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The 30th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 26, 1958, to honor the best films of 1957.. Two violent deaths surrounded the Oscars during this ceremony. A plane crash took the life of producer Mike Todd, ending the then-latest marriage of Elizabeth Taylor, at that time a contender for the film Raintree County.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. 1958 January February March April May June July August September October November December This article is about the year 1958. For other uses, see 1958 (disambiguation). Calendar year Millennium: 2nd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s ...
31st Academy Awards, the 1959 ceremony honoring the best in film for 1958 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).
BEST: 2. Billy Crystal. Perhaps the greatest Oscar host in our lifetime, Billy Crystal has too many good years to easily point out one. Even in his off-years, he had his killer opening in which he ...
Ten years ago when Gene Siskel was omitted from the tribute because as a film critic he was not a member of the academy, host Whoopi Goldberg ad libbed his tribute, which concluded with her giving a thumbs-up at the ceiling (i.e., heaven). The 81st Academy Awards' tribute included film critic Manny Farber. [4]
Similarly, the Oscar for Best Screenplay (Adaptation) for The Bridge on the River Kwai was originally awarded to Pierre Boulle, but only in 1984 corrected to honor the actual screenwriters, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, who were blacklisted at the time and could only work on the film in secret. By the time this correction was made, both ...
Drawing of Niven commemorating his 1958 Oscar win for Separate Tables Host/Best Actor, 1959. Niven is the only person to win an Academy Award at the ceremony he was hosting. [32] He won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Major David Angus Pollock in Separate Tables, his only nomination for an Oscar. Appearing on-screen for ...
A. William Aalto; Avraham Abaas; Abadiya bint Ali; Eleanor Hallowell Abbott; Abd al-Ilah; Rosalind Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn; Ralph Abercrombie (cricketer)