(Variety)- In nominations for the 72nd annual Academy Awards, DreamWorks? ?American Beauty? racked up eight noms, followed by Miramax?s ?The Cider House Rules? and Buena Vista?s ?The Insider,? with seven apiece, and BV?s ?The Sixth Sense,? with (appropriately) six.?Those four films are competing for top prize with Warner Bros.? ?The Green Mile,? which chalked up four bids.?Four of the five films also saw their directors nominated: Sam Mendes (?Beauty?), Lasse Hallstrom (?Cider House?), Michael Mann (?Insider?) and M.?Night Shyamalan (?Sixth Sense?).?The fifth helming contender is Spike Jonze, for USA Films? ?Being John Malkovich.? Cited for Miramax?s ?Music of the Heart,? Meryl Streep enters the Oscar record books with her 12th nomination.?She thus ties Katharine Hepburn for the most acting noms ever.?While Hepburn?s are all in the lead category, Streep?s first two were for supporting actress; however, she accomplished this in only 22 years, compared to Hepburn?s span of 49 years.?More nominations ...
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