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The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from 1 August 1927 to 31 July 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Tickets cost $5 ...
First person born in the 21st century to be nominated for an Academy Award. Quvenzhané Wallis, for Best Actress, Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) First Icelander to win an Academy Award. Hildur Guðnadóttir, for Best Original Score, for Joker (2019) First Irish-born person to win Best Actor. Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer (2023)
Isaac Hayes, the first Black person to win an Oscar for a non-acting category in 1972 for best original song featured in "Shaft." He was only the third African American person to win an Oscar.
In 2022, Ariana DeBose became the first openly queer person of color to win an acting Oscar. She won for "West Side Story." Ariana DeBose posed with her Oscar for best supporting actress for "West ...
Sidney Poitier (/ ˈ p w ɑː t j eɪ / PWAH-tyay; [1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. [2]
“Anora” director Sean Baker has become the first person to win four Oscars in the same year for the same film. During Sunday’s ceremony, Baker and “Anora” won Oscars for original ...
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture , its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non ...
Sean Baker made Oscars history on Sunday by becoming the first person to win four Oscars in one night for the same movie. With “Anora,” a bittersweet dramedy about a Brooklyn stripper who ...