The Surreal Oscar Campaign for The Hours, 20 Years Later

Scott Rudin wanted Nicole Kidman to wear the prosthetic. Harvey Weinstein did not. The disagreement wound up defining one of modern Hollywood’s more surreal Oscar campaigns. It ended onstage at the Kodak Theatre on March 23, 2003, when Denzel Washington opened the envelope and announced the best actress winner with three cheeky words: “By a nose.” The Hours, based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning best seller by Michael Cunningham and distributed by Paramount Pictures, reimagines Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway as a transformative text rippling through the lives of three generations of women. In the film’s earliest timeline, a deglammed Kidman portrays… Read Full Article