page_title: 71st Academy Awards
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: 71st Academy Awards / Winners and nominees / Awards
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Том Стоппард на приёме в честь российской премьеры «Берега утопии» English: Tom Stoppard on a reception in honour of the premiere of "The Coast of Utopia" in Russia
context_page_description: The 71st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best of 1998 in film and took place on March 21, 1999, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the third time. She first hosted the 66th ceremony held in 1994 and had last hosted the 68th ceremony in 1996. Nearly a month earlier in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on February 27, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Anne Heche.
  Shakespeare in Love won seven awards including Best Picture. Other winners included Saving Private Ryan with five awards, Life Is Beautiful with three, and Affliction, Bunny, Election Night, Elizabeth, Gods and Monsters, The Last Days, The Personals, The Prince of Egypt and What Dreams May Come with one. The telecast garnered nearly 46 million viewers in the United States.
context_section_description: Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().
caption: Tom Stoppard, Best Original Screenplay co-winner
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