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TAPE: EF02/0038 IN_TIME: 14:24:18 DURATION: 7:52 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film/video/tv clips without clearance DATELINE: Recent SHOTLIST 1. WS Golden Globe Nominees - 20 December 2001, Los Angeles 2. Sot Hugh Jackman - 20 December 2001, Los Angeles: " Now I am definitely awake thank you." 3. Clip - A Beautiful Mind 4. Sot Ron Howard - (on Russell Crowe - from EPK) : " He is incredibly charismatic, he has got great screen presence, he has shown that , but he is a real actors actor and he is committed to creating a character, not showing up screen presence and he is incredibly courageous actor and this is a very, very challenging role." 5. Clip - Moulin Rouge 6. B-Roll - Nicole Kidman - Los Angeles, 2001 7. 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 Lurhmann, the director. It'll be interesting to see how they finally vote on this because they have a lot of... a wealth of good films here that they have selected and they haven't really missed too many." 8. Clip - Iris 9. Kate Winslet and Judi Dench at premiere, New York 2nd December, 2001 10. Cutaway press 11. Sot Kate Winslet - New York 2nd December, 2001 - English "I sought of buried myself in John Bayley's novels that he had written about his life with Iris because they are so wonderful and it is a first hand account of what it was genuinely like day to day, that was the most useful thing to me. There was some amazing documentaries about Iris and some interviews that she had given when she was about 50, 60 years old that were incredibly useful to me in terms of how she spoke and her demeanor. 12. Clip Iris 13. Sot Judi Dench - New York 2nd December, 2001 - "She was a heroine of mine since the '60s, I saw a play that she had adapted with J B Priestly called 'A Severed Head' from one of her books. I saw that and then I started to read her books. So she was kind of a heroine of mine' 13. film clip 'Monsters Ball' 14. SOT Halle Berry - "So much of this movie was played by the non-verbal and so we had to decide what those non-verbal messages were going to be. So there was a lot of talk all the time about what was going on and how we felt and what was real and what was not real and what we had been taught through the media to be true and the discern that from what really is real and not what we read to be real and so there was always a dialogue going on and forcing us always to look from within." 15. Clip - The Shipping News 16. Clip - Ghost World 9. Sot - Thora Birch (EPK) on her character: " I think she doesn't really know what she wants she has just graduated from high school and she knows all the things that she doesn't really like and she knows what she doesn't want to be. The only problem is that she really does have no clue of what she does want to do and who she is really' 10. Clip - The Deep End 11. Sot - Tilda Swinton (Cannes France, May 2001) - (English) she's a very ordinary bourgious housewife, she's married to a naval aviator and she has 3 children and she lives in a very neat, nice, house in Lake Tahoe California and they are all very comfortable. 12. Sissy Spacek arrives at premiere - Toronto, Canada, September 9th 2001. 13. Clip - In The bedroom 14. Marisa Tomei interviewed - Toronto, Canada, September 9th 2001 15. Clip - In The Bedroom 16. Clip - The Man Who Wasn't There 17. Sot David Lynch - Los Angeles, USA, 19th September 2001 - English: " Once you fall in love with these ideas they tell you how they want to be translated to film, and even though it is a long process with many different elements you always can track back to the original ideas that you fell in love with. And I am a human being, there is some possibility that other human beings will be drawn to the same idea which is made up of many ideas but it is one idea." 18. clip Mulholland Drive HOLLYWOOD WAITS FOR GLOBES WITH BAITED BREATH The Golden Globe Awards, second only to the Oscar's, take place in Los Angeles on Sunday (20JAN02), and Hollywood's brightest and best will discover who is on the A-list for the year. As well as being a prestigious award in itself, winning a Golden Globe can give major hints on who will come out on top at the next and biggest contest in the Hollywood year - The Academy Awards, or Oscars. But who will win? Well, 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 Golden Globes. Topping the bill is "A Beautiful Mind" with six nominations, 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. Directed by Ron Howard, "A Beautiful Mind' is emerging as the hottest contenders for this year's Globes, with nominations including Best Motion Picture (Drama), Best Actor (Drama) and Best Director. Critics are saying the relatively heavyweight film will bring Ron Howard the awards that have so far eluded him with his previous populist movies like "Apollo 13", "Ransom" and "ED:TV". Australian born Russell Crowe on the other hand, is having what could be a career high, after winning an Oscar last year for being a husband-to-a-murdered-wife in "Gladiator" . Now he's being hotly tipped to win the Golden globe for best actor and maybe even another Oscar. The Australian theme continues with the supercamp musical "Moulin Rouge", also nominated for six globe awards, directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann and staring fellow Antipodean Nicole Kidman. Continuing her post Tom Cruise divorce rise to prominence, Nicole Kidman is up for a Best Actress (musical/comedy) award, Ewan McGregor could bag a Best Actor (Musical/Comedy) gong while the years Baz Luhrman spent on the film could well be rewarded with a statue for Best Director. Kidman will have two bites of the cherry thanks to her stirring performance in ghost story 'The Others,' for which she is nominated for another Best Actress Award, this time in the drama category. Another, and possibly unlikely, heavyweight Globe contender is "Iris". Already in possession of an Oscar for her brief appearance in "Shakespeare In Love", Dame Judi Dench could add a Best Actress (Drama) Golden Globe to her collection, for her portrayal of writer Iris Murdoch in her last years, as her mind was succumbing to Alzheimers - to the point where she forgot she had once been writer. The film has also earned Golden Globe supporting role nominations for Kate Winslet as the younger Iris, and for Jim Broadbent as her devoted husband. But in the Best Actress (Drama) award stakes, Dench is up against Halle Berry, for the latter's moving performance in the latecomer (it's only had limited release so far) "Monster's Ball". The film, in which Berry plays the wife of an executed criminal who falls in love with his racist prison guard (played by Billy Bob Thornton), has had rave reviews and has already won Berry a Female Actor Of The Year award from the American Film Institute, and the equivalent from the prestigious National Board of Review ceremony. Despite having two Best Actor Oscar's to his name ("The Usual Suspects" 1996 and "American Beauty" 2002) Kevin Spacey has never won a Golden Globe. But that could change this year as he has received his third nomination for his role as Quoyle, a meek newspaper reporter who moves to Canada and eventually finds love, and a measure of professional satisfaction, in "The Shipping News". The film, based on the novel be E. Annie Proulx, is also nominated for Best Original Score (Motion Picture). "American Beauty" star Thora Birch, who has been busy picking up a cabinet's worth of awards from film festivals and critics circles for playing Enid in "Ghost World", is a nominee for the Golden Globes Best Actress (musical/comedy) award. In a world where young girls are rarely portrayed as anything deeper than cheerleaders, Birch's three dimensional portrayal of a troubled teen has been well received. Steve Buscemi's turn as the lonely album collector who Birch and Johansson first play a trick on, and then befriend, has earned him a Golden Globe nod for Best Supporting Actor, for which he has already won a gong from the New York Film Critics. Thriller "The Deep End" has earned Tilda Swinton a Best Actress (drama) nomination for her role as the neurotic mother desperately trying to cover up an accidental death which would reveal her teenage son's homosexuality. The film has been praised for managing to be unnerving without resorting to violent cliche, and meaningful without descending into schmaltz. A big Golden Globe contender this year is "In The Bedroom" which not only secured Sissy Spacek and Marisa Tomei nods in the best actress and supporting actress shortlists, but is also nominated for Best Picture. This tiny independent picture from first time feature director Todd Field is being hailed by critics as the best movie of the year because it packs "the biggest emotional punch". Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek provide achingly honest - and award worthy - portrayals of parents whose marriage nearly collapses under the strain of their son's murder. The film depicts how people grieve in different ways. It also is a fascinating exploration of the steps ordinary people take under extraordinary circumstances. The artful "The Man Who Wasn't There" from the Coen brothers is another big Globe contender, with nominations for Best Picture (Drama), Best Screenplay and Best Actor, for Billy Bob Thornton's supremely passive portrayal of bored Barber Ed Crane. 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 it's remains haunting. David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" is turning out to be something of a comeback vehicle for the "Lost Highway" director and is nominated for 4 awards. Lynch could take home Best Director and Best Screenplay while the film overall is up for Best Picture (Drama), and composer Angelo Badalamenti is up for Best Original Score. 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. Unlike the Academy Awards, which are voted on by members of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scienes - i.e. those who work professionally in the film industry - the Golden Globe awards are voted on by the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press association. It was started in 1944 and has always been scheduled before the Oscar's so as to avoid being swayed by biggest awards of them all. 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