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83 unusual facts about Academy Awards


2009 Auto Club 500

The race started at 3 PM local time, and run into prime time, counterprogramming against the Academy Awards.

Agüeybaná II

Puerto Rico once had an equivalent to the Oscars which was awarded annually and was called the "Agüeybaná de Oro" (The Golden Agüeybaná), in honor of the great cacique.

Allyn Ferguson

He was music director for television presentations of the American Movie Awards, Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Kennedy Center Honors and the Oscars.

American Association of Community Theatre

At the end of each Festival awards for a number of categories, similar to the Academy Awards, are presented.

American Securities

NEP Broadcasting - Mobile television producer for the Olympics, Academy Awards, and World Cup as well as New York City's largest production facility owner

Angoulême International Comics Festival Best promotional comic

As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing awards such as Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first, the others listed below are the nominees.

Asmat people

Asmat was the launching point for an arduous joint French-Dutch expedition from the south to north coast of New Guinea in 1958 to 1959, which was documented by the team and resulted in a book and documentary film, The Sky Above, The Mud Below, which won an Academy Award in 1961.

Aspergum

For example, in her 1997 book Streisand, Academy Award-winning American singer Barbra Streisand relates a story of how she filled in the gap caused by the removal of two front teeth with Aspergum when she began her career.

AVN Media Network

The most well-recognized of the AVN events are the annual AVN Awards and GAYVN Awards ceremonies which are synonymous to the Academy Awards show which recognize outstanding films, actors, directors, and production staff.

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Among the most notable of the many distinguished actors on the School's list of alumni are the Academy Award winners Daniel Day-Lewis and Jeremy Irons and multiple Academy Award nominees Miranda Richardson and Pete Postlethwaite.

Brooks Thomas

Thomas was president of the Association of American Publishers (as well as Harper & Row) in 1983 when that group voted to fund a revamped version of American Book Awards, ending a four-year experiment on the Academy Awards model.

Camp Confidential

In book# 18 he got nominated to be in the Academy Awards and Natalie got to come and bring Tori along; however he did not win.

Charles Jarrott

Nevertheless, his next film, Mary, Queen of Scots, was nominated for six Academy Awards and several Golden Globes.

Christopher Morley

Author of more than 100 novels, books of essays, and volumes of poetry, Morley is probably best known for his 1939 novel Kitty Foyle, which was made into an Academy Award-winning movie.

Darío Grandinetti

Among many other films, he worked under the direction of Pedro Almodóvar in the Academy Award winner Talk to Her.

Elaine's

The restaurant was noted for its Oscar night, where celebrities and visiting Hollywood stars congregated to watch the Academy Awards ceremony.

Elegia

The album version of the song was featured in the Academy Award-nominated short film More by Mark Osborne, the film Pretty In Pink, and the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Compulsion".

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook

Awarded four and a half stars by Down Beat Magazine in 1963, this album contains a fine selection of Jazz standards, with All the Things You Are, (named by Tony Bennett as his favourite song), a wistful Oscar winning The Way You Look Tonight, which contrasts beautifully with Sinatra's more famous swinging version from his 1964 album Sinatra Sings...Academy Award Winners, and A Fine Romance from Astaire and Roger's Swing Time.

Everybody Comes to Rick's

Koch and the Epsteins received an Academy Award for best screenplay in 1943, but little recognition was given to Burnett and Alison.

Fernando Scarpa

In 1999, the acclaimed European Oscar-nominated actor and director Klaus Maria Brandauer appointed Scarpa as Personal Assistant to the prestigious Burgtheater in Vienna.

Florence Reece

Reece appeared in the Academy Award-winning documentary film, Harlan County, USA, singing her anthem to rally the striking miners.

Floyd Cramer

("On the Rebound" was later featured during the opening credits of the 2009 Oscar-nominated film An Education, which was set in England in 1961).

Fox Movies Premium

In addition to Hollywood movies, it also airs original series and miniseries, live events (such as the Academy Awards and selected UFC pay-per-views), live events, concerts, and award-winning documentaries.

Gene Forrell

His other soundtrack credits include To Be Alive, a 1964 Academy Award-winning documentary.

Gladney Center for Adoption

Blossoms in the Dust was in the Top Ten films of 1941 and was nominated for four Academy Awards—Best Picture, Best Actress, Color Cinematography, and Color Interior Decoration, winning the Oscar for Color Interior Decoration.

Global Consciousness Project

The group events studied included psychotherapy sessions, theater presentations, religious rituals, sports competitions such as the Football World Cup, and television broadcasts like the Academy Awards.

Harold Jack Bloom

Harold Jack Bloom (April 26, 1924 – August 27, 1999) was a television producer and screenwriter who scored a notable hit with his first major screenplay to the classic Anthony Mann Western The Naked Spur in 1953, earning an Oscar nomination in the process.

Harry Winston, Inc.

Harry Winston was the first jeweler to loan diamonds to an actress for the Academy Awards, in 1943, influencing red carpet style.

Helicopter Canada

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 39th Academy Awards.

Here Where There Is Love

Of note was Warwick's version of "Alfie", which became Warwick's signature song after she was selected to perform it at the Academy Awards the previous year.

Irma von Cube

Among her films is the They Shall Have Music (1939), Johnny Belinda (1948), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and Song of Love (1947) co-starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, and Robert Walker.

Jean Dessès

Similarly, Jennifer Lopez wore a vintage moss green Desses gown, made with 50 yards of chiffon, to the 2006 Academy Awards.

Later, in 2001, Renée Zellweger wore a lemon yellow strapless 1950s Desses gown to the Academy Awards.

Jim Hutton

A year and a half later, his son, actor Timothy Hutton, dedicated his 1980 Academy Award which he had won for his role in the 1980 movie Ordinary People to his father.

Judith Mok

She was also chosen by the Oscar-winning Chinese composer Tan Dun to perform his works in several countries.

Julien Josephson

He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on George Arliss' Disraeli (1929).

KTVF

While primarily a CBS station, KTVF also served as secondary affiliates for ABC from 1971 to 1985 (when it aired some of ABC's top-rated shows like Marcus Welby, M.D., Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, and Eight is Enough as well as Wide World of Sports, Super Bowl XIX and the Academy Awards) and NBC from 1985 to 1996.

Laurence Bowen

Bowen won a BAFTA for My Life as a Popat and a BAFTA nomination for Suburban Shootout together with RTS, Broadcast and Chicago Film Festival awards, Prix Jeunesse, Rose D'or, Emmy and BANFF nominations and most recently the Monte Carlo Golden Nymph for Best International Producer of the Year.

Leon Schlesinger

On another occasion, he boycotted the Academy Awards for what he claimed was preferential treatment for the Walt Disney and MGM cartoon studios.

Liz Myers

The ad became so popular, it was broadcast during the Academy Awards, and displayed in art museums.

Loren L. Ryder

He won five Academy Awards and was nominated for twelve more in the categories Best Sound Recording and Best Effects.

Mario Nuzzolese

Always moved by his passion for culture, art and politics, he participated several times to the Annual Academy Awards, Festival de Cannes and Venice Film Festival.

Michael Cacoyannis

He was nominated for an Academy Award five times, a record for any Cypriot film artist.

Mighty Bruins

Composed by Academy Award-winning composer Bill Conti (with lyrics from UCLA students Barbara Lamb and Don Holley), the song was commissioned by the UCLA Alumni Association on its fiftieth anniversary.

Millennium Actress

It was also promoted by its studio as a contender for the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but it was not nominated.

Moi Navarro

Other accomplishments include working with Disney English, performing with Adam Lambert at Gridlock NYE 2010 at Paramount Studios, entertaining at the Academy Awards Gifting Suite; playing at Dodger Stadium, The Knitting Factory, The Viper Room, Spirit West Coast, The Cat Club, The Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood); being a part of Max Azria's BCBG clothing line campaign BCBGeneration, and performing for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Mr. Goodbar

Looking for Mr. Goodbar was also the title of a 1975 novel by Judith Rossner and an Oscar-nominated 1977 movie, and Lacey Fosburgh titled her book about the same case (the murder of Roseann Quinn by a one-night stand she picked up at a bar) Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder.

No Trams to Lime Street

For his work on that film, Owen was nominated for an Academy Award in 1965.

On My Way to Where

Dory Previn established herself from the late 1950s as a lyricist for movie songs in Hollywood, in the process being nominated for three Academy Awards.

Otto Plaschkes

On Valentine's day 2005, Plaschkes, as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, had just attended a West End screening of Kay Pollak's As It Is in Heaven, which had been nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film.

Perfect Machine

The album was released in 1988 following Sound-System which won Hancock's second Grammy award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance in 1985 and Round Midnight which won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Score in 1986.

Popcorn Deelites

Popcorn Deelites also starred in the title role of the 2003 Oscar-nominated Seabiscuit.

Pumpkin Diamond

Halle Berry wore the ring to the 2002 Oscars where she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball.

Quo vadis?

The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz authored the well-known novel Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero in 1895, which in turn has been made into motion pictures several times, most notably a 1951 version that was nominated for eight Academy Awards.

R. T. Layton

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects on the film The Long Voyage Home at the 13th Academy Awards.

Random Harvest

Claudine West, George Froeschel and Arthur Wimperis adapted the novel for the screen, and received an Academy Award nomination for their work.

Residencia Aboy-Lompré

Distinguished members of this family have included the aforementioned Ramón Aboy Miranda (accomplished Puerto Rican photojournalist); José Ferrer (actor and first Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award), and Carmen Aboy de Valldejuli (Puerto Rican cooking pioneer and author, with her husband Luis Valldejuli Duprey, of various Puerto Rican cookbooks).

Resources about Martin Luther

Academy Award nominations for black & white cinematography and art/set direction.

Roy Pomeroy

He won an Academy Award for Engineering Effects for the film Wings at the 1st Academy Awards.

Schneider Kreuznach

In 2001, Schneider received an Oscar for Technical Achievement for their Super-Cinelux motion picture lenses.

Serge Silberman

Silberman produced all of Buñuel's late films, including the Academy Award winner The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in 1972 and the director's very last film That Obscure Object of Desire in 1977.

Sjef Poort

He also performed the voices of Hard Head Henry Harris, and Oscar in the song "Swamp Mushy Muddy", one of the few Oscar appearances on Sesamstraat in that era.

Soko 522

Some of its prominent movie roles were in the Yugoslav Oscar candidate Battle of Neretva and Kelly's Heroes, starring Clint Eastwood.

Speakeasy Theaters

The management tried to be responsive to the neighborhood and patron community, and offered special screenings for political, social, and popular events (including screenings of the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards).

Sue Rubin

Sue Rubin is a functionally non-verbal published autistic author who was the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Autism Is A World in which she communicated via the controversial communication technique of facilitated communication.

Sundance, Wyoming

After his release from the Sundance Jail in 1888, Harry Longabaugh acquired the moniker the Sundance Kid, which entered the popular imagination in the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which won several Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay.

Ted Baehr

The results are presented to industry executives at a Hollywood awards gala one week or so before the Academy Awards.

Tender Is the Night

The song "Tender Is the Night", from the movie soundtrack, was nominated for the 1962 Academy Award for Best Song.

The Gingerbread Lady

The film received nominations for three Academy Awards: Actress In A Leading Role - Marsha Mason, Actress In A Supporting Role - Joan Hackett, and Actor In A Supporting Role - James Coco.

The Hiroshima Panels

The Hiroshima Panels have also been the subject of the 1987 Academy Award nominated documentary Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima.

The Kings of the Kilburn High Road

Adapted into a motion picture Kings, directed by Tom Collins, and premiered at the Taormina Film Festival (Italy) June 2006, and selected as Ireland's official entry for the 2008 Academy Awards for best foreign-language film.

The Magic of Disney Animation

Several original cels from classic Disney films as well as several of the Academy Awards won by Disney films are on display at the attraction.

The Ragtime Dance

Marvin Hamlisch incorporated "The Ragtime Dance" into a medley for the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning 1973 film The Sting.

The Walt Disney Family Museum

The lobby displays 248 awards that Disney won during his career, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and many Academy Awards--including the honorary award for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which consists of one full-sized Oscar alongside seven miniature ones.

TheGATE.ca

Major coverage highlights throughout the year include the Juno Awards, Canadian Music Fest, North by North East, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Academy Awards.

This Above All

It won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White.

Tom the Dancing Bug

The cult of celebrity is also a frequent target, with subversive trivia such as Nicole Kidman had to work as a waitress before she became famous, and not a single person asked her for her autograph and claiming that the Universe has never been nominated for an Oscar.

TV Guide Talk

The beginning of each podcast was devoted to in-depth discussion on the week's biggest new story in the entertainment industry, whether it be a television program or something outside the scope of television show or movie (such as the Academy Awards or the Emmys).

Umberto Tirelli

Therefore he met Luchino Visconti and also Piero Tosi, who was also a costume designer and worked several times with Visconti, specially in the films Il Gattopardo and Death in Venice for which he was nominated to the Academy Awards.

University of Kassel

Two Academy Awards in the area of animation films, plus three nominations, have so far been won by graduates from the Kassel School of Arts.

Virginia Kellogg

Virginia Kellogg (December 3, 1907 – April 8, 1981) was a film writer whose scripts for White Heat (1949) and Caged (1950) were nominated for Oscars.

Waterkloof

It is the home of the noted South African soprano Mimi Coertse, and the location of the upmarket Dube-house in the Academy Award winning film Tsotsi.

Zulu language

In January 2005 the first full length feature film in Zulu, Yesterday was nominated for an Oscar.


Betty Blue

The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, as well as winning a César Award for Best Poster.

Birds Anonymous

Birds Anonymous won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1957 beating Tabasco Road starring Speedy Gonzales and his drunk friends; both shorts were eventually given Blue Ribbon reissues.

Bright Victory

Bright Victory was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Arthur Kennedy) and Best Sound, Recording (Leslie I. Carey).

British Transport Films

The unit won many awards over the years, including an Academy Award in 1966 for the film Wild Wings, which had little to do with transport and concentrated on WWT Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, founded by Peter Scott.

Denis Sanders

He won two Academy Awards, the first for Best Short Subject in 1955 for A Time Out of War that had served as his master's degree thesis at U.C.L.A. and which he co-scripted with his brother Terry Sanders; and the second for Best Documentary in 1970 for Czechoslovakia 1968.

Frank Hotaling

His association with famed director John Ford led to an Oscar nomination, shared with John McCarthy, Jr. and Charles S. Thompson, for Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Color, for 1952's The Quiet Man.

Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults

The success of Children of Heaven in many International festivals and its candidacy for the Best Foreign Language Film of academy awards (Oscar) in 1999, was a significant achievement for Kanoon productions.

Jerry Livingston

With Mack David he was nominated three times for the Academy Awards, the first time in 1951 for the song "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from Cinderella (1950), again in 1960 for the song "The Hanging Tree" from the film of the same name (1959), and the last time for "The Ballad of Cat Ballou" (from the 1965 film Cat Ballou) in 1966.

John Paxton

Some of his films include Murder, My Sweet in 1944, Cornered in 1945, Crossfire in 1947 (an adaptation of the controversial novel The Brick Foxhole that earned him his only Oscar nomination).

Linda Lovelace for President

After the 1972 release of Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace enjoyed a brief flurry of celebrity notoriety while dating David Winters of West Side Story fame, which included appearances at the Academy Awards ceremony with Winters and the opening day of the racing season at Ascot Racecourse plus author credit for two best-selling books that played up on her status as a pornographic icon.

Lovin' Molly

Lumet directed this film during a span when his Serpico, Murder on the Orient Express, Dog Day Afternoon and Network were nominated for a combined 24 Academy Awards.

Monckton Hoffe

Hoffe was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story for the Preston Sturges comedy The Lady Eve.

Pablo Berger

In 2012 he premiered his third film Blancanieves (Snow White), which was the Spanish representative of the Academy Awards in 2013, in the category of Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Petter Næss

Næss is best known for his work directing two of the three films about Ingvar Ambjørnsen's Elling character, Elling (2000), which was nominated for the foreign language film Oscar and Elsk meg i morgen (Love Me Tomorrow), (2005), in addition to Just Bea (2003), Mozart and the Whale (2005) and Hoppet (The Jump, 2007) in Sweden.

Richard H. Ranger

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Ranger with an Oscar in 1956 for his development of the tape recorder and synchronization of film and sound.

Roma Ryan

Ryan's lyrics for Enya have won Grammy Awards; the song "May It Be" for the The Lord of the Rings film The Fellowship of the Ring was nominated for an Oscar.

Short Cuts

Altman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director (but lost to Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List) and shared a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay with Barhydt (lost to Steven Zaillian for Schindler's List).

Silent Gunpowder

At the 1990 Pula Film Festival (the Yugoslavian version of the Academy Awards), the film won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film, as well as the awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Branislav Lečić), Best Film Score (Goran Bregović), and Best Makeup (Snježana Tomljenović).

The Proud and Profane

It was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedrick, Samuel M. Comer, Frank R. McKelvy) and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (Edith Head).