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Dallas Critics Laud "King"
Shove over, Dubya, there's a new king in Texas.
The Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association is the latest group to weigh in this pre-Oscar season, naming The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Best Picture for 2003 and its helmer, Peter Jackson, Best Director.
The 63 Texas-based television and print reviewers ranked the final chapter in New Line's epic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy trilogy at the top of its 10th annual year-end poll. King also won the prize for Best Cinematography for Andrew Lesnie.
With these latest props, Return of the King continues to build momentum toward next month's Academy Awards. The film has received Best Picture accolades from the New York, Southeast and Online film critics groups, was hailed as one of the year's 10 best by the American Film Institute and Broadcast Film Critics Association, and is in the running for Best Drama at the upcoming Golden Globes.
With nearly $300 million in domestic ticket sales and a worldwide gross approaching $700 million in less than a month of release, King is also a potent box-office force. It's on track to become the first movie to gross $1 billion since 1997's all-time champ Titanic.
Behind King on the Dallas list is, in order, Anthony Minghella's Civil War drama Cold Mountain, Clint Eastwood's neighborhood noir Mystic River, Sofia Coppola's minimalist romance Lost in Translation, Disney-Pixar's Finding Nemo, indie biopic American Splendor, Jim Sheridan's immigrant tale In America, Tim Burton's fantastical father-son tale Big Fish, Peter Weir's nautical adventure Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and Edward Zwick's sword epic The Last Samurai.
Sean Penn snagged Best Actor for his role as a grief-addled father in Mystic River, while Charlize Theron picked up a Best Actress nod for getting her De Niro on as a defintely deglammed serial killer in Monster.
Alec Baldwin scored Best Supporting Actor kudos for The Cooler, while Texas' own Renée Zellweger was tapped for Best Supporting Actress for Cold Mountain.
Best Foreign-Language Film went to the Brazilian gangster flick City of God, while Andrew Jarecki's Capturing the Friedmans was selected Best Documentary. Finding Nemo netted Best Animated Feature.
The Dallas critics also singled out American Splendor for the Russell Smith award, named after the late Dallas Morning News film critic recognizing the most innovative low-budget independent.
And in a more dubious category, the group voted Universal's Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat Worst Picture of the Year.
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