75th Academy Awards
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75th Academy Awards
Sunday, March 23, 2003 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California
Host
Show: Steve Martin
Crew
Producer: Gil Cates
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. Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who would later win Best Documentary at the 76th Academy Awards, made a short filmthat (http://www.errolmorris.com/content/shortfilms/oscarmovie.html) was shown during the ceremony. The film shows almost 100 people discussing movies. Those featured range from Laura Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev to Iggy Pop and Lou Reed to Kenneth Arrow (1972 Nobel Laureate in Economics) to Morris' son Hamilton.
The Awards
Feature Films
- Best motion picture of the year: Chicago
Acting
- Performance by an actor in a leading role: Adrien Brody in The Pianist
- Performance by an actress in a leading role: Nicole Kidman in The Hours
- Performance by an actor in a supporting role: Chris Cooper in Adaptation
- Performance by an actress in a supporting role: Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago
| Preceded by: 74th Academy Awards | Academy Awards Ceremonies | Succeeded by: 76th Academy Awards Template:End boxes:Oscar 2002 it:Premi Oscar 2003 pl:Oskary w roku 2002 |