherlands
  
• Želary Czech Republic

Achievement in makeup

• Richard Taylor and Peter King
  
• Edouard Henriques III and Yolanda Toussieng
  
• Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• Big Fish Danny Elfman
  
• Cold Mountain Gabriel Yared
  
• Finding Nemo Thomas Newman
  
• House of Sand and Fog James Horner
  
• Howard Shore

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• Into the West from Music and Lyric by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore and Annie Lennox
  
• A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow from A Mighty Wind Music and Lyric by Michael McKean and Annette O’Toole
  
• Scarlet Tide from Cold Mountain Music and Lyric by T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello
  
• Belleville Rendezvous from The Triplets of Belleville Music by Benoit Charest; Lyric by Sylvain Chomet
  
• You Will Be My Ain True Love from Cold Mountain Music and Lyric by Sting

Best animated short film

• Boundin’ Bud Luckey (Pixar Animation Studios)
  
• Destino Dominique Monfery and Roy Edward Disney (Walt Disney Pictures)
  
• Gone Nutty Carlos Saldanha and John C. Donkin (Blue Sky Studios)
  
• Harvie Krumpet Adam Elliot (Melodrama Pictures)
  
• Nibbles Chris Hinton (Acme Filmworks)

Best live action short film

• Die Rote Jacke (The Red Jacket) Florian Baxmeyer
  
• Most (The Bridge) Bobby Garabedian and William Zabka
  
• Squash Lionel Bailliu
  
• (A) Torzija [(A) Torsion] Stefan Arsenijević
  
• Two Soldiers Aaron Schneider and Andrew J. Sacks

Achievement in sound editing

• Finding Nemo Gary Rydstrom and Michael Silvers
  
• Richard King
  
• Christopher Boyes and George Watters II

Achievement in sound mixing

• The Last Samurai Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Jeff Wexler
  
• Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
  
• Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Arthur Rochester
  
• Christopher Boyes, David Parker, David Campbell and Lee Orloff
  
• Seabiscuit Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Tod A. Maitland

Achievement in visual effects

• Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke
  
• Dan Sudick, Stefen Fangmeier, Nathan McGuinness and Robert Stromberg
  
• John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Terry Frazee

Adapted screenplay

• American Splendor Written by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman
  
• City of God Screenplay by Braulio Mantovani
  
• Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
  
• Mystic River Screenplay by Brian Helgeland
  
• Seabiscuit Written for the Screen by Gary Ross

Original screenplay

• The Barbarian Invasions Written by Denys Arcand
  
• Dirty Pretty Things Written by Steven Knight
  
• Finding Nemo Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds; Original Story by Andrew Stanton
  
• In America Written by Jim Sheridan & Naomi Sheridan & Kirsten Sheridan
  
• Lost in Translation Written by Sofia Coppola

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