- 71st Academy Awards
Infobox Academy Awards | name = 71st
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date = Sunday,March 21 ,1999
site =Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles, California
preshow =Geena Davis
host =Whoopi Goldberg
producer = Gil Cates
director =
duration = 4 hours, 2 minutes
network = ABC
ratings = 45.63 million
28.51 (Nielsen rating)
last = 70th
next = 72ndThe 71st Academy Awards ceremony was the last to take place at Los Angeles County Music Center, and was Whoopi Goldberg's third time hosting the Awards. It was the first time the ceremony took place on a Sunday.The Academy Award ceremony ran extremely long, due largely to extended acceptance speeches. Notable films included "
Shakespeare in Love ", which received 13 nominations and won 7 awards, "Saving Private Ryan ", which received 11 nominations and won 5 awards, and "Life Is Beautiful ", which received 7 nominations and won 3 (including Best Actor and Best Foreign Language Film).News and recap
The 71st Academy Awards saw the show's first "official" pre-show, as the Academy attempted to compete with the likes of
E! 'sJoan Rivers and otherred carpet denizens.The show attracted 45.63m viewers, a 18% decline to the previous years 57.25 million, yet a high rating compared to most other ceremonies.
This was the first time that two people have been nominated for Academy Awards for playing the same person in different films - Queen Elizabeth I - played by
Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth" andJudi Dench in "Shakespeare in Love ".This would mark the final time the show would originate from the
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, a venue theAcademy Awards called home for nearly thirty-years.Notable Quotes
*"Good evening loyal subjects, I am the African Queen. Some of you may know me as the Virgin Queen, but I can't imagine who." - host
Whoopi Goldberg , dressed as Queen Elizabeth I
*"This must be a terrible mistake! I used up all my English!" -Roberto Benigni upon going up to collect theAcademy Award for Best Actor , his second Academy Award of the evening.The Awards
"This is a breakdown of only major winners. For a complete list of nominees and winners, see:
71st Academy Awards nominees and winners ."Feature Films
Honorary Oscars
Elia Kazan was awarded an Honorary Oscar for his work as a prolific director in the motion picture industry. His honor became controversial because during the 1940s, Kazan let out the names of others involved in motion pictures during the infamousHouse Un-American Activities Committee hearings. When Kazan was awarded the Honorary Oscar from actorRobert De Niro , many in the audience refused to clap and also sparked protests outside the auditorium.Special Events
A special tribute was given to Oscar winner and legendary singer
Frank Sinatra , who died in the previous year.Also another special tribute, presented by
Steven Spielberg , was made toStanley Kubrick , whohad died only two weeks prior to the ceremony.A special tribute was given to the western genre, in also to pay tribute to singing cowboys
Gene Autry andRoy Rogers , who both died in the previous year.In Memoriam
Presented by
Annette Bening . The Academy takes a moment to remember those motion picture icons that left us in the previous year:Dane Clark , special effects artistLinwood G. Dunn , art director George Davis,Dick O'Neill , cinematographerCharles Lang ,Norman Fell , cinematographerFreddie Young , executiveJohn P. Veitch ,E.G. Marshall ,Jeanette Nolan , directorAlan J. Pakula , choreographerJerome Robbins , composerJohn Addison ,Susan Strasberg ,Vincent Winter , screenwriterJames Goldman ,John Derek ,Richard Kiley ,Maureen O'Sullivan ,Phil Hartman ,Esther Rolle ,Jean Marais ,Binnie Barnes ,Valerie Hobson ,Gene Raymond ,Huntz Hall , directorAkira Kurosawa ,Alice Faye , Robert Young andRoddy McDowall .
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