| Actor in a leading role |  
                  |  | Johnny Depp 
                    in "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (Buena Vista)
 | 
                 
                  |  | Ben Kingsley in "House 
                    of Sand and Fog" (DreamWorks in association with Cobalt 
                    Media Group) | 
                 
                  |  | Jude Law in "Cold Mountain" (Miramax) | 
                 
                  |  | Bill Murray in "Lost 
                    in Translation" (Focus Features) | 
                 
                  |  | Sean Penn in "Mystic 
                    River" (Warner Bros.) | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Actor in a supporting role | 
                 
                  |  | Alec Baldwin in "The 
                    Cooler" (Lions Gate) | 
                 
                  |  | Benicio Del Toro 
                    in "21 Grams" (Focus Features) | 
                 
                  |  | Djimon Hounsou in 
                    "In America" (Fox Searchlight/20th Century Fox) | 
                 
                  |  | Tim Robbins in "Mystic 
                    River" (Warner Bros.) | 
                 
                  |  | Ken Watanabe in "The Last Samurai" (Warner Bros.) | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Actress in a leading role | 
                 
                  |  | Keisha Castle-Hughes 
                    in "Whale Rider" (NewMarket Films) | 
                 
                  |  | Diane Keaton in "Something's Gotta Give" (Sony Pictures Releasing) | 
                 
                  |  | Samantha Morton in 
                    "In America" (Fox Searchlight/20th Century Fox) | 
                 
                  |  | Charlize Theron in 
                    "Monster" (Newmarket Films) | 
                 
                  |  | Naomi Watts in "21 
                    Grams" (Focus Features) | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Actress in a supporting role | 
                 
                  |  | Shohreh Aghdashloo 
                    in "House of Sand and Fog" (DreamWorks in association 
                    with Cobalt Media Group) | 
                 
                  |  | Patricia Clarkson 
                    in "Pieces of April" (MGM) | 
                 
                  |  | Marcia Gay Harden 
                    in "Mystic River" (Warner Bros.) | 
                 
                  |  | Holly Hunter in "Thirteen" 
                    (Fox Searchlight/20th Century Fox) | 
                 
                  |  | Renée Zellweger 
                    in "Cold Mountain" (Miramax) | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Animated 
                    feature film | 
                 
                  |  | "Brother Bear" 
                    (Buena Vista) | 
                 
                  |  | "Finding Nemo" 
                    (Buena Vista) | 
                 
                  |  | "The Triplets of Belleville" 
                    (Sony Pictures Classics) | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Art direction | 
                 
                  |  | "Girl with a Pearl Earring" 
                    (Lions Gate) Art Direction: Ben Van Os
 Set Decoration: Cecile Heideman
 | 
                 
                  |  | "The Last Samurai" 
                    (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Lilly Kilvert
 Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau
 | 
                 
                  |  | "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line) Art Direction: Grant Major
 Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Alan Lee
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Master and Commander: 
                    The Far Side of the World" (20th Century Fox) Art Direction: William Sandell
 Set Decoration: Robert Gould
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Seabiscuit" 
                    (Universal/DreamWorks/Spyglass) Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall
 Set Decoration: Leslie Pope
 | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Cinematography | 
                 
                  |  | "City of God" 
                    (Miramax) Cesar Charlone | 
                 
                  |  | "Cold Mountain" 
                    (Miramax) John Seale | 
                 
                  |  | "Girl with a Pearl Earring" 
                    (Lions Gate) Eduardo Serra | 
                 
                  |  | "Master and Commander: 
                    The Far Side of the World" (20th Century Fox) 
                    Russell Boyd | 
                 
                  |  | "Seabiscuit" 
                    (Universal/DreamWorks/Spyglass) John Schwartzman | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Costume 
                    design | 
                 
                  |  | "Girl with a Pearl Earring" 
                    (Lions Gate) Dien van Straalen | 
                 
                  |  | "The Last Samurai" 
                    (Warner Bros.) Ngila Dickson | 
                 
                  |  | "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line) Ngila Dickson 
                    and Richard Taylor | 
                 
                  |  | "Master and 
                    Commander: The Far Side of the World" (20th 
                    Century Fox) Wendy Stites | 
                 
                  |  | "Seabiscuit" 
                    (Universal/DreamWorks/Spyglass) Judianna Makovsky | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Directing | 
                 
                  |  | "City of God" 
                    (Miramax) Fernando Meirelles | 
                 
                  |  | "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line) Peter Jackson | 
                 
                  |  | "Lost in Translation" 
                    (Focus Features) Sofia Coppola | 
                 
                  |  | "Master and 
                    Commander: The Far Side of the World" (20th 
                    Century Fox) Peter Weir | 
                 
                  |  | "Mystic River" 
                    (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Documentary feature | 
                 
                  |  | "Balseros" 
                    (Seventh Art Releasing) A Bausan Films S.L. Production
 Carlos Bosch and Marcos Loris Omedes
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Capturing the Friedmans" 
                    (Magnolia Pictures) A Hit The Ground Running Production
 Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling
 | 
                 
                  |  | "The Fog of War" 
                    (Sony Pictures Classics) A Globe Department Store Production
 Errol Morris and Michael Williams
 | 
                 
                  |  | "My Architect" 
                    (New Yorker) A Louis Kahn Project, Inc. Production
 Nathaniel Kahn and Susan R. Behr
 | 
                 
                  |  | "The Weather Underground" 
                    (Shadow Distribution) A Free History Project Production
 Sam Green and Bill Siegel
 | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Documentary short subject | 
                 
                  |  | "Asylum" A Constant Communication & Make-do Production
 Sandy McLeod and Gini Reticker
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Chernobyl Heart" A Downtown TV Documentaries Production
 Maryann DeLeo
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Ferry Tales" A Penelope Pictures Production
 Katja Esson
 | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Film 
                    editing | 
                 
                  |  | "City of God" 
                    (Miramax) Daniel Rezende | 
                 
                  |  | "Cold Mountain" 
                    (Miramax) Walter Murch | 
                 
                  |  | "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line) Jamie Selkirk | 
                 
                  |  | "Master and Commander: 
                    The Far Side of the World" (20th Century Fox) 
                    Lee Smith | 
                 
                  |  | "Seabiscuit" 
                    (Universal/DreamWorks/Spyglass) William Goldenberg | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Foreign 
                    language film | 
                 
                  |  | "The Barbarian Invasions" A Cinémaginaire Inc. Production
 Canada
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Evil" A Moviola Film & Television Production
 Sweden
 | 
                 
                  |  | "The Twilight Samurai" A Shochiku/Nippon Television Network/Sumitomo/Hakuhodo/Nippon 
                    Shuppan Hanbai/Eisei Gekijo Production
 Japan
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Twin Sisters" An IdtV Film Production
 The Netherlands
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Zelary" A Total HelpArt T.H.A./Barrandov Studio Production
 Czech Republic
 | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Makeup | 
                 
                  |  | "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line) Richard Taylor and Peter King
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Master and Commander: 
                    The Far Side of the World" (20th Century Fox) 
                    Edouard Henriques III and Yolanda Toussieng | 
                 
                  |  | "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (Buena Vista) Ve Neill and Martin Samuel
 | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Music (original score) | 
                 
                  |  | "Big Fish" 
                    (Sony Pictures Releasing) Danny Elfman | 
                 
                  |  | "Cold Mountain" 
                    (Miramax) Gabriel Yared | 
                 
                  |  | "Finding Nemo" 
                    (Buena Vista) Thomas Newman | 
                 
                  |  | "House of Sand and Fog" 
                    (DreamWorks in association with Cobalt Media Group) James 
                    Horner | 
                 
                  |  | "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line) Howard Shore 
 | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Music (original song) | 
                 
                  |  | "Into the West" 
                    from "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" 
                    (New Line) Music and Lyric by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore and Annie Lennox
 | 
                 
                  |  | "A Kiss at the End of 
                    the Rainbow" from "A Mighty Wind" 
                    (Warner Bros.) Music and Lyric by Michael McKean and Annette O'Toole
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Scarlet Tide" 
                    from "Cold Mountain" (Miramax) Music and Lyric by T Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello
 | 
                 
                  |  | "The Triplets of Belleville" 
                    from "The Triplets of Belleville" (Sony Pictures 
                    Classics) Music by Benoit Charest
 Lyric by Sylvain Chomet
 | 
                 
                  |  | "You Will Be My Ain True 
                    Love" from "Cold Mountain" (Miramax) Music and Lyric by Sting
 | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Best picture | 
                 
                  |  | "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line) A Wingnut Films Production
 Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Producers
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Lost in Translation" 
                    (Focus Features) An American Zoetrope/Elemental Films Production
 Ross Katz and Sofia Coppola, Producers
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Master and Commander: 
                    The Far Side of the World" (20th Century Fox) A 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures and Miramax Films 
                    Production
 Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., Peter Weir and Duncan Henderson, Producers
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Mystic River" 
                    (Warner Bros.) A Warner Bros. Pictures Production
 Robert Lorenz, Judie G. Hoyt and Clint Eastwood, Producers
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Seabiscuit" 
                    (Universal/DreamWorks/Spyglass) A Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures Production
 Nominees to be determined
 | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Short film (animated) | 
                 
                  |  | "Boundin'" A Pixar Animation Studios Production
 Bud Luckey
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Destino" 
                    (Buena Vista) A Walt Disney Pictures Production
 Dominique Monfery and Roy Edward Disney
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Gone Nutty" 
                    (20th Century Fox) A Blue Sky Studios Production
 Carlos Saldanha and John C. Donkin
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Harvie Krumpet" A Melodrama Pictures Production
 Adam Elliot
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Nibbles" An Acme Filmworks Production
 Chris Hinton
 | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Short film (live action) | 
                 
                  |  | "Die Rote Jacke (The Red 
                    Jacket)" A Hamburger Filmwerkstatt Production
 Florian Baxmeyer
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Most (The Bridge)" An Eastwind Films Production
 Bobby Garabedian and William Zabka
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Squash" A Tetramedia Production
 Lionel Bailliu
 | 
                 
                  |  | "(A) Torzija [(A) Torsion]" A Studio Arkadena Production
 Stefan Arsenijevic
 | 
                 
                  |  | "Two Soldiers" A Shoe Clerk Picture Company Production
 Aaron Schneider and Andrew J. Sacks
 | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Sound editing | 
                 
                  |  | "Finding Nemo" 
                    (Buena Vista) Gary Rydstrom and Michael Silvers | 
                 
                  |  | "Master and Commander: 
                    The Far Side of the World" (20th Century Fox) 
                    Richard King | 
                 
                  |  | "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (Buena Vista) 
                    Christopher Boyes and George Watters II | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Sound mixing | 
                 
                  |  | "The Last Samurai" 
                    (Warner Bros.) Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Jeff Wexler | 
                 
                  |  | "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line) Christopher 
                    Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek | 
                 
                  |  | "Master and Commander: 
                    The Far Side of the World" (20th Century Fox) 
                    Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Arthur Rochester | 
                 
                  |  | "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (Buena Vista) 
                    Christopher Boyes, David Parker, David Campbell and Lee Orloff | 
                 
                  |  | "Seabiscuit" 
                    (Universal/DreamWorks/Spyglass) Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer 
                    and Tod A. Maitland | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Visual effects | 
                 
                  |  | "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line) Jim Rygiel, 
                    Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke | 
                 
                  |  | "Master and Commander: 
                    The Far Side of the World" (20th Century Fox) 
                    Dan Sudick, Stefen Fangmeier, Nathan McGuinness and Robert 
                    Stromberg | 
                 
                  |  | "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" (Buena Vista) 
                    John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Terry Frazee | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Adapted Screenplay | 
                 
                  |  | "American Splendor" 
                    (HBO Films in association with Fine Line Features) 
                    Written by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman | 
                 
                  |  | "City of God" 
                    (Miramax) Screenplay by Braulio Mantovani | 
                 
                  |  | "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (New Line) Screenplay 
                    by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson | 
                 
                  |  | "Mystic River" 
                    (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by Brian Helgeland | 
                 
                  |  | "Seabiscuit" 
                    (Universal/DreamWorks/Spyglass) Written for the Screen by 
                    Gary Ross | 
                 
                  |  | 
                 
                  | Original Screenplay | 
                 
                  |  | "The Barbarian Invasions" 
                    (Miramax) Written by Denys Arcand | 
                 
                  |  | "Dirty Pretty Things" 
                    (Miramax and BBC Films) Written by Steven Knight | 
                 
                  |  | "Finding Nemo" 
                    (Buena Vista) Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds Original Story by Andrew Stanton
 | 
                 
                  |  | "In America" 
                    (Fox Searchlight/20th Century Fox) Written by Jim Sheridan 
                    & Naomi Sheridan & Kirsten Sheridan | 
                 
                  |  | "Lost in Translation" 
                    (Focus Features) Written by Sofia Coppola |