| 72nd Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | March 26, 2000 | |||
| Site | Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles, California |
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| Preshow | Tyra Banks Chris Connelly Meredith Vieira |
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| Host | Billy Crystal | |||
| Producer | Richard Zanuck Lili Fini Zanuck |
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| Director | Louis J. Horvitz | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | American Beauty | |||
| Most awards | American Beauty (5) | |||
| Most nominations | American Beauty (8) | |||
| TV in the United States | ||||
| Network | ABC | |||
| Duration | 4 hours, 4 minutes | |||
| Viewership | 46.53 million 29.64% (Nielsen ratings) |
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The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony (also known as Oscars 2000) took place at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, and was Billy Crystal's seventh time hosting the Awards. The ceremony attracted 46.53 million viewers, an audience 3.7% bigger than the previous ceremony.
The Academy Awards ceremony was dominated by the movie American Beauty, which was nominated in 8 categories, and won 5 awards, including Best Picture.
Notably, this broadcast was the first Academy Awards ceremony broadcast to receive a television rating system certification of TV-14 (Parents Strongly Cautioned), in part due to the showing of many American Beauty clips featuring scenes of sex, innuendo, and violence.[citation needed] Despite its containing an offensive word, the Oscar-nominated song "Blame Canada" (from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut) was performed, with performer Robin Williams cleverly "hiding" the word. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone attended the ceremony wearing pink and green dresses popularized by Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow. In a 2005 interview, they claimed to have taken acid on the day of the show.[1] The first Oscar show to have a TV rating was the 69th Academy Awards, broadcast in 1997, but it was rated TV-PG (Parental Guidance).[citation needed]
Winners & nominees
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
American Beauty - Kevin Spacey
- The Hurricane - Denzel Washington
- The Insider - Russell Crowe
- The Straight Story - Richard Farnsworth
- Sweet and Lowdown - Sean Penn
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- American Beauty - Annette Bening
- The End of the Affair - Julianne Moore
- Music of the Heart - Meryl Streep
- Tumbleweeds - Janet McTeer
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
The Cider House Rules - Michael Caine
- The Green Mile - Michael Clarke Duncan
- Magnolia - Tom Cruise
- The Sixth Sense - Haley Joel Osment
- The Talented Mr. Ripley - Jude Law
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Girl, Interrupted - Angelina Jolie
- Being John Malkovich - Catherine Keener
- Boys Don't Cry - Chloë Sevigny
- The Sixth Sense - Toni Collette
- Sweet and Lowdown - Samantha Morton
Best Director
- Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze
- The Cider House Rules - Lasse Hallström
- The Insider - Michael Mann
- The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Cider House Rules - John Irving
- Election - Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
- The Green Mile - Frank Darabont
- The Insider - Michael Mann and Eric Roth
- The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella
Best Original Screenplay
- Being John Malkovich - Charlie Kaufman
- Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan
- Topsy-Turvy - Mike Leigh
Best Cinematography
American Beauty - Conrad L. Hall
- The End of the Affair - Roger Pratt
- The Insider - Dante Spinotti
- Sleepy Hollow - Emmanuel Lubezki
- Snow Falling on Cedars - Robert Richardson
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Sleepy Hollow - Rick Heinrichs and Peter Young
- Anna and the King - Luciana Arrighi
- The Cider House Rules - David Gropman
- The Talented Mr. Ripley - Roy Walker
- Topsy-Turvy - Eve Stewart
Best Costume Design
- Anna and the King - Jenny Beavan
- Sleepy Hollow - Colleen Atwood
- The Talented Mr. Ripley - Gary Jones and Ann Roth
- Titus - Milena Canonero
Best Sound
The Matrix - John T. Reitz , Gregg Rudloff , David E. Campbell and David Lee
- The Green Mile - Robert J. Litt , Elliot Tyson , Michael Herbick and Willie D. Burton
- The Insider - Andy Nelson , Doug Hemphill and Lee Orloff
- The Mummy - Leslie Shatz , Chris Carpenter , Rick Kline and Chris Munro
- Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace - Gary Rydstrom , Tom Johnson , Shawn Murphy and John Midgley
Best Editing
- American Beauty - Tariq Anwar
- The Cider House Rules - Lisa Zeno Churgin
- The Insider - William Goldenberg , Paul Rubell and David Rosenbloom
- The Sixth Sense - Andrew Mondshein
Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing
The Matrix - Dane A. Davis
- Fight Club - Ren Klyce and Richard Hymns
- Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace - Ben Burtt and Tom Bellfort
Best Effects, Visual Effects
The Matrix - John Gaeta , Janek Sirrs , Jon Thum and Steve Courtley
- Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace - John Knoll , Dennis Muren , Scott Squires and Rob Coleman
- Stuart Little - John Dykstra , Jerome Chen , Henry F. Anderson III and Eric Allard
Best Makeup
Topsy-Turvy - Christine Blundell and Trefor Proud
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - Michèle Burke and Mike Smithson
- Bicentennial Man - Greg Cannom
- Life - Rick Baker
Best Music, Original Song
Tarzan - Phil Collins for the song "You'll Be In My Heart"
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut - Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman for the song "Blame Canada"
- Music of the Heart - Diane Warren for the song "Music of My Heart"
- Magnolia - Aimee Mann for the song "Save Me"
- Toy Story 2 - Randy Newman for the song "When She Loved Me"
Best Music, Original Score
The Red Violin - John Corigliano
- American Beauty - Thomas Newman
- Angela's Ashes - John Williams
- The Cider House Rules - Rachel Portman
- The Talented Mr. Ripley - Gabriel Yared
Best Short Film, Animated
Best Short Film, Live Action
My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York
- Bror, Min Bro
- Killing Joe
- Kleingeld
- Major and Minor Miracles
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Best Documentary, Features
- Buena Vista Social Club
- Genghis Blues
- On the Ropes
- Speaking in String
Best Foreign Language Film
- Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef - Nepal
- Est - Ouest - France
- Solomon and Gaenor - United Kingdom
- Under Solen - Sweden
Honorary Award
Andrzej Wajda - "in recognition of five decades of extraordinary film direction. [statuette]."[2]
In Memoriam
Presented by Edward Norton. The Academy remembers those persons involved in films that died in the previous year: Sylvia Sidney, Jim Varney, composer Ernest Gold, Ruth Roman, Henry Jones, director Robert Bresson, Desmond Llewelyn, screenwriter Mario Puzo, producer Allan Carr, Rory Calhoun, screenwriter Frank Tarloff, animator Marc Davis, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, screenwriter Garson Kanin, director Roger Vadim, Mabel King, Oliver Reed, special effects expert Albert Whitlock, Ian Bannen, screenwriter Abraham Polonsky, Dirk Bogarde, director Edward Dmytryk, Lila Kedrova, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Madeline Kahn and lastly, George C. Scott.
Notes
- ^ http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/612/612094p4.html
- ^ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "Honorary Award" (Web). Official Academy Awards Database. AMPAS, Oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/awards/honorary01.html. Retrieved 2008-07-29. "The presenter was Jane Fonda." (Page 1 of 2 pages; photo caption).
See also
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