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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.
The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1959, to honor the best films of 1958.The night was dominated by Gigi, which won nine Oscars, breaking the previous record of eight set by Gone with the Wind and tied by From Here to Eternity and On the Waterfront.
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture , its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non ...
Here's a list of the best actor Oscar winners since the very beginning. ... 1958 - Alec Guinness, "The Bridge on the River Kwai" 1957 - Yul Brynner, "The King and I"
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).
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the ...
Of the 89 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 68 won the award. [7] [8] The award has been critised in recent years for failing to recognise female directors. [9] Of the 252 individual directors nominated in the history of the award, only 8 have been women; and only 3 of the 75 winners have been women. [10]
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and ...