75th Academy Awards
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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 film]that 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 ceremony received very low ratings, falling to second place in the Nielsen Ratings behind American Idol.
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The KissHalle 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. WinnersFeature Films
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Honorary OscarVeteran 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".Special eventsThis was the only year in which each of the actors nominated for an Oscar did not have a clip shown of their performance. 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 In memoriamPresented 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 Bucholtz, 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.Breakdown6/13 Chicago3/7 The Pianist 2/6 Frida 2/6 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 External linksAcademy Awards ceremonies 1927/28 | 1928/29 | 1929/30 | 1930/31 | 1931/32 | 1932/33 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 (years are of film release; ceremonies are the next year)
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