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| 74th Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | Sunday, March 24, 2002 | |||
| Site | Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California |
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| Preshow | Chris Connelly Leeza Gibbons Ananda Lewis |
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| Host | Whoopi Goldberg | |||
| Producer | Laura Ziskin | |||
| Director | Louis J. Horvitz | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | A Beautiful Mind | |||
| Most awards | A Beautiful Mind & The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (4) |
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| Most nominations | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (13) | |||
| TV in the United States | ||||
| Network | ABC | |||
| Duration | 4 hours, 23 minutes | |||
| Viewership | 40.54 million 24.13% Nielsen ratings |
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The 74th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2001 and were held on March 24, 2002, for the first time at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. The ceremony was historically notable for honoring two African American actors for their Leading Roles.
Laura Ziskin (Spider-Man producer) was executive producer for the first time making her the first woman to solo produce the telecast. She also produced the 2007 telecast. The telecast, which was shown in the United States on ABC, is currently the longest to date.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring led the nominations with a total of thirteen. It would ultimately take home four Oscars.
A Beautiful Mind won Best Picture, as well as an additional three Oscars. The film received a total of eight nominations.
Training Day - Denzel Washington
A Beautiful Mind - Jennifer Connelly
Gosford Park - Julian Fellowes
A Beautiful Mind - Akiva Goldsman
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Andrew Lesnie
Moulin Rouge! - Catherine Martin and Brigitte Broch
Moulin Rouge! - Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie
Black Hawk Down - Michael Minkler , Myron Nettinga and Chris Munro
Black Hawk Down - Pietro Scalia
Pearl Harbor - Christopher Boyes and George Watters II
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Jim Rygiel , Randall William Cook , Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Owen and Richard Taylor
Monsters, Inc. - Randy Newman for the song If I Didn't Have You
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Howard Shore
The 74th Academy Awards ceremony was significant for a number of reasons. It saw the return of the Academy Awards celebrations to Hollywood, after more than forty years away, taking place at the brand new Kodak Theatre. As a result of the new facility, the ceremony was the first to be telecasted to domestic audience on ABC in High Definition due the vast capacity for HDTV equipment that the Kodak Theatre could utilize. Instead of a typical scenery, HD screens were used throughout the ceremony much similar to the technologically ambitious design at the 72nd Academy Awards (that was the first time an HD set was used). The visual graphics and idents were designed by Imaginary Forces (who designed graphics for several TV shows such as Ally McBeal and movies such as Mission Impossible) using a 1080i "gold circles" motif consisting of gold circles that panned through the screen or rotated rapidly. The "gold circles" motif was designed in order for viewers at home to able to watch the ceremony in High Definition.
The Oscar ceremony had several young up and coming actors and actresses to present a few of the awards. Among them included Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Hartnett, Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire.
The ceremony drew its lowest ratings since 1996 with an estimated 40.54 million watching and 24.87 households watching.
Furthermore the tone of this show was quieted by the recent occurrence of the attacks on September 11. Just as the 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards were postponed in 2001, many wondered if the Oscars would be postponed as well. Frank Pierson, then president of the Academy stated that the Oscars would proceed as scheduled, and to postpone would mean that "the terrorists have won". However, the red carpet festivities prior to the awards, though not canceled, were severely curtailed as now the availabity of the bleacher seats were determined by a lottery rather than the first come, first serve basis. Also, there were 26 references to the attacks during the telecast.[1]
Moulin Rouge! became the first musical to be nominated for best picture since All That Jazz in 1979, a gap of 22 years. It was also the first best picture nominee (and the last as of 2009) produced in Australia since Babe in 1995.
Woody Allen made his first ever appearance at this year's Oscar ceremony to present a tribute to films shot in New York City, in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
There was a tribute to the popular scores for motion pictures in the past 74 years, arranged and conducted by legendary Hollywood composer John Williams.
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who would later win Best Documentary at the 76th Academy Awards, made a short film that was shown during the ceremony. The film shows almost 100 people discussing movies. Those featured range from Laura Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev to Iggy Pop and Lou Reed to Kenneth Arrow (1972 Nobel Laureate in Economics) to Morris' son Hamilton. Morris would again make a short film similar to this one except the subject being the 177 nominees of the 79th Academy Awards five years later (also produced by Zinskin).
Entertainment during one segment of the ceremony was provided by Cirque du Soleil. This was the first time a big lavish production was used since the 61st Academy Awards (infamous for its Rob Lowe/Snow White blunder).
Before the start of every commercial break (except the one after the In Memoriam tribute), famous people ranging from famous actors to athletes to politicians discussed their favorite movie moments.
The ceremony also saw both the Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars awarded to African-American actors for the first time in Academy Award history; this, in addition to Sidney Poitier winning the Lifetime Achievement award, led some to dub the ceremony The Bloscars and the "Blackademy Awards". However, some controversy was sparked after Denzel Washington's win. Rumor has it that Russell Crowe was the front runner for the award, which would have marked a second consecutive win for Crowe in the Best Actor category, but a violent episode at the BAFTA ceremony several weeks earlier turned the Academy voters against him.
Randy Newman, who at the time had the distinction of most nominations without winning, would finally break his streak and win the Oscar for Best Song for Monsters Inc.'s "If I Didn't Have You". After receiving an enthusiastic standing ovation, a bemused but emotional Newman began his acceptance speech with "I don't want your pity!"
The 74th Academy Awards would be the first year that the award for Best Animated Feature was presented. According to the rules, at least three animated features have to be widely released in a particular year for the award to appear on the ballot.
| Name(s) | Role | Activity |
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| Glenn Close | Announcer | Co-Announcer for the 74th Annual Academy Awards with Donald Sutherland |
| Donald Sutherland | Announcer | Co-Announcer for the 74th Annual Academy Awards with Glenn Close |
| Tom Cruise | Presenter | Introduced a short film directed by Errol Morris |
| Whoopi Goldberg | Host/Presenter | Best Picture segments: In the Bedroom Gosford Park The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Moulin Rouge! A Beautiful Mind |
| Benicio del Toro | Presenter | Best Supporting Actress |
| Frank Pierson | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President | Special Presentation |
| Will Smith | Presenter | Film Editing |
| Reese Witherspoon Ryan Philippe |
Presenters | Make-Up |
| Owen Wilson Ben Stiller |
Presenters | Costume Design |
| Woody Allen | Presenter | Introduced a New York Films tribute montage directed by Nora Ephron |
| Jodie Foster | Presenter | Cinematography |
| Helen Hunt | Presenter | Introduced a Documentary Films tribute montage directed by Penelope Spheeris |
| Samuel L. Jackson | Presenter | Documentary Feature Documentary Short Subject |
| Cameron Diaz | Presenter | Art Direction |
| Charlize Theron (pre-recorded footage) | Presenter | Academy Scientific and Technical Award Gordon E. Sawyer Award |
| Nathan Lane | Presenter | Animated Feature |
| Halle Berry | Presenter | Sound Mixing Sound Editing |
| Marcia Gay Harden | Presenter | Best Supporting Actor |
| Ian McKellan Maggie Smith |
Presenters | Introduced a special performance by Cirque Du Soleil |
| Kirsten Dunst Tobey Maguire |
Presenters | Visual Effects |
| Ali MacGraw Ryan O'Neal |
Presenters | Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award |
| Ben Kingsley | Presenter | Introduced a tribute to Original Scores in Films conducted by John Williams |
| Sandra Bullock Hugh Grant |
Presenters | Original Score |
| Denzel Washington Walter Mirisch |
Presenters | Academy Honorary Award (#1) |
| Naomi Watts Hugh Jackman |
Presenters | Live Action Short Film Animated Short Film |
| Josh Hartnett | Presenter | Introduced Sting, Enya, Randy Newman, John Goodman, Faith Hill and Paul McCartney performing the Best Original Song nominees |
| Jennifer Lopez | Presenter | Original Song |
| Gwyneth Paltrow Ethan Hawke |
Presenters | Adapted Screenplay Original Screenplay |
| John Travolta Sharon Stone |
Presenters | Foreign Language Film |
| Kevin Spacey | Presenter | In Memoriam Tribute |
| Barbra Streisand | Presenter | Honorary Academy Award (#2) |
| Russel Crowe | Presenter | Best Leading Actress |
| Julia Roberts | Presenter | Best Leading Actor |
| Mel Gibson | Presenter | Best Director |
| Tom Hanks | Presenter | Best Picture |
Presented by Kevin Spacey. The Academy first takes a moment of silence to remember those Americans lost in the September 11 terrorist attacks. The audience takes its moment of silence and with that it is then to take a look at those Hollywood icons that died in the previous year: Jack Lemmon, Nigel Hawthorne, Beatrice Straight, Eileen Heckart, Jason Miller, Ann Sothern, Harold Russell, Kim Stanley, director Michael Ritchie, director Ted Demme, director Budd Boetticher, director Hiroshi Teshigihara, director Herbert Ross, producer Julia Phillips, composer Jay Livingston, producer William Hanna, animator Chuck Jones, producer Samuel Z. Arkoff, costume designer Danilo Donati, cinematographer Sacha Vierny, cinematographer John A. Alonzo, Carroll O'Connor, Aaliyah, George Harrison and Anthony Quinn.
The family of Dorothy McGuire publicly objected to her omission from this segment.
The following films received multiple nominations.
The following films received multiple Oscars.
   | short film - Errol Morris: Short Films |
| | his acceptance speech - Anecdotage.Com - Thousands of true funny stories about famous people. Anecdotes from Gates to Yeats |
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