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BEST PICTURE

City of God (Miramax Films)

Kill Bill, Volume 1 (Miramax Films)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (New Line Cinema)

Lost in Translation (Focus Features)

Mystic River (Warner Bros.)

Honourable mentions to Elephant, The Fog of War, Spider, Unknown Pleasures, Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Station Agent

BEST DIRECTOR

Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation

Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Fernando Meirelles for City of God

Gus van Sant for Elephant

and

Quentin Tarantino for Kill Bill, Volume 1

Honourable mentions to Robert Altman for The Company, Clint Eastwood for Mystic River and Jia Zhang-ke for Unknown Pleasures

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Ralph Fiennes in Spider

Ben Kingsley in House of Sand and Fog

Bill Murray in Lost in Translation

and

Sean Penn in Mystic River

Honourable mentions to Jude Law in Cold Mountain and Russell Crowe in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Jamie Lee Curtis in Freaky Friday

Scarlett Johansson in Girl with a Pearl Earring

Samantha Morton in In America

Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, Volume 1

and

Evan Rachel Wood in Thirteen

Honourable mentions to Diane Keaton in Something's Gotta Give, Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation and Charlize Theron in Monster

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Paul Bettany in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Bobby Cannavale in The Station Agent

Benicio Del Toro in 21 Grams

Peter Sarsgaard in Shattered Glass

and

Ken Watanabe in The Last Samurai

Honourabale Mentions to Kevin Bacon in Mystic River, Phellipe Haagensen in City of God, and Sean Astin in The Return of the King

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Shohreh Aghdashloo in House of Sand and Fog

Patricia Clarkson in The Station Agent

Holly Hunter in Thirteen

Catherine O'Hara in A Mighty Wind

and

Miranda Richarson in Spider

Honourabale Mentions to Marcia Gay Harden in Mystic River, Altagracia Guzman in Raising Victor Vargas, Hope Davis in American Splendor, Sarah Paulson in Down with Love, Lucy Lui in Kill Bill, Volume 1 and Laura Linney in Mystic River

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• The Barbarian Invasions (Canada) directed by Denys Arcand
  
• City of God (Brazil) directed by Fernando Meirelles
  
• Irreversible (France) directed by Gaspar Noé
• The Man Without a Past (Finland) directed by Aki Kaurismaki
  
• Unknown Pleasures (China) directed by Jia Zhang-ke
  

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Brother Bear directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker
  
• Finding Nemo directed by Andrew Stanton
• The Triplets of Belleville directed by Sylvain Chomet
  

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• Capturing the Friedmans directed by Andrew Jarecki
  
• The Fog of War directed by Errol Morris
  
• Lost in La Mancha directed by Keith Fulton and Luis Pepe
  

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• The Barbarian Invasions written by Denys Arcand
  
• Lost in Translation written by Sofia Coppola
  
• The Man Without a Past written by Aki Kaurismaki
  
• The Station Agent written by Thomas McCarthy
  
• Raising Victor Vargas written by Peter Sollett and Eva Vives
  

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• American Splendor screenplay by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
  
• City of God screenplay by Bráulio Mantovani
• Girl with a Pearl Earring screenplay by Olivia Hetreed
  
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King screenplay by Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh, and Peter Jackson
• Mystic River screenplay by Brian Helgeland
  

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Down with Love, Daniel Orlandi
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, Dien van Straalen
• Kill Bill, Volume 1; Kumiko Ogawa and Catherine Thomas
  
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
• A Mighty Wind, Durinda Wood

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

City of God, César Charlone

Elephant, Harry Savides

Girl with a Pearl Earring, Eduardo Serra

Kill Bill, Volume 1; Robert Richardson

and

Lost in Translation, Lance Acord

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTON DESIGN

Down with Love, Andrew Laws; Dan Diers

Girl with a Pearl Earring, Ben van Os; Todd van Hulzen

Kill Bill, Volume 1; Yohei Taneda and David Wasco; Yoshihito Akatsuka and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Grant Major; Dan Hennah and Alan Lee

and

Spider, Andrew Sanders; Marina Morris and Clive Thomasson

BEST FILM EDITING

• City of God, Daniel Rezende
  
• The Company, Geraldine Peroni
• Kill Bill, Volume 1; Sally Menke
  
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Jamie Selkirk
  
• Lost in Translation, Sarah Flack
  

BEST MAKEUP

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, William Chang
  
• Monster, Toni G and Lee Grimes
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Ve Neill and Martin Samuel

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Big Fish, Danny Elfman
  
• The Fog of War, Philip Glass
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, Alexandre Desplat
• Spider, Howard Shore
  
• Whale Rider, Lisa Gerrard

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Cold Mountain for the song 'The Scarlet Tide'
Music and lyrics by T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello
Cold Mountain for the song 'You Will Be My 'Ain True Love'
Music and lyrics by Sting
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' for the song 'Into the West'
Music and lyrics by Howard Shore, Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox
A Mighty Wind for the song 'A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow'
Music and lyrics by Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole
The Triplets of Belleville for the song 'Belleville Rendez-vous'
Music by Benoît Charest; Lyrics by Sylvain Chomet

BEST SOUND DESIGN

• Kill Bill, Volume 1; Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga, and Mark Ulano
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
  
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Paul Massey, Doug Hemphill and Art Rochester
  
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Christopher Boyes, David Parker, David E. Campbell, and Lee Orloff
• Seabiscuit, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Tod A. Maitland
  

BEST SOUND EDITING

• Hulk, Eugene Gearty and Richard Hymns
  
• Kill Bill, Volume 1; Wylie Stateman and Scott Martin Gershwin
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Ethan Van der Ryan and Michael Hopkins
  

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Daniel Sudnick, Stefan Fangmeier, Nathan McGuinness, and Robert Stromberg
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Terry D. Frazee

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

City of God

In America

Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Emma Bolger, Sarah Bolger and Djimon Honsou

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean, Andy Serkis, Miranda Otto, Bernard Hill, Karl Urban, John Noble, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving, and Ian Holm

Mystic River

Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney and Tom Guiry

The Station Agent

Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Williams and Raven Goodwin

Nomination Tally:

12 Nominations
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

9 Nominations
Kill Bill, Volume 1.

7 Nominations
City of God

6 Nominations
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Lost in Translation

5 Nominations
Mystic River

4 Nominations
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Spider
The Station Agent

3 Nominations
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
A Mighty Wind

2 Nominations
The Barbarian Invasions
Cold Mountain
Down with Love
Elephant
The Fog of War
House of Sand and Fog
In America
The Man Without a Past
Thirteen
The Triplets of Belleville

1 Nomination
21 Grams
American Splendor
Big Fish
Brother Bear
Capturing the Friedmans
The Company
Finding Nemo
Freaky Friday
Hulk
Irreversible
The Last Samurai
Lost in La Mancha
Monster
Raising Victor Vargas
Seabiscuit
Shattered Glass
Unknown Pleasures
Whale Rider

Winner Tally:
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - 6
Kill Bill, Volume 1 - 5
Mystic River - 2
City of God - 1
The Fog of War - 1
Girl with a Pearl Earring - 1
Lost in Translation - 1
A Mighty Wind - 1
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - 1
Shattered Glass - 1
Spider - 1
The Triplets of Belleville - 1