2004 Oscar Nominations
Complete list of the 76th annual
Oscar nominations announced
Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif, by
the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences:
BEST PICTURE: ‘The Lord of the
Ring^: The Return of the King,"
“Lost in Translation,” “Master and
Commander: The Far Side of the
Wofld,” “Mystic River,"
“Seabiscuit.”
ACTOR: Johnny Depp, “Pirates of
the Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl”; Ben Kingsley,
“House of Sand and Fog”; Jude
Law, “Cold Mountain”; Bill Murray,
“Lost in Translation"; Sean Penn,
“Mystic River.”
ACTRESS: Keisha Castle-Hughes,
“Whale Rider”; Diane Keaton,
“Something’s Gotta Give”;
Samantha Morton, “In America”;
CharlizeTheron, “Monster”; Naomi
Watts, “21 Grams.”
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Alec
Baldwin, “The Cooler”; Benicio Del
Toro, "21 Grams”; Djimon
Hounsou, "In America”; Tim
, Robbins, “Mystic River”; Ken
Watanabe, “Trie Last Samurai.”
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Shohreh
Aghdashloo, “House of Sand and
Fog”; Patricia Clarkson, "Pieces of
April”; Marcia Gay Harden, “Mystic
River”; Holly Hunter, “thirteen”;
Renee Zellweger, “Cold
Mountain."
DIRECTOR: Fernando Meirelles,
“City of God"; Peter Jackson, “The
Lord of the Rings: The Return of
the King”; Sofia Coppola, "Lost in
Translation”; Peter Weir, "Master
and Commander: The Far Side of
the World"; Clint Eastwood,
“Mystic River.”
FOREIGN FILM: “The Barbarian
Invasions,” Canada; “Zelary,”
Czech Republic; “The Twilight
Samurai,” Japan; ‘Twin Sisters,"
The Netherlands; "Evil,” Sweden.
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Robert
Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman,
"American Splendor”; Braulio
Mantovani, “City of God"; Fran
Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter
Jackson, “The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King”; Brian .
Helgeland, "Mystic River”; Gary
Ross, “Seabiscuit.”
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Denys
Arcand, “The Barbarian
Invasions”; Steven Knight, “Dirty
Pretty Things"; Andrew Stanton,
Bob Peterson and David
Reynolds, “Finding Nemo"; Jim
Sheridan & Naomi Sheridan &
Kirsten Sheridan, “In America”;
Sofia Coppola, “Lost in
Translation.”
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
“Brother Bear”; “Finding Nemo”;
“The Triplets of Belleville.”
ART DIRECTION: “Girl with a Pearl
Earring,” “The Last Samurai,” “The
Lord of the Rings: The Return of
the King,” “Master and
Commander. The Far Side of the
World,” "Seabiscuit.”
CINEMATOGRAPHY: “City of
God,” “Cold Mountain,” “Girl with
a Pearl Earring,” “Master and
Commander: The Far Side of the
World,” “Seabiscuit.”
SOUND MIXING: “The Last
Samurai,” “The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King," “Master
and Commander: The Far Side of
the World,” “Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black
Pearl,” "Seabiscuit.”
SOUND EDITING: “Finding
Nemo," “Master and
Commander: The Far Side of the
World,” "Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl. “
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.
ORIGINAL SONG: “Into the West”
from “The Lord of the Rings: The
Return of the King,” Fran Walsh,
Howard Shore and Annie Lennox;
“A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow”
from “A Mighty Wind,” Michael
McKean and Annette OToole;
"Scarlet Tide” from “Cold
Mountain,” T Bone Burnett and
Elvis Costello; “The Triplets of
Belleville” from “The Triplets of
Belleville," Benoit Charest and
Sylvain Chomet; “You Will Be My
Ain True Love” from “Cold
Mountain,” Sting.
COSTUME: “Girl with a Pearl
Earring," “The Last Samurai," “The
Lord of the Rings: The Return of
the King,” “Master and
Commander: The Far Side of the
World,” “Seabiscuit”
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
“Balseros,” “Capturing the
Friedmans,” “The Fog of War,” “My
Architect," “The Weather
Underground.”
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT
SUBJECT): “Asylum," “Chernobyl
Heart,” “Ferry Tales.”
FILM EDITING: “City of God,"
“Cold Mountain,” “The Lord of the
Rings: The Return of The King,”
“Master and Commander: The Far
Side of the World” “Seabiscuit.”
MAKEUP: ‘The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King,” “Master
and Commander: The Far Side of
the World,” “Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black
Pearl.”
ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
“Boundin’,” "Destino,” “Gone
Nutty,” “Harvie Krumpet,”
“Nibbles.”
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM: “Die
Rote Jacke (The Red Jacket),”
“Most (The Bridge)," “Squash,”
“(A) Torzija (1/8A 3/8 Torsion),” f
“Two Soldiers.”
VISUAL EFFECTS: The Lord of
the Rings: The Return of the King,”
“Master and Commander: The Far
Side of the World,” “Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black
Pearl.”
Information from the Associated
Press
Networks criticized for obscenity on television
BY BRIAN LAMBERT
KRT CAMPUS
The immediate reaction to rock
star Bono dropping the “f-bomb”
on last January’s live telecast of
the Golden Globe Awards was,
shall we say, “muted.” Then,
things changed.
Considering what goes on at
most pop-music award shows, a
high-profile rocker deploying a
word so common to almost every
pop entertainer, medium and fan
didn’t cause a huge stir.
Unfortunately for Bono (lead
singer of the Irish rock group U2),
NBC and the 90 NBC affiliates who
aired the show, the incident
played directly and conveniently
into the hands of the Parents
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A week earlier, the conservative
watchdog group had announced a
new initiative to compel the FCC to
aggressively enforce and penalize
those caught pumping “obscenity”
over America’s public airwaves.
You didn’t have to be a bloodhound
to smell yet another battle in the
culture wars.
The PTC’s coordinated cam
paign prompted the FCC to exam
ine the Bono incident. The PTC
didn’t get the ruling it wanted. The
FCC decided Bono’s offense didn’t
rise to the level of obscenity be
cause he was using the all-purpose
f-word as an adjective, a superla
tive even, and clearly meant noth
ing sexual or salacious by it.
Bono’s exact comment, upon re
ceiving the Golden Globe statuette
was, “This is really, really f—^bril
liant.” To anyone who follows the
inner workings of Hollywood, there
was a snide laugh in Bono, an artist
well-versed in the power of irony,
exclaiming this while accepting a
notoriously cheesy Golden Globe
award.
The FCC’s pass last fall re-ener
gized the Parents Television
Council. Now, under renewed pres
sure, FCC chairman Michael
Powell is calling for his commis
sion to reverse itself and, if the PTC
gets its way, fine each of NBC’s 90
affiliates $27,000 each—a total of $2.5
million and a penalty far beyond
anything the FCC has ever leveled
against television broadcasters.
Simultaneously, a handful of
congressmen has introduced leg
islation attempting to codify pre
cisely which words are always ob
scene, no matter what context.
The bill, House Resolution 3687,
sponsored by California
Republican Doug Ose, is uninten
tionally hilarious. The legislation
specifies eight words, “hyphenated
compounds... and other grammat
ical forms of such words and phras
es....” Each of the eight is
monotonously familiar. Each is
also arguably funny in the right
hands at the right moment. Funny
or not, none can be printed in a fam
ily newspaper. The whole business
echoes the famous 1978 flap over
George Carlin’s “Filthy Words”
monologue.
Carlin’s case eventually went to
the Supreme Court, where it was
decided that what Carlin, like
Bono, had said was not “obscene”
because its intention was clearly
not lewd or salacious. “Indecent,”
maybe. “Profane,” certainly. The
eventual ruling was a split piece of
business. Basically, it upheld the
FCC’s sanction of the station that
aired Carlin’s satirical monologue
and offered pause to broadcasters
who pushed the envelope too far.
But as Julie Hilden, a former
First Amendment attorney, wrote
in a commentary to CNN.com just
last month, the relevant analysis
on the Carlin case came in a dis
sent by Justice William Brennan
and joined by Thurgood Marshall.
After noting that like most me
dia, “radio can be turned off,”
Brennan criticized the majority of
justices for their “fragile sensibil
ities. ” He argued that context and
meaning do matter. “A word is not
a crystal, transparent and un
changed. It is the skin of a living
thought and may vary greatly in
color and content according to the
circumstances and time in which
it is used,” he wrote.
Single-minded critics are rarely
impressed by nuance. But conven
tional wisdom would seem to sup
port the view that Bono was en
gaging in “profanity” at worst.
Ditto, “Simple Life” co-star Nicole
Ritchie, who popped up at another
awards show, the Billboard Music
Awards last month, and dropped a
couple of “f-bombs” herself, one of
which Fox caught on tape delay,
another of which it didn’t.
Melissa Caldwell, director of re
search for the Parents Television
Council, says her group is “just fed
up with the abuse of public air
waves. We keep a log of sex, vio
lence and foul language on televi
sion,” she says, “and foul language
is up 300 percent over last year.”
She says her group is as concerned
about “indecent” visual imagery as
foul language but has been less suc
cessful getting traction on things
like flashes of nudity on TV movies
and “The Victoria’s Secret Fashion”
show. Their problem, she says, is
rooted in “the difficulty in how the
FCC defines indecency.”
“The truth is,” she writes, “re
marks like Bono’s and Ritchie’s do
little if any harm—especially in to
day’s culture, where 'fragile sensi
bilities’ cannot survive for long in
any event.”
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(www.eluxury.com) also have a
few clearance items still available.
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which specializes in selling off
price designer wear year-round,
has made further markdowns on
its assortment of past-season styles.
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tiques—those that carry smaller
but still chic brands—have put
items on clearance as well.
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Guyshop (www.guyshop.com) are
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