72nd Academy Awards
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The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the
American Beauty won five awards, including Best Picture.[8][9] Other winners included The Matrix with four awards, The Cider House Rules and Topsy-Turvy with two, and All About My Mother, Boys Don't Cry, Girl, Interrupted, King Gimp, My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York, The Old Man and the Sea, One Day in September, The Red Violin, Sleepy Hollow, and Tarzan with one. The telecast garnered almost 47 million viewers in the United States.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for the 72nd Academy Awards were announced on February 15, 2000, at 5:38 a.m.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 26, 2000.[12] Sam Mendes was the sixth person to win Best Director for his directorial debut.[13] Best Actor winner Kevin Spacey became the tenth performer to win acting Oscars in both lead and supporting categories.[14] By virtue of her father Jon Voight's Best Lead Actor win for 1978's Coming Home, Best Supporting Actress winner Angelina Jolie and Voight became the second father-daughter Oscar acting winners.[15] At the age of 11, Haley Joel Osment became the second-youngest actor to receive a nomination in Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Sixth Sense, after Justin Henry was nominated in the same category for 1979's Kramer vs. Kramer at the age of 8.
Awards
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).[16]
Academy Honorary Award
Irving G. Thalberg Award
Films with multiple nominations and awards
The following 17 films received multiple nominations:
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The following four films received multiple awards:
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Presenters and performers
The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.[19]
Presenters (in order of appearance)
Name(s) | Role |
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Peter Coyote | Announcer for the 72nd annual Academy Awards |
Robert Rehme (AMPAS president) | Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony |
Drew Barrymore Cameron Diaz Lucy Liu |
Presenters of the award for Best Costume Design |
Haley Joel Osment | Presenter of the child actors tribute montage |
Heather Graham Mike Myers |
Presenters of the award for Best Sound
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Erykah Badu Tobey Maguire |
Presenters of the award for Best Makeup |
Winona Ryder | Presenter of the film The Cider House Rules on the Best Picture segment |
James Coburn | Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress |
Morgan Freeman | Presenter of the "200 Million Year History" movie segment |
Cate Blanchett Jude Law |
Presenters of the award for Best Live Action Short Film |
Sheriff Woody )Buzz Lightyear Jessie Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots (Voices by Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack |
Presentation of the award for Best Animated Short Film |
Samuel L. Jackson | Presenter of the film The Green Mile on the Best Picture segment |
Vanessa Williams |
Introducers of the performances of the Best Original Song nominees |
Cher | Presenter of the award for Best Original Song |
Wes Bentley Thora Birch Mena Suvari |
Presenters of the award Best Documentary Short Subject
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Ethan Hawke Uma Thurman |
Presenters of the award for Best Documentary Feature
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Judi Dench | Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor |
Jane Fonda | Presenter of the Honorary Academy Award to Andrzej Wajda
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Chow Yun-fat | Presenter of the award Best Sound Effects Editing
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Salma Hayek | Presenter of the segment of the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement and the Gordon E. Sawyer Award |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | Presenter of the award for Best Visual Effects |
Diane Keaton | Presenter of the film American Beauty on the Best Picture segment |
Angela Bassett | Presenter of the film The Sixth Sense on Best Picture segment |
Antonio Banderas Penélope Cruz |
Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
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Keanu Reeves Charlize Theron |
Presenters of the award for Best Original Score |
Edward Norton | Presenter of the In Memoriam tribute
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Russell Crowe Julianne Moore |
Presenters of the award for Best Art Direction |
Tommy Lee Jones Ashley Judd |
Presenters of the award for Best Film Editing |
Jack Nicholson | Presenter of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Warren Beatty |
Brad Pitt | Presenter for the award for Best Cinematography |
Kevin Spacey | Presenter of the award for Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published |
Mel Gibson | Presenter of the award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen/Original Screenplay |
Anjelica Huston | Presenter of the film The Insider on the Best Picture segment |
Roberto Benigni | Presenter of the award for Best Actress |
Gwyneth Paltrow | Presenter of the award for Best Actor |
Steven Spielberg | Presenter of the award for Best Director |
Clint Eastwood | Presenter of the award for Best Picture |
Performers (in order of appearance)
Ceremony information
In view of the new millennium, the academy sought to both shorten the telecast and give the ceremony a new look.[21][22] Husband–and–wife producers Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck were recruited to oversee the production of the 2000 ceremony.[21] AMPAS President Robert Rehme explained the decision to hire the Zanucks saying, "With this new producing team in place, I look forward to a whole new perspective."[21] This marked the first occurrence that a woman was tapped for producing duties at the Oscars.[23] Despite Richard and Lili's promises to make changes to the ceremony, they hired actor and veteran Oscar host Billy Crystal to host the ceremony for the seventh time.[21]
Production of the ceremony was reported to be far more ambitious and extravagant than previous ceremonies.
Several other people were involved in the production of the ceremony. Actor Peter Coyote, who served as announcer for the telecast, was often seen before commercial breaks live behind the stage.[25][27] Musical directors Burt Bacharach, Don Was, and Rob Shrock composed a techno-pop soundtrack that substituted for a live orchestra during most of the ceremony.[21][28] In addition, Bacharach rounded up musicians that included Garth Brooks, Queen Latifah, and Dionne Warwick to perform a medley of songs previously nominated for Best Original Song.[29] Choreographer Kenny Ortega supervised the "Blame Canada" musical number.[30]
Box office performance of nominees
At the time of the nominations announcement on February 15, the combined gross of the five Best Picture nominees was $521 million with an average of $104 million per film.[31] The Sixth Sense was the highest earner among the Best Picture nominees with $278.4 million in domestic box office receipts.[31] The film was followed by The Green Mile ($120.7 million), American Beauty ($74.7 million), The Cider House Rules ($20.7 million), and finally The Insider ($26.6 million).[31]
Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 37 nominations went to 11 films on the list.[32] Only The Sixth Sense (2nd), The Green Mile (13th), The Talented Mr. Ripley (26th), and American Beauty (27th) were nominated for directing, acting, screenwriting, or Best Picture. The other top 50 box office hits that earned the nominations were Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1st), Toy Story 2 (3rd), The Matrix (5th), Tarzan (6th), The Mummy (8th), Stuart Little (11th), and Sleepy Hollow (20th).[32]
Missing paper ballots
Nearly two weeks before Oscar voting was finished, AMPAS reported that 4,000 of the ballots mailed to Academy members were missing. The bags that carried the ballots were mislabeled as third-class mail.[33] On March 6, 2000, 1,000 of the ballots were discovered at a US Postal Service regional distribution center in Bell, California.[34] In response to affected members, AMPAS sent replacement ballots sealed in yellow envelopes, and extended the voting deadline by two days to March 23.[35]
Oscar statuettes theft
On March 10, 2000, 55 Oscar statuettes were stolen from a Roadway Express loading dock in Bell, California.[35][36] In the event the stolen awards were to be still missing during the festivities, AMPAS announced that R.S. Owens & Company, the manufacturer of the awards would produce a new batch of the golden statuettes.[37] Nine days later, 52 of the stolen statuettes were discovered in a trash bin at a Food 4 Less supermarket located in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles by a man named Willie Fulgear.[38][39] For the safe recovery of the stolen statuettes, Roadway Express rewarded Fulgear with $50,000, and the academy invited him and his son Allen to the ceremony.[40] Two Roadway Express employees, truck driver Lawrence Ledent and dock worker Anthony Hart, were arrested for the theft of the Oscars. Both men pleaded no contest. Lawrence served six months in prison and Anthony received probation. A third man who was Mr. Fulgear's half-brother was initially charged with the crime, but police dropped those charges after Mr. Fulgear divulged that they were estranged from each other.[38][41] Three years later, one of three remaining missing Oscar statuettes was discovered during a drug bust at a mansion in Miami, Florida; the other two have yet to be found.[42]
Critical reviews
The show received a positive reception from most media publications. Television critic Monica Collins of the
Some media outlets were more critical of the show. John Carman of the San Francisco Chronicle lamented that despite being solid and tidy, "the show never quite managed the big surprises, sloppy excesses and emotional highs we hope to see."[46] Pittsburgh Post-Gazette television critic Rob Owen criticized the uneven pacing of the ceremony writing that the telecast "started slowly – 20 minutes of Billy Crystal's spoofs and singing that weren't as funny as his past Oscar intros – and never got up to speed."[47] Caryn James of The New York Times remarked that "the four-hour show turned into a zombie." She also stated that the telecast was bloated with too many tributes to Hollywood's past.[48]
Ratings and reception
The American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 46.52 million viewers over its length, which was a 3% increase from the previous year's ceremony.
In July 2000, the show received nine nominations at the 52nd Primetime Emmy Awards.[50] Two months later, the ceremony won one of those nominations for Louis J. Horvitz's direction of the telecast.[51]
"In Memoriam"
The annual "In Memoriam" tribute, presented by actor Edward Norton, honored the following people.[52]
- Sylvia Sidney - Actress
- Jim Varney - Actor
- Ernest Gold– Composer
- Ruth Roman - Actress
- Henry Jones - Actor
- Robert Bresson – Director
- Desmond Llewelyn - Actor
- Allan Carr – Producer
- Mario Puzo – Screenwriter
- Rory Calhoun - Actor
- Frank Tarloff – Screenwriter
- Marc Davis – Animator
- Hedy Lamarr - Actress
- Victor Mature - Actor
- Garson Kanin – Screenwriter
- Roger Vadim – Producer/Director
- Mabel King - Actress
- Oliver Reed - Actor
- Albert Whitlock – Special Effects
- Ian Bannen - Actor
- Abraham Polonsky – Screenwriter
- Dirk Bogarde - Actor
- Lila Kedrova - Actress
- Edward Dmytryk – Director
- Charles 'Buddy' Rogers- Actor/musician
- Madeline Kahn - Actress
- George C. Scott - Actor
See also
- 6th Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 20th Golden Raspberry Awards
- 42nd Grammy Awards
- 52nd Primetime Emmy Awards
- 53rd British Academy Film Awards
- 54th Tony Awards
- 57th Golden Globe Awards
- List of submissions to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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External links
- Official websites
- Academy Awards Official website Archived 2009-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Official website Archived 2009-01-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Oscar's Channel Archived 2018-10-02 at the Wayback Machine at YouTube (run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
- News resources
- Oscars 2000 Archived 2013-10-16 at the Wayback Machine BBC News
- Academy Awards coverage Archived 2012-11-06 at the Wayback Machine CNN
- Analysis
- 1999 Academy Awards Winners and History Archived 2013-08-18 at the Wayback Machine Filmsite
- Academy Awards, USA: 2000 Archived 2017-11-14 at the Wayback Machine Internet Movie Database