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And the Nominees Are...
Rings the Film to Beat at the 74th Annual Academy Awards
 NPR Film Critic Bob Mondello's top 10 list of best films of 2001.
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Full list of nominated films.
With 13 nominations for an Oscar, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is the film to beat at the 74th annual Academy Awards. The fantasy epic joined the ranks of only a handful of other much-lauded films to earn more than a dozen nominations for a coveted golden Oscar statue.
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Most-nominated films:
• All About Eve, 1950 -- 14 nominations, six wins.
• Titanic, 1997 -- 14 nominations, 11 wins.
• Gone With The Wind, 1939 -- 13 nominations, eight wins.
• From Here to Eternity, 1953 -- 13 nominations, eight wins.
• Mary Poppins, 1964 -- 13 nominations, five wins.
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966 -- 13 nominations, five wins.
• Forrest Gump, 1994 -- 13 nominations, six wins.
• Shakespeare in Love, 1998 -- 13 nominations, seven wins.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- 13 nominations, 2001.
Top Oscar winners:
• Ben-Hur, 1959 -- 12 nominations, 11 wins.
• Titanic, 1997 -- 14 nominations, 11 wins.
• West Side Story, 1961 -- 11 nominations, 10 wins.
• Gigi, 1958 -- nine nominations, nine wins.
• The Last Emperor, 1987 -- nine nominations, nine wins.
• The English Patient, 1996 -- 12 nominations, nine wins.
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The Lord of the Rings is the first in an ambitious trilogy of films based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien -- the second film in the series is already being shot in New Zealand. It earned nominations in three of the most prestigious catagories: best picture, director and supporting actor.
A Beautiful Mind, based on the true story of math genius John Nash, and Moulin Rouge, a genre-busting musical set in Paris in 1899, both earned eight nominations each to tie for second place.
An epic fantasy adventure like Lord of the Rings has never won best picture at the Oscars, even though the film with the most nominations often wins the top prize. Many of the categories Lord of the Rings was nominated for were for technical achievements such as visual effects, sound, costume design and editing.
It's Russell Crowe's third best-actor nomination in three years, setting him up for potential back-to-back Oscars following his victory last year for Gladiator -- his first nomination came for his work in the movie The Insider.
Full list of nominees:
Picture
A Beautiful Mind
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge
Actor
Russell Crowe, A Beautiful Mind
Sean Penn, I Am Sam
Will Smith, Ali
Denzel Washington, Training Day
Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom
Actress
Halle Berry, Monster's Ball
Judi Dench, Iris
Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge
Sissy Spacek, In the Bedroom
Renee Zellweger, Bridget Jones's Diary
Supporting Actor
Jim Broadbent, Iris
Ethan Hawke, Training Day
Ben Kingsley, Sexy Beast
Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Jon Voight, Ali
Supporting Actress
Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind
Helen Mirren, Gosford Park
Maggie Smith, Gosford Park
Marisa Tomei, In the Bedroom
Kate Winslet, Iris
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
Animated Film
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Monsters, Inc.
Shrek
Foreign Film
Amelie, France
Elling, Norway
Lagaan, India
No Man's Land, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Son of the Bride, Argentina
Screenplay (written based on material previously produced or published)
Akiva Goldsman, A Beautiful Mind
Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff, Ghost World
Rob Festinger and Todd Field, In the Bedroom
Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman, Shrek
Screenplay (written directly for the screen)
Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Amelie
Julian Fellowes, Gosford Park
Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, Memento
Milo Addica and Will Rokos, Monster's Ball
Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, The Royal Tenenbaums
Art Direction
Amelie
Gosford Park
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge
Cinematography
Amelie
Black Hawk Down
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Man Who Wasn't There
Moulin Rouge
Sound
Amelie
Black Hawk Down
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge
Pearl Harbor
Sound Editing
Monsters, Inc.
Pearl Harbor
Original Score
AI: Artificial Intelligence, John Williams
A Beautiful Mind, James Horner
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, John Williams
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Howard Shore
Monsters, Inc., Randy Newman
Original Song
"If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc., Randy Newman
"May It Be" from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Enya, Nicky Ryan and Roma Ryan
"There You'll Be" from Pearl Harbor, Diane Warren
"Until" from Kate & Leopold, Sting
"Vanilla Sky" from Vanilla Sky, Paul McCartney
Costume
The Affair of the Necklace
Gosford Park
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge
Documentary Feature
Children Underground
LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Promises
War Photographer
Documentary (short subject)
Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
Sing!
Thoth
Film Editing
A Beautiful Mind
Black Hawk Down
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Memento
Moulin Rouge
Makeup
A Beautiful Mind
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge
Animated Short Film
Fifty Percent Grey
For the Birds
Give Up Yer Aul Sins
Strange Invaders
Stubble Trouble
Live Action Short Film
the accountant
Copy Shop
Gregor's Greatest Invention
A Man Thing (Meska Sprawa)
Speed for Thespians
Visual Effects
AI: Artificial Intelligence
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Pearl Harbor
Academy Award winners previously announced this year:
Gordon E Sawyer Award: Edmund M Di Giulio
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Arthur Hiller
Honorary Awards: Sidney Poitier and Robert Redford
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Other Resources
• Oscars.com is the official Web site for the 74th annual Academy Awards
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