74th Academy Awards | |
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Date | March 24, 2002 |
Site | Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Hosted by | Whoopi Goldberg |
Preshow hosts | Chris Connelly Leeza Gibbons Ananda Lewis[1] |
Produced by | Laura Ziskin |
Directed by | Louis J. Horvitz |
Highlights | |
Best Picture | A Beautiful Mind |
Most awards | A Beautiful Mind and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (4) |
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[2] |
Ratings | 41.82 million 25.54% (Nielsen ratings) |
The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories honoring films released in 2001. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Laura Ziskin and directed by Louis J. Horvitz.[3][4] Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the fourth time.[5] She first hosted the 66th ceremony held in 1994 and had last hosted the 71st ceremony in 1999.[6] Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Charlize Theron.[7]
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[8]
The following 17 films received multiple nominations:
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The following four films received multiple awards:
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The following individuals (in order of appearance) presented awards or performed musical numbers.[12][13]
Name(s) | Role |
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Glenn Close Donald Sutherland |
Announcers for the 74th annual Academy Awards |
Tom Cruise | Presenter of the Errol Morris montage on movie memories |
Benicio del Toro | Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress |
Frank Pierson (AMPAS President) | Gave remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony |
Will Smith | Presenter the award for Best Film Editing |
Ryan Phillippe Reese Witherspoon |
Presenters of the award for Best Makeup |
Whoopi Goldberg | Presenter of the film In the Bedroom on the Best Picture segment |
Ben Stiller Owen Wilson |
Presenters of the award for Best Costume Design |
Woody Allen | Presenter of the New York films tribute montage directed by Nora Ephron |
Jodie Foster | Presenter of the award for Best Cinematography |
Whoopi Goldberg | Presenter of the film Gosford Park on the Best Picture segment |
Helen Hunt | Presenter of the Documentary films tribute montage directed by Penelope Spheeris |
Samuel L. Jackson | Presenter of the awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short Subject |
Cameron Diaz | Presenter of the award for Best Art Direction |
Charlize Theron (pre-recorded footage) | Presenter of the award for Academy Scientific and Technical Award and the Gordon E. Sawyer Award |
Nathan Lane | Presenter of the award for Best Animated Feature |
Halle Berry | Presenter of the award for Best Sound and Best Sound Editing |
Marcia Gay Harden | Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor |
Whoopi Goldberg | Presenter of the film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring on the Best Picture segment |
Ian McKellen Maggie Smith |
Introducers of the performance by Cirque du Soleil |
Kirsten Dunst Tobey Maguire |
Presenters of the award for Best Visual Effects |
Ali MacGraw Ryan O'Neal |
Presenters of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Arthur Hiller |
Ben Kingsley | Presenter of the tribute to musical scores in films conducted by John Williams |
Sandra Bullock Hugh Grant |
Presenters of the award for Best Original Score |
Walter Mirisch Denzel Washington |
Presenters of the award for Academy Honorary Award to Sidney Poitier |
Hugh Jackman Naomi Watts |
Presenters of the award for Best Live Action Short Film and Best Animated Short Film |
Josh Hartnett | Introducer of the performances the Best Original Song nominees |
Jennifer Lopez | Presenter of the award for Best Original Song |
Ethan Hawke Gwyneth Paltrow |
Presenters of the award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay |
Sharon Stone John Travolta |
Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film |
Kevin Spacey | Presenter of the award for In Memoriam Tribute |
Whoopi Goldberg | Presenter of the film Moulin Rouge! on the Best Picture segment |
Barbra Streisand | Presenter of the award for Academy Honorary Award to Robert Redford |
Russell Crowe | Presenter of the award for Best Actress |
Whoopi Goldberg | Presenter of the film A Beautiful Mind on the Best Picture segment |
Julia Roberts | Presenter of the award for Best Actor |
Mel Gibson | Presenter of the award for Best Director |
Tom Hanks | Presenter of the award for Best Picture |
Name(s) | Role | Performed |
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John Williams | Musical arranger and conductor | Orchestral |
Cirque du Soleil | Performers | Special performance in a tribute to movie visual effects |
Sting | Performers | "Until" from Kate and Leopold |
Enya | Performer | "May it Be" from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
John Goodman Randy Newman |
Performers | "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. |
Faith Hill | Performer | "There You'll Be" from Pearl Harbor |
Paul McCartney | Performer | "Vanilla Sky" from Vanilla Sky |
The Academy wanted to find a new venue for the festivities amid limited seating and rehearsal time concerns with the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. In addition, problems arose regarding staging the Oscars at the Shrine Auditorium because there was difficulty of directing guests from the auditorium where the main event took place to the adjacent Exhibition Hall for the Governor's Ball.[14] In August 1997, AMPAS and Canadian development firm TrizecHahn went into negotiations over the development of an entertainment complex located on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue adjacent to the Mann's Chinese Theatre.[15] Seven months later, both the Academy and TrizecHahn agreed on a twenty-year lease that allowed for the ceremony to be staged at a new venue, which would later be called the Kodak Theatre, located within the property which was also situated near the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel site of the inaugural awards ceremony in 1929.[16][17] This was the first time the ceremony was held in Hollywood since the 32nd ceremony took place at the Pantages Theatre in 1960.[16]
In view of the return of the Oscars to Hollywood, the Academy hired film producer and Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Laura Ziskin in September 2001 to oversee production of the telecast.[3] AMPAS president Frank Pierson explained the decision to hire Ziskin saying, "This show is one of the most difficult—if not the most difficult—producing jobs in show business. Laura Ziskin brings intelligence, experience and wit expressed in everything she has done."[18] This marked the first occurrence that a woman produced the Oscars solo. Four months later, Whoopi Goldberg was selected as host of the 2002 ceremony. In an article in the Los Angeles Times, Ziskin justified her choice of Goldberg commenting that she has "great warmth, with humor, humanity and social conscience, all qualities that I feel are essential for this year's show. I look forward to collaborating with Whoopi to put on a meaningful and entertaining evening."[19]
Furthermore, the September 11 attacks affected the telecast and its surrounding events. Despite speculation and suggestions that the festivities be postponed or canceled, AMPAS president Pierson wrote in a Variety column refusing to take such action stating that it would send the message that "the terrorists have won".[20][21] However, due to security concerns the Academy announced that red carpet bleacher seats would now be limited on a reservation basis based on a random selection and a background check.[22] In addition, filmmaker and director Woody Allen, who had previously refused to attend a ceremony, made a surprise appearance to present a film produced by fellow New Yorker and screenwriter Nora Ephron saluting New York City in film.[23]
Several other people participated in the production of the ceremony. Actors Glenn Close and Donald Sutherland served as announcers during the show.[24] The orchestra led by film composer and telecast musical supervisor John Williams, performed selections of film scores during a montage saluting film composers produced by Kyle Cooper.[25] Filmmaker Errol Morris filmed a vignette featuring several famous people discuss movie memories.[26] Director Penelope Spheeris produced a montage saluting 60 years of Oscar-winning documentary feature films.[27][28] Cirque du Soleil performed a dance number inspired by movies and visual effects.[29]
Beginning with this ceremony, AMPAS introduced a new competitive award that would honor animated feature films.[30] According to Academy communications director John Pavlik, the film must be at least 70 minutes in length, have a significant amount of animated characters, and be at least 75 percent animated in order to be qualified for consideration.[31] A minimum of eight qualifying films must be released within the calendar year to permit a slate of three nominees. If the number of films exceeds twelve, the nominee roster increases to five.[32] Prior to the introduction of this category, three Disney films (1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and 1995's Toy Story) were all given Special Achievement Academy Awards.[33]
At the time of the nominations announcement on February 12, the combined gross of the five Best Picture nominees at the US box office was $484 million, with an average of $96.9 million per film. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was the highest earner among the Best Picture nominees with $271 million in domestic box office receipts.[34] The film was followed by A Beautiful Mind ($113 million), Moulin Rouge! ($57.1 million), Gosford Park ($22.2 million), and finally In the Bedroom ($19.5 million).[34]
Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 46 nominations went to 14 films on the list.[35] Only The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2nd), Shrek (3rd), Monsters, Inc. (4th), A Beautiful Mind (15th), Black Hawk Down (25th), Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (27th), Training Day (29th), Bridget Jones's Diary (31st), Ali (41st), and Moulin Rouge! (44th) were nominated for Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, or any of the directing, acting, or screenwriting awards.[35] The other top-50 box office hits that earned nominations were Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1st), Pearl Harbor (7th), Vanilla Sky (19th), and AI: Artificial Intelligence (28th).[35]
The show received a mixed reception from media publications. Some media outlets were more critical of the show. Television critic Robert Bianco of USA Today complained that the awards ceremony was "intensely narcissistic and characteristically, almost unrelievedly, dull."[36] Columnist Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe bemoaned that "TV's most-watched slug crawled back into town last night." He also sniped, "As usual, the technical awards formed a Bermuda triangle in the middle of the show, and the film-clip fests and production numbers numbed our brains."[37] The Sacramento Bee's Rick Kishman lamented that "It was the first time both best-acting Oscars went to African Americans...yet viewers had to fight hours and hours of boredom to care." He also quipped that the excessive amount of montage and tributes dragged down the proceedings.[38]
Other media outlets received the broadcast more positively. Orange County Register film critic Henry Sheehan praised Goldberg's performance as hosting writing that her "ensuing entrance a la Moulin Rouge was a comparative triumph and her boom-boom-boom succession of jokes put the show right on track."[27] Television columnist Joanne Ostrow of The Denver Post raved, "The nearly five-hour telecast was stunning, historic, slick, efficient, and helped along by some knockout clothes." She also commented that Washington and Berry's acceptance speeches and the Sidney Poitier tribute added to the historic and emotional mood of the festivities.[39] John Levesque of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer commended producer Ziskin for producing "the best Oscar telecast this TV watcher can remember." In addition, he wrote that "It was clear the 74th Academy Awards ceremony was something special: fresh, crisp, different from its predecessors."[40]