The Nominees

The Rankings

Categories: Best Picture, Best Actor/Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Villain, Best Comic, Best Special Effects, Best Music

Best Picture

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Gladiator	Almost Famous	Traffic	Erin Brockovich
31%	23.1%	10.8%	10.1%	7.8%

Castaway	Dancer in the Dark	High Fidelity	Quills	Nurse Betty
5.4%	4.5%	2.1%	2.1%	1%

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Clearly this was a race between the top two. Gladiator initially led but then fell behind.

Best Actor/Actress

Julia Roberts, *Erin Brockovich*	Tom Hanks, *Castaway*	Russell Crowe, Gladiator	Ellen Burstyn, *Requiem for* *a Dream*	Bjork, *Dancer in the Dark*
23.7%	22.5%	16.8%	10.8%	6.3%

Michael Douglas, *Wonder Boys*	Laura Linney, *You Can* *Count on Me*	Geoffrey Rush, *Quills*	Mark Ruffalo, *You Can* *Count on Me*	Michelle Pfeiffer, What Lies Beneath
5.4%	3.6%	3.3%	2.4%	less than 1%

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This one was a lot closer, though both Roberts and Hanks easily beat out their closest competition. Ellen Burstyn made quite a lot of headway at the end of balloting.

Best Supporting Actor/Actress

Benicio del Toro, *Traffic*	Zhang Ziyi *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*	Joaquin Pheonix, *Gladiator*	Kate Hudson, *Almost Famous*	Albert Finney, *Erin Brockovich*
21.6%	19.2%	15.9%	15%	5.1%

Jack Black, *High Fidelity*	Morgan Freeman, *Nurse Betty*	Phillip Seymour Hoffman, *Almost Famous*	Frances McDormand, *Almost Famous*	Catherine Zeta-Jones, *Traffic*
4.2%	3.9%	3.9%	3.6%	3.6%

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Best Director

Ang Lee, *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*	Stephen Soderberg, *Traffic*	Ridley Scott, Gladiator	Nick Park, Peter Lord, *Chicken Run*	Stephen Soderberg, *Erin Brockovich*
33.4%	16.5%	15.6%	8.1%	6.9%

Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous	Darren Arronofsky, *Requiem for a Dream*	Lars von Trier, Dancer in the Dark	Curtis Hanson, *Wonder Boys*	Phillip Kaufman, *Quills*
6%	5.1%	3.3%	less than 1%	less than 1%

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Ang Lee did better than his film on this poll, easily beating out Oscar-winner Soderberg. Notice that even if Soderberg hadn't been split, Ang Lee still would have won by 10% points.

Best Screenplay

Traffic	Almost Famous	Gladiator	Chicken Run	Erin Brockovich
21.3%	20.1%	13.2%	9.9%	8.1%

Wonder Boys	You Can Count on Me	Dancer in the Dark	State and Main	Quills
6%	5.4%	4.5%	4.5%	2.1%

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I initially reported that Almost Famous won this category. Unfortunately I was reading the wrong line. It was still a very close race.

Special Categories
Best Villain

Joaquin Pheonix, *Gladiator*	Miranda Richardson, *Chicken Run*	Ian MacKellan, *X-Men*	Vincent D'Onofrio, *The Cell*	Aaron Eckhart, *Nurse Betty*
43%	18.9%	14.4%	12.9%	5.7%

Top Best Comedic Performance

Ben Stiller, *Meet the Parents*	Fred Willard, *Best in Show*	Jack Black, *High Fidelity*	Mel Gibson, *What Women Want*	Jim Carrey, *The Grinch*
25.6%	20.7%	18.9%	15.9%	15.3%

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Best Special Effects

Gladiator	The Perfect Storm	X-Men
36.1%	30.4%	29.2%

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Best Music

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Gladiator	Dancer in the Dark
44.8%	34.6%	17.4%

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