2002 Academy Awards® Winners Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) Treasure Planet (2002) Actor: ADRIEN BRODY in "The Pianist," Nicolas Cage in "Adaptation.," Michael Caine in "The Quiet American," Daniel Day-Lewis in "Gangs of New York," Jack Nicholson in "About Schmidt" Actress: NICOLE KIDMAN in "The Hours," Salma Hayek in "Frida," Diane Lane in "Unfaithful," Julianne Moore in "Far from Heaven," Renee Zellweger in "Chicago" Supporting Actor: CHRIS COOPER in "Adaptation.," Ed Harris in "The Hours," Paul Newman in "Road to Perdition," John C.

Reilly in "Chicago," Christopher Walken in "Catch Me If You Can" Supporting Actress: CATHERINE ZETA-JONES in "Chicago," "Kathy Bates in "About Schmidt," Julianne Moore in "The Hours," Queen Latifah for "Chicago," Meryl Streep in "Adaptation." Director: ROMAN POLANSKI for "The Pianist," Rob Marshall for "Chicago," Martin Scorsese for "Gangs of New York," Stephen Daldry for "The Hours," Pedro Almodovar for "Talk to Her" This was the first year that the Academy Awards ceremony was broadcast in high-definition television. All five of the Best Picture nominees were released in the last two weeks of 2002 (December 18 or after). All of them were also set in the past. The most-nominated film of this year's Best Picture competitors, Chicago, with thirteen nominations, was also the Best Picture Oscar winner - and the film debut of choreographer and first-time feature director Rob Marshall. Chicago became the first musical to win the top honor since Oliver! (1968) - 34 years earlier.

It marked the second-consecutive year that a live-action musical received a Best Picture nomination (last year's nominee was Moulin Rouge (2001)) - after a long spell of non-recognition for the genre - since Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and Cabaret (1972) were nominated back-to-back. Chicago won six Oscars from its thirteen nominations, mostly in minor categories: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Catherine Zeta-Jones), Best Sound, Best Art Direction, Best Film Editing, and Best Costume Design. Its seven other nominations included three additional acting nominations (Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Supporting Actor), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (Bill Condon), Best Cinematography, and Best Original Song ("I Move On"). [Chicago tied the record set by Mary Poppins (1964) of 13 nominations for a musical.

Chicago's impressive nominations-total tied with seven other films having the same honor: All About Eve (1950) and Titanic (1997) each had 14 nominations.] Chicago was a musical drama and a screen adaptation of the hit, mid-70s Broadway musical Chicago from John Kander and Fred Ebb, originally directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, and revived on Broadway in 1996. The sexy musical extravaganza, based on a 1926 play by Chicago Tribune reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, told a tale of mid-1920s murderous passion involving two cold-blooded, cell-block chorus girls (Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones) who became rivals for tabloid celebrity status and fame.

The other four Best Picture nominees included: Roman Polanski's harrowing, semi-autobiographical, dark WWII non-documentary tale, The Pianist (with seven nominations and three wins including Best Director, Best Actor (Adrien Brody), and Best Adapted Screenplay) - an adaptation of Polish Jew Wladyslaw Szpilman's 1946 Holocaust memoirs, and the Palme d'Or winner at Cannes Martin Scorsese's historical epic Gangs of New York (with a total of ten nominations, but with only one acting nominee, and no Oscar wins), about Manhattan gang warfare in the mid-19th century the poignant, dramatic, literary triptych from director Stephen Daldry, The Hours (with nine nominations and only one win, Best Actress for Nicole Kidman) about three women's interconnected lives (via Virginia Woolf) over a period of over 75 years - a film adaptation of Michael Cunningham's 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by screenwriter David Hare the enormously-successful (the fourth-highest-grossing Best Picture nominee ever), epic adventure of the fictional Middle Earth from director Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (with six nominations

 and two wins, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Editing) - the second film in the fantasy trilogy and only the third sequel to be nominated for Best Picture (the other sequels to be so honored previously were The Bells of St.

Mary's (1945) and The Godfather, Part II (1974) - with a second 'sequel' of sorts, The Godfather, Part III (1990) which was also nominated for Best Picture!). Its predecessor, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) had 13 nominations and also won in technical categories: four similar minor Oscar wins for Best Visual Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup, and Best Original Score. Two other films scored six nominations, although they weren't nominated for Best Picture: Frida (with two Oscar wins, Best Makeup and Best Original Score) and Road to Perdition (with one win, a posthumous one for Best Cinematography to Conrad L. Hall, his third Oscar.) [Hall was a 10-time Best Cinematography nominee who had previously won for American Beauty (1999) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) .] Disney-owned Miramax Studios was associated with three of the Best Picture nominees: Miramax distributed Chicago and Gangs of New York, and co-produced The Hours (sharing the honors with Paramount).

New Line released The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , and Focus Features distributed The Pianist. [This year marked the last year of Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein's 11-year run of consecutive Best Picture nominees (from 1992-2002) - the longest streak for any studio since the Academy limited the number of Best Picture nominees to five in 1944. The streak ended with no Best Picture nomination for Miramax's Cold Mountain (2003).] In regards to the five Best Director nominees, an upset occurred when exiled fugitive (on a statutory rape charge of having sex with a 13 year old), 69 year-old Roman Polanski (with three Best Director nominations) took his first Best Director Oscar for the Holocaust drama The Pianist. In addition, with his win he became the oldest Best Director in Academy history, surpassing 65 year-old George Cukor for My Fair Lady (1964) . His previous nominations were for Chinatown (1974) and Tess(1980).

The four other Best Director nominations included: Martin Scorsese with his sixth career nomination and fourth Best Director nod (with no wins) for Gangs of New York, after previous nominations for Raging Bull (1980) , The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and GoodFellas (1990) . His three hour epic of Gotham City's Five Points was in the planning stages for over 25 years British director Stephen Daldry with his second Best Director nomination (with no wins), after a previous nomination for Billy Elliot (2000) Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar with his first Best Director nomination, for the quirky romance Talk to Her (with only two nominations and one win - Best Original Screenplay for Almodovar), although Almodovar had already won one Oscar, for All About My Mother (1999) - the year's Best Foreign Language Film Chicago's director Rob Marshall with his first Best Director nomination for the Best Picture winner Almodovar's Best Director nomination for an un-nominated Best Picture film (that was also not submitted as an official Best Foreign-Language Film contender) replaced Peter Jackson's expected spot in this year's slate.

(Jackson had earned a Best Director nomination for the fantasy trilogy's first chapter last year, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) .) Before this year, the last time that all five Best Picture nominees matched the Best Director nominees was 1981. The winner of Best Animated Feature Film, the second year of the category's existence, was the magical, ecological-minded Japanese anime Spirited Away, created by legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki, who wrote and directed the beautiful and evocative cel-animated movie (the only traditionally-animated film to ever win the award). It was the first anime to win the Oscar in this category. It was also the highest-grossing Japanese film of all time. For the only time in Academy Award history, five animated films qualified for the category, and surprisingly, only one was completely or purely CGI (Ice Age). All of the performance/acting nominations were for compelling and rich performances. Chicago had four acting nominations (with only one acting Oscar win), and The Hours and Adaptation both exhibited great ensemble acting - each had three nominated performers (and each won one acting Oscar). Both Oscars for the lead and supporting actor categories were won by first-time nominees.

The Best Actor category included a strong contingent of character actors, with four veteran Oscar winners and only one newcomer. Nominees Michael Caine and Jack Nicholson had both earned nominations for films in five consecutive decades. Except for Adrien Brody, all the Best Actor contenders had been nominated and won Oscars previously. The longshot winner was 29 year-old Adrien Brody (with his first nomination and first Oscar) for his sensitive role as Wladyslaw Szpilman, a gifted Jewish piano player in Poland who survives the Holocaust, in Roman Polanski's The Pianist. With his win, he became the youngest Best Actor winner in Academy history.

The other Best Actor nominees were: 39 year-old Nicolas Cage (with his second nomination, after winning the Best Actor Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas (1995)) in a dual role as struggling, neurotic screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (the film's real-life scriptwriter) attempting to adapt Susan Orlean's non-fiction best-seller The Orchid Thief, and as his oafish identical twin brother Donald Kaufman, in director Spike Jonze's Adaptation (with four nominations and only one win, Best Supporting Actor) [Trivia note: Donald Kaufman is the first (and only) fictional person ever to be nominated (or co-nominated) for an Academy Award] Michael Caine (with his sixth career nomination, and fourth Best Actor nomination) in director Phillip Noyce's political drama The Quiet American (the film's sole nomination, with no wins) - an adaptation of Graham Greene's novel about the Vietnam conflict, as Thomas Fowler, a married but lovelorn, dissolute British journalist for the London Times reporting on the Indo-China conflict in the early 1950s, while keeping a young Vietnamese mistress.

Noyce's film, although completed in 2001, was not released until 2002 due to the September 11th terrorist attack.

[Caine already has won two Best Supporting Actor Oscars, for Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and for The Cider House Rules (1999) and has yet to win a Best Actor Oscar.] Daniel Day-Lewis (with his third Best Actor nomination) [previously, Day-Lewis won his sole Oscar for My Left Foot (1989)] as the violent, knife-wielding, roguish William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting, head of the "Native Americans" Manhattan underworld ghetto gang who wars against Liam Neeson's Irish gang, the "Dead Rabbits" and Neeson's vengeful son Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio) 16 years later in Scorsese's mid-1800's epic Gangs of New York 65 year-old Jack Nicholson (with his twelfth nomination stretching over a period of 34 years, and 8th Best Actor nomination) as retired, Midwestern (Ohama), widowed insurance salesman Warren Schmidt in director Alexander Payne's black comedy About Schmidt (with two nominations and no wins), who travels in his Winnebago to try and prevent his daughter from marrying a water-bed salesman.

[Nicholson's twelfth nomination gave him the honor of being the most-nominated actor ever. He had already won three career Oscars (two were Best Actor awards, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and for As Good As It Gets (1997)). If Nicholson had won the Best Actor Oscar, he would have tied Katharine Hepburn's long-time record of four Oscar wins.] The Best Supporting Actor category also included both veteran and newcomer actors, only one of whom has ever won a Best Supporting Actor award (Walken). One of the nominees, John C. Reilly, also co-starred in three Best Picture nominated films: Chicago, The Hours and Gangs of New York.

[This feat was first accomplished by Claudette Colbert in 1934, and then repeated by Charles Laughton in 1935 and Thomas Mitchell in 1939.] [Note: The first performer who had three appearances in Best Picture-nominated films in the same year was Claudette Colbert, in 1934: Cleopatra (1934) , It Happened One Night (1934), and Imitation of Life (1934). Charles Laughton also appeared in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) , Les Miserables (1935), and Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) in 1935, and Thomas Mitchell appeared in three Best Picture-nominated films in 1939: The Best Supporting Actor winner was Chris Cooper (with his first nomination) as crusading, self-absorbed, garrulous, scraggly and almost toothless orchid lover/thief John Laroche in Adaptation.

The other Best Supporting Actor nominees were: Ed Harris (with his fourth nomination and third supporting nomination, with no wins) as Meryl Streep's ex-boyfriend and AIDS-stricken gay patient and poet Richard Brown in The Hours [Harris was previously nominated as Best Supporting Actor for Apollo 13 (1995) and The Truman Show (1998), and as Best Actor for Pollock (2000).] 78 year-old veteran actor Paul Newman (with his ninth career nomination for acting - and his first nomination as Best Supporting Actor) as aging, Depression-era, Irish gangster godfather/boss John Rooney in Dreamworks' and Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition [Newman has won one Best Actor Oscar, for The Color of Money (1986). In addition to his performance nominations, he has one other nomination as producer for Best Picture-nominee Rachel, Rachel (1968).] John C.

Reilly (with his first nomination) as Amos Hart, Renee Zellweger's put-upon, submissive, jilted and cuckolded husband in Chicago 59 year-old Christopher Walken (with his second nomination) as failed businessman Frank Abagnale Sr., con artist Leonardo DiCaprio's father in director Steven Spielberg's crime caper Catch Me If You Can (one of the film's two nominations) [Walken previously won the Best Supporting Oscar for his only other nomination, for The Deer Hunter (1978) .] According to reports, the average of this year's Best Actress nominees was 37 years - the youngest group of nominees since 1994. None of this year's Best Actress nominees had ever won an Oscar. The Best Actress category includes two repeat Best Actress nominees from the previous year (Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger) who both lost to African-American winner Halle Berry for Monster's Ball (2001). And the list of nominees included a double-nominee - Julianne Moore, who was also nominated in the supporting category (in two similar roles as an unhappy 50s housewife).

[Moore's double nominations made her the ninth performer to have two acting nominations in the same year. Other years in which a female performer had been nominated twice for different films in the same year include: 1938, 1942, 1982, 1988, and 1993 (two actresses), and 1944 and 1992 for a male performer. If Moore had won in both categories, she would have been the first actress and performer to do so.] The Best Actress winner was 35 year-old Australian Nicole Kidman (with her second Best Actress nomination and first Oscar win) as Virginia Woolf, the troubled and depressed author of Mrs. Dalloway in The Hours. [Kidman was previously nominated for Moulin Rouge (2001)].

The other Best Actress nominees were: 36 year-old Mexican-born actress/producer Salma Hayek (with her first nomination) as iconoclastic, single-browed, fierce Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in director Julie Taymor's biographical drama Frida - Hayek's nomination is also a milestone - she is the first Mexican ever to be nominated for Best Actress [Mexico had a record number of nominations this year - including Best Foreign Film (El Crimen del Padre Amaro), Best Original Screenplay for Y Tu Mama Tambien, and Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Talk to Her.] 38 year-old Diane Lane (with her first nomination for her 42nd film) as Richard Gere's cheating and anguished suburban housewife Connie Sumner in director Adrian Lyne's steamy erotic thriller Unfaithful (the film's sole nomination) 43 year-old Julianne Moore (with her third/fourth career nominations, with no wins) as frustrated 50s Connecticut housewife Cathy Whitaker who fails to act upon her impulse to cheat with black gardener (Dennis Haysbert) in director Todd Haynes' melodramatic Far From Heaven (with four nominations and no wins)

 [Moore was previously nominated as Best Supporting Actress for Boogie Nights (1997), and Best Actress for The End of the Affair (1999).] Renee Zellweger (with her second Best Actress nomination) as scheming, mid-20s, imprisoned chorus dancer Roxie Hart in Chicago [Zellweger was previously nominated for Bridget Jones's Diary (2001).] The Best Supporting Actress category included two competing performances from Chicago.

It has been noted that three of the performances (Moore, Streep, and Zeta-Jones) in the Best Picture were not really supportive roles, but lead roles. The surprise winner was 33 year-old Catherine Zeta-Jones (with her first nomination and Oscar) as rival jailhouse murderess and high-stepping cabaret star Velma Kelly in Chicago. She became the first performer to win an Oscar for a musical since 1972, when both Joel Grey (in a supporting role) and Liza Minnelli (in a lead role) won acting Oscars for Cabaret (1972) . [It was the third time that a husband/wife had acting Oscars (husband Michael Douglas won Best Actor for Wall Street (1987)).

The other previous winning couples were Paul Newman-Joanne Woodward, and Laurence Olivier-Vivien Leigh.] The other Best Supporting Actress nominees were: 54 year-old Kathy Bates (with her third nomination after one Oscar win) in a scene-stealing, hot-tub performance as free-spirited, bawdy Roberta Hertzel, the mother of the fiancee of Nicholson's daughter in About Schmidt (one of the film's two acting nominations) [Bates was previously nominated as Best Supporting Actress for Primary Colors (1998), and she won the Best Actress Oscar for Misery (1990).] Julianne Moore (with her third/fourth career nominations, with no wins) as depressed 50's LA suburban housewife Laura Brown in The Hours 32 year-old Queen Latifah (with her first nomination) as opportunistic, money-grubbing cell-house warden Mama Morton who sings "When You're Good to Mama" in Chicago the favored nominee - Meryl Streep (with thirteen nominations, and two Oscar wins in 1979 and 1982) as drug-snorting magazine writer and author of The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean in Adaptation [This

 was Streep's 13th career nomination over a period of only 24 years (from her Best Supporting Actress nomination for The Deer Hunter (1978) to this nomination).

[Streep's nomination made her the most-nominated or honored performer in Oscar history, surpassing the record of 12 nominations set by screen legend Katharine Hepburn, and stretching over a period of 49 years (from Hepburn's Best Actress win for Morning Glory (1932/33) to her Best Actress win for On Golden Pond (1981)). Streep has already won two Oscars: Best Actress for Sophie's Choice (1982) and Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).] This year's Honorary Oscar Award was presented to 70 year-old Peter O'Toole, "whose remarkable talents have provided cinema history with some of its most memorable characters," many of whom were among his seven Best Actor nominations (to date) - with no wins (a record!): Lawrence of Arabia (1962) , Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (1980), and My Favorite Year (1982).

He also appeared in Man of La Mancha (1972) and The Last Emperor (1987). His final Best Actor nomination (and loss), his eighth, was for Venus (2006). Oscar Snubs and Omissions: The offbeat films Adaptation (with only four nominations) and About Schmidt (with only two nominations) lacked Best Picture nominations, as did Catch Me If You Can, Road to Perdition, and Far From Heaven. There were no nominations for Denzel Washington's directorial debut film Antwone Fisher with a great performance by Derek Luke, and only one nomination for About a Boy (Best Adapted Screenplay). Best Director hopefuls without nominations included Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers , Sam Mendes for Road to Perdition, Alexander Payne for About Schmidt , Spike Jonze for Adaptation, Todd Haynes for Far From Heaven (although Haynes was nominated for his original screenplay), and Steven Spielberg for two films: Catch Me If You Can (with two nominations and no wins) and Minority Report (with only one nomination).

[Payne was also unnominated as Best Director for other previous films, Citizen Ruth (1996) and Election (1999).] Not nominated for Best Actor (for a Musical or Comedy) was Golden Globe winner Richard Gere as tap-dancing lawyer Billy Flynn in Chicago. [If Gere had been nominated, it would have been his first nomination in a 25-year film career - and he stood a better chance as Best Supporting Actor than as lead actor.] And there was no Best Actress nomination for Nia Vardalos as thirty-ish and single Greek-American Toula in director Joel Zwick's hugely successful My Big Fat Greek Wedding, although actress Vardalos was nominated for Best Original Screenplay (the film's sole nomination). Although nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category, Meryl Streep was denied a Best Actress nomination for her performance as literary editor and party-planner Clarissa Vaughn in The Hours. TV star Jennifer Aniston was absent from the list of Best Actresses for her role as bored department store cosmetics clerk and wife Justine Last in The Good Girl. Two favored actors came up empty-handed in two films: Leonardo DiCaprio as charming crook Frank Abagnale, Jr.

in Catch Me If You Can and as Amsterdam Vallon in Gangs of New York; and Tom Hanks as FBI agent Carl Hanratty in Catch Me If You Can and as hitman Michael Sullivan in Road to Perdition. Dennis Quaid, in one of his best career performances, was snubbed in the Best Supporting Actor category as Frank, Julianne Moore's closeted homosexual husband in Far From Heaven, as was Quaid's co-star Patricia Clarkson as Eleonor Fine (Moore's bigoted 'best friend') in the Best Supporting Actress category. Salma Hayek's co-star Alfred Molina, was omitted from the Best Supporting Actor nominees for his role in Frida as Diego Rivera, Frida's lover. And Michelle Pfeiffer's name was missing from the Best Supporting Actress category for her role as imprisoned, strict mother Ingrid Magnussen in British director Peter Kosminsky's White Oleander.

Three other strong supporting performances were also omitted in these films: Toni Collette as frumpy Fiona (the mother of the 'boy') in the British film About a Boy, Edie Falco as Florida cafe and motel manager Marly Temple in John Sayles' Sunshine State, Maggie Gyllenhaal as abused secretary Lee Holloway in Steven Shainberg's Secretary, and Lupe Ontiveros as critical Latino mother Carmen in Patricia Cardoso's debut, coming-of-age film Real Women Have Curves. Miranda Richardson was also overlooked for her masterful performance in three roles (Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg / Mrs. Wilkinson) in David Cronenberg's horror film Spider. Two of the biggest blockbusters of the year were passed over or almost entirely neglected, except for their technical achievements: George Lucas' Star Wars (Episode II): Attack of the Clones (with only one nomination for Best Visual Effects), and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (with two nominations, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound).

And Gore Verbinski's chilling supernatural horror thriller The Ring (with no nominations), was neglected in many respects: Daveigh Chase as Samara, Naomi Watts as curious journalist Rachel Keller, Best Cinematography (Bojan Bazelli), Best Editing (Craig Wood), Best Sound/Sound Effects Editing, and Visual Effects. There was some talk of a nomination for the voice-over work and movement provided by Andy Serkis for an all-CGI and special effects character, Gollum, in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers . Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love (2002) (with no nominations) starring Adam Sandler should have at least had a screenplay nomination. The 25 Youngest Oscar Nominees of All Time - MTV mtv [caption id="attachment_32409" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Paramount"] [/caption] When does a child actor stop being merely precocious and enter the pantheon of acting gods? You know the gods of which we speak; they look down from their mighty pedestals as we shower them with tributes year after year… THE OSCAR NOMINEES.

Well, in order to walk through that threshold into Hollywood's elite circle, these young folks have to have chops, serious chops. Or be really, really cute. Either way, it takes sacrifice, hard work and possibly some crazy-ass stage parents. In honor of this year's youthful nominees Hailee Steinfeld ("True Grit") and Jennifer Lawrence ("Winter's Bone"), and for your continued cinematified education, we present the youngest ever Academy Award nominees and winners from throughout the history of the awards. Justin Henry, 'Kramer vs. Kramer' (1979) [caption id="attachment_32310" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Columbia Pictures"] [/caption] Age: 8 Nomination: Best Supporting Actor (Youngest Nominee) A troubled family is at the center of 1979's "Kramer Vs. Kramer," where Henry played the son of Dustin Hoffman's career-obsessed father. When his mother (Meryl Streep) leaves, the father and son overcome their mutual resentment and learn to love each other.

Aside from a minor role as Molly Ringwald's brother in "Sixteen Candles," Henry hasn't had much of a career per-se, currently working as a Regional Director of Sales at the website Veoh . He waits patiently to reprise his nominated role in the inevitable crossover, "Kramer Vs. Kramer Vs. Alien Vs. Predator." Jackie Cooper, 'Skippy' (1931) [caption id="attachment_32304" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Paramount"] [/caption] Age: 9 Nomination: Best Actor (Youngest Winner) You might know him best as Daily Planet editor Perry White in the Christopher Reeve-era "Superman" flicks, but Cooper became a child actor in the late 1920s as one of the "Little Rascals." In 1931 he was "loaned" to Paramount to play the rambunctious lead of "Skippy," based on the popular comic strip.

Though not so well known today, "Skippy" is filled with milestones, being the only film based on a comic or graphic novel nominated for Best Picture, and the youngest Best Director win for Norman Taurog (32). Cooper himself is also the earliest still-living nominee in any category. Wow. Mary Badham, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (1962) [caption id="attachment_32322" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Universal Pictures"] [/caption] Age: 10 Nomination: Best Supporting Actress (Youngest Nominee) Badham lost her Oscar to Patty Duke in 1962, but lives on in pop culture as the irrepressible Scout in the film version of Harper Lee's perennial high school-read "Mockingbird." She continued a lifelong friendship with co-star Gregory Peck, continuing to refer to him by his character name Atticus. As for Boo Radley, we assume she saved the nickname "boo" for her husband. The younger sister of "Saturday Night Fever" director John Badham, Mary retired from acting after a few more years of minor roles.

Tatum O'Neal, 'Paper Moon' (1973) [caption id="attachment_32333" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Paramount Pictures"] [/caption] Age: 10 Nomination: Best Supporting Actress (Youngest Winner) This is it. If there's a child comedy acting equivalent to the Sistine Chapel, it has to be prodigious young Tatum acting alongside her poppa Ryan in Peter Bogdanovich's 1973 comic caper "Paper Moon." As one half of a Depression-era father/daughter con team, she created a cigarette-smoking tomboy with a heart of gold. The dialogue between the two of them is priceless: Moses: I got scruples too, you know. You know what that is? Scruples? Addie: No, I don't know what it is, but if you got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else!

Abigail Breslin, 'Little Miss Sunshine' (2006) [caption id="attachment_32280" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Fox Searchlight"] [/caption] Age: 10 Nomination: Best Supporting Actress We just want to thank Olive's heroin-snorting grandpa for teaching her the super freaky moves that won the hearts of audiences everywhere (but not the title competition) when this indie sensation came out in 2006. We'd also like to thank the sweetly adorkable Breslin for making all the other Olives out there believe in themselves, and huge thanks to her mom and dad for… oh wait, this isn't a beauty pageant, sorry.

Now 14, Breslin has continued to impress in comedies like "Zombieland," and in 2010 followed in Patty Duke's footsteps as Helen Keller in a Broadway revival of "Miracle Worker." Quinn Cummings, 'The Goodbye Girl' (1977) [caption id="attachment_32431" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Warner Bros."] [/caption] Age: 10 Nomination: Best Supporting Actress As Marsha Mason's 10-year-old daughter Lucy in Neil Simon's hilarious rom-com, Cummings virtually created the now stand-by trope of the little girl who doles out funny, overly-wise advice to adults. She says of Richard Dreyfuss' neurotic actor character, "I think he's kinda cute, he reminds me of a dog that nobody wants." Interestingly, Dreyfuss was at the time the youngest Best Actor recipient for this movie, and held the title for 25 years until Adrien Brody's "The Pianist." Cummings retired from acting in '91, and is now a blogger and inventor of a baby carrier.

Anna Paquin, 'The Piano' (1993) [caption id="attachment_32281" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Miramax"] [/caption] Age: 11 Nomination: Best Supporting Actress The second-youngest Oscar-winner in history, after Tatum, is the adorable Ms. Paquin, who captured a mystifying quality quite rare in child performances. She plays the daughter of a mute Scotswoman (Holly Hunter) who only communicates through her piano, and their experiences living under a stifling New Zealand frontiersman. After a few mid-level films, her career caught fire again with her touching role (get it?) as Rogue in the "X-Men" trilogy.

She branched out that southern accent of hers as a telepath with a thing for vampires on the HBO hit "True Blood." Haley Joel Osment, 'The Sixth Sense' (1999) [caption id="attachment_32301" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Spyglass"] [/caption] Age: 11 Nomination: Best Supporting Actor No disrespect to his memorable turns in "A.I." or as Forrest Gump Jr., but Haley Joel will (ironically) have "I see dead people" engraved on his tombstone. His eerily mature portrayal of the haunted Cole Sear in M. Night Shyamalan's sleeper mega-hit made him iconic, and supposedly Steven Spielberg's choice for Harry Potter. Osment's last high-profile role was in 2003's "Secondhand Lions," and he's since dabbled in stagework, videogame voiceovers, and DUIs, but at 22 he's a long way from "over." That other former kid actor with three names, Jackie Earle Haley, taught us that you can't keep a good actor down.

Brandon De Wilde, 'Shane' (1953) [caption id="attachment_32437" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Paramount"] [/caption] Age: 11 Nomination: Best Supporting Actor The Justin Bieber of his day, De Wilde was a multi-talented prodigy whose Oscar-nominated turn in the Alan Ladd western "Shane" cemented his teen idoldom, making him a mainstay in Disney productions and the star of his own sitcom. He then set about triumphing on the stage, screen, Broadway, and as a musician, befriending superstars like Paul McCartney and Gram Parsons. Tragically, in 1972 his life was cut short by an auto accident and he died at the age of 30.

Patty McCormack, 'The Bad Seed' (1956) [caption id="attachment_32438" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Warner Bros."] [/caption] Age: 11 Nomination: Best Supporting Actress A camp favorite of directors like Eli Roth and John Waters, "The Bad Seed" introduced audiences to the original kid from hell: Rhoda Penmark, played with devilish good fun by McCormack. Rhoda seems to be all pigtails, sugar and spice, but turns out she's a cold-blooded killer, and the seed of another famous serial killer, hence the title.

McCormack has continued acting sporadically since, including a recent high-profile role as Pat Nixon in Ron Howard's "Frost/Nixon." Keisha Castle-Hughes, 'Whale Rider' (2002) [caption id="attachment_32313" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Newmarket Films"] [/caption] Age: 13 Nomination: Best Actress (Youngest Nominee) The first Polynesian nominee on top of being the youngest, this precocious New Zealand girl was only 11 when she shot 2002's "Rider," the tale of a female trying to exert the right to lead her tribe despite not being a man. She eventually proves her worth by, you know, ridin' a freakin' whale. Duh. She proved equally precocious a few years later, when the unmarried Castle-Hughes gave birth to her first child at age 17, which caused a ruckus as she was playing the Virgin Mary at the time in "The Nativity Story." Talk about method acting, budda-boom-ching!

Saoirse Ronan, 'Atonement' (2007) [caption id="attachment_32331" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Focus Features"] [/caption] Age: 13 Nomination: Best Supporting Actress Born in New York, this Irish lass first caught our eye as Briony Tallis, a young writer who falsely accuses her older sister's lover of a crime, in "Atonement." The book's author Ian McEwan said, "She gives us thought process right on-screen, even before she speaks, and conveys so much with her eyes." After the nomination, she won the coveted lead in Peter Jackson's "Lovely Bones," and will soon give Hit-Girl a run for her money as a little trained assassin in "Hanna." Kick-ass!

Hailee Steinfeld, 'True Grit' (2010) [caption id="attachment_32300" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Paramount Pictures"] [/caption] Age: 14 Nomination: Best Supporting Actress This currently nominated "True Grit" star has true talent, and even though she's nominated in the supporting category, never think for a second that this isn't her movie. Jeff Bridges gets top-billing 'cause he's The Dude, but the story is all Mattie Ross and her quest to find the dummy who done done-in her daddy. Her anal-retentive, erudite teenage girl clashes with the craggly Marshall Rooster Cogburn (Bridges), but by the end something about Mattie reaches the old fat man's heart, as she does ours. Best of luck, Hailee!

Jodie Foster, 'Taxi Driver' (1976) [caption id="attachment_32440" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Sony"] [/caption] Age: 14 Nomination: Best Supporting Actress Playing a streetwise 12-year-old prostitute under the thumb of a skeezy pimp (played by Harvey Keitel) in Martin Scorsese's 1976 classic would have been a challenge for any young actress, even an adult one who looked the part. Foster, as you know, is a very special talent, and the astonishing thing at play in her scenes is not even that she holds her own with a titan like De Niro, but that she truly carries herself like a grown up, someone who has lived twice the life of any girl her age. This is not a child actress acting adult-like in an amusing way, but a child conveying the utter loss of childhood.

Patty Duke, 'The Miracle Worker' (1962) [caption id="attachment_32327" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Universal Pictures"] [/caption] Age: 16 Nomination: Best Supporting Actress Duke and Anne Bancroft reprised their Broadway roles of blind and deaf girl Helen Keller and her blind teacher Anne Sullivan in 1962's film version of "Miracle Worker." Duke almost lost the role since Keller was supposed to be only 7 during the story, but fate prevailed and she followed this Oscar win with an eponymous sitcom, "The Patty Duke Show." In 1979 she played the Sullivan part in a TV remake, and later became a mental health advocate.

Somewhere in there she found time to give birth to goonie Sean Astin, aka Samwise Gamgee from "Lord of the Rings." Jack Wild, 'Oliver!' (1968) [caption id="attachment_32441" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Sony"] [/caption] Age: 16 Nomination: Best Supporting Actor After winning acclaim and the Academy nod for playing the skilled pickpocket The Artful Dodger in the musical version of Dickens' classic "Oliver Twist," Wild found continued fame on Sid & Marty Krofft's late-60's acid-trip kids show "H.R. Pufnstuf." When the excitement of playing make-believe with giant felt creatures that look like they rode out of your darkest nightmares waned, he turned to music, and when that fell by the wayside, booze. After recovery in the late '80s, Wild spent most of his remaining career in stage productions. He passed away in 2006 from a long bout with cancer, only 53 years old.

Sal Mineo, 'Rebel Without a Cause' (1955) [caption id="attachment_32445" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Warner Bros."] [/caption] Age: 17 Nomination: Best Supporting Actor This Italian kid from The Bronx made his mark in Hollywood as the young teen enamored with James Dean's rebellious troublemaker in 1955's "Rebel," and for awhile Mineo was beating off film offers and sexy ladies with a rowing oar. Then he got typecast as a troubled teen, and everything dried up. After many attempts to jumpstart his career, including some popular roles on the stage, Mineo was tragically stabbed to-death in an alleyway robbery. The killer had no idea who he was. River Phoenix, "Running On Empty" (1988) [caption id="attachment_32330" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Warner Bros."] [/caption] Age: 18 Nomination: Best Supporting Actor Poor River.

Possibly the most promising actor of his generation had his light extinguished by drugs outside the Viper Room in 1993. Only a few years before he was sitting in the Shrine Auditorium alongside fellow nominees like Kevin Kline or Alec Guinness, and he was indeed in their league. Nominated for his role in "Empty" as a teenage boy trying to break free from the life imposed on him by fugitive parents, check this scene between he and Martha Plimpton to see that, like James Dean before and Heath Ledger after, we lost one of the greats… Leonardo DiCaprio, 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' (1993) [caption id="attachment_32450" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Paramount"] [/caption] Age: 19 Nomination: Best Supporting Actor As Robert Downey Jr. said in "Tropic Thunder," an actor should never go "full-retard," but unlike Ben Stiller in that comedy, Leo really lent his heart and soul to playing the vulnerable, childlike Arnie in "Gilbert Grape" opposite title character Johnny Depp.

DiCaprio seamlessly captured the look and mannerisms of a developmentally disabled person at the most broad (climbing a water tower) and most sensitive ends of the spectrum. The role helped launch Leo into the stratosphere, where he remains.

Mickey Rooney, 'Babes in Arms' (1939) [caption id="attachment_32325" align="alignright" width="150" caption="MGM"] [/caption] Age: 19 Nomination: Best Actor The Mickster, still active today at age 90, has literally been performing since he was 17 months old, so he has traces of Vaudeville, classic Hollywood, and modern television & stagework coursing through his bloodstream, right up to "Night At The Museum." In one of many pairings of Rooney and Judy Garland, 1939's "Babes in Arms" sports several catchy tunes including "Good Morning," later made famous in "Singin' in the Rain." Interestingly, the third-youngest Best Actor nominee is… Mickey Rooney again, at age 23 for "The Human Comedy." Timothy Hutton, 'Ordinary People' (1980) [caption id="attachment_32335" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Paramount Pictures"] [/caption] Age: 20 Nomination: Best Supporting Actor (Youngest Winner) As the troubled

, suicidal teen still dealing with the loss of his brother amid family strife in Robert Redford's "Ordinary People," the handsome young Hutton seemed poised for superstardom.

However, after winning he fell prey to the "Oscar Curse," and once most of his 80s starring vehicles died at the box office he became sidelined to supporting roles. Things have turned around for Hutton in the last few years, though, with his lead-role in TNT's hit series "Leverage." Jennifer Lawrence, 'Winter's Bone' (2010) [caption id="attachment_32307" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Roadside Attractions"] [/caption] Age: 20 Nomination: Best Actress Hollywood being what it is, most of the plum roles for women skew towards twenty-ish ladies. Lawrence is the latest to benefit from this paradigm, receiving gobs of applause for her tough-as-nails performance in the indie drama "Winter's Bone," now known as Wayne & Garth's favorite Oscar pick .

As a teenage girl trying to find her meth-dealin' daddy in the rural Ozarks, she exudes a confidence that already landed her in next summer's blockbuster "X-Men: First Class." Keira Knightley, 'Pride and Prejudice' (2005) [caption id="attachment_32312" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Focus Features"] [/caption] Age: 20 Nomination: Best Actress Knightley swashbuckled her way from high-seas adventure to Academy recognition, all with a little help from Jane Austen. Playing heroine Elizabeth Bennet for Joe Wright's 2005 version of "Prejudice" tickled the fancy of the AMPAS, while she and Wright struck gold again with a nomination two years later for "Atonement." As she famously exclaimed in the first "Pirates" movie, "You like pain? Try wearing a corset!" We like your pain, Keira, we really like it!

Ellen Page, 'Juno' (2007) [caption id="attachment_32295" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Fox Searchlight"] [/caption] Age: 20 Nomination: Best Actress Way before she got incepted by Chris Nolan, this spunky Canadian put herself on the radar in 2005 with a savagely intense performance in "kid-tortures-pedophile" masterpiece "Hard Candy." She then took a 180-degree turn with the cute, sassy teen pregnancy comedy "Juno," where, thanks to Diablo Cody's whip-smart one-liners ("Honest to blog?"), she secured her place on the A-list, as well as the Academy list. Take our word, she's this generation's Jodie Foster, and at age 23 still has a nice cushion of time to prove it.

Marlee Matlin, 'Children of a Lesser God' (1986) [caption id="attachment_32321" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Paramount"] [/caption] Age: 21 Nomination: Best Actress (Youngest Winner) Like Mickey Rooney, this remarkable actress's career also cemented when only a little over a year old, but that's not when she began acting… it's when she lost her hearing. Thus, Matlin knew intimately the trials of living as a deaf person, and brilliantly transferred that experience to 1986's "Children" opposite William Hurt, in a torn relationship between two stubborn people, one of which can't hear (guess which). One of the few actors to win for their film debut, she parlayed that fame into a broad range of roles in film/TV, and even dated Hurt for a few years, so win-win. 8 of the Youngest Oscar Winners and Nominees of All Time 8 of the Youngest Oscar Winners and Nominees of All Time Reddit When it comes to the Oscars , usually it’s the older, more established actors that come away with the nominations and awards for their film work.

However, sometimes a young newcomer gives a performance that just cannot be ignored. The following is a list of the youngest Oscar nominees and winners in the acting categories. source: Focus Features 1. Adrien Brody, The Pianist Adrien Brody is the youngest actor to take home an Oscar for Best Actor for his 2002 win for Roman Polanski’s Holocaust film The Pianist. His win might be most remembered for that creepy Halle Berry kiss, but it was history-making because Brody was only 29 years old when he won. That’s much older than any of the other actors on this list, but that only goes to show the Academy’s tendency to honor older actors in the male acting categories. Critics heaped praise on the film, which they saw as one of Polanski’s most personal efforts as he explored his own experiences surviving the Holocaust through the figure of the Polish-Jewish classical composer and pianist Władysław Szpilman. Brody’s performance was honored for his dedication to the role, which saw him learn the piano and lose scary amounts of weight to become the skeletal Szpilman. source: Paramount Pictures 2.

Jackie Cooper, Skippy For this 1931 movie about a couple of kids trying to save a dog, Jackie Cooper became the youngest nominee in the Best Actor category at age 9. He’s held the record ever since, for a whopping 84 years. The movie follows the character Skippy, played by Cooper and based on the comic strip of that name by Percy Crosby, as he helps his poor friend Sooky save a dog. The next-youngest actor nominated for the Oscar is a full 10 years older than Cooper. Mickey Rooney was nominated at age 19 for his role in 1939’s Babes in Arms. source: Paramount Pictures 3. Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God Marlee Matlin made history in more ways than one when she took home her Oscar for Best Actress in 1986. She was not only the youngest winner of the award at age 21, but also the only deaf actor ever to win an Academy Award. In Children of a Lesser God, Matlin plays a deaf custodian at a school for the deaf who falls in love with a hearing speech teacher there.

As their relationship develops, his insistence that she learn to speak rather than use sign language becomes a major source of discord between them. This was the first performance since the 1926 silent movie You’d Be Surprised to have a deaf actor in a leading role. Matlin has also received a Golden Globe award and four Emmy nominations for her work during her acting career. source: Fox Searchlight 4. Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild The Louisiana native Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest nominee ever in the category of Best Actress at age 9 when she was nominated for her role as the strong-willed young Katrina survivor in the magical realism film Beasts of the Southern Wild. Her nomination also made her the first African American child to earn an Oscar nomination as well as the first person born in the 21st century to do so. She was only 6 years old when the film was made and lied about her age when she auditioned for the role, as she was just 5 and the cut-off age was 6, according to an interview Roger Ebert did with the actress.

Director Benh Zeitlin ended up being so impressed with Wallis that he changed the script to better suit her. Reviews of the film lavished her performance with praise. She’s gone on to land the starring role in the high-profile remake of Annie and a modeling campaign with Giorgio Armani. source: Paramount Pictures 5. Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People The 1980 film Ordinary People was the directorial debut of Robert Redford and won four Academy Awards, including for Timothy Hutton’s performance making him the youngest winner for Best Supporting Actor at age 20. The movie is about an upper middle class family attempting to return to normal life after the death of one of their sons and the attempted suicide of the other, played by Hutton. His character is traumatized due to having survived the boating accident that killed his brother. Hutton has held the record for being the youngest winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for 34 years. He took the record from George Chakiris, who won at age 27 for his performance in West Side Story. source: Columbia Pictures 6. Justin Henry, Kramer vs.

Kramer The youngest nominee in any acting category is Justin Henry, for his nomination for Best Supporting Actor which he earned for his performance in Kramer vs. Kramer at age 8. Henry is the only actor ever to be nominated for an Academy Award in the same decade as his or her birth. The film stars Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep as a married couple going through a divorce and how that divorce impacts the people around them, including their young son played by Henry. Streep and Hoffman both earned Oscars for their performances as well. The 1979 movie was praised for realistically portraying changing cultural views on parenthood as a large shift had occurred during the 1970s and parenting was less expected to be solely the responsibility of the mother. The film was lauded for showing both the mother and the father’s perspectives. Kramer vs. Kramer was Henry’s first ever film role. source: Paramount Pictures 7. Tatum O’Neal, Paper Moon Tatum O’Neal is the youngest Oscar winner in any category for her Best Supporting Actress win at age 10 for acting alongside her father Ryan O’Neal in Paper Moon. Tatum beat out her co-star Madeline Kahn for the award.

The 1973 movie is set in the Great Depression and follows a con artist, played by Ryan O’Neal, who meets a young girl at the funeral of a woman he once had a relationship with. It’s speculated that the girl is his daughter, and he’s given the job of taking the orphan to her aunt’s house. While traveling together they form a bond when she shows a knack for conning people and they make a formidable team for duping folks out of their money. O’Neal has held the record of being the youngest Oscar winner for 41 years. source: Universal 8. Mary Badham, To Kill a Mockingbird Tatum O’Neal is technically also the youngest ever nominee for Best Supporting Actress, but the youngest nominee that didn’t end up winning that Oscar is Mary Badham for her iconic portrayal of Scout, the heroine of To Kill a Mockingbird. Badham was also 10 years old when she received that nomination, but was older than O’Neal by 35 days. The 1962 film adaptation of the classic novel by Harper Lee is almost as beloved as the book.

Many would be surprised to know that Badham lost the Oscar to another child actor, Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker, as obviously Badham’s performance in To Kill a Mockingbird has stood the test of time much better. The film is considered one of the greatest movies of all time and star Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his iconic performance as Atticus Finch. Badham didn’t continue acting as she got older, but she does occasionally give talks on her experiences making the movie as well as promote its messages of tolerance and acceptance. The information on the youngest Oscar nominees and winners comes per the awards database at Oscars.org . More from Entertainment Cheat Sheet:

Question: Who in 2002 was the youngest man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Answer: Adrien Brody