Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Academy Award Nominations 2004

Usually, I am not too interested, but this year, they nominated 13 year old Keisha Castle-Hughes for her performance in Whale Rider. She was actually submitted for the best supporting actress nomination (which is confusing because she really is a lead actress in that movie), but ended up with best actress instead. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2793417a10,00.html

It was such a shocker to see a minority, female youngster nominated for the first time for such an award. And the movie is the ultimate "girl power" movie- if anyone has little girls, they definitely should take their daughters to see it.

I'm also shocked because the movie was such an independent film- not the independent films that star big name people, but a true independent film out of New Zealand with a mainly Maori cast. That's about the only thing that really woke me up this morning. :D

The rest of the nominations:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2004/01/27/entertainment0852EST0524.DTL

I'm crossing my fingers and hoping she'll be the next Anna Pacquin and win that award. She really did do a good job in that movie.

Koffee

It would have been nice to also see Sarah Bolger, one of the young sisters in In America, get nominated for Supporting Actress. She was the heart of that film. Samantha Morton's nomination for her work in In America is well-deserved, but I thought she was even better in Morvern Callar.

And I can't believe Eddie Vedder's "Man of the Hour," from Big Fish, didn't get nominated for Original Song; it almost made me cry as it played over the end credits.

Hurray for Triplets of Belleville's noms, though!

And I can't believe Eddie Vedder's "Man of the Hour," from Big Fish, didn't get nominated for Original Song; it almost made me cry as it played over the end credits.


I thought Big Fish was released this year?

It had a limited release over Christmas, to make it elligible for the 2003 Awards. Danny Elman's score for Big Fish did get nominated, but not Eddie Vedder's song.

Actually, I would have liked to have seen Christiana Ricci nominated for her role in Monster. I haven't seen it, but the trailers with her performances and the reviews I've seen just show her acting as phenominal.

Koffee