2003: The Cursed Harvey Oscars Puts Chicago in the Winners' Circle

On this latest episode of Oscars Playback, experts and editors Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen discuss the infamous 2003 Oscars ceremony, where Harvey Weinstein had three of the five Best Picture nominees and won with "Chicago." The ceremony also included three wins for Roman Polanski's "The Pianist." Even Steve Martin's monologue has aged liked milk. But Joyce and Chris discuss the ceremony, the winners, and 2002 in film -- plus Martin Scorsese's battles with Harvey over "Gangs of New York."

Broad Oscar thoughts and the year in film (00:00)

Opening of the ceremony and Best Picture (27:34)

Best Director (46:01)

Best Actor (54:44)

Best Actress (1:02:09)

Best Supporting Actor/Best Supporting Actress (1:09:49)

Screenplay winners, Eminem, other ceremony thoughts (1:17:31)

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