The Oscar Column at MCN ... by David Poland

Best Picture

This Week

Last
Week

1

1
The Hours

2

5
Far From Heaven

3

2
Antwone Fisher

4

4
Lord of the Rings: Two Towers

5

6
The Pianist

6

8
Gangs of New York

7

3
Chicago

8

7
Catch Me If You Can

9

10
About Schmidt

10

9
Adaptation

Best Director

This Week

Last
Week

1

1
Todd Haynes

2

4
Roman Polanski

3

6
Peter Jackson

4

2
Denzel Washington

5

5
Martin Scorsese

6

3
Steven Spielberg (Minority Report)

7

8
Spike Jonze

8

7
Steven Spielberg
(Catch Me If You Can)

9

-
Stephen Daldry

10

9
Sam Mendes

Best Actor

1

1
Jack Nicholson

2

4
Daniel Day Lewis

3

2
Michael Caine

4

3
Adrien Brody

5

5
Campbell Scott

6

6
Derek Luke

7

7
Richard Gere

8

8
Al Pacino

9

9
Robin Williams

10

10
Nicolas Cage

Best Actress

1

1
Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven)

2

3
Diane Lane

3

2
Nicole Kidman (The Hours)

4

4
Salma Hayek

5

7
Meryl Streep (The Hours)

6

6
Samantha Morton (Morvern Collar)

7

5
Renee Zellweger

8

8
Emily Mortimer (lovely & amazing)

9

9
Ellen Burstyn

10

-
Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)

Best Supporting Actor

1

1
Chris Cooper

2

2
Paul Newman

3

3
Dennis Quaid

4

5
Christopher Walken

5

4
Ray Liotta

6

6
Alfred Molina

7

7
Tom Hanks (Catch Me If You Can)

8

8
Dustin Hoffman

9

9
Jude Law (Road to Perdition)

10

10
Denzel Washington

Best Supporting Actress

1

1
Catherine Zeta-Jones

2

2
Kathy Bates

3

3
Meryl Streep (Adaptation)

4

4
Michelle Pfeiffer

5

5
Susan Sarandon

6

-
Edie Falco

7

8
Julianne Moore (The Hours)

8

-
Patricia Clarkson

9

6
Kim Basinger (8 Mile)

10

9
Toni Collette (About A Boy)

Best Adapted Screenplay

1

5
Charlie & Donald Kaufman (Adaptation)

2

1
David Hare (The Hours)

3

2
Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor (About Schmidt)

4

6
Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson (Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers)

5

3
Ronald Harwood (The Pianist)

6

7
Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz (About A Boy)

7

9
Jeff Nathanson (Catch Me If You Can)

8

8
Bill Condon (Chicago)

9

-
Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) (Said To Now Be In Adapted)

10

10
David Self (Road To Perdition)

Best Original Screenplay

1

1
Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven)

2

2
Antwone Fisher (Antwone Fisher)

3

3
M. Night Shyamalan (Signs)

4

4
Chap Taylor & Michael Tolkien (Changing Lanes)

5

5
Joe Carnahan (Narc)

6

6
Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger)

7

-
Jay Cocks, Kenneth Lonergan & Steven Zallian (Gangs of New York) (Note: Miramax Now Claiming Original Status)

8

7
PT Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love)

9

8
Brad Silberling (Moolinght Mile)

10

10
MIke Myers & Michael MacCullers (Goldmember)

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