2001 Academy Awards® Winners and History
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Actor:
DENZEL WASHINGTON in "Training Day," Russell Crowe                 in "A Beautiful Mind," Sean Penn in "I Am Sam," Will                 Smith in "Ali," Tom Wilkinson in "In the Bedroom"
Actress:
HALLE BERRY in "Monster's Ball," Judi Dench in "Iris," Nicole Kidman in "Moulin Rouge!," Sissy Spacek in "In                 the Bedroom," Renee Zellwegger in "Bridget Jones's Diary"
Supporting Actor:
JIM BROADBENT in "Iris," Ethan Hawke in "Training                 Day," Ben Kingsley in "Sexy Beast," Ian McKellen in " The                   Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ," Jon                 Voight in "Ali"
Supporting Actress:
JENNIFER CONNELLY in "A Beautiful Mind," Helen Mirren                 in "Gosford Park," Maggie Smith in "Gosford Park," Marisa                 Tomei in "In the Bedroom," Kate Winslet in "Iris"
Director:
RON HOWARD for "A Beautiful Mind," Ridley Scott for "Black                 Hawk Down," Robert Altman for "Gosford Park," Peter                 Jackson for " The Lord                   of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ," David Lynch                 for "Mulholland Drive"
This year's ceremony, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg                   (for her fourth time), was notable as being the longest ever                   - at 4 hours, 23 minutes. It also marked the first year that                   the Best Animated Feature Film category was offered.
This                   was a year of eclectic Best Picture-nominated films:
a sword-and-sorcery Hobbit/elves fantasy adventure,                     the first in a trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship                       of the Ring
a period murder mystery set in a British estate, Gosford                     Park
an audacious musical romance set in a decadent,                     late 19th century Parisian nightclub/dance-hall/theatre, Moulin                       Rouge
a drama about an afflicted, Nobel Prize-winning                     mathematical genius, the ultimate winner A Beautiful Mind
another intimate drama about the torment of                     a New England (Maine) family over a son's sudden murder, In                       the Bedroom
This was the tenth consecutive year that                   Miramax had a Best Picture nominee (this year, it was In                   the Bedroom) - a record for any studio.
For the newly-created category                   - Best Animated Feature Film, according to the Academy's rules,                   an 'animated film' had to be at least 70 minutes in length,                   have a significant amount of major animated characters, and                   be at least 75% animated. The three nominees this year were
Jimmy                     Neutron: Boy Genius
Monsters, Inc.
PDI/Dreamworks' Shrek (the                     winner), with its lovable green ogre (Mike Myers) and smart-alec                     donkey (Eddie Murphy).
[Note:                  This was the first-ever Oscar                     for an animated feature film.]
Three of the five Best Picture-nominated films                   had specifically fanciful elements:
the dazzling musical fantasy of Moulin                     Rouge
the epic fantasy tale The                     Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
the delusionary fantasies of the main character's                     mind in A Beautiful Mind
The Best Picture winner was A Beautiful Mind (with                   eight nominations and four major wins): Best Director                   (Ron Howard), Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Connelly),                   and Best Adapted Screenplay (Akiva Goldsman). First time nominee                   and former child actor/director Ron Howard's case study drama                   and romance was loosely adapted from Sylvia Nasar's prize-winning                   biography about a courageous Princeton Univ. math genius experiencing                   a harrowing struggle with mental illness (schizophrenia). To                   date, it was the last biopic film to win Best Picture. The                   story's time frame spanned a period of five decades beginning                   with 1947. [Howard had made fifteen feature films in his career.                   Six years earlier, his Best Picture nominee Apollo 13 (1995) was                   honored by nine nominations - without a corresponding                   Best Director nomination.] Although its two lead actors (Crowe                   and Connelly) received Golden Globe awards, only Connelly went                   home with the Oscar.
With this Best Picture win, DreamWorks became                   the second studio to win three Best Pictures in a row:
American Beauty (1999)
Annie                   Hall (1977) .
The film with the most nominations (13) this                   year, director Peter Jackson's fantasy epic about wizards and                   scorcerers, The Lord                     of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring , also had                   four wins (in technical categories basically): Makeup, Cinematography,                   Visual Effects, and Original Score. The first installment in                   the film trilogy, based on the best-selling novels of J.R.R.                   Tolkien was one of the most financially-successful of the year,                   and the first Best Picture nomination for its studio                   - New Line (a division of AOL Time Warner). This was also the                   first nomination for 40 year old New Zealand filmmaker Peter                   Jackson.
[The Lord of the Rings became the ninth film                   ever to receive 13 Oscar nominations or more. Two other films                   in Academy Awards history have had 14 nominations, and six                   other films have had 13 nominations. [Three of these nine films                   did not win Best Picture: Mary Poppins (1964), Who's                     Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966) , and The                   Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) .]
The                     Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (13                     nominations and 4 wins)
No other sci-fi fantasy adventure of this kind,                   with loads of special effects, has been nominated for Best                   Picture since Star Wars (1977) (and                   Lucas' film lost the top award).
Australian director Baz Luhrmann's gaudy, fantasy                   musical-romance Moulin Rouge (with eight nominations                   and two wins for Luhrmann's collaborator and wife Catherine                   Martin in two similar categories: Costume Design and Art Direction)                   was set in late 19th century Paris and featured a soundtrack                   with 20th century pop tunes. Nicole Kidman's Best Actress nomination                   was one of its eight nominations, but Luhrmann was denied a                   Best Director nomination.
[It was the first live-action musical                     to be given a Best Picture nomination since All That Jazz                       (1979). The last musical to win Best Picture was Oliver!                         (1968). The animated musical Beauty and the                           Beast (1991) was nominated for Best Picture ten years                     earlier.]
Veteran, 77 year old, five-time maverick nominee/director                   Robert Altman's upstairs/downstairs murder mystery Gosford                     Park (with seven nominations and only one win) was set                   in 1930s Britain (Altman's first in this satirized Masterpiece                   Theatre-Merchant Ivory genre) at a country estate. It displayed                   his signature naturalistic, sprawling style (with 23 lead characters                   and as many plot strands all extraordinarily knitted together)                   and an all-star and talented British cast. Its only win was                   for Best Original Screenplay (Julian Fellowes). [It was Altman's                   first Best Picture AND Best Director nomination since Nashville                     (1975) . This was Altman's fifth unsuccessful                   Best Director nomination - he was also nominated as Best Director                   for M*A*S*H (1970), The Player (1992), and Short                   Cuts (1993).]
First-time writer/producer/director Todd Field's                   low-budget, emotionally-powerful and honest, laconic-paced family drama In the Bedroom (with five nominations -                   three for its actors - and no wins) lost in all categories.                   Usually, bleak dramas of this sort were only nominated in the                   various acting categories in recent years (i.e., Leaving                     Las Vegas (1995), Requiem for a Dream (2000)), and                   not for Best Picture.
Among the other major film nominees were the                   following:
Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (with                     four nominations and two wins, for Film Editing and Sound;                     it lost for Cinematography and Director)
Pearl Harbor (with four nominations                     and one win, for Sound Editing)
director Jean Pierre Jeunet's delightful and                     amusing French-imported fairy-tale love story Amelie (with                     five nominations and no wins), that starred the adorably-cute,                     pixie-ish Audrey Tautou (whose sadness morphs her into cascading                     water). It lost its favored Best Foreign Film nomination                     to Bosnia's entry, No Man's Land
Pixar's and Disney's animated Monsters,                     Inc. (with four nominations and one win, for Randy                     Newman's Original Song "If I Didn't Have You")                     - this marked Newman's 16th nomination and first Oscar!
director Richard Eyre's biographical portrait                     of novelist Iris Murdoch in Iris (with three nominations                     and one win, for Best Supporting Actor)
Three of the directors of the five nominated                   Best Picture films were included in the list of Best Director                   nominees. Two of the five directors who had Best Picture nominations                   were conspicuously denied Best Director nominations:
Baz Luhrmann for the dizzying and hyper-real                     spectacle Moulin Rouge
Todd Field for In the Bedroom
In their places were directing nominations for                   two three-time nominees who had never won a Best Director Oscar:                   56 year old eccentric director David Lynch for the twisty,                   surreal, neo-noir, nightmarish love story Mulholland Drive (with                   one nomination and no wins), and 64 year old Ridley Scott for Black                     Hawk Down (with four nominations and two wins), an intense                   and brutal war film and graphic recreation of America's 1993                   involvement and botched mission in the E. African city of Mogadishu,                   Somalia.
[Moulin Rouge's chances of winning Best                     Picture were proven to be slight, based upon Academy Awards                     history. The only three times a film won Best Picture without                     its director being nominated are the following:
(1) un-nominated director William Wellman's Wings                     (1927/28) won Best Picture, while the Best Director                     award went to Frank Borzage for Seventh Heaven (1927/28)
(2) Edmund Goulding's Grand Hotel (1931/32) was named                     Best Picture, while Frank Borzage won Best Director again for Bad                       Girl (1931/32)
(3) Driving Miss Daisy (1989), when Oliver Stone won                     Best Director for Born on the Fourth of July (1989).
Ridley Scott and David Lynch also faced unlikely                     odds to win Best Director. Director Frank Lloyd has been                     the only person to win the Best Director Oscar for                     a film not nominated for Best Picture - The Divine                       Lady (1928/29).]
Three of the four Oscar winners in the four major                   acting categories were first-time nominees. And this                   was an historic year - the top acting honors went to two African-Americans,                   the first time ever in Academy history.
The Best Actor winner was Denzel Washington                   (with his fifth nomination and second win) as a corrupt, rakish,                   13-year veteran cop of a narcotics squad, a hateful but charismatic                   Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris in director Antoine Fuqua's                   police drama/thriller Training Day (with two nominations                   and one win).
[With his nomination, Washington became the most-nominated black                     actor. He also became the first black actor to win                     two Academy Awards, and the first African-American                     since Sidney Poitier (a Best Actor winner for Lilies of                       the Field (1963)) to win a Best Actor statue. Note: Some                     argue that Poitier's Bahamas heritage makes Denzel Washington the first true African-American actor to win Best                     Actor. (Washington received his earlier Oscar for Best Supporting                     Actor in Glory (1989), another supporting nomination                     for his role as Steven Biko in Cry Freedom (1987),                     and two Best Actor nominations for Malcolm X (1992) and The                       Hurricane (1999).)]
In the Best Actor category, it was the first time                   that two African-American actors were nominated for Best Actor                   in the same year. The other African-American nominee was Will                   Smith (with his first nomination), as legendary boxer and former                   heavy-weight champ Muhammad Ali (from 1964-1974) in director                   Michael Mann's sports bio-drama Ali.
The other three Best Actor nominees were:
New Zealand-born Russell Crowe (with his third                     nomination and third Best Actor nomination in a row), for                     his role in A Beautiful Mind as delusional mathematical                     genius John Forbes Nash, Jr. - who won the 1994 Nobel prize                     for his work in game theory and was afflicted with paranoid                     schizophrenia. (Crowe was last year's Best Actor winner for                     playing a Roman general-turned-slave in Gladiator (2000),                     and he was previously nominated for The Insider (1999).)
[The last actor to receive three consecutive nominations                     was William Hurt, in Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) (an                     Oscar win), Children of a Lesser God (1986), and Broadcast                       News (1987).]
Maverick actor Sean Penn (with his third nomination)                     as Sam Dawson in director Jessie Nelson's I Am Sam (a                     combination of Rain Man (1988) and Kramer vs. Kramer                       (1979)), as a developmentally-disabled father who works                     in a coffee shop and seeks the custody of his 7 year-old                     daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning).
British-born Tom Wilkinson (with his first                     nomination) as grief-stricken New England doctor and justice-seeking                     vigilante father Matt Fowler in In the Bedroom
There were two veteran Oscar nominees and three                   first-timers in the Best Actress category. In a monumental,                   career-altering victory, 35 year old Halle Berry (with her first nomination)                   became the first black actress to win a Best Actress                   Academy Award in AMPAS' 74 year history! She portrayed African-American                   Leticia Musgrove, an executed killer's (Sean Combs) grief-stricken                   widow in a town poisoned with Southern racism in director Marc                   Forster's racially-charged romance Monster's Ball (with                   two nominations and one win). (The last Best Actress nomination                   for a black actress was Angela Bassett for What's Love Got                   to Do With It? (1993).)
The other Best Actress nominees were:
Sissy Spacek (with her sixth nomination and                     one past Oscar win) as the traumatized, withdrawn, chain-smoking,                     middle-aged, silently-angry and grieving mother Ruth Fowler                     in In the Bedroom. (She won an Oscar 21 years earlier                     for playing Kentucky singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's                       Daughter (1980), and was last nominated for Crimes                       of the Heart (1986).)
67 year old Briton Judi Dench (with her fourth                     nomination in five years, and one past win) as feisty English                     philosophical and libertine-spirited novelist Iris Murdoch                     who eventually suffered from Alzheimer's in later life in Iris.                     (Dench's previous nominations were Best Actress for Mrs.                       Brown (1997), a win for Best Supporting Actress for Shakespeare                         in Love (1998), and a nomination for Supporting Actress                     for Chocolat (2000).) [This was the second time                     that two actresses were nominated for playing the same character in                       the same film - Kate Winslet was also nominated for her                     role of Iris in Iris. The first time this occurred                     was when Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart were both nominated                     for playing the same character (Rose) in the same film -- Titanic                       (1997).]
34 year old Australian-raised Nicole Kidman                     (with her first nomination and in her first musical role),                     as an ill-fated, dying-from-consumption, sexy nightclub singer                     and doomed lover/courtesan named Satine in the bold, hyperactive                     and re-inventive Moulin Rouge (she was the film's                     only acting nominee). [If Kidman had won in this category,                     she would have been the first actress in almost 30 years                     to win an Oscar for a musical (Liza Minnelli won for Cabaret                       (1972) ].
32 year old deglamourized American Texan Renee                     Zellweger (with her first nomination) as a thirty-something,                     lovelorn, weight-challenged Londoner in a publishing house                     haplessly seeking romance in director Sharon Maguire's British                     comedy Bridget Jones's Diary, a witty adaptation of                     Helen Fielding's popular novel
Note: The acting nominations of the trio                   of Smith, Washington and Berry marked the third time                   that three African-American actors have been nominated for                   acting roles. (This also happened in 1972 and in 1985). However,                   it must be noted that this was only the second time                   that three African-American performers have been nominated                   in the top acting categories. (In 1972 in the Best Actress                   and Best Actor categories, Diana Ross was nominated for Lady                     Sings the Blues (1972), and Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson                   for Sounder (1972). None of them won.)
The Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories                   each had a first-time nominee as the winner. Surprise                   winner 52 year-old British actor Jim Broadbent (with his first                   nomination) won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Iris Murdoch's                   doting, clumsy, affectionate and devoted husband John Bayley                   in Iris. (Broadbent also starred in un-nominated                   roles in both Moulin Rouge and Bridget Jones's Diary.)
The other nominees in the Best Supporting Actor                   category included two other British performers:
the favored 62 year old Sir Ian McKellen (with                     his second nomination after a nod three years earlier for                     his great performance in Gods and Monsters (1998))                     as kindly wizard Gandalf in The                       Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
58 year old Sir Ben Kingsley (with his third                     nomination and one past win) as menacing, bullying, volatile                     mobster/hitman Don "Malky" Logan in director Jonathan Glazer's UK crime thriller Sexy                       Beast. (Kingsley was a previous Best Actor Oscar winner                     for Gandhi (1982).)
30 year old Ethan Hawke (with his first nomination)                     as Jake Hoyt, an eager, idealistic rookie narcotics detective                     in the Los Angeles Police Department serving under Alonzo                     Harris (Denzel Washington) in Training Day
63 year old Jon Voight (with his fourth nomination                     and one past win) for his caricatured, heavily-made-up portrayal                     of ABC sports broadcaster Howard Cosell in Ali - with                     only 13 minutes of screen time. (This was Voight's first                     nomination for a supporting role. He won his sole Oscar for Coming                       Home (1978), and his last nomination was as Best Actor                     for Runaway Train (1985).)
In the Best Supporting Actress category, the                   category's only first-time nominee was also the winner.                   The Oscar was presented to 31 year-old Golden Globe winner                   Jennifer Connelly (with her first nomination after two decades                   and 23 films in her career) as Nash's beautiful former student                   and loyal, stalwart, devoted, and long-suffering wife Alicia                   in A Beautiful Mind. Two other Best Supporting Actress                   nominees were co-stars in Altman's comedy of class manners                   ensemble film, Gosford Park. (As a footnote to this                   pair of nominations for an Altman film, it also happened for                   his film Nashville (1975) , when                   Ronee Blakley and Lily Tomlin were honored with competing nominations.)
The four other Best Supporting Actress nominees                   were:
56 year old Helen Mirren (with her second                     nomination) as the cooly efficient, but tragic, melancholy                     and impenetrable 'downstairs' housekeeper Mrs. Wilson in Gosford                       Park
67 year old, two-time Oscar winner Maggie                     Smith (with her sixth nomination and her fourth for Best                     Supporting Actress) as flighty, pampered, snooty, sarcastic                     and tippling matronly guest Lady Constance - the spoiled                     aristocratic Countess of Trentham in Gosford Park.                     (Maggie Smith previously won Best Actress for The Prime                       of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and Best Supporting Actress                     for California Suite (1978).)
37 year old Marisa Tomei (with her second                     nomination and one past win) as attractive, separated, and                     troubled mom Natalie Strout involved with her boyfriend/lover                     Frank Fowler (Nick Stahl), a ten years younger high school                     graduate (and summer lobster fisherman) in In the Bedroom.                     (Nine years earlier, Tomei won a Best Supporting Actress                     Oscar - in an upset - for her role as Brooklynite Mona Lisa                     Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).)
26 year old Kate Winslet (with her third nomination)                     as Iris Murdoch in her resolute, free-spirited and bolder                     youth in Iris. (Winslet was previously nominated as                     Best Supporting Actress for Sense and Sensibility (1995),                     and Best Actress for Titanic (1997).)
This year's Honorary Award was presented to Sidney                   Poitier, "in recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an                   artist and as a human being." He was the first male actor                   of color who won the Best Actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field                     (1963) - his sole Oscar win. He was also nominated                   as Best Actor for The Defiant Ones (1958) ,                   although he had appeared in lots of great films including The                     Blackboard Jungle (1955), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), To                       Sir With Love (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967),                 and In the Heat of the Night (1967) .
Another Honorary Award was given to Robert Redford, "Actor,                   Director, Producer. Creator of Sundance, inspiration to independent                   and innovative filmmakers everywhere." In his career,                   he had been nominated four times (with one win): once as Best                   Actor for The Sting (1973), twice as Best Director for                   Best Picture-winning Ordinary People (1980) (with his sole Oscar                   win) and Quiz Show (1994), and also Best Picture for                   the latter film. He had also appeared in many memorable roles                   in films such as Butch Cassidy and the                     Sundance Kid (1969) , The Candidate (1972), All                       the President's Men (1977), Out of Africa (1985), Indecent                         Proposal (1993), and served as director for A River                           Runs Through It (1992) and The Legend of Bagger Vance                   (2000).
Oscar Snubs and Omissions:
Black Hawk Down (with four nominations                   and two wins) and Mulholland Drive were favored for                   Best Picture nominations, but didn't receive them. Other films                   without major film nominations included Darabont's failing The                     Majestic and Steven Spielberg's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (with                   29 year old Jude Law). The director of Best Picture-nominee Moulin                     Rouge, Baz Luhrmann, was surprisingly left out of the Best                   Director race, as was actor and leading man Ewan McGregor as                   ambitious but poor British poet/writer Christian in the romantic                   musical opposite love interest Nicole Kidman as Moulin Rouge                   courtesan Satine. One of the most successful films of the year,                   Chris Columbus' Harry                     Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone , had only three nominations                   (Art Direction, Costume Design, and Score) and no wins.
Billy Bob Thornton was not deservedly nominated                   for his appearances in three films: as Hank, an emotionally-tortured                   Georgia Death Row prison guard in the melodramatic Monster's                     Ball, as a costume-changing, hypochondriac bank robber                   (one of the "Sleepover Bandits") Terry Collins in                   Barry Levinson's Bandits, and as humble, unassuming                   (but scheming) barber Ed Crane in the Coen brothers' beautifully                   filmed black and white noir The Man Who Wasn't There.
Golden Globe winner Gene Hackman was also overlooked                   for his role as the partly sinister, shifty, high-living patriarch                   Royal Tenenbaum in Wes Anderson's comedy-drama The Royal                     Tenenbaums (with only one nomination) . Tovah Feldshuh                   was overlooked as Scarsdale Jewish matron Judy Stein with a                   lesbian daughter in Kissing Jessica Stein. And Steve                   Buscemi should have received a supporting nod for his role                   as nerdy, misfit, socially-inept record collector Seymour,                   as should have Illeana Douglas as the high school art instructor                   named Roberta, in Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World, but the                   film did get a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination. And if 80                   year old Carl Reiner had been nominated for Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's                   Eleven, it would have been his first nomination.
Three Best Actress nominations were clearly left                   on the cutting room floor:
Tilda Swinton for her role as blackmailed,                     maternally-protective, burdened and determined Margaret Hall,                     in David Siegel's dramatic The Deep End
Australian Naomi Watts for her dual roles                     as wholesome, idealized small-town girl Betty Elms in Hollywood                     whose identity was 'robbed' (and her alter ego as failed                     aspiring actress Diane), in David Lynch's mesmerizing, disorienting                     and dizzying, puzzling fantasy Mulholland Drive
Audrey Tautou as the title character - a 23                     year-old Parisian waitress in the delightful comedy Amelie
Three-time nominee Michelle Pfeiffer was ignored                   for her role as lawyer Rita Harrison who assumed Sean Penn's                   case in I Am Sam. [Pfeiffer has two Best Actress nominations,                   for The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) and Love Field                     (1992), and one Best Supporting Actress nomination for Dangerous                       Liaisons (1988).] And Thora Birch in Ghost World and                   Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde were likewise neglected                   in their comedic roles. Ghost World received only one                   nomination - for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Both Richard Linklater's innovatively-animated                   experimental film Waking Life, and Hironobu Sakaguchi's                   sci-fi Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the first feature-length                   motion picture to use CGI for its characters, were un-nominated                   in the newly-created category Best Animated Feature Film. (And                   there were only three nominees: Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Monsters,                   Inc., and the winner Shrek ).
Also, writer/director Christopher Nolan's clever,                   highly inventive, Mobius strip told-in-reverse noir Memento                     (2000) was mostly forgotten (as was Guy Pearce as                   the tattooed, short-term amnesiac Leonard Shelby) - it had                   only two unrewarded nominations for Film Editing and Original                   Screenplay. Also omitted was Life as a House (and 20                   year old Hayden Christensen's supporting role as the troubled                   and hateful estranged son Sam), director Lasse Hallstrom's The                     Shipping News with Kevin Spacey as Quoyle in Newfoundland,                   Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (and Cameron Diaz' role                   as Julie Gianni, Tom Cruise's jealous ex-lover when he falls                   for Penelope Cruz), the Australian film Lantana (and                   Anthony LaPaglia's performance as police detective Leon Zat,                   and Kerry Armstrong's role as his emotionally-starved wife),                   and director/writer John Cameron Mitchell's gleefully-unusual,                   trans-gendered rock opera Hedwig and the Angry Inch (with                   no nominations).
Oscar-nominated Nicole Kidman's other film -                   director Alejandro Amenabar's creepy and classic ghost story                   titled The Others, was devoid of nominations. [Academy                   rules prohibited actors/actresses from receiving more than one nomination per category, so Kidman's superior work in The                   Others was edged out by the more recent Moulin Rouge.]