75th edition of the Oscars

The 75th edition of the Oscars rewarded the best films of 2002. Organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it took place at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles (United States) on March 23, 2003. On this occasion, the emcee was Steve Martin.

Presenters

Summary of awards and nominations

Movie	Original title	Candidatures	Awards	Criticism	Country
Chicago	Chicago	13	6	82%
The pianist	The Pianist	7	3	85%
Frida	Frida	6	2	71%
The Lord of the Rings: the two towers	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	6	2	88%
Talk to her.	Talk to her.	2	1	87%
The Journey of Chihiro	Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi	1	1	96%
In a place in Africa	Nirgendwo in Afrika	1	1	85%
Gangs of New York	Gangs of New York	10	0	84%

Nominations and winners

Chicago became the first musical to win the Best Picture Oscar, since the film Oliver! last did so in 1968. Adrien Brody wins the Oscar for Best Actor at age 29, becoming the youngest actor to win the Oscar in that category. With her thirteenth nomination, Meryl Streep became the actress with the most nominations in Oscar history. Meanwhile, Jack Nicholson earned his twelfth Oscar nomination, becoming the actor with the most Oscar nominations in history. Julianne Moore was the ninth performer to earn two nominations in the categories of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for participating in different films. The song Lose Yourself from the movie 8 Mile became the first rap song to win the Oscar for Best Original Song. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was the fourth sequel to earn a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Unusually for the first and only time, an Oscar nomination is awarded to a fictional character: Donald Kaufman respectively, who despite being credited as co-author of the screenplay for the film Adaptation along with Charlie Kaufman in real life does not exist and ultimately would not win the award.

Roman Polanski was the Oscar winner to the best director by The pianist.

Adrien Brody was the Oscar winner for the best actor by The pianist.

Nicole Kidman was Oscar's best actress winner by The hours.

Chris Cooper was the Oscar winner to best cast actor by Adaptation.

Catherine Zeta-Jones was the Oscar winner to the best cast actress by Chicago.

Indicates the winner in each category.

Best movie Submitted by: Kirk Douglas and Michael Douglas	Best director Submitted by: Harrison Ford
Chicago- Martin Richards.	Roman Polanski - The pianist
Gangs of New York- Alberto Grimaldi and Harvey Weinstein. The hours- Robert Fox and Scott Rudin. The Lord of the Rings: the two towers- Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Fran Walsh. The pianist— Roman Polanski, Alain Sarde and Robert Benmussa.	Pedro Almodóvar — Talk to her. Stephen Daldry — The hours Rob Marshall — Chicago Martin Scorsese — Gangs of New York
Best actor Submitted by: Halle Berry	Best actress Submitted by: Denzel Washington
Adrien Brody- The pianistLike Władysław Szpilman.	Nicole Kidman - The hourslike Virginia Woolf.
Nicolas Cage — Adaptationlike Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman. Michael Caine — The Quiet Americanlike Thomas Fowler. Daniel Day-Lewis — Gangs of New Yorklike Bill "The Butcher" Cutting. Jack Nicholson — About Schmidtlike Warren Schmidt.	Salma Hayek — Fridalike Frida Kahlo. Diane Lane — Unfaithfullike Constance Connie Sumner. Julianne Moore — Far from Heavenlike Cathy Whitaker. Renée Zellweger — ChicagoLike Roxie Hart.
Best cast actor Submitted by: Jennifer Connelly	Best cast actress Submitted by: Sean Connery
Chris Cooper- Adaptationlike John Laroche.	Catherine Zeta-Jones- Chicagolike Velma Kelly.
Ed Harris — The hourslike Richard Richie Brown. Paul Newman — Way to perditionlike John Rooney. John C. Reilly — Chicagolike Amos Hart. Christopher Walken — Get me if you canlike Frank Abagnale, sir.	Kathy Bates — About Schmidtlike Roberta Hertzel. Queen Latifah — Chicagolike Matron "Mama" Morton. Julianne Moore — The hourslike Laura McGrath Brown. Meryl Streep — Adaptationlike Susan Orlean.
Best original script Submitted by: Ben Affleck	Best adapted script Submitted by: Marcia Gay Harden
Talk to her. - Pedro Almodóvar.	The pianist — Ronald Harwood, based on The pianist of the Warsaw ghetto by Władysław Szpilman.
Far from Heaven - Todd Haynes. Gangs of New York — Jay Cocks, Steve Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan. My Big Fat Greek Wedding - Nia Vardalos. And your mom too. — Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón.	About a Boy — Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, based on About a Boy by Nick Hornby. Adaptation — Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman, based on The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. Chicago — Bill Condon, based on Chicago by Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb. The hours — David Hare, based on The hours by Michael Cunningham.
Best animation film Submitted by: Cameron Diaz	Best foreign film (non-English speaking) Submitted by: Salma Hayek
The Journey of Chihiro - Hayao Miyazaki.	Nirgendwo in Afrika (Germany) in German — Caroline Link.
The Treasure Planet - Ron Clements. Ice Age - Chris Wedge. Lilo & Stitch - Chris Sanders. Spirit: the indomitable corce - Jeffrey Katzenberg.	The Crime of Father Amaro (Mexico) in Spanish — Carlos Carrera. Heroe (China) in Mandarin — Zhang Yimou. A man without a past (Finland) in Finnish — Aki Kaurismäki. Zus " Zo (Netherlands) in Danish — Paula van der Oest.
Best long documentary Submitted by: Diane Lane	Best short documentary Submitted by: Jack Valenti
Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore and Michael Donovan.	Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port.
Daughter from Danang - Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco. Prisoner of Paradise - Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender. Spellbound - Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch. Winged Migration - Jacques Perrin.	Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston. The Collector of Bedford Street - Alice Elliott. Why Can't We Be a Family Again? - Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel.
Better short film Submitted by: Jennifer Garner and Mickey Mouse	Best animated short film Submitted by: Jennifer Garner and Mickey Mouse
This Charming Man — Martin Strange-Hansen and Mie Andreasen.	The ChubbChubbs! - Eric Armstrong.
Fait D’Hiver - Dirk Beliën and Anja Daelemans. I’ll Wait for the Next One... (J’Attendrai Le Suivant...) — Philippe Orreindy and Thomas Gaudin. Inja (Dog) - Steven Pasvolsky and Joe Weatherstone. Johnny Flynton — Lexi Alexander and Alexander Buono.	Das Rad — Chris Stenner and Heidi Wittlinger. Katedra - Tomasz Bagiński. Mike's New Car - Pete Docter and Roger Gould. Mount Head - Kōji Yamamura.
Best soundtrack Submitted by: Renée Zellweger	Best original song Submitted by: Barbra Streisand
Frida — Elliot Goldenthal	«Lose Yourself» - 8 Mile; Music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto; Letra by Eminem.
Get me if you can - John Williams Way to perdition — Thomas Newman Far from Heaven - Elmer Bernstein. The hours — Philip Glass	«Burn It Blue» — Frida; Music by Elliot Goldenthal; Letra by Julie Taymor. «Father and Daughter» — The Wild Thornberry Movie; Music and Letter by Paul Simon. «I Move On» — Chicago; Music by John Kander; Letra by Fred Ebb. «The Hands That Built America» — Gangs of New YorkMusic and Letra by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen.
Best Sound Edition Submitted by: Julianne Moore	Better sound Submitted by: Julianne Moore
The Lord of the Rings: the two towers - Ethan Van der Ryn and Michael Hopkins.	Chicago - Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella and David Lee.
Way to perdition - Scott A. Hecker. Minority Report - Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom.	Way to perdition - Scott Millan, Bob Beemer and John Patrick Pritchett. The Lord of the Rings: the two towers — Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek. Gangs of New York - Tom Fleischman, Eugene Gearty and Ivan Sharrock. Spider-Man - Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Ed Novick.
Best artistic direction Submitted by: Jennifer Lopez	Better photograph Submitted by: Julia Roberts
Chicago — Artistic direction: John Myhre; Design of decorations: Gordon Sim.	Way to perdition - Conrad L. Hall.
Way to perdition – Artistic direction: Dennis Gassner; Design of decorations: Nancy Haigh. The Lord of the Rings: the two towers — Artistic direction: Grant Major; Design of decorations: Dan Hennah and Alan Lee. Frida — Artistic direction: Felipe Fernández del Paso; Design of decorations: Hania Robledo. Gangs of New York — Artistic direction: Dante Ferretti; Design of decorations: Francesca Lo Schiavo.	Chicago - Dion Beebe. The pianist - Pawel Edelman. Far from Heaven - Edward Lachman. Gangs of New York - Michael Ballhaus.
Better makeup. Submitted by: Nia Vardalos	Best costume design Submitted by: Mira Sorvino
Frida - John E. Jackson and Beatrice De Alba.	Chicago - Colleen Atwood.
Time machine - John M. Elliott, Jr. and Barbara Lorenz.	The pianist - Anna Sheppard. Frida - Julie Weiss. Gangs of New York - Sandy Powell. The hours - Ann Roth.
Better assembly Submitted by: Geena Davis	Best visual effects Submitted by: Keanu Reeves
Chicago - Martin Walsh.	The Lord of the Rings: the two towers - Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke.
The pianist - Hervé de Luze. The Lord of the Rings: the two towers - Michael J. Horton. Gangs of New York — Thelma Schoonmaker. The hours - Peter Boyle.	Spider-Man — John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones — Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman, John Knoll and Ben Snow.

Honorary Oscar

• Peter O'Toole, presented by Meryl Streep

Meeting of Oscar-winning performers

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Academy Awards, a family photo was taken in which the Academy brought together as many Oscar-winning actors and actresses as possible, preceded by a presentation by a Olivia de Havilland who reflected on the changes produced in society since she won the statuette, except in one of the areas: the love of cinema.

The award-winning actors who attended the event were: Julie Andrews, Kathy Bates, Halle Berry, Ernest Borgnine, Adrien Brody, Red Buttons, Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, George Chakiris, Jennifer Connelly, Sean Connery, Chris Cooper, Geena Davis, Daniel Day-Lewis, Olivia de Havilland, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Louise Fletcher, Brenda Fricker, Cuba Gooding Jr., Louis Gossett, Jr., Joel Grey, Tom Hanks, Marcia Gay Harden, Dustin Hoffman, Celeste Holm, Anjelica Huston, Claude Jarman Jr., Jennifer Jones, Shirley Jones, George Kennedy, Nicole Kidman, Ben Kingsley, Martin Landau, Cloris Leachman, Karl Malden, Marlee Matlin, Hayley Mills, Rita Moreno, Patricia Neal, Jack Nicholson, Margaret O'Brien, Tatum O'Neal, Jack Palance, Luise Rainer, Julia Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Mickey Rooney, Susan Sarandon, Maximilian Schell, Mira Sorvino, Sissy Spacek, Mary Steenburgen, Meryl Streep, Barbra Streisand, Hilary Swank, Jon Voight, Denzel Washington, Chr Christopher Walken, Teresa Wright, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

In Memoriam

The annual assembly that the academy performs at each ceremony, this year recognized the following personalities: Lew Wasserman (executive), Richard Sylbert (artistic director), Eddie Bracken, George Sidney (director), Katy Jurado, Jack Brodsky (producer), Dudley Moore, John Frankenheimer (director), Rod Steiger, Norman Panama (writer), Horst Bucholtz, J. Lee Thompson (director), Leo McKern, Milton Berle, Ward Kimball (animator), Richard Crenna, Charles Guggenheim (documentary filmmaker), Rosemary Clooney, Daniel Taradash (writer), Signe Hasso, Walter Scharf (composer), Kim Hunter, Adolph Green (lyricist), Alberto Sordi, Conrad L. Hall (photographer), George Roy Hill (director), Richard Harris, James Coburn and Billy Wilder (director).

Curiosities

• To date, it has been the only edition of the Oscars where the usual parade of great personalities was suspended by the red carpet before the gala. The war against Iraq had just erupted and the organizers of the ceremony thought it was best to suspend it.