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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.
Throughout the history of the Academy Awards, several individuals have died prior to the ceremony and were posthumously nominated or have won the award following their deaths. As of 2024 , 64 individuals have received posthumous nominations in competitive categories, 29 individuals have won posthumously, including 14 individuals in honorary ...
Ten years ago when Gene Siskel was omitted from the tribute because as a film critic he was not a member of the academy, host Whoopi Goldberg ad libbed his tribute, which concluded with her giving a thumbs-up at the ceiling (i.e., heaven). The 81st Academy Awards' tribute included film critic Manny Farber. [4]
BEST: 2. Billy Crystal. Perhaps the greatest Oscar host in our lifetime, Billy Crystal has too many good years to easily point out one. Even in his off-years, he had his killer opening in which he ...
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 .
Hamlisch was also the first EGOT winner to have won multiple, qualifying awards for the same work – both an Oscar and a Grammy for the song "The Way We Were". Academy Awards: 1974: Best Original Dramatic Score – The Way We Were; 1974: Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation – The Sting
Drawing of Niven commemorating his 1958 Oscar win for Separate Tables Host/Best Actor, 1959. Niven is the only person to win an Academy Award at the ceremony he was hosting. [32] He won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Major David Angus Pollock in Separate Tables, his only nomination for an Oscar. Appearing on-screen for ...
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