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Charlie Chaplin received an honorary award at this ceremony, for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century". Chaplin, who had been living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland for twenty years, went back to the United States to re-market his older films and to receive this award.
The ceremony was marked by Marlon Brando's boycott of the Oscars, and his sending of Sacheen Littlefeather to explain why he could not show up to collect his Best Actor award for The Godfather; and by Charlie Chaplin's only competitive Oscar win, for Best Original Dramatic Score for his 20-year-old film Limelight, which was eligible because it ...
Chaplin received three Academy Awards: an Honorary Award for "versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing, and producing The Circus" in 1929, [189] a second Honorary Award for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century" in 1972, [348] and a Best Score award in 1973 for Limelight (shared ...
To celebrate Variety’s 115th anniversary, we went to the archives to see how some of Hollywood’s biggest stars first landed in the pages of our magazine. Read more from the archives here.
45th Academy Awards, the 1973 ceremony honoring the best in film for 1972 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).
The year 1972 in film involved several significant events. ... 45th Academy Awards March 27, 1973 Drama ... Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell
Charlie Chaplin (right) receiving an Honorary Academy Award from Lemmon at the 44th Academy Awards in 1972. The much-admired comedy Kotch (1971), the only film Lemmon directed, [12] starred Matthau, who was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. The Out-of-Towners (1970) was another Neil Simon-scripted film in which Lemmon appeared.
The following year, Chaplin's score for Limelight received the Academy Award for Best Music. Although 20 years old by this time, Limelight had not been released in the Los Angeles area until 1972, and had not been eligible for Academy Award consideration before then. [ 7 ]