Updated : 24th March 2003

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CHICAGO

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ACTUAL WINNER IN BOLD
o = hard to beat. # = serious win candidate. + = not without a chance. x = no hope

1 o Rob Marshall – Chicago
2   #   Martin Scorsese   – Gangs of New York
3   x   Stephen Daldry – The Hours
4 x   Pedro Almodovar – Talk To Her  
5 x   Roman Polanski – The Pianist

1   #   Nicole Kidman – The Hours  
2   #   Renee Zellweger – Chicago
3 #   Julianne Moore – Far From Heaven  
4 + Diane Lane – Unfaithful
5  x  Salma Hayek – Frida

1 # Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago  
2 # Julianne Moore – The Hours
3 # Meryl Streep – Adaptation.
4  +  Kathy Bates – About Schmidt
5 x  Queen Latifah – Chicago

1 #   David Hare -The Hours  
2 #   Charlie Kaufman – Adaptation.
3 #   Bill Condon – Chicago  
4 x   Ronald Harwood – The Pianist
5   x   Weitz, Weitz and Hedges – About A Boy

1 #   Lilo and Stitch   (C Sanders)
2 #   Spirit : Stallion of the Cimarron (J Katzenberg)
3 #   Spirited Away (H Miyazaki)
4 #   Ice Age (C Wedge)
5   x   Treasure Planet (R Clements)

1   #   “I Move On” (Chicago) – Kander & Ebb
2   #   “Father and Daughter” (The Wild Thornberrys Movie) – Paul Simon
3   #   “The Hands That Built America” (Gangs of New York) – U2
4   +   “Lose Yourself” (8 Mile) – Eminem
5   +   “Burn It Blue” (Frida) – Goldenthal and Taymor

Click here for the Jigsaw Lounge Top 3’s in various categories for 2002.

NOW CHECK OUT THE JIGSAW LOUNGE VERDICT ON THESE OSCAR NOMINATED MOVIES

…and the outrageously overlooked:
Punch-Drunk Love (10/10) should have been nominated for – everything
City of God (9/10) foreign language
Frailty (8/10) picture, director, actor, original screenplay
Occident (8/10) foreign language
S1M0NE (8/10) picture, director, original screenplay, actor, art direction
The Son (8/10) foregin language
24 Hour Party People (8/10) picture, director, actor, original screenplay, original song

Click here for the Jigsaw Lounge Top 3’s in various categories for 2002.

CINEMATOGRAPHY
1   #   Road to Perdition (C L Hall)
2   #   Chicago (D Beebe)
3   +   Far From Heaven (E Lachman)
4   +   Gangs of New York (M Ballhaus)
5   x   The Pianist (P Edelman)

FILM EDITING
1   #   Chicago (M Walsh)
2   #   The Hours (P Boyle)
3   #   Gangs of New York (T Schoonmaker)
4   +   The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers (M Horton)
5   x   The Pianist (H de Luze)

ORIGINAL SCORE
1   #   The Hours (P Glass)
2   #   Far From Heaven (E Bernstein)
3   #   Frida (E Goldenthal)
4   +   Road To Perdition (T Newman)
5   x   Catch Me If You Can (J Williams)

COSTUME DESIGN
1   #   Chicago (C Atwood)
2   #   The Hours (A Roth)
3   +   Frida (J Weiss)
4   +   Gangs of New York (S Powell)
5   +   The Pianist (A Sheppard)

VISUAL EFFECTS
1   o   The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers (Rygiel, Letteri, Cook, Funke, Gollum)
2   +   Star Wars Episode II : Attack of the Clones (Coleman, Helman, Knoll, Snow)
3   +   Spider-Man (Dykstra, Stokdyk, LaMolinara, Frazier)

SOUND
1   #   Chicago (Minkler, Tavella, Lee)
2   #   The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers (Boyes, Semanick, Hedges, Peek)
3   #   Spider-Man (O’Connell, Russell, Novick)
4   #   Road To Perdition (Millan, Beemer, Pritchett)
5   +   Gangs of New York (Fleischman, Gearty, Sharrock)

SOUND EDITING
1   #   Minority Report (R Hymns and G Rydstrom)
2   #   The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers (E Van der Ryn and M Hopkins)
3   #   Road To Perdition (S Hecker)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
1 #   Prisoner of Paradise
2   #   Spellbound
3   #   Winged Migration
4   #   Bowling For Columbine
5   #   Daughter From Danang

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Click here for a feature of how the Oscar race stood at Xmas 2002.