75th Annual Academy Award Nominations Coverage

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The nominations for the 75th Annual Academy Awards® were announced at 8:30am ET on February 11th, 2003. The announcement was made by Oscar®-winning actress Marissa Tomei and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Frank Pierson.

The big surprise: no nod for Best Actor for Richard Gere.

Still, there were some happy people watching the nominations today. Actor Michael Caine, who received a Best Actor nod for The Quiet American, said "I am absolutely delighted. It is completely unexpected after not getting a SAG nomination, so I couldn't be happier." Director Martin Scorsese, who fought and worked long and hard to get Gangs of New York made, said that "I'm very happy to be nominated by the members of the Academy for my work and particularly happy for my collaborators. It was a difficult movie to make, one I have dreamed of for several decades, so this recognition means a great deal to me." His star, actor Daniel Day-Lewis was having a very good day too, saying "It's very beautiful here in Ireland and this has made my day."

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

• ** Chicago
  Martin Richards [Producer]
• Gangs of New York
  Alberto Grimaldi [Producer] and Harvey Weinstein [Producer]
• The Hours
  Scott Rudin [Producer] and Robert Fox [Producer]
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  Barrie M. Osborne [Producer], Fran Walsh [Producer] and Peter Jackson [Producer]
• The Pianist
  Roman Polanski [Producer], Robert Benmussa [Producer] and Alain Sarde [Producer]

Best Director

• Chicago
  Rob Marshall
• Gangs of New York
  Martin Scorsese
• The Hours
  Stephen Daldry
• ** The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• About Schmidt
  Jack Nicholson
• Adaptation
  Nicolas Cage
• Gangs of New York
  Daniel Day-Lewis
• ** The Pianist
  Adrien Brody
• The Quiet American
  Michael Caine

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Chicago
  Renee Zellweger
• Far From Heaven
  Julianne Moore
• Frida
  Salma Hayek
• ** The Hours
  Nicole Kidman
• Unfaithful
  Diane Lane

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• ** Adaptation
  Chris Cooper
• Catch Me If You Can
  Christopher Walken
• Chicago
  John C. Reilly
• The Hours
  Ed Harris
• Road to Perdition
  Paul Newman

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• About Schmidt
  Kathy Bates
• Adaptation
  Meryl Streep
• Chicago
  Queen Latifah
• ** Chicago
  Catherine Zeta-Jones
• The Hours
  Julianne Moore

Best Animated Feature

• Ice Age
  Chris Wedge [Producer]
• Lilo & Stitch
  Chris Sanders [Producer]
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
  Jeffrey Katzenberg
• ** Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki [Producer]
• Treasure Planet
  Ron Clements [Producer]

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

• About a Boy
  Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz
• Adaptation
  Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman
• Chicago
  Bill Condon
• The Hours
  David Hare
• ** The Pianist
  Ronald Harwood

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

• Far From Heaven
  Todd Haynes
• Gangs of New York
  Jay Cocks [Screenplay], Steve Zaillian [Screenplay], Kenneth Lonergan [Screenplay] and Jay Cocks [Story]
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding
  Nia Vardalos
• ** Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar
• Y tu mamá también
  Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Crime of Father Amaro
• Hero
• The Man Without a Past
• ** Nowhere in Africa
• Zus & Zo

Best Art Direction

• ** Chicago
  John Myhre [Art Direction] and Gord Sim [Set Decoration]
• Frida
  Felipe Fernandez del Paso [Art Direction] and Hannia Robledo [Set Decoration]
• Gangs of New York
  Dante Ferretti [Art Direction] and Francesca Lo Schiavo [Set Decoration]
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  Grant Major [Art Direction], Dan Hennah [Set Decoration] and Alan Lee [Set Decoration]
• Road to Perdition
  Dennis Gassner [Art Direction] and Nancy Haigh [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

• Chicago
  Dion Beebe
• Far From Heaven
  Edward Lachman
• Gangs of New York
  Michael Ballhaus
• The Pianist
  Pawel Edelman
• ** Road to Perdition
  Conrad L. Hall

Best Costume Design

• ** Chicago
  Colleen Atwood
• Frida
  Julie Weiss
• Gangs of New York
  Sandy Powell
• The Hours
  Ann Roth
• The Pianist
  Anna Sheppard

Best Documentary Feature

• ** Bowling for Columbine
  Michael Moore and Michael Donovan
• Daughter From Danang
  Gail Dolgin and Vincente Franco
• Prisoner of Paradise
  Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender
• Spellbound
  Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch
• Winged Migration
  Jacques Perrin

Best Documentary Short Subject

• The Collector of Bedford Street
  Alice Elliott
• Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
  Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston
• ** Twin Towers
  Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port
• Why Can't We Be A Family Again?
  Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel

Best Editing

• ** Chicago
  Martin Walsh
• Gangs of New York
  Thelma Schoonmaker
• The Hours
  Peter Boyle
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  Michael Horton
• The Pianist
  Hervé de Luze

Best Makeup

• ** Frida
  John Jackson and Beatrice De Alba
• The Time Machine
  John M. Elliott, Jr. and Barbara Lorenz

Best Original Score

• Catch Me If You Can
  John Williams
• Far From Heaven
  Elmer Bernstein
• ** Frida
  Elliot Goldenthal
• The Hours
  Philip Glass
• Road to Perdition
  Thomas Newman

Best Original Song

• ** 8 Mile "Lose Yourself"
  Eminem [Music and Lyrics], Jeff Bass [Music] and Luis Resto [Music]
• Chicago "I Move On"
  John Kander [Music] and Fred Ebb [Lyrics]
• Frida "Burn It Blue"
  Elliot Goldenthal [Music] and Julie Taymor [Lyrics]
• Gangs of New York "The Hands That Built America"
  Bono [Music and Lyrics], The Edge [Music and Lyrics], Adam Clayton [Music and Lyrics] and Larry Mullen [Music and Lyrics]
• The Wild Thornberrys Movie "Father and Daughter"
  Paul Simon [Music and Lyrics]

Best Animated Short Film

• The Cathedral
  Tomek Baginski
• ** The Chubbchubbs!
  Eric Armstrong
• Das Rad
  Chris Stenner and Heidi Wittlinger
• Mike's New Car
  Peter Docter and Roger Gould
• Mt. Head
  Koji Yamamura

Best Live Action Short Film

• Fait d'hiver
  Dirk Beliën and Anja Daelemans
• I'll Wait For the Next One
  Philippe Orreindy and Thomas Gaudin
• Inja
  Steven Pasvolsky and Joe Weatherstone
• Johnny Flynton
  Lexi Alexander and Alexander Buono
• ** This Charming Man
  Martin Strange-Hansen and Mie Andreasen

Best Sound

• ** Chicago
  Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella and David Lee
• Gangs of New York
  Tom Fleischman, Eugene Gearty and Ivan Sharrock
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
• Road to Perdition
  Scott Millan, Bob Beemer and John Patrick Pritchett
• Spider-Man
  Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Ed Novick

Best Sound Editing

• ** The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  Ethan Van der Ryn and Michael Hopkins
• Minority Report
  Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns
• Road to Perdition
  Scott A. Hecker

Best Visual Effects

• ** The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke
• Spider-Man
  John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier
• Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
  Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll and Ben Snow

You can also read the nominations' trivia or see the results of our annual nominations poll.