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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.
Much public attention was focused on the Best Actress race between sibling rivals Joan Fontaine, for Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion, and Olivia de Havilland, for Hold Back the Dawn. Fontaine won, becoming the only acting winner from a film directed by Hitchcock.
Movie introduced the song Cheek to Cheek. 1936 Follow the Fleet: 48 1936 The Great Ziegfeld: 48 Winner of Academy Award for best picture. [1] 1937 Way Out West: 49 Uncredited. 1937 On the Avenue: 49 1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band: 50 1938 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse: 50 Uncredited song, How Dry Am I. 1939 Idiot's Delight: 51 Uncredited, Puttin ...
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.
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 ...
Best Original Score—for a motion picture [not a musical] (1969–1970) Best Original Score (1971, 1976–1995, 2000–present) Best Original Dramatic Score (1972–1975, 1996–1999) 2. Musical scores. Best Scoring of a Musical Picture (1942–1962) Best Scoring of Music—adaptation or treatment (1963–1968)
Song Hits from Holiday Inn is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire released in July [1] 1942 featuring songs presented in the American musical film Holiday Inn. These are the longer studio recorded versions of the songs presented in the film.
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 ...