| 71st Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | Sunday, March 21, 1999 | |||
| Site | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Los Angeles, California |
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| Pre-show | Geena Davis | |||
| Host | Whoopi Goldberg | |||
| Producer | Gil Cates | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | Shakespeare in Love | |||
| Most awards | Shakespeare in Love (7) | |||
| Most nominations | Shakespeare in Love (13) | |||
| TV in the United States | ||||
| Network | ABC | |||
| Duration | 4 hours, 2 minutes | |||
| Viewership | 45.63 million 28.51 (Nielsen rating) |
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The 71st Academy Awards ceremony, Sunday, March 21, 1999, was the last to take place at Los Angeles County Music Center, and was Whoopi Goldberg's third time hosting the Awards. It was the first time the ceremony took place on a Sunday.
The Academy Award ceremony ran extremely long, due largely to extended acceptance speeches. Notable films included Shakespeare in Love, which received 13 nominations and won 7 awards, Saving Private Ryan, which received 11 nominations and won 5 awards, and Life Is Beautiful, which received 7 nominations and won 3 awards.
Interestingly, three of the films nominated for Best Picture (Life is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line) were set in World War II, while the other two films nominated (Shakespeare In Love & Elizabeth) were set in Elizabethan England.
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Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface[1]
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The following nineteen films received multiple nominations:
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The following three films received multiple awards:
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Presented by Annette Bening. The Academy takes a moment to remember those motion picture icons that left us in the previous year: Dane Clark, special effects artist Linwood G. Dunn, art director George Davis, Dick O'Neill, cinematographer Charles Lang, Norman Fell, cinematographer Freddie Young, executive John P. Veitch, E. G. Marshall, Jeanette Nolan, director Alan J. Pakula, choreographer Jerome Robbins, composer John Addison, Susan Strasberg, Vincent Winter, screenwriter James Goldman, John Derek, Richard Kiley, Maureen O'Sullivan, Phil Hartman, Esther Rolle, Jean Marais, Binnie Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Gene Raymond, Huntz Hall, director Akira Kurosawa, Alice Faye, Robert Young and Roddy McDowall.
The 71st Academy Awards saw the show's first "official" pre-show, as the Academy attempted to compete with the likes of E!'s Joan Rivers and other red carpet denizens.
The show attracted 45.63m viewers, a 18% decline to the previous year's 57.25 million, yet a high rating compared to most other ceremonies.
This was the first time that two people have been nominated for Academy Awards for playing the same person in different films - Queen Elizabeth I - played by Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth and Judi Dench in Shakespeare in Love. (Host Whoopi Goldberg marked the occasion by appearing in a complete Elizabeth costume, including wig and whiteface, and dubbing herself "the African queen.")
This would mark the final time the show would originate from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, a venue the Academy Awards called home for nearly thirty-years.
As of 2011 this is the only Oscars where no nominated actor or actress were featured in the In Memoriam segment. Though Sinatra did have his own tribute.
While presenting Best Film Editing Jim Carrey made a joke about he was not nominated but Roberto Benigni was. Part of this was due to how he was considered the frontrunner for The Truman Show. As of 2011 he is only 1 of 6 people who have won the Globe for best Actor/Actress in a Drama but not nominated for a Oscar.