75th Academy Awards

75th Academy Awards
Date	Sunday, March 23, 2003
Site	Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Host	Steve Martin
Pre-show	Jann Carl Chris Connelly Shaun Robinson
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
Ratings	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. It also is as of 2012 the last film to take home Best Picture and Best Supporting actress. Roman Polanski, who was nominated for the fourth time, won the Oscar for Best Director.

Eminem's song "Lose Yourself" became the first Hip Hop song to win an Academy Award.

Adrien Brody, at age 29, became the youngest ever recipient of the Best Actor Award for his role in The Pianist.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers became the first film since Beauty and the Beast to be nominated for Best Picture despite not being nominated for any directing, acting, or writing categories.

Also for the first time in the history of the Academy Awards, a truly fictitious person was nominated for an award. Donald Kaufman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay along with Charlie Kaufman for Adaptation.. In the film Adaptation., Donald Kaufman is portrayed as the fictional twin brother of Charlie Kaufman played by Nicolas Cage.

Awards

Roman Polanski, Best Director winner

Nicole Kidman, Best Actress winner

Adrien Brody, Best Actor winner

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Best Supporting Actress winner

Chris Cooper, Best Supporting Actor winner

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
Chicago – Martin Richards Gangs of New York – Alberto Grimaldi, Harvey Weinstein The Hours – Robert Fox, Scott Rudin The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh The Pianist – Roman Polanski, Alain Sarde	Roman Polanski – The Pianist Rob Marshall – Chicago Martin Scorsese – Gangs of New York Stephen Daldry – The Hours Pedro Almodóvar – Talk to Her
Best Actor	Best Actress
Adrien Brody – The Pianist Nicolas Cage – Adaptation. Michael Caine – The Quiet American Daniel Day-Lewis – Gangs of New York Jack Nicholson – About Schmidt	Nicole Kidman – The Hours Salma Hayek – Frida Diane Lane – Unfaithful Julianne Moore – Far from Heaven Renée Zellweger – Chicago
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Chris Cooper – Adaptation. Ed Harris – The Hours Paul Newman – Road to Perdition John C. Reilly – Chicago Christopher Walken – Catch Me If You Can	Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago Kathy Bates – About Schmidt Queen Latifah – Chicago Julianne Moore – The Hours Meryl Streep – Adaptation.
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Talk to Her – Pedro Almodóvar 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	The Pianist – Ronald Harwood About a Boy – Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz Adaptation. – Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman Chicago – Bill Condon The Hours – David Hare
Best Animated Feature	Best Foreign Language Film
Spirited Away Ice Age Lilo & Stitch Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Treasure Planet	Nowhere in Africa (Germany) The Crime of Father Amaro (Mexico) Hero (People’s Republic of China) The Man Without a Past (Finland) Zus & Zo (Netherlands)
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Bowling for Columbine – Michael Moore and Michael Donovan Daughter from Danang – Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco Prisoner of Paradise – Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender Spellbound – Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch Winged Migration – Jacques Perrin	Twin Towers – Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port The Collector of Bedford Street – Alice Elliott Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks – Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston Why Can't We Be a Family Again? – Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
This Charming Man – Martin Strange-Hansen and Mie Andreasen Fait D’Hiver – Dirk Beliën and Anja Daelemans I’ll Wait for the Next One... (J’Attendrai Le Suivant...) – Philippe Orreindy and Thomas Gaudin Inja (Dog) – Steven Pasvolsky and Joe Weatherstone Johnny Flynton – Lexi Alexander and Alexander Buono	The ChubbChubbs! – Eric Armstrong Atama-yama – Kōji Yamamura Das Rad – Chris Stenner and Heidi Wittlinger Katedra – Tomek Baginski Mike's New Car – Pete Docter and Roger Gould
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Frida – Elliot Goldenthal Catch Me If You Can – John Williams Far From Heaven – Elmer Bernstein The Hours – Philip Glass Road to Perdition – Thomas Newman	"Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile – Music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto; Lyric by Eminem "I Move On" from Chicago – Music by John Kander; Lyric by Fred Ebb "Burn It Blue" from Frida – Music by Elliot Goldenthal; Lyric by Julie Taymor "The Hands That Built America" from Gangs of New York – Music and Lyric by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen "Father and Daughter" from The Wild Thornberrys Movie – Music and Lyric by Paul Simon
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
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	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 Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Chicago – Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim Frida – Art Direction: Felipe Fernández del Paso; Set Decoration: Hania Robledo Gangs of New York – Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Art Direction: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Alan Lee Road to Perdition – Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh	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 Makeup	Best Costume Design
Frida – John E. Jackson and Beatrice De Alba The Time Machine – John M. Elliott Jr. and Barbara Lorenz	Chicago – Colleen Atwood Frida – Julie Weiss Gangs of New York – Sandy Powell The Hours – Ann Roth The Pianist – Anna B. Sheppard
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
Chicago – Martin Walsh 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	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

Academy Honorary Award

• Peter O'Toole

Multiple nominations and awards

The following twelve films received multiple nominations:

• Thirteen: Chicago
• Ten: Gangs of New York
• Nine: The Hours
• Seven: The Pianist
• Six: Frida, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and Road to Perdition
• Four: Adaptation. and Far From Heaven
• Two: Talk to Her, About Schmidt, Catch Me If You Can and Spider-Man

The following four films received multiple awards:

• Six: Chicago
• Three: The Pianist
• Two: Frida and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Presenters and Performers

Presenters

Presenter	Category
Ben Affleck	Best Original Screenplay
Julie Andrews	Short Film about previous musical numbers
Kathy Bates	Short Film about previous Oscar winners
Gael García Bernal	The Performance of "Burn it Blue"
Halle Berry	Best Actor
Jennifer Connelly	Best Supporting Actor
Sean Connery	Best Supporting Actress
Geena Davis	Best Film Editing
Olivia de Havilland	Oscar's Family Album
Cameron Diaz	Best Animated Feature
Kirk Douglas Michael Douglas	Best Picture
Colin Farrell	The Performance of "The Hands that Built America"
Harrison Ford	Best Director
Brendan Fraser	Clip From "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
Jennifer Garner and Mickey Mouse	Best Live Action Short Film Best Animated Short Film
Richard Gere	Clip From "Chicago"
Marcia Gay Harden	Best Adapted Screenplay
Salma Hayek	Best Foreign Language Film
Dustin Hoffman	Clip From "The Pianist"
Kate Hudson	Sci-Tech Awards
Diane Lane	Best Documentary Feature
Jennifer Lopez	Best Art Direction
Matthew McConaughey	Clip From "The Gangs of New York"
Julianne Moore	Best Sound Mixing Best Sound Editing
Keanu Reeves	Best Visual Effects
Julia Roberts	Best Cinematography
Susan Sarandon	In Memoriam Tribute
Mira Sorvino	Best Costume Design
Meryl Streep	Honorary Award
Barbra Streisand	Best Original Song
Hilary Swank	Clip from "The Hours"
John Travolta	The Performance of "I Move On"
Jack Valenti	Best Documentary Short Subject
Nia Vardalos	Best Makeup
Denzel Washington	Best Actress
Renée Zellweger	Best Original Score

Performers

Performer(s)	Song	Film
Queen Latifah Catherine Zeta-Jones	"I Move On"	"Chicago"
Paul Simon	"Father and Daughter"	"The Wild Thornberrys Movie"
Lila Downs Caetano Veloso	"Burn It Blue"	"Frida"
U2	"The Hands That Built America"	"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 (most 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. 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

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 Berry) by passionately kissing her. When the kiss was done Adrien turned back to 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. The audience laughed appreciatively at the gag, and Brody and Theron shared a brief hug without a kiss as he handed over the Oscar.

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 a "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.

This was also the only year the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature had 5 nominees until 2010.

In Memoriam

Presented by Susan Sarandon, the montage 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

• "Ugh, Russell Crowe said 'don't cry if you get up there' and now i'm crying. [turn around, crying]. Sorry.." - Nicole Kidman, upon received her Oscar for Best Actress.

• "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 Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings." - Kathy Bates.

• "There comes a time in life when everything makes sense. This is not one of those times." - Adrien Brody after winning Best Actor.

• "...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.

See also

• 75th Academy Awards nominees and winners
• 60th Golden Globe Awards
• 9th Screen Actors Guild Awards
• 23rd Golden Raspberry Awards
• 2002 in film
• List of Academy Awards ceremonies
• Submissions for the 75th Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
• 45th Grammy Awards
• 54th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 55th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 56th British Academy Film Awards
• 57th Tony Awards
• Governors Awards

References

• In Many categories a two way race USA Today

External links

• Academy 2003 Press Releases
• Nominees & Winners for the 75th Academy Awards
• E! Online - Academy Awards 2003 via Web Archive
• CNN Awards Spotlight - Academy Awards