74th Academy Awards

74th Academy Awards
Official poster by Alex Ross
Date	March 24, 2002
Site	Kodak Theatre Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Whoopi Goldberg
Preshow host(s)	Chris Connelly Leeza Gibbons Ananda Lewis
Produced by	Laura Ziskin
Directed by	Louis J. Horvitz
Highlights
Best Picture	A Beautiful Mind
Most awards	A Beautiful Mind and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (4)
Most nominations	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (13)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
Duration	4 hours, 23 minutes
Ratings	41.82 million 25.54% (Nielsen ratings)
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The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories honoring films released in 2001. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Laura Ziskin and directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the fourth time. She first hosted the 66th ceremony held in 1994 and had last hosted the 71st ceremony in 1999. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Charlize Theron.

A Beautiful Mind won four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Ron Howard. Other winners included The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring also with four awards, Black Hawk Down and Moulin Rouge! with two, and The Accountant, For the Birds, Gosford Park, Iris, Monster's Ball, Monsters, Inc., Murder on a Sunday Morning, No Man's Land, Pearl Harbor, Shrek, Thoth, and Training Day, with one. Despite a record length of four hours and twenty-three minutes, the telecast garnered nearly 42 million viewers in the United States.