Oscars: Winners and Losers

In an effort to make things easy for film lovers to organise their own Oscar 2001 sweepstakes, Empire Online has counted up the nominations that were announced today and come up with the following Oscar chart. While no-one can say who's going to be clutching a golden statuette come March 25th, this shortlist of the most-nominated films should give you some indication of which ones are more likely to be winners. 1. Gladiator (12 nominations) 2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (10 nominations) 3= Traffic (5 nominations) 3= Chocolat (5 nominations) 3= Erin Brockovich (5 nominations) 4. Almost Famous (4 nominations) 5= Billy Elliot (3 nominations) 5= Quills (3 nominations) 5= The Patriot (3 nominations) 5= The Grinch (3 nominations)