74th Academy Awards

, Best Director winner and Best Picture co-winner|alt=Photo of Ron Howard in 2011.
, Best Actor winner|alt=Photo of Denzel Washington.
, Best Actress winner|alt=Berry at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2013.
, Best Supporting Actor winner|alt=Photo of Jim Broadbent.
, Best Supporting Actress winner|alt=Connelly at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
, Best Original Screenplay winner|alt=Photo of Julian Fellowes in 2014.
, Best Adapted Screenplay winner|alt=Photo of Akiva Goldsman at PaleyFest in May 2011.
, Best Original Score winner|alt=Photo of Howard Shore in 2013.
, Best Original Song winner|alt=Photo of Randy Newman in 1975.
Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger.

A Beautiful Mind – Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, producers * Gosford Park – Robert Altman, Bob Balaban and David Levy, producers * In the Bedroom – Graham Leader, Ross Katz and Todd Field, producers * ' – Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Barrie M. Osborne, producers * Moulin Rouge! – Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann and Fred Baron, producers	Ron Howard – A Beautiful Mind * Ridley Scott – Black Hawk Down * Robert Altman – Gosford Park * Peter Jackson – ' * David Lynch – Mulholland Drive
Denzel Washington – Training Day as Alonzo Harris * Russell Crowe – A Beautiful Mind as John Forbes Nash Jr. * Sean Penn – I Am Sam as Sam Dawson * Will Smith – Ali as Muhammad Ali * Tom Wilkinson – In the Bedroom as Dr. Matthew Fowler	Halle Berry – Monster's Ball as Leticia Musgrove * Judi Dench – Iris as Iris Murdoch * Nicole Kidman – Moulin Rouge! as Satine * Sissy Spacek – In the Bedroom as Ruth Fowler * Renée Zellweger – Bridget Jones's Diary as Bridget Jones
Jim Broadbent – Iris as John Bayley * Ethan Hawke – Training Day as Officer Jake Hoyt * Ben Kingsley – Sexy Beast as Don Logan * Ian McKellen – ' as Gandalf * Jon Voight – Ali as Howard Cosell	Jennifer Connelly – A Beautiful Mind as Alicia de Lardé-Nash * Helen Mirren – Gosford Park as Jane Wilson * Maggie Smith – Gosford Park as Constance Trentham * Marisa Tomei – In the Bedroom as Natalie Strout * Kate Winslet – Iris as Iris Murdoch
Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes * Amélie – Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet * Memento – Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan * Monster's Ball – Milo Addica and Will Rokos * The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson	A Beautiful Mind – Akiva Goldsman based on the book by Sylvia Nasar * Ghost World – Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff based on the comic book by Daniel Clowes * In the Bedroom – Rob Festinger and Todd Field based on the story "Killings" by Andre Dubus * ' – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson based on the book by J. R. R. Tolkien * Shrek – Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, and Roger S. H. Schulman based on the book by William Steig
Shrek – Aron Warner * ' – Steve Oedekerk and John A. Davis * Monsters, Inc. – Pete Docter and John Lasseter	No Man's Land in Bosnian – Danis Tanović * Amélie in French – Jean-Pierre Jeunet * Elling in Norwegian – Petter Ness * Lagaan in Hindi and Bhojpuri – Ashutosh Gowariker * Son of the Bride in Spanish – Juan José Campanella
Murder on a Sunday Morning – Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet * Children Underground – Edet Belzberg * ' – Susan Froemke and Deborah Dickson * Promises – Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg * War Photographer – Christian Frei	Thoth – Sarah Kernochan and Lynn Appelle * ' – Lianne Klapper McNally * Sing! – Freida Lee Mock and Jessica Sanders
The Accountant – Ray McKinnon and Lisa Blount * Copy Shop – Virgil Widrich * Gregor's Greatest Invention – Johannes Kiefer * A Man Thing – Sławomir Fabicki and Bogumil Godfrejow * Speed for Thespians – Kalman Apple and Shameela Bakhsh	For the Birds – Ralph Eggleston * Fifty Percent Grey – Ruairí Robinson and Seamus Byrne * Give Up Yer Aul Sins – Cathal Gaffney and Darragh O'Connell * Strange Invaders – Cordell Barker * Stubble Trouble – Joseph E. Merideth
— Howard Shore *A.I. Artificial Intelligence — John Williams *A Beautiful Mind — James Horner *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone — John Williams *Monsters, Inc. — Randy Newman	"If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. – Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman * "May It Be" from ' – Music and Lyrics by Enya, Nicky Ryan, and Roma Ryan * "There You'll Be" from Pearl Harbor – Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren * "Until..." from Kate & Leopold – Music and Lyrics by Sting * "Vanilla Sky" from Vanilla Sky – Music and Lyrics by Paul McCartney
Pearl Harbor – George Watters II and Christopher Boyes *Monsters, Inc. – Gary Rydstrom and Michael Silvers	Black Hawk Down – Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga and Chris Munro * Amélie – Vincent Arnardi, Guillaume Leriche and Jean Umansky * ' – Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Gethin Creagh and Hammond Peek * Moulin Rouge! – Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Roger Savage and Guntis Sics * Pearl Harbor – Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Peter J. Devlin
Moulin Rouge! – Art Direction: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Brigitte Broch * Amélie – Art Direction: Aline Bonetto; Set Decoration: Marie-Laure Valla * Gosford Park – Art Direction: Stephen Altman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock * Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone – Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan * ' – Art Direction: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Dan Hennah	– Andrew Lesnie * Amélie – Bruno Delbonnel * Black Hawk Down – Sławomir Idziak * The Man Who Wasn't There – Roger Deakins * Moulin Rouge! – Donald M. McAlpine
– Peter Owen and Richard Taylor * A Beautiful Mind – Greg Cannom and Colleen Callaghan * Moulin Rouge! – Maurizio Silvi and Aldo Signoretti	Moulin Rouge! – Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie * The Affair of the Necklace – Milena Canonero * Gosford Park – Jenny Beavan * Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone – Judianna Makovsky * ' – Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
Black Hawk Down – Pietro Scalia * A Beautiful Mind – Mike Hill and Dan Hanley * ' – John Gilbert * Memento – Dody Dorn * Moulin Rouge! – Jill Bilcock	' – Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson' * A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Dennis Muren, Scott Farrar, Stan Winston and Michael Lantieri * Pearl Harbor'' – Eric Brevig, John Frazier, Ed Hirsh and Ben Snow

Academy Honorary Award

Sidney Poitier

Robert Redford

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Arthur Hiller

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Nominations	Film
13	'
8	A Beautiful Mind
8	Moulin Rouge!
7	Gosford Park
5	Amélie
5	In the Bedroom
4	Black Hawk Down
4	Monsters, Inc.
4	Pearl Harbor
3	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
3	Iris
2	A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2	Ali
2	Memento
2	Monster's Ball
2	Shrek
2	Training Day

Awards	Film
4	A Beautiful Mind
4	'
2	Black Hawk Down
2	Moulin Rouge!

Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

Performers

Ceremony information

The Academy wanted to find a new venue for the festivities amid limited seating and rehearsal time concerns with the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. In addition, problems arose regarding staging the Oscars at the Shrine Auditorium because there was difficulty of directing guests from the auditorium where the main event took place to the adjacent Exhibition Hall for the Governor's Ball. In August 1997, AMPAS and Canadian development firm TrizecHahn went into negotiations over the development of an entertainment complex located on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue adjacent to the Mann's Chinese Theatre. Seven months later, both the Academy and TrizecHahn agreed on a twenty-year lease that allowed for the ceremony to be staged at a new venue, which would later be called the Kodak Theatre, located within the property which was also situated near the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel site of the inaugural awards ceremony in 1929. This was the first time the ceremony was held in Hollywood since the 32nd ceremony took place at the Pantages Theatre in 1960.
In view of the return of the Oscars to Hollywood, the Academy hired film producer and Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Laura Ziskin in September 2001 to oversee production of the telecast. AMPAS president Frank Pierson explained the decision to hire Ziskin saying, "This show is one of the most difficult—if not the most difficult—producing jobs in show business. Laura Ziskin brings intelligence, experience and wit expressed in everything she has done." This marked the first occurrence that a woman produced the Oscars solo. Four months later, Whoopi Goldberg was selected as host of the 2002 ceremony. In an article in the Los Angeles Times, Ziskin justified her choice of Goldberg commenting that she has "great warmth, with humor, humanity and social conscience, all qualities that I feel are essential for this year's show. I look forward to collaborating with Whoopi to put on a meaningful and entertaining evening."
Furthermore, the September 11 attacks affected the telecast and its surrounding events. Despite speculation and suggestions that the festivities be postponed or canceled, AMPAS President Pierson wrote in a Variety column refusing to take such action stating that it would send the message that "the terrorists have won". However, due to security concerns the Academy announced that red carpet bleacher seats would now be limited on a reservation basis based on a random selection and a background check.
On Oscar night, Tom Cruise opened the show and stated the it was the job of filmmakers to make films during troubling times. In addition, later in the evening Oscar host Whoopi Goldberg introduced a "New York icon" to the stage and filmmaker and director Woody Allen, who had previously refused to attend a ceremony, made a surprise appearance. He was greeted with a hearty standing ovation from audience members including Baz Luhrmann, Ron Howard, Jennifer Connelly, Denzel Washington, and Ethan Hawke. He explains after the events that happened that September he was there to represent the city he so loved and to plead filmmakers to continue to film in New York City. Woody then presented a film montage created by fellow New Yorker and screenwriter Nora Ephron saluting New York City in film.
Several other people participated in the production of the ceremony. Actors Glenn Close and Donald Sutherland served as announcers during the show. The orchestra led by film composer and telecast musical supervisor John Williams, performed selections of film scores during a montage saluting film composers produced by Kyle Cooper. Filmmaker Errol Morris filmed a vignette featuring several famous people discuss movie memories. Director Penelope Spheeris produced a montage saluting 60 years of Oscar-winning documentary feature films. Cirque du Soleil performed a dance number inspired by movies and visual effects.

Introduction of Best Animated Feature award

Beginning with this ceremony, AMPAS introduced a new competitive award that would honor animated feature films. According to Academy communications director John Pavlik, the film must be at least 70 minutes in length, have a significant amount of animated characters, and be at least 75 percent animated in order to be qualified for consideration. A minimum of eight qualifying films must be released within the calendar year to permit a slate of three nominees. If the number of films exceeds twelve, the nominee roster increases to five. Prior to the introduction of this category, three Disney films were all given Special Achievement Academy Awards.

Box office performance of nominated films

At the time of the nominations announcement on February 12, the combined gross of the five Best Picture nominees at the US box office was $484 million, with an average of $96.9 million per film. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was the highest earner among the Best Picture nominees with $271 million in domestic box office receipts. The film was followed by A Beautiful Mind, Moulin Rouge!, Gosford Park, and finally In the Bedroom.
Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 46 nominations went to 14 films on the list. Only The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Shrek, Monsters, Inc., A Beautiful Mind, Black Hawk Down, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Training Day, Bridget Jones's Diary, Ali, and Moulin Rouge! were nominated for Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, or any of the directing, acting, or screenwriting awards. The other top-50 box office hits that earned nominations were Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Pearl Harbor, Vanilla Sky, and AI: Artificial Intelligence.

Critical reviews

The show received a mixed reception from media publications. Some media outlets were more critical of the show. Television critic Robert Bianco of USA Today complained that the awards ceremony was "intensely narcissistic and characteristically, almost unrelievedly, dull." Columnist Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe bemoaned that "TV's most-watched slug crawled back into town last night." He also sniped, "As usual, the technical awards formed a Bermuda triangle in the middle of the show, and the film-clip fests and production numbers numbed our brains." The Sacramento Bee's Rick Kishman lamented that "It was the first time both best-acting Oscars went to African Americans...yet viewers had to fight hours and hours of boredom to care." He also quipped that the excessive amount of montage and tributes dragged down the proceedings.
Other media outlets received the broadcast more positively. Orange County Register film critic Henry Sheehan praised Goldberg's performance as hosting writing that her "ensuing entrance a la Moulin Rouge was a comparative triumph and her boom-boom-boom succession of jokes put the show right on track." Television columnist Joanne Ostrow of The Denver Post raved, "The nearly five-hour telecast was stunning, historic, slick, efficient, and helped along by some knockout clothes." She also commented that Washington and Berry's acceptance speeches and the Sidney Poitier tribute added to the historic and emotional mood of the festivities. John Levesque of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer commended producer Ziskin for producing "the best Oscar telecast this TV watcher can remember." In addition, he wrote that "It was clear the 74th Academy Awards ceremony was something special: fresh, crisp, different from its predecessors."

Ratings and reception

At four hours and 23 minutes, the ceremony was the longest in history. The American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 41.82 million people over its length, which was a 3% decrease from the previous year's ceremony. The show also earned lower Nielsen ratings compared to the previous ceremony with 25.54% of households watching over a 40.34 share. In addition, it garnered a lower 1849 demo rating with a 16.13 rating over a 36.46 share among viewers in that demographic.
In July 2002, the ceremony presentation received seven nominations at the 54th Primetime Emmys. Two months later, the ceremony won one of those nominations for Debra Brown's choreography during the telecast.

''In Memoriam''

The annual In Memoriam tribute, presented by actor Kevin Spacey, honored the following people.

• Jack Lemmon – Actor
• Nigel Hawthorne – Actor
• Beatrice Straight – Actress
• Eileen Heckart – Actress
• Jason Miller – Actor, writer
• Ann Sothern – Actress
• Harold Russell – Actor
• Kim Stanley – Actress
• Michael Ritchie – Director
• Ted Demme – Director
• Budd Boetticher – Director
• Hiroshi Teshigahara – Director
• Herbert Ross – Director
• Julia Phillips – Producer
• Jay Livingston – Composer
• William Hanna – Producer
• Chuck Jones – Animator
• Samuel Z. Arkoff – Producer
• Danilo Donati – Costume designer
• Sacha Vierny – Cinematographer
• John A. Alonzo – Cinematographer
• Carroll O'Connor – Actor
• Aaliyah – Actress
• George Harrison – Producer, composer, actor
• Anthony Quinn – Actor

Before the In Memoriam montage was shown, Spacey requested a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the September 11 attacks.