Gangs of New York has received 12 nominations for The Orange British Academy Film Awards including Best Film, The David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction for Martin Scorsese, Actor in a Leading Role for Daniel Day-Lewis, Screenplay (Original) and The Anthony Asquith Award for Achievement in Film Music.
Chicago also picked up 12 nominations, including Best Film, The
David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction for Rob Marshall, Actress in a Leading Role for Renée Zellweger, Actress In A Supporting Role for Catherine Zeta-Jones and Queen Latifah and Costume Design.
The Hours picked up 11 nominations including Best Film, The Alexander Korda
Award for the Outstanding British Film of the Year, The
David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction for Stephen Daldry, Actor in a Supporting Role for Ed Harris, Actress in a Leading Role for Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep and Actress in a Supporting Role for Julianne Moore. Meryl Streep has also been nominated
for her role in Adaptation in the category Actress in a Supporting Role.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers received 9 nominations, including Best Film, The David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction for Peter Jackson (who won the
BAFTA last year in this category), Cinematography and Make Up & Hair.
The Pianist has been nominated in 7 categories, including Best Film, The
David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction for Roman Polanski, Cinematography and Adrien Brody in the category Actor
in a Leading Role.
Paul Newman (Road To Perdition), Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can),
Alfred Molina (Frida) and Chris Cooper (Adaptation) were all nominated in the category Actor in a Supporting Role.
The nominations, announced on Monday 27th January 2003 by Sir Ian McKellen at
The British Academys headquarters in London, included nominations for Michael Caine (The Quiet American), Jack Nicholson
(About Schmidt) and Nicolas Cage (Adaptation) in the category Actor in a Leading Role, nominations for Halle Berry (Monsters Ball) and Salma Hayek
(Frida) in the category Actress
in a Leading Role and a nomination for Toni Collette (About A Boy) in the category Actress in a Supporting Role.
The Chair of The British Academys Film Committee, Duncan Kenworthy OBE said "Our Academy is proud to celebrate another year of high achievement in
the world of film arts. Its our fervent hope that, by acknowledging and rewarding
excellence in all its forms, our members and expert juries encourage the aspirations of filmmakers and the appreciation of
audiences for the best in filmed culture."
The shortlist for the Orange Film of the Year, for the ten most popular films of 2002 is Monsters
Inc. Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
Spiderman, Oceans 11, Austin Powers in Goldmember, Men in Black II, Scooby Doo, The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
and Die Another Day.
The
Academy will bestow further Awards dedicated to excellence in film at the ceremony. These
include The Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema and the Academy Fellowship.
The Awards will be broadcast on BBC ONE, hosted for the third time by Stephen Fry and will take place on Sunday 23
February at the Odeon, Leicester Square. For the fourth year they will be produced
by Initial (part of Endemol UK).
