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71st Academy Awards

71st Academy Awards
71st Academy Awards poster.jpg
Official poster
Date March 21, 1999
Site Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted by Whoopi Goldberg
Preshow host(s) Geena Davis
Jim Moret
Produced by Gil Cates
Directed by Louis J. Horvitz
Highlights
Best Picture Shakespeare in Love
Most awards Shakespeare in Love (7)
Most nominations Shakespeare in Love (13)
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Duration 4 hours, 2 minutes
Ratings 45.51 million
28.63% (Nielsen ratings)

The 71st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best of 1998 in film and took place on March 21, 1999, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the third time. She first hosted the 66th ceremony held in 1994 and had last hosted the 68th ceremony in 1996. Nearly a month earlier in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on February 27, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Anne Heche.

Shakespeare in Love won seven awards including Best Picture. Other winners included Saving Private Ryan with five awards, Life Is Beautiful with three, and Affliction, Bunny, Election Night, Elizabeth, Gods and Monsters, The Last Days, The Personals, The Prince of Egypt, and What Dreams May Come with one. The telecast garnered nearly 46 million viewers in the United States.


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