THE 2001 ACADEMY AWARDS
ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS 2001
Plus, For Your Consideration:
I'VE SEEN THE NOMINEES...NOW WHAT?
The Race: Predictions By Category
Once the nominees are announced on Feb. 12, you'll be able to click each major category for a film-strip graphic of the five nominees in that field. As the Awards ceremony draws closer (around early March), you will also find each nominee's odds for winning their respective category, rationales both pro and con, and personal votes (if only they mattered!).
BEST PICTURE
A Beautiful Mind— Gosford Park — In the Bedroom — The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship... — Moulin Rouge
BEST DIRECTOR
Robert Altman — Ron Howard — Peter Jackson — David Lynch — Ridley Scott
BEST ACTRESS
Halle Berry — Judi Dench — Nicole Kidman — Sissy Spacek — Renée Zellweger
BEST ACTOR
Russell Crowe — Sean Penn — Will Smith — Denzel Washington — Tom Wilkinson
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Connelly — Helen Mirren — Maggie Smith — Marisa Tomei — Kate Winslet
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jim Broadbent — Ethan Hawke — Ben Kingsley — Ian McKellen — Jon Voight
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Amélie — Gosford Park — Memento — Monster's Ball — The Royal Tenenbaums
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
A Beautiful Mind — Ghost World — In the Bedroom — The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship... — Shrek
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Amélie — Black Hawk Down — Lord of the Rings: Fellowship — The Man Who Wasn't There — Moulin Rouge
PREDICTIONS & PREFERENCES IN ALL CATEGORIES
Winner predictions and personal "should-win" favorites in all Oscar categories
(Animated, Live Action, and Documentary Short Film categories excluded)
Fun Stuff and Special Features
HAVING MY SAY: MY IDEAL 2001 OSCAR BALLOT
Isn't Oscar nominating—like health-care regulation, greeting-card composition, and, well, Hollywood project development—one of those tasks we all think we're better at than the folks who actually do them? Here are my two cents about how this year's Oscar ballot could have been improved.
The Nominations
NOMINATION PREDICTIONS
Check out my predictions in the 20 major categories—sorry, no guesses about documentaries or short films!—
as well as the highly debatable logic behind each pick.
LIST OF ELIGIBLE FILMS
Check out this alphabetical list of the 248 films eligible for the major-category races at the
2001 Academy Awards, and get familiar with all the contenders.
LIST OF ELIGIBLE FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILMS
A brief explanation of the nomination process and eligibility rules, followed by a full list of this year's
51 official Best Foreign Language Film entrants (indexed by country).
Remember Last Year?...: Academy Award Winners 2000