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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.
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).
Awards and nominations received by Elizabeth Taylor; Organization Year [c] Category Result Ref. Academy Awards: 1993: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Won [17] Alliance of Women Film Journalists: 2012 Humanitarian Activism Award Won [18] American Academy of Achievement: 1985 Golden Plate Award Won [19] American Film Institute: 1993 AFI Life ...
The Academy Award for Best Original Musical is a category that was re-established in 2000 after the Best Original Musical or Comedy Score category was retired. It has never been awarded in its present form due to a prolonged drought of films meeting the sufficient eligibility requirements.
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 ...
At the 30th Academy Awards, held on March 26, 1958, these two subcategories were merged into one, [6] which was the result of the academy reducing the number of competitive categories from 30 to 24. [7] The 32nd Academy Awards saw the category again be split into two for recognition of both black and white and color film. [8]
The 29th Academy Awards were held on March 27, 1957, to honor the films of 1956. In this year, Best International Feature Film became a competitive category, having been given as a Special Achievement Award since 1947 .