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| February 24, 2001 |
| Media Contact: Jon Popick |
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"Traffic" swept through the 2000 Sickie Awards, taking a record six categories, including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor and Adapted Screenplay. Other films receiving multiple nominations were "Requiem For a Dream," "The Cell," and "U-571."
A complete list of nominees follows below, with the winners in boldface:
BEST PICTURE - "Best in Show," "Spring Forward," "State and Main," "Traffic," "Wintersleepers"
BEST ACTOR - Jamie Bell ("Billy Elliot"), Russell Crowe ("Gladiator"), Ralph Fiennes ("Sunshine"), Tom Hanks ("Cast Away"), Clive Owen ("Croupier")
BEST ACTRESS - Bjork ("Dancer in the Dark"), Ellen Burstyn ("Requiem For a Dream"), Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini ("A Time For Drunken Horses"), Laura Linney ("You Can Count on Me"), Julia Roberts ("Erin Brockovich")
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - Ned Beatty ("Spring Forward"), Willem Dafoe ("Shadow of the Vampire"), Benicio del Toro ("Traffic"), Liev Schrieber ("Spring Forward"), Fred Willard ("Best in Show")
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Erika Christensen ("Traffic"), Marcia Gay Harden ("Pollock"), Elaine May ("Small Time Crooks"), Frances McDormand ("Almost Famous"), Ziyi Zhang ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon")
BEST DIRECTOR - Christopher Guest ("Best in Show"), David Mamet ("State and Main"), Steven Soderbergh ("Erin Brockovich"), Steven Soderbergh ("Traffic"), Robert Zemeckis ("Cast Away")
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY - Tom Gilroy ("Spring Forward"), Eugene Levy and Christopher Guest ("Best in Show"), Kenneth Lonergan ("You Can Count on Me"), David Mamet ("State and Main"), Jeremy Podeswa ("The Five Senses")
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY - Sophia Coppola ("The Virgin Suicides"), John Cusack, Steve Pink, Scott Rosenberg and D.V. DeVincentis ("High Fidelity"), Steven Gaghan ("Traffic"), Ayub Khan-din ("East is East"), Howard A. Rodman ("Joe Gould's Secret")
BEST FOREIGN FILM - "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Criminal Lovers," "Kikujiro," "Suzhou River," "The Wind Will Carry Us"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - Peter Andrews ("Traffic"), Matthew Libatique ("Requiem For a Dream"), Mahmoud Kalari ("The Wind Will Carry Us"), Jeffery Seckendorf ("Judy Berlin"), Vittario Storaro ("Goya in Bordeaux")
BEST ART DIRECTION - "The Cell," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Goya in Bordeaux," "Traffic"
BEST SOUND - "Chicken Run," "Gladiator," "Mission: Impossible 2," "The Perfect Storm," "U-571"
BEST EDITING - "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Erin Brockovich," "Gladiator," "Requiem For a Dream," "Traffic"
BEST MAKEUP - "Bedazzled," "Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps," "Shadow of the Vampire"
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS - "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Gladiator," "Hollow Man"
BEST SOUND EFFECTS EDITING - "Gladiator," "The Perfect Storm," "U-571"
BEST COSTUME - "The Cell," "Gladiator," "The House of Mirth," "The Patriot," "X-Men"
BEST DRAMATIC SCORE - "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Ghost Dog," "Requiem For a Dream," "Traffic," "The Virgin Suicides"
BEST DOCUMENTARY - "The Filth and the Fury," "Live Nude Girls UNITE!," "Sound and Fury"
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE - "Chicken Run," "Dinosaur," "The Emperor's New Groove"
WORST PICTURE - "Battlefield Earth," "Isn't She Great," "Pokemon 2000," "Thomas and the Magic Railroad," "Trixie"