* March 24 – The 74th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California with the film A Beautiful Mind winning Best Picture.

The film was a major critical and commercial success, and received a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 74th Academy Awards.

The film was selected as India's official entry to the 74th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Washington's performance, a departure from his usual roles, was particularly praised and earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor at the 74th Academy Awards.

This early release date put it in line for the upcoming 74th Academy Awards nominations.

* Best Foreign Language Film, 2002 74th Academy Awards

* Best Documentary, 74th Annual Academy Awards

* The 74th Annual Academy Awards ( 2002 ) Memorial tribute

The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ), honored the best films of 2001 and took place March 24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5: 30 p. m. PST / 8: 30 p. m. EST.

The nominees for the 74th Academy Awards were announced on February 12, 2002, at 5: 38 a. m. PST ( 13: 38 UTC ) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Frank Pierson, president of the Academy, and actress Marcia Gay Harden.

Eventually, she was involved in several documentaries including co-production / direction duties on 2001's Promises, which was nominated for best Documentary Feature at the 74th Academy Awards.

The song entered the German Singles Chart at number one in 2002 and was performed by Enya on the 74th Academy Awards.

* Much of the Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man takes place within a few blocks of the intersection of Broadway and 74th Street.

* Game Informer in 2001: The Top 100 Games of All Time ( 74th place ).

In France, the album reached 74th place and stayed on the charts for 2 weeks.

:* Final-5: 34: 58 ( 74th place )

* Noel Lynch — Preliminary Round (→ 74th place )

* Simon Simonis – ranking round, 74th place ( 0-0 )

The 1987 Tour de France was the 74th Tour de France, taking place from July 1 to July 26, 1987.

Dylan, the District Four Male tribute in the 74th Annual Hunger Games.

it was ranked 74th among world universities, and 67th in 2006.

* 1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.

The proposal that proteins were linear chains of α-amino acids was made nearly simultaneously by two scientists at the same conference in 1902, the 74th meeting of the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, held in Karlsbad.

The first Congressional terms to begin under Section 1 were those of the 74th Congress, on January 3, 1935.

It was also the 1974th year of the Common Era, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s.

* July 5 – Pope Martin I succeeds Pope Theodore I as the 74th pope.

The War Game was also voted 74th in Channel Four's 100 Greatest Scary Moments.

was the 74th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

The tracks were recorded at Blue Horizon House, 165 West 74th Street, home of Sire Records, but Seymour Stein, president of Sire, rejected the demo, stating " there's nothing there.

February 2012 was the 74th year the Nation has held the Event.

Its subject rankings were: 74th in Life Sciences & Biomedicine, 89th in Arts & Humanities, 87th in Natural Sciences, 143rd in Social Sciences and 175th in Engineering & IT.

In defense of the areas surrounding Nanking, Yu Jishi's two divisions of 74th Corps guarded Banqiao-Chunhua, Xu Yuanquan's 2nd Corps-group ( 41st & 48th Divisions ) guarded Mengtang-Longtan, and Ye Zhao's 66th Corps & Deng Longguang's 83rd Corps guarded east and west sides of Mt Tangshan.

Separately, the 114th Division, followed by the 6th Division, burst through the cordon lines of the Chinese 88th Division and 74th Corps and took over Lishui and Molingguan by December 4, and pushed to the area of Lulangzhen and Jiangningzhen.

After abandoning the Xicheng line on November 26, the Supervisory Unit, the 36th and 88th divisions, and the 10th, 66th, 74th, and 83rd armies were ordered to assist in the defense of Nanking.

Graves had proposed demolishing the flanking brownstones down to the 74th Street corner for a complementary addition.

In the 2011 HEEACT rankings, Waterloo's research performance in the field of engineering was ranked 74th in the world, and second in Canada.

Morgan Stanley had offices located on 24 floors, running from the 59th floor to the 74th floor, of buildings 2 and 5 of the World Trade Center in New York City.

The median household income and per capita income were the second highest among Ohio counties after Delaware, and 74th and 79th in the country, respectively.

Of North Carolina's one hundred counties, Gaston County ranks 74th in size, consisting of approximately, and is seventh in population.

2008 election results are as follows: Republican Jack Hoogendyk received 59. 08 % of Ottawa County's vote in his failed bid against US Senator Carl Levin ; Republican Representative Peter Hoekstra received 71. 7 % of the vote ; Republican David Agema received 73. 45 % in the race for the 74th district ; Republican Arlan B. Meekhof received 60. 71 % in his race for the 89th District ; Republican Joseph Haveman received 71. 92 % in his race for the 90th District ; and Holly Hughes received 61. 55 % in her failed bid against Mary Valentine for the 91st District.

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

The Oscar statuette is officially named the Academy Award of Merit and is one of nine types of Academy Awards.

It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The 84th Academy Awards, honoring films in 2011, was held at the Dolby Theatre on February 26, 2012.

Gary Cooper and Joan Fontaine holding their Oscars at the Academy Awards, 1942

The post Academy Awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel.

Winners had been announced three months earlier ; however that was changed in the second ceremony of the Academy Awards in 1930.

For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.

Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

Academy Awards:

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

* 1969 – At the U. S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.

He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.

The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list.

Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once — for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960.

The film won five Academy Awards at the 68th Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, and was nominated for an additional five.