2000 (73rd Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2000 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Gladiator, Douglas Wick in association with Scott Free Production; DreamWorks and Universal. (USA, UK, Malta, Morocco) Douglas Wick, David Franzoni and Branko Lustig, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Russell Crowe in Gladiator, Douglas Wick in association with Scott Free Production; DreamWorks and Universal. (USA, UK, Malta, Morocco)

Actress in a Leading Role

Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich, Jersey Films Production; Universal and Columbia.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Benicio Del Toro in Traffic, Bedford Falls/Laura Bickford Production; USA Films. (USA, Mexico, Germany)

Actress in a Supporting Role

Marcia Gay Harden in Pollock, Brant/Allen Films/Zeke Films/Fred Berner Films Production; Sony Pictures Classics.

Directing

Traffic, Bedford Falls/Laura Bickford Production; USA Films. (USA, Mexico, Germany) Steven Soderbergh.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zoom Hunt International Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, China) Tim Yip.

Cinematography

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zoom Hunt International Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, China) Peter Pau.

Costume Design

Gladiator, Douglas Wick in association with Scott Free Production; DreamWorks and Universal. (USA, UK, Malta, Morocco) Janty Yates.

Documentary

(Feature)

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, Sabine Films Production; Warner Bros. (UK, USA) Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer.

(Short Subject)

Big Mama, Birthmark Production. Tracy Seretean.

Film Editing

Traffic, Bedford Falls/Laura Bickford Production; USA Films. (USA, Mexico, Germany) Stephen Mirrione.

Foreign Language Film

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zoom Hunt International Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, China)

Makeup

Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment Production; Universal. Rick Baker and Gail Ryan.

Music

(Original Score)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zoom Hunt International Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, China) Tan Dun.

(Original Song)

Things Have Changed from Wonder Boys, Scott Rudin/Curtis Hanson Production; Paramount and Mutual Film Company. (USA, Germany, UK, Japan) Music and lyric by Bob Dylan.

Short Films

(Animated)

Father and Daughter, CinéTé Filmproductie bv/Cloudrunner Ltd. Production. (UK, Belgium, Netherlands) Michael Dudok de Wit.

(Live Action)

Quiero Ser (I Want to Be . . . ), Mondragon Films Production. (Mexico, Germany) Florian Gallenberger.

Sound

Gladiator, Douglas Wick in association with Scott Free Production; DreamWorks and Universal. (USA, UK, Malta, Morocco) Scott Millan, Bob Beemer and Ken Weston.

Sound Editing

U-571, Dino De Laurentiis Production; Universal and Studio Canal. (France, USA) Jon Johnson.

Visual Effects

Gladiator, Douglas Wick in association with Scott Free Production; DreamWorks and Universal. (USA, UK, Malta, Morocco) John Nelson, Neil Corbould, Tim Burke and Rob Harvey.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

Traffic, Bedford Falls/Laura Bickford Production; USA Films. (USA, Mexico, Germany) Stephen Gaghan.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Almost Famous, Vinyl Films Production; DreamWorks and Columbia. Cameron Crowe.

Honorary Award

To Jack Cardiff, master of light and color. [ [Statuette]]

To Ernest Lehman, in appreciation of a body of varied and enduring work. [ [Statuette]]

To Ioan Allen for the concept, Robin Bransbury for the design, and Mark Harrah for the implementation of the Trailer Audio Standards Association (TASA) Loudness Standard. [ [Award of Commendaton - Special Award Plaque]]

To N. Paul Kenworthy, Jr., in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Irwin W. Young

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Dino De Laurentiis

Scientific and Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To Rob Cook, Loren Carpenter and Ed Catmull for their significant advancements to the field of motion picture rendering as exemplified in Pixar’s “Renderman.” Their broad professional influence in the industry continues to inspire and contribute to the advancement of computer-generated imagery for motion pictures.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Al Mayer, Sr. and Al Mayer, Jr., for the mechanical design, Iain Neil for the optical design and Brian Dang for the electronic design of the Panavision Millennium XL Camera System. This camera brings the full uncompromised performance of larger heavy-duty cameras to the lightest weight category with ruggedness and advanced features previously expected only in specialized or effects cameras.

To Joe Wary, Gerald Painter and Colin F. Mossman for the design and development of the Deluxe Laboratories Multi Roller Film Transport System. This release print system at Deluxe Laboratories utilizes a revolutionary design allowing for higher print volumes, reduced space requirements for loop racks and elevators, and safer operation.

To Alvah J. Miller and Paul Johnson of Lynx Robotics for the electronic and software design of the Lynx C-50 Camera Motor System. This camera motor, operated with programmable microprocessors, achieves an unprecedented range of precisely controlled speeds in stand-alone cameras or when synchronized to motion-control systems.

To Akai Digital for the design and development of the DD8plus digital audio dubber specifically designed for the motion picture industry.

To Fairlight for the design and development of the DAD digital audio dubber specifically designed for the motion picture industry.

To Advanced Digital Systems Group (ADSG) for the design and development of the DADR 5000 digital audio dubber specifically designed for the motion picture industry.

To Timeline, Incorporated for the design and development of the MMR 8digital audio dubber specifically designed for the motion picture industry. The above four digital audio dubbers have afforded the post-production community a faster, more cost-effective means of playing back hundreds of digital audio tracks for pre-mixing or final mixing in creating motion picture sound tracks. They also offer individual track slipping in multiple track configurations, random access recall, and both destructive and non-destructive editing capabilities, eliminating the requirements for razor blade conforming.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Leonard Pincus, Ashot Nalbandyan, George Johnson, Thomas Kong and David Pringle for the design and development of the SoftSun low pressure xenon long-arc light sources, their power supplies and fixtures. With the ability to dim these very high powered lights at essentially constant Kelvin temperature and without flicker, these units produce a bright and even light source for general set lighting. The availability of very high wattage units allows production to extend the hours of work past the time when the crew would otherwise have “lost the light.”

To Vic Armstrong for the refinement and application to the film industry of the Fan Descender for accurately and safely arresting the descent of stunt persons in high freefalls. Considered a standard of the industry, the Fan Descender provides a means for significantly increasing the safety of very high stunt falls. The system permits falls to be made under controlled deceleration and with a highly predictable stopping point without limitation of camera angles.

To Philip Greenstreet of Rosco Laboratories for the concept and development of the Roscolight Day/Night Backdrop. This unique photographic scenic backing allows a smooth transition from day to night views with a single backing. The Roscolight backings provide an important new creative tool to filmmakers, saving time, money and stage space.

To Udo Schauss, Hildegard Ebbesmeier and Karl Lenhardt for the optical design, and Ralf Linn and Norbert Brinker for the mechanical design of the Schneider Super Cinelux lenses for motion picture projection. These projection lenses provide a significant improvement in the quality of the cinema viewing experience.

To Glenn M. Berggren for the concept, Horst Linge for research and development, and Wolfgang Reinecke for the optical design of the ISCO Ultra-Star Plus lenses for motion picture projection. The unique optical design of the Ultra-Star Plus projection lenses achieves unprecedented edge-to-edge uniformity of illumination, combined with a significant increase in screen brightness, thus providing a substantial improvement in the cinema viewing experience.

To Bill Tondreau of Kuper Systems, Alvah J. Miller and Paul Johnson of Lynx Robotics, and David Stump of Visual Effects Rental Services for the conception, design and development of data capture systems that enable superior accuracy, efficiency and economy in the creation of composite imagery. These systems digitally record live action camera and axis data with practically no impact on the live action production process, allowing compositing for visual effects to become faster and more cost-effective.

To Venkat Krishnamurthy for the creation of the Paraform Software for 3D Digital Form Development. This system streamlines the creation of 3D computer graphics models by allowing artists to convert the data from automatically scanned physical models into a user-specified configuration of patches well suited for use in computer applications.

To George Borshukov, Kim Libreri and Dan Piponi for the development of a system for image-based rendering allowing choreographed camera movements through computer graphic reconstructed sets. This component of the Manex Visual Effects Virtual Cinematography System provides theatrical-quality virtual settings.

To John P. Pytlak for the development of the Laboratory Aim Density (LAD) system. The LAD system has become the standard method used by film laboratories and digital film recording facilities for effective and uniform control of color and exposure in camera negatives, interpositives and duplicate negatives.