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The 27th Academy Awards were held on March 30, 1955, to honor the best films of 1954, hosted by Bob Hope at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood with Thelma Ritter hosting from the NBC Century Theatre in New York City. On the Waterfront led the ceremony with twelve nominations and eight wins, including Best Picture.
At just 90 minutes, Marty became the shortest film to win Best Picture, as well as the second to have also won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (after The Lost Weekend in 1945). All of the various winners, with the exception of Anna Magnani , collected their Oscars.
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and ...
The best picture Oscar has marked the epitome of the award-show season for 95 years — where only one film comes out on top. Read on to see all the films that have won best picture thus far.
Nominated for Oscars for Best Documentary, Short Subject and Best Short Subject, Two-reel Cinerama Holiday: Philippe De Lacy: John Marsh, Betty Marsh: Documentary: The Pied Piper of Cleveland: Arthur Cohen: Bill Randle: Musical
Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Screenplay (A): Adapted Screenplay / (O): Original Screenplay Notes; 17th: 1944: 10 7 Going My Way: Leo McCarey: Bing Crosby - Frank Butler / Frank Cavett (A) 18th: 1945: 7 4 The Lost Weekend: Billy Wilder: Ray Milland - Charles Brackett / Billy Wilder (A) 19th: 1946: 8 7 The Best Years of ...
Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity won eight awards from its thirteen nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Academy Award for Best Director, Best Screenplay (Daniel Taradash), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Burnett Guffey), Best Sound Recording, and Best Film Editing. It was the third film to ...
28th Academy Awards, the 1956 ceremony honoring the best in film for 1955 Index of articles associated with the same name This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).