The 75th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2002, were held on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It was produced by Gil Cates and hosted by Steve Martin, who also hosted the 73rd Academy Awards.
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 13 nominations. The film went on to win six Oscars including Best Picture, the first musical to win this category since Oliver! in 1968.
Winners & Nominees
Best Picture
Chicago
Best Actor in a Leading Role
The Pianist - Adrian Brody
Best Actress in a Leading Role
The Hours - Nicole Kidman
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Adaptation. - Chris Cooper
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Chicago - Catherine Zeta-Jones
Best Director
The Pianist - Roman Polanski
Best Original Screenplay
Talk to Her - Pedro Almodovar
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Pianist - Ronald Harwood
Best Cinematography
Road to Perdition - Conrad L. Hall
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Chicago - John Mhyre and Gordon Sim
Best Costume Design
Chicago - Colleen Atwood
Best Sound
Chicago - Michael Minkler , David Lee and Dominick Tavella
Best Editing
Chicago - Martin Walsh
Best Sound Editing
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
Best Visual Effects
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Jim Rygiel , Randall William Cook , Alex Funke and Joe Letteri
Best Makeup
Frida - John E. Jackson and Beatrice De Alba
Best Music, Original Song
8 Mile - Marshall Mathers , Jeff Bass and Luis Resto for the song Lose Yourself
Best Music, Original Score
Frida - Elliot Goldenthal
Best Short Film, Animated
The Chubbchubbs!
Best Short Film, Live Action
This Charming Man
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Twin Towers
Best Documentary, Features
Bowling for Columbine
Best Foreign Language Film
Nowhere in Africa - Germany
Best Animated Feature
Spirited Away
Special Honors
Multiple Nominations
The following eight films received multiple nominations.
Multiple Awards
The following four films each multiple awards.
Presenters and Performers
Presenters
Performers
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 Adrien Brody and 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
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 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" in Iraq 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. 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]
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." - 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.
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