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Oscar winner, Marisa Tomei, and Academy President, Frank
Pierson, announced nominations for the 75th Academy Awards.
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Nominations for the 75th Annual Academy Awards were on Tuesday,
February 11, 2003 by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
President Frank Pierson and Oscar®
winner Marisa Tomei.
Pierson and Tomei announced ten of the 24 categories at a 5:30
a.m. news conference attended by over 400 international media. Nominations
in all categories were distributed simultaneously to news media
in attendance and via the Internet on the official Academy Awards
Web site - www.oscar.com.
In 1993, Tomei received an Oscar for "My Cousin Vinny"
at the 65th Academy Awards Presentation. She received her second
Oscar nomination last year for her "In the Bedroom" supporting
role.
Academy members selected the nominees in their respective branches,
with the exception of the Animated Feature and Foreign Language
Film categories, where nominations were selected by vote of screening
committees. All members select the Best Picture nominees. The secret
ballots were mailed to 5,816 members in early January and were returned
directly to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the international accounting
firm, for tabulation.
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Best Motion Picture of the Year nominees, "Chicago,"
"Gangs of New York," "The Hours," "The
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," and "The Pianist."
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Official screenings of all pictures with a nomination will begin
this weekend for members at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Screenings in special categories also will be held in London, New
York and San Francisco.
The Academy's entire active and life membership is eligible to
select the winners in all categories, although in five of them -
the two short film, the two documentary and the foreign language
film categories - members can vote only after attesting they have
seen all of the nominated films in those categories.
Academy Awards® for outstanding
film achievements of 2002 will be presented on Sunday, March 23,
at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland®
and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5:30
p.m. PST. A half-hour arrival segment will precede the presentation
ceremony at 5 p.m.
The complete list of nominations for the 75th Annual Academy Awards
may also be accessed at www.oscar.com.
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