• SIR IAN
McKELLEN won Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role for
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Gandalf (New Line
Cinema):
"I'm on the red-eye tonight to New York for rehearsals for Saturday
Night Live. I'm hosting it next Saturday, and there's not a word of it
written yet. I ask you all to say a prayer for me!"
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• HELEN MIRREN won
Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role for
Gosford Park as Mrs. Wilson (USA Films):
"If you put the cast (of Gosford Park) on a wall and blindfolded
yourself and threw a dart, you could hit an award-worthy performance.
Obviously, I'm enormously honored to be picked out, especially by American
actors. It's a huge honor that they had the generosity to recognize a British
actress."
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• HALLE BERRY won Outstanding
Actress in a Leading Role for
Monster's Ball as Leticia Musgrove (Lions Gate Films):
"I don't really care about what happens at the Oscars, and I don't
mean to be flippant about it, but so many good things have come my way because
of this project and win or lose my life is indelibly different because of that
work and that journey. I'm just going to enjoy this award tonight and be happy
for whoever wins the Oscar. It may sound a bit shallow, but I'm focusing more
on what I'm going to wear because the other part of it is not really up to me.
But what I and my mother wear on Oscar night is up to me. She's never been to
one of these things and I want her to feel beautiful."
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• RUSSELL CROWE won
Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role for
A Beautiful Mind as John Nash (Universal Pictures):
"I'm really pleased that the movie's gotten the attention that it has
received. We felt when we were doing the movie we were doing something
important, and what's gratifying to us as well is apart from all the critical
praise, we've just passed $140 million at the box office with a movie about a
schizophrenic mathematician. That says a great deal to me about the intellect
of the American public."
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