Who won the Oscar for best actress for her role in The Hours in 2003?
"Empire Award for Best Actress The Empire Award for Best Actress is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine ""Empire"" to honor an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The Empire Award for Best Actress is one of five ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 1st Empire Awards ceremony in 1996 (the others being Best Actor, Best Director, Best Film and Best British Film) with Nicole Kidman receiving the award for her role in ""To Die For"". Winners are voted by the readers of"
"The Hours (film) The Hours is a 2002 British-American drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore. Supporting roles are played by Ed Harris, John C. Reilly, Stephen Dillane, Jeff Daniels, Miranda Richardson, Allison Janney, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, and Eileen Atkins. The screenplay by David Hare is based on Michael Cunningham's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title. The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel ""Mrs Dalloway"" by Virginia Woolf. These are Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a New Yorker preparing an award party"
"Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The Hours (film) The Hours is a 2002 British-American drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore. Supporting roles are played by Ed Harris, John C. Reilly, Stephen Dillane, Jeff Daniels, Miranda Richardson, Allison Janney, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, and Eileen Atkins. The screenplay by David Hare is based on Michael Cunningham's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title. The plot focuses"
"not ""been this much fun to watch in years"". While ""Adaptation."" ended Streep's winning drought at the Golden Globes, when she - after thirteen nominations - was awarded her first trophy since 1982's ""Sophie's Choice"" in 2003, she received a second nomination by the Hollywood Foreign Press for her participation in another project that year: Stephen Daldry's ""The Hours"" (2002). In ""The Hours"", featuring Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore, Streep played the role of Clarissa, a literary editor who is followed for one climactic day, during which she plans a party for her long-time friend and one-time lover, played by"
"The Hours (novel) The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The book concerns three generations of women affected by the classic novel ""Mrs. Dalloway"". In Richmond, 1923, author Virginia Woolf is writing ""Mrs. Dalloway"" and struggling with her own mental illness. In 1949 Los Angeles, Mrs. Brown, wife of a World War II veteran, who is reading ""Mrs. Dalloway"", plans her husband's"
"The Hours (soundtrack) The Hours is the original soundtrack album, on the Elektra/Nonesuch label, of the 2002 film ""The Hours"", starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The original score was composed by Philip Glass. Not all of the music in the film was composed specifically for it: earlier music by Glass, including a theme from his opera Satyagraha, was also featured and credited separately at the end of the film. The album won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the Golden Globe Award for Best"
"occurrence is prominent in the structures and character relationships of two further novels by Cunningham, Specimen Days and A Home at the End of the World. The Hours (novel) The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The book concerns three generations of women affected by the classic novel ""Mrs. Dalloway"". In Richmond, 1923, author Virginia Woolf is writing ""Mrs. Dalloway"" and struggling"
"cast included Natascha McElhone, Lena Headey, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox, Sarah Badel, and Katie Carr. A related 2002 film, based on Michael Cunningham's novel of the same name, is ""The Hours"", starring Meryl Streep as New York editor Clarissa, Julianne Moore as Los Angeles housewife Laura, and Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf. ""The Hours"" is about a single day in the lives of three women of different generations who are affected by ""Mrs Dalloway"": Woolf is writing it, Laura is reading it, and Clarissa is living it out. Mrs Dalloway also appears in Virginia Woolf's first novel, ""The"
"Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours."" ""The Hours"" has an 80% ""fresh"" rating on the film review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes based on 192 reviews and an average rating of 7.4/10. The consensus says that ""the movie may be a downer, but it packs an emotional wallop. Some fine acting on display here."" On Metacritic, the film holds an average score of 80 out of 100, based on 40 reviews. The four main cast members were praised, especially Nicole Kidman who won numerous awards for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf including the Academy Award for Best Actress."
"with Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep. She again played a troubled 1950s housewife, prompting Kenneth Turan to write that she was ""essentially reprising her ""Far from Heaven"" role"". Moore said it was an ""unfortunate coincidence"" that the similar roles came at the same time, and claimed that the characters had differing personalities. Peter Travers of ""Rolling Stone"" called the performance ""wrenching"", while Peter Bradshaw of ""The Guardian"" praised a ""superbly controlled, humane performance"". ""The Hours"" was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Moore also received BAFTA and SAG Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and was jointly awarded"
"Goya Awards award nominations, including a Best Actress nomination for Kidman. She received her second BAFTA and fifth Golden Globe nominations. Roger Ebert commented that ""Alejandro Amenábar has the patience to create a languorous, dreamy atmosphere, and Nicole Kidman succeeds in convincing us that she is a normal person in a disturbing situation, and not just a standard-issue horror movie hysteric."" Kidman was named the World's Most Beautiful Person by People magazine In 2002, Kidman won critical praise for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry's ""The Hours"", which stars Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. Kidman famously wore prosthetics"
"composure"", noting the contrast in her ""wittily realized"" character with love interest Chris Cooper's ""lank-haired, toothless charisma"" as the autodidact arrested for poaching rare orchids. Streep appeared alongside Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore in Stephen Daldry's ""The Hours"" (2002), based on the 1999 novel by Michael Cunningham. Focusing on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel ""Mrs. Dalloway"" by Virginia Woolf, the film was generally well received and won all three leading actresses a Silver Bear for Best Actress. Streep had a cameo as herself in the Farrelly brothers comedy ""Stuck on You"" (2003), and"
"Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (lost to the score of the film """"). Michael Riesman and Nico Muhly arranged the soundtrack for piano solo. This score was published in 2003 as a 64-paged book containing most of the tracks (excluding ""For Your Own Benefit"", ""Vanessa and the Changelings"" and ""The Kiss""). The Hours (soundtrack) The Hours is the original soundtrack album, on the Elektra/Nonesuch label, of the 2002 film ""The Hours"", starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The original score was composed by"
"Charlize Theron Charlize Theron ( ; ; born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and film producer. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and the Silver Bear for Best Actress. Theron came to international prominence in the 1990s by playing the leading lady in the Hollywood films ""The Devil's Advocate"" (1997), ""Mighty Joe Young"" (1998), and ""The Cider House Rules"" (1999). In 2003, she received critical acclaim for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in ""Monster"", for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress,"
"Ed Harris, who is wasting away from AIDS. Based on the 1999 novel of the same title by Michael Cunningham, the episodic film focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the 1925 novel ""Mrs. Dalloway"" by Virginia Woolf. Generally well-received, ""The Hours"" was praised for the performances of all three leading actresses, who shared a Silver Bear for Best Actress the following year. Peter Travers of ""Rolling Stone"" commented, ""These three unimprovable actresses make ""The Hours"" a thing of beauty [...] Streep is a miracle worker, building a character in the space between words and"
"in British cinemas on Valentine's Day that year. Critical reaction to the film was largely positive, with nine Academy Award nominations for ""The Hours"" including Best Picture, and a win for Nicole Kidman for Best Actress. With the exception of the opening and final scenes, which depict the 1941 suicide by drowning of Virginia Woolf in the River Ouse, the action takes place within the span of a single day in three different decades and alternates between them throughout the film. In 1923, Virginia has begun writing the book ""Mrs Dalloway"" in her home in the town of Richmond outside"
"in 2001 for her performances in ""Redundant"" at the Royal Court Theatre and ""Boston Marriage"" at the Donmar Warehouse. In 2003, she won the TMA Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream."" Since then she has performed leading roles in fourteen theatre productions, most recently alongside James McAvoy in the 2009 West End production ""Three Days of Rain."" In 2011 she appeared in ""Greenland"" at the National Theatre. Marshal has appeared in the films ""The Hours"" alongside Nicole Kidman, and ""Hereafter"", directed by Clint Eastwood. Marshal starred as Cleopatra in HBO's ""Rome"". Since 2009 she has"
"the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her work in Todd Field's ""In the Bedroom"" (2001). ""The New York Times"" film critic Stephen Holden said of her work in the film: ""Ms. Spacek's performance is as devastating as it is unflashy. With the slight tightening of her neck muscles and a downward twitch of her mouth, she conveys her character's relentlessness, then balances it with enough sweetness to make Ruth seem entirely human. It is one of Ms. Spacek's greatest performances."" Her performance as Ruth Fowler, a grieving mother consumed by revenge, won extraordinary praise and garnered the New York"
"Julianna Margulies Julianna Luisa Margulies (; born June 8, 1966) is an American actress and producer. After several small television roles, Margulies achieved wide recognition for her role as Carol Hathaway on NBC's long-running medical drama ""ER"", for which she won an Emmy Award. She also voiced Neera in ""Dinosaur"" (2000) and appeared in the miniseries ""The Mists of Avalon"" (2001). In 2009, she took on the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the American legal drama ""The Good Wife"" on CBS. Her performance on that show has garnered acclaim: she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress"
"the World Turns"", ""Boogie Nights"", ""An Ideal Husband"", ""The End of the Affair"", ""Magnolia"", ""Far From Heaven"", ""The Hours"", ""A Single Man"", ""The Kids Are All Right"", ""Game Change"", ""Maps to the Stars"", and ""Still Alice"". Julianne Moore Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is an American actress, prolific in films since the early 1990s. She is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in both independent and Hollywood films, and has received many accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. After studying theatre at Boston University, Moore began her career with a series"
"in the BBC thriller serial ""The Hour"", for which she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1997, she received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role nomination for her performance in ""Stanley"" and in 2013 an Olivier Award for Best Actress nomination for her part in ""Private Lives"". She is a patron of the London children's charity Scene & Heard. Chancellor has played the role of Ann Smiley in a BBC dramatisation of the John le Carre novels ""The Honourable Schoolboy"" and ""Smiley's People"". Anna Chancellor Anna Theodora Chancellor"
"at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 3, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Richard Dysart and Diane Ladd. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" won four awards including Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessica Tandy, the oldest person at the time to win a competitive acting Oscar. Other winners included ""Glory"" with three awards, ""Born on the Fourth of July"", ""The Little Mermaid"", and ""My Left Foot"" with two, and ""The Abyss"", ""Balance"", ""Batman"", ""Cinema Paradiso"", """", ""Dead Poets Society"", ""Henry V"", ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"", ""The Johnstown Flood"", and ""Work Experience"""
"1. Cate Blanchett – ""Blue Jasmine"" <br> 2. Brie Larson – ""Short Term 12"" <br> 3. Adèle Exarchopoulos – ""Blue Is the Warmest Colour"" <br> 3. Julie Delpy – ""Before Midnight"" 1. James Franco – ""Spring Breakers"" <br> 2. Jared Leto – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" <br> 3. Barkhad Abdi – ""Captain Phillips"" 1. Jennifer Lawrence – ""American Hustle"" <br> 2. Lupita Nyong'o – ""12 Years a Slave"" <br> 3. Léa Seydoux – ""Blue Is the Warmest Colour"" <br> 3. Sally Hawkins – ""Blue Jasmine"" 1. Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy – ""Before Midnight"" <br> 2. Joel Coen and"
"garnered her a nomination for Best Actress at the British Academy Film Awards. For her role as writer Virginia Woolf in the drama ""The Hours"" (2002) she became the first Australian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2003, Kidman starred in Lars von Trier's ""Dogville"", the drama ""The Human Stain"", and the epic war drama ""Cold Mountain"". The following year, she appeared in the sci-fi comedy film ""The Stepford Wives"" (2004), and the drama ""Birth"" (2004). Four years later, Kidman reunited with Luhrmann on the historical drama ""Australia"". In 2010, she starred in the drama ""Rabbit Hole"""
"in 2003's ""A Day in the Death of Joe Egg"", Antonio Banderas and Mary Stuart Masterson for 2003's ""Nine"", Alexander Gemignani in 2004's ""Assassins"", Carla Gugino in 2005's ""After the Fall"", Mamie Gummer in 2006's ""Mr. Marmalade"", Nellie McKay in 2006's ""The Threepenny Opera"", Harry Connick Jr. in 2006's ""The Pajama Game"", Ben Daniels in 2008's ""Les Liaisons dangereuses"", and Jenna Russell in 2008's ""Sunday in the Park with George"". They have won 8 Obie Awards. 2004's ""Intimate Apparel"", 2003's ""All Over"", 2002's ""The Dazzle"", 1999's ""The Mineola Twins"", and 1981's ""The Chalk Garden"" won Performance Awards for Viola Davis,"
"Hours"" with Scott Rudin, directed by Stephen Daldry, starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore; and ""Iris"" (Miramax/Mirage) directed by Richard Eyre starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent, both of which garnered Oscars in 2003. Other credits include Executive Producer on ""Another Country""; a television film of ""Suddenly, Last Summer"" with Maggie Smith; and ""A Month by the Lake"" for Miramax starring Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox and Uma Thurman. He co-produced ""Notes on a Scandal"" for Fox Searchlight starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench. Fox is married to Fiona Golfar, with whom he has two children. He"
"and the last movie musical to win until ""Chicago"" in 2003 (though others have been nominated between 1969 and 2003: ""Hello, Dolly!"", ""Fiddler on the Roof"", ""Cabaret"", ""All That Jazz"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", and ""Moulin Rouge!""). The year was notable for the first—and so far, only—tie for Best Actress (or any female acting category). Katharine Hepburn in ""The Lion in Winter"" and Barbra Streisand in ""Funny Girl"" shared the award. Hepburn also became the second actress and third performer overall to win an acting Oscar two years in a row, after Luise Rainer in 1936 (""The Great Ziegfeld"") and"
"hour, but the first ""two"" (CBS did not expand any of its shows until December, and ABC did not until 1976). Fran Brill is now best-known for her work on ""Sesame Street"", where she performed Muppet characters, including Zoe and Prairie Dawn, from 1970 to 2014. Other famous faces in the cast include ""Dallas"" star Ken Kercheval (Larry Kirby #2), Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham (Joshua Browne), film actor Armand Assante (Johnny McGhee), and the late film actor Brad Davis (Alexander Kronos). The serial won Best Sequence at the third annual ""Afternoon TV Writers & Editors Awards"", for ""The"
"Veronica Cartwright Veronica A. Cartwright (born 20 April 1949) is an English-born American actress who has worked mainly in American film and television in a career spanning six decades. As a child actress, she appeared in supporting roles in ""The Children's Hour"" and ""The Birds"". She is perhaps best known for her roles in the science fiction films ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers"" (1978) and ""Alien"" (1979), for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. Cartwright was born in Bristol and grew up in Los Angeles, having emigrated to America shortly after the birth of her younger"
"superlative, full of passion and feeling ... Moore is wrenching in her scenes with Laura's son (Jack Rovello, an exceptional child actor). And Streep is a miracle worker, building a character in the space between words and worlds. These three unimprovable actresses make ""The Hours"" a thing of beauty."" Philip French of ""The Observer"" called it ""a moving, somewhat depressing film that demands and rewards attention."" He thought ""the performances are remarkable"" but found the Philip Glass score to be ""relentless"" and ""over-amplified."" Steve Persall of the ""St. Petersburg Times"" said it ""is the most finely crafted film of the"
"in Manhattan. Julianna Margulies Julianna Luisa Margulies (; born June 8, 1966) is an American actress and producer. After several small television roles, Margulies achieved wide recognition for her role as Carol Hathaway on NBC's long-running medical drama ""ER"", for which she won an Emmy Award. She also voiced Neera in ""Dinosaur"" (2000) and appeared in the miniseries ""The Mists of Avalon"" (2001). In 2009, she took on the lead role of Alicia Florrick in the American legal drama ""The Good Wife"" on CBS. Her performance on that show has garnered acclaim: she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding"
"Lyndsey Marshal Lyndsey Marshal (born 16 June 1978) is an English actress best known for her performance in ""The Hours"", and as the recurring character Cleopatra on HBO's ""Rome"", and as Lady Sarah Hill in BBC period drama ""Garrow's Law"". Marshal was born in Manchester, England. After studying the classics at college for a career in archaeology, she applied to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Her first major part was in the play ""Fireface"" at the Royal Court Theatre, which she took just before graduation. In 2001 she won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Newcomer"
"the 2002 London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in ""Vincent in Brixton"". Additionally, she was awarded the 1994 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre) for Best Actress for her performances in ""The Children's Hour"" and ""Sweet Bird of Youth"". She was also awarded the 2002 ""London Evening Standard"" Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in ""Vincent in Brixton"" at the Donmar Warehouse in London. In 2003, she was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play for ""Vincent in Brixton"" on Broadway, and garnered the 2003 Theatre World Award"