Dora 2001 Dora 2001 was the ninth edition of the national selection
Dora organised by HRT to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. The competition consisted of twenty entries competing in one final on 4 March 2001 at the Studio 11 of HRT in
Zagreb, hosted by
Duško Ćurlić and
Bojana Gregorić. The show was broadcast on
HTV1 and via radio on HR 2 as well as online via the broadcaster's website
hrt.hr.
Competing entries On 16 November 2000, HRT opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries to the broadcaster with the deadline on 17 December 2000. Artists were required to be signed to record companies or have had at least one commercial release in order to participate in the competition. An additional seven composers were also invited by HRT to submit songs following consultation with the
Croatian Composers' Society (HDS) and Croatian Musicians Union (HDS):
Tonči Huljić,
Rajko Dujmić, Miro Buljan, Zrinko Tutić, Nenad Ninčević,
Zdenko Runjić and
Đorđe Novković. 170 entries were received by the broadcaster during the submission period. A nine-member expert committee consisting of Pero Gotovac, Nikica Kalogjera, Stjepan Mihaljinec,
Matija Dedić, Siniša Doronjga,
Husein Hasanefendić, Stjepan Fučkar, Aleksandar Kostadinov and Velimir Đuretić reviewed the received submissions and selected twenty artists and songs for the competition. Prior to the competition, "", written by Enes Tvrtković and to have been performed by Ivana Banfić, was withdrawn due to disagreements with the language of the song to be performed and replaced with "" performed by
Vesna Pisarović. On 2 February 2001,
Emilija Kokić who won Eurovision for as a member of
Riva replaced
Minea as the co-performer of the song "Ljepota". The running order of the final was determined during a draw on 30 January 2001.
Final The final took place on 4 March 2001. Twelve of the twenty competing songs were performed with HRT's Revijski Orchestra with its own conductors and the winner, "" performed by
Vanna, was determined by a combination of votes from four regional juries, an expert jury, a public televote divided into four telephone regions in Croatia and a public online vote. A total of 246,836 votes were registered by the public: 242,491 votes through televoting and 3,895 votes through online voting. The writers of the winning song also received a monetary award of 100,000
kuna. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the Zagreb Dance Ensemble, Bojana Gregorić and
Goran Karan, who represented , performed as the interval acts during the show. ==At Eurovision==