| 75th Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | Sunday, March 23, 2003 | |||
| Site | Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California |
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| Preshow | Jann Carl Chris Connelly Shaun Robinson |
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| Host | Steve Martin | |||
| Producer | Gil Cates | |||
| Director | Louis J. Horvitz | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | Chicago | |||
| Most awards | Chicago (6) | |||
| Most nominations | Chicago (13) | |||
| TV in the United States | ||||
| Network | ABC | |||
| Duration | 3 hours, 30 minutes | |||
| Viewership | 33.04 million 20.58 (Nielsen ratings) |
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The 75th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2002, were held on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It was produced by Gil Cates and hosted for the second time by Steve Martin.
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 thirteen. The film went on to win six Oscars including Best Picture, the first musical to win this category since Oliver! in 1968.
Adrien Brody, at age 29, became the youngest ever recipient of the Best Actor Award for his role in The Pianist.
Winners & Nominees
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
- About Schmidt - Jack Nicholson
- Adaptation. - Nicolas Cage
- Gangs of New York - Daniel Day-Lewis
- The Quiet American - Michael Caine
Best Actress in a Leading Role
- Chicago - Renée Zellweger
- Far from Heaven - Julianne Moore
- Frida - Salma Hayek
- Unfaithful - Diane Lane
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- Catch Me If You Can - Christopher Walken
- Chicago - John C. Reilly
- The Hours - Ed Harris
- Road to Perdition - Paul Newman
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Chicago - Catherine Zeta-Jones
- About Schmidt - Kathy Bates
- Adaptation. - Meryl Streep
- Chicago - Queen Latifah
- The Hours - Julianne Moore
Best Director
- Chicago - Rob Marshall
- Gangs of New York - Martin Scorsese
- The Hours - Stephen Daldry
- Talk to Her - Pedro Almodóvar
Best Original Screenplay
- Far from Heaven - Todd Haynes
- Gangs of New York - Jay Cocks , Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Nia Vardalos
- Y tu mamá también - Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón
Best Adapted Screenplay
- About a Boy - Peter Hedges , Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz
- Adaptation. - Charlie Kaufman
- Chicago - Bill Condon
- The Hours - David Hare
Best Cinematography
Road to Perdition - Conrad L. Hall
- Chicago - Dion Beebe
- Far From Heaven - Edward Lachman
- Gangs of New York - Michael Ballhaus
- The Pianist - Pawel Edelman
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Chicago - John Mhyre and Gordon Sim
- Frida - Felipe Fernández del Paso and Hania Robledo
- Gangs of New York - Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Grant Major , Dan Hennah and Alan Lee
- Road to Perdition - Dennis Gassner and Nancy Haigh
Best Costume Design
- Frida - Julie Weiss
- Gangs of New York - Sandy Powell
- The Hours - Ann Roth
- The Pianist - Anna B. Sheppard
Best Sound
Chicago - Michael Minkler , David Lee and Dominick Tavella
- Gangs of New York - Tom Fleischman , Eugene Gearty and Ivan Sharrock
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Christopher Boyes , Michael Semanick , Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
- Road to Perdition - Scott Millan , Bob Beemer and John Pritchett
- Spider-Man - Kevin O'Connell , Greg P. Russell and Ed Novick
Best Editing
- Gangs of New York - Thelma Schoonmaker
- The Hours - Peter Boyle
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Michael Horton
- The Pianist - Hervé de Luze
Best Sound Editing
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
- Minority Report - Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
- Road to Perdition - Scott Hecker
Best Visual Effects
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Jim Rygiel , Randall William Cook , Alex Funke and Joe Letteri
- Spider-Man - John Dykstra , Scott Stokdyk , Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones - Rob Coleman , Pablo Helman , John Knoll and Ben Snow
Best Makeup
Frida - John E. Jackson and Beatrice De Alba
- The Time Machine - John M. Elliott Jr. and Barbara Lorenz
Best Music, Original Song
8 Mile - Marshall Mathers , Jeff Bass and Luis Resto for the song Lose Yourself
- Chicago - John Kander and Fred Ebb for the song I Move On
- Frida - Elliot Goldenthal and Julie Taymor for the song Burn It Blue
- Gangs of New York - Bono , Adam Clayton , The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr. for the song The Hands That Built America
- The Wild Thornberrys Movie - Paul Simon for the song Father and Daughter
Best Music, Original Score
- Catch Me If You Can - John Williams
- Far From Heaven - Elmer Bernstein
- The Hours - Philip Glass
- Road to Perdition - Thomas Newman
Best Short Film, Animated
- Atama-yama
- Das Rad
- Katedra
- Mike's New Car
Best Short Film, Live Action
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
- The Collector of Bedford Street
- Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
- Why Can't We Be a Family Again?
Best Documentary, Features
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Animated Feature
Special Honors
| Award | Winner | Field |
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| Academy Honorary Award | Peter O'Toole | Acting |
Multiple Nominations
The following twelve films received multiple nominations.
- 13 nominations
- 10 nominations
- 9 nominations
- 7 nominations
- 6 nominations
- 4 nominations
- 2 nominations
Multiple Awards
The following four films each won multiple awards.
- 5 awards
- 4 awards
Presenters and Performers
Presenters
- Ben Affleck- Best Original Screenplay
- Julie Andrews- Short Film
- Gael García Bernal- Introduced the Performance of "Burn it Blue".
- Halle Berry- Best Actor
- Jennifer Connelly- Best Supporting Actor
- Sean Connery- Best Supporting Actress
- Geena Davis
- Olivia de Havilland
- Cameron Diaz- Best Animated Feature
- Kirk Douglas- Co-Presented Best Motion Picture.
- Michael Douglas- Co-Presented Best Motion Picture.
- Colin Farrell
- Harrison Ford- Best Director
- Brendan Fraser
- Jennifer Garner
- Richard Gere
- Salma Hayek- Best Foreign Language Film
- Dustin Hoffman
- Kate Hudson (Sci-tech Awards)
- Diane Lane- Best Documentary Feature
- Jennifer Lopez
- Matthew McConaughey
- Julianne Moore
- Keanu Reeves
- Julia Roberts
- Meg Ryan
- Susan Sarandon- In Memorium Tribute
- Meryl Streep- Honorary Award
- Barbra Streisand- Best Original Song
- John Travolta
- Jack Valenti
- Nia Vardalos
- Denzel Washington- Best Actress
- Renée Zellweger- Best Original Score
Performers
- Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones-performed "I Move On" from Chicago
- Paul Simon-performed -"Father and Daughter" from The Wild Thornberrys Movie
- Lila Downs and Caetano Veloso- performed "Burn It Blue" from Frida
- U2-performed"The Hands That Built America" from Gangs of New York
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 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.
The kiss
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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.
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" 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, you should have seen it. The Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo." The audience erupted in laughter and applause.
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]
This was also the only year the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature had 5 nominees.
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.
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! Thank you very much!" - 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.
- "...you know, it fills me with great joy. But I am also filled with a lot of sadness tonight, because I'm accepting an award at -- at such a strange time. And you know my experiences of making this film made me very aware of the sadness and the dehumanization of people at times of war, and the repercussions of war. And whomever you believe in, if it's God or Allah, may He watch over you, and let's pray for a peaceful and swift resolution."- Adrien Brody.
References
External links
- Academy 2003 Press Releases
- E! Online - Academy Awards 2003 via Web Archive
- CNN Awards Spotlight - Academy Awards
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