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TAPE: EF02/0107 IN_TIME: 21:16:14 DURATION: 8:53 SOURCES: APTN/various film companies RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video/tv clips without clearance DATELINE: Various SHOTLIST: APTN file Los Angeles, USA March 2001 1 Tilt down from plane to Limo 2 Tilt up from worker to giant Oscar statue 3 Flowers arranged APTN File - Los Angeles, March 2001 4 WS Oscars arrivals 5 B-Roll Anthony Hopkins 6 B-Roll Angelina Jolie 7 B-Roll Michael Douglas (& partially obscured Catherine Zeta Jones) 8 B-Roll Laura Linney 9 B-Roll Goldie Horn and Kurt Russell AWARDS PT 1 10 Clip - A Beautiful Mind 11 SOT Kirk Honeycutt, film critic: Well, I think the one that - if you're talking Oscars now - looks like a sure multiple Oscar nominee for the Academy would be 'Beautiful Mind' for many reasons but not the least of which is the work done by Ron Howard in directing the film and Russell Crowe in acting in a film which - despite a large cast of characters - is pretty much a one man show - File - Los Angeles, 20th December 2001 12 BTS on set of A Beautiful Mind 13 Sot Ron Howard - (on Russell Crowe - from EPK) : He is a real actors actor and he is committed to creating a character, not shoring up screen presence APTN FILE - Back stage Golden Globe Awards, Los Angeles, USA, January 2002 14 Set-up shot Russell Crowe 15 SOT: (English) Russell Crowe, I don't really know what it is about the way I get about it that is different from other people because I'm not sure, I'm not privy to that information But I really like what I do and that means that I - when I know what the character is and I know who I'm working with then that's what takes over my life for that period of time 16 Clip - Gosford Park - APTN File - Opening London Film festival, UK 8 November 2001 17 B-roll photocall Emily Watson and Maggie Smith 18 B-roll Robert Altman 19 B-roll Jeremy Northam 20 B-roll Sir Derek Jacobi 21 SOT ROBERT ALTMAN (on using British Cast) - I decided to do this kind of film and I couldn't do it without a British cast, it couldn't be done anywhere else so it's a British film I'm the only intruder APTN file - New York, USA, 2002 22 B-Roll Helen Mirren 23 Clip - Moulin Rouge 24 B-Roll Nicole Kidman - APTN File 25 Sot Kirk Honeycutt, film critic - on 'Moulin Rouge': There might be some interest in 'Moulin Rouge' because of the celebrity factor here, Nicole Kidman and Baz Luhrmann, the director It'll be interesting to see how they finally vote on this - File - Los Angeles, 20th December 2001 26 Sot Baz Luhrmann (with Nicole Kidman) Aussie Aussie Aussie - APTN File, Los Angeles, USA January 2002 27 Film clip - 'In the Bedroom' APTN file - London Premiere, UK 25 January 2002 28 SOT Sissy Spacek - on the Oscars - I don't think that there is anybody working in films today who could say they didn't want an Oscar That is an award that is presented by your peers and it has great meaning both personally and professionally to all of us actors 29 Line up Marisa Tomei/ Tom Wilkinson/ Sissy Spacek/Todd Field 30 Film clip - 'Monster's Ball' APTN file - NBR awards, New York, USA, 7 January 2002 31 SOT Halle Berry: I felt more drained watching it the first time than I did doing it The doing part of it for me was very cathartic, I get to purge and shed myself of a lot of stuff that I was holding in It was like therapy for me every day so that felt good But when I watched it I felt more drained then than when I shot it APTN File - London Premiere, UK, 14 January 2002 32 Dame Judi Dench goes to greet fans 33 B-roll Kate Winslet 34 Clip - Iris 35 B-roll Jim Broadbent and John Bayley 36 Sot Judi Dench on Golden Globe nomination for herself (and Kate and Jim) in film: I've never known how you judge acting I know how you judge dancing or singing but acting I think is difficult to judge 37 Clip Trailer - Training Day APTN File Los Angeles, USA October 2001 38 Sot - Denzel Washington - On why the character is so mean - The wages of sin is death and I wanted to make sure that he earned what he got So once I made a decision to do the movie I wanted him to be as awful as he possibly could and I tried my best and had a good time 39Clip - Mulholland Drive 40 Clip - The Man Who Wasn't There 41 Clip - Amelie 42 Clip - Lord Of The Rings STORYLINE: BEAUTIFUL MIND TIPPED AS OSCAR FRONT RUNNER The announcement of the Oscar nominations on Tuesday (12FEB02) means the climax of the Hollywood year is nearly upon us A couple of months ago the films and names likely to come up at those nominations was anybody's guess but, after weeks of pre-awards ceremonies, culminating in the Golden Globes, a consensus is emerging of who should be drafting acceptance speeches Studios sometimes seem surprised that mega action summer blockbusters they pump hundreds of millions into don't do well at awards ceremonies Instead it tends to be the smaller films with powerful characters and stories that walk off with all the most prestigious awards APTN has been keeping track of the films tipped for the top at this year's Oscars Mostly hotly tipped is A Beautiful Mind, which see's Russell Crowe starring as a schizophrenic mathematician who overcomes his problems to eventually win a Nobel prize And if you want to win a major acting award, playing a character with mental health problems is a good place to start Dustin Hoffman walked off with an Oscar for his portrayal of the autistic Raymond Babbit in Rainman, while Angelina Jolie's disturbed mental patient in Girl, Interrupted earned her a gong over Winona Ryder's distinctly sane role in the same film Judi Dench could also cash in for her portrayal of novelist Iris Murdoch's descend into senility in the film Iris But more of her later Critics are saying the relatively heavyweight film will bring director Ron Howard the awards that have so far eluded him with his previous populist movies like Apollo 13, Ransom and ED:TV Experts says his experience, and the fact that he is generally liked, will help as him, as will the film's up-beat ending, excellent acting and massive box office take There is also the Russell Crowe factor: he's having what could be a career high, after winning an Oscar last year for being a husband-to-a-murdered-wife in Gladiator He's already taken the Golden Globe for best actor and were he to win the Oscar , he would be the first actor since Tom Hanks to take home back-to-back Oscars The Australian theme continues with the supercamp musical Moulin Rouge directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann and staring fellow Antipodean Nicole Kidman Kidman is an outside possibility for a Best Actress nomination, while the years Baz Luhrmann spent on the film could well be rewarded with Best Director and Best Picture nominations Moulin Rouge would be the first live-action musical nominated for best picture since All That Jazz in 1979 The animated musical Beauty and the Beast was nominated for best picture in 1991 The last musical to win was Oliver! in 1968 Robert Altman has been winning accolades, and a best director Golden Globe, for his British set murder mystery Gosford Park, which takes a critical swipe at the British class system from the point of view of both aristocrats and servants The film could well bag a Best Picture nomination, and another Best Director nod for Altman The tiny independent film In The Bedroom is also hotly tipped to bring Sissy Spacek a Best Actress nomination, as well as possible recognition for Tom Wilkinson as Best Supporting actor From first time feature director Todd Field, it's being hailed by critics as the best movie of the year thanks to packing the biggest emotional punch Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek provide achingly honest - read award worthy - portrayals of parents whose marriage nearly collapses under the strain of their son's murder T But in the Best Actress award stakes, Spacek is up against Halle Berry, for the latter's moving performance in Monster's Ball Berry plays the wife of an executed criminal who falls in love with his racist prison guard, played by Billy Bob Thornton, and both have had rave reviews Berry has already won Female Actor Of The Year award from the American Film Institute, the equivalent from the prestigious National Board of Review ceremony and a nomination from the Globes Another, and possibly unlikely, Oscar contender is Iris Already in possession of an Oscar for her brief appearance in Shakespeare In Love, Dame Judi Dench could add a second Oscar to her collection, for her portrayal of writer Iris Murdoch's final years during which her mind was succumbed to Alzheimers The film has already earned a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe for Jim Broadbent as her devoted husband Denzel Washington's hard hitting police thriller Training Day picked him up a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination, and few gongs from the smaller awards, but is, crucially, being hailed as the performance of his career by many in Hollywood The buzz in tinsel town is he will at least earn a Best Actor nomination If he is nominated, and is joined by Will Smith for Ali, the could become the first two black actors nominated for a lead role in the same year And if Halle Berry is nominated for Monsters Ball, she would be the first black lead actress to be in the running since Angela Bassett for What's Love Got to Do With It in 1993 If all three were nominated, it would be the first time that three black actors competed in the lead categories since 1972, when Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson for Sounder and Diana Ross for Lady Sings the Blues were in the running The artful The Man Who Wasn't There from the Coen brothers may have dropped from view a bit recently, but could still be an Oscar contender for best direction, actor (Billy Bob Thornton) and, most likely, best cinematography Shot in black and white with a subtle performance from Billy Bob Thornton as a 1940s barber, even the trailer has been said to have award winner stamped all over it Critics say the Coen brothers have always shown an extraordinary eye for detail, but here they create a rich sense of place, with the help of Roger Deakins' lush cinematography The movie strays a bit toward the end, and is more self-conscious than the Coen's other work, but remains haunting David Lynch's Mulholland Drive is turning out to be something of a comeback vehicle for the Lost Highway director and might well earn him a Best Director nod, but some experts think it now has only an outside change The film is a love story set in the city of dreams and has been described as a cinematic Rubik's Cube that maddens and confounds even as it entertains Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring render breakthrough performances as persona-swapping friends, foes and lovers meandering through mysteries on the dark fringes of Hollywood Amelie, the fantasy about a naive French girl who ensures strangers fall in love while neglecting herself, is very strong contender for a Best Foreign Language film nomination and, if it's popularity in Europe is anything to go by, but be odds on favourite to take the final prize Academy voters rarely have taken such flights of fancy as The Lord of the Rings seriously The sci-fi fantasies Star Wars and ET The Extra-Terrestrial earned best-picture nominations, as did The Wizard of Oz and such fanciful adventure flicks as Raiders of the Lost Ark and King Solomon's Mines But none of these won Lord of the Rings, perhaps the most universally acclaimed film of last year, has a shot at being the first It won top honors at the American Film Institute Awards last month I'm thrilled the film is sort of transcending the genre a little bit, the movie's director, Peter Jackson said CLEARANCE DETAILS Moulin Rouge 20th Century Fox (20) 7437 7766 Lord Of The Rings New Line Cinema 1 310 834 5811 Gosford Park Entertainment Films 44 (0) 20 7930 7744 A Beautiful Mind Universal 1 818 777 1000 Iris Miramax 44 (20) 7535 8300 Amelie Miramax Films In The Bedroom MIRAMAX (20) 7535 8300 The Man Who Wasn't There USA FILMS 001 212 539 4000 Mulholland Drive BAC distribution (0) 1 53 53 52 Monsters Ball Lions Gate Films 1 212 966 4673 Training Day Warner Brothers 1 818 977 6278