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But after years of watching innumerable speeches, here are those in a category all their own: Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receive USA TODAY's movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox. 10.
During her speech, the audience's response to Brando's boycotting was divided between booing and applause. After the Academy Awards speech, Littlefeather worked in hospice care. She continued her activism for Native American issues including healthcare and unemployment, and produced films about Native Americans.
With just six words, Joe Pesci gave one of the most memorable Oscar speeches of all time. After winning Best Supporting Actor for Goodfellas in 1991, he walked up to the podium, shook his head in ...
Tatum O’Neal (Paper Moon, 1974)In 1974, O’Neal became the youngest Oscar winner ever – and remains so to this day. The 10-year-old actor wore a tuxedo when she accepted the award for Best ...
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]
The list does not include people who were retrospectively honoured with an Academy Award and were dead at the time the Academy made the decision to make the retrospective award. For example: in 1993, seventeen years after his death, Dalton Trumbo was retrospectively awarded the 1953 Oscar for Academy Award for Best Story for Roman Holiday.
Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker before an acclaimed late-life return to stage and screen, has died at age 87.
LOS ANGELES – Music legend Quincy Jones received an Academy Award two weeks after his death. And it got emotional. Jones, who died Nov. 3 at age 91, was bestowed with the honorary Oscar by the ...