Rediff Entertainment Bureau

Actors Ben Stiller (The Royal Tenenbaums) and Owen Wilson (Behind Enemy Lines), announce the Best Achievement in Costume Design to Catherin Martin and Angus Strathie for Moulin Rouge, the flamboyant ode to the musical genre directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann.

The 74th Annual Academy Awards ceremony at Los Angeles do not miss mention of the tragedy of the September 11 terror attacks on America and New York City. Earlier, Tom Cruise said 9/11 should be the reason why the world should celebrate the Oscars more than ever.

Sixty-six-year-old eccentric director Woody Allen is called by Whoopi Goldberg to introduce filmmaker Nora Ephron's documentary of films shot in New York City. Among them are John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever, with the chartbusting BeeGees song Stayin' Alive, and Ephron's own Sleepless In Seattle.

Oscar-winner Jodie Foster, attired in a glittering, strappy silver gown, announces Best Achievement in Cinematography to Andrew Lesnie for his sweeping picturisation of J R R Tolkien's novel, The Lord Of The Rings, shot mainly in New Zealand and Australia, directed by Peter Jackson.

Actress Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets) presents a tribute to the art of documentary making, or what she calls, "life imitating life". A film clip that lasted roughly five minutes with the Beatles' Let it be score in the background.

Samuel Jackson (Shaft, Oscar-nominee for Pulp Fiction) presents the Best Documentary Feature to Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet for Murder On A Sunday Morning: a chronicle of the arrest of 15-year-old Brendon Butler, who was arrested for murdering a woman.

Sarah Kernochan and Lynn Appelle's Thoth is judged Best Documentary Short Subject, about a street musician who performs a one-man opera to promote human understanding and harmony.

Actress Cameron Diaz then draws attention to Catherin Martin for her Art Direction and Brigitte Broch for her Set Decoration, in Baz Luhrmann's musical Moulin Rouge

Nathan Lane (Stuart Little 2) declares this year's new Oscar section: Best Animated Feature Film. That is Aron Warner's five-years-in-the-making Shrek, about a gentle ogre named Shrek and his talkative donkey sidekick, who rescue the beautiful Princess Fiona.

Halle Berry (nominated for Monster's Ball), called upon "mixer, fixer, creater, restorer", Michael Minkler, Myron Nettinga and Chris Munro for Best Achievement in Sound. The film: Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down.

George Watters II and Christopher Boyes win the Best Sound Editing Award for Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor.

Last year's Oscar-winner Marcia Gay Harden announces Jim Broadbent as Best Supporting Actor. As writer John Bayley, Jim Broadbent plays a man coping with his wife's decline into Alzheimer's disease, in Iris.