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The Charlie Rose show (on PBS) interviwed the three directors nominated for both Best Picture and Best Director Friday, the 22nd. He talked to PJ first for about a half hour. PJ told about their struggle to get someone to fund their movie, and trying to find someone that would let them make three movies all at once, ultimatly leading them to New Line. He also
talked about casting, how important they knew this was going to be to the fans of Lotrs and how they decided on Ian Mckellan to play Gandalf. Charlie asked PJ what the hardest thing about making the movie was and he told about how hard it was to have actors that had to be different sizes. How they had to have two of each set, and two of each prop, to make the different actors appear different sizes. He also talked about how this wasn’t so much of a fansaty movie, as a historical movie. He mentioned how Tolkien had written the books with the idea of creating a ancient mythology for England, and this is what set Lotrs apart from other fanasty movies. You could tell throughout the whole interview what an avid fan of the books PJ was…this came out in everything he said. I was surprised to see him on the show, which I never watch, and just heard a mention of Lotrs while channal surfing, because usually whenever anyone Lotrs related is on TV, I hear about it here first. So it may of just been a rerun.
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Some of the fun of waiting in anticipation for the Academy Awards themselves is predicting what Oscars Fellowship of the Ring will pick up on the night itself and arguing your case. So why not run a thread on our Message Boards for which TORn fans can prophecise glory or failure for Fellowship of the Ring and their reasons why? [More]
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Actor In A Supporting Role
Jim Broadbent (Iris) (BAFTA)
Ethan Hawke (Training Day)
Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast)
Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring) (GG) (SAG)
Jon Voight (Ali)
Art Direction
Amélie
Gosford Park
Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (AFI)
Moulin Rouge
Cinematography
Amélie
Black Hawk Down
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Moulin Rouge
Costume Design
The Affair of The Necklace
Gosford Park
Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Directing
Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)
Ridley Scott (Black Hawk Down)
Robert Altman (Gosford Park) (GG)
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring) (BAFTA)
David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)
Film Editing
A Beautiful Mind
Black Hawk Down
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Memento
Moulin Rouge
Makeup
A Beautiful Mind
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge (BAFTA)
Music (Score)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A Beautiful Mind
Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Monsters, Inc.
Music (Song)
Kate & Leopold (GG)
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Monsters, Inc.
Pearl Harbour
Vanilla Sky
Best Picture
A Beautiful Mind (GG)
Gosford Park (BAFTA)
In The Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (BAFTA) (AFI)
Moulin Rouge (GG)
Sound
Amélie
Black Hawk Down
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge
Pearl Harbour
Visual Effects
A.I. Artifical Intelligence
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (BAFTA) (AFI)
Pearl Harbour
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
A Beautiful Mind (GG)
Ghost World
In The Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Shrek
(AFI) = American Film Institute Award Winner
(BAFTA) = British Academy of Film and Television Arts Winner
(DGA) = Director’s Guild Award Winner
(GG) = Golden Globe Winner
(SAG) = Screen Actors Guild Award Winner
For more information, visit the official website for the Academy Awards, www.Oscars.com
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The Academy Awards come home to Hollywood tonight for the first time in years, and finds a new home in the Kodak Theatre, opened only in November of last year. With the official Oscars site, you can explore the Kodak Theatre in the wake of tonight’s ceremony. [More]
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‘How on earth could a guy who hadn’t won a single award all season now be considered a front-runner for an Oscar? Easy, when his first name is Sir and he stars in The Lord of the Rings. Up until last week, Ian McKellen had been largely ignored by critics’ groups and voting bodies — competitors won the lion’s share of the early awards, along with eventual Oscar snubbee Steve Buscemi. But McKellen wisely advised New Line to switch his campaign from Best Actor to Best Supporting Actor, so that he would be considered a member of an ensemble.’ [More]
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‘Some years, the Academy Awards outcome seems so predictable that the only reason to watch is to find out who Whoopi Goldberg’s going to dis or what Cher’s going to wear. But this year, the Oscars seemed shrouded in a good bit more mystery than usual, with races in many a major category that election-night experts might describe as too close to call.’ [More]
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