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Other best picture nominees for the 75th annual Oscars were "Gangs of New York", "The Hours" "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" and "The Pianist". "Chicago" bagged nominations for lead actress Renee Zellweger, supporting actresses Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones and supporting actor John C. Reilly. Ms. Zellweger plays a stage wannabe jailed for killing her lover. Ms. Zeta-Jones co-stars as her conniving jailhouse rival. Queen Latifah plays an opportunistic warden, and Mr. Reilly is Ms. Zellweger's cuckolded husband. Richard Gere, who had done well in earlier film honours, was snubbed in the lead actor category for "Chicago". Its director, Rob Marshall, earned a nomination. Julianne Moore got two acting nominations: best actress for the 1950s melodrama "Far From Heaven," as a woman whose marriage disintegrates after her husband begins an affair with another man, and supporting actress as a despondent housewife in "The Hours". Other best actress nominees were Salma Hayek as Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo in "Frida"; Nicole Kidman as author Virginia Woolf in "The Hours"; and Diane Lane as an adulterous wife in "Unfaithful". Meryl Streep was shut out for a best actress nomination in "The Hours," but did earn a supporting-actress nomination for the twisted Hollywood tale "Adaptation". Ms. Streep's nomination puts her in the record books as most-nominated actor ever. She had been tied with Katherine Hepburn at 12 nominations each; Ms. Streep now has 13. Best actor nominees were Adrien Brody as a Jewish musician hiding out in Nazi-occupied Poland in "The Pianist"; Nicolas Cage in dual roles as a neurotic screenwriter and his oafish twin brother in "Adaptation"; Michael Caine as a British journalist in the 1950s Vietnam tale "The Quiet American"; Daniel Day-Lewis as a ruthlessly charming crime boss in the 1860s vengeance epic "Gangs of New York"; and Jack Nicholson as a widower examining his dreary life in "About Schmidt". It was the 12th nomination for three-time Oscar winner Mr. Nicholson, padding his record as most-nominated male actor ever. A fourth win for him would tie Catherine Hepburn's record of four acting Oscars. "Gangs of New York" trailed "Chicago" with 10 nominations, including for its director Martin Scorsese. "The Hours" was next with nine nominations, among them a supporting actor honour for Ed Harris as a writer dying of AIDS and best director for Stephen Daldry. "The Lord of the Rings' franchise, whose first installment, "The Fellowship of the Ring," grabbed a leading 13 nominations last year, this time received just six. In the foreign film category, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Rs. 38-crore blockbuster "Devdas" starring Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai and Jackie Shroff in the lead, lost out to the "Crime of Father Amaro" from Mexico, "Hero" from China, "Man without a Past" from Finland, "Nowhere in Africa" from Germany and "Zus and Zo" from The Netherlands. — AP
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