Academy Award
Transcript: Cate Blanchett Best Actress nominee Meryl Streep broke her own record for most nominations ever received by an actor with 18. Driving Miss Daisy - 1989 Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 34 cm tall, weighs 3.85 kg and illustrated a knight in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes. The five spokes represent the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians. first Oscars, lasted 15 minutes Best Cinematography Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects History A Passage to India 1984 in late February or early March moved to Sundays at 8:30 pm Eastern more viewers would tune in Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong'o The only sequel to have won Best Picture is The Godfather: Part II. posed for a photo posted to Twitter breaking the record The Statue Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film to win Best Picture, although A Clockwork Orange also received a nomination. Paper Moon 1973 Songs from stage musicals can’t be nominated for a Best Song Oscar. Best Animated Short Film - Mr Hublot Best Original Song - "Let It Go" from Frozen Henry Fonda Only one woman has ever won Best Director — Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2008). Million Dollar Baby - 2004 Youngest winner for Dallas Buyers Club when massive flooding in Los Angeles delayed the ceremony by a week Jessica Tandy 94% white people 77% male 54% over the age of 60 14% former nominees 19% winners ABC Network until 2020 being held on Mondays at 9:00 pm Eastern Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto Only six men of colour have won Best Actor. Best Actress In 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq on the Thursday before the telecast. The show went on as scheduled, but the red carpet was limited to the area immediately in front of the theater entrance, the red carpet bleachers were eliminated and the majority of the world’s press was disinvited. Best Original Score Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing The first black actress to win an Oscar was Hattie McDaniel in 1940 for Gone with the Wind. Name 76 years, 317 days Youngest winner Peggy Ashcroft Youngest winner In 1968 Only 2 silent film colleted the Oscar for Best Film: Wing (1929) and The Artist (2012) Oldest winner 86th Academy Awads 10 years, 148 days Best Director Winners "I found that the best way to handle filmmakers was to hang medals all over them ... If I got them cups and awards they'd kill them to produce what I wanted. That's why the Academy Award was created" Mayer on the creation of the awards presented at a live televised ceremony first televised in 1953 on NBC Best Picture Oldest winner Tatum O'Neal broadcast length: generally three and a half hours on March 2, 2014 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood one week later than usual Olympics hosted by Ellen DeGeneres (2nd time) most watched Oscar ceremony since 2000 77 years, 93 days 12 Years a Slave Children of a Lesser God - 1986 Clint Eastwood 20 years, 227 days Best Documentary Short Subject - The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life Best Live Action Short Film - Helium Halle Berry is the only woman of colour to win Best Actress (2001′s Monster’s Ball). In 1927, AMPAS was established by Louis B. Mayer. Best Adapted Screenplay for John Ridley. Timothy Hutton Oldest winner In 1981 Youngest winner Christopher Plummer six weeks after the announcement of the nominees Best Original Sceenplay - Her (Spike Jonze) Best Animated Feature Film - Frozen Best Actor and Supporting Actor 82 years, 75 days Skippy - 1930/31 Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the design on a scroll. In need of a model for his statuette, Gibbons was introduced by actor Emilio Fernández. He was convinced to pose nude to create what today is known as the "Oscar". The most successful films in Oscar history are Ben-Hur, Titanic and Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. Each took home 11 awards – although Return Of The King was the only one of those to take home every award for which it was nominated. Best film 32 years, 260 days for Blue Jasmine Questions The most nominated films are Titanic and All About Eve with 14 each. Background Marlee Matlin 74 years, 272 days Walt Disney won the most Oscars in a lifetime: He collected 32 from 59 nominations. Best Production Design - The Great Gatsby Best Costume Design - The Great Gatsby Nomination 21 years, 218 days on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel audience of about 270 people. tickets was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded for their works during the 1927–28 period the ceremony ran for 15 minutes. Best Supporting Actress Thank You for Your Attention! ordering pizzas Ordinary People - 1980 The origin of the name Oscar is disputed. One of the earliest mentions in print of the term Oscar dates back to a Time magazine article about the 1934. Bette Davis (american actress) after her first husband Harmon Oscar Nelson Academy's Executive