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The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from 1 August 1927 to 31 July 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Tickets cost $5 ...
In the first year of the Oscars, winners could be honored for single movies, multiple films, or a body of work. Janet Gaynor won best actress for her roles in "Sunrise," "7th Heaven" and "Street ...
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 ...
Hattie McDaniel, the first Black actor or actress to win an Academy Award in 1940 for "Gone with the Wind.". Sidney Poitier, the first Black man to win an Oscar in 1964 for "Lilies of the Field ...
At the 1st Academy Awards, the Best Picture award (then named "Academy Award for Outstanding Picture") was presented to the 1927 silent film Wings. The Artist (2011) was the first essentially silent (with the exception of a single scene of dialogue, and a dream sequence with sound effects) film since Wings to win Best Picture.
Christopher Nolan is officially an Oscar winner. After eight nominations across two decades, the filmmaker took home the first Academy Award of his career, for directing “Oppenheimer.” Shortly ...
First film to win both an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry Award. Wall Street (1987), Michael Douglas won an Academy Award for Best Actor and Daryl Hannah won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress; First actor to be nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry Award for the same performance in a film
Here's the full list of who won and was nominated for an Academy Award at the 2025 Oscars. ... When Brody won his first Oscar for 2002's "The Pianist" at age 29, he became the youngest person to ...