75th Academy Awards

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75th Academy Awards
Date Sunday, March 23, 2003
Site Kodak Theatre
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Preshow Jann Carl
Chris Connelly
Shaun Robinson
Host Steve Martin
Producer Gil Cates
Director Louis J. Horvitz
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Duration 3 hours, 30 minutes
Ratings 33.04 million
20.58 (Nielsen ratings)

The 75th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2002, were held on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It was produced by Gil Cates and hosted by Steve Martin, who also hosted the 73rd Academy Awards.

The nominees were announced on February 11, 2003 by Academy president Frank Pierson and actress Marisa Tomei, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters. Chicago led the nominations with 13 nominations. The film went on to win six Oscars including Best Picture, the first musical to win this category since Oliver in 1968.

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[edit] Winners

This is a breakdown of only major winners. For a complete list of nominees and winners, see: 75th Academy Awards nominees and winners

[edit] Feature films

Award Winner Producer
Best motion picture Chicago Rob Marshall
Best foreign language film Nowhere in Africa Germany
Best documentary feature Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore and Michael Donovan
Best animated feature Spirited Away Hayao Miyazaki

[edit] Directing

Award Winner Film
Academy Award for Directing Roman Polanski The Pianist

[edit] Acting

Award Winner Film
Best actor in a leading role Adrien Brody The Pianist
Best actress in a leading role Nicole Kidman The Hours
Best actor in a supporting role Chris Cooper Adaptation.
Best actress in a supporting role Catherine Zeta-Jones Chicago

[edit] Writing

Award Winner Film
Original screenplay Pedro Almodóvar Talk to Her
Adapted screenplay Ronald Harwood The Pianist

[edit] Special Honors

Award Winner Field
Academy Honorary Award Peter O'Toole Acting

[edit] Multiple Nominations

The following eight films received multiple nominations.

[edit] Multiple Awards

The following four films each multiple awards.

[edit] Presenters and Performers

[edit] Presenters

[edit] Performers

[edit] News and recap

The ceremony was originally intended to be an especially festive celebration of the ceremony's 75th anniversary. However, it was muted five days before the show by the onset of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, which coincided almost exactly with the ceremony. As a result, the hype and tone of the show were scaled back, and some Award winners (notably Adrien Brody and Michael Moore) took the opportunity to voice their opposition to the invasion.

The ceremony was watched by 33.04 million people with 20.58% of households watching according to Nielsen ratings.[1] For the second time in the telecast's history, it fell second place to a different program (American Idol) for the week. It remained the least watched and lowest rated telecast (until 2008) since ratings were recorded beginning in 1967 and audience size was measured since 1974.

[edit] The kiss

The Kodak Theater before the ceremony
The Kodak Theater before the ceremony

Halle Berry was presenting the Oscar for Best Actor which went to Adrien Brody. As he got on stage he shocked everyone (especially Halle Berry) by passionately kissing her. When the kiss was done Adrien turned back to Halle Berry, quipping "Bet you didn't know that was in the gift bag."

The kiss was subsequently parodied in other awards ceremonies. One such reenactment occurred between Adrien Brody and Queen Latifah when they were presenting the Best Kiss at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards. Additionally, at the 76th Academy Awards, Brody freshened up with a spritz of breath spray before presenting the Best Actress award to Charlize Theron.

[edit] Michael Moore controversy

When Michael Moore received the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine, he took the opportunity to voice his opinions on the "fictitious war" in Iraq and our "fictitious President", with a mixture of applause and boos ensuing from the audience.

After he left the stage, host Steve Martin broke the tension in the room by joking, "It's so sweet backstage. The Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo." The audience erupted in laughter and applause.

[edit] Special events

This year, the actors nominated for an Oscar did not have a clip shown of their performance as their names were announced, as had been done in years past. Instead, the Academy showed clips from every single actor or actress that ever won an Oscar for Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor or Actress in the past 75 years.

As a celebration of 75 years of the Academy, the Academy invited a large portion of actors and actresses that were past Oscar winners, although this year there were 59 past winners as opposed to the 70 that attended the 70th Academy Awards.[2]

[edit] In memoriam

Presented by Susan Sarandon, a montage honoring those in the film industry that died in the last year. Among those featured included: executive Lew Wasserman, art director Richard Sylbert, Eddie Bracken, director George Sidney, Katy Jurado, producer Jack Brodsky, Dudley Moore, director John Frankenheimer, Rod Steiger, writer Norman Panama, Horst Buchholz, director J. Lee Thompson, Leo McKern, Milton Berle, animator Ward Kimball, Richard Crenna, documentary filmmaker Charles Guggenheim, Rosemary Clooney, writer Daniel Taradash, Signe Hasso, composer Walter Scharf, Kim Hunter, lyricist Adolph Green, Alberto Sordi, cinematographer Conrad Hall, director George Roy Hill, Richard Harris, James Coburn and director Billy Wilder.

[edit] Memorable quotes

  • "We live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fiction of duct tape or fiction of orange alerts, we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up." - Michael Moore, as he received his Oscar for Best Documentary Bowling for Columbine.
  • "It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it. The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo." – host Steve Martin, after Michael Moore's acceptance speech
  • "In About Schmidt, Jack Nicholson plays a retired insurance executive who climbs into a hot tub with Kathy Bates...But hey, who hasn't?" - host Steve Martin.
  • "Every time an Academy Award is handed out, another agent gets his wings." - Kathy Bates.

[edit] References

  1. ^ USATODAY.com - War coverage steals some of Academy Awards' thunder
  2. ^ Whatever-Dude :: The 75th Academy Awards Review

[edit] External links

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