| 74th Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | Sunday, March 24, 2002 | |||
| Site | Kodak Theatre Hollywood, CA | |||
| Host | Whoopi Goldberg | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | A Beautiful Mind | |||
| Most wins | A Beautiful Mind & The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (4) | |||
| Most nominations | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (13) | |||
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The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2001 and took place March 24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA. It was the first ceremony to take place in Hollywood since the 33rd Academy Awards held in 1960. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC. Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the fourth time, having previously presided over the 66th, 68th and 71st Academy Awards ceremonies.
Nominees and winners[]
A Beautiful Mind won four awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Ron Howard. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring also won four awards, all in the technical categories. Other winners included Black Hawk Down and Moulin Rouge! with two awards each, and The Accountant, For the Birds, Gosford Park, Iris, Monster's Ball, Monsters, Inc., Murder on a Sunday Morning, No Man's Land, Pearl Harbor, Shrek, Thoth and Training Day with one.
The film Mulholland Drive marked the last time, as of 2012, that a film received its sole nomination in the Best Director category.
Halle Berry became the first African American to win the Best Actress Oscar. And this was the first year the Academy presented an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, which was won by the Dreamworks film Shrek.
Best Picture[]
See also: Best Picture
- Winner
- A Beautiful Mind — Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, producers
- Nominees
- Gosford Park — Robert Altman, Bob Balaban and David Levy, producers
- In the Bedroom — Graham Leader, Ross Katz and Todd Field, producers
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Barrie M. Osborne, producers
- Moulin Rouge — Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann and Fred Baron, producers
Best Actor[]
See also: Best Actor
- Winner
- Denzel Washington — Training Day
- Nominees
- Russell Crowe — A Beautiful Mind
- Sean Penn — I Am Sam
- Will Smith — Ali
- Tom Wilkinson — In the Bedroom
Best Actress[]
See also: Best Actress
- Winner
- Halle Berry — Monster's Ball
- Nominees
- Judi Dench — Iris
- Nicole Kidman — Moulin Rouge
- Sissy Spacek — In the Bedroom
- Renée Zellweger — Bridget Jones's Diary
Best Director[]
See also: Best Director
- Winner
- A Beautiful Mind — Ron Howard
- Nominees
- Black Hawk Down — Ridley Scott
- Gosford Park — Robert Altman
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Peter Jackson
- Mulholland Drive — David Lynch
Best Supporting Actor[]
See also: Best Supporting Actor
- Winner
- Jim Broadbent — Iris
- Nominees
- Ethan Hawke — Training Day
- Ben Kingsley — Sexy Beast
- Ian McKellen — The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Jon Voight — Ali
Best Supporting Actress[]
See also: Best Supporting Actress
- Winner
- Jennifer Connelly — A Beautiful Mind
- Nominees
- Helen Mirren — Gosford Park
- Maggie Smith — Gosford Park
- Marisa Tomei — In the Bedroom
- Kate Winslet — Iris
Best Adapted Screenplay[]
See also: Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner
- A Beautiful Mind — Akiva Goldsman
- Nominees
- Ghost World — Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff
- In the Bedroom — Rob Festinger and Todd Field
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson
- Shrek — Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman
Best Original Screenplay[]
See also: Best Original Screenplay
- Winner
- Gosford Park — Julian Fellowes
- Nominees
- 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
Best Animated Feature[]
See also: Best Animated Feature
- Winner
- Shrek — Aron Warner
- Nominees
- Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius — Steve Oedekerk and John A. Davis
- Monsters, Inc. — Pete Docter and John Lasseter
Best Art Direction[]
See also: Best Art Direction
- Winner
- Moulin Rouge — Art Direction: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Brigitte Broch
- Nominees
- 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
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Art Direction: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Dan Hennah
Best Cinematography[]
See also: Best Cinematography
- Winner
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Andrew Lesnie
- Nominees
- Amélie — Bruno Delbonnel
- Black Hawk Down — Slawomir Idziak
- The Man Who Wasn't There — Roger Deakins
- Moulin Rouge — Donald M. McAlpine
Best Costume Design[]
See also: Best Costume Design
- Winner
- Moulin Rouge — Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie
- Nominees
- The Affair of the Necklace — Milena Canonero
- Gosford Park — Jenny Beavan
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone — Judianna Makovsky
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor
Best Documentary Feature[]
See also: Best Documentary Feature
- Winner
- Murder on a Sunday Morning — Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet
- Nominees
- Children Underground — Edet Belzberg
- LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton — Susan Froemke and Deborah Dickson
- Promises — Justine Shapiro and B.Z. Goldberg
- War Photographer — Christian Frei
Best Documentary Short[]
See also: Best Documentary Short
- Winner
- Thoth — Sarah Kernochan and Lynn Appelle
- Nominees
- Artists and Orphans: A True Drama — Lianne Klapper McNally
- Sing! — Freida Lee Mock and Jessica Sanders
Best Film Editing[]
See also: Best Film Editing
- Winner
- Black Hawk Down — Pietro Scalia
- Nominees
- A Beautiful Mind — Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — John Gilbert
- Memento — Dody Dorn
- Moulin Rouge — Jill Bilcock
Best Foreign Language Film[]
See also: Best Foreign Language Film
- Winner
- No Man's Land from Bosnia & Herzegovina — Danis Tanović
- Nominees
- Amélie from France — Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Elling from Norway — Petter Næss
- Lagaan from India — Ashutosh Gowariker
- Son of the Bride from Argentina — Juan J. Campanella
Best Makeup[]
See also: Best Makeup
- Winner
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Peter Owen and Richard Taylor
- Nominees
- A Beautiful Mind — Greg Cannom and Colleen Callaghan
- Moulin Rouge — Maurizio Silvi and Aldo Signoretti
Best Original Score[]
See also: Best Original Score
- Winner
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Howard Shore
- Nominees
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence — John Williams
- A Beautiful Mind — James Horner
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone — John Williams
- Monsters, Inc. — Randy Newman
Best Original Song[]
See also: Best Original Song
- Winner
- "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. — Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
- Nominees
- "May It Be" from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Music and Lyric by Enya, Nicky Ryan and Roma Ryan
- "There You'll Be" from Pearl Harbor — Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
- "Until" from Kate & Leopold — Music and Lyric by Sting
- "Vanilla Sky" from Vanilla Sky — Music and Lyric by Paul McCartney
Best Animated Short[]
See also: Best Animated Short
- Winner
- For the Birds — Ralph Eggleston
- Nominees
- Fifty Percent Grey — Ruairi Robinson and Seamus Byrne
- Give Up Yer Aul Sins — Cathal Gaffney and Darragh O'Connell
- Strange Invaders — Cordell Barker
- Stubble Trouble — Joseph E. Merideth
Best Live Action Short[]
See also: Best Live Action Short
- Winner
- the accountant — Ray McKinnon and Lisa Blount
- Nominees
- Copy Shop — Virgil Widrich
- Gregor's Greatest Invention — Johannes Kiefer
- A Man Thing (Meska Sprawa) — Slawomir Fabicki and Bogumil Godfrejow
- Speed for Thespians — Kalman Apple and Shameela Bakhsh
Best Sound[]
See also: Best Sound Mixing
- Winner
- Black Hawk Down — Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga and Chris Munro
- Nominees
- Amélie — Vincent Arnardi, Guillaume Leriche and Jean Umansky
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — 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
Best Sound Editing[]
See also: Best Sound Editing
- Winner
- Pearl Harbor — George Watters II and Christopher Boyes
- Nominees
- Monsters, Inc. — Gary Rydstrom and Michael Silvers
Best Visual Effects[]
See also: Best Visual Effects
- Winner
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson
- Nominees
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence — Dennis Muren, Scott Farrar, Stan Winston and Michael Lantieri
- Pearl Harbor — Eric Brevig, John Frazier, Ed Hirsh and Ben Snow
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award[]
- Arthur Hiller
Honorary Award[]
- Sidney Poitier — "In recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being."
- Robert Redford — "Actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance and inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere."
Gordon E. Sawyer Award[]
- Edmund M. Di Giulio