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33rd Academy Awards. The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. This was the first ceremony to be aired on ABC television, which has aired the Academy Awards ever since (except between 1971 and 1975, when they were ...
The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The award is traditionally presented by the previous year's Best ...
The 32nd Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 4, 1960, at the RKO Pantages Theatre, to honor the films of 1959. William Wyler 's Bible epic Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars, breaking the record of nine set the previous year by Gigi. This total was later tied by Titanic in 1997 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003.
35th →. The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961, were held on April 9, 1962, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins became the first Best Director co-winners for West Side Story. The film won 10 of its 11 nominations, including Best Picture and ...
Taylor was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Suddenly, Last Summer in 1960. Her other acclaimed performances include Hammersmith Is Out (1972), which won her the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival, and The Taming of the Shrew (1967) and Zee and Co ...
American Movie Award 1982 Best Actress On Golden Pond: Won David di Donatello Award: 1968 Best Foreign Actress: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Won People's Choice Awards: 1976 Favorite Motion Picture Actress — Won 1983 — Won Laurel Awards: 1960 Top Female Dramatic Performance: Suddenly, Last Summer: Nominated 1963 Long Day's Journey into ...
Over her career she has earned an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 1998 she earned a Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2013, President Obama awarded her the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime contributions to American ...
Nayo Wallace (grandniece) Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954). [1] Dandridge had also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo ...