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72nd Academy Awards - March 26, 2000
The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
Best Picture: American Beauty (September 15, 1999)
• A Wunderkind Discovers the Wonders of Film (September 12, 1999)

73rd Academy Awards - March 25, 2001
The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
Best Picture: Gladiator (May 5, 2000)
• Throwing Our Anxieties to the Lions (April 30, 2000)

74th Academy Awards - March 24, 2002
The Kodak Theater, Hollywood
Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind (December 21, 2001)
• Jennifer Connelly: Ever More Familiar, but Still Hard to Get to Know (November 4, 2001)
• Critic's Notebook: A 'Mind' Is a Hazardous Thing to Distort (March 21, 2002)





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Kevin Spacey is a restless husband and Annette Bening his contemptuous wife in "American Beauty." (Lorey Sebastian/DreamWorks)
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