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74th Academy Awards

The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories honoring films released in 2001. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Laura Ziskin and directed by Louis J. Horvitz.[3][4] Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the fourth time.[5] She first hosted the 66th ceremony held in 1994 and had last hosted the 71st ceremony in 1999.[6] Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Charlize Theron.[7]

74th Academy Awards

March 24, 2002

Kodak Theatre
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (13)

ABC

4 hours, 23 minutes[2]

41.82 million
25.54% (Nielsen ratings)

A Beautiful Mind won four awards, including Best Picture.[8][9] Other winners included The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring with four awards, Black Hawk Down and Moulin Rouge! with two, 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. Despite a record length of four hours and twenty-three minutes, the telecast garnered nearly 42 million viewers in the United States.[10]

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Sidney Poitier

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Robert Redford

8th Screen Actors Guild Awards

22nd Golden Raspberry Awards

44th Grammy Awards

54th Primetime Emmy Awards

55th British Academy Film Awards

56th Tony Awards

59th Golden Globe Awards

List of submissions to the 74th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

List of Academy Award records

Levy, Emanuel (2003). All About Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards. New York, United States: . ISBN 0-8264-1452-4.

Continuum International Publishing Group

Osborne, Robert (2013). 85 Years of the Oscar: The Complete History of the Academy Awards. New York, United States: . ISBN 978-0-7892-1142-2.

Abbeville Publishing Group

Pond, Steve (2005), , New York, United States: Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-21193-3

The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards

Academy Awards Official website

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Official website

at YouTube (run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

Oscar's Channel