The 76th Annual Academy Awards
- TV Special
- 2004
- 3h 45m
In the annual awards presentation, the nominated films include The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Lost in Translation (2003), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the Wor... Read allIn the annual awards presentation, the nominated films include The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Lost in Translation (2003), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Mystic River (2003), and Seabiscuit (2003).In the annual awards presentation, the nominated films include The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Lost in Translation (2003), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Mystic River (2003), and Seabiscuit (2003).
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 wins & 13 nominations total
- Self - Memorial Tribute
- (archive footage)
- Self - Memorial Tribute
- (archive footage)
- Self - Memorial Tribute
- (archive footage)
- Self - Memorial Tribute
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won 11 Oscars, the most winning Oscars of a film, tied with Ben-Hur (1959) and Titanic (1997).
- Quotes
Billy Crystal: I voted for 'Seabiscuit' (for Best Costume Design). That's the most realistic horse costume I've ever seen.
- ConnectionsEdited from West Side Story (1961)
- SoundtracksMystic River
to tune of "Ol' Man River" (from "Show Boat")
Music by Jerome Kern
Performed by Billy Crystal
As it was, there were almost no real surprises at all - certainly not in the main categories. Each of these were made up of two likely winners and three `the nomination is enough' type nominations (City of God, Johnny Depp, the girl from Whalerider etc). Did anyone doubt that LOTR would get Director and Best Picture? Or that Penn would get actor with Robbins the only sure fire supporting Oscar. Zellweger was not a worthy winner on this role alone but she was always going to get it and with her makeup, weight gain and performance, it was always going to be Theron. The only surprise to me that was that LOTR managed to sweep every single nomination it had.
So as an awards ceremony I didn't really find any controversy or any major talking points, but (thanks to fast forward) I did enjoy the show. Crystal is the best host the show has had in the past decade or so. He is witty, imaginative and very funny. His traditional opening of being edited into films was not quite as good or sharp as it has been before - only Michael Moore declaring the hobbit's was `shameful and fictitious' got a big laugh from me. However, his songs and his gags were all pretty good and only occasionally fell flat. `Seabiscuit' to the tune of Goldfinger was hilarious and singing `Mystic River' in the style of an old spiritual was just inspired. The show is great with him and the host is the main reason I watch it.
Everyone accepted their awards with good grace and everything was pretty clean and obvious; only Sean Penn dropped a little dig about WMD's apart from Crystal's scripted digs. Overall this was a good show despite the usual problems of it being too long and having absurdly long commercial breaks all through it. Crystal makes it worth seeing but it is a shame that the main awards were so very obvious - I tried to get a combination bet on the 5 main awards but no bookie's would allow me to do that combination and the individual odds were just a waste of time (1-16 for Jackson to be director?!). Aside from this it was a good show - but I would never watch it live, I need the fast forward!
- bob the moo
- Mar 1, 2004
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- 76-а церемонія вручення премії «Оскар»
- Filming locations
- The Langham Huntington Hotel - 1401 South Oak Knoll Avenue, Pasadena, California, USA(Technical Awards banquet)
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