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...corner; we Americans are in the center.) This year is a particular challenge: the nominations offer the battle of the epics (Gladiator vs. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) as well as the schizophrenic saga of the director with two movies (Steven Soderbergh, with Traffic and Erin Brockovich). Since nobody is an expert on this subject, we can blithely pass along bits of received wisdom and arcane Oscar lore so you will be better informed than your neighbor. To succeed in the Oscar sweepstakes, read the following with a scholar's acuity. Then take a list of the nominees, available from...
This year, Soderbergh became the first person in Academy history to receive two Best Director nominations for films that were nominated for Best Picture. Both are social-problem films: Erin Brockovich is about poisoned water (and colorful brassieres), Traffic deals with the drug trade between Mexico...
...Berlin, Toronto and New York film festivals. Now Green is not just a visionary, he's a commodity. Most young "independents" begin with low-budget, character-driven studies because it's all they can afford. If their film gets Hollywood attention, they're off to direct Erin Brockovich or Finding Forrester...
...Erin Brockovich OK, fine. Everybody loves this story about the plucky legal secretary who shimmied her way through one of history's most lucrative class action suits. And Julia Roberts turned in a solid performance in the title role. But compared to the subtleties of "You Can Count on Me," or the elegant understatement of "Wonder Boys," this Hollywood blockbuster seems a bit, well, obvious...
...Finally, Best Picture nominees! "Gladiator" (receives 12 nominations, more than any film this year)," "Traffic" (directed by Steven Soderbergh), "Erin Brockovich" (directed by Steven Soderbergh, who just made history by becoming the first director to garner two Best Director nominations and two Best Picture nods in the same year), "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (Also up for Best Foreign Film; just hoping its director, Ang Lee, hasn't learned to make acceptance speeches from Robert Benigni), "Chocolat" (the most controversial nomination; Miramax has been accused of buying a nod for a film that most critics considered a sugary nothing; the film...