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73rd Academy Awards
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award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 2000
Key facts
- Date
- March 25, 2001
- Site
- Shrine Auditorium , Los Angeles , California, U.S.
- Hosted by
- Steve Martin
- Preshow hosts
- Chris Connelly , Julie Moran , Jim Moret
- Produced by
- Gil Cates
- Directed by
- Louis J. Horvitz
- Best picture
- Gladiator
- Most awards
- Gladiator (5)
- Most nominations
- Gladiator (12)
- Network
- ABC
- Duration
- 3 hours, 23 minutes
- Ratings
- 42.9 million, 26.2% ( Nielsen ratings )
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 74th Academy Awards
- Follows
- 72nd Academy Awards
- Location
- Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall
- Director
- Louis J. Horvitz
- Producer
- Gilbert Cates
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2001
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- awarded for period
- 2000-00-00
- point in time
- 2001-03-25
- presenter
- Steve Martin
- Commons category
- 2001 Academy Awards
- edition number
- 73
- broadcast by
- American Broadcasting Company
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Encyclopedic overview
The 73rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best of 2000 in film and took place on March 25, 2001, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Gil Cates and was directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actor Steve Martin hosted the show for the first time. Three weeks earlier in a ceremony at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on March 3, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Renée Zellweger.
Gladiator won five awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Traffic with four awards and Almost Famous, Big Mama, Erin Brockovich, Father and Daughter, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, Pollock, Quiero Ser, U-571, and Wonder Boys with one. The telecast garnered almost 43 million viewers in the United States.
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