Tuesday, June 3, 2014

The 71st Academy Award!

The 71st Academy Awards was in 1999

-On Sunday, March 21

*At the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
*Honored movies that were released in 1998




It was the first time in the Award´s history that the event was on a Sunday.  Whoopi Goldberg was the host for the event and she opened the show with Elizabethan clothes and presented herself as the African Queen.  Also "Life Is Beautiful" was nominated in both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film in the same year.  Two actresses, Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench were nominated for their performance as Queen Elizabeth I in the same year and for playing the same character.  Only one time before that happened in the Academy Award history.  The first time was in 1997.


Best Picture 

"Shakespeare in Love"

- Miramax Films, Universal Pictures and Bedford Falls Company Production




Best Sound 


"Saving Private Ryan"

-Winners were Gary Rydstorm, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Ronald Judkins
-Presenter Anjelica Huston


Irvinng G. Thalberg Memorial Award

"Norman Jewison"





Actress in a Leading Role

"Gwyneth Paltrow"

-In "Shakespeare in Love"


Actor in a Leading Role 

"Roberto Benigni"

-In "Life Is Beautiful"


Directing

"Saving Private Ryan"

-Steven Spielberg




Visual Effects

"What Dreams May Come"

-Joel Hynek, Nicholas Brooks, Stuart Robertson and Kevin Mack



Sound Effects Editing

"Saving Private Ryan"

-Gary Rydstorm and Richard Hymns
























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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgrbuYT9V4s

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