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Academy Award Winners 2000
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the winners of the 73rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2000.
In the Best Original Score category, Chinese composer Tan Dun won the Academy Award for his score for Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In his acceptance speech Tan said:
I prepared something exactly forty-five seconds. My music is to dream without boundaries. Tonight, with you, I see boundaries being crossed. As a classical music composer I’m thrilled to be honored here. “Crouching Tiger” bridged East and West, romance and action, high and low cultures. Thank you, Ang Lee, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Gelb, Michael Gorfaine, James Schamus, Bill Kong. Thank you, Sony Classical, CAMI and G. Schirmer for their long support. Last, this is for two tigers in my family: my wife Jane, Ian, [my] son, both born in the year of tigers. Thank you, Academy.
The other nominees for Best Original Score were Rachel Portman for Chocolat, Hans Zimmer for Gladiator, Ennio Morricone for Malèna, and John Williams for The Patriot.
In the Best Original Song category, legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the Academy Award for “Things Have Changed” from Curtis Hanson’s Wonder Boys. Dylan was touring Australia at the time of the ceremony and appeared from Sydney by satellite.
The other nominees for Best Original Song were Randy Newman for “A Fool in Love” from Meet the Parents; Björk, Lars von Trier and Sjón Sigurðsson for “I’ve Seen It All” from Dancer in the Dark; Jorge Calandrelli, Tan Dun and James Schamus for “A Love Before Time” from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and Sting and David Hartley for “My Funny Friend and Me” from The Emperor’s New Groove.
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON – Tan Dun
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
After spending much of its history consigned to art-houses, lauded by critics but unseen by the masses, Chinese cinema is suddenly big business. The emigration west of some of its biggest names, notably action stars such as Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat, has undoubtedly paved the way for Chinese-language movies to reach a wider audience, and now the first true crossover hit seems to have come: Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Director Lee has, of course, been making critically popular films in English for a number of years, from the Oscar winning costume drama Sense & Sensibility to the drama The Ice Storm and the civil war epic Ride With The Devil. Throughout his career, though, Lee has harbored a desire to make a wuxia pian, a Chinese costume drama combining traditional drama with martial arts. Lee has described Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon as “Jane Austen meets Bruce Lee”. Read more…
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