Skandies: #14

Picture: Munich (60/5)
Director: Stephen Chow, Kung Fu Hustle (70/8)
Actress: Gwyneth Paltrow, Proof (50/3)
Actor: Damian Lewis, Keane (78/7)
S. Actor (tie for #13): Ian McDiarmid, Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith (59/7)
S. Actress: Taraji P. Henson, Hustle & Flow (70/5)
Screenplay (tie for #13): Paul Hernandez and Bob Schooley & Mark McCorkle, Sky High (59/5)
Scene: One-man band, Last Days (42/5)
Undistributed 2003: A Thousand Months (Faouzi Bensaïdi) (32/3)

HISTORY:

This is Chow's first eligible film, Shaolin Soccer having been delayed for 600 years by Miramax Classic.

Of the actors, only Paltrow has previously placed. She makes her fifth appearance. The previous four:

#19, Supporting: Hard Eight (1997)
#7, Lead: Shakespeare in Love (1998)
#16, Lead: Shallow Hal (2001)
#10, Supporting: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

All of the Sky High screenwriters are new.