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Here is the listing of Academy Awards Nominations. Who will be the winners in their given catagories?

ACADEMY AWARD NOMS ANNOUNCED
'Rings' earns most nominations
BEST PICTURE
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line)
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" (Twentieth Century Fox/Miramax/Universal)
"Mystic River" (WB/Village Roadshow)
"Seabiscuit" (Universal/DreamWorks/Spyglass)
"Lost in Translation" (Focus)

DIRECTOR
Sofia Coppola, "Lost in Translation"
Clint Eastwood, "Mystic River"
Peter Jackson, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
Fernando Meirelles, "City of God"
Peter Weir, "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

ACTOR
Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"
Ben Kingsley, "House of Sand and Fog"
Jude Law, "Cold Mountain"
Bill Murray, "Lost in Translation"
Sean Penn, "Mystic River"

ACTRESS
Keisha Castle-Hughes, "Whale Rider"
Diane Keaton, "Something's Gotta Give"
Samantha Morton, "In America"
Charlize Theron, "Monster"
Naomi Watts, "21 Grams"

I pick the following.
Best Picture - LOR: Return of the KIng
Director - Peter Jackson
Best Actor - Johnny Depp
Best Actress - Keisha Castle-Hughes

My Picks

Actor in a Leading Role, Bill Murry - Lost In Translation
Actor in a Supporting Role, Ken Watanabe - The Last Samurai
Actress in a Leading Role, Charlize Theron - Monster
Actress in a Supporting Role, Holly Hunter - Thirteen
Animated Feature Film, The Triplets of Belleville
Foreign Language Film, Can't Pick
Makeup, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Music (Score) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Music (Song) "The Triplets of Belleville"
Best Picture, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Art Direction, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Cinematography, Girl with a pearl Earring
Costume Design, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Directing, Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Documentary Feature, My Architect
Film Editing, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Short Film (Animated), Destino
Sound Editing, Finding Nemo
Sound Mixing, The sword fighting catagory The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Visual Effects, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Writing (Adapted Screenplay) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Writing (Original Screenplay) Lost In Translation

Well, I didn't see half of the movies up for the awards, but I'll make my picks from the ones I did see:

Best picture: Seabiscuit
Director: Fernando Meirelles (City of God)
Actor: Sean Penn (Mystic River)
Actress: Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider)

Kodak won another Academy Sci-Tech Award this year:
http://www.oscars.org/scitech/2003/winners.html

"To Kenneth L. Tingler, Charles C. Anderson, Diane E. Kestner, and Brian A. Schell of the Eastman Kodak Company, for the successful development of a process-surviving antistatic layer technology for motion picture film.

This technology successfully controls the static charge buildup on processed intermediate and sound negative films during high-speed printing operations."

I am proud to have worked on the project that incorporated this technology into Kodak VISION Color Print Film, and to have worked closely with the people receiving the award.

Controlling static helps keeps printing negatives and prints MUCH cleaner.

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