February
8, 2003Kodak Theatre
Hollywood, CA
Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) welcomed the fourteenth annual Pollstar Concert Industry Awards Party to the state-of-the-art Kodak Theatre in Hollywood amid much fanfare. Operated by AEG, the 3,500 seat Kodak Theatre features three tiers of balconies, opera boxes and sweeping unobstructed views of the stage from every seat.
The concert industry's premier awards show was held on Saturday, February 8, 2003 and was immediately followed by a gala reception - the final event of the Concert Industry Consortium meeting held February 6 through 8 at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in the Hollywood & Highland complex.
Each year POLLSTAR invites a cross section of international music business professionals to make the nominations for these awards for inclusion in the Pollstar Concert Industry Awards ballot. Winners are then determined by votes from the international readership of POLLSTAR.
The Pollstar Concert Industry Award winners were first announced in 1984 while the official Concert Industry Awards presentations began in 1990 at New York City's prestigious Radio City Music Hall. Historic moments and memorable locations followed as future events were held at such notable landmarks as the Wiltern Theatre, House of Blues, Universal Amphitheatre and Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, as well as the Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Concert Industry Awards has featured a variety of celebrity guest hosts from Bobcat Goldthwait, Joe Piscopo and Elayne Boosler to Father Guido Sarducci, the Firesign Theater, Richard Jeni and Kevin Nealon.
The Concert Industry Awards feature numerous categories that represent the full spectrum of the concert industry, including Major Tour of The Year, Best New Artist Tour, Talent Buyer of The Year, Personal Manager of The Year and the Bill Graham Award for Promoter of The Year which honors the memory of the legendary promoter who revolutionized the concert industry. The Bobby Brooks Award for Agent of the Year honors the CAA agent who lost his life in the same 1990 helicopter crash that claimed the life of Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Click here for a list of this year's Pollstar Awards Categories, Nominations and Presenters.
Lewis
Black
Pollstar Concert
Industry Awards
Party Host
With an order to "turn off all cell phones - NOW!" and a diatribe
against the Super Bowl performers selection process, Pollstar Concert
Industry Awards host Lewis Black got the show off to a roaring and thought-provoking
start.
Black, well known for his “Back In Black” segment on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” and his regular appearances on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” joined a roster of celebrity presenters in making the evening memorable.
The Pollstar Concert Industry Awards Host of the Year award was presented to Black, the self-appointed most indignant and exasperated man in America, in the final presentation of the evening.
The awards ceremony was followed by the gala after-party which has become the concert industry’s annual social highlight.
