Longest Oscar award ceremony
- Who
- 71st Academy Awards
- What
- 4/2 hour(s):minute(s)
- Where
- United States (Los Angeles,)
- When
- 21 March 1999
The 71st Academy Awards ceremony, held 21 March 1999 and broadcast by ABC (USA), lasted 4 hr 2 min. In her closing, the host for the evening Whoopi Goldberg (USA) told television viewers that whilst they watched the show "another century went by".