(Winners shown in bold)
The votes in the 74th Academy Awards have been cast and now comes the time to hand out the little gold men in what will be - in these parts anyway -- the most exciting Oscar race in years.
With the 13 nominations for Peter Jackson's The Lord
of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Russell Crowe up for best actor and Shrek (co-directed by expatriate New Zealander Andrew Adamson) in the running for the best animated feature category, 15 of the categories have a Kiwi connection. That translates to 10 New Zealanders who will hear their name read out on Monday afternoon (NZ time).
The nominees with Kiwi connections are marked with an *
Best picture
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Director
Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)
Ridley Scott (Black Hawk Down)
Robert Altman (Gosford Park)
Peter Jackson (The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)*
David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)
Actress
Halle Berry (Monster's Ball)
Judi Dench (Iris)
Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge)
Sissy Spacek (In The Bedroom)
Renee Zellweger (Bridget Jones's Diary)
Actor
Denzel Washington (Training Day)
Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind)*
Sean Penn (I Am Sam)
Will Smith (Ali)
Tom Wilkinson (In the Bedroom)
Actress in a Supporting Role
Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind)
Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)
Kate Winslet (Iris)
Maggie Smith (Gosford Park)
Marisa Tomei (In The Bedroom)
Actor in a Supporting Role
Jim Broadbent (Iris)
Sir Ian McKellen (The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)*
Ethan Hawke (Training Day)
Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast)
Jon Voight (Ali)
Animated feature
Shrek* (Aron Warner, co-directed by NZ's Andrew Adamson)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Monsters, Inc.
Art direction
Moulin Rouge
Amelie
Gosford Park
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring*
Cinematography
Andrew Lesnie (The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*)
Amelie
Black Hawk Down
The Man Who Wasn't There
Moulin Rouge
Costume design
Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie (Moulin Rouge)
The Affair Of The Necklace
Gosford Park
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*
Documentary feature
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet (Murder On A Sunday Morning)
Children Underground
Lalee's Kin: The Legacy Of Cotton
Promises
War Photographer
Documentary short subject
Thoth
Artists And Orphans: A True Drama
Sing!
Editing
Pietro Scalia (Black Hawk Down)
A Beautiful Mind
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*
Memento
Moulin Rouge
Foreign language film
No Man's Land - Bosnia & Herzegovina
Amelie
Elling
Lagaan
Son Of The Bride
Make-up
Richard Taylor and Peter Owen (The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*)
A Beautiful Mind
Moulin Rouge
Music (score)
Howard Shore (The Lord Of The Rings*)
John Williams (AI Artificial Intelligence)
James Horner (A Beautiful Mind)
John Williams (Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone)
Randy Newman (Monsters, Inc.)
Music (song)
If I Didn't Have You by Randy Newman (Monsters, Inc.)
May It Be by Enya, Nicky Ryan and Roma Ryan (The Lord Of The Rings)*
There You'll Be by Diane Warren (Pearl Harbor)
Until by Sting (Kate & Leopold)
Vanilla Sky by Paul McCartney (Vanilla Sky)
Short film (animated)
For The Birds
Fifty Percent Grey
Give Up Yer Aul Sins
Strange Invaders
Stubble Trouble
Short film (live action)
The Accountant
Copy Shop
Gregor's Greatest Invention
A Man Thing (Meska Sprawa)
Speed For Thespians
Sound
Black Hawk Down
Amelie
The Lord Of The Rings*
Moulin Rouge
Pearl Harbor
Sound editing
George Watters II and Christopher Boyes (Pearl Harbor)
Monsters, Inc.
Visual effects
Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson (The Lord Of The Rings*)
AI Artificial Intelligence
Pearl Harbor
Writing (adapted screenplay)
A Beautiful Mind
Ghost World
In The Bedroom
The Lord Of The Rings*
Shrek
Writing (original screenplay)
Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park)
Amelie
Memento
Monster's Ball
The Royal Tenenbaums