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The 27th Academy Awards were held on March 30, 1955, to honor the best films of 1954, hosted by Bob Hope at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood with Thelma Ritter hosting from the NBC Century Theatre in New York City. On the Waterfront led the ceremony with twelve nominations and eight wins, including Best Picture.
Bob Hope was the recipient of five Honorary Awards (one being the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award), between being an actor, Oscars host, etc. Ernst Lubitsch, a 1946 recipient Laurence Olivier, 1946 recipient Fred Astaire, 1949 and 1978 recipient Gene Kelly, 1951, recipient Louis B. Mayer, 1950 recipient Cecil B. DeMille was given two Honorary ...
The 28th Academy Awards were held on March 21, 1956, to honor the films of 1955, at the RKO Pantages ... the Best Foreign Language Film was a Special/Honorary ...
The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced on January 23, with the ceremony itself on March 2. ... received two nominations in 1956 and 1957. He died in September 1955 at the age ...
Quincy Jones has been nominated for seven Oscars in the past 55 years, including best original score, best song, and even best picture. Although he's never collected a competitive statuette during ...
28th Academy Awards, the 1956 ceremony honoring the best in film for 1955 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).
Sidney Poitier, whose dignity and self-assertion ushered in a new era in the depiction of African-Americans in Hollywood films as the civil rights movement was remaking America, has died, a ...
The shortest Oscar speech was that given by Patty Duke at the 35th Academy Awards after she was named Best Supporting Actress for 1962 for The Miracle Worker. Duke, age 16, was the youngest person at that time to receive an Academy Award in a competitive category.