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KENNETH TURAN’S OSCAR PICKS

THE BIG EIGHT

Picture: “American Beauty” (Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, producers)

Actor: Kevin Spacey (“American Beauty”)

Actress Hilary Swank (“Boys Don’t Cry”)

Director: Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”)

Supporting Actor: Michael Caine (“The Cider House Rules”)

Supporting Actress: Angelina Jolie (“Girl, Interrupted”)

Original Screenplay: “American Beauty” (Alan Ball)

Adapted Screenplay: “The Cider House Rules” (John Irving)

THE REST

Foreign-Language Film: “East-West” (France)

Art Direction: “Sleepy Hollow” Rick Heinrichs, art direction; Peter Young, set decoration)

Cinematography: “American Beauty” (Conrad L. Hall)

Costume Design: “Topsy-Turvy” (Lindy Hemming)

Documentary Feature: “One Day in September” (Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald, producers)

Documentary Short Subject: “King Gimp” (Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford, producers)

Film Editing: “The Matrix”(Zach Staenberg)

Makeup: “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” (Michele Burke, Mike Smithson)

Original Score: “The Cider House Rules” (Rachel Portman)

Original Song: “You’ll Be in My Heart,” Phil Collins (“Tarzan”)

Animated Short: “The Old Man and the Sea” (Alexandre Petrov, producer)

Live-Action Short: “My Mother Dreams the Satan’s Disciples in New York,” (Barbara Schock and Tammy Tiehel, producers)

Sound: “The Matrix” (John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell, David Lee)

Sound Effects Editing: “The Matrix” (Dane A. Davis)

Visual Effects: “The Matrix” (John Gaeta. Janek Sirrs, Steve Courtley and Jon Thum)

KEVIN THOMAS’S OSCAR PICKS

THE BIG EIGHT

Picture: “American Beauty” (Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, producers)

Actor: Kevin Spacey (“American Beauty”)

Actress: Hilary Swank (“Boys Don’t Cry”)

Director: Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”)

Supporting Actor: Tom Cruise (“Magnolia”)

Supporting Actress: Angelina Jolie (“Girl, Interrupted”)

Original Screenplay: “American Beauty” (Alan Ball)

Adapted Screenplay: “The Cider House Rules” (John Irving)

THE REST

Foreign-Language Film: “All About My Mother” (Spain)

Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs, art direction; Peter Young, set decoration (“Sleepy Hollow”)

Cinematography: Conrad Hall (“American Beauty”)

Costume Design: Jenny Beavan (“Anna and the King”)

Documentary Feature: “One Day in September” (Arthur Cohn, Kevin MacDonald, producers)

Documentary Short Subject: “King Gimp” (Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford, producers)

Film Editing: Zack Staenberg (“The Matrix”)

Makeup: Michele Burke, Mike Smithson (“Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)

Original Score: Thomas Newman (“American Beauty”)

Original Song: “Save Me,” Aimee Mann (“Magnolia”)

Animated Short: “The Old Man and the Sea” (Alexandre Petrov, producer)

Live-Action Short: “Kleingeld” (Small Change) (Marc-Andreas Bochert, Gabriele Lins, producers)

Sound: John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell, David Lee (“The Matrix”)

Sound Effects: Editing Dane A. Davis (“The Matrix”)

Visual Effects: John Knoll, Dennis Muren, Scott Squires, Rob Coleman (“Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace”)