Article: MAKEUP YEAR ACADEMY TRIES TO SHOW FEMININE SIDE THIS TIME.(Viewpoint)

Byline: Phil Perrier Local View

JUDGING from this year's Academy Award nominees, you would think that all the male members of the Academy had been knocked unconscious and locked in a basement.

The contenders for Best Picture are ``A Beautiful Mind,'' ``Gosford Park,'' ``In the Bedroom,'' ``The Lord of the Rings'' and ``Moulin Rouge.'' Oprah Winfrey's book club could have made these choices. Not one movie about soldiers, gladiators or cowboys.

Perhaps this is a makeup year after decades of critics' bemoaning the lack of nominations for quality small films.

On with my predictions:

--Best Actor: Russell Crowe, last year's ...

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