Also see: Oscar timelines 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007.
February 29th, 2004, 17:30 to 21:10 PST, Kodak Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Host: Billy Crystal.
All presentations and awards, in the order that they were shown. For details on all nominees and winners, see the IMDb Academy Awards 2004 page. Also see the official Oscars site.
All times below are Pacific Standard Time (PST).
1. — 17:30 — Sean Connery introduces a clip with host Billy Crystal.
2. — ? — Host Billy Crystal performs his introductory monologue, including several songs.
3. 17:57 — Ian McKellen introduces the first movie nominated for Best Picture.
4. 17:59 — Angelina Jolie presents the award (winner: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King).
5. 18:02 — Robin Williams presents the award (winner: Finding Nemo).
6. 18:11 — Renée Zellweger presents the award (winner: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King).
7. 18:16 — Nicholas Cage introduces the second movie nominated for Best Picture.
8. 18:18 — Chris Cooper presents the award (winner: Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain).
9. 18:24 — Tom Hanks presents a video tribute to Bob Hope who died last year. Not only was Hope an outstanding entertainer, he also hosted the Academy Awards eighteen times.
10. 18:31 — Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson present the award (winner: Two Soldiers).
11. 18:35 — Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson present the award (winner: Harvie Krumpet).
12. 18:38 — Liv Tyler introduces the first Best Song nominee (from Cold Mountain).
13. 18:41 — Liv Tyler introduces the second Best Song nominee (from Cold Mountain).
14. 18:45 — Liv Tyler introduces the third Best Song nominee (from The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King).
15. 18:57 — Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith present the award (winner: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King).
16. 19:00 — Jennifer Garner presents a video that summarizes the award show for technical and scientific awards that she hosted a while ago.
17. 19:02 — Jim Carrey presents the award to Blake Edwards.
18. 19:15 — Bill Murray introduces the third movie nominated for Best Picture.
19. 19:17 — Scarlett Johansson presents the award (winner: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King).
20. 19:21 — Sandra Bullock and John Travolta present the award (winner: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King).
21. 19:24 — Sandra Bullock and John Travolta present the award (winner: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World).
22. 19:27 — Julia Roberts presents a video tribute to Katherine Hepburn, who died last year. Hepburn still holds the record for the person with the most Oscars for acting: four.
23. 19:36 — Oprah Winfrey presents the fourth movie nominated for Best Picture.
24. 19:38 — Samantha Morton and Colin Farrell present the award (winner: Chernobyl Heart).
25. 19:42 — Naomi Watts and Alec Baldwin present the award (winner: The Fog of War).
26. 19:46 — AMPAS president Frank R. Pierson (introduced by
Billy Crystal as a weapon of mass sleep induction
) presents a video tribute to
those movie contributors who have died since the last Oscars.
Gregory Peck, Wendy Hiller, David Hemmings, Hope Lange, George Axelrod, Charles Bronson, Michael Jeter, David Newman, Ron O'Neal, Art Carney, Elia Kazan, Leni Riefenstahl, Karen Morley, Buddy Ebsen, John Schlesinger, Stan Brakhage, Ray Stark, Andrew J. Kuehn, John Ritter, Hume Cronyn, Buddy Hackett, Michael Kamen, John Gregory Dunne, Robert Stack, Alan Bates, Gregory Hines, Jack Elam, Jeanne Crain, Ann Miller, Donald O'Connor.
27. 19:56 — Sting and Phil Collins present the award (winner: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King).
28. 19:59 — Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan present the award (winner: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King).
29. 20:02 — Jamie Lee Curtis presents the fourth nomineed song.
30. 20:07 — Jamie Lee Curtis presents the fifth nomineed song.
Jack Black and Will Ferrell sing the acceptance music song "You're Boring".
31. 20:13 — Jack Black and Will Ferrell present the award (winner: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King).
32. 20:19 — Charlize Theron presents the award (winner: The Barbarian Invasions from Canada). One of the recipients states that she is glad that Lord of the Rings could not be nominated in their category.
33. 20:23 — Jude Law and Uma Thurman present the award (winner: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World).
34. 20:28 — Sofia Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola present the award (winner: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King).
35. 20:33 — Tobey Maguire introduces the fifth movie nominated for Best Picture.
36. ? — Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins present the award (winner: Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation).
37. 20:41 — Tom Cruise presents the award (winner: Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation).
37. 20:45 — Adrian Brody presents the award (winner: Charlize Theron for Monster).
38. 20:57 — Nicole Kidman presents the award (winner: Sean Penn for Mystic River).
39. 21:03 — Steven Spielberg presents the award (winner: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King).