"My grandfather was awarded the medal for his work as a war photographer in the second World War."īesides honoring his family, Crowe praised his Gladiator director, Ridley Scott, whose film won the Best Picture Oscar but who personally lost out to Steven Soderbergh in a rare director-best picture split. "That stands for 'Member of the British Empire,'" said the new Oscar winner. He beat out Oscar favorite Tom Hanks, actor's actor Ed Harris, fellow Australian Geoffrey Rush, and Spanish dark horse Javier Bardem.Īs befits the "strength and honor" code of the film's mostly male combatants, Crowe paid homage to two men who inspired him, his late grandfather and his uncle.īackstage, Crowe revealed that the cross pinned to his Armani three-quarter-length tuxedo jacket was his grandfather's MBE medal. It didn't work with my parents and it didn't work now."Īfter being passed over last year for his slow burn as a tobacco industry whistleblower in The Insider, Russell Crowe was victorious in the Best Actor race for his role as mighty Maximus in Gladiator. "A girl's got to have her moment," the exuberant winner said backstage, adding, "Everybody tries to get me to shut up. She proceeded to talk for what seemed like 45 minutes, at one point giving an ecstatic half laugh, half yell: "I love it up here!" She said making the movie was "sinfully fun" and ended with "I love the world! I'm so happy, thank you." Roberts stopped the show with her acceptance speech, telling the conductor to "put down that stick, I'm going to be here for a while," in defiance of the 45-second speech time limit. The pretty woman can now add "Oscar winner" in front of her name. The anointing of Oscar favorite Julia Roberts went off just as predicted as she took home the Best Actress award for Erin Brockovich. Traffic tied Tiger in awards, including Oscars for Benicio Del Toro, screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, and Best Editing. ![]() "I was having a great time, I got to see a lot of my friends get up there. I didn't see it coming," said the bespectacled auteur. "I think I looked pretty surprised, didn't I? You must know that I really didn't anticipate this. Soderbergh's surprise win - many pundits expected his nomination for Erin Brockovich in the same category to cancel out his Traffic nomination as it did at the DGA awards - came as a shock to the director too. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr.Ma- The Oscar battlefield at the 73rd Annual Academy Awards was a tense, evenly matched showdown between most-nominated films Gladiator and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which were neck and neck throughout the night, but the Roman epic took home the most spoils, with five wins, including Oscars for Best Picture and for Best Actor for Russell Crowe.Ĭrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon took home four awards, including Best Foreign Language Film, but director Ang Lee, who won the Directors Guild of America award, lost out to double-nominee Steven Soderbergh in the Best Director race. ![]() Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriĪ Girl in the River: The Price of Forgivenessīirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) ![]() Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award) as such, any films that were awarded a non-competitive award will be shown in brackets next to the number of competitive wins. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title.Ĭompetitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. This is a list of Academy Award–winning films.
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