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2004 Academy Award Nominees

January 27, 2004

This morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 2004 Oscar nominees. On the whole, I am impressed by the nominations.

Return of the King brought in 11 nominations, which is wholy unexciting as this expected. A wonderful surprise is the three nominations for In America, which I just saw this weekend. The movie was fantastic and I wish there was a category for child actor as the two girls in the film were phenomenal. A couple disappointments is the lack of nominations for Spellbound and Elephant. The former should definitely be up for best documentary, but I'm not sure where Elephant would fit in. I guess they had the same problem. Update: Spellbound was apparently nominated last year. Whoops.

Below is a list of who I think should win, not who I think will win.*

Actor in a leading role: Bill Murray
Actor in a supporting role: Tim Robbins
Actress in a leading role: Charlize Theron
Animated feature film: The Triplets of Belleville
Directing: Sofia Coppola or Clint Eastwood, I'm torn
Documentary Feature: Fog of War
Music: Big Fish (Danny Elfman)
Best Film: Lost in Translation
Sound Editting: Pirates of the Carribean
Adapted Screenplay: American Splendor
Original Screenplay: In America

Also:
Thoughts from Gothamist
My Top 10 of 2003

*I left out the ones I didn't know enough about to give an opinion.

Comments (1 comments so far)

Comment #1:

I think it's a shame that Sean Astin wasn't nomanated for an award. I havnen't seen Mystic River and Tim Robbins is a great actor but Sean(at the very least) should have been nomanated.

Posted by Debra McLellan on February 03, 2004 at 6:53PM

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