The Orange British Academy Film Awards announced its nominations on Jan. 19, 2004. COLD MOUNTAIN received 13 nominations and THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING received 12 nominations.
COLD MOUNTAIN has been nominated in the categories Film, The David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction for Anthony Minghella, The Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year, Adapted Screenplay, Make-Up & Hair, Sound, Editing, Costume Design, Production Design, Cinematography and Film Music. Jude Law was nominated in the category Actor in a Leading Role and Renée Zellweger for Actress in a Supporting Role.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING has been nominated in the categories Film, The David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction for Peter Jackson, Adapted Screenplay, Make-Up & Hair, Achievement in Special Visual Effects, Sound, Editing , Costume Design, Production Design, Cinematography and Film Music. Ian McKellen has also been nominated for Actor in a Supporting Role.
MASTER AND COMMANDER received eight nominations, in the categories Film, The David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction for Peter Weir, Achievement in Special Visual Effects, Sound, Costume Design, Production Design and Cinematography. Paul Bettany was nominated in the category Actor in a Supporting Role.
BIG FISH has seven nominations, in the categories Film, The David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction for Tim Burton, Adapted Screenplay, Make-Up & Hair , Special Achievement in Visual Effects, Production Design and Actor in a Supporting Role category for Albert Finney.
KILL BILL: VOL. 1 received nominations for Achievement in Special Visual Effects, Sound, Editing, Film Music and Uma Thurman has been nominated in the category Actress in a Leading Role.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN has nominations for Make-Up & Hair, Achievement in Special Visual Effects, Sound and Costume Design and Outstanding Supporting Actor for Johnny Depp.
On the animation front, FINDING NEMO took home nods for best original screenplay and Orange Film of the Year. Both BELLEVILLE RENDEZ-VOUS and SPIRITED AWAY received nominations in the Outstanding Non-English Film category. Outstanding Short Animation nominations include Chris Hinton's Annie nominee NIBBLES, Maria Manton and Chris Shepherd's DAD'S DEAD, John Cernak's DEAR SWEET EMMA, Sue Goffe and Marc Craste's JOJO IN THE STARS and Randi Yaffa, Andy Knight and Richard Rosenman's PLUMBER.
For a complete list of nominees, visit http://www.bafta.org/film/announce.htm.
The Awards will be hosted for the fourth time by Stephen Fry and will take place on Feb. 15 at the Odeon, Leicester Square. They will air on BBC ONE.
Rick DeMott
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