New Line's Oscar campaign: their For Consideration list

[IronParrot]

Best Picture
Barrie M. Osborne
Peter Jackson
Fran Walsh

Best Director
Peter Jackson

Best Cinematography
Andrew Lesnie, A.C.S

Best Actor
Ian McKellen

Best Adapted Screenplay
Fran Walsh &
Philippa Boyens
& Peter Jackson

Best Original Score
Howard Shore

Best Supporting Actor
Elijah Wood
Ian Holm
Viggo Mortensen
Sean Bean

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett
Liv Tyler

Best Film Editing
John Gilbert

Best Original Song
Enya

Best Art Direction
Grant Major
Dan Hennah

Best Make-Up
Peter Owen
Richard Taylor

Best Sound
Gethin Creagh
Christopher Boyes
Michael Semanick
Hammond Peek

Best Sound Editing
Mike Hopkins
Ethan Van Der Ryn

Best Costume Design
Ngila Dickson
Richard Taylor

Best Visual Effects
Jim Rygiel
Richard Taylor
Alex Funke
Randall William Cook

All of these are understandable, and I think we can expect FOTR to land noms in most. Categorically speaking, it has a clear shot at landing the highest number of noms all-round - so far this year, the only other film that has been praised around almost all departments for the category awards is Moulin Rouge, and from what we've seen so far, FOTR is equal to or above it in terms of calibre in these. History shows that often, the film with the most noms takes Best Picture away...

Of course, we'll have to see how good this film really is.

Interesting is the omission of Christopher Lee from New Line's recommendations for Best Supporting Actor. Also interesting, though totally unsurprising is how they're apparently pushing "May It Be" for Song, despite the other arguably superior vocal selections...

[potyondi]

Originally posted by IronParrot
All of these are understandable

Best Supporting Actress
Liv Tyler

Lol! Right, my arse.

[Captain Stern]

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Elijah Wood nominated for BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Frodo the frikkin star of The Lord of the Rings?

[Fat middle]

this is the list for FOTR. perhaps in TT or ROTK we'll see Elijah Wood as leading actor or Christopher Lee as supporting actor.

[Darth Tater]

I gotta say I find this more sickening then the Burger King tie-ins

[IronParrot]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Frodo the frikkin star of The Lord of the Rings?

I think this is the same situation as The Godfather back in 1972, when Al Pacino was nominated for Supporting Actor and Marlon Brando for Leading Actor, when their roles were much to the same extent as Frodo and Gandalf in LOTR, respectively...

Besides, these are just New Line's recommendations.

[arynetrek]

now MAYBE they have a reason for listing Elijah Wood as a "supporting actor" instead of an "actor" - but still, i'm a little concerned...

but FM is right - i bet for the later movies the "best actor" list will change considerably. in RotK certain Men and certain Hobbits will HAVE to do wonderful work merely to do justice to the book, and i'm sure those actors know it.

Liv Tyler? i have never seen her do Oscar-caliber work.

Cate Blanchett? oh yes.

conveniantly enough, my latest movie worry is how well the actors are going to portray certain characters' complexities (namely Boromir & Aragorn)

aryne *