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This years Petas are to be awarded in the following categories:

Please Note only vote in the official forums below.

Nominees for the other awards¹

Here are the nominees for our awards as listed in the various relvant categories from those other notable bodies The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences², The Golden Globes and The BAFTAs³. I'm not going to list the various categories for the technical awards, because I want these to be unique to the various artistic tastes that are out there on h2g2, use your imagination and pick the film you feel best categorises the Sights and Sounds of the year.

These lists are not complete and in the threads below you can vote for any film that you like as long as it has been on release since 1 January 2001 right up until the day that polling closes 24 March 2002. So scan the lists, make up your own mind and vote.

Best Picture

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  Amelie
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  A Beautiful Mind
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  Gosford Park
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  In the Bedroom
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  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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  The Man Who Wasn't There
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  Memento
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  Moulin Rouge
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  Mulholland Drive
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  Shrek

Best Actor⁴

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  Russell Crowe - A Beautiful Mind
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  Gene Hackman - The Royal Tenenbaums
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  Hugh Jackman - Kate and Leopold
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  Ewan McGregor - Moulin Rouge
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  John Cameron Mitchell - Hedwig And The Angry Inch
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  Sean Penn - I am Sam
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  Kevin Spacey - The Shipping News
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  Will Smith - Ali
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  Billy Bob Thornton - The Man Who Wasn't There
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  Denzel Washington - Training Day
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  Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom

Best Actress⁵

• Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
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  Thora Birch - Ghost World
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  Cate Blancett - Bandits
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  Judi Dench - Iris
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  Nicole Kidman - Moulin Rouge, The Others
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  Sissy Spacek - In the Bedroom
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  Tilda Swinton - The Deep End
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  Audrey Tautou - Amelie
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  Resse Witherspoon - Legally Blonde
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  Renée Zellweger - Bridget Jone's Diary

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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  Hugh Bonneville - Iris
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  Jim Broadbent - Iris, Moulin Rouge
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  Steve Buscemi - Ghost World
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  Hayden Christensen - Life As A House
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  Robbie Coltrane - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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  Colin Firth - Bridget Jones's Diary
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  Ethan Hawke - Training Day
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  Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
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  Jude Law - A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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  Ian McKellen - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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  Eddie Murphy - Shrek
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  Jon VoightAli

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Jennifer Connelly - A Beautiful Mind
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  Cameron Diaz - Vanilla Sky
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  Judi Dench - The Shipping News
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  Helen Mirren - Gosford Park
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  Maggie Smith - Gosford Park
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  Marisa Tomei - In the Bedroom
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  Kate Winslet - Iris

Best Director

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  Robert Altman - Gosford Park
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  Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
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  Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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  Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Amelie
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  Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge
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  David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
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  Ridley Scott - Black Hwk Down
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  Steven Speilberg - A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Best Song

• Come What May Music and Lyrics David Baerwald from Moulin Rouge
• If I Didn't Have You Music and Lyric by Randy Newman from Monsters Inc.
• May It Be Music and Lyric by Enya, Nicky Ryan and Roma Ryan from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• There You'll Be Music and Lyric by Diane Warren from Pearl Harbor
• Until Music and Lyric by Sting from Kate and Leopold
• Vanilla Sky Music and Lyric by Paul McCartney from Vanilla Sky

A Big Thank you to all who have voted

1. Arthbard Vootenoy, currently promoting The Celebrity Game! at A637120
2. Astrodome Goth
3. Awix
4. Bumblebee (ACE)
5. Candi - QotS-eAM Hmmm, one minute I can't sleep, and the next I can't stop sleeping. AARGH!!
6. Clelba [Patron Saint, Muse, Keeper, Thingite and Cat] DISCLAIMER: knows nothing about anything and therefore can't be laughed at
   
7. FABT - Commander in Chief of Twiglets and Special Operations for the Thingite Army (Greeblet....Muse of Sci-Fi Spoilers)
8. fords_prefect [ACE] (isn't scared of DoctorGonzo/How did you get into h2g2? A695504)
   
9. Freedom
10. Kandyman
11. Krans J. Hopeson, Minister for Idiocy, Keeper of Turntables
12. LÒÒnytunes - Orc or Hobbit?
    
13. MaW :: [guru, muse, thingite, ABBA lover, destroyer of smarties] -> Addicted to Bass
    
14. Menza
15. Munchkin
16. Pastey
17. Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas and Zaphodista)
    
18. Purple Dragon
19. Swiv (Luinëdaliel is the Elvish name apparently)
20. Toccata
21. the autist formerly known as flinch
22. Tube

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