Academy Award for Best Picture - Academy Award for Best Picture This Academy Award is given to the motion picture voted best each year by the Academy. This page shows the winner first followed by the nominees for that year. Each entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. When the film was produced in a country other than the United States that is shown in parentheses after the production company. The years shown are the production years, thus a reference to 1967 means the Oscars presented in 1968 for movies made in 1967. This award was originally called Best Production. 1927-28 Wings - Paramount Famous Lasky - Lucien Hubbard The Last Command - Paramount - J. G. Bachmann and B. P. Schulberg The Racket - Caddo, United.
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 As a Special Award 2 As an Honorary Award 3 As a category in its own right As a Special Award 1947 Shoeshine (Sciuscià) (Italy) - Societa Co-operativa Alfa Cinematografica - Paolo William Tamburella producer - Vittorio De Sica director 1948 Monsieur Vincent (France) - E. D. I. C., Union Général Cinématographique - George de la Grandiere producer - Maurice Cloche director 1949 The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette) (Italy) - Mayer - Vittorio De Sica producer and director As an Honorary Award 1950 The Walls of Malapaga (Au delà des grilles) (France/Italy) - Francinex, Italia Produzione - George Agliani and Alfredo Guarini producers - René Clément director 1951 Rashomon (羅生門) (Japan) - Daiei.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor The films are listed with their production year, so for example the Oscar 2000 went to the best actor in 1999. This award was originally a plaque. 1936 Walter Brennan - Come and Get It Mischa Auer - My Man Godfrey Stuart Erwin - Pigskin Parade Basil Rathbone - Romeo and Juliet Akim Tamiroff - The General Died at Dawn 1937 Joseph Schildkraut - The Life of Emile Zola Ralph Bellamy - The Awful Truth Thomas Mitchell - The Hurricane H.B. Warner - Lost Horizon Roland Young - Topper 1938 Walter Brennan - Kentucky Basil Rathbone - If I Were King John Garfield - Four Daughters Gene Lockhart - Algiers Robert Morley -.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress The Academy Awards are awards given to people working in the motion picture industry; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry and usually awarded to a film released the previous year. The films below are listed with their production year, so for example the Oscar 2000 went to the best supporting actress in 1999. Originally winners of this award received a plaque. 1936 Gale Sondergaard - Anthony Adverse Beulah Bondi - The Gorgeous Hussy Alice Brady - My Man Godfrey Bonita Granville - These Three Maria Ouspenskaya - Dodsworth 1937 Alice Brady - In Old Chicago Andrea Leeds - Stage Door Anne Shirley - Stella Dallas Claire Trevor - Dead End May Whitty - Night Must.
Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Academy Award for Best Art Direction The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999. This award was originally for Interior Decoration 1928 William Cameron Menzies - The Dove and Tempest Harry Oliver - Seventh Heaven Rochus Gliese - Sunrise 1929 Cedric Gibbons - The Bridge of San Luis Rey Mitchell Leisen - Dynamite Cedric Gibbons - Hollywood Review William Cameron Menzies - The Iron Mask Hans Dreier - The Patriot Harry Oliver - Sweet Angel 1930 Herman Rosse - King of Jazz William.
Academy Award for Best Cinematography - Academy Award for Best Cinematography The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his or her work in one particular motion picture. 1928 - Sunrise 1929 - none given 1930 - none given 1931 - Tabu: A Story of the South Seas 1932 - Shanghai Express 1933 - A Farewell to Arms 1934 - Cleopatra 1935 - ''A Midsummer Night's Dream 1936 - Anthony Adverse 1937 - The Good Earth 1938 - none given From 1939, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color: 1939 - Wuthering Heights (B&W); Gone with the Wind (Color) 1940 - Rebecca (B&W); none given (Color) 1941 - How Green Was My Valley (B&W); Blood and Sand (Color) 1942 - Mrs. Miniver.
Japanese Academy Awards - Japanese Academy Awards The Japanese Academy Awards have been held since 1977 to reward excellence in Japanese film. Award categories are similar to the American Academy Awards. The most prestigious award is the best picture award. Past winners are: Year Film (English) Film (Japanese) Director 2002 Twilight Samurai たそがれ清兵衛 Yoji Yamada 2001 Spirited Away 千と千尋の神隠し Hayao Miyazaki 2000 After the Rain 雨あがる Takashi Koizumi 1999 Poppoya ぽっぽや Yasuo Furuhata 1998 Begging for Love 愛を乞う人 Hideyuki Hirayama 1997 Princess Mononoke もののけ姫 Hayao Miyazaki 1996 Shall we Dance Shall we ダンス？ Masayuki Suo 1995 A Last Note 午後の遺言状 Kaneto Shindo 1994 Crest of Betrayal 忠臣蔵外伝四谷怪談 Kinji Fukasaku 1993 A Class to Remember 学校 Yoji Yamada 1992 Sumo Do, Sumo Don't シコふんじゃった。 Masayuki Suo 1991 My Sons 息子 Yoji Yamada.
Academy Award - Academy Award The Academy Awards are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5816, with actors, with a membership of 1311, making up the largest voting block. Academy Awards are nicknamed "Oscars", which is also the nickname of the statuette (the name is said to have been born when Academy librarian Margaret Herrick saw the statuette on a table and said: "It looks just like my uncle Oscar!"). The awards were first given at a banquet in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929 but there was little suspense since the winners of.
Academy Award for Directing - Academy Award for Directing The Academy Award for Directing is an Academy Award given to motion picture directorss. Winning Director first, followed by competing nominees 1927/1928 Frank Borzage - Seventh Heaven Herbert Brenon - Sorrell and Son King Vidor - The Crowd In the first year only a separate award was given for Comedy Direction 1927/1928 Lewis Milestone Two Arabian Knights Charles Chaplin - The Circus Ted Wilde - Speedy (movie) 1928/1929 Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady, Weary River and Drag Lionel Barrymore - Madame X Harry Beaumont - Broadway Melody Irving Cummings - In Old Arizona Ernst Lubitsch - The Patriot 1929/1930 Lewis Milestone - All Quiet on the Western Front Clarence Brown - Anna Christie Clarence Brown - Romance Robert Z. Leonard -.
Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production - Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production The Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production has also been known as "Best Artistic Quality of Production". It was only awarded during the first year of the Oscars, and may be considered as a redundant variation of Best Picture. 1927-1928 Sunrise - Fox - William Fox Chang - Paramount - Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack The Crowd - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg.
Grammy Award - Grammy Award The Grammy Award is presented by the Recording Academy, an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry, for outstanding achievements in musical recordings. It is the approximate equivalent, in the music world, to the Oscarss. Like the Oscars, the Grammys, currently with a total of 101 categories within 28 fields of music (such as pop, gospel, rap), are voted by peers - in this case voting members of the Recording Academy. The awards ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the more prominent Grammys are presented in a widely-viewed televised ceremony. The Grammy voters tend to be elderly, musically conservative, and are heavily marketed to by record companies, who place great stock in some types of artists winning Grammys (accurately.
Grammy Awards of 1978 - Year Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams (songwriters) for "Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)" performed by Barbra Streisand Joe Brooks (songwriter) for "You Light Up My Life" performed by Debby Boone Best New Artist Debby Boone Children's Best Recording for Children Christopher Cerf & Jim Timmens (producers) for Aren't You Glad You're You performed by various artists Classical Best Classical Orchestral Performance Gunther Breest (producer), Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Neville Marriner (conductor), Janet Baker & the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields for Bach: Arias Best Opera Recording Thomas Z. Shepard (producer), John De Main (conductor), Donnie Albert, Carol Brice, Clamma Dale & the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy.
Grammy Awards of 2003 - Norah Jones (producer & artist) for Come Away With Me Song of the Year Jesse Harris (songwriter) for "Don't Know Why" performed by Norah Jones Best New Artist Norah Jones Special Merit Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Etta James Johnny Mathis Glenn Miller Tito Puente Simon & Garfunkel Trustees Award Alan Lomax The New York Philharmonic Legend Award Bee Gees Tech Award Geoff Emerick Shure Incorporated Alternative Best Alternative Music Album Ken Nelson (producer & engineer/mixer), Mark Phythian (engineer/mixer) & Coldplay (producers, engineers/mixers & artists) for A Rush of Blood to the Head Blues Best Traditional Blues Album Anthony Daigle, John Holbrock (engineers/mixers) & B. B. King (producer & artist) for A Christmas Celebration of Hope Best Contemporary Blues Album Joe Henry (producer), S. Husky Höskulds (engineer/mixer) & Solomon Burke for Don't.
Grammy Awards of 1985 - Anthony Carmichael (producer) & Lionel Richie (producer & artist) for Can't Slow Down Song of the Year Terry Britten & Graham Lyle (songwriters) for "What's Love Got to Do With It" performed by Tina Turner Best New Artist Cyndi Lauper Blues Best Traditional Blues Recording Sugar Blue, John Hammond, J.B. Hutto & the New Hawks, Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson, Koko Taylor & the Blues Machine & Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble for Blues Explosion Children's Best Recording for Children Ron Haffkine (producer) & Shel Silverstein for Where the Sidewalk Ends Classical Best Classical Orchestral Recording Jay David Saks (producer), Leonard Slatkin (conductor) & the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Best Classical Vocal Performance Pierre Boulez (conductor), Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & Jose Van.
Grammy Awards of 1982 - & Yoko Ono (producers and artists) for Double Fantasy Song of the Year Donna Weiss & Jackie DeShannon (songwriters) for "Bette Davis Eyes" performed by Kim Carnes Best New Artist Sheena Easton Children's Best Recording for Children Dennis Scott & Jim Henson (producers) for Sesame Country perfomed by The Muppets, Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn & Tanya Tucker Classical Best Classical Orchestral Recording James Mallinson (producer), Georg Solti (conductor) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Richard Bonynge (conductor), Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland & the New York City Opera Orchestra for Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti Best Opera Recording James Mallinson (producer), Charles Mackerras (conductor), Jiri Zahradnicek, Ivo Zidek, Vaclav Zitek & the Vienna.
Grammy Awards of 1996 - Rose" Album of the Year Glen Ballard (producer) & Alanis Morissette for Jagged Little Pill Song of the Year Seal (songwriter) for "Kiss From a Rose" Best New Artist Hootie & the Blowfish Alternative Best Alternative Music Performance Nirvana for MTV Unplugged in New York Blues Best Traditional Blues Album John Lee Hooker for Chill Out Best Contemporary Blues Album Buddy Guy for Slippin' In Children's Best Musical Album for Children J. Aaron Brown, David R. Lehman (producers) & Barbara Bailey Hutchison for Sleepy Time Lullabys Best Spoken Word Album for Children Dan Broatman, Martin Sauer (producers) & Patrick Stewart for Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Classical Best Orchestral Performance Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the Cleveland Orchestra for Debussy: La Mer Best Classical Vocal Performance Christopher Hogwood (conductor), Sylvia McNair &.
The Best Years of Our Lives - The Best Years of Our Lives The Best Years of Our Lives was a 1946 movie about three servicemen (an airman, a soldier and a sailor) trying to piece their lives back together after coming back home from WWII. It was based on a novel by McKinley Kantor, Glory for Me. The large cast included Frederic March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright and Hoagy Carmichael. The film received seven Academy Awards and Harold Russell, who lost both hands in the war and played an amputee, received an honorary award "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance" in the movie. Academy Award for Best Picture - Samuel Goldwyn producer Academy Award for Best Actor - Frederic March Academy Award for Best.
Kitty Foyle - Ernest Cossart and Gladys Cooper. The film was adapted by Dalton Trumbo and Donald Ogden Stewart, from the novel by Christopher Morley. It was directed by Sam Wood. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Rogers won for Best Actress..
King Solomon's Mines - Solomon's Mines, first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, H. Rider Haggard. It relates a journey into the heart of Africa by a group of adventurers in search of the legendary wealth said to be concealed in the mines of the novel's title. The novel is said have been written as a result of a wager, that he could not write a novel as good as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. The novel was written largely from the first person subjective perspective as a journalled account of the adventure. This goes rather against the general grain of mid and later Victorian fiction which had adopted the position of the third-person omniscient perspective favoured by influential writers such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and.
Kiss of the Spider Woman - learn to respect each other. It stars William Hurt, Raúl Juliá and Sonia Braga. The movie was adapted by Leonard Schrader from the novel by Manuel Puig. It was directed by Hector Babenco. It won the Academy Award for Best Actor (William Hurt), and was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. A musical with the same title, also based on Puig's novel, was written by John Kander and Fred Ebb..
