71st Academy Awards
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{{Infobox Academy Awards | name = 71st
| image = 71st Academy Awards poster.jpg
| caption =
| date = Sunday, [[March 21]], [[1999]]
| site = [[Dorothy Chandler Pavilion]] <br> [[Los Angeles, California]]
| preshow = [[Geena Davis]]
| host = [[Whoopi Goldberg]]
| producer = [[Gilbert Cates|Gil Cates]]
| director =
| duration = 4 hours, 2 minutes
| network = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| ratings = 45.63 million<br>28.51 (Nielsen rating)
| last = 70th
| next = 72nd
}}
The '''71st Academy Awards''' ceremony was the last to take place at [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] [[Los Angeles Music Center|County Music Center]], and was [[Whoopi Goldberg|Whoopi Goldberg's]] third time hosting the Awards. It was the first time the ceremony took place on a Sunday.
The [[Academy Awards|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 [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] and [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|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!]]'s [[Joan Rivers]] and other [[red 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 - [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]] - played by [[Cate Blanchett]] in ''[[Elizabeth (film)|Elizabeth]]'' and [[Judi 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 the [[Academy 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 [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth I]]
*"This must be a terrible mistake! I used up all my English!" - [[Roberto Benigni]] upon going up to collect the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]], his second [[Academy Awards|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===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Category
! Winner
! Producers/Country
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best motion picture of the year]]
| ''' ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'' '''
| [[David Parfitt]], [[Donna Gigliotti]], [[Harvey Weinstein]],
[[Edward Zwick]], and [[Marc Norman]]
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best foreign language film]]
| ''' ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'' '''
| [[Italy]]
|-
| [[Academy Award for Documentary Feature|Best documentary feature]]
| ''' ''[[The Last Days]]'' '''
| [[James Moll]] and [[Ken Lipper]]
|}
===Direction===
*'''Achievement in Directing''': ''[[Steven Spielberg]]'' for ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''
===Acting===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Category
! Winner
! Movie
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best actor in a leading role]]
| '''[[Roberto Benigni]]'''
| ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]''
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best actress in a leading role]]
| '''[[Gwyneth Paltrow]]'''
| ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]''
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best actor in a supporting role]]
| '''[[James Coburn]]'''
| ''[[Affliction (1997 movie)|Affliction]]''
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best actress in a supporting role]]
| '''[[Judi Dench]]'''
| ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]''
|}
===Writing===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Category
! Winner
! Movie
|-
| [[Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay|Original screenplay]]
| '''[[Marc Norman]] and [[Tom Stoppard]]'''
| ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]''
|-
| [[Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay|Adapted screenplay]]
| '''[[Bill Condon]]'''
| ''[[Gods and Monsters]]''
|}
=== Honorary Oscars ===
[[Elia Kazan]] was awarded an Honorary [[Academy Award|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 infamous [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] hearings. When Kazan was awarded the Honorary [[Academy Award|Oscar]] from actor [[Robert 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 to [[Stanley Kubrick]], who
had 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]] and [[Roy Rogers]], who both died in the previous year.
=== In Memoriam ===
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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 artist [[Linwood G. Dunn]], art director [[George Davis]], [[Dick O'Neill]], cinematographer [[Charles Lang]], [[Norman Fell]], cinematographer [[Freddie Young]], executive [[John P. Veitch]], [[E.G. Marshall]], [[Jeanette Nolan]], director [[Alan J. Pakula]], choreographer [[Jerome Robbins]], composer [[John Addison]], [[Susan Strasberg]], [[Vincent Winter]], screenwriter [[James Goldman]], [[John Derek]], [[Richard Kiley]], [[Maureen O'Sullivan]], [[Phil Hartman]], [[Esther Rolle]], [[Jean Marais]], [[Binnie Barnes]], [[Valerie Hobson]], [[Gene Raymond]], [[Huntz Hall]], director [[Akira Kurosawa]], [[Alice Faye]], [[Robert Young (actor)|Robert Young]] and [[Roddy McDowall]].
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