It was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Original Music Score and Best Visual Effects, at the 77th Academy Awards in 2004. The only way around this is for consumers to demand proper widescreen releases of widescreen movies, and it seems to me that the main way this can come about is if we educate ourselves about the reasons for this.

Bei den rausgeschnittenen Szenen kann ich nur sagen, gut, dass sie rausgeschnitten wurden, Sir Cadogan ist sicherlich treffend dargestellt, aber er nervt mich in den Szenen erheblich mehr als im Buch. K. Rowling`s third book, this wondrous spellbinder soars with laughs, and the kind of breathless surprise only found in a Harry Potter adventure.By now, as Harry approaches adolescence the tone of the narrative changes and we get a more interesting, more complex and darker story. The three pairings on screen (Harry/Sirius; Lupin/Pettigrew and Ron/Hermione) are there for a reason, however subtle, and being limited to just one of them changes the dynamic of the scene. Harry and his friends spend their third year learning how to handle a half-horse half-eagle Hippogriff, repel shape-shifting Boggarts and master the art of Divination.

Although the fullscreen version has the time to pan across towards Harry and Hermione behind the tree and back again, interrupting what had been a natural, slow camera movement to the left with one to the right. The Knight Bus, emergency transport for stranded witches and wizards, finds and takes Harry to the Leaky Cauldron, where Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge assures Harry that he will not be punished. Columbus considered the costumes changes as "a reflection of the character development within the books themselves" and their transition to teenagers.The surround channels are very active, from mysterious creaking noises to brooms zooming by there are plenty of directional effects. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. The kids begin to "own" their characters more by injecting more of their own personalities into their roles.