Fractured Nominees at the 2004 Oscars Quiz

Answer: Holly Hunter

Best Supporting Actress -- for "Thirteen."

Answer: Sofia Coppola

Best Director and Best Original Screenplay (which she won)--for "Lost in Translation." She's Francis Ford's daughter.

Answer: Benicio Del Toro

Best Supporting Actor -- for "21 Grams."

Answer: Johnny Depp

Best Actor--for playing a wry, swashbuckling, very slightly swishy pirate captain in "Pirates of the Caribbean." (A film which, in my opinion, is about an hour too long. Depp's performance is by far the best thing about it.)

Answer: Keisha Castle-Hughes

Best Actress -- for her poignant portrayal of a strong, vulnerable Maori girl in "Whale Rider."

Answer: Jude Law

Best Actor -- for playing an AWOL rebel soldier in "Cold Mountain."

Answer: Ben Kingsley

Best Actor--for his moving portrayal of an Iranian immigrant in "House of Sand and Fog." I loved the book, but somehow, for me, H of S and F got "Lost in Translation," despite great acting. This movie is about the biggest downer of the year (well, maybe it ties with "Mystic River" for Most Depressing).

Answer: Charlize Theron

Best Actress award winner--for playing a murderous prostitute in "Monster." Boy, the make-up artists sure did a good job of making a beautiful woman look monstrous!

Answer: Marcia Gay Harden

Best Supporting Actress--for playing Tim Robbins' worried wife in "Mystic River."

Answer: Sean Penn

Best Actor award winner--for playing a murdered girl's grieving dad in "Mystic River." I was disappointed in the ending, but I thought Penn did a wonderful job.

Answer: Alec Baldwin

Best Supporting Actor -- for "The Cooler."

Answer: Renee Zellweger

Best Supporting Actress award winner--for playing a frumpy but mighty strong country gal in "Cold Mountain." Yay for Renee!

Answer: Diane Keaton

Best Actress. Ordinarily I adore Diane Keaton, but in my opinion "Something's Gotta Give" is the most over-rated movie of the year. Its script is so wretched that I walked out halfway through. Blech! And what was the glorious Frances McDormand DOING in this terrible film? (Very little.) Jack Nicholson did the best he could, but the script was so lame that nothing could save this flick.

Answer: Samantha Morton

Best Actress -- for "In America." This is a wonderful, six-hanky movie. Should have won Best Picture, in my opinion.

Answer: Naomi Watts

Best Actress--for "21 Grams." I apologize for leaving out some people. Most notably, Tim Robbins, who won the Best Supporting Actor award for "Mystic River," Bill Murray, Best Actor nominee for "Lost in Translation," Dijou Hounsou, Best Supporting Actor nominee for "In America," and Shohreh Aghdashloo (hope I spelled it correctly), who played Ben Kingsley's wife so gracefully in "House of Sand and Fog." The only reason I didn't include the last two is that I don't know how to pronounce their names--plus, nobody'd be able to spell them!