2003 Academy Awards (75th)

Best motion picture of the year

Winner:

Chicago

Nominees:

Gangs of New York

The Hours

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Pianist

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Winner:

Adrien Brody in ~The Pianist~

Nominees:

Nicolas Cage in ~Adaptation~

Michael Caine in ~The Quiet American~

Daniel Day-Lewis in ~Gangs of New York~

Jack Nicholson in ~About Schmidt~

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Winner:

Chris Cooper in ~Adaptation~

Nominees:

Ed Harris in ~The Hours~

Paul Newman in ~Road to Perdition~

John C. Reilly in ~Chicago~

Christopher Walken in ~Catch Me If You Can~

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Winner:

Nicole Kidman in ~The Hours ~

Nominees:

Salma Hayek in ~Frida~

Diane Lane in ~Unfaithful~

Julianne Moore in ~Far From Heaven~

Renée Zellweger in ~Chicago~

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Winner:

Catherine Zeta-Jones in ~Chicago~

Nominees:

Kathy Bates in ~About Schmidt~

Julianne Moore in ~The Hours~

Queen Latifah in ~Chicago~

Meryl Streep in ~Adaptation~

Best animated feature film of the year

Winner:

Spirited Away

Nominees:

Ice Age

Lilo & Stitch

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Treasure Planet

Achievement in art direction

Winner:

~Chicago~
Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Gordon Sim

Nominees:

~Frida~
Art Direction: Felipe Fernandez del Paso
Set Decoration: Hania Robledo

~Gangs of New York~
Art Direction: Dante Ferretti
Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo

~The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers~
Art Direction: Grant Major
Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Alan Lee

~Road to Perdition~
Art Direction: Dennis Gassner
Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

Achievement in cinematography

Winner:

~Road to Perdition~
Conrad L. Hall

Nominees:

~Chicago~
Dion Beebe

~Far from Heaven~
Edward Lachman

~Gangs of New York~
Michael Ballhaus

~The Pianist~
Pawel Edelman

Achievement in costume design

Winner:

~Chicago~ Colleen Atwood

Nominees:

~Frida~
Julie Weiss

~Gangs of New York~
Sandy Powell

~The Hours~
Ann Roth

~The Pianist~
Anna Sheppard

Achievement in directing

Winner:

~The Pianist~
Roman Polanski

Nominees:

~Chicago~
Rob Marshall

~Gangs of New York~
Martin Scorsese

~The Hours~
Stephen Daldry

~Talk to Her~
Pedro Almodóvar

Best documentary feature

Winner:

~Bowling for Columbine~
Michael Moore and Michael Donovan

Nominees:

~Daughter from Danang~
Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco

~Prisoner of Paradise~
Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender

~Spellbound~
Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch

~Winged Migration~
Jacques Perrin

Best documentary short subject

Winner:

~Twin Towers~
Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port

Nominees:

~The Collector of Bedford Street~
Alice Elliott

~Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks~
Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston

~Why Can't We Be a Family Again?~
Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel

Achievement in film editing

Winner:

~Chicago~
Martin Walsh

Nominees:

~Gangs of New York~
Thelma Schoonmaker

~The Hours~
Peter Boyle

~The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers~
Michael Horton

~The Pianist~
Hervé de Luze

Best foreign language film of the year

Winner:

~Nowhere in Africa~
Germany

Nominees:

~El Crimen del Padre Amaro~
Mexico

~Hero~
People's Republic of China

~The Man without a Past~
Finland

~Zus & Zo~
The Netherlands

Achievement in makeup

Winner:

~Frida~
John Jackson and Beatrice De Alba

Nominees:

~The Time Machine~
John M. Elliott, Jr. and Barbara Lorenz

Achievement in music written for motion pictures / Original score

Winner:

~Frida~
Elliot Goldenthal

Nominees:

~Catch Me If You Can~
John Williams

~Far from Heaven~
Elmer Bernstein

~The Hours~
Philip Glass

~Road to Perdition~
Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures / Original song

Winner:

~Lose Yourself~
from ~8 Mile~
8 Mile film poster

Music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto
Lyric by Eminem

Nominees:

~Burn It Blue~
from ~Frida~
Music by Elliot Goldenthal
Lyric by Julie Taymor

~Father and Daughter~
from ~The Wild Thornberrys Movie~
Music and Lyric by Paul Simon

~The Hands That Built America~
from ~Gangs of New York~
Music and Lyric by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen

~I Move On~
from ~Chicago~
Music by John Kander
Lyric by Fred Ebb

Best animated short film

Winner:

The ChubbChubbs!

Nominees:

Das Rad

Mike's New Car

Mt. Head

Best live action short film

Winner:

~This Charming Man (Der Er En Yndig Mand)~
An M&M Productions for Novellefilm Production

Nominees:

~Fait D'Hiver~
An Another Dimension of an Idea Production

~I'll Wait for the Next One… (J'Attendrai Le Suivant…)~
A La Boîte Production

~Inja (Dog)~
An Australian Film TV & Radio School (AFTRS) Production

~Johnny Flynton~
A Red Corner Production

Achievement in sound editing

Winner:

~The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers~
Ethan Van der Ryn and Michael Hopkins

Nominees:

~Minority Report~
Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

~Road to Perdition~
Scott A. Hecker

Achievement in sound

Winner:

~Chicago~
Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella and David Lee

Nominees:

~Gangs of New York~
Tom Fleischman, Eugene Gearty and Ivan Sharrock

~The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers~
Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek

~Road to Perdition~
Scott Millan, Bob Beemer and

~Spider-Man~
Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Ed Novick

Achievement in visual effects

Winner:

~The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers~
Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook (New Line) and Alex Funke

Nominees:

~Spider-Man~
John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier

~Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones~
Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll and (20th Century Fox) Ben Snow

Screenplay based on material previously produced or published

Winner:

~The Pianist~
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood

Nominees:

~About a Boy~
Screenplay by Peter Hedges and Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz

~Adaptation~
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman

~Chicago~
Screenplay by Bill Condon

~The Hours~
Screenplay by David Hare

Screenplay written directly for the screen

Winner:

~Talk to Her~
Written by Pedro Almodóvar

Nominees:

~Far from Heaven~
Written by Todd Haynes

~Gangs of New York~
Screenplay by Jay Cocks and Steve Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan

~My Big Fat Greek Wedding~
Written by Nia Vardalos

~Y Tu Mamá También~
Written by Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón

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