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The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003) (TV)

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• The first Oscar show to be aired in High Definition (HD 720p). Picture quality suffered from chroma delay problems, though, which sometimes gave distracting colored outlines.
  
  
• The Best Original Song winner, "Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile (2002)', was not performed at the ceremony. Reportedly, ABC asked Eminem to perform an edited version of the rap, but he refused (and did not attend the ceremony nor pick his Oscar up). It was the first time since the Awards were first telecast that the Best Original Song winner was not performed.
  
  
• The Oscar "Family Album" tribute segment with many stars who had not appeared at the previous Oscar "family album" celebration at the 70th Awards show. This time 59 stars attended, including more of the defunct juvenile award winners such as 'Margaret OBrien, _Hayley Mills, Claude Jarman Jr. and Mickey Rooney.
  
  

• Of the twenty nominated actors that year, Paul Newman was the only one not in attendance. He had decided a few years earlier that he was through with award ceremonies.
  
  

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