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The Oscar Nominees

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The 75th Annial Academy Awards will be held March 23rd. Here's a list of the nominees so you can keep track of the winners on Oscar night!

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
Notable Films: The Singing Detective, The Affair of the Necklace, Summer of Sam

Nicolas Cage (Adaptation)
Notable Films: Windtalkers, The Family Man, City of Angels, Con Air, The Rock, Leaving Las Vegas

Michael Caine (The Quiet American)
Notable Films: The Cider House Rules, Little Voice, On Deadly Ground, Blame it on Rio

Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York)
Notable Films: The Boxer, The Age of Innocence, My Left Foot, A Room with a View

Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt)
Notable Films: As Good As It Gets, A Few Good Men, Batman, Terms of Endearment, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest


Best Actress in a Leading Role

Salm Hayek (Frida)
Notable Films: Traffic, Wild Wild West, Fools Rush In

Nicole Kidman (The Hours)
Notable Films: The Others, Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut, To Die For, My Life, Far and Away, Days of Thunder

Diane Lane (Unfaithful)
Notable Films: Hardball, The Perfect Storm, Murder at 1600, Jack, The Outsiders

Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven)
Notable Films: The Hours, The Shipping News, Hannibal, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Nine Months

Renee Zellweger (Chicago)
Notable Films: White Oleander, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Nurse Betty, Jerry Maguire


The Rest of the Nominees are:

Best motion picture of the year

CHICAGO (Miramax)
A Producer Circle Co., Zadan/Meron Production
Martin Richards, Producer
GANGS OF NEW YORK (Miramax)
An Alberto Grimaldi Production
Alberto Grimaldi and Harvey Weinstein, Producers
THE HOURS (Paramount and Miramax)
A Scott Rudin/Robert Fox Production
Scott Rudin and Robert Fox, Producers
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (New Line)
A New Line Cinema and Wingnut Films Production
Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson, Producers
THE PIANIST (Focus Features)
An R.P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Runtime LTD. Production
Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde, Producers

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Kathy Bates in ABOUT SCHMIDT (New Line)
Julianne Moore in THE HOURS (Paramount and Miramax)
Queen Latifah in CHICAGO (Miramax)
Meryl Streep in ADAPTATION (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Catherine Zeta-Jones in CHICAGO (Miramax)

Best animated feature film of the year

ICE AGE (20th Century Fox) Chris Wedge
LILO & STITCH (Buena Vista) Chris Sanders
SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON (DreamWorks) Jeffrey Katzenberg
SPIRITED AWAY (Buena Vista) Hayao Miyazaki
TREASURE PLANET (Buena Vista) Ron Clements

Achievement in art direction

CHICAGO (Miramax) Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
FRIDA (Miramax) Art Direction: Felipe Fernandez del Paso
Set Decoration: Hania Robledo