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ACADEMY OFFICERS 1999-2000 President Robert Rehme First Vice President Alan Bergman Vice President Sid Ganis Vice President Kathy Bates Treasurer Donn Cam bern Secretary Donald C. Rogers Executive Director Bruce Davis Oscar<', Oscars Academy Awards". Academy AWQrd A.M.PAS.«> and OeW!" ~'91 t are the trademarks and the Oscar statuet/e IS Ihe regiStered design marK and copyrighled propArty of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Dear Academy Member Some years are more susceptible than others to characterization with a glib phrase. For some, for example, this will be "The Year the Oscars were Stolen." Those of us who were involved, of course, will always remember that week, and we'll probably even refer to the year that way. But the 12 months were too filled with expanded programs, new programs and planned programs for that one event to characterize it. It truly was a transitional year. The switch from the 1900s to the 2000s, which fell midway in our fiscal accounting, is an excellent metaphor for this Academy year, firmly grounded in a tradition of excellence but looking forward to a blossoming future. We began to see the effects of our improved financial position. We tripled the funding of our grants program, announced the creation of an Academy Film Scholars competition and launched the first of what will be an ongoing series of membership forums. Membership committees worked diligently throughout the year on questions of awards categori es and branch makeup, while the staff searched for physical space into which some of the expanded and new programs can move. It is an exciting time to be a part of the Academy and we are looking forward to a Wild, but fun, ride ahead. Robert Rehme President Rehme looks alone in the auditorium at Parker Center, but the news conference has ended, the press has left, a police photographer is on stage recording each serial number for eVidence purposes and the president IS wailing patiently to retum the recovered Oscar statuettes to the Academy. It probably would have been more fun for new telecast producers Richard and Lili Fini Zanuck if the 72nd Academy Awards process had continued as smoothly and efficiently as it started out. By the end of 1999 the Zanucks had come up with a number of innovative ideas, were pushing the technological envelope with a dynamite set design, had blocked out most of the show and had signed up Billy Crystal. The new year stayed calm and progressed through the necessary pre-telecast steps as smoothly as ever in memory - right up to the Saturday night of the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation when the subtext among the members in the room was, "I didn't get and his wife, presenter Nicole Kidman, wrth my final ballot yet. Did you get yours?" ABC pre-show host Chris Connelly. The universal answer was "No. " And with three weeks to go before the show it was clear that nobody on the west coast had received ballots. That kicked off what progressed into the strangest pre-Awards countdown in the three-decade memory of some partiCipants. The ba llots were searched for and finally found - after replacements had been mailed - in the U. S. Postal Service's bulk mail sorting center in Bell , California. A breath of relief. Not for long. By Monday of the next week it became clear that the Oscar statuettes themselves were missing. Not just missing, it turned out, but stolen, from a shipping dock in, yes, Bell. Opposite left: Best Actress Hilary Swank. Over the following weekend they were found outside a dumpster in Koreatown, and two men were in LAPD custody. Fifty-two of them were released from police custody on Monday and on Wednesday, with OppOSite right: four days to go, 55 newly-minted statuettes arrived from Chicago. Best Actor Kevin Spacey. Another deep sigh of relief. Until Leading Actress nominee Annette Bening 's doctor suggested she might be just a tad too pregnant to present an Oscar and, by the way, is there some quick way out of the auditorium? Warren came by to check it out and the Zanucks and director Louis J. Horvitz began to formulate Plans B, C and D, including the possibility of a television camera in her hospital room. Then on Friday morning the Wall Street Journal announced who Sunday's winners would be, based upon their "exit poll" of over 300 members. As Executive Director Bruce Davis said in a hastily called news conference that morning, "There's always one geek who wants to tell you the end of the movie." (The Journal did pretty well , hitting on five of its six predictions and presumably proving an object lesson for loofje-lipped AMPAS members.) Irving G. Thalberg Memorial The rest of the week was pretty quiet. Award winner Warren Beatty with his wife, Best Actress The show itself was widely acknowledged to be one of the nominee Annette Bening at brightest and cleverest in memory. Yes, it was long: again the Governors Ball. over four hours. But the fact that it didn't seem long is what mattered mostly. As for the Zanucks, Dick called it "an incredible experience that didn't turn out to be scary at all. It was the most memorable experience of our careers." Performer Isaac Hayes was lost to 7 2 N D ANN U A L A CAD E M Y AWARDS The Gordon E Sawyer Award wa~ presrmted at the ScientifIC find Techni(''<'11 Awards dinner to Dr. Rodenck T. RYdll by actres!, Salina Hayek. , SUpporting Actor I nor Inee Haley uO€: C"r>lcnt &.:t ,II tim "J()j nlll leS LI'C'leor Wltr O;(ar Wlllne' nnd past Telecast producers , Ac Jdl my pre ~ld::1t Karl Malden. Richard D. Zanuck and Uli Fini Zanuck / at the Nominees Luncheon. / / £'lest Picture producers / Bruce Co~en, left / and D III Jinks. character of K",,, GIMP, painter Telecasi director Dan Keplinger. Louis J. Horvitz at a production r'1eeting. Awards Coordinatol Patrick Stockstill oversaw statuette distribution / backstage / JI "'1 rv r , I, 't WI)') I," tr.e SC;rf€nIJlay re "HI tl j fl 'T r n'lVE' ~~E C lP ~. r I-iL 'md Alar Ball w('In 'or 'll) )lcan:..I .... c c.."erplny of All' >N BI AL Honorary Award recIpient Andrze) Bert lM S::ua.c.'8EJ Wajda. upon receiving the Oscar from presenter Jane Fonda. accepted SPlllfs F''lei, J Almodovar. d'rector of " ... IlllS great honor not as a personal My M01~ tF. wr.c h wor the tnbute but as a tnbute Ot.' Ir for S. <1 F Jr8:il'1 I <'f'qu.lge to all of Polish F(n. L.rrOL.r led ty pre'>s at tre cinema." Ac ]dl I' Y c· "'1IJe'] • orE'lgr L lflQL. ..lgl ;'UrI' AW'lrd 4 dir .1or '. sy:nPIX.lum Banners along Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles were created by Arnold Schwartzman 10 Incorporate his design for Costume Design winner for the 72nd Awards poster. Topsy-TuRW, Undy Hemming. Performer Queen Latifah and presenter Lucy Uu do a fashion twirl on the red carpet. Governors Ball Chair Sid Ganis, right, with vice-chair Alan Bergman. PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND IN A LEADING ROLE Zach Staenberg for THE MATRIX EFFECTS EDITING Kevin Spacey in AM ERICAN BEAU1Y Dane A. Davis for THE MATRIX BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR ALL ABOUT My MOTHER (Spain) ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Michael Caine in TH E CiDER HOUSE RU LES ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP Courtley and Jon Thum for THE MATRIX Christine Blundell and Trefor Proud PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS for Topsy-TuRW ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING: SCREEN IN A LEADING ROLE PLAY BASED ON MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY Hilary Swank in Boys DON'T CRY ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC PRODUCED OR PUBLISHED (ORIGINAL SCORE) John Irving for THE CiDER HOUSE RULES PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS John Corigliano for THE RED V,OLIN IN A SUPPORTING ROLE ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING: Angelina Jolie in GIRL, INTERRUPTED ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC SCREENPLAY WRITIEN DIRECTLY (ORIGINAL SONG) FOR THE SCREEN ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION Phil Collins for the music and lyric of Alan Ball for AM ERICAN BEAU1Y Rick Heinrichs for SLEEPY HOLLOW "You'll Be in My Heart" from TARZAN Set Decoration: Peter Young HONORARY AWARD (OSCAR STATUETTE) BEST PICTURE To Andrzej Wajda in recognition of five ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY AMERICAN BEAUTY (Bruce Cohen decades of extraordinary film direction. Conrad L. Hall for AM ERICAN BEAUTY and Dan Jinks) IRVING G. THALBERG ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM MEMORIAL AWARD Lindy Hemming for Topsy-TuRW THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA To Warren Beatty in recognition of (Alexander Petrov) hi s consistently high quality of motion ACHIEVEMENT IN DI RECTING picture production. Sam Mendes for AMERICAN BEAU1Y BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM My MOTHER DREAMS THE SATAN'S GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM DISCIPLES IN NEW YORK (O SCAR STATUETTE) ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER (Arthur Cohn (Barbara Schock and Tammy Tiehel) To Roderick T. Ryan whose and Kevin Macdonald) technological contributions have ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND brought credit to the industry. BEST SHORT SUBJECT John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, DOCUMENTARY FILM David Campbell and David Lee KING GIMP (Susan Hannah Hadary for THE MATRIX and William A. Whiteford) 5 SCIENTIFIC AND To James Moultrie for the mechanical ENGINEERING AWARDS design, and to Mike Salter and (ACADEMY PLAQUE) Mark Craig Gerchman for the optical design, of the Cooke S4 Range of Fixed Focal Length Lenses for 35mm To Nick Phillips for the design and motion picture photography.