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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 14, 2001
Gladiator leads pack of Oscar nominees
Top categories shaped up largely as expected, but there were a few surprises. Ed Harris was nominated for best actor and Marcia Gay Harden for supporting actress for Pollock, a film biography of painter Jackson Pollock that generally had been overlooked for earlier movie honors.
Besides Phoenix, supporting-actor slots went to Jeff Bridges for The Contender, Willem Dafoe for Shadow of the Vampire, Benicio Del Toro for Traffic and Albert Finney for Erin Brockovich.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Hollywood's resurrection of Rome marches on: *Gladiator* led the Oscar field yesterday with 12 nominations, including best picture, actor and director.
Harten will compete for supporting actress against Judi Dench for Chocolat, Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand for Almost Famous, and Julie Walters for Billy Elliot. Dench and McDormand both have won Oscars.
The Associated Press
Julia Roberts is the best-actress front-runner for Erin Brockovich. But her competition may be the strongest among the acting categories, including past Oscar winners Juliette Binoche in Chocolat and Ellen Burynin in Requiem for a Dream. Also nominated are Joan Allen in The Contender and Laura Linney in You Can Count On Me.
Another tale of ancient warriors, the Mandarin-language Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, was next with 10 — picture, director and foreign-language film among them.
Steven Soderbergh grabbed two of the five best-director slots, for *Erin Brockotch* and *Traffic*. The other director nominees yesterday were Stephen Daldry for *Billy Elliot*, Ange Lee for *Crouching Tiger* and Ridley Scott for *Gladiator*.
Also receiving best picture nominations were the candy-shop romance Chocolat, the legal drama Erin Brockovich and the drug-trade saga Traffic.
Crouching Tiger is only the third film to earn both best picture and foreign-language film nominations. The others were Life Is Beautiful in 1998 and Z in 1999.
The best-actor category includes two other nominees who played real-life creative figures. Javier Bardier as Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls, and past Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade in Quills.
Gladiator, the first Roman spectacle since the 1960s, also grabbed nominations for actor Russell Crowe, supporting actor Joaquin Phoenix and Hans Zimmer's score.
Twotime Oscar winner Tom Hanks was nominated for Cast Away and Cruce Rowe for Gladiator.
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1 Heart and
5 Thoroughly
modem memo
14 Knife wounds
14 Earthenware pot
15 Tilt to one side
Jot
17 Lacking a seacoast
19 Actress Foch
20 Avoid capture
21 Shade provider
22 Indiana pro
23 Protuberance
24 Warhof's movement
26 Sentimental feeling
30 Rage
31 Highlight
32 Guarantee
34 Dined
37 Cocktail choice
38 More mean
41 Emie of the PGA
42 Tidy up
44 Notice
45 TV adjunct
46 Clam's siphon, e.g.
48 Renowned
50 Minor quarrel
52 Disc jockey's cure
53 Trident-shaped knife
54 Pester
59 Eager
60 Cranked fabric
62 Queue
63 Slipped up
64 Tire holders
65 Husks pull
66 Campus commons
67 Military group
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3 Redux's neighbor
4 Alan or Cheryl
5 "Fouquault's"
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of Greece
7 Some socks
8 News piece
9 Psychedelic drug
10 Hors de oeuvre
11 New York city
12 Skin cream
13 Inteligent
14 Generator element
15 Breathing spaces?
16 First bids
17 Attack fish
18 Ditto
18 By mouth
18 Douglas trees?
19 Make lace
19 Still running
19 Verdi heroine
19 Adolescent
19 Part of Q.E.D.
19 Sustain
19 Up to, briefly
19 Mosaic piece
19 Nulled
19 Aleutian island
48 Baby equines
49 Blacksmith's block
50 Battleship to remember
53 Lima's place
55 Hossey shade
56 Related (to)
57 Big ng
58 Formerly,
formerly
60 Next in a series:
abbr.
61 60s radicals
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