Fourth Annual Cosmique Movie Awards

Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) is forced to team up with the roguish (and half-crazed) pirate Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in order to rescue his childhood friend Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from a cursed pirate crew led by Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). The pirates have been inflicted with a curse that forces them to live halfway between living and dead, their decaying skeleton forms revealed only in the moonlight. To remove the curse, the pirates intend to use Elizabeth's blood and necklace (a part of their curse) to return to their normal state.

Johnny Depp's Oscar nomination and his surprise win at the Screen Actors Guild awards has given Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl an unexpected legitimacy. Even so, its twelve nominations at the Cosmique Movie Awards - particularly the Supporting Actor nod for much-overlooked Orlando Bloom - came as another of the many surprises of the year. And eleven of those nominations were enough to help Gore Verbinski squeak in a Best Director nomination in spite of receiving absolutely no recognition from the big award shows. Anthony Minghella and Clint Eastwood must be fuming. (That is, to the extent that they even know or care about the Cosmos.)

Cosmique Movie Awards

• Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a 2003 Film - Johnny Depp
• Sexiest Ensemble Cast of a 2003 Film
• Favorite Male Heroic Character of a 2003 Film - Johnny Depp

Additional Cosmique Movie Nominations

• Best Director of a 2003 Film - Gore Verbinkski
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a 2003 Film - Orlando Bloom
• Best Film Script of 20033
• Best Cinematography or Art Direction for a 2003 Film
• Best Costume Design or Make-Up for a 2003 Film
• Best Visual Effects in a 2003 Film
• Best Male Villain of a 2003 Film - Geoffrey Rush
• Best Action/Adventure Film of 2003
• Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Film of 2003

Reviews from Cosmo Voters:

"Pirates of the Caribbean" still stands out as one of my favorite films of the year. It's a great, swashbuckling action/adventure that should do well to banish the "buccaneer curse" that has plagued pirate movies since the 1940s. And it has a nice fantasy element that complements the story without overpowering it.

Johnny Depp has a tendency to add a little quirkiness to all of his characters, even when the character might not normally call for it. His characterization of the half-mad pirate Jack Sparrow pushes to the edge of being distracting and annoying, but never really crosses that line.

My grade: A

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