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Berry wins big at Oscars
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A Beautiful Mind wins 4
Oscars, including best picture
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Halle
Berry ecame the first black actress
to earn an Academy Award in a
lead role, winning Sunday for her
portrayal of a death-row widow
involved with her husband’s exe
cutioner in Monster's Ball.
Denzel Washington, playing a
corrupt cop in Training Day,
became the second black to win
best actor.
They joined Sidney Poitier,
who received the best-actor Oscar
for 1963’s Lilies of the Field and
received a career-achievement
award Sunday.
“Oh, my God,” Berry said,
sobbing and gasping in between
words. “I’m sorry. This moment
is so much bigger than me. This
moment is for Dorothy
Dandridge, Lena Home, Diahann
Carroll.... It’s for every nameless,
faceless woman of color who
now has a chance because this
door tonight has been opened.”
Berry’s acceptance speech ran
about three minutes: “It’s been 74
years. I’ve got to take this time,”
said Berry, referring to the num
ber of years that the Oscars have
been presented.
“Two birds in one night,”
joked Washington, a past support
ing-actor winner for Glory.
“Forty years I’ve been chasing
Sidney. They finally give it to me,
and they give it to him the same
night,” he added, referring to
Poitier’s honorary Oscar.
Stand-by-your-spouse roles
earned supporting-performance
Oscars for Jim Broadbent of Iris
and Jennifer Connelly of A
Beautiful Mind.
Broadbent took the support
ing-actor Oscar for his role as the
befuddled but doting husband of
Alzheimer’s-afflicted writer Iris
Murdoch, and Connelly won the
supporting-actress honor as the
steadfast wife of delusional math
genius John Nash.
“By some beautiful twist of
fate I’ve landed in this vocation
that demands that I feel and helps
me to leam,” said Connelly, who
played the mathematician’s wife,
Alicia. “I believe in love, that
there’s nothing more important.
Alicia Nash is a true champion of
love, and so thank you to her for
her example.”
Broadbent thanked Murdoch’s
husband, John Bayley, “who
allowed us to plunder and I’m
sure misrepresent his life with
Iris.”
A Beautiful Mind also earned
the adapted-screenplay award for
Akiva Goldsman.
“I am terrified,” Goldsman
told the audience, after a long,
falsetto laugh. “I would like to
thank John and Alicia Nash for
their extraordinary courage and
for entrusting us with their lives.”
Julian Fellowes took the origi
nal-screenplay honor for Gosford
Park, directed by Robert Altman.
. “My thanks start with the
great Robert Altman, who’s given
me the biggest break in movies
since Lana Turner walked into
Schwab’s,” Fellowes said.
Shrek, the hip twist on cartoon
fairy tales that featured the voices
of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy
and Cameron Diaz, won the first-
ever Oscar for animated feature
film.
“Thank you, members of the
academy for inviting us to the
party by creating this animated
category to begin with,” said
Aron Warner, producer of the
computer-animated film.
After 15 Oscar losses over the
years for song or score, Randy
Newman finally won for best
song, “If I Didn't Have You”
from Monsters, Inc.
“I don’t want your pity,”
Newman cracked. “I want to
thank first of all the music branch
for giving me so many chances to
be humiliated over the years.”
The Lord of the Rings: The
Fellowship of the Ring, a best-
picture contender that led the
field with 13 nominations, also
led early on with four awards.
The adaptation of part one of
J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic,
Fellowship of the Ring, won best
score for Howard Shore and the
cinematography, visual effects
and makeup Oscars.
“It was a tremendously
rewarding experience to translate
the words of Tolkien into music,”
Shore said.
The other best-picture nomi
nees were A Beautiful Mind,
Gosford Park, In the Bedroom
and Moulin Rouge.
Other early awards went to
Black Hawk Down for film edit
ing and sound. Pearl Harbor for
sound editing and Moulin Rouge
for costume design and art direc
tion, two Oscars shared by
Catherine Martin, wife of Moulin
Rouge director Baz Luhnnann,
who was snubbed for a best
directing nomination.
“It was your vision. This is
your Oscar, Baz,” Martin said to
her husband as she accepted the
costume-design award.
The surprise foreign film
award winner was Bosnia
Man's Land, writer-diita
Danis Tanovic’s satiric story
Bosnian soldier and a Sera
soldier stuck together inatrra
France’s Arne lie, which had
nominations, was
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through barriers, melt prejuds ' e was succest
or just plain make us laugn.
Blade 2, E.T. top weekend box office
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blade 2 and
vampire slayer Wesley Snipes sucked $33.1
million out of moviegoers to debut as the top
weekend film and help continue a March
box office boom.
Ice Age, the animated comedy about pre
historic creatures caught by a big freeze,
was close behind with $31.1 million in its
second weekend, according to studio esti
mates Sunday.
In third, the 20th anniversary reissue E.T.
The Extra Terrestrial pulled in $15.1 mil
lion, the fourth-best weekend opening for a
re-release. The first three Star Wars films
hold the top honors, with Star Wars —
Special Edition scoring $35.9 million the
weekend it opened in January 1997.
“We’re very proud of E.T.,” said Nikki
Rocco, head of distribution for Universal.
The film needs to take in only $16.2 mil
lion more to move ahead of Star Wars:
Episode I — The Phantom Menace and
take the No. 3 spot on the list of all-time
top grossing films.
Together, the top
12 weekend films
grossed an estimat
ed $121 million,
exceeding the box
office take for the
same weekend last
year by nearly 74
percent. They also
narrowly topped
the record March
take from a week
earlier, generating
summer-like
returns months
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end ever. Studios are going to look at his was a perfec
in a new light now,” said
Dergarabedian, president of box
tracker Exhibitor Relations.
Blade 2, which brings Snipes back as
half-man, half-bloodsucker Marvel
character who kills vampires, nearly 111 '
bled the debut weekend take of the ons
1998 film.
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country, blade 2 averaged an imp®- 1 ';
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for Friday through Sunday at
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Relations Co. Inc.
season begins.
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2. /ce Age, $31.1 million. ..
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4. Showtime, $8.2 million.
5. Resident Evil, $6.6 million.
6. We Were Soldiers, $5.8 milli 011 -
7. The Time Machine, $5.2 mill 1011,
8. A Beautiful Mind, $4.3 milli° n -
9. Sorority Boys, $4.2 million.
10. 40 Days and 40 Nights, $2.1 mn
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March 25-29, 2002
Week’s Events
Religious Dedication: Holy
Faithfulness or Dangerous
Terrorism?
Monday, March 25, 2002
Chemistry Building Room 100
Reception 6:00j).m.
Presentation 7:00 p.m.
The Next Step: Scholastic
Opportunities Beyond the
Undergraduate Experience
Wednesday, March 27, 2002
Rudder Tower 410
4:00 p.m.
IT’S TIME: Nuclear Energy in a
Changed World
Sponsored by: Sigma Xi
Thursday, March 28, 2002
Memorial Student Center 292 A and B
1:30 p.m.
Poster and Oral presentations
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
Rudder Tower, Wehner, Zachry
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Agricultural Biosecurity:
Cybertern
Threat to the American Dream?
Wednesday, March 27, 2002
Memorial Student Center 226
12:00 p.m.
10 is Responsible?
Wednesday, March 27, 2002
Veterinary Me
201
6:30 p.m.
ledical Sciences Building
Study of Groups and Terrorist
Organizations
Thursday, March 28, 2002
The Bush School 1097
6:00 p.m.
Laboratory Safety, Security, and the
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USA Patriot Act: A Forum tor
Graduate Students in the Wake
of 9/11
Thursday March 28, 2002
Kleberg Room 113
12:30 p.m.
Student Research Week
Awards Ceremony
Monday, April 1, 2002
Chemistry Building 100
6:00 p.m.
All events are free. For more information
see http://srw.tamu.edu/srw
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