2001 (74th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2001 (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

A Beautiful Mind, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment Production; Universal and DreamWorks. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Denzel Washington in Training Day, Training Day Production; Warner Bros.

Actress in a Leading Role

Halle Berry in Monster’s Ball, Monster Production; Lions Gate Films.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Jim Broadbent in Iris, Mirage Enterprises, Robert Fox/Scott Rudin Production; Miramax Films. (UK, USA)

Actress in a Supporting Role

Jennifer Connelly in A Beautiful Mind, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment Production; Universal and DreamWorks.

Directing

A Beautiful Mind, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment Production; Universal and DreamWorks. Ron Howard.

Animated Feature Film

Shrek, PDI/DreamWorks Production; DreamWorks. Aron Warner.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Moulin Rouge, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. (Australia, USA) Art direction by Catherine Martin; set decoration by Brigitte Broch.

Cinematography

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, New Line Cinema and Wingnut Films Production; New Line. (New Zealand, USA) Andrew Lesnie.

Costume Design

Moulin Rouge, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. (Australia, USA) Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie.

Documentary

(Feature)

Murder on a Sunday Morning, Maha Productions/Pathé Doc/France 2/HBO Production. (France, USA) Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet.

(Short Subject)

Thoth, Amateur Rabbit Production. Sarah Kernochan and Lynn Appelle.

Film Editing

Black Hawk Down, Revolution Studios Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (USA, UK) Pietro Scalia.

Foreign Language Film

No Man’s Land, Noé Productions/Fabrica Cinema/Man’s Films/Counihan Villiers Productions/Studio Maj/Casablanca Production; United Artists through MGM. (France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Belgium, UK, Slovenia)

Makeup

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, New Line Cinema and Wingnut Films Production; New Line. (New Zealand, USA) Peter Owen and Richard Taylor.

Music

(Original Score)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, New Line Cinema and Wingnut Films Production; New Line. (New Zealand, USA) Howard Shore.

(Original Song)

If I Didn’t Have You from Monsters, Inc., Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios Production; Buena Vista. Music and lyric by Randy Newman.

Short Films

(Animated)

For the Birds, Pixar Animation Studios Production. Ralph Eggleston.

(Live Action)

The Accountant, Ginny Mule Pictures Production. Ray McKinnon and Lisa Blount.

Sound

Black Hawk Down, Revolution Studios Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (USA, UK) Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga and Chris Munro.

Sound Editing

Pearl Harbor, Touchstone Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Production; Buena Vista. George Watters II and Christopher Boyes.

Visual Effects

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, New Line Cinema and Wingnut Films Production; New Line. (New Zealand, USA) Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

A Beautiful Mind, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment Production; Universal and DreamWorks. Written by Akiva Goldsman.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Gosford Park, Sandcastle 5 in association with Chicagofilms and Medusa Film Production; USA Films. (USA, UK, Italy) Written by Julian Fellowes.

Honorary Award

To Sidney Poitier, in recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being. [ [Statuette]]

To Robert Redford, actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance, inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere. [ [Statuette]]

To Rune Ericson for his pioneering development and thirty years of dedication to the Super-16mm format for motion pictures. [ [Award of Commendaton - Special Award Plaque]]

To the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) for the continued publication of the American Cinematographer Manual. [ [Award of Commendaton - Special Award Plaque]]

To Ray Feeney 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]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Arthur Hiller

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Edmund M. Di Giulio

Scientific and Technical Award

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To John M. Eargle, D. B. “Don” Keele and Mark E. Engebretson for the concept, design and engineering of the modern constant-directivity, direct radiator style motion picture loudspeaker system. The work of John M. Eargle, D. B. “Don” Keele and Mark E. Engebretson has resulted in the over 20-year dominance of constant-directivity, direct radiator bass style cinema loudspeaker systems.

To Iain Neil for the concept and optical design and Al Saiki for the mechanical design of the Panavision Primo Macro Zoom Lens (PMZ). This compact, wide-angle, macro focus lens enhances and expands the picture-capturing ability, both technically and artistically, of the cinematographer. It is the first cine lens that allows macro photography while still being able to zoom.

To Franz Kraus, Johannes Steurer and Wolfgang Riedel for the design and development of the ARRILASER Film Recorder. The ARRILASER film recorder demonstrates a high level of engineering resulting in a compact, user-friendly, low-maintenance device while at the same time maintaining outstanding speed, exposure ratings and image quality.

To Peter Kuran for the invention, and Sean Coughlin, Joseph A. Olivier and William Conner for the engineering and development of the RCI-Color Film Restoration Process. This photo-chemical process restores color to faded color negatives using off-the-shelf film stocks with a unique approach. The resulting film intermediate can be used to create a new internegative.

To Makoto Tsukada, Shoji Kaneko and the Technical Staff of Imagica Corporation, and Daijiro Fujie of Nikon Corporation for the engineering excellence and the impact on the motion picture industry of the Imagica 65/35 Multi-Format Optical Printer. This liquid-gate optical printer offers ease of set-up and change-over to various formats from 35mm to 65mm 15-perf with both additive and subtractive lamp houses.

To Steven Gerlach, Gregory Farrell and Christian Lurin for the design, engineering and implementation of the Kodak Panchromatic Sound Recording Film. Allowing all four soundtrack systems to be exposed on a single negative with relative ease, this stock has allowed single inventory prints, facilitating the more economic distribution of motion pictures.

To Paul J. Constantine and Peter M. Constantine for the design and development of the CELCO Digital Film Recorder products. CELCO recorder products have had a significant impact on the industry through continual improvements in their technology.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Pete Romano for the design and development of the Remote AquaCam, an underwater camera housing system for use in motion pictures. The Remote AquaCam brings to the industry an underwater camera housing specifically designed for remote and high-speed operation. Its hydro-dynamic shape facilitates ease of operation for surface hand-held filming, and its remote capabilities allow it to film in confined areas or in situations where an operator cannot be near the camera.

To Jordan Klein for his pioneering efforts in the development and application of underwater camera housings for motion pictures. With over 50 years of involvement in the design and development of underwater camera housings, Jordan Klein’s work had had significant influence in the field of underwater photography.

To Bernard M. Werner and William Gelow for the engineering and design of filtered line arrays and screen spreading compensation as applied to motion picture loudspeaker systems. Employing both tapered line array and filtered line array technologies and unique passive and active filter networks, their work with camera loudspeakers was both innovative and dedicated specifically to cinema applications.

To Tomlinson Holman for the research and systems integration resulting in the improvement of motion picture loudspeaker systems. For over 20 years Tomlinson Holman has been involved in the research and integration of the constant-directivity, direct radiator bass type of cinema loudspeaker systems.

To Geoff Jackson and Roger Woodburn for their DMS 120S Camera Motor. This well-engineered camera motor features built-in time-lapse programmability and is useful in an unusually wide range of applications, including MOS production filming, high-speed photography, animation and motion control.

To Thomas Major Barron for the overall concept and design; Chas Smith for the structural engineering; and Gordon Seitz for the mechanical engineering of the Bulldog Motion Control Camera Crane. This motion control camera crane represents an unprecedented combination of long reach, high-speed, and a novel approach to its transport, which allows a very rapid setup on location.

To John R. Anderson, Jim Hourihan, Cary Phillips and Sebastian Marino for the development of the ILM Creature Dynamics System. This system makes hair, clothing, skin, flesh and muscle simulation both directable and integrated within a character animation and rigging environment.

To Steve Sullivan and Eric R. L. Schafer for the development of the ILM Motion and Structure Recovery System (MARS). The MARS system provides analysis of camera motion and object motion, and their dimensions. It employs a rich set of user-interface tools and sophisticated algorithms.

To Carl Ludwig and John M. Constantine, Jr. for their contributions to CELCO Digital Film Recorder products. CELCO recorder products have had a significant impact on the industry through continual improvements in their technology.

To Bill Spitzak, Paul Van Camp, Jonathan Egstad and Price Pethel for their pioneering effort on the NUKE-2D Compositing Software. The NUKE-2D compositing software allows for the creation of complex interactive digital composites using relatively modest computing hardware.

To Dr. Lance J. Williams for his pioneering influence in the field of computer generated animation and effects for motion pictures. The ongoing influence of Lance Williams is exemplified in his three seminal papers, “Casting Shadows on Curved Surfaces,” “Pyramidal Parametrics” and “View Interpolation for Image Synthesis.”

To Dr. Uwe Sassenberg and Rolf Schneider for the development of “3D Equalizer,” an advanced and robust camera and object match-moving system. This dominant commercial tracking system provides “survey free” tracking, which significantly reduces the need for painstaking, error-prone measurements on sets.

To Dr. Garland Stern for the concept and implementation of the Cel Paint Software System. All current cel painting applications in the motion picture industry can be traced back to the original idea and pioneering implementation of Garland Stern.

To Mic Rodgers and Matt Sweeney for the concept, design and realization of the “Mic Rig.” This self-contained, low bed picture car carrier and camera platform enables the safe, economic and realistic filming of action sequences that may involve principal actors and dialogue.