================================================ Subject: NCR - 2001 Blockbuster movie award winners From: ]\\\\[][G}{T§TÖ®]v[ To: Date: Wed 11 Apr 2001 22:13:12 -0400 ================================================ BLOCKBUSTER AWARD MOVIE WINNERS Favorite Actress - Action Angelina Jolie - Gone in 60 Seconds She was on the short list to be one of Charlie's Angels. Instead, she opted to get our motor running in 60 Seconds, and we're glad. We were getting a little worried with all those guys calling cars by female names. Favorite Actor - Action Russell Crowe - Gladiator He's become a movie star with his turn as Maximus, the Roman general robbed of his rank and family and facing death in a Coliseum smackdown. But we first loved him as a skinhead in Romper Stomper. We're just old-fashioned that way. Favorite Actress - Comedy Sandra Bullock - Miss Congeniality She confesses that she's done a real tour of duty in a beauty pageant, participating in the Flue-Cured Tobacco Festival while in college. Drag queens helped her with her make-up musical number - and, she jokes, somehow she lost. Favorite Actor - Comedy Jim Carrey - Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas He said it was his dream role, but it sounds like a nightmare. Not only did he have to endure a furry, potbellied full-body Grinch suit, but he had to wear yellow cat's-eye contact lenses. Ouch. Well, it ain't easy being green. Favorite Actress - Comedy/Romance Helen Hunt - What Women Want After winning an Oscar® for 1998's As Good As It Gets, Hunt admits she's been choosy about her parts. But she's hit the jackpot lately, appearing in Pay It Forward, Cast Away, and Dr. T and the Women. Favorite Actor - Comedy/Romance Nicolas Cage - The Family Man Fans know that while most of Cage's recent turns have been full of action, drama and grit, his career blossomed with the likes of Raising Arizona, Valley Girl and Vampire's Kiss. Family Man is a welcome reminder of those fun roles. Favorite Actress - Drama Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich The only scene she had problems with, says Roberts, was the one she shared with the real Erin Brockovich. For a little comic relief, director Steve Soderbergh had the real Erin Brockovich wear a nametag with "Julia" printed on it. Favorite Actor - Drama Mel Gibson - The Patriot Despite the rather somber storyline, Gibson lived up to his notorious reputation as a prankster. For director Roland Emmerich's birthday, he invited the Carolina Panthers' cheerleaders to the set and had them storm the battlefield. Favorite Actress - Drama/Romance Gwyneth Paltrow - Bounce Nothing like winning an Academy Award® to put you in big demand. Paltrow has her name on a handful of upcoming movies, including Possession from Nurse Betty director Neil LaBute and The Royal Tenenbaums from Rushmore's Wes Anderson. Favorite Actor - Drama/Romance Ben Affleck - Bounce He can be romantic like in Bounce. He can save the world as he does in Armageddon. He can even take on a war as he will in Pearl Harbor. But for some of us, Affleck will always be big-head O'Bannion from Dazed and Confused. Favorite Actress - Sci-fi Jennifer Lopez - The Cell Recently Lopez found herself at the top of the charts, both in film (The Wedding Planner) and in music (J. Lo), but we've wanted to tussle with her since she proved she was Out of Sight. Favorite Actor - Sci-fi Kevin Bacon - Hollow Man This role may have been the most physically taxing of his career. He spent most of the time covered head to toe in paint, with matching contact lenses, wigs, and teeth, so he could be digitally removed from the scenes. Favorite Actress - Suspense Michelle Pfeiffer - What Lies Beneath Pfeiffer says her biggest challenge during the shoot wasn't maintaining suspense. It was staying dry. She spent days submerged in a bathtub, drenched in storms, and dragged to the bottom of a lake. Favorite Actor - Suspense Harrison Ford - What Lies Beneath Ford was director Robert Zemeckis' first and only choice for the starring role in What Lies Beneath. Ford says he was drawn to the role because he loved the script's twists and turns and wanted to work with Zemeckis and Pfeiffer. Favorite Female - Newcomer Kate Hudson - Almost Famous She was originally cast in a much smaller role before convincing director Cameron Crowe she was perfect for the lead. As part of her prep work, she read groupie magazines and Pamela Des Barres' memoir, I'm With the Band. Favorite Male - Newcomer Heath Ledger - The Patriot His first break in the States came in 10 Things I Hate About You, a modern take on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Ledger will actually be in tights in his next film, A Knight's Tale. Favorite Action Team Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu - Charlie's Angels Of course you know that the new Charlie's Angels are crime fighters who used their bodies instead of guns. But you may not know that after the first grueling martial arts session, they all needed an Epsom salts bath and a good cry. Favorite Actress - Horror Neve Campbell - Scream 3 She filmed Scream 3 while juggling her now-cancelled Party of Five series and a role in Drowning Mona. Her next role is scheduled to be in Alan Rudolph's Investigating Sex. How very un-Sidney like. Favorite Actor - Horror David Arquette - Scream 3 The Scream trilogy put him on the map, but we still remember him marveling over "yabos" in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Along with the 1-800-CALL-AT&T commercials, he can be seen in 3000 Miles to Graceland. Favorite Villain Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator He landed his first acting job at age 10 in the short-lived TV series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Phoenix's next project, Buffalo Soldiers, is about criminals in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Favorite Supporting Actress - Action Lucy Liu - Shanghai Noon Even when she's not dissin' pre-arranged marriages with Jackie Chan, saving the day with Angels or being catty with Ally McBeal, Liu still gets some action. She practices the martial art of Kali-Eskrima-Silat (knife-and-stick fighting). Favorite Supporting Actor - Action Bill Murray - Charlie's Angels Whether or not he will be Bosley in an Angel's sequel is still unknown, but his next film due out is Osmosis Jones, the story of a white-blood-cell cop and his cold tablet partner out to protect Murray from sickness. No, really. Favorite Supporting Actress - Comedy Cheri Oteri - Scary Movie Doing a riff on Courtney Cox's Gale Weathers doesn't come as a surprise to those who know Oteri's work from Saturday Night Live. She's made a name for herself doing dead-on impressions of Barbara Walters and Judge Judy. Favorite Supporting Actor - Comedy Benjamin Bratt - Miss Congeniality Bratt and co-star Sandra Bullock were so competitive with each other they shot the entire wrestling sequence without stunt doubles - all 14 hours of it. Favorite Supporting Actress - Comedy/Romance Maria Bello - Coyote Ugly Nothing like getting up on a bar and dancing in short-shorts to get you noticed. But we knew her before, enjoying her work on ER as Dr. Anna Del Amico, and also in Payback and the Alf-on-heroin memoir Permanent Midnight with Ben Stiller. Favorite Supporting Actor - Comedy/Romance Jack Black - High Fidelity One of the forces behind the comic folk-rock duo Tenacious D., an act he describes as "a Smothers Brothers for the Dungeons and Dragons misfit set," his scene-stealing brilliance is also on display in Jesus' Son and Saving Silverman. Favorite Supporting Actress - Drama Helen Hunt - Cast Away On her mantle, we find 4 Emmys, 5 Golden Globes, 2 SAG awards, 4 American Comedy Awards, and one OSCAR®. She even has a BLOCKBUSTER ENTERTAINMENT AWARD® for her work in Twister. Do you think she'll make room for one more? Favorite Supporting Actress - Drama Benecio Del Toro - Traffic He hit the big screen in 1988's Big Top Pee-Wee, then as the mush-mouthed Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects. His recent slate of films, Snatch, The Pledge and The Way of the Gun, are all signs that Del Toro's star is on the rise. Favorite Supporting Actress - Sci-fi Rebecca Romijn-Stamos - X-Men In her Mystique make-up, 60% of her body was covered in prosthetics. It took eight hours to put on and two hours to remove. Personally, we think it was worth it. She makes for one striking super-villain. Favorite Supporting Actor - Sci-fi James Marsden - X-Men His first starring appearance on the big screen was Disturbing Behavior, but fans remember him as Griffin on the series Party of Five. Currently in Sugar & Spice, he hits the road next in Interstate 60, due out later this year. Favorite Supporting Actress - Suspense Christina Ricci - Bless the Child No stranger to these awards, Ricci won for her performance in Sleepy Hollow last year. Ricci will once again be teaming up with Johnny Depp on her next project, the WWII drama The Man Who Cried. Favorite Supporting Actor - Suspense Andre Braugher - Frequency Hailed by more than one critic as the best actor working on TV, Braugher is best know for his Emmy-award winning portrayal of Det. Pembleton on TV's Homicide. He can currently be seen starring in Gideon's Crossing on ABC. Favorite Supporting Actress - Drama/Romance Frances McDormand - Almost Famous McDormand took home an OSCAR® as Best Actress for her work in the movie Fargo. When asked how she got the role, McDormand said her secret was sleeping with the director - her husband, Joel Coen. Favorite Supporting Actor- Drama/Romance Haley Joel Osment - Pay It Forward Director Mimi Leder has called Osment, 12, one of the best actors working today with a knowledge and maturity far beyond his years. His talent will be put to the test next in Spielberg's A.I., a film about a boy who isn't real. Family Favorite Chicken Run The concept for the entire movie came from a sketch director Nick Park did of a chicken digging under a fence with a spoon. But while chickens are funny, he reminds us that "Chickens are people just like everyone else." To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp