USA: JENNIFER CONNOLLY AND JIM BROADBENT AWARDED BEST SUPPORTING ROLES IN THE 74TH OSCAR FILM AWARDS

Record ID: 393412

  • Title: USA: JENNIFER CONNOLLY AND JIM BROADBENT AWARDED BEST SUPPORTING ROLES IN THE 74TH OSCAR FILM AWARDS
  • Date: 25th March 2002
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES (MARCH 25, 2002) (REUTERS) SCU SOUNDBITE (English) MARISA TOMEI SAYING: I just try and not think of things on the line anyway because it's just really a great, I'm really in favour of just thinking of a community of artists who are just inspiring each other and working together and the competition makes a fun race when you're home, I do that too
  • Embargoed: 9th April 2002 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA6B0KRYD7XN66MY5LVYKEPHYQ9
  • Story Text: Jennifer Connelly and Jim Broadbent have picked up Best Supporting gongs at the 74th Academy Awards.
    Connelly started off a potentially starry night for A Beautiful Mind. Broadbent was honoured for his portrayal of John Bayley in Iris. He signed off his acceptance speech with a wish of good luck for Moulin Rouge, the other heavily-nominated film that Broadbent starred in.
    The first of the 74th Academy Awards came as no surprise.
    Jennifer Connelly had been heavily tipped to pick up the title of Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Alicia Nash, the long suffering wife of Nobel prize-winning mathematician and schizophrenic John Nash in A Beautiful Mind.
    She beat Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Dame Maggie Smith and Marisa Tomei.
    British actor Jim Broadbent received the award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of John Bayley in Richard Eyre's Iris. Ben Kingsley, Jon Voight, Ethan Hawke and Sir Ian McKellen go home empty-handed as a result.
    But Peter Jackson's Lord of The Rings is proving a winner in other categories. It's already picked up four awards for Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Make-Up and Best Original Musical Score.
    Fans had to pass through metal detectors just to watch from the street as Hollywood's galaxy of stars paraded across the red carpet on Sunday night to attend the 74th annual Academy awards -- held for the first time since 1960 in the place where it all started: Hollywood.
    Tom Cruise opened the Oscars with a short speech that asked a simple question: should Hollywood celebrate the Oscars in the wake of the Sept. 11 suicide hijack attacks.
    His reply: "More than ever."
    Whoopi Goldberg hosted the ceremony in her usual style, with humour and class.
    Woody Allen, a New Yorker famous for shunning the Hollywood establishment, made a surprise appearance at the Academy Awards on Sunday to pay tribute to his native city and its resilient spirit.
    Allen, who is also a jazz musician and usually spends Oscar night playing the saxophone at Michael's Pub in New York, received a standing ovation from Hollywood's finest inside the Kodak Theatre and said, "Thank you very much ...
    that makes up for the strip search" -- a reference to the strict security surrounding the Oscar presentations. He introduced a retrospective of films made in New York City, celebrating Hollywood's love of the nation's largest city more than half a year after the hijacking attack on the World Trade Center.
    While the Oscars are picked by fewer than 6,000 Academy members, the fans and critics at large are also split this year on best picture and other key categories. Lord of The Rings, Moulin Rouge and A Beautiful Mind are the films most loaded with nominations.
    Moulin Rouge, who some experts think might wind up taking the top best film award if "Mind" and 'Rings"
    balance each other out, has won for art direction and costume design.
    "Black Hawk Down" took Oscars for sound and film editing.
    Shrek has won the first ever Oscar for best animated feature.
    Julian Fellowes picked up the award for Best Original Screenplay for Gosford Park.
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