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February 26, 1942: Site: Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA: Hosted by: Bob Hope: Highlights; Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley: Most awards: How Green Was My Valley (5) Most nominations: Sergeant York (11)
The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on March 4, 1943, honoring the films of 1942. [1] The ceremony is most famous for the speech by Greer Garson; accepting the award for Best Actress, Garson spoke for nearly six minutes, considered to be the longest Oscars acceptance speech.
Since 1968, most Best Picture winners have been rated R under the Motion Picture Association's rating system. Oliver! is the only G-rated film and Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film (what is categorized as an NC-17 film today), so far, to win Best Picture; they won in back-to-back years, 1968 and 1969. The latter has since been changed to ...
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.
Casablanca (1942) Producer Hal Wallis at Warner Bros had a knack for overseeing films that were both mainstream and had a social conscience. ... Few other Best Picture winners are as engrained in ...
OSCARS 2023: The Independent's Geoffrey Macnab chooses the best films to have ever won Hollywood's most prestigious award The 10 greatest Best Picture winners, from Casablanca to An American in ...
A list of American films released in 1942. Bob Hope hosted the 15th Academy Awards ceremony at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The winner of the Outstanding Motion Picture (later: Best Picture) category was MGM's Mrs. Miniver.
The first World War II film to win Best Picture was "Mrs. Miniver" (1941), an American production set in England during the Battle of Britain. ... Three other Best Picture winners of the 1940s had ...