| 73th Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | March 25, 2001 | |||
| Site | Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles, California | |||
| Host | Steve Martin | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | Gladiator | |||
| Most wins | Gladiator (5) | |||
| Most nominations | Gladiator (12) | |||
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The 73rd Academy Awards honored the best films of 2000 and was held on March 25, 2001. It was the last Academy Awards to take place at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. It was hosted by first-time host Steve Martin, who was nominated for an Emmy Award for his presentation.
Notable films included Gladiator, which received 12 nominations and 5 awards, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which received 10 nominations and 4 awards, as well as Traffic & Erin Brockovich, which both had 5 nominations, with Traffic winning 4 of them.
This marked the last time until 2010 that the winner of Best Picture also took home Best Actor. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has the record for the most nominations for a foreign language film with 10 nominations and tied with Fanny and Alexander with most wins with 4. Traffic was the first film in 25 years (since Jaws) to be nominated for Best Picture and to take home all of the Oscars it was nominated for except Picture. The next time this would happen would be in 2009 with The Blind Side.
Nominees and winners
Best Picture
See also: Best Picture
- Winner
- Gladiator — Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig
- Nominees
- Chocolat — David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Bill Kong, Hsu Li Kong, Ang Lee
- Erin Brockovich — Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher
- Traffic — Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Laura Bickford
Best Actor
See also: Best Actor
- Winner
- Russell Crowe — Gladiator
- Nominees
- Javier Bardem — Before Night Falls
- Tom Hanks — Cast Away
- Ed Harris — Pollock
- Geoffrey Rush — Quills
Best Actress
See also: Best Actress
- Winner
- Julia Roberts — Erin Brockovich
- Nominees
- Joan Allen — The Contender
- Juliette Binoche — Chocolat
- Ellen Burstyn — Requiem for a Dream
- Laura Linney — You Can Count on Me
Best Supporting Actor
See also: Best Supporting Actor
- Winner
- Benicio Del Toro — Traffic
- Nominees
- Jeff Bridges — The Contender
- Willem Dafoe — Shadow of the Vampire
- Albert Finney — Erin Brockovich
- Joaquin Phoenix — Gladiator
Best Supporting Actress
See also: Best Supporting Actress
- Winner
- Marcia Gay Harden — Pollock
- Nominees
- Judi Dench — Chocolat
- Kate Hudson — Almost Famous
- Frances McDormand — Almost Famous
- Julie Walters — Billy Elliot
Best Director
See also: Best Director
- Winner
- Traffic — Steven Soderbergh
- Nominees
- Billy Elliot — Stephen Daldry
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Ang Lee
- Erin Brockovich — Steven Soderbergh
- Gladiator — Ridley Scott
Best Adapted Screenplay
See also: Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner
- Traffic — Stephen Gaghan
- Nominees
- Chocolat — Robert Nelson Jacobs
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Wang Hui Ling, James Schamus, Tsai Kuo Jung
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? — Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Wonder Boys — Steve Kloves
Best Original Screenplay
See also: Best Original Screenplay
- Winner
- Almost Famous — Cameron Crowe
- Nominees
- Billy Elliot — Lee Hall
- Erin Brockovich — Susannah Grant
- Gladiator — David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson
- You Can Count on Me — Kenneth Lonergan
Best Art Direction
See also: Best Art Direction
- Winner
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Tim Yip
- Nominees
- Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas — Michael Corenblith, Merideth Boswell
- Gladiator — Arthur Max, Crispian Sallis
- Quills — Martin Childs, Jill Quertier
- Vatel — Jean Rabasse, Françoise Benoît-Fresco
Best Cinematography
See also: Best Cinematography
- Winner
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Peter Pau
- Nominees
- Gladiator — John Mathieson
- Malèna — Lajos Koltai
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? — Roger Deakins
- The Patriot — Caleb Deschanel
Best Costume Design
See also: Best Costume Design
- Winner
- Gladiator — Janty Yates
- Nominees
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Tim Yip
- Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas — Rita Ryack
- 102 Dalmatians — Anthony Powell
- Quills — Jacqueline West
Best Documentary Feature
See also: Best Documentary Feature
- Winner
- Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport — Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer
- Nominees
- Legacy — Tod Lending
- Long Night's Journey into Day — Frances Reid, Deborah Hoffmann
- Scottsboro: An American Tragedy — Barak Goodman, Daniel Anker
- Sound and Fury — Josh Aronson, Roger Weisberg
Best Documentary Short
See also: Best Documentary Short
- Winner
- Big Mama — Tracy Seretean
- Nominees
- Curtain Call — Chuck Braverman, Steve Kalafer
- Dolphins — Greg MacGillivray, Alec Lorimore
- The Man on Lincoln's Nose — Daniel Raim
- On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom — Eric Simonson, Leelai Demoz
Best Film Editing
See also: Best Film Editing
- Winner
- Traffic — Stephen Mirrione
- Nominees
- Almost Famous — Joe Hutshing, Saar Klein
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Tim Squyres
- Gladiator — Pietro Scalia
- Wonder Boys — Dede Allen
Best Foreign Language Film
See also: Best Foreign Language Film
- Winner
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon from Taiwan — Ang Lee
- Nominees
- Amores Perros from Mexico — Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Divided We Fall from Czech Republic — Jan Hrebejk
- Everybody Famous! from Belgium — Dominique Deruddere
- The Taste of Others from France — Agnès Jaoui
Best Makeup
See also: Best Makeup
- Winner
- Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas — Rick Baker, Gail Ryan
- Nominees
- The Cell — Michèle Burke, Edouard Henriques
- Shadow of the Vampire — Ann Buchanan, Amber Sibley
Best Original Score
See also: Best Original Score
- Winner
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Tan Dun
- Nominees
- Chocolat — Rachel Portman
- Gladiator — Hans Zimmer
- Malèna — Ennio Morricone
- The Patriot — John Williams
Best Original Song
See also: Best Original Song
- Winner
- "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys — Bob Dylan
- Nominees
- "A Fool In Love" from Meet the Parents — Randy Newman
- "I've Seen It All" from Dancer in the Dark — Björk, Lars von Trier, Sjon Sigurdsson
- "A Love Before Time" from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Jorge Calandrelli, Tan Dun, James Schamus
- "My Funny Friend and Me" from The Emperor's New Groove — Sting, David Hartley
Best Animated Short
See also: Best Animated Short
- Winner
- Father and Daughter — Michael Dudok de Wit
- Nominees
- The Periwig-Maker — Steffen Schäffler, Annette Schäffler
- Rejected — Don Hertzfeldt
Best Live Action Short
See also: Best Live Action Short
- Winner
- Quiero Ser (I want to be...) — Florian Gallenberger
- Nominees
- By Courier — Peter Riegert, Ericka Frederick
- One Day Crossing — Joan Stein, Christina Lazaridi
- Seraglio — Gail Lerner, Colin Campbell
- A Soccer Story (Uma Historia de Futebol) — Paulo Machline
Best Sound Mixing
See also: Best Sound Mixing
- Winner
- Gladiator — Scott Millan, Bob Beemer, Ken Weston
- Nominees
- Cast Away — Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands, William B. Kaplan
- The Patriot — Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Lee Orloff
- The Perfect Storm — John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell, Keith A. Wester
- U-571 — Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Rick Kline, Ivan Sharrock
Best Sound Editing
See also: Best Sound Editing
- Winner
- U-571 — Jon Johnson
- Nominees
- Space Cowboys — Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
Best Visual Effects
See also: Best Visual Effects
- Winner
- Gladiator — John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, Rob Harvey
- Nominees
- Hollow Man — Scott E. Anderson, Craig Hayes, Scott Stokdyk, Stan Parks
- The Perfect Storm — Stefen Fangmeier, Habib Zargarpour, John Frazier, Walt Conti
Academy Honorary Awards
- Ernest Lehman in appreciation of a body of varied and enduring work.
- Jack Cardiff for mastery in light and color.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
- Dino De Laurentiis
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
- Irwin W. Young