74th Academy Awards

74th
Date	Sunday, March 24, 2002
Site	Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	Whoopi Goldberg
Preshow hosts	Chris Connelly Leeza Gibbons Ananda Lewis
Produced by	Laura Ziskin
Directed by	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)
Most nominations	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (13)
Television coverage
Network	ABC
Duration	4 hours, 23 minutes
Ratings	40.54 million 24.13% Nielsen ratings

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.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
A Beautiful Mind Gosford Park In the Bedroom The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Moulin Rouge!	Ron Howard – A Beautiful Mind Ridley Scott – Black Hawk Down Robert Altman – Gosford Park Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring David Lynch – Mulholland Drive
Best Actor	Best Actress
Denzel Washington – Training Day Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind Will Smith – Ali Sean Penn – I Am Sam Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom	Halle Berry – Monster's Ball Renée Zellweger – Bridget Jones's Diary Sissy Spacek – In the Bedroom Judi Dench – Iris Nicole Kidman – Moulin Rouge!
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Jim Broadbent – Iris Jon Voight – Ali Ian McKellen – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Ben Kingsley – Sexy Beast Ethan Hawke – Training Day	Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind Helen Mirren – Gosford Park Maggie Smith – Gosford Park Marisa Tomei – In the Bedroom Kate Winslet – Iris
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes Amélie – Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet Memento – Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan Monster's Ball – Milo Addica and Will Rokos The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson	A Beautiful Mind – Akiva Goldsman Ghost World – Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff In the Bedroom – Todd Field and Robert Festinger The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens Shrek – Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman
Best Animated Feature	Best Foreign Language Film
Shrek Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Monsters, Inc.	No Man's Land (Bosnia) Amélie (France) Elling (Norway) Lagaan (India) Son of the Bride (Argentina)
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Murder on a Sunday Morning – Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet Children Underground – Edet Belzberg LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton – Susan Froemke and Deborah Dickson Promises – Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg War Photographer – Christian Frei	Thoth – Sarah Kernochan and Lynn Appelle Artists and Orphans: A True Drama – Lianne Klapper McNally Sing! – Freida Lee Mock and Jessica Sanders
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
The Accountant – Ray McKinnon and Lisa Blount Copy Shop – Virgil Widrich Gregor’s Greatest Invention – Johannes Kiefer A Man Thing (Meska Sprawa) – Slawomir Fabicki and Bogumil Godfrejow Speed for Thespians – Kalman Apple and Shameela Bakhsh	For the Birds – Ralph Eggleston Fifty Percent Grey – Ruairi Robinson and Seamus Byrne Give Up Yer Aul Sins – Cathal Gaffney and Darragh O’Connell Strange Invaders – Cordell Barker Stubble Trouble – Joseph E. Merideth
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Howard Shore A Beautiful Mind – James Horner Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – John Williams Monsters, Inc. – Randy Newman A.I. Artificial Intelligence – John Williams	"If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. – Music and Lyric by Randy Newman "May It Be" from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Music and Lyric by Enya, Nicky Ryan and Roma Ryan "There You'll Be" from Pearl Harbor – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren "Until..." from Kate & Leopold – Music and Lyric by Sting "Vanilla Sky" from Vanilla Sky – Music and Lyric by Paul McCartney
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
Pearl Harbor – Christopher Boyes and George Watters II Monsters, Inc – Gary Rydstrom and Michael Silvers	Black Hawk Down – Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga and Chris Munro Amélie – Vincent Arnardi, Guillaume Leriche and Jean Umansky The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Gethin Creagh and Hammond Peek Moulin Rouge! – Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Roger Savage and Guntis Sics Pearl Harbor – Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Moulin Rouge! – Art Direction: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Brigitte Broch Amélie – Art Direction: Aline Bonetto; Set Decoration: Marie-Laure Valla Gosford Park – Art Direction: Stephen Altman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephanie McMillan The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Art Direction: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Dan Hennah	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Andrew Lesnie Amélie – Bruno Delbonnel Black Hawk Down – Slawomir Idziak The Man Who Wasn't There – Roger Deakins Moulin Rouge! – Donald M. McAlpine
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Owen and Richard Taylor A Beautiful Mind – Greg Cannom and Colleen Callaghan Moulin Rouge! – Maurizio Silvi and Aldo Signoretti	Moulin Rouge! – Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie The Affair of the Necklace – Milena Canonero Gosford Park – Jenny Beavan Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – Judianna Makovsky The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
Black Hawk Down – Pietro Scalia A Beautiful Mind – Mike Hill and Dan Hanley The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – John Gilbert Memento – Dody Dorn Moulin Rouge! – Jill Bilcock	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Dennis Muren, Scott Farrar, Stan Winston and Michael Lantieri Pearl Harbor – Eric Brevig, John Frazier, Ed Hirsh and Ben Snow

Overview

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.

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.

Special events

Woody Allen made his first ever appearance at this year's Oscar ceremony to present a tribute to films shot in New York City compiled by Nora Ephron, 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 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.

Winners

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. Shrek was the first recipient in this new award category.

Notable quotations

• "Stone the crows!" - Jim Broadbent upon winning Best Supporting Actor.
• "Thank you, that almost makes up for the strip search backstage." - Woody Allen acknowledging the standing ovation to his surprise appearance.
• "I don't need your pity." - Randy Newman after finally winning Best Original Song after sixteen nominations.
• "Forty years I've been chasing Sidney, they finally give it to me. What do they do? They give it to him the same night." - Denzel Washington, accepting his Best Actor award, commenting on Sidney Poitier's honorary Oscar.
• "For those of you keeping track, the score is Brilliant Mathematicians -2, Hobbits-4." - Whoopi Goldberg, mid-way through the evening, commenting on the race between the two Oscar front-runners that night, A Beautiful Mind and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Both would end up splitting the number of wins.
• "I love my life." - Julia Roberts, upon opening the Best Actor envelope and seeing the winner was friend Denzel Washington. Roberts was widely criticized for the comment, which was perceived as self-centered and an effort to make the moment "about her" rather than the winner.

List of presenters and performers

Presenters

Presenters (in order of appearance)

Name(s)	Role	Activity
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 McKellen 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

Performers

Presenters (in order of appearance)

• John Williams served as the awards musical conductor, and in addition, conducted a tribute to the past Musical Scores from motion pictures.
• Cirque du Soleil gave a guest performance in a tribute to Visual Effects.
• Sting performed "Until" from Kate and Leopold
• Enya performed "May it Be" from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Randy Newman and John Goodman performed "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters Inc.
• Faith Hill performed "There You'll Be" from Pearl Harbor
• Paul McCartney performed "Vanilla Sky" from Vanilla Sky

In memoriam

Presented by Kevin Spacey, the memorial montage included 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.

Breakdown

Multiple nominations

The following films received multiple nominations.

• 13 nominations: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• 8 nominations: A Beautiful Mind and Moulin Rouge!
• 7 nominations: Gosford Park
• 5 nominations: In the Bedroom, Amélie
• 4 nominations: Black Hawk Down, Monsters Inc. and Pearl Harbor
• 3 nominations: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Iris
• 2 nominations: AI: Artificial Intelligence, Ali, Memento, Monster's Ball, Shrek and Training Day

Multiple awards

The following films received multiple Oscars.

• 4 awards: A Beautiful Mind and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• 2 awards: Black Hawk Down and Moulin Rouge!