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LOTR News 03/24
Full list of Oscar winners and nominees
Oscar 2002 commentary
Honours even between A Beautiful Mind and Lord Of The Rings
Oscars kick off with bedazzling style, humour
"Ring" rolling to China in April
Broadbent takes supporting actor Oscar for 'Iris'
Jackson cool in Oscar circus
Losers smile through pain as Oscar hopes dashed
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - You'd never guess it from their smiles. Some of Hollywood's most famous and powerful figures -- not to mention hobbits -- walked away losers Sunday, drifting back to their limousines without the golden statuettes that mark the industry's highest honor.
Perhaps the biggest blowout of the night was "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring," the fantasy blockbuster tipped as one of the strongest contenders for best picture and nominated in 13 categories.
But all its hobbits, elves, trolls and wizards couldn't conjure up a major Oscar for "Rings," which ended up with a scant four awards in secondary categories as psycho-drama "A Beautiful Mind" walked away with top honors.
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Honours even between A Beautiful Mind and Lord Of The Rings
Ananova
A Beautiful Mind and Lord Of The Rings have shared the honours at this year's Oscars.
Both films won four awards, but A Beautiful Mind dominated the more prestigious categories.
It claimed Best Supporting Actress, Best Director and Best Picture as well as Best Adapted Screenplay.
Lord Of The Rings did well in the technical awards, winning Cinematography, Make-up, Music (Score) and Visual Effects.
Moulin Rouge and Black Hawk Down both won two Oscars each.
'A Beautiful Mind' wins Best Picture
AP
"A Beautiful Mind," which also won best director for Ron Howard, tied with "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" with four Oscars (news - web sites) total.
Berry was the first black actress to earn an Academy Award in a lead role, for her portrayal of a death-row widow involved with her husband's executioner in "Monster's Ball." Washington, playing a corrupt cop in "Training Day," became the second black to win best actor.
They joined Sidney Poitier, who received the best-actor Oscar for 1963's "Lilies of the Field" and received a career-achievement award Sunday.
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'Mind,' 'Rings' lead Oscars
CNN
(CNN) -- "A Beautiful Mind" got off to a beautiful start with the first Oscar of the evening, which was awarded to Jennifer Connelly for best supporting actress. The film also won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, for Akiva Goldsman's adaptation of Sylvia Nasar's book.
"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" won four Oscars in the early going, for original score, makeup, cinematography, and visual effects.
Randy Newman won his first Oscar after 16 nominations.
Jim Broadbent won the Oscar for best supporting actor Sunday night for his performance as British author Iris Murdoch's husband John Bayley in the movie "Iris." Broadbent's win was considered a surprise by some observers. Ian McKellen ("Lord of the Rings") and Jon Voight ("Ali") were considered the favorites in the category.
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Oscars kick off with bedazzling style, humour
Times of India
OS ANGELES: Cinema's Holy Grail, the 74th annual Academy Awards, got underway in their new home in Hollywood on Sunday amid unprecedented security and high glamour befitting Tinseltown.
After a light-hearted and satirical introduction to the show by hostess Whoopi Goldberg, US actress Jennifer Connelly won the award for best supporting actress in psychological drama A Beautiful Mind.
Early Oscars also went to Black Hawk Down for film editing, Lord of the Rings for makeup, and Moulin Rouyge for costume design.
After one of the most bitterly contested and nastiest Oscars campaigns in years, the suspense gave way to laughter -- and tears of joy from Connelly -- as Hollywood's biggest night got going at the new Kodak Theatre.
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"Ring" rolling to China in April
Don Groves
Reuters
One "Ring" has ruled the rest of the world -- now let's see if it can conquer China.
"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" is set
to bow in China April 2 after the country's sole importer, the
China Film Corp., approved the release of Peter Jackson's
fantasy adventure.
"I never thought it wouldn't be approved because it's about
the battle between good and evil in an imaginary world," Rolf
Mittweg, New Line Cinema president of worldwide distribution
and marketing, told Daily Variety on Thursday. "No one is
offended by it."
Mittweg said he did not know how much it would gross, but
noted that New Line will collect only the standard 15% of the
box office receipts -- the formula that applies to
revenue-sharing films. Whatever "Rings" fetches in China will
be gravy on top of its foreign gross of $494 million to date.
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was released in
January, and has clocked $7.1 million thus far. "Jurassic Park
III," "Planet of the Apes," "Shrek" and "The Princess Diaries"
also have gone out in China this year.
Broadbent takes supporting actor Oscar for 'Iris'
ABC News
Jim Broadbent has won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as John Bayley, the devoted husband of Iris Murdoch in Iris.
It was a first-time nomination for Broadbent, whose 30-year career has included roles in Moulin Rouge, Topsy Turvy, The Crying Game and Bridget Jones's Diary.
He earned a Golden Globe for the role in the bittersweet love story chronicling writer Murdoch's descent into Alzheimer's disease, based on Bayley's memoirs.
Earlier, after a light-hearted and satirical introduction to the show by hostess Whoopi Goldberg, US actress Jennifer Connelly won the award for Best Supporting Actress in psychological drama A Beautiful Mind.
Pietro Scalia also collected an Oscar for film editing for Black Hawk Down.
Lord of the Rings has taken out the Best Make-up prize.
Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie have been awarded the Oscar for Best Costume Design for their work on Moulin Rouge.
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Jackson cool in Oscar circus
New Zealand Herald
It's the biggest day of his career and Peter Jackson feels like a performer in a circus.
With Hollywood in a ferment, the Oscar-nominated director, producer and screenwriter is playing it cool.
"It's a bit of a circus, let's face it, and we're all the performers in the circus," he said.
"So you just have to go along and enjoy the ride, I guess. I am trying to look on it as a once-in-a-lifetime experience and I may never be here again. And so I'll just soak it all in and take from it what I can."
The New Zealander is confident his The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film will today take home some of the 13 Academy Awards for which it has been nominated - a feat he says would be "the most amazing thing in the world".
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