76th Annual Academy Awards® Nominations

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Welcome to Digital Hit's coverage of the 76th Annual Academy Awards® nominations. The nominations were announced at the Academy's headquarters at 8:30 a.m. ET on January 27th, by AMPAS President Frank Pierson and actress Sigourney Weaver. Who do you think should win? Take our Oscar survey.

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 Director

• 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

• Cold Mountain
  Jude Law
• House of Sand and Fog
  Ben Kingsley
• Lost in Translation
  Bill Murray
• Mystic River
  Sean Penn
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  Johnny Depp

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

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Cold Mountain
  Renee 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 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 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 Foreign Language Film

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

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 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 Original Song

• Cold Mountain "You Will Be My Ain True Love"
  Sting
• Cold Mountain "Scarlet Tide"
  T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello
• 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 Animated Short Film

• 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 Live Action Short Film

• (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

• 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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