The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004)

Country of Origin: USA
Date(s) of Broadcast: 29 February 2004
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 225 mins
Format: colour
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Supervising Producer: Michael B. Seligman
Producer: Joe Roth
Billy's Opening Film Producers: Tracey Baird, Troy Miller, Bruce Klassen

SCRIPT
Script: Beth Armogida, Dave Boone, Billy Crystal, Ed Driscoll, Carol Leifer, Jon Macks

DIRECTION
Directors: Louis J. Horvitz, Troy Miller
Opening Sequence: Dakota North Entertainment

PHOTOGRAPHY
Opening Sequence Cinematographer: Clyde W. Smith

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Karen Erickson
Opening Sequence Editor: Dean Holland
Billy's Opening Film Post Producer: Todd 'Spider' Chambers

MUSIC
Music: John Carpenter (from Halloween); Jerry Goldsmith; Henry Mancini (Theme from The Pink Panther); Richard Wagner (Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde)
Musical Director: Marc Shaiman
Arranger: Harold Wheeler
Conductor: Marc Shaiman
Songs: Howard Shore, Fran Walsh (Into the West)
Songs Performed By: Elvis Costello, T-Bone Burnett (Scarlet Tide); Benoît Charest (Belleville rendez-vous); Annie Lennox (Into the West); Michael McKean, Annette O'Toole (A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow); Sting (You Will Be My Ain True Love)
Orchestra Mixer: Thomas Vicari

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Opening Sequence Costume Designer: Elizabeth Jett

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Roy Christopher
Opening Film Production Designer: Dan Butts
Art Director: Kate Bunch
Assistant Art Director: Joe Celli

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Coordinators: Carrie Foster, Tina Cannizzaro
Production Assistants: Courtney Wieden, Joni Smith, Matthew Searer, Steve Jarczak
Opening Sequence Key Production Assistant: Aaron C. Fitzgerald

LOCATIONS
Locations: Kodak Theater, Hollywood and Highland, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA; Ritz Carlton Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, California, USA

STUNTS
Opening Billy Crystal Clip Stunt Coordinator: Monty L. Simons

CAST
Billy Crystal (himself)
Diane Lane (herself)
Denys Arcand (himself)
Alec Baldwin (himself)
Alan Bates (himself)
Bet.E (herself)
Jack Black (himself)
Russell Boyd (himself)
Philippa Boyens (herself)
Christopher Boyes (himself)
Stan Brakhage (himself)
Adrien Brody (himself)
Charles Bronson (himself)
Pierce Brosnan (himself)
Sandra Bullock (herself)
T-Bone Burnett (himself)
Nicolas Cage (himself)
Art Carney (himself)
Jim Carrey (himself)
Benoît Charest (himself)
César Charlone (himself in archive footage)
Phil Collins (himself)
Sean Connery (himself)
Randall William Cook (himself)
Chris Cooper (himself)
Francis Ford Coppola (himself)
Sofia Coppola (herself)
Elvis Costello (himself)
Jeanne Crain (herself)
Hume Cronyn (himself)
Tom Cruise (himself)
Jamie Lee Curtis (herself)
John Cusack (himself)
Maryann DeLeo (herself)
Ngila Dickson (herself)
Clint Eastwood (himself)
Buddy Ebsen (himself)
Blake Edwards (himself)
Jack Elam (himself)
Adam Elliot (himself)
Will Ferrell (himself)
Alex Funke (himself)
Jennifer Garner (herself)
Buddy Hackett (himself)
Tom Hanks (himself)
Michael Hedges (himself)
Dan Hennah (himself)
Wendy Hiller (herself)
Gregory Hines (himself)
Bob Hope (himself in archive footage)
Peter Jackson (himself)
Michael Jeter (himself)
Scarlett Johansson (herself)
Angelina Jolie (herself)
Elia Kazan (himself)
Nicole Kidman (herself)
Peter King (himself)
Richard King (himself)
Alison Krauss (herself)
Hope Lange (herself)
Jude Law (himself)
Heath Ledger (himself)
Alan Lee (himself)
Annie Lennox (herself)
Joe Letteri (himself)
Eugene Levy (himself)
Tobey Maguire (himself)
Grant Major (himself)
Ian McKellen (himself)
Fernando Meirelles (himself in archive footage)
Ann Miller (herself)
Julianne Moore (herself)
Karen Morley (herself)
Errol Morris (himself)
Bill Murray (himself)
David Newman (himself)
Donald O'Connor (himself in archive footage)
Catherine O'Hara (herself)
Ron O'Neal (himself)
Barrie M. Osborne (himself)
Peter Parks (himself)
Gregory Peck (himself)
Hammond Peek (himself)
Sean Penn (himself)
Frank Pierson (himself)
Jada Pinkett Smith (herself)
Leni Riefenstahl (herself)
John Ritter (himself)
Tim Robbins (himself)
Julia Roberts (herself)
Guy Rolfe (himself)
Mickey Rooney (himself in archive footage)
Jim Rygiel (himself)
Andrew J. Sacks (himself)
Susan Sarandon (herself)
John Schlesinger (himself)
Aaron Schneider (himself)
John Schwartzman (himself)
John Seale (himself)
Jamie Selkirk (himself)
Michael Semanick (himself)
Eduardo Serra (himself)
Marc Shaiman (himself)
Howard Shore (himself)
Will Smith (himself)
Steven Spielberg (himself)
Robert Stack (himself)
Andrew Stanton (himself)
Ben Stiller (himself)
Sting (himself)
Richard Taylor (himself)
Charlize Theron (herself)
Uma Thurman (herself)
Bill Tondreau (himself)
John Travolta (himself)
Liv Tyler (herself)
Frances Walsh (herself)
Naomi Watts (herself)
Peter Weir (himself)
Harold Wheeler (himself)
Michael Williams (himself)
Robin Williams (himself)
Owen Wilson (himself)
Oprah Winfrey (herself)
Renée Zellweger (herself)
Catherine Zeta-Jones (herself)
Billy Boyd (himself)
Michael Moore (himself)
Jack Nicholson (himself)

AVAILABILITY

Denmark
Television Distributors: Danmarks Radio

Japan
Television Distributors: WoWow Inc

Sweden
Television Distributors: Sveriges Television

USA
Television Distributors: ABC

TIMELINE

2004
February
29: USA – television broadcast

March
1: Denmark, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, UK – television broadcast

LINKS

INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955)
The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971)
The 47th Annual Academy Awards (1975)
The 65th Annual Academy Awards (1993)
Airplane! (1980)
Ed Wood (1994)
Last Action Hero (1993)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)

SEE ALSO
Finding Nemo (2003)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Monster (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

KEYWORDS

awards show

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009