The Longest Academy Awards Show: 74th Academy Awards

Friday, October 24th 2014. | Event


The 74th Academy Awards is the longest academy awards show. The duration for this show was 4 hours and 23 minutes. But it earned poor rating if you compare it with academy award show. The host at that time was Whoopi Goldberg. The award function conducted on 24 March 2002 at Kodak Theater. Let’s find out the detail about the longest academy awards show:

Longest Academy Awards Show: The famous event

Academy awards ceremony is one of the famous shows in the world. The 74th ceremony was called as the longer one in the history. It took place on 24 March 2002 at Kodak Theater Hollywood, Los Angeles. There were many A-list actors, actresses and filmmakers coming to the event. ABC aired the show on TV. The host was Whoopi Goldberg. She did it for four times.

Longest Academy Awards Show Host

Longest Academy Awards Show Host

Longest Academy Awards Show: A Beautiful Mind

The movie which had a lot of attention from the people was A Beautiful Mind. There were four awards that this movie got. It took home the Best Director and Best Picture for Ron Howard.  This movie was starred by Russell Crow and Jennifer Connelly. It was released on 4 January 2002. Find out about the longest academy award winning movie here.

74th academy award

74th academy award

Longest Academy Awards Show: Other movies

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is another movie which grabbed four awards in the ceremony. The movies which got one award were For the Birds, Monsters, Inc., No Man’s Land, Gosford Park, and The Accountant. The movies which grabbed two awards were Moulin Rouge! And Black Hawk Down.

74th academy award guests

74th academy award guests

Longest Academy Awards Show: Nominees

The movie with the most nomination was The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The movie got 13 nominations in the 74th academy awards. A Beautiful Mind and Moulin Rouge!  got eight nominations at the Academy awards. Actually the nominees had been announced before the ceremony at Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills California on 12 February 2002.

Longest Academy Awards Shows

Longest Academy Awards Shows

Longest Academy Awards Show: Reception

Even though it is one of the grand celebrations in the world, the shows did not receive positive review. It only got the mixed reception for the people.  Robert Bianco was a USA Today television critic who stated that the show was almost dull and narcissistic. But some media think that the show was great.  Henry Sheehan the film critic thought the performance of Goldberg was a host was magnificent.

Longest Academy Awards Show Pic

Longest Academy Awards Show Pic

If you have enough time, why don’t you watch the longest academy awards show in the world?


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