Nominations for the 74th Annual Academy Awards
were announced on February 12, 2002 by Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences President Frank Pierson and Oscar®
winner Marcia Gay Harden. Pierson and Harden announced ten of
the 24 categories at a 5:30 a.m. news conference attended by
over 400 international media. Nominations in all categories
were distributed simultaneously to news media in attendance.
Harden received her first Academy Award Nomination
last year at the 73rd Academy Awards, and won the Supporting
Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Lee Krasner, the artist wife
of abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock, in "Pollock."
Academy members selected the nominees in their
respective branches, with the exception of the Animated Feature,
Foreign Language Film and Makeup categories, where nominations
were selected by vote of screening committees. All members select
the Best Picture nominees. The secret ballots were mailed to
5,739 members in early January and were returned directly to
PricewaterhouseCoopers, the international accounting firm, for
tabulation.
Official screenings of all pictures with a nomination
begin on February 15 for members at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn
Theater. Screenings in special categories are also held in London,
New York and San Francisco.
The Academy's entire active and life membership
is eligible to select the winners in all categories, although
in five of them - the two short film, the two documentary and
the foreign language film categories - members can vote only
after attesting they have seen all of the nominated films in
those categories.
Academy Awards® for
outstanding film achievements of 2001 were presented on Sunday,
March 24, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland®
and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at
5:30 p.m. PST. A half-hour arrival segment will precede the
presentation ceremony at 5 p.m.
ELIGIBILITY
Eligibility for Academy Award consideration
is subject to these rules (other rules may apply), and to those
special rules approved by their Board of Governors which follow.
All eligible motion pictures, unless otherwise
noted (primary exceptions below), must be:
a) feature length (defined as over 40 minutes),
b) publicly exhibited by means of 35mm or 70mm film or non-video
tape digital process,
c) for paid admission in a commercial motion picture theater
in Los Angeles County and open between January 1, 2001 and midnight
of December 31, 2001,
d) for a run of at least seven consecutive days,
e) advertised and exploited during its Los Angeles run in a
manner considered normal and customary to the industry, and
f) within the awards year deadlines specified: films which receive
their first public exhibition or distribution in any manner
other than as a theatrical motion picture release will not be
eligible for Academy Awards in any category. This includes broadcast
and cable television, as well as home video marketing and internet
transmission.
Exceptions to the eligibility requirements and
methods of qualifying listed appear in the Special Rules for
the Animated Feature Film Award (e.g. at least 70 minutes in
running time and where a significant number of the major characters
in the film are animated, and animation figures in no less than
75% of the picture's running time), the Documentary Awards,
the Foreign Language Film Award, the Music Awards, and the Short
Films Awards.
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