Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Best Picture U.S. viewers (millions) HH Rating Host(s) Producer(s) Venue 1st: May 16, 1929: Wings — — Douglas Fairbanks — The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel: none: 2nd: April 3, 1930: The Broadway Melody — — William C. deMille — Ambassador Hotel: KNX-AM [7] 3rd: November 5, 1930: All Quiet on the Western Front — — Conrad Nagel ...
The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. For the second year in a row, there was no official host. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satellite to an international audience, though outside North America, Brazil was the only country to broadcast the event liv
First stop motion animated film to win Best Animated Feature. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) First non-English language film to win Best Animated Feature. Spirited Away (2001) First PG-13 rated film to win Best Animated Feature. The Boy and the Heron (2023) First animated film to be nominated for Best Documentary Feature ...
Driving Miss Daisy became the third film to win Best Picture without a Best Director nomination. [11] At age 80, Jessica Tandy became the oldest winner of a competitive acting Oscar at the time. [12] Kenneth Branagh was the fifth person nominated for Best Lead Actor and Best Director for the same film. [13]
At age 74, Clint Eastwood became the oldest winner for Best Director in Oscar history. [11] With his latest unsuccessful nomination for directing The Aviator , nominee Martin Scorsese joined Robert Altman , Clarence Brown , Alfred Hitchcock , and King Vidor as the most nominated individuals in the Best Director category without a single win at ...
American actress Holly Hunter has received numerous accolades throughout her career.. Hunter achieved her breakthrough in 1987, taking on the lead role of Jane Craig in the film Broadcast News, [1] earning her first nominations at the Academy Awards and Golden Globe Awards, while also winning the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Note: Walt Disney is the highest-earning individual with wins and nominations in any category in the Academy Awards, with fifty-nine nominations and twenty-two Oscar wins (as well as four Honorary Awards), including a record four in one year.
Oscar award silhouette. At the Academy Awards, the so-called "Big Five" awards are those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay (either Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay). [1] As of the 94th Academy Awards (2021), a total of 43 films have been nominated in all five of these award categories.