Recap / Seventy Third Academy Awards

The 73rd Academy Awards

Host: Steve Martin

Air Date: March 25, 2001

Best Picture

• Gladiator (winner)
• Chocolat
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Erin Brockovich
• Traffic

Best Actor

• Russell Crowe - Gladiator (winner)
• Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls
• Tom Hanks - Cast Away
• Ed Harris - Pollock
• Geoffrey Rush - Quills

Best Actress

• Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich (winner)
• Joan Allen - The Contender
• Juliette Binoche - Chocolat
• Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
• Laura Linney - You Can Count on Me

Best Supporting Actor

• Benicio del Toro - Traffic (winner)
• Jeff Bridges - The Contender
• Willem Dafoe - Shadow Of T He Vampire
• Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich
• Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator

Best Supporting Actress

• Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock (winner)
• Judi Dench - Chocolat
• Kate Hudson - Almost Famous
• Frances McDormand - Almost Famous
• Julie Walters - Billy Elliot

Best Director

• Steven Soderbergh - Traffic (winner)
• Stephen Daldary - Billy Elliot
• Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
• Ridley Scott - Gladiator

Best Original Screenplay

• Almost Famous (winner)
• Billy Elliot
• Erin Brockovich
• Gladiator
• You Can Count on Me

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Traffic (winner)
• Chocolat
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Wonder Boys

Best Foreign Language Film

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (winner)
• Amores Perros
• Divided We Fall
• Everybody's Famous
• The Taste of Others

Best Documentary (feature)

• Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (winner)
• Legacy
• Long Nights Journey Into Day
• Scottsboro An American Tragedy
• Sound And Fury

Best Documentary (short subject)

• Big Mama (winner)
• Curtain Call
• Dolphins
• The Man On Lincolns Nose
• On Tiptoe Gentle Steps To Freedom

Best Short Film (Live-Action)

• Quiero ser (I want to be...) (winner)
• By Courier
• One Day Crossing
• Sergalio
• A Soccer Story

Best Short Film (animated)

• Father and Daughter (winner)
• Periwig Maker
• Rejected

Best Original Score

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (winner)
• Chocolat
• Gladiator
• Malèna
• The Patriot (2000)

Best Original Song

• '''"Things Have Changed" - The Wonder Boys (winner)
• "A Fool in Love" - Meet the Parents
• "I've Seen It All" - Dancer in the Dark
• "A Love Before Time" - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• "My Funny Friend and Me" - The Emperor's New Groove

Best Sound Editing

• U571 (winner)
• Space Cowboys

Best Sound

• Gladiator (winner)
• Cast Away
• The Patriot (2000)
• The Perfect Storm
• U571

Best Art Direction

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (winner)
• Gladiator
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Quills
• Vatel

Best Cinematography

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (winner)
• Gladiator
• Malèna
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• The Patriot (2000)

Best Makeup

• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (winner)
• The Cell
• Shadow of the Vampire

Best Costume Design

• Gladiator (winner)
• 102 Dalmatians
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
• Quills

Best Film Editing

• Traffic (winner)
• Almost Famous
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Gladiator
• Wonder Boys

Best Visual Effects

• Gladiator (winner)
• Hollow Man
• The Perfect Storm

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