70th Academy Awards

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70th Academy Awards
70th Academy Awards poster.jpg
Date Monday, March 23, 1998
Site Shrine Auditorium
Los Angeles, California
Host Billy Crystal
Producer Gil Cates
Director Louis J. Horvitz
Highlights
Best Picture Titanic
Most awards Titanic (11)
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Duration 3 hours, 47 minutes
Viewership 57.25 million
35.32 (Nielsen ratings)
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The 70th Academy Awards were noted for their high ratings and the 11 wins racked up by the Best Picture, Titanic. Billy Crystal hosted the ceremony for the sixth time, and received an Emmy award for his performance.

Titanic dominated the evening picking up 11 awards out of 14 nominations.[1] The film tied with the most awards nominated with All About Eve and tied with the most awards won with Ben-Hur. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King would also match that record in 2004, with 11 awards.[2]

Due to the popularity of Titanic, which was still the #1 movie at the box office at the time,[3] the show earned its highest ratings ever in history based on audience size (57.25 million).[4]

Other notable films were As Good as It Gets, which received seven nominations and two awards, including "Best Actor"[5] and "Best Actress"[6] and Good Will Hunting, which received nine nominations and also won two awards.[7]

Contents

[edit] Notable quotes

  • "I'm the king of the world!" - Titanic director James Cameron, on winning the Best Director Oscar, in reference to a line from Titanic.
  • "My friend James Cameron and I made three films together: True Lies, Terminator, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Of course, that was during his early low-budget art-house period." - Arnold Schwarzenegger, presenting an Award.
  • "I just soiled myself." - actor Mike Myers, on retrieving an envelope from animal actor Bart the Bear, who was brought on stage
  • "Comic Relief is going to be rough this year." - host Billy Crystal, immediately following the Oscar win of his friend and Comic Relief co-creator Robin Williams.
  • "I know Gil Cates is startin' to sweat back there." - Jack Nicholson, on producer Cates' reaction to his Best Actor acceptance speech running long.
  • "Matt Damon must feel like he's on the Seniors' Tour." - Billy Crystal, regarding Matt Damon competing for Best Actor against four veteran actors - Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Robert Duvall, and Dustin Hoffman.
  • "This may be the first time I'm speechless." - Robin Williams' first words upon receiving the Best Supporting Actor award for Good Will Hunting
  • "Oh, what a shocker." - Madonna on opening the envelope revealing the winner of Best Song was the Celine Dion performed "My Heart Will Go On"[8]
  • "I hope we can begin to embrace every race. Diversity is the ingenue, she's the true American star, and she's ready for her close-up." – Chris Tashima accepting the Live Action Short Film Award, for Visas and Virtue

[edit] Winners & Nominees

[edit] Best Picture

Titanic

[edit] Best Actor in a Leading Role

As Good as It Gets - Jack Nicholson

[edit] Best Actress in a Leading Role

As Good as It Gets - Helen Hunt

[edit] Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Good Will Hunting - Robin Williams

[edit] Best Actress in a Supporting Role

L.A. Confidential - Kim Basinger

[edit] Best Director

Titanic - James Cameron

[edit] Best Original Screenplay

Good Will Hunting - Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

[edit] Best Adapted Screenplay

L.A. Confidential - Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson

[edit] Best Cinematography

Titanic - Russell Carpenter

[edit] Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

Titanic - Peter Lamont and Michael Ford

[edit] Best Costume Design

Titanic - Deborah Lynn Scott

[edit] Best Sound

Titanic - Gary Rydstrom , Tom Johnson, Gary Summers and Mark Ulano

[edit] Best Film Editing

Titanic - Conrad Buff IV , James Cameron and Richard A. Harris

[edit] Best Sound Effects Editing

Titanic - Tom Bellfort and Christopher Boyes

[edit] Best Visual Effects

Titanic - Robert Legato , Mark A. Lasoff , Thomas L. Fisher and Michael Kanfer

[edit] Best Makeup

Men in Black - Rick Baker and David LeRoy Anderson

[edit] Best Music, Original Song

My Heart Will Go On - Titanic - James Horner, Will Jennings

[edit] Best Original Dramatic Score

Titanic - James Horner

[edit] Best Original Musical or Comedy Score

The Full Monty - Anne Dudley

[edit] Best Short Film, Animated

Geri's Game

[edit] Best Short Film, Live Action

Visas and Virtue - Chris Tashima and Chris Donahue

[edit] Best Documentary, Short Subjects

A Story of Healing

[edit] Best Documentary, Features

The Long Way Home

[edit] Best Foreign Language Film

Karakter - The Netherlands

[edit] Honorary Oscars

Stanley Donen received an honorary Oscar for his years as a director on such musicals including Singin' in the Rain.[9] He accepted the award with a song and dance number.

[edit] Special events

  • As a celebration of 70 years of Oscar, the Academy showed clips of all the films that won Best Picture in the past 70 years. The Academy also invited 70 Oscar winning actors and the camera went face to face announcing the actor or actress and the film they won the Oscar for and the year as well.
  • Mike Myers introduced a montage of film clips featuring animal actors. The final clip of the montage was a growling shot of Bart the Bear (a large kodiak bear) from the film The Edge. A curtain then rose to reveal Bart on stage, wearing a bow tie and holding a wooden "envelope", which Myers was to retrieve from the bear before presenting the next award. Returning to the microphone, Myers quipped "I just soiled myself."
  • Fay Wray made a special guest appearance. Billy Crystal introduced a small film of her work in RKO's King Kong (1933) and then he moved off the stage, standing next to Miss Wray when the lights were down. When the lights came back up, he stood next to Miss Wray and described her as the "Beauty who charmed the Beast" and the "Legendary Fay Wray". A surprised Miss Wray rose from her seat to instantaneous rapturous applause, which included reaction shots of Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Red Button and Martin Landau, Miss Wray turned around and waved to the whole surprised and thrilled audience. Interestingly, she happened to be sitting immediately in front of James Cameron and he can be seen in most of the shots of her. It was her last ever appearance at the Academy Awards show.

[edit] In memoriam

Presented by Whoopi Goldberg. The Academy takes a special moment to remember those involved with motion pictures that died in the previous year. Those that were featured: Lloyd Bridges, Richard Jaeckel, composer Saul Chaplin, cinematographer Stanley Cortez, William Hickey, screenwriter Paul Jarrico, screenwriter Dorothy Kingsley, hairstylist Sydney Guilaroff, editor William H. Reynolds, Billie Dove, oceanographic filmmaker Jacques Cousteau, Stubby Kaye, Red Skelton, producer Dawn Steel, Toshiro Mifune, Brian Keith, Chris Farley, executive Leo Jaffe, director Samuel Fuller, Burgess Meredith, J.T. Walsh, Robert Mitchum and James Stewart.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 'TITANIC ' RIDES HUGE OSCAR WAVE SNAGS 11 AWARDS, TIES ALL-TIME RECORD NY Daily News Retrieved 2010-1-1
  2. ^ Lord Of The Rings garners 11 Oscars RTE News Retrieved 2010-1-1
  3. ^ TITANIC Box Office Mojo Retrieved 2009-1-1
  4. ^ Oscars TV ratings bounce back with Hugh Jackman as host LA Times Retrieved 20101-1-1
  5. ^ It's as good as it gets for Titanic at the Oscar pageant Indian Express Retrieved 2010-1-1
  6. ^ It's as good as it gets for Titanic at the Oscar pageant Indian Express Retrieved 2010-1-1
  7. ^ It's as good as it gets for Titanic at the Oscar pageant Indian Express Retrieved 2010-1-1
  8. ^ Top Ten Oscars one-liners UK Mirror Retrieved 2010-1-1
  9. ^ Camille does the Oscars Salon.com Retrieved 2010-1-1
  10. ^ Aaliyah (I) IMDB Retrieved 2010-1-1
  11. ^ Singer Aaliyah, Eight Others Die In Plane Crash In Bahamas BNET Retrieved 2010-1-1
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