71st Academy Awards

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71st Academy Awards
71st Academy Awards poster.jpg
Official poster
Date March 21, 1999
Site Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Host Whoopi Goldberg
Pre-show Geena Davis
Jim Moret[1]
Producer Gil Cates
Director Louis J. Horvitz
Highlights
Best Picture Shakespeare in Love
Most awards Shakespeare in Love (7)
Most nominations Shakespeare in Love (13)
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Duration 4 hours, 2 minutes[2]
Ratings 45.51 million
28.63% (Nielsen ratings)

The 71st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best of 1998 in film and took place on March 21, 1999, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Louis J. Horvitz.[3][4] Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the third time.[5] She first hosted the 66th ceremony held in 1994 and had last hosted the 68th ceremony in 1996.[6] Nearly a month earlier in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on February 27, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Anne Heche.[7]

Shakespeare in Love won seven awards including Best Picture.[8] Other winners included Saving Private Ryan with five awards, Life Is Beautiful with three, and Affliction, Bunny, Election Night, Elizabeth, Gods and Monsters, The Last Days, The Personals, The Prince of Egypt, and What Dreams May Come with one. The telecast garnered nearly 46 million viewers in the United States.

Winners and nominees

The nominees for the 71st Academy Awards were announced on February 9, 1999, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Rehme, president of the Academy, and the actor Kevin Spacey.[9] Shakespeare in Love earned the most nominations with thirteen; Saving Private Ryan came in second place with eleven.[10]

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 21, 1999.[11] Life Is Beautiful was the second film nominated simultaneously for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film in the same year.[12] Moreover, its seven nominations were the most for a foreign language film, to date.[13] Best Actor winner Roberto Benigni was the second person to direct himself to an acting Oscar win. Laurence Olivier first achieved this feat for his performance in 1948's Hamlet.[14] He also became the fourth individual to earn acting, directing, screenwriting nominations for the same film.[15] In addition, Benigni was the third performer to win an Oscar for a non-English speaking role.[16] By virtue of their nominations for portraying Queen Elizabeth I of England, Best Actress nominee Cate Blanchett and Best Supporting Actress winner Judi Dench became the first pair of actresses to earn acting nominations in the same year for portraying the same character in different films.[17]

Awards

Headshot of a bearded and bespectacled Jewish male wearing a black tuxedo.
Steven Spielberg, Best Director winner
Portrait of a man holding a gold statuette. He is wearing a black coat over a red sweater and a red collared shirt.
Roberto Benigni, Best Actor winner
Photo of a blonde haired female wearing a blue dress.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Best Actress winner
Headshot of a man holding a black telephone. He is wearing a checkered shirt and a dark brown suit.
James Coburn, Best Supporting Actor winner
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Judi Dench, Best Supporting Actress winner
Photo of Tom Stoppard at the premiere of The Coast of Utopia in 2007.
Tom Stoppard, Best Original Screenplay co-winner
Photo of a grey haired man wearing a navy blue bubble vest.
Chris Wedge, Best Animated Short Film winner
Photo of Sandy Powell at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.
Sandy Powell, Best Costume Design winner

Winners are listed first and indicated with a double-dagger (double-dagger).[18]

Academy Honorary Award

Irving G. Thalberg Award

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.[21][22]

Presenters

Name(s) Role
Randi Thomas Announcer for the 71st annual Academy Awards
Robert Rehme (AMPAS President) Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony
Kim Basinger Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Gwyneth Paltrow Presenter of the award for Best Art Direction
Patrick Stewart Presenter of the films Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love on the Best Picture segment
Mike Myers Presenter of the award for Best Makeup
Christina Ricci Introducer of the performance of Best song nominee "When You Believe"
Brendan Fraser Presenter of the award for Best Live Action Short Film
Flik the ant
Heimlich the caterpillar		 Presenters of the award for Best Animated Short Film
Robin Williams Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Chris Rock Presenter of the award for Best Sound Effects Editing
Liv Tyler Introducer of the performance of Best Song nominee "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
Anjelica Huston Presenter if the award for Best Sound
Tom Hanks Introducer of presenter John Glenn
John Glenn Presenter of the "Historical Figures in Cinema" montage
Sophia Loren Presenter of the film Life Is Beautiful on the Best Picture segment and the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Andy Garcia
Andie MacDowell		 Presenters of the award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Geena Davis Introducer of the special dance number to the tune of the Best Original Dramatic Score nominees
Presenter of the award for Best Original Dramatic Score
John Travolta Presenter of the Frank Sinatra tribute montage
Anne Heche Presenter of the segment of the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement and Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Jim Carrey Presenter of the award for Best Film Editing
Renée Zellweger Introducer of the performance of the Best Song nominee "A Soft Place to Fall"
Nicolas Cage Presenter of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Norman Jewison
Liam Neeson Presenter of the award for Best Visual Effects
Val Kilmer Presenter of the Gene Autry and Roy Rogers tribute montage
Helen Hunt Presenter of the award for Best Actor
Lisa Kudrow Introducer of the performance of Best Song nominee "That'll Do"
Ben Affleck
Matt Damon		 Presenters of the awards for Best Documentary Short Subject and Best Documentary Feature
Robert De Niro
Martin Scorsese		 Presenters of the Honorary Academy Award to Elia Kazan
Whoopi Goldberg Presenter of the award for Best Costume Design
Catherine Zeta-Jones Introducer of the performance of Best Song nominee "The Prayer"
Jennifer Lopez Presenter of the award for Best Original Song
Annette Benning Presenter of the In Memoriam tribute
Jack Valenti Introducer of presenter Colin Powell
Colin Powell Presenter of the films Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line on the Best Picture segment
Uma Thurman Presenter of the award for Best Cinematography
Jack Nicholson Presenter of the award for Best Actress
Steven Spielberg Presenter of the Stanley Kubrick tribute montage
Goldie Hawn
Steve Martin		 Presenters of the awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay
Kevin Costner Presenter of the award for Best Director
Harrison Ford Presenter of the award for Best Picture

Performers

Name(s) Role Performed
Bill Conti Musical arranger Orchestral
Mariah Carey
Whitney Houston		 Performers "When You Believe" from The Prince of Egypt
Aerosmith Performers "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from Armageddon
Joaquín Cortés
Savion Glover
Tai Jiminez
Desmond Richardson
Rasta Thomas[23]		 Performers Performed dance number synchronized with selections from Best Original Dramatic Score nominees
Alison Moorer Performers "A Soft Place to Fall" from The Horse Whisperer
Peter Gabriel
Randy Newman		 Performers "That'll Do" from Babe: Pig in the City
Celine Dion
Andrea Bocelli		 Performers "The Prayer" from Quest for Camelot

Ceremony information

Photo of an African-American woman with braided hair who is wearing a grey scarf and a denim jacket.
Whoopi Goldberg hosted the 71st Academy Awards.

Riding on the success of the previous year's ceremony which garnered record-high viewership figures and several Emmys, AMPAS sought changes to the festivities that would help build upon this recent success. In June 1998, Academy president Robert Rehme announced that the show would be held on a Sunday for the first time in history.[24] AMPAS and network ABC hoped to capitalize on the high television ratings and viewership that benefit programs airing on that particular day of the week.[25] The Academy also stated that the move to Sunday would ease concerns about traffic gridlock and transportation that are significantly lower on weekends.[26]

The following January, Gil Cates was selected as producer of the telecast.[27] He immediately selected Oscar-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg as host of the 1999 ceremony.[28] Cates explained his decision to bring back Goldberg as host saying, "The audience adores Whoopi and that affection, plus Whoopi's extraordinary talent makes her a terrific host for the show."[29] In a statement, Goldberg expressed that she was honored and excited to be selected to emcee the telecast commenting, "I am thrilled to escort Oscar into the new millennium. Who would have thought that I would be hosting the last Oscar telecast of the century? It's a huge deal."[29]

Several other people participated in the production of the ceremony and its related events. Bill Conti served as musical director for the festivities.[30] In addition to supervising the Best Song nominee performances, choreographer Debbie Allen produced a dance number featuring five dancers from around the world showcasing the nominees for Best Original Dramatic Score.[31] For the first time, the Academy produced its own pre-show that preceded the main telecast. Produced by Dennis Doty, the half-hour program was hosted by actress Geena Davis and CNN reporter Jim Moret.[32] Similar to coverage of red carpet arrivals on networks such as E!, the pre-show featured interviews with nominees and other guests, recaps of nominations, and segments highlighting behind-the-scenes preparations for the telecast.[33]

Box office performance of nominees

At the time of the nominations announcement on February 9, the combined gross of the five Best Picture nominees was $302 million with an average of $60.4 million per film.[34] Saving Private Ryan was the highest earner among the Best Picture nominees with $194.2 million in domestic box office receipts. The film was followed by Shakespeare in Love ($36.5 million), The Thin Red Line ($30.6 million), Elizabeth ($21.5 million), and finally Life is Beautiful ($18.4 million).[34]

Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 36 nominations went to 13 films on the list. Only Saving Private Ryan (2nd), The Truman Show (11th), A Civil Action (40th), and Primary Colors (50th) were nominated for Best Picture, directing, acting, or screenwriting.[35] The other top 50 box office hits that earned nominations were Armageddon (1st), A Bug's Life (5th), Patch Adams (12th), Mulan (13th), The Mask of Zorro (17th), The Prince of Egypt (18th), The Horse Whisperer (24th), What Dreams May Come (37th), and Pleasantville (49th).[35]

Critical reviews

The show received a mixed reception from media publications. Columnist Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly quipped that "Whoopi bombed last night, she knew it—and yet, crassly, she took it as a sign of her own outrageousness."[36] The Washington Post television critic Tom Shales bemoaned that Goldberg "spent a great deal of time laughing at her own jokes, many of which were dirty, a few dirty." He also lambasted the host's presentation of the five Best Costume Design nominees saying calling it time-consuming and tasteless.[37] Film critic John Hartl of The Seattle Times lamented that the telecast "was the longest and possibly the dullest Oscar show of the century, clocking in at four hours."[38]

Other media outlets received the broadcast more positively. Television columnist Robert Bianco of USA Today commended Goldberg's hosting performance writing that he liked "the sharper, more socially conscious edge Goldberg brings."[39] The Boston Globe television critic Matthew Gilbert commented, "It was the perfect year with more than enough Hollywood intrigue and a battle for her to play off."[37] Joanne Ostrow of The Denver Post raved that "Whoopi definitely was on, more so than in her two previous hosting stints." She added that "the show was exceptionally smooth."[40]

Ratings and reception

The American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 45.51 million viewers over its length, which was an 18% decrease from the previous year's ceremony.[41][42] An estimated 78.10 million total viewers watched all or part of the awards.[42] The show also drew lower Nielsen ratings compared to the previous ceremony with 28.63% of households watching over a 47.79 share.[43] In addition, it also drew a lower 18–49 demo rating with an 18.85 rating over a 37.31 share among viewers in that demographic.[44]

In July 1999, the show received seven nominations at the 51st Primetime Emmy Awards.[45] Two months later, the ceremony won two of those nominations for Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety or Music Program (Roy Christopher and Stephen Olson) and Outstanding Lighting Direction for a Drama Series, Variety Series, Miniseries, Movie, or Special (Robert Dickinson, Robert T. Barnhart, Andy O'Reilly, Matt Ford).[46]

In Memoriam

The annual In Memoriam tribute was presented by actress Annette Benning. The montage featured an excerpt of the main title from Ever After composed by George Fenton.[47]

A separate tribute to actor, singer, and former Oscar host Frank Sinatra was presented by John Travolta.[48] Later, actor Val Kilmer presented one to actors Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.[49] After the In Memoriam segment was shown, host Goldberg and director Steven Spielberg eulogized film critic Gene Siskel and director Stanley Kubrick respectively.[50][51]

See also

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