"1981 Toronto International Film Festival The 6th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19, 1981. The festival screened films from more than twenty different countries. ""Ticket to Heaven"", a Canadian film, was selected as the opening film. Another Canadian film, ""Threshold"", was chosen as the closing film. The People's Choice Award was awarded to ""Chariots of Fire"", directed by Hugh Hudson; the film later won an Oscar for Best Picture. The Canadian documentary ""Not a Love Story"", about the pornography industry, was also featured at the festival. Initially it was"
"that have received few or no nominations or awards. Only three animated films have been nominated - ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Up"" (2009) and ""Toy Story 3"" (2010), the latter two having been nominated after the Academy expanded the number of nominees—but none have won. No science fiction film or superhero film has won (none of the latter has been nominated); only two fantasy films have won — """" (2003) and ""The Shape of Water"" (2017). ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991) is the only horror film to win Best Picture, and only five other have been nominated for"
"53rd Academy Awards The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, were originally scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. David Lynch's ""The Elephant Man"" and Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"", with eight nominations each, had the most nominations of this year's films. Their nominations included Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. Michael Apted's ""Coal Miner's Daughter"" received seven nominations while ""Ordinary People"" and ""Tess"""
"Best Picture without a Best Director nomination until ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), and the third of seven to win without a screenwriting nomination. This was the first of three Oscars in which ""two"" films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner (""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" and ""The Guardsman""). This happened again at the 25th and 79th Academy Awards. This year also introduced short films to the Oscars, with ""Flowers and Trees"" being the first color winner and first animated short winner. This was the first and, to date, only ceremony in which there was a"
"Awards in which a film not nominated for Best Picture received the most awards of the evening, excluding years where there were ties for the most wins. The only other film to do this was ""The Thief of Bagdad"" at the 13th Academy Awards; as of the 89th Academy Awards, it has not happened since. Until ""Spotlight"" won only Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards, this was the last year in which the Best Picture winner won just two Oscars. It was also the second of three years to date in which two films ""not"""
"order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 53rd Academy Awards The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, were originally scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. David Lynch's ""The Elephant Man"" and Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"", with eight nominations each, had the most nominations of this year's films. Their nominations included"
"records of which films were evaluated by the judges. ""The Divine Lady"" is the only film to ever win Best Director without a Best Picture nomination, excluding the first year where there was an award for comic director. This is the only year in which no movie won more than one Oscar. ""The Broadway Melody"" became the second of seven films (""Wings"", ""Grand Hotel"", ""Cavalcade"", ""Hamlet"", ""The Sound of Music"", and ""Titanic"" are the others) to win Best Picture without a writing nomination, and the first of three to win Best Picture and nothing else (""Grand Hotel"" and ""Mutiny on"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"did not screen in Los Angeles until 1972. Chaplin had received honorary Academy Awards in 1929 and 1972. ""Cabaret"", Bob Fosse's adaptation of the Broadway stage musical, set a record for the most Oscars won without winning Best Picture. Best Picture winner ""The Godfather"" received only three Academy Awards. This year was the first time that two African American women received nominations for Best Actress. This was also the first year when all the Oscar winners were brought out on stage at the end of the ceremony. Winners are listed first in boldface. The following 15 films received multiple nominations."
"Academy Awards. Jane Wyman became the first performer since the silent era to win an Oscar for a performance with no lines; ""Johnny Belinda"" became the fourth film to receive nominations in all four acting categories. ""I Remember Mama"" received four acting nominations but not one for Best Picture, tying the record set by ""My Man Godfrey"" in 1936. Two more films would also tie this record: ""Othello"" (1965) and ""Doubt"" (2008). Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Class II Class III These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 21st Academy Awards The 21st"
"ever to win a Best Actor Oscar, until Anthony Hopkins win for his appearance in the 1991 film ""The Silence of the Lambs"", which is a little over 16 minutes. He was also a co-host of the 30th, 31st, and 46th Academy Awards ceremonies. After Niven had won the Academy Award, Goldwyn called with an invitation to his home. In Goldwyn's drawing room, Niven noticed a picture of himself in uniform which he had sent to Goldwyn from Britain during the Second World War. In happier times with Goldwyn, he had observed this same picture sitting on Goldwyn's piano. Now"
"last year that write-in votes were allowed at the Oscars. ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" became the only film to win a write-in Oscar, taking Best Cinematography. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. The following thirteen films received multiple nominations: The following two films received multiple awards: 8th Academy Awards The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Frank Capra. This was the first year in which the gold statuettes were called ""Oscars"". The category of Best Dance Direction was introduced this year. The DGA"
"won five Academy Awards and was nominated for an additional seven, including Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Director for Ridley Scott. It was the first movie to win Best Picture without winning either a directing or screenwriting award since ""All the King's Men"" at the 22nd Academy Awards in 1950. In 2003, ""Chicago"" became another Best Picture winner which didn't win an Academy Award in either of these two major categories. Due to Academy rules, only Hans Zimmer was officially nominated for Best Original Score, and not Lisa Gerrard at the time. However, the"
"Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Most Nominations: ""Cimarron"" (RKO Pictures) - 7 Major Awards Most Awards: ""Cimarron"" - 3 (Best Picture; Best Adaptation and Best Art Direction) ""Cimarron"" was the first Western to win Best Picture, and would remain the only one to do so for 59 years (until ""Dances with Wolves"" won in 1991). It received a then-record seven nominations, and was the first film to win more than two awards. The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, at a ceremony held at The Ambassador"
"54th Academy Awards The 54th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1982, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson. ""Chariots of Fire"" was the surprise winner (with a leading 12 nominations, ""Reds"" had been expected to win) of the Best Picture Oscar. It was the first time in 13 years that a British film won the Academy's top honor. The next year's winner, ""Gandhi"", was also a British production. Henry Fonda won his only competitive Oscar this year, as Best Actor for ""On Golden Pond"". At 76 years of age, Fonda"
"of the Academy, and Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates. ""Gladiator"" received the most nominations with twelve. ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" came in second with ten. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 25, 2001. ""Gladiator"" became the first film to win Best Picture without a directing or screenwriting win since 1949's ""All the King's Men"". Best Director winner Steven Soderbergh, who received nominations for both ""Erin Brockovich"" and ""Traffic"" (for which he won the award), was the third person to receive double directing nominations in the same year. ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" became the third film nominated"
"win Best Picture without any acting nominations. Sean Penn became the ninth person to win Best Lead Actor twice. Best Supporting Actor winner Heath Ledger became the second performer to win a posthumous acting Oscar. The first actor to receive this distinction was Peter Finch who posthumously won Best Actor for ""Network"" two months after his death in January 1977. With its six nominations, ""WALL-E"" tied with 1991's ""Beauty and the Beast"" as the most nominated animated film in Oscar history. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface. The following 15 films received multiple nominations: The following four films received"
"41st Academy Awards The 41st Academy Awards were presented on April 14, 1969, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be staged at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. For the first time since the 11th Academy Awards, there was no host. ""Oliver!"" became the first—and so far, the only—G-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. By contrast, the following year would see the only X-rated film to win Best Picture, ""Midnight Cowboy"". ""Oliver!"" would also be the last British film to win Best Picture until ""Chariots of Fire"" in 1982"
"nomination should be an indication of extraordinary merit. If there are only eight pictures that truly earn that honor in a given year, we shouldn't feel an obligation to round out the number."" One point of contention with the award is the lack of consideration of non-English language films for Best Picture. Only nine foreign language films have been nominated in the category: ""Grand Illusion"" (French, 1938); ""Z"" (French, 1969); ""The Emigrants"" (Swedish, 1972); ""Cries and Whispers"" (Swedish, 1973); """" (Italian/Spanish, 1995); ""Life Is Beautiful"" (Italian, 1998); ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" (Mandarin Chinese, 2000); ""Letters from Iwo Jima"" (Japanese, 2006,"
"are in the top 10 inflation-adjusted commercially successful films ever made, and both would appear 33 years later on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the twentieth century. ""The Sound of Music"" was the first Best Picture winner without a screenwriting nomination since ""Hamlet""; it would be the last until ""Titanic"" at the 70th Academy Awards. ""Othello"" became the third film (of four to date) to receive four acting nominations without one for Best Picture. Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, attended the Academy Awards presentation and was escorted by actor George"
"Oscars, ""Spotlight"" was the first film since 1952's ""The Greatest Show on Earth"" to win Best Picture with only one other award. Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the third individual to win two consecutive Oscars for Best Director. By virtue of his previous nomination for his portrayal of the titular character in 1976's ""Rocky"", Best Supporting Actor nominee Sylvester Stallone was the sixth person to be nominated for playing the same role in two different films. At the age of 87, Ennio Morricone was believed to be the oldest competitive winner in Oscar history. Having previously won for ""Gravity"" and ""Birdman"","
"2012. While many confuse ""The Artist"" as a silent feature, it is actually a sound picture with an accompanying soundtrack. The 1927 film ""Wings"" is still the only silent film to win Best Picture, an honor received at the inaugural awards ceremony in 1929. Moreover, it was also the first black-and-white feature to win Best Picture since 1993's ""Schindler's List"". Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin became the first French actor to win an Oscar. With her latest win for Best Actress, Meryl Streep became the fifth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. At age 82, Best Supporting Actor"
"did contain some color sequences). No Best Picture winner has been lost, though a few such as ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" and ""Lawrence of Arabia"" exist only in a form altered from their original, award-winning release form. This has usually been due to editing for reissue (and subsequently partly restored by archivists). Other winners and nominees, such as ""Tom Jones"" and ""Star Wars,"" are widely available only in subsequently altered versions. ""The Broadway Melody"" originally had some sequences photographed in two-color Technicolor. This footage survives only in black and white. The 1928 film ""The Patriot"" is the only"
"24th Academy Awards The 24th Academy Awards honored the best in film in 1951, as recognized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture was awarded to ""An American in Paris"", which, like ""A Place in the Sun"", received six Academy Awards. ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" won four Oscars, including three of the acting awards. The film's only unsuccessful acting nomination was that of Marlon Brando, whose performance as Stanley Kowalski was later considered one of the most influential of modern film acting. Humphrey Bogart was the last man born in the 19th century to win"
"a leading role Oscar. ""An American in Paris"" became the second color film to win Best Picture, after 1939's ""Gone with the Wind"". Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 24th Academy Awards The 24th Academy Awards honored the best in film in 1951, as recognized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture was awarded to ""An American in Paris"", which, like ""A Place in the Sun"", received six Academy Awards. ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" won four Oscars, including three of the acting"
"nominations without a win. ""Citizen Kane"", often later designated as the greatest film ever made in a number of polls, was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, but won only one, for Best Original Screenplay. A portion of the ceremony was broadcast by CBS Radio. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and marked with a dagger symbol (). These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 14th Academy Awards The 14th Academy Awards honored film achievements in 1941 and was held in the Biltmore Bowl at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The"
"MacFarlane, host of the ceremony, and actress Emma Stone. ""Lincoln"" received the most nominations with twelve total, and ""Life of Pi"" came in second with eleven. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 24, 2013. ""Argo"" was the fourth film to win Best Picture without a directing nomination, following 1927's ""Wings"", 1932's ""Grand Hotel"", and 1989's ""Driving Miss Daisy"". As co-producer of ""Argo"", George Clooney became the third individual to win Oscars for both acting and producing. By virtue of his nomination for Best Original Song in ""Ted"", host Seth MacFarlane became the first person since James"
"nine each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 22, 2015. For the first time since the expansion of the Best Picture nominee roster at the 82nd ceremony in 2010, every Best Picture nominee won at least one award. ""Birdman"" was the first film to win Best Picture without an editing nomination since ""Ordinary People"" (1980). Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win for Best Director after Cuarón who won for helming ""Gravity"". At age 84, Robert Duvall was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. Having won for his work on ""Gravity"""
"to win the award for the same film. Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise first accomplished this feat for co-directing 1961's ""West Side Story"". This was also the second time in Oscar history (the first being 1964's 37th Academy Awards) that none of the four acting winners was American. Daniel Day-Lewis became the eighth person to win Best Actor twice. Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard was the fifth person to win for a non-English speaking performance and the second person to do so in the aforementioned category, after Sophia Loren who won for 1961's ""Two Women"". Cate Blanchett became the eleventh"
"4th Academy Awards The 4th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened released between August 1, 1930, and July 31, 1931, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. At the ceremony, nine-year-old Jackie Cooper, nominated for Best Actor in ""Skippy"", fell asleep on the shoulder of Best Actress nominee Marie Dressler. When Dressler was announced as the winner, Cooper had to be eased onto his mother’s lap. ""Cimarron"" was the first Western to win Best Picture, and would remain the only one to do so for 59 years (until ""Dances with Wolves"" won in 1991). It"
"Ted"" films, and Best Picture Academy Award winners ""Amadeus"", ""Platoon"", ""Dances with Wolves"", and ""The Silence of the Lambs"". Following is a list of the major Academy Awards (Picture, Director, two Screenplay and four Acting awards) for which Orion films were nominated. Almost all of Orion's post-1982 releases, as well as most of the AIP and Filmways backlogs and all of the television output originally produced and distributed by Orion Television, now bear the MGM name. However, in most cases, the 1980s Orion logo has been retained or added, in the case of the Filmways and AIP libraries. Most ancillary"
"husband, Sydney Box, for the 1945 film ""The Seventh Veil"". The Boxes are also the first married couple to win in this category. Only three other married couples won an Oscar in another category—Earl W. Wallace and Pamela Wallace (for Original Screenplay), Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (for Adapted Screenplay and Picture), and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (for Original Song). In 1996, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen became the only siblings to win in this category (for ""Fargo""). Francis Ford Coppola (""Patton"", 1970) and Sofia Coppola (""Lost in Translation"", 2003) are the only father-daughter pair to win. Preston Sturges"
"apiece. ""La La Land""s Best Picture loss to ""Moonlight"" meant it set a record for most nominations and wins without winning Best Picture since ""Cabaret"" in 1972. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 26, 2017. ""Moonlight"" became the first film with an all-black cast and the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture. In an event unprecedented in the history of the Oscars, ""La La Land"" was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture, and, a few minutes later, the error was corrected and ""Moonlight"" was declared the winner. """", at 467 minutes, became the longest film"