Best Picture

WINNER

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh

NOMINEES

Lost in Translation: Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Peter Weir, Duncan Henderson

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Mystic River: Robert Lorenz, Judie Hoyt, Clint Eastwood

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Seabiscuit: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gary Ross

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

Mystic River: Sean Penn

NOMINEES

Cold Mountain: Jude Law

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House of Sand and Fog: Ben Kingsley

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Lost in Translation: Bill Murray

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Johnny Depp

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

Monster: Charlize Theron

NOMINEES

Whale Rider: Keisha Castle-Hughes

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Something's Gotta Give: Diane Keaton

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In America: Samantha Morton

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21 Grams: Naomi Watts

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Mystic River: Tim Robbins

NOMINEES

21 Grams: Benicio Del Toro

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The Cooler: Alec Baldwin

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In America: Djimon Hounsou

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The Last Samurai: Ken Watanabe

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Cold Mountain: Renée Zellweger

NOMINEES

House of Sand and Fog: Shohreh Aghdashloo

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Mystic River: Marcia Gay Harden

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Pieces of April: Patricia Clarkson

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Thirteen: Holly Hunter

Best Director

WINNER

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Peter Jackson

NOMINEES

City of God: Fernando Meirelles

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Lost in Translation: Sofia Coppola

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Peter Weir

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Mystic River: Clint Eastwood

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

WINNER

Lost in Translation: Sofia Coppola

NOMINEES

Dirty Pretty Things: Steven Knight

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Finding Nemo: Andrew Stanton (screenplay/story), Bob Peterson (screenplay), David Reynolds (screenplay)

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In America: Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan

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The Barbarian Invasions: Denys Arcand

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

WINNER

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson

NOMINEES

American Splendor: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

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City of God: Bráulio Mantovani

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Mystic River: Brian Helgeland

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Seabiscuit: Gary Ross

Best Cinematography

WINNER

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Russell Boyd

NOMINEES

City of God: César Charlone

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Cold Mountain: John Seale

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Girl with a Pearl Earring: Eduardo Serra

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Seabiscuit: John Schwartzman

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

WINNER

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Grant Major (art director), Dan Hennah (set decorator), Alan Lee (set decorator)

NOMINEES

Girl with a Pearl Earring: Ben van Os (art director), Cecile Heideman (set decorator)

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The Last Samurai: Lilly Kilvert (art director), Gretchen Rau (set decorator)

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: William Sandell (art director), Robert Gould (set decorator)

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Seabiscuit: Jeannine Claudia Oppewall (art director), Leslie A. Pope (set decorator)

Best Costume Design

WINNER

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Ngila Dickson, Richard Taylor

NOMINEES

Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dien van Straalen

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The Last Samurai: Ngila Dickson

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Wendy Stites

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Seabiscuit: Judianna Makovsky

Best Sound Mixing

WINNER

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek

NOMINEES

The Last Samurai: Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Jeff Wexler

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Paul Massey, Doug Hemphill, Art Rochester

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Christopher Boyes, David Parker, David E. Campbell, Lee Orloff

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Seabiscuit: Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Tod A. Maitland

Best Film Editing

WINNER

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Jamie Selkirk

NOMINEES

City of God: Daniel Rezende

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Seabiscuit: William Goldenberg

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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Lee Smith

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Cold Mountain: Walter Murch

Best Sound Editing

WINNER

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Richard King

NOMINEES

Finding Nemo: Gary Rydstrom, Michael Silvers

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Christopher Boyes, George Watters II

Best Visual Effects

WINNER

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, Alex Funke

NOMINEES

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Daniel Sudick, Stefen Fangmeier, Nathan McGuinness, Robert Stromberg

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: John Knoll, Hal T. Hickel, Charles Gibson, Terry D. Frazee

Best Makeup

WINNER

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Richard Taylor, Peter King

NOMINEES

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Edouard F. Henriques, Yolanda Toussieng

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Ve Neill, Martin Samuel

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, Annie Lennox
For the song "Into the West".

NOMINEES

Cold Mountain: T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello
For the song "Scarlet Tide".

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Cold Mountain: Sting
For the song "You Will Be My Ain True Love".

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A Mighty Wind: Michael McKean, Annette O'Toole
For the song "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow".

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The Triplets of Belleville: Benoît Charest (music), Sylvain Chomet (lyrics)
For the song "Belleville Rendez-Vous".

Best Music, Original Score

WINNER

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Howard Shore

NOMINEES

Big Fish: Danny Elfman

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Cold Mountain: Gabriel Yared

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Finding Nemo: Thomas Newman

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House of Sand and Fog: James Horner

Best Short Film, Animated

WINNER

Harvie Krumpet: Adam Elliot

NOMINEES

Boundin': Bud Luckey

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Destino: Dominique Monfery, Roy Edward Disney

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Gone Nutty: Carlos Saldanha, John C. Donkin

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Nibbles: Christopher Hinton

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER

Two Soldiers: Aaron Schneider, Andrew J. Sacks

NOMINEES

(A)Torzija: Stefan Arsenijevic

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Most: Bobby Garabedian, William Zabka

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The Red Jacket: Florian Baxmeyer

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Squash: Lionel Bailliu

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER

Chernobyl Heart: Maryann DeLeo

NOMINEES

Asylum: Sandy McLeod, Gini Reticker

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Ferry Tales: Katja Esson

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara: Errol Morris, Michael Williams

NOMINEES

Cuban Rafters: Carles Bosch, Josep Maria Domènech

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Capturing the Friedmans: Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling

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My Architect: Nathaniel Kahn, Susan Rose Behr

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The Weather Underground: Sam Green, Bill Siegel

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER

The Barbarian Invasions
Canada.

NOMINEES

Evil
Sweden.

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The Twilight Samurai
Japan.

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Twin Sisters
Netherlands.

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Zelary
Czech Republic.

Best Animated Feature

WINNER

Finding Nemo: Andrew Stanton

NOMINEES

Brother Bear: Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker

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The Triplets of Belleville: Sylvain Chomet

WINNER

Blake Edwards
In recognition of his writing, directing and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen. (Oscar statuette)

WINNER

Douglas Greenfield

WINNERS

(Digidesign)
For the design, development and implementation of the Pro Tools digital audio workstation.

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Bill Tondreau (Kuper Controls)
For his significant advancements in the field of motion control technology for motion picture visual effects.

WINNERS

(Kinoton GmbH)
For the engineering and development of the Kinoton FP 30/38 EC II Studio Projector.

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Kenneth L. Tingler (Eastman Kodak Company), Charles C. Anderson (Eastman Kodak Company), Diane E. Kestner (Eastman Kodak Company), Brian A. Schell (Eastman Kodak Company)
For the successful development of a process-surviving antistatic layer technology for motion picture film.

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Christopher Alfred, Andrew Cannon, Michael C. Carlos, Mark Crabtree, Chuck Grindstaff, John Melanson
For their significant contributions to the evolution of digital audio editing for motion picture post production.

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Stephen Regelous
For the design and development of Massive, the autonomous agent animation system used for the battle sequences in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

WINNERS

Kish Sadhvani, Paul Duclos, Carl Pernicone
For the concept and optical design (Sadhvani), for for the practical realization and production engineering (Duclos) and for the mechanical design and engineering (Pernicone) of the portable cine viewfinder system known as the Ultimate Director's Finder (UDF).

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Henrik Wann Jensen, Stephen R. Marschner, Pat Hanrahan
For their pioneering research in simulating subsurface scattering of light in translucent materials as presented in their paper "A Practical Model for Subsurface Light Transport.

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Christophe Hery, Ken McGaugh, Joe Letteri
For their groundbreaking implementations of practical methods for rendering skin and other translucent materials using subsurface scattering techniques.

WINNER

Peter Parks