ACADEMY AWARDS - The winners.

[Mrs_Mia_Wallace]

Hey everybody,

The Academy Awards have been given away yesterday, here are the ones who has won:

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Sean Penn (MYSTIC RIVER)
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Tim Robbins (MYSTIC RIVER)
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Charlize Theron (MONSTER)
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Renée Zellweger (COLD MOUNTAIN)
BEST PICTURE: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh)
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: FINDING NEMO (Andrew Stanton)
ART DIRECTION: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration))
CINEMATOGRAPHY: MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (Russell Boyd)
COSTUME DESIGN: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor)
DIRECTING: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Peter Jackson)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: THE FOG OF WAR (Errol Morris and Michael Williams)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT: CHERNOBYL HEART (Maryann DeLeo)
FILM EDITING: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Jamie Selkirk)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (Canada; Directed by Denys Arcand)
HONORARY AWARD: Blake Edwards
MAKEUP: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Richard Taylor; Peter King)
MUSIC (SCORE): THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Howard Shore)
MUSIC (SONG): THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING ("Into the West" - Music and Lyric by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore and Annie Lennox)
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED): HARVIE KRUMPET (Adam Elliot)
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION): TWO SOLDIERS (Aaron Schneider and Andrew J. Sacks)
SOUND EDITING: MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (Richard King)
SOUND MIXING: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek)
VISUAL EFFECTS: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke)
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY): THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson)
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY): LOST IN TRANSLATION (Written by Sofia Coppola)


(More info about the Academy Awards right here! (http://www.oscars.com)

Now you can discuss about the decision, if you liked the decisions or disagree with them!

Mia:)

[ShyShy]

The awards were pretty much a given with LOTR dominating the nominations. I'm glad it won what it did :)

[Bilbo Baggins]

It should have won them all.

[bibbouk]

While I think the Fellowship of the Ring was a wonderful film I hated the return of the King, seeing it sweep the board was like watching Titanic (another film I hated) do the same a few years back.

Most of Fellowship felt fresh and sharp (though it went down hill a bit when Gandolf apparently died) but ROTK was long, drawn out and filled with clichéd dialog and indulgent lingering shots. It also has one of the longest and consequently most boring endings I've ever seen on film.

[ShyShy]

I'm guessing you've never read the books then? :weird: The ending in ROTK the novel was just as drawn out.