73rd Academy Awards
Date	Sunday, March 25, 2001
Site	Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California
Preshow	N/A
Host	Steve Martin
Producer	Gil Cates
Director
Duration	3 hours, 25 minutes

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Notable films receiving Academy Awards at the ceremony included Gladiator, which received 12 nominations and 5 awards, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which received 10 nominations and 4 awards. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ... Gladiator was a popular movie that appeared in 2000, directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. ... Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Traditional Chinese: 臥虎藏龍; Simplified Chinese: 卧虎藏龙; Hanyu Pinyin: ) is a wuxia (martial arts and chivalry) film released in 2000. ...

The ceremony received very low ratings for the first time in four years. This is partially due to the popularity of CBS's Survivor which was number one on the Neilsen Weekly Ratings. The awards show dropped to second place for the first time in broadcasting history (38.41 viewers). The second time the ceremony placed below the top happened in 2003 when it was reupdiated by American Idol. CBS (formerly an acronym for Columbia Broadcasting System, the former legal name of the network) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... Survivor can mean different things in different contexts. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... American Idol, formally known as American Idol: The Search for a Superstar, is an American television show. ...

Notable Quotes

• "If you can't beat 'me, join 'you" - host Steve Martin commenting on never having received an Academy Award

• "You know, when you grow up in the suburbs of Sydney, or Auckland, or Newcastle, like Ridley or Jamie Bell, or the suburbs of anywhere, you know a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage and relying purely on courage: It's possible." - Russell Crowe on accepting his Best Actor award.

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The Awards

Feature Films

• Best motion picture of the year: Gladiator

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Direction

• Achievement in Directing:Steven Soderbergh for Traffic

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Writing

• Best Original Screenplay:Almost Famous written by Cameron Crowe
• Best Adapted Screenplay:Traffic screenplay by Stephen Gaghan

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Acting

• Performance by an actor in a leading role: Russell Crowe in Gladiator
• Performance by an actress in a leading role: Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich
• Performance by an actor in a supporting role: Benicio Del Toro in Traffic
• Performance by an actress in a supporting role: Marcia Gay Harden in Pollock

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Music

• Original Score:Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon by Dun Tan
• Original Song: "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys - music and lyrics by Bob Dylan

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In Memoriam

John Travolta presented a list of those involved in films who had passed on in the previous year. Those featured included: John Travolta in a 2005 publicity shot from Be Cool. ...

• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
• Marie Windsor
• Beah Richards
• Edward Anhalt
• Billy Barty
• Julius Epstein
• George Montgomery
• Ring Lardner
• Steve Reeves
• Jean Peters
• Vittorio Gassman
• Jean-Pierre Amount
• Dale Evans
• Gwen Verdon
• Stanley Kramer
• Jack Nitzche
• Harold Nicholas
• Howard Koch
• Loretta Young
• Richard Farnsworth
• John Gielgud
• Jason Robards
• Claire Trevor
• Alec Guinness
• Walter Matthau

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Technical Awards

• Cinematography: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Art Direction: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Costume Design: Gladiator
• Makeup: How The Grinch Stole Christmas
• Sound Mixing: Gladiator
• Film Editing: Traffic
• Sound Editing: U-571
• Visual Effects: Gladiator