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Sunday, March 23, 2003 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...

Host

Show: Steve Martin Steve Martin (right) with Scooter, on The Muppet Show Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician, and composer born in Waco, Texas and raised in Garden Grove, California. ...

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 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. This article covers invasion specifics. ... Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. ... Michael Moore with his Oscar award after Bowling for Columbine won the 2003 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. ... Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948 in Hewlett, New York) is a Jewish-American Academy Award winning documentary film director. ... 76th Academy Awards Sunday, February 29, 2004 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California Hosts Preshow: Billy Bush, Chris Connelly & Maria Menounos Show: Billy Crystal Crew Producer: Joe Roth Supervising Producer: Michael Seligman Director: Lou Horvitz Duration 3 hours, 40 minutes Network ABC The big contenders for the 76th Academy... First Lady Laura Bush Laura Lane Bush (née Welch) (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of U.S. President George W. Bush and is the First Lady of the United States. ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov (Gorbachev)   listen[?] (Russian: ; pronunciation: ) (born March 2, 1931), was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ... Iggy Pop Iggy Pop (born James Newell Osterberg, Jr. ... Lou Reed Lou Reed (born Lewis Allen Reed on March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York), is a rock and roll singer-songwriter. ... Kenneth Joseph Arrow (born August 23, 1921) is an American economist, winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972. ... The Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell) are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. ... U.S. Economic Calendar Economics at the Open Directory Project Economics textbooks on Wikibooks The Economists Economics A-Z Institutions and organizations Bureau of Labor Statistics - from the American Labor Department Center for Economic and Policy Research (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) - Economics material from the organization...

Contents


The Kiss

Halle Berry was presenting the Oscar for Best Actor which went to Adrien Brody. As he got on stage he shocked everyone, including Halle Berry by given her a big passionate hard kiss. The audience were completely wowed. When the kiss was done Adrien turned back to Halle Berry and said "Bet you didn't know that was in the gift bag." Halle on the Dec 2002 cover of Vogue Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an Academy Award-winning actress and model. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. ...


The kiss became so popular that it has been parodied in mimicked. Some popular reenactments of this kiss occurred between Adrien Brody and Queen Latifah when they were presenting the Best Kiss at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards. A controversial reenacted kiss occurred between Madonna and Britney Spears at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. At the 76th Academy Awards, Brody himself mocked the moment with a spritz of breath spray before presenting the Best Actress award to Charlize Theron. Queen Latifah arriving at the 75th Academy Awards in 2003. ... The 12th MTV Movie Awards was held on May 31, 2003 in Los Angeles. ... Madonna on her Ray of Light album cover Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone (born August 16, 1959), principally known by her first name, is an American pop singer, composer, actress, dancer, author, activist, and fashion icon. ... Jump to: navigation, search Britney Spears performs on the National Mall in Washington, DC, September of 2003. ... The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the season. ... 76th Academy Awards Sunday, February 29, 2004 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California Hosts Preshow: Billy Bush, Chris Connelly & Maria Menounos Show: Billy Crystal Crew Producer: Joe Roth Supervising Producer: Michael Seligman Director: Lou Horvitz Duration 3 hours, 40 minutes Network ABC The big contenders for the 76th Academy... The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Charlize Theron Charlize Theron at the Academy Awards ceremony 2005 Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975 in Benoni, South Africa) is an Oscar winning South African actress. ...


The Awards

Feature Films

  • Best motion picture of the year: Chicago

Nominees: Gangs of New York The Hours The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Pianist Chicago is a movie musical released in 2002 about celebrity and money in Jazz age 1920s Chicago. ... Promotional poster for Gangs of New York Gangs of New York is a 2002 film made by the studio Miramax, set in the middle 19th century in the Five Points district of New York City. ... The Hours can refer to: Michael Cunninghams Novel Stephen Daldrys Movie Virginia Woolfs Mrs. ... This title can refer to either: The Two Towers (book), the second part of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. ... The Pianist is a title for 1991 film The Pianist 1998 Catalan language film The Pianist (El Pianista) a biographical memoir by Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman, which was adapted into a 2002 film about the Polish pianist who survived the rule of Nazi Germany. ...


Acting


Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. ... Categories: Movie stubs | Roman Polanski films | Palme dOr winners | 2002 films | Polish films | Drama films | World War II films | Musical films | Best Picture Oscar Nominee | Best Actor Oscar (film) ... Nicole Mary Kidman (born June 20, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning Australian actress, producer and singer. ... Movie poster for The Hours The Hours is a 2002 drama film about three women of different generations and times whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs. ... There are at least two people called Chris Cooper Chris Cooper (actor) - American actor Chris Cooper (radio) - Sports presenter on talkSPORT ... Adaptation. ... Catherine Zeta-Jones Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Oscar-winning Welsh actress. ... Chicago is a movie musical released in 2002 about celebrity and money in Jazz age 1920s Chicago. ...

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74th Academy Awards
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74th Academy Awards® Sunday, March 24, 2002 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California Host Show: Whoopi Goldberg Crew Producer: Laura Ziskin Duration 4 hours, 23 minutes The 74th Academy Awards® ceremony was significant for a number of reasons. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... This is a list of Academy Awards ceremonies, the year in film which they were honoring, their hosts, and their date of the ceremony. ... 76th Academy Awards Sunday, February 29, 2004 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California Hosts Preshow: Billy Bush, Chris Connelly & Maria Menounos Show: Billy Crystal Crew Producer: Joe Roth Supervising Producer: Michael Seligman Director: Lou Horvitz Duration 3 hours, 40 minutes Network ABC The big contenders for the 76th Academy...


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75th Academy Awards - encyclopedia article about 75th Academy Awards. (2044 words)
The 75th Academy Awards ceremony was originally intended to be an especially festive celebration of the ceremony's 75th anniversary.
The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5,816.
At the 76th Academy Awards The big contenders for the 76th Academy Awards (for the best achievement in film in 2003) included and Lost in Translation, and in the highly competitive Best Actor category, strong work from Johnny Depp, Sean Penn and Bill Murray.
75th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (161 words)
75th Anniversary Academy Award acting category winners Chris Cooper, Actor in a Supporting Role, "Adaptation;" Actress in a Supporting Role Catherine Zeta-Jones, "Chicago;" Nicole Kidman, Actress in a Leading Role, "The Hours;" Adrien Brody, Actor in a Leading Role, "The Pianist."
Instead of the glitter of a diamond anniversary, the awards went tentatively forward in the face of munitions raining down on the desert dictatorship of Iraq - by show night almost on Baghdad's doorstep.
The red carpet was shortened to just a few yards, most of the world's press was disinvited, the fans were nowhere to be found and hundreds of thousands of viewers stayed glued to the night-vision green glow of wall-to-wall live cable coverage of Gulf War II.
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