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The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Cinematography (John Seale), Best Achievement in Editing (Walter Murch), Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score (Gabriel Yared), Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song (for T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello for the song "Scarlet Tide"), Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song (for Sting for the song "You Will Be My Ain True Love"), Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Jude Law) and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Renée Zellweger).
Law plays a Confederate soldier, fed up with war, who starts off on foot for his home on Cold Mountain, in North Carolina, and the woman he loves, Ada (Kidman). But Ada is a city woman who only recently moved to the rural farm where her minister father has recently died, and struggles to keep the farm going with the help of Ruby (Zellweger).