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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.
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]
Adams played supporting roles in several films in the 1960s, including the embittered secretary of two-timing Fred MacMurray in the Oscar-winning film The Apartment (1960). She was the wife of a presidential candidate (played by Cliff Robertson) in The Best Man (1964) and was reunited with Robertson for the comedy The Honey Pot (1967).
Similarly, the Oscar for Best Screenplay (Adaptation) for The Bridge on the River Kwai was originally awarded to Pierre Boulle, but only in 1984 corrected to honor the actual screenwriters, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, who were blacklisted at the time and could only work on the film in secret. By the time this correction was made, both ...
The best picture Oscar has marked the epitome of the award-show season for 95 years — where only one film comes out on top. Read on to see all the films that have won best picture thus far.
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 ...
The song became one of Kristofferson and Joplin's biggest hits, reaching No. 1 on the pop charts and earning two Grammy nominations in 1972 for best country song and song of the year.
Linda Lavin, a Broadway star and Tony winner, has died. She was 87. Lavin, who guest-starred on Barney Miller before getting her own TV series, Alice, died on Sunday, Dec. 29, PEOPLE can confirm ...