Nominees for 1st Annual AFI Awards

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Here is a list of the nominees for the first annual AFI Awards, which were announced Thursday in Los Angeles by the American Film Institute:

Motion Picture Nominations:

Movie: "A Beautiful Mind"; "Black Hawk Down"; "In the Bedroom"; "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"; "The Man Who Wasn't There"; "Memento"; "Monster's Ball"; "Moulin Rouge"; "Mulholland Drive"; "Shrek"

Actor: Russell Crowe ("A Beautiful Mind"); Billy Bob Thornton ("The Man Who Wasn't There"); Denzel Washington ("Training Day"); Tom Wilkinson ("In the Bedroom")

Actress: Halle Berry ("Monster's Ball"); Stockard Channing ("The Business of Strangers"); Sissy Spacek ("In the Bedroom"); Naomi Watts ("Mulholland Drive")

Featured Actor: Steve Buscemi ("Ghost World"); Brian Cox ("L.I.E."); Gene Hackman ("The Royal Tenenbaums"); Tony Shalhoub ("The Man Who Wasn't There")

Featured Actress: Cate Blanchett ("Bandits"); Jennifer Connelly ("A Beautiful Mind"); Cameron Diaz ("Vanilla Sky"); Frances O'Connor ("A.I. Artificial Intelligence")

Director: Robert Altman ("Gosford Park"); Todd Field ("In the Bedroom"); David Lynch ("Mulholland Drive"); Ridley Scott ("Black Hawk Down")

Screenwriter: Rob Festinger, Todd Field ("In the Bedroom"); Christopher Nolan ("Memento"); Akiva Goldsman ("A Beautiful Mind"); Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff ("Ghost World")

Cinematographer: Ericson Core ("The Fast and the Furious"); Roger Deakins ("The Man who Wasn't There"); Slawomir Idziak ("Black Hawk Down"); Janusz Kaminski ("A.I. Artificial Intelligence")

Editor: Jill Bilcock ("Moulin Rouge"); Dody Dorn ("Memento"); Pietro Scalia ("Black Hawk Down"); Tim Squyres ("Gosford Park")

Production Designer: Stephen Altman ("Gosford Park"); Rick Carter ("A.I. Artificial Intelligence"); Grant Major ("The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"); Arthur Max ("Black Hawk Down")

Digital Artist: Robert Legato, Nick Davis, Roger Guyett ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"); Jim Rygiel ("The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"); Scott Farrar, Dennis Muren ("A.I. Artificial Intelligence"): Bob Sabiston ("Waking Life")

Composer: Craig Armstrong ("Moulin Rouge"); Angelo Badalementi ("Mulholland Drive"); Patrick Doyle ("Gosford Park"); Howard Shore ("The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring")

Television Nominations:

Drama Series: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (UPN); "Six Feet Under" (HBO); "The Sopranos" (HBO); "The West Wing" (NBC)

Comedy: "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (HBO); "Everybody Loves Raymond" (CBS); "Malcolm in the Middle" (FOX); "Sex and the City" (HBO)

Movie or Mini-Series: "Anne Frank" (ABC); "Band of Brothers" (HBO); "Boycott" (HBO); "Conspiracy" (HBO)

Actor, Series: James Gandolfini ("The Sopranos"); Michael C. Hall ("Six Feet Under"); Chi McBride ("Boston Public"); Ray Romano ("Everybody Loves Raymond")

Actress, Series: Edie Falco ("The Sopranos"); Allison Janney ("The West Wing"); Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle");

Doris Roberts ("Everybody Loves Raymond")

Actor, Movie or Mini-Series: Kenneth Branagh ("Conspiracy"); Ben Kingsley ("Anne Frank"); Giovanni Ribisi ("Shot in the Heart"); Jeffrey Wright ("Boycott")

Actress, Movie or Mini-Series: Tammy Blanchard ("Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows"); Judy Davis ("Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows"); Hannah Taylor Gordon ("Anne Frank"); Phylicia Rashad ("The Old Settler")

The American Film Institute will present the 1st Annual AFI Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Jan. 5, 2002 in ceremonies to be telecast over CBS-TV.