75th Academy Awards

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75th Academy Awards
Date	Sunday, March 23, 2003
Site	Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California
Host	Steve Martin
Producer	Gil Cates
Director	Louis J. Horvitz
Duration	3 hours, 30 minutes

The 75th Academy Awards 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 received very low ratings, falling to second place in the Nielsen Ratings behind American Idol.

Contents 1 Trivia 2 The Kiss 3 Michael Moore Controversy 4 Winners 4.1 Feature Films 4.2 Directing 4.3 Acting 4.4 Writing 4.5 Honorary Oscar 4.6 Special events 4.7 In memoriam 4.8 Breakdown 5 External links

[edit] Trivia

Previous supporting actor winner Jim Broadbent did not present the supporting actress award as it had been traditionally. Instead, Sean Connery, who won for The Untouchables in 1987 presented it.

[edit] The Kiss

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.

[edit] 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 war in Iraq. He went so far as to call President Bush a "fictitious President" and booes from the audience ensued.

After he left the stage, host Steve Martin joked, "It's so sweet backstage. The Teamsters are helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo." The audience erupted in laughter and applause.

[edit] Winners

This is a breakdown of only major winners. For a complete list of nominees and winners, see: 75th Academy Awards nominees and winners

[edit] Feature Films

Category	Winner	Producers/Country
Best motion picture	Chicago	Martin Richards
Best foreign language film	Nowhere in Africa	Germany
Best documentary feature	Bowling for Columbine	Michael Moore, Michael Donovan
Best animated feature	Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki

[edit] Directing

Academy Award for Directing

Roman Polanski

The Pianist

[edit] Acting

Category	Winner	Movie
Best actor in a leading role	Adrien Brody	The Pianist
Best actress in a leading role	Nicole Kidman	The Hours
Best actor in a supporting role	Chris Cooper	Adaptation.
Best actress in a supporting role	Catherine Zeta-Jones	Chicago

[edit] Writing

Category	Winner	Movie
Original screenplay	Written by Pedro Almodóvar	Talk to Her
Adapted screenplay	Screenplay by Ronald Harwood	The Pianist

[edit] Honorary Oscar

Veteran actor and frequent past Oscar nominee, Peter O'Toole was awarded an Honorary Award for his contributions as a lead actor in such films as "Lawrence of Arabia".

[edit] 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 Oscar, the Academy invited a large portion of actors and actresses that were past Oscar winners, although this year did not have as many past recipients that attended the 70th Academy Awards

[edit] 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.

[edit] Breakdown

6/13 Chicago
3/7 The Pianist
2/6 Frida
2/6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
1/9 The Hours
1/5 Road to Perdition
1/4 Adaptation.
1/2 Talk to Her
1/1 8 Mile
1/1 Bowling for Columbine
1/1 Nowhere in Africa
1/1 Spirited Away
1/1 The ChubbChubbs!
1/1 This Charming Man
1/1 Twin Towers

[edit] External links

• E! Online - Academy Awards 2002
• Yahoo! Movies - 75th Academy Awards