Entertainment/Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry.

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held on 16 May 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honour outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928. It was hosted by actor Douglas Fairbanks and director William C. deMille.

The statuette - the official name of the Oscar statuette is the Academy Award of Merit. Made of gold-plated Britannia metal on a black metal base, it is 13.5in (34cm) tall and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes. The five spokes each represent the original branches of the Academy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians. MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy. Mexican actor Emilio ‘El Indio’ Fernandez posed naked to create what today is known as the ‘Oscar’. The statuettes were cast, moulded, and polished by Chicago's R. S. Owens & Company, who lost the Oscars statuettes contract to its New York rival, Polich Tallix in 2016. It was named by Margaret Herrick, the Academy librarian, who remarked in 1931 (upon seeing the statuettes), "Why it looks like my Uncle Oscar!".

In 2002, the Dolby Theatre (formerly known as the Kodak Theatre) became the current venue of the presentation.

The official Oscars after-party is the Governors Ball.

The Academy Honorary Award, instituted in 1950 and previously called the Special Award, is given annually by the Board of Governors.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is awarded periodically at the Governors Awards ceremonies to "creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production". First awarded in 1938.

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is awarded periodically at the Governors Awards ceremonies for an individual's "outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes". First awarded in 1957’.

Chronological

Note – all dates are the years when the awards ceremonies took place, honouring the films of the previous year.

Tables contain ‘Big 4’ awards and selected additional awards.

Best Picture was known as Outstanding Picture (1929), Outstanding Production (1930-1940). Outstanding Motion Picture (1941-1943), Best Motion Picture (1944-1961), Best Picture (1962-)

1929 – 1st Awards

Best Picture	Wings Sunrise
Best Director	Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights) Frank Borzage (7th Heaven)
Best Actor	Emil Jannings (The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh)
Best Actress	Janet Gaynor (7th Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise)

The awards ceremony honoured the best films from August 1927 to July 1928 and took place in May 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Douglas Fairbanks and William C. deMille. Winners were announced three months ahead of the ceremony.

There were two film awards. Wings was Outstanding Picture and Sunrise was Unique and Artistic Picture.

Warner Bros received a special honorary award “for producing The Jazz Singer (1927), the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry."

There were two director awards. Lewis Milestone won the Osar for Best Directing (Comedy Picture) and Frank Borzage won the Oscar for Best Directing (Dramatic Picture).

The rumour alleging Rin Tin Tin won the most votes in the Best Actor category is an urban legend.

1930 – 2nd Awards

Best Picture	The Broadway Melody
Best Director	Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady)
Best Actor	Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona)
Best Actress	Mary Pickford (Coquette)

The awards ceremony honoured the best films from August 1928 to July 1929 and took place in April 1930 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by William C. deMille. This is the only year in which no film won more than one Oscar.

The Broadway Melody was the first talkie to win Best Picture.

1931 – 3rd Awards

Best Picture	All Quiet on the Western Front
Best Director	Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Best Actor	George Arliss (Disraeli)
Best Actress	Norma Shearer (The Divorcee)

The awards ceremony honoured the best films from August 1929 to July 1930 and took place in November 1930 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by Conrad Nagel.

Best Sound Recording award was introduced.

George Arliss was the first British actor to win an Academy Award.

All Quiet on the Western Front was the first screen adaptation of a novel to win Best Picture.

1932 – 4th Awards

Best Picture	Cimarron
Best Director	Norman Taurog (Skippy)
Best Actor	Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)
Best Actress	Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)

The awards ceremony honoured the best films released between August 1930, and July 1931 and took place in November 1931 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Lawrence Grant.

Cimarron was the first Western to win the Best Picture award. The next Western to win Best Picture was Dances with Wolves.

Lionel Barrymore became the first person to be nominated in multiple categories, having been nominated for Best Director in 1930.

Nine-year-old Jackie Cooper was the first child actor to receive a nomination, for Skippy.

1933 – 5th Awards

Best Picture	Grand Hotel
Best Director	Frank Borzage (Bad Girl)
Best Actor	Wallace Beery (The Champ) Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
Best Actress	Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)

The awards ceremony honoured the best films released between August 1931, and July 1932 and took place in November 1932 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by Lionel Barrymore and Conrad Nagel.

Short film awards were introduced.

Grand Hotel is the only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without it or its participants being nominated in any other category.

There was a tie for Best Actor, a unique event in Academy history.

1934 – 6th Awards

Best Picture	Cavalcade
Best Director	Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade)
Best Actor	Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII)
Best Actress	Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)

The awards ceremony honoured the best films from August 1932 to December 1933 and took place in March 1934 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by Will Rogers.

Walt Disney became the first person to win consecutive Academy Awards, winning Best Short Subject, Cartoon after having won the same award in 1933

Diana Wynyard was the first British actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role in Cavalcade.

1935 – 7th Awards

Best Picture	It Happened One Night
Best Director	Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)
Best Actor	Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)
Best Actress	Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
Best Original Song	The Continental (The Gay Divorcee)

The awards ceremony honoured the best films from 1934 and took place in February 1935 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Irvin S. Cobb. As of this ceremony, the Academy's award eligibility period coincided with the calendar year.

It Happened One Night was the first film to win Oscars for Best Actor and Actress. It was the first film ever to win the ‘Big Five’ Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay).

Best Original Song and Best Original Score award categories were introduced.

Six-year-old Shirley Temple became the first child star to be honoured with a miniature Juvenile Oscar.

1936 – 8th Awards

Best Picture	Mutiny on the Bounty
Best Director	John Ford (The Informer)
Best Actor	Victor McLaglen (The Informer)
Best Actress	Bette Davis (Dangerous)
Best Original Song	Lullaby of Broadway (Gold Diggers of 1935)
Best Adapted Screenplay	The Informer – Dudley Nichols

Took place in March 1936 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Frank Capra.

First year in which the awards were called "Oscars".

Mutiny on the Bounty became the only film to receive three nominations for Best Actor (Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone).

Dudley Nichols was the first person to refuse an Oscar. He boycotted the ceremony because of ongoing conflicts between the Academy and the Writer's Guild.

1937 – 9th Awards

Best Picture	The Great Ziegfield
Best Director	Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
Best Actor	Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)
Best Actress	Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)
Best Supporting Actor	Walter Brennan (Come and Get It)
Best Supporting Actress	Gale Sondergaard (Anthony Adverse)

Took place in March 1937 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by George Jessel.

This year marked the introduction of the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories.

Luise Rainer played Anna Held, who is the first real life person to be portrayed in a role which would win the Academy Award for Best Actress.

1938 – 10th Awards

Best Picture	The Life of Emile Zola
Best Director	Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth)
Best Actor	Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)
Best Actress	Luise Rainer (The Good Earth)

Took place in March 1938 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Bob Burns.

Luise Rainer became the first actress to win two Academy Awards.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs received only one nomination, for Best Original Score.

Edgar Bergen was given an Academy Honorary Award (in the form of a wooden Oscar statuette with a movable mouth) for his ventriloquist’s dummy named Charlie McCarthy.

1939 – 11th Awards

Best Picture	You Can’t Take It with You
Best Director	Frank Capra (You Can’t Take It with You)
Best Actor	Spencer Tracy (Boys Town)
Best Actress	Bette Davis (Jezebel)
Best Supporting Actor	Walter Brennan (Kentucky)
Best Adapted Screenplay	Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

Took place in February 1939 at the Biltmore Hotel with no host.

George Bernard Shaw's win made him the first person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award.

Erich Korngold's Academy Award for his score to The Adventures of Robin Hood marked the first time an Oscar was awarded to the composer rather than the head of the studio music department.

Frank Capra became the first person to win three Best Director awards.

1940 – 12th Awards

Best Picture	Gone with the Wind
Best Director	Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)
Best Actor	Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
Best Actress	Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind)
Best Supporting Actress	Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind)
Best Screenplay	Gone with the Wind – Sidney Howard
Best Original Song	Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)

Took place in February 1940 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by Bob Hope - first of nineteen times he hosted the event.

Gone with the Wind had 13 nominations and won eight Oscars. Longest Best Picture winner (234 minutes). Hattie McDaniel was the first black actress to win an Oscar.

Gone with the Wind was the first colour film to win Best Picture.

Academy Juvenile Award was presented to Judy Garland for The Wizard of Oz.

Introduction of Best Visual Effects category.

Sidney Howard was the first posthumous winner of an Oscar, for writing Gone with the Wind.

1941 – 13th Awards

Best Picture	Rebecca
Best Director	John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)
Best Actor	James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)
Best Actress	Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)
Best Supporting Actor	Walter Brennan (The Westerner)
Best Original song	When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio)
Best Original Screenplay	The Great McGinty – Preston Sturges

Took place in February 1941 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Bob Hope.

First year that sealed envelopes were used to keep the names of the winners secret.

Alfred Hitchcock won his only Best Picture Oscar for Rebecca.

Walter Brennan won his third Best Supporting Actor award.

Pinocchio was the first animated feature film to win competitive Oscars, for Best Original Score and Best Original Song.

Best Original Screenplay was introduced at this ceremony.

1942 – 14th Awards

Best Picture	How Green Was My Valley
Best Director	John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)
Best Actor	Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)
Best Actress	Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)

Took place in February 1942 at the Biltmore Hotel and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Citizen Kane was nominated for nine awards but won only one, for Best Original Screenplay

Sergeant York was nominated for eleven awards and won two (Best Actor and Best Film Editing)

Joan Fontaine is the only actress to ever win the Best Actress Oscar in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Suspicion). This is the only Oscar-winning performance in a Hitchcock film.

Sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland were both nominated for Best Actress.

1943 – 15th Awards

Best Picture	Mrs. Miniver
Best Director	William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)
Best Actor	James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
Best Actress	Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver)
Best Original Song	White Christmas (Holiday Inn)

Took place in March 1943 at the Ambassador Hotel and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Greer Garson holds the record for the longest acceptance speech, at five minutes and 30 seconds.

Irving Berlin presented himself with an Oscar after opening the envelope for Best Original Song and seeing that White Christmas had won.

James Cagney won his only Oscar for his role in Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Best Documentary Feature Film was introduced, and there was a four-way tie including John Ford’s The Battle of Midway, filmed on the island of Midway during the battle and Frank Capra’s Prelude to War.

1944 – 16th Awards

Best Picture	Casablanca
Best Director	Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)
Best Actor	Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)
Best Actress	Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette)
Best Short Film – Cartoons	The Yankee Doodle Mouse – Fred Quimby

Took place in March 1944 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Jack Benny hosted the event and it lasted less than 30 minutes.

Michael Curtiz won his only Oscar for Best Director for Casablanca.

The Yankee Doodle Mouse was the first of seven Oscars won by Tom and Jerry cartoons.

1945 – 17th Awards

Best Picture	Going My Way
Best Director	Leo McCarey (Going My Way)
Best Actor	Bing Crosby (Going My Way)
Best Actress	Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)
Best Supporting Actress	Ethel Barrymore (None but the Lonely Heart)
Best Original Song	Swinging on a Star (Going My Way)

Took place in March 1945 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and was hosted by Bob Hope and John Cromwell. It was first time the complete awards ceremony was broadcast nationally on the radio.

1946 – 18th Awards

Best Picture	The Lost Weekend
Best Director	Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)
Best Actor	Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)
Best Actress	Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
Best Original Song	It Might as Well Be Spring (State Fair)

Took place in March 1946 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and was hosted by Bob Hope and James Stewart.

Joan Crawford was absent from the ceremony.

It Might as Well Be Spring won an Oscar for Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

1947 – 19th Awards

Best Picture	The Best Years of Our Lives
Best Director	William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Best Actor	Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives)
Best Actress	Olivia de Havilland (To Each his Own)

Took place in March 1947 at the Shrine Auditorium and was hosted by Jack Benny.

1948 – 20th Awards

Best Picture	Gentleman’s Agreement
Best Director	Elia Kazan (Gentleman’s Agreement)
Best Actor	Ronald Colman (A Double Life)
Best Actress	Loretta Young (The Farmer’s Daughter)
Best Supporting Actor	Edmund Gwenn (Miracle on 34th Street)
Best Original Song	Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah (Song of the South)

Took place in March 1948 at the Shrine Auditorium and was hosted by Agnes Moorehead and Dick Powell.

1949 – 21st Awards

Best Picture	Hamlet
Best Director	John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Best Actor	Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)
Best Actress	Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)
Best Supporting Actor	Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

Took place in March 1949 at the Academy Theatre and was hosted by Robert Montgomery.

Laurence Olivier was the first person to win an Oscar for Best Actor in a film which he also directed, for Hamlet.

Hamlet was the first British film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Walter Huston was the father of John Huston.

Academy Award for Best Costume Design was first given. Initially, separate award categories were established for black-and-white films and colour films. The two categories merged in 1967.

1950 – 22nd Awards

Best Picture	All the King’s Men
Best Director	Joseph L. Manciewicz (A Letter to Three Wives)
Best Actor	Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men)
Best Actress	Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress)
Best Original Song	Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Neptune’s Daughter)

Took place in March 1950 at the Pantages Theatre and was hosted by Paul Douglas.

1951 – 23rd Awards

Best Picture	All About Eve
Best Director	Joseph L. Manciewicz (All About Eve)
Best Actor	Jose Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac)
Best Actress	Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)
Best Supporting Actor	George Sanders (All About Eve)

Took place in March 1951 at the Pantages Theatre and was hosted by Fred Astaire.

All About Eve was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture. It is the only film in Oscar history to date to receive four female acting nominations, two for Best Actress (Bette Davis and Anne Baxter) and two for Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter).

1952 – 24th Awards

Best Picture	An American in Paris
Best Director	George Stevens (A Place in the Sun)
Best Actor	Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen)
Best Actress	Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
Best Supporting Actor	Karl Malden (A Streetcar Named Desire)
Best Supporting Actress	Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire)

Took place in March 1952 at the Pantages Theatre and was hosted by Danny Kaye.

None of the actors in An American in Paris were nominated for awards.

A Streetcar Named Desire became the first film to win three acting awards.

Humphrey Bogart won his only Oscar for Best Actor.

1953 – 25th Awards

Best Picture	The Greatest Show on Earth
Best Director	John Ford (The Quiet Man)
Best Actor	Gary Cooper (High Noon)
Best Actress	Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba)
Best Supporting Actor	Anthony Quinn (Viva Zapata!)
Best Original Song	The Ballad of High Noon (aka Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darlin') (High Noon)

Taking place in March 1953 it was televised for the first time and there were two simultaneous award ceremonies in Hollywood (Pantages Theatre) and New York (NBC International Theatre). They were hosted by Bob Hope (in Hollywood), Conrad Nagel (as master of ceremonies) and Fredric March (in New York).

Dimitri Tiomkin won an Oscar for Best Original Song for High Noon.

1954 – 26th Awards

Best Picture	From Here to Eternity
Best Director	Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity)
Best Actor	William Holden (Stalag 17)
Best Actress	Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)
Best Supporting Actor	Frank Sinatra (From Here to Eternity)
Best Supporting Actress	Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity)
Best Original Song	Secret Love (Calamity Jane)

Taking place in March 1954 there were two simultaneous award ceremonies in Hollywood (Pantages Theatre) and New York (NBC Century Theatre). They were hosted by Donald O’Connor (in Hollywood) and Fredric March (in New York).

Secret Love was sung by Doris Day.

Frank Sinatra won his only Oscar.

William Holden’s acceptance speech was “Thank you. Thank you”

1955 – 27th Awards

Best Picture	On the Waterfront
Best Director	Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)
Best Actor	Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
Best Actress	Grace Kelly (The Country Girl)
Best Supporting Actress	Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront)
Best Original Song	Three Coins in the Fountain (Three Coins in the Fountain)

Taking place in March 1955 there were two simultaneous award ceremonies in Hollywood (Pantages Theatre) and New York (NBC Century Theatre). They were hosted by Bob Hope (in Hollywood) and Thelma Ritter (in New York).

Sammy Cahn won an Academy Award for the lyrics for Three Coins in the Fountain.

On the Waterfront won 8 Oscars. Three actors were nominated for the Best Supporting Actor.

Dorothy Dandridge was the first African-American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Carmen Jones.

1956 – 28th Awards

Best Picture	Marty
Best Director	Delbart Mann (Marty)
Best Actor	Ernst Borgnine (Marty)
Best Actress	Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo)
Best Supporting Actor	Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts)

Taking place in March 1956 at the Pantages Theatre and NBC Century Theatre. They were hosted by Jerry Lewis (in Hollywood) and Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (in New York).

Marty is the shortest Best Picture winner (94 minutes).

James Dean became the first actor to receive a posthumous nomination, for East of Eden.

1957 – 29th Awards

Best Picture	Around the World in 80 Days
Best Director	George Stevens (Giant)
Best Actor	Yul Brynner (The King and I)
Best Actress	Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)
Best Supporting Actor	Anthony Quinn (Lust for Life)
Best Original Song	Que Sera, Sera (The Man Who Knew Too Much)
Best Documentary Feature	The Silent World

Took place in March 1957 at the Pantages Theatre and NBC Century Theatre and was hosted by Jerry Lewis and Celeste Holm.

Anthony Quinn played Paul Gauguin and was on screen for only eight minutes.

Que Sera, Sera was sung by Doris Day and became her ‘theme song’.

The Silent World was co-directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle.

Best Foreign Language Film was introduced.

1958 – 30th Awards

Best Picture	The Bridge on the River Kwai
Best Director	David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Best Actor	Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Best Actress	Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)
Best Supporting Actor	Red Buttons (Sayonara)

Took place in March 1958 at the Pantages Theatre and had multiple hosts - Bob Hope, David Niven, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Rosalind Russell and Donald Duck ( voiced by Clarence Nash).

1959 – 31st Awards

Best Picture	Gigi
Best Director	Vincente Minnelli (Gigi)
Best Actor	David Niven (Separate Tables)
Best Actress	Susan Hayward (I Want to Live!)
Best Supporting Actor	Burl Ives (The Big Country)
Best Original Score	Gigi – Andre Previn
Best Original Song	Gigi (Gigi)
Best Adapted Screenplay	Gigi – Alan Jay Lerner

Took place in April 1959 at the Pantages Theatre and had multiple hosts - Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven (see below) and Laurence Olivier.

Gigi won all nine awards it was nominated for.

The song Gigi was written by Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (words).

David Niven won the Academy Award with his only nomination for an Oscar. Appearing on-screen for only 16 minutes in the film, this remains the briefest performance ever to win a Best Actor Oscar.

David Niven is the only actor to host an Oscars where he won an award.

1960 – 32nd Awards

Best Picture	Ben-Hur
Best Director	William Wyler (Ben-Hur)
Best Actor	Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)
Best Actress	Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
Best Supporting Actor	Hugh Griffith (Ben-Hur)
Best Supporting Actress	Shelley Winters (The Diary of Anne Frank)
Best Original Song	High Hopes (A Hole in the Head)
Best Original Score	Porgy and Bess – Andre Previn and Ken Darby

Took place in April 1960 at the Pantages Theatre and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Ben-Hur received 12 Oscar nominations and won 11.

1961 – 33rd Awards

Best Picture	The Apartment
Best Director	Billy Wilder (The Apartment)
Best Actor	Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)
Best Actress	Elizabeth Taylor (BUtterfield 8)
Best Supporting Actor	Peter Ustinov (Spartacus)
Best Original Song	Never on Sunday (Never on Sunday)

Took place in April 1961 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Billy Wilder won three Oscars for The Apartment.

Never on a Sunday was the first Best Song from a foreign language film.

Gary Cooper received an Academy Honorary Award "for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry". Too ill to accept in person, he died 4 weeks later.

For Pollyanna Hayley Mills received the last Academy Juvenile Award to be presented. In future juveniles contested the main award categories.

1962 – 34th Awards

Best Picture	West Side Story
Best Director	Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (West Side Story)
Best Actor	Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)
Best Actress	Sophia Loren (Two Women)
Best Supporting Actor	George Chakiris (West Side Story)
Best Supporting Actress	Rita Moreno (West Side Story)
Best Original Song	Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany's)

Took place in April 1962 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Sophia Loren became the first artist to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance, performing in Italian.

West Side Story was the first musical to win 10 Oscars.

Moon River was composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics written by Johnny Mercer. It was performed by Audrey Hepburn.

Thelma Ritter received her sixth nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Birdman of Alcatraz, the most nominations for an actress in this category.

1963 – 35th Awards

Best Picture	Lawrence of Arabia
Best Director	David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
Best Actor	Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Best Actress	Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker)
Best Supporting Actress	Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker)

Took place in April 1963 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Frank Sinatra.

Omar Sharif had his only Oscar nomination for Lawrence of Arabia.

Lawrence of Arabia had no female speaking roles.

Patty Duke made the shortest acceptance speech in Oscars’ history – “Thank You”.

Bette Davis became the first person to secure ten Academy Award nominations for acting.

The Miracle Worker won two acting awards without being nominated for Best Picture (first time).

1964 – 36th Awards

Best Picture	Tom Jones
Best Director	Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)
Best Actor	Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)
Best Actress	Patricia Neal (Hud)
Best Supporting Actor	Melvyn Douglas (Hud)
Best Supporting Actress	Margaret Rutherford (The V.I.P.s)
Best Foreign Language Film	8 ½ (Federico Fellini, Italy)
Best Adapted Screenplay	Tom Jones – John Osborne

Took place in April 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Jack Lemmon.

Sidney Poitier became the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Hud won two acting awards without being nominated for Best Picture (second and last time - see also The Miracle Worker in 1963).

1965 – 37th Awards

Best Picture	My Fair Lady
Best Director	George Cukor (My Fair Lady)
Best Actor	Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady)
Best Actress	Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins)
Best Supporting Actor	Peter Ustinov (Topkapi)
Best Original Song	Chim Chim Cher-ee (Mary Poppins)
Best Sound Effects	Goldfinger – Norman Wanstall
Best Costume Design	Cecil Beaton (My Fair Lady)

Took place in April 1965 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Mary Poppins was Walt Disney’s only nomination for Best Picture Oscar

Goldfinger was the first James Bond film to win an Oscar

1966 – 38th Awards

Best Picture	The Sound of Music
Best Director	Robert Wise (The Sound of Music)
Best Actor	Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou)
Best Actress	Julie Christie (Darling)
Best Supporting Actress	Shelley Winters (A Patch of Blue)
Best Adapted Screenplay	Doctor Zhivago – Robert Bolt
Best Visual Effects	Thunderball – John Stears

Took place in April 1966 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope.

William Wyler received the last of his record 12 Best Director nominations for The Collector.

1967 – 39th Awards

Best Picture	A Man for All Seasons
Best Director	Fred Zinnemann (A Man for All Seasons)
Best Actor	Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)
Best Actress	Elizabeth Taylor (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Best Supporting Actor	Walter Matthau (The Fortune Cookie)
Best Adapted Screenplay	A Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt

Took place in April 1967 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope.

Sisters Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave were both nominated for Best Actress.

1968 – 40th Awards

Best Picture	In the Heat of the Night
Best Director	Mike Nichols (The Graduate)
Best Actor	Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night)
Best Actress	Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner)
Best Supporting Actor	George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke)
Best Original Song	Talk to the Animals (Doctor Dolittle)

Took place in April 1968 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and was hosted by Bob Hope. The ceremony was postponed for 2 days following the assassination of Martin Luther King jr.

This was the first and only time that three different films were nominated for the five major categories (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay): Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

1969 – 41st Awards

Best Picture	Oliver!
Best Director	Carol Reed (Oliver!)
Best Actor	Cliff Robertson (Charly)
Best Actress	Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter) Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl)
Best Foreign Language Film	War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk, Russia)
Best Original Song	The Windmills of Your Mind (The Thomas Crown Affair)

Took place in April 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

This was the only time there has been a tie for Best Actress award.

Young Americans won the award for Best Documentary Feature Film but became the only film to have its Oscar revoked as it had premiered in 1967. The Oscar was subsequently awarded to Journey into Self.

War and Peace was in four parts, with a total running time of 431 minutes.

1970 – 42nd Awards

Best Picture	Midnight Cowboy
Best Director	John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy)
Best Actor	John Wayne (True Grit)
Best Actress	Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
Best Supporting Actress	Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower)
Best Original Song	“Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head” from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Best Original Screenplay	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – William Goldman

Took place in April 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film to win Best Picture Oscar.

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. The version by B. J. Thomas reached No. 1 on singles charts in the United States.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? set an Oscar record by receiving nine nominations without one for Best Picture.

1971 – 43rd Awards

Best Picture	Patton
Best Director	Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton)
Best Actor	George C. Scott (Patton)
Best Actress	Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)
Best Supporting Actor	John Mills (Ryan’s Daughter)
Best Supporting Actress	Helen Hayes (Airport)

Took place in April 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.

George C. Scott became the first actor to refuse an Oscar.

Helen Hayes became the first actress to win Oscars in both lead and supporting categories.

1972 – 44th Awards

Best Picture	The French Connection
Best Director	William Friedkin (The French Connection)
Best Actor	Gene Hackman (The French Connection)
Best Actress	Jane Fonda (Klute)

Took place in April 1972 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis Jr., and Jack Lemmon.

A Clockwork Orange was the last X-rated film to be nominated for Best Picture.

1973 – 45th Awards

Best Picture	The Godfather
Best Director	Bob Fosse (Cabaret)
Best Actor	Marlon Brando (The Godfather)
Best Actress	Liza Minnelli (Cabaret)
Best Original Score	Limelight (Charlie Chaplin)

Took place in March 1973 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson.

Cabaret won the most Oscars (eight) without winning Best Picture.

Bob Fosse became the only person to ever win an Oscar (for Cabaret), a Tony and an Emmy in the same year.

Marlon Brando turned down as Oscar for The Godfather due to mistreatment and mis-portrayal of Native Americans by Hollywood, and sent Apache actress Sacheen Littlefeather to explain why he did not accept the Oscar.

Charlie Chaplin received his only competitive Oscar. Limelight was produced in 1952 but was not seen in Los Angeles until its re-release in 1972.

1974 – 46th Awards

Best Picture	The Sting
Best Director	George Roy Hill (The Sting)
Best Actor	Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger)
Best Actress	Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class)
Best Supporting Actress	Tatum O’Neal (Paper Moon)

Took place in April 1974 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston, and David Niven.

Jack Lemmon was the first previous winner of a Best Supporting Actor Oscar to win the Best Actor award.

Tatum O'Neal is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, which she won at age 10 for her performance in Paper Moon opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal.

Julia Philips was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Picture for The Sting.

1975 – 47th Awards

Best Picture	The Godfather Part II
Best Director	Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather Part II)
Best Actor	Art Carney (Harry and Tonto)
Best Actress	Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore)
Best Supporting Actor	Robert De Niro (The Godfather Part II)
Best Supporting Actress	Ingrid Bergman (Murder on the Orient Express)

Took place in April 1975 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra.

The Godfather Part II had three Best Supporting Actor nominations, the last film to receive three nominations in a single acting category.

Fred Astaire received his only Oscar nomination for The Towering Inferno.

1976 – 48th Awards

Best Picture	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Best Director	Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
Best Actor	Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
Best Actress	Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
Best Supporting Actor	George Burns (The Sunshine Boys)
Best Adapted Screenplay	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Took place in March 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest won all five major categories.

George Burns, aged 80, was the oldest acting winner at the time.

1977 – 49th Awards

Best Picture	Rocky
Best Director	John G. Avildsen (Rocky)
Best Actor	Peter Finch (Network)
Best Actress	Fay Dunaway (Network)
Best Supporting Actor	Jason Robards (All the President’s Men)
Best Supporting Actress	Beatrice Straight (Network)
Best Original Song	Evergreen (A Star Is Born)
Best Original Score	The Omen – Jerry Goldsmith
Best Adapted Screenplay	All the President’s Men – William Goldman

Took place in March 1977 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty.

Network became the second film, after A Streetcar Named Desire, to win three acting Oscars.

Peter Finch became the first actor to win a posthumous award.

Beatrice Straight set a record for the shortest performance ever (6 minutes) to win an acting Oscar.

Lina Wertmuller became the first woman nominated for Best Director, for Seven Beauties.

Barbra Streisand became the first woman to be honored as a composer, for Evergreen.

Jerry Goldsmith won his only Oscar, from 18 Academy Award nominations.

1978 – 50th Awards

Best Picture	Annie Hall
Best Director	Woody Allen (Annie Hall)
Best Actor	Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl)
Best Actress	Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
Best Supporting Actor	Jason Robards (Julia)
Best Supporting Actress	Vanessa Redgrave (Julia)

Took place in April 1978 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Bob Hope, his final time as host.

Jason Robards won his second consecutive Best Supporting Actor award.

Woody Allen received his only acting Oscar nomination, for Annie Hall.

Alec Guinness received the only Star Wars acting Oscar nomination.

The Turning Point received 11 nominations with no wins.

1979 – 51st Awards

Best Picture	The Deer Hunter
Best Director	Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)
Best Actor	John Voight (Coming Home)
Best Actress	Jane Fonda (Coming Home)
Best Supporting Actor	Christopher Walken (The Deer Hunter)
Best Supporting Actress	Maggie Smith (California Suite)

Took place in April 1979 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Johnny Carson for the first time.

Laurence Olivier became the first actor to secure ten Academy Award nominations for acting.

Jack Warden was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing the character Max Corkle in Heaven Can Wait. James Gleason had been nominated for the same award for playing the same character in Here Comes Mr Jordan (Heaven Can Wait was a remake) at the 1942 award ceremony.

1980 – 52nd Awards

Best Picture	Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Director	Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)
Best Actor	Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)
Best Actress	Sally Field (Norma Rae)
Best Supporting Actress	Meryl Streep (Kramer vs. Kramer)
Best Foreign Language Film	The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff, Germany)
Best Visual Effects	Alien

Took place in April 1980 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Johnny Carson.

At age eight, Best Supporting Actor nominee Justin Henry (Kramer vs. Kramer) became the youngest person nominated for an Oscar.

H. R. Giger was part of the special effects team that won an Academy Award for Alien.

1981 – 53rd Awards

Best Picture	Ordinary People
Best Director	Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
Best Actor	Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
Best Actress	Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s Daughter)
Best Supporting Actor	Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People)

Took place in April 1981 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Johnny Carson. It had been postponed for a day due to the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

Timothy Hutton is the youngest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, aged 20.

1982 – 54th Awards

Best Picture	Chariots of Fire
Best Director	Warren Beatty (Reds)
Best Actor	Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)
Best Actress	Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond)
Best Supporting Actor	John Gielgud (Arthur)

Took place in April 1982 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Johnny Carson.

Katharine Hepburn became the first and only performer to win four competitive acting Oscars.

76-year-old Henry Fonda won the Best Actor Award.

Academy Award for Best Makeup was introduced, following complaints that the makeup work in The Elephant Man the previous year was not honoured.

1983 – 55th Awards

Best Picture	Gandhi
Best Director	Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)
Best Actor	Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
Best Actress	Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
Best Supporting Actor	Louis Gossett (An Officer and a Gentleman)
Best Supporting Actress	Jessica Lange (Tootsie)
Best Original Song	Up Where We Belong (An Officer and a Gentleman)

Took place in April 1983 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau.

Louis Gossett became the first African-American actor to win Best Supporting Actor.

1984 – 56th Awards

Best Picture	Terms of Endearment
Best Director	James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)
Best Actor	Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)
Best Actress	Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
Best Supporting Actor	Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment)
Best Supporting Actress	Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously)
Best Foreign Language Film	Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
Best Original Song	Flashdance… What a Feeling (Flashdance)

Took place in April 1984 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Johnny Carson.

Linda Hunt was the first person to win an Oscar for portraying a character of the opposite sex, as Billy Kwan.

Irene Cara became the first black woman to win an Oscar in a non-acting category for the song Flashdance.

1985 – 57th Awards

Best Picture	Amadeus
Best Director	Milos Forman (Amadeus)
Best Actor	F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus)
Best Actress	Sally Field (Places in the Heart)
Best Supporting Actress	Peggy Ashcroft (A Passage to India)
Best Original Score	Purple Rain – Prince
Best Original Song	I Just Called to Say I Love You (Woman in Red)

Took place in March 1985 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Jack Lemmon.

1986 – 58th Awards

Best Picture	Out of Africa
Best Director	Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa)
Best Actor	William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Best Actress	Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful)
Best Supporting Actor	Don Ameche (Cocoon)
Best Supporting Actress	Anjelica Huston (Prizzi’s Honor)
Best Original Song	Say You, Say Me (White Nights)

Took place in March 1986 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, and Robin Williams.

The Color Purple failed to win any of its eleven nominations.

Anjelica Huston became the first third-generation Oscar winner after her father, John and grandfather Walter.

1987 – 59th Awards

Best Picture	Platoon
Best Director	Oliver Stone (Platoon)
Best Actor	Paul Newman (The Colour of Money)
Best Actress	Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God)
Best Supporting Actor	Michael Caine (Hannah and Her Sisters)
Best Supporting Actress	Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters)
Best Original Song	Take My Breath Away (Top Gun)
Best Original Score	Round Midnight – Herbie Hancock

Took place in March 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles and was hosted by Chevy Chase, Paul Hogan, and Goldie Hawn.

Marlee Matlin was the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, and the youngest Best Actress winner

Herbie Hancock was the first black person to win an Oscar for Best Original Score.

1988 – 60th Awards

Best Picture	The Last Emperor
Best Director	Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor)
Best Actor	Michael Douglas (Wall Street)
Best Actress	Cher (Moonstruck)
Best Supporting Actor	Sean Connery (The Untouchables)
Best Supporting Actress	Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck)
Best Foreign Language Film	Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel, Denmark)
Best Original Song	(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life (Dirty Dancing)
Best Original Score	The Last Emperor - David Byrne, Cong Su, and Ryuichi Sakamoto

Took place in April 1988 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles and was hosted by Chevy Chase.

The Last Emperor won all nine awards it was nominated for.

Sean Connery won his only Oscar.

1989 – 61st Awards

Best Picture	Rain Man
Best Director	Barry Levinson (Rain Man)
Best Actor	Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man)
Best Actress	Jodie Foster (The Accused)
Best Supporting Actor	Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda)
Best Supporting Actress	Geena Davis (The Accidental Tourist)
Best Animated Short Film	Tin Toy

Took place in March 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. There was no host.

Tin Toy was the first Oscar won by Pixar

1990 – 62nd Awards

Best Picture	Driving Miss Daisy
Best Director	Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July)
Best Actor	Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot)
Best Actress	Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy)
Best Supporting Actor	Denzel Washington (Glory)
Best Supporting Actress	Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot)
Best Foreign Language Film	Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy)
Best Original Song	Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid)

Took place in March 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with Billy Crystal hosting the show for the first time.

Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture without receiving a nomination for Best Director.

Jessica Tandy became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress, aged 80.

Brenda Fricker became the first Irish actress to win an Oscar.