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72nd Academy Awards
Date	Sunday, March 26, 2000
Site	Shrine Auditorium Los Angeles, California
Preshow	Tyra Banks Chris Connelly Meredith Vieira
Host	Billy Crystal
Producer	Richard Zanuck Lili Fini Zanuck
Director	Louis J. Horvitz
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
Duration	4 hours, 4 minutes
Viewership	46.53 million 29.64% (Nielsen ratings)
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The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony (also known as Oscars 2000) took place at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, and was Billy Crystal's seventh time hosting the Awards. The ceremony attracted 46.53 million viewers, an audience 3.7% bigger than the previous ceremony.

The Academy Award ceremony was dominated by the movie American Beauty, which was nominated in 8 categories, and won 5 awards (including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Picture).

Notably, this broadcast was the first Academy Awards ceremony broadcast to receive a television rating system certification of TV-14 (Parents Strongly Cautioned), in part due to the showing of many American Beauty clips featuring scenes of sex, innuendo, and violence.^{citation needed} Despite its containing an offensive word, the Oscar-nominated song "Blame Canada" (from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut) was performed, with performer Robin Williams cleverly "hiding" the word. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone attended the ceremony wearing pink and green dresses popularized by Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow. In a 2005 interview, they claimed to have taken acid on the day of the show.[1]^{citation needed} The first Oscar show to have a TV rating was the 69th Academy Awards, broadcast in 1997, but it was rated TV-PG (Parental Guidance).^{citation needed}

Winners & nominees

Best Picture

American Beauty

• The Cider House Rules
• The Green Mile
• The Insider
• The Sixth Sense

Best Actor in a Leading Role

American Beauty - Kevin Spacey

• The Insider - Russell Crowe
• Sweet and Lowdown - Sean Penn
• The Hurricane - Denzel Washington
• The Straight Story - Richard Farnsworth

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Boys Don't Cry - Hilary Swank

• American Beauty - Annette Bening
• The End of the Affair - Julianne Moore
• Music of the Heart - Meryl Streep
• Tumbleweeds - Janet McTeer

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

The Cider House Rules - Michael Caine

• The Green Mile - Michael Clarke Duncan
• The Sixth Sense - Haley Joel Osment
• Magnolia - Tom Cruise
• The Talented Mr. Ripley - Jude Law

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Girl, Interrupted - Angelina Jolie

• The Sixth Sense - Toni Collette
• Being John Malkovich - Catherine Keener
• Boys Don't Cry - Chloë Sevigny
• Sweet and Lowdown - Samantha Morton

Best Director

American Beauty - Sam Mendes

• Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze
• The Cider House Rules - Lasse Hallstrom
• The Insider - Michael Mann
• The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Cider House Rules - John Irving

• Election - Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
• The Green Mile - Frank Darabont
• The Insider - Michael Mann and Eric Roth
• The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella

Best Original Screenplay

American Beauty - Alan Ball

• Being John Malkovich - Charlie Kaufman
• Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan
• Topsy-Turvy - Mike Leigh

Best Cinematography

American Beauty - Conrad L. Hall

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

Sleepy Hollow - Rick Heinrichs and Peter Young

Best Sound

The Matrix - John T. Reitz , Gregg Rudloff , David E. Campbell and David Lee

Best Editing

The Matrix - Zach Staenberg

Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing

The Matrix - Dane A. Davis

Best Effects, Visual Effects

The Matrix - John Gaeta , Janek Sirrs , Jon Thum and Steve Courtley

Best Makeup

Topsy-Turvy - Christine Blundell and Trefor Proud

Best Music, Original Song

Tarzan - Phil Collins for the song You'll Be In My Heart

Best Music, Original Score

The Red Violin - John Corigliano

Best Short Film, Animated

The Old Man and the Sea

Best Short Film, Live Action

My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

King Gimp

Best Documentary, Features

One Day in September

Best Foreign Language Film

Todo sobre mi madre - Spain

Honorary Award

Andrzej Wajda - "in recognition of five decades of extraordinary film direction. [statuette]."¹

In Memoriam

Presented by Edward Norton. The Academy remembers those persons involved in films that died in the previous year: Sylvia Sidney, Jim Varney, composer Ernest Gold, Ruth Roman, Henry Jones, director Robert Bresson, Desmond Llewelyn, screenwriter Mario Puzo, producer Allan Carr, Rory Calhoun, screenwriter Frank Tarloff, animator Marc Davis, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, screenwriter Garson Kanin, director Roger Vadim, Mabel King, Oliver Reed, special effects expert Albert Whitlock, Ian Bannen, screenwriter Abraham Polonsky, Dirk Bogarde, director Edward Dmytryk, Lila Kedrova, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Madeline Kahn and lastly, George C. Scott.

Notes

See also

• Academy Honorary Award

Academy Award portal