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2000 Academy Awards

The 2000 Academy Awards were presented March 25, 2001 at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium.

Best Picture

Chocolat, David Brown, Kit Golden, and Leslie Holleran, Producers

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Bill Kong, Hsu Li Kong, and Ang Lee, Producers

Erin Brockovich, Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, and Stacey Sher, Producers

Gladiator, Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, and Branko Lustig, Producers

Traffic, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, and Laura Bickford, Producers

Actor in a Leading Role

Javier Bardem, Before Night Falls

Russell Crowe, Gladiator

Tom Hanks, Cast Away

Ed Harris, Pollock

Geoffrey Rush, Quills

Actress in a Leading Role

Joan Allen, The Contender

Juliette Binoche, Chocolat

Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream

Laura Linney, You Can Count on Me

Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich

Actor in a Supporting Role

Jeff Bridges, The Contender

Willem Dafoe, Shadow of the Vampire

Benicio Del Toro, Traffic

Albert Finney, Erin Brockovich

Joaquin Phoenix, Gladiator

Actress in a Supporting Role

Judi Dench, Chocolat

Marcia Gay Harden, Pollock

Kate Hudson, Almost Famous

Frances McDormand, Almost Famous

Julie Walters, Billy Elliot

Directing

Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot

Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Steven Soderbergh, Erin Brockovich

Ridley Scott, Gladiator

Steven Soderbergh, Traffic

Writing

Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous
	Lee Hall, Billy Elliot
	Susannah Grant, Erin Brockovich
	David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson, Gladiator
	Kenneth Lonergan, You Can Count on Me
Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published	Robert Nelson Jacobs, Chocolat
	Wang Hui Ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo Jung, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
	Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
	Stephen Gaghan, Traffic
	Steve Kloves, Wonder Boys

Cinematography

Peter Pau, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

John Mathieson, Gladiator

Lajos Koltai, Malena

Roger Deakins, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Caleb Deschanel, The Patriot

Art Direction

Tim Yip, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Michael Corenblith, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Arthur Max, Gladiator

Martin Childs, Quills

Jean Rabasse, Vatel

Sound

Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands, and William B. Kaplan, Cast Away

Scott Millan, Bob Beemer, and Ken Weston, Gladiator

Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, and Lee Orloff, The Patriot

John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, David Campbell, and Keith A. Wester, The Perfect Storm

Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Rick Kline, and Ivan Sharrock, U-571

Music

Song	“A Fool In Love”, Meet the Parents, Randy Newman
	“I've Seen It All,” Dancer in the Dark, Bjork, Lars von Trier, and Sjon Sigurdsson
	“A Love Before Time,” Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Jorge Calandrelli, Tan Dun, and James Schamus
	“My Funny Friend and Me,” The Emperor's New Groove, Sting and David Hartley
	*“Things Have Changed”, Wonder Boys, Bob Dylan*
Original Score	Rachel Portman, Chocolat
	Tan Dun, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
	Hans Zimmer, Gladiator
	Ennio Morricone, Malena
	John Williams, The Patriot

Film Editing

Joe Hutshing and Saar Klein, Almost Famous

Tim Squyres, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Pietro Scalia, Gladiator

Stephen Mirrione, Traffic

Dede Allen, Wonder Boys

Costume Design

Tim Yip, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Rita Ryack, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Janty Yates, Gladiator

Anthony Powell, 102 Dalmatians

Jacqueline West, Quills

Makeup

Michèle Burke and Edouard Henriques, The Cell

Rick Baker and Gail Ryan, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Ann Buchanan and Amber Sibley, Shadow of the Vampire

Visual Effects

John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke, and Rob Harvey, Gladiator

Scott E. Anderson, Craig Hayes, Scott Stokdyk, and Stan Parks, Hollow Man

Stefen Fangmeier, Habib Zargarpour, John Frazier, and Walt Conti, The Perfect Storm

Sound Effects Editing

Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman, Space Cowboys

Jon Johnson, U-571

Short Films

Animation	Father and Daughter(Michael Dudok de Wit)
	The Periwig-Maker (Steffen Schäffler and Annette Schäffler)
	Rejected(Don Hertzfeldt)
Live Action	By Courier (Peter Riegert and Ericka Frederick)
	One Day Crossing (Joan Stein and Christina Lazaridi)
	Quiero Ser (I want to be) (Florian Gallenberger)
	Seraglio (Gail Lerner and Colin Campbell )
	A Soccer Story (Una Historia de Futebol) (Paulo Machline)

Documentary

Short Subject	Big Mama (Tracy Seretean)
	Curtain Call, (Chuck Braverman and Steve Kalafer)
	Dolphins, (Greg MacGillivray and Alec Lorimore)
	The Man on Lincoln's Nose, (Daniel Raim)
	On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom (Eric Simonson and Leelai Demoz)
Feature	Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer)
	Legacy (Tod Lending)
	Long Night's Journey into Day (Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann)
	Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (Barak Goodman and Daniel Anker)
	Sound and Fury (Josh Aronson and Roger Weisberg)

Foreign Language Film

Amores Perros, Mexico

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Taiwan

Divided We Fall, Czech Republic

Everybody Famous, Belgium

The Taste of Others, France

Irving G. Thalberg Award

Dino De Laurentiis, producer

Gordon E. Sawyer Award (Technological contribution)

Irwin W. Young

Honorary Award

Ernest Lehman, screenwriter, producer, director

Honorary Award

Jack Cardiff, cinematographer

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