HOLLYWOOD (voa) – “A Beautiful Mind” has won the Oscar for Best film at this year’s Academy Awards in Hollywood. The film is based on the life of Nobel-prize winning mathematician John Nash and his battle with mental illness.
Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won Oscars for best leading actor and actress. Washington took the best-actor honor for “Training Day,” in which he scrapped his nice-guy persona to play a dashing but dangerously corrupt cop. Berry became the first black actress to earn an Academy Award in a lead role, winning for her portrayal of a death-row widow involved with her husband’s executioner in “Monster’s Ball.”
Mrs. Berry joined Sidney Poitier, who received an honorary Oscar for his pioneering work in film, as the only blacks to win Oscars in lead-acting categories. Meanwhile, Jennifer Connelly and Jim Broadbent won Oscars for best supporting actress and actor. Ms. Connelly, a first-time nominee, took honors for her portrayal of the wife of schizophrenic mathematician John Nash in “A Beautiful Mind.”
Jim Broadbent received the best supporting actor Oscar for his role as the befuddled but doting husband of Alzheimer’s-afflicted writer Iris Murdoch in the film “Iris.”
Bosnia-Herzegovina’s violent war satire “No Man’s Land” claimed the Academy Award for best foreign language film, an artistic triumph for a nation still recovering from its devastating ethnic civil war of the 1990s.
The movie, about enemy soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, trapped together in a battlefield trench was the only film produced by that country last year. It upset the French film “Amelie,” which was considered the favorite with five Oscar nominations, but won none.
ACTOR — LEADINGDenzel Washington
TRAINING DAY
ACTOR — SUPPORTINGJim BroadbentIRIS
ACTRESS — LEADINGHalle BerryMONSTERS BALL
ACTRESS — SUPPORTINGJennifer ConnellyA BEAUTIFUL MIND
ANIMATED FEATURE FILMSHREKAron Warner
ART DIRECTIONMOULIN ROUGECatherine Martin (Art Direction) and Brigitte Broch (Set Decoration)
CINEMATOGRAPHYLORD OF THE RINGSAndrew Lesnie
COSTUME DESIGNMOULIN ROUGECatherine Martin and Angus Strathie
DIRECTINGA BEAUTIFUL MINDRon Howard
DOCUMENTARY FEATUREMURDER ON A SUNDAY MORNINGJean-Xavier de Lestradeand Denis Poncet
DOCUMENTARY SHORTTHOTH
FILM EDITINGBLACK HAWK DOWNPietro Scalia
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMNO MAN’S LANDBosnia & HerzegovinaDirected by Danis Tanovic
MAKEUPLORD OF THE RINGSPeter Owen and Richard Taylor
MUSIC (SCORE)LORD OF THE RINGS
MUSIC (SONG)MONSTERS, INC. “If I Didn’t Have You”
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
BEST PICTUREA BEAUTIFUL MINDBrian Grazer and Ron Howard
SHORT FILM — ANIMATEDFOR THE BIRDS
Ralph Eggleston
SHORT FILM — LIVE ACTIONTHE ACCOUNTANT
Ray McKinnon and Lisa Blount
SOUNDBLACK HAWK DOWN
Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga and Chris Munro
SOUND EDITINGPEARL HARBOR
George Watters II and Christopher Boyes
VISUAL EFFECTSTHE LORD OF THE RINGS
Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson
WRITING (ADAPTED)A BEAUTIFUL MINDWritten by Akiva Goldsman
WRITING (ORIGINAL)GOSFORD PARKWritten by Julian Fellowes
