Oscars 2001

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Best Picture- Gladiator(Douglas Wick,David Franzoni, Branko Lustig).

Directing- Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)

Actor- Russell Crowe (Gladiator).
Actress- Julia Roberts (Erin Brokovich)

Supporting Actor- Benicio Del Toro (Traffic)
Supporting Actress- Marcia Gay Harden(Pollock)

Art Direction- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(Tim Yip)
Cinematography- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Peter Pau)
Costume Design- Gladiator (Janty Yates)

Foreign Film- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(Ang Lee)

Documentary short-Big Mama {Tracy Seretean}
Documentary Feature-Lenght- INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS: STORIES OF THE KINDERTRANSPORT
(Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer)

Film Editing- Traffic (Stephen Mirrione)

MAKEUP- DR. SEUSS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (Rick Baker, Gail Ryan)

MUSIC (SCORE)- CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON(Tan Dun)
MUSIC (SONG)- WONDER BOYS
“Things Have Changed” (Bob Dylan)

SOUND- GLADIATOR (Scott Millan, Bob Beemer,Ken Weston)
SOUND EDITING- U-571 (Jon Johnson)

VISUAL EFFECTS- GLADIATOR (John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, Rob Harvey)

WRITING (ADAPTED)- TRAFFIC (Stephen Gaghan)
WRITING (ORIGINAL)- ALMOST FAMOUS (Cameron Crowe)

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Almost all the awards went to their respective favorites. And about time too.

I would’ve pipped Crouching Tiger over Gladiator for Best Picture though, not because Gladiator was any less of a movie, but because it achieved better what it set out to do, create a fun, magical movie.

(Speaking of which, Gladiator and esp. Erin Brokovich were VERY well-marketed when brought out..kudos to their studios)

The make-up for Grinch was nothing more than time-consuming. I think the make-up artists for The Cell did a better job as far as capturing the esscence of the movie is concerned.

The show itself was pretty well-presented, Steve Martin did a good job, that after watching Billy Crystal a bit too many times. As for J-Lo’s stunt, well what can ya say..

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any1 with any update with best awards for lollywood and bollywood 2000 awards?

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well I was satisfied woith all the awards, accept one! I thought Tom Hanks should have gotten the oscar for the third time for Cast away. Not that I am doubting Russel's capabilites. He was awesome in Gladiator. Lekin Hanks wasnt any less too!

As for make up yaar Elmo. Maana kay the Cell people did more of an artistic job, but how the Grinich people brought that mean fictious charecter to life was amazing! The cell was just alot of colours made to look cool. While Grinch was already a charecter and making Jim Carrey into Grinhc was one hell of a job

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i thought they were quite boring this year
i lost interest very quickly

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they were boring last year as well…
didnt even try watching 'em this year..
cant stand the corny jokes

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i really liked the oscars, was it 2 years ago? when they had the whole elizabethan theme going on…with Shakespeare in love and Elizabeth. And also the year before that with Titanic…
But overall, the entire ceremony (3-4 hours)is hardly worth watching in my opinion

**~~I’m not going to ask if you just said what I think you just said because I know it’s what you just said.~~**DS

[This message has been edited by hk (edited March 26, 2001).]

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Oscars were a joke, 'don't even want to talk about Gladiator.

Steve Martin was funny and un-funny couple of times, as usual.

All the musical scores were great except for that woman who looked like a poodle in that white dress and tried to sing like a 3rd grader. I'm sure that the song would be more amusing if I hear it about 100 times while stranded at an island.

Tom Hanks shines, Danny DeVito shines, and that women who sang the song 'A fool in love' shone, Ashley Judd rocked, and Julia Roberts sucked as usual.

Russel Crowe looked as surprised as rest of the 600 million viewers on getting the Oscar.

The best of all was Steven Soderburg who chose not to thank about few dozen people. Keep it short, keep it inspirational, keep it funny and don't name names, thank them individually or send a freakin' email - I can't believe people actually write speeches and names and keep them in the pocket in case they win and they'd need to say something.

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AliBeta, make up for the Grinch was a lot of hard work and it reflected the original character realy well, but it somehow reminded me of the Travolta job for Battlefield Earth (which is probably one of the worst movies ever made), only way better.

but you're right, converting Jim Carey's already pasty face to even pastier was indeed a commendable effort.

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The best movie award and best Actor are the two big awards which were given to their rightful owners. Russel Crowe did one helluva job with his accent. "... my name is gladiataah"

I am a big fan now. I even recorded Gladiator because of the costumes, script, actors everything was awesome. Its better than Titanic, which was an over-rated flick.