76th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (2004)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Sunday, February 29, 2004
  • For films released in: 2003
  • Nominations Announcement: Tuesday, January 27, 2004
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 76th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Barrie M. Osborne [Producer], Peter Jackson [Producer] and Fran Walsh [Producer]
  • Lost in Translation
    Ross Katz [Producer] and Sofia Coppola [Producer]
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Samuel Goldwyn Jr. [Producer], Peter Weir [Producer] and Duncan Henderson [Producer]
  • Mystic River
    Robert Lorenz [Producer], Judie G. Hoyt [Producer] and Clint Eastwood [Producer]
  • Seabiscuit
    Kathleen Kennedy [Producer], Frank Marshall [Producer] and Gary Ross [Producer]

Best Directing

  • City of God
    Fernando Meirelles
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Peter Jackson
  • Lost in Translation
    Sofia Coppola
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Peter Weir
  • Mystic River
    Clint Eastwood

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Animated Feature

  • Brother Bear
  • Finding Nemo
  • The Triplets of Belleville

Best Foreign Language Film

  • The Barbarian Invasions
  • Evil
  • The Twilight Samurai
  • Twin Sisters
  • Želary

Best Art Direction

  • Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Ben Van Os [Art Direction] and Cecile Heideman [Set Decoration]
  • The Last Samurai
    Lilly Kilvert [Art Direction] and Gretchen Rau [Set Decoration]
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Grant Major [Art Direction], Dan Hennah [Set Decoration] and Alan Lee [Set Decoration]
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    William Sandell [Art Direction] and Robert Gould [Set Decoration]
  • Seabiscuit
    Jeannine Oppewall [Art Direction] and Leslie Pope [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

  • City of God
    Cesar Charlone
  • Cold Mountain
    John Seale
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Eduardo Serra
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Russell Boyd
  • Seabiscuit
    John Schwartzman

Best Costume Design

  • Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Dien van Straalen
  • The Last Samurai
    Ngila Dickson
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Wendy Stites
  • Seabiscuit
    Judianna Makovsky

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

Best Film Editing

  • City of God
    Daniel Rezende
  • Cold Mountain
    Walter Murch
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Jamie Selkirk
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Lee Smith
  • Seabiscuit
    William Goldenberg

Best Makeup

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Richard Taylor and Peter King
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Edouard Henriques III and Yolanda Toussieng
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

Best Music (Original Score)

  • Big Fish
    Danny Elfman
  • Cold Mountain
    Gabriel Yared
  • Finding Nemo
    Thomas Newman
  • House of Sand and Fog
    James Horner
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Howard Shore

Best Music (Original Song)

  • Cold Mountain "Scarlet Tide"
    T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello
  • Cold Mountain "You Will Be My Ain True Love"
    Sting
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King "Into the West"
    Fran Walsh [Music and Lyrics], Howard Shore [Music and Lyrics] and Annie Lennox [Music and Lyrics]
  • A Mighty Wind "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow"
    Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole
  • The Triplets of Belleville "Belleville Rendezvous"
    Benoit Charest [Music] and Sylvain Chomet [Lyrics]

Best Short Film (Animated)

  • Boundin'
    Bud Luckey
  • Destino
    Dominique Monfery and Roy Edward Disney
  • Gone Nutty
    Carlos Saldanha and John C. Donkin
  • Harvie Krumpet
    Adam Elliot
  • Nibbles
    Chris Hinton

Best Short Film (Live Action)

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

Best Sound Editing

  • Finding Nemo
    Gary Rydstrom and Michael Silvers
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Richard King
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Christopher Boyes and George Watters II

Best Sound Mixing

  • The Last Samurai
    Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Jeff Wexler
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Arthur Rochester
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Christopher Boyes, David Parker, David Campbell and Lee Orloff
  • Seabiscuit
    Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Tod A. Maitland

Best Visual Effects

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Dan Sudick, Stefan Fangmeier, Nathan McGuinness and Robert Stromberg
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Terry Frazee

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

  • American Splendor
    Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman
  • City of God
    Braulio Mantovani
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson
  • Mystic River
    Brian Helgeland
  • Seabiscuit
    Gary Ross

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

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