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  Nominations Announced for 72nd Academy Awards®
Academy members selected nominees in their respective branches, with the exception of the Makeup, two Documentary and the Foreign Language Film categories, where nominations were selected by vote of screening committees.
The Academy's entire active and life membership is eligible to select the winners in all categories, although in five of them - the two short film, the two documentary and the foreign language film categories - members can vote only after attesting they have seen all of the nominated films in those categories.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 1999 will be presented on March 26, 2000, at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium.
www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2000/00.02.15.html   (344 words)

  
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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.
Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Actor in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.
With ballots going out in the mail today for the 72nd Academy Awards ceremony, which will be held March 26 at tje Shrine Auditorium, it may be time to usher some new names into the club.
lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/academy-award.html   (586 words)

  
 The Walt Disney Internet Group Newsroom - Press Releases - January 31, 2000
Oscar.com, which will officially launch in February 2000, will be the most comprehensive online information guide to the 72nd Academy Awards Presentation and will feature exclusive coverage and behind-the-scenes glimpses of events otherwise unavailable to the public.
As the awards ceremony approaches, Oscar.com will add many features, including trivia games, video clips on demand, behind-the-scenes coverage of all Oscar festivities and preparations, weekly fashion reports, a fashion preview and an insider's look at rehearsal weekend.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 1999 will be presented on Sunday March 26, 2000, at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium.
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 The 72nd annual Academy Awards - Turkish Daily News Mar 28, 2000
She cut off her waist-length blond hair, put a sock down her pants and lived as a boy for four weeks to prepare for her role as a young woman who yearns to be a man in a low-budget movie by a first time female director.
While he sprang to prominence and earned his first Academy Award nomination playing a Cockney playboy in the 1966 film "Alfie," Caine assumed a New England accent for his role as an ether-sniffing elderly doctor and orphanage director in "The Cider House Rules" that won him his second best supporting actor Oscar.
Caine's award for his portrayal of Dr. Larch, a obstetrician-abortionist in rural Maine whose heart is broken when the boy he raised as a son leaves home, marks the second Oscar of his career -- both for supporting roles.
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=16658   (1213 words)

  
 72nd Academy Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony (also known as Oscars 2000) took place at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, and was Billy Crystal's seventh time hosting the Awards.
In recent years the Academy Award for Best Original Score was divided into two for Comedy and Dramatic Scores.
It was during rehearsals for this show that the famous Whitney Houston meltdown occurred, leading show producers to replace her at the last minute with Faith Hill.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/72nd_Academy_Awards   (919 words)

  
 74th Academy Awards
Academy Awards show at Hollywood's new Kodak Theatre hurtled into their final hours, production designer J. Michael Riva had only a few, brief moments to ponder what he had gotten himself into.
Academy Awards, that sense of accomplishment is pervasive among key players who helped stage the event.
The 9th Academy Awards, staged on March 4th, 1937 at the Biltmore Hotel with a painted curtain and a smattering of ferns and audio cabling.
livedesignonline.com /mag/th_academy_awards   (4300 words)

  
 The 72nd Annual Academy Awards
Election surprisingly won the WGA Award, which generally doesn’t mean that much when it comes to actually winning an Oscar, but it sure has to be taken into consideration as a way for this screenplay to increase awareness among Academy members.
I think that was a bit of an indignation, and maybe some Academy members are feeling that he deserves to win this award not only because of that, but because the film was snubbed in most major categories, when at one stage, it seemed a shoo-in for many of them.
I am sure the Academy will want to recognise this brilliant director with something, firstly because he is way overdue, and secondly, because the film was shut out of all other categories.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/5762/oscarwatch2000.html   (10242 words)

  
 72nd Academy Award Coverage (page 1)
A little corny, but the opening with Tyra Banks walking the camera up to Peter Coyote announcing "This is the 72nd Annual Academy Awards" worked.
The monologue was quick and to the point, bringing out the problems that have faced the Academy Awards this year (lost ballots, stolen statues), bringing him right into those patented Best Picture nominee songs.
This year's ceremony was the longest in the history of the awards, which is understandable considering the liberal work for Chuck Workman this year (to his credit, Workman actually had to work this year, neither of the aforementioned montages called for that
www.homestead.com /rhinoxsis/Academy99cov.html   (908 words)

  
 The 72nd Academy Awards Ceremonies
First time Academy Awards producers Richard and Lili Zanuck tried to streamline the ceremonies by cutting the dance numbers (The Gap picked up West Side Story dance numbers for its commercials) and curbing the long acceptance speeches of years past.
This request seemed disingenuous in the midst of an Academy Awards ceremony which was shoving diversity down America’s throat while cutting away at everything that is moral, decent and true.
The inexplicable logic of THE MATRIX winning the four awards suggested not so much that it deserved these awards, but rather that the Academy members were proclaiming that they didn’t care about the influence of this ultra-violent movie on our youth.
www.ankerberg.com /Articles/media-wise/MW0400W2.htm   (1559 words)

  
 Alive: Academy Awards: Next best thing to being there
Now that Academy Award nominees have been announced, the next important question to be answered isn't who will win.
An addition this year is "Hollywood Backlot," a tour of the studios, with actors re-creating famous movie scenes along the way.
Dinner follows the tour, with a large-screen telecast of the Academy Awards show afterward.
www.sptimes.com /News/030300/Alive/Academy_Awards__Next_.shtml   (591 words)

  
 72nd Annual Academy Awards
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards were presented on Sunday, March 26th, 2000 at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium (seating: approximately 5000), and broadcast live on the ABC television network at 5:00 p.m.
The print submitted for award consideration must be identical in form with the final version in general release in the country of origin.
The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is given to up to four individuals (as selected by the film's producer[s]) responsible for supervising the effects work on the designated film.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Theater/6696/00oscar.htm   (3178 words)

  
 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Stars glitter at Oscars
The film world's biggest extravaganza, the Oscars, is under way with screen stars soon to learn whether they have been honoured by the academy.
Hundreds of fans are gathered outside the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles for the 72nd Academy Awards, greeting every arrival walking up the red carpet with wild cheers.
Britons are in line up to walk away with several of the awards.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/691240.stm   (507 words)

  
 72nd Academy Award Coverage (page 2) 1999
Of course, after each of these great songs were "Music of My Heart" performed by Gloria Estefan and boy band N'Sync, who will undoubtedly never be performing at another Academy Awards ceremony, and "You'll Be in My Heart" performed by Phil Collins.
Cher then came out to give the award to the treacle from Phil Collins in the most astonishingly normal dress I've ever seen on Cher at the Oscars.
Selma Heyek then went through the normal recap of the Academy's Scientific and Technical Achievement awards a week earlier.
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 Let the 1999 awards season begin!
Well, it's November, and that means it's time to begin focusing on the upcoming awards season for the film achievements of 1999, and specifically begin predictions and analysis for the 72nd Annual Academy Awards.
These organizations, particularly the Screen Actors Guild awards and the Golden Globes, are often good precursors for what films and what individuals end up receiving Oscar nominations, so they help contribute to the ongoing discussion and predictions for filmdom's ultimate night, the Academy Awards!
Keep in mind that a number of the films mentioned have not even be released yet, so my predicting is solely based on advance buzz on the films as well as knowledge of the Academy and its past Oscar choices.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/academy_awards/28260   (305 words)

  
 Billy Crystal to Host 72nd Academy Awards®
Beverly Hills, CA - Billy Crystal will return to host the 72nd Academy Awards, Richard D. and Lili Fini Zanuck, producers of the Oscar
The ceremonies honoring 1999 achievements in motion pictures will be held on Sunday, March 26, 2000.
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards Presentation will be broadcast live from the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium by the ABC Television Network, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/1999/99.12.14.html   (224 words)

  
 72nd Academy Awards Poster - Academy Publications - Academy of Motion Picture
Created by Oscar-winning filmmaker and renowned graphic designer Arnold Schwartzman, the Oscar 2000 poster is printed on premium stock and measures 26.75 x 39.75 inches.
Its vivid electric design offered a look forward into the new millennium while at the same time paying homage to one of film history's most memorable images from the 1926 silent classic, "Metropolis".
72nd Academy Awards Posters are no longer available for purchase.
www.oscars.org /publications/poster72/index.html   (88 words)

  
 OSCAR AWARDS
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards were announced on March 26th in a Glittering Ceremony, which went around for 4 hours.
The film Matrix won most of the technical awards by capturing four awards that of Film Editing, Sound, Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects Editing.
By this it had won all the awards nominated for.
www.indiafilm.com /oscar-awards.htm   (180 words)

  
 Screen Source: 72nd Annual Academy Awards
The Polish Government belatedly tried to withdraw the film from contention, but the Academy, arguing that the voting process had already begun, refused to drop it and the film was eventually nominated.
Established in 1981, the Sawyer Award is "presented to an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." It is named in honor of the veteran sound director who died earlier that year.
Scientific and Technical Awards are given for devices, methods, formulas, discoveries or inventions of special and outstanding value to the arts and sciences of motion pictures and that also have a proven history of use in the motion picture industry.
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 The Official Academy Awards Site
A few days ago, the nominations for the 72nd Annual Academy Awards were announced.
Called The Official Academy Awards Site, here you can visit each of the 71 previous award winners, both the films and the personalities.
There is a special trivia section, as well as a retrospective area to view the history of the award.
www.familyfirst.com /the_official_academy_awards_si.html   (268 words)

  
 Gerald Peary - essays - Academy Awards - 2000
It was hetero retro at the Oscars, as the silver-haired Playboy-era gang, 60s and 70s hipsters all, Jack Nicholson huffing and preening on stage, provided the tired dominant discourse of last Sunday's 72nd Academy Awards.
Other old-time womanizers, Michael Caine and Phil Collins, also came in from the cold and, seemingly cured, used the Academy Award platform to go off on their doting wives and bountiful kids--not only Kathie Lee tediously names names!
Even more subversive: all that blabbering of the Hollywood near-ancients, all the genuflecting before "cool" Grinnin' Jack, couldn't keep down, or out of our TV picture, an amazing alternative, celebratory New Hollywood for the year 2000: the ascendancy at the Oscars of gay and lesbian sensibility.
www.geraldpeary.com /essays/abc/academy-2000.html   (514 words)

  
 Epinions.com - Advice on 72nd Academy Awards Postmortem
Include your thoughts on the host Billy Crystal, the acceptance speeches, the film montages, the performances, and who should have won an Oscar.
Michael's Oscar Follies 2000: the awards, the parties
When all is said and done, they could have used a good script editor...
www.epinions.com /mvie_Oscar_Postmortem_1999   (213 words)

  
 O2K - Behind The Scenes :: In Focus
O2K: Insider's Guide to the Academy Awards offers daily breaking news and information about the stars, nominees, presenters, and performers for the March 26th event.
The leading contenders for nominations are being offered in the eight major award categories.
ACADEMY AWARDS®, OSCAR(S)®;, OSCAR NIGHT® and OSCAR®; statuette design mark are the trademarks and service marks, and the OSCAR®; statuette the copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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 Playbill News: Hairspray's Marc Shaiman to Work with Billy Crystal at Oscars
Shaiman received an Emmy Award for his last outing with Crystal, when he co-wrote the actor's "Oscar Medleys," which opened the 72nd Academy Awards.
The duo also received the 2003 Tony Award for Best Score for their musical based on the classic John Waters film.
ABC will broadcast the 76th Academy Awards, which will be presented Feb. 29 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA.
www.playbill.com /news/article/83920.html   (462 words)

  
 Academy Awards Awards | Film | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Most Graceful Political Moment: Best Adapted Screenplay winner John Irving dedicating his Cider House Rules award to Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Rights League (and becoming the only person of the night to admit that this "feel-good family hit" presents abortion as the solution to all of life's problems).
The "Boys Do Cry" Award: To Chad Lowe, whose unabashed boo-hooing was either happiness for his Best Actress wife, or mourning of his shift from "Rob Lowe's brother" to "Mr.
The "Two Most Beautiful People to Ever Stand Next to Each Other at a Podium" Award: To All About My Mother's Penelope Cruz and Melanie Griffith's Antonio Banderas, who made our eyes sweat, and who should be forced to reproduce incessantly for the rest of their lives.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=3595   (816 words)

  
 Spank The Monkey - The 72nd Academy Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
But Michael Caine gets the award to a standing ovation, and gives a touchingly generous speech in which he credits all his co-nominees.
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences are the owners of the copyright for the Oscar statue and name, but it's 8.30am now and I need to get to bed, so I can't be bothered looking for the HTML code for the numerous copyright signs I should technically litter this page with.
The Official Academy Awards Site is an offshoot of the above and contains all the information on the Oscars that you could possibly need.
www.gleeson0.demon.co.uk /oscars00.htm   (2150 words)

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