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disease. Jennifer Connelly received a nomination for best supporting actress for
playing Nash’s wife, Alicia. The movie’s director, Ron Howard, also was nominated
for an Oscar.
An unusual movie musical called “Moulin Rouge” also was nominated for
eight awards, including best motion picture. It is about a famous night club in Paris,
France around the year 1900. Yet it uses modern popular music to tell the story.
Nicole Kidman was nominated for best actress for playing a singer and dancer at the
Moulin Rouge.
Two other movies were nominated for Academy Awards for best motion
picture of the year. “Gosford Park” is a murder mystery that takes place in a rich
country home in Britain in 1932. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards. Its
director, Robert Altman, was nominated as best director. Two actresses in the movie,
Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith, were nominated for best supporting actress.
The movie “In the Bedroom” received five nominations, including best motion
picture. It is a tragic story about parents who seek to punish the killer of their twenty-
one-year-old son. Three of the actors in the movie also were nominated to win
Oscars. They are Tom Wilkinson for best actor, Sissy Spacek for best actress and
Marisa Tomei for best supporting actress.
Several other people were nominated for Academy Awards as best leading
actor or actress. Renee Zellweger was nominated for her part in “Bridget Jones’s
Diary.” Judi Dench was nominated for playing the British writer Iris Murdoch in the
movie “Iris.” And Halle Berry received a nomination for her performance in
“Monster’s Ball.”
The other nominations for best leading actor are Sean Penn for “I Am Sam,”
Denzel Washington for “Training Day,” and Will Smith for playing boxer
Muhammad Ali in the movie “Ali.” This is the first time in thirty years that three
African American actors were nominated for leading acting awards. They are Halle
Berry, Denzel Washington and Will Smith.
Three people will be honored at the Academy Awards ceremony. Sidney
Poitier will receive a special award for his performances in more than forty movies
and for representing the motion picture industry. He is the only African American
actor who has received an Oscar for best leading actor. Robert Redford will be
honored for his work as actor, director, producer and supporter of independent
movies by young filmmakers. And director Arthur Hiller will receive an award for
his humanitarian efforts.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents the Oscars each
year. About six thousand people who work in the movie industry belong to the
organization. It was established in 1927 to support the industry.

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