"oldest was Charles Coburn, who was 66 at the time of his win. In 1976, George Burns would become the oldest Oscar-winner, at age 80. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 20th Academy Awards No film received more than three awards at the 20th Academy Awards. This would not recur until the 78th Academy Awards. Rosalind Russell was highly favored to win Best Actress her performance in ""Mourning Becomes Electra"", but Loretta Young won instead for ""The Farmer's Daughter"". James Baskett received an Academy Honorary Award for"
"last film as a team; Gracie made two subsequent film appearances on her own, but Burns and Allen did not return to the cameras until their television series in 1950. When Burns was 79, he had a sudden career revival as an amiable, beloved and unusually active comedy elder statesman in the 1975 film ""The Sunshine Boys"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 1977, his starring role in ""Oh, God!"", along with the former film, permanently secured his career resurgence. At the age of 80, Burns was the oldest Oscar winner in the history"
"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"","
"Al Lewis won him the 1975 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and permanently secured his career resurgence. At the age of 80, Burns was the oldest Oscar winner in the history of the Academy Awards, a record that would remain until Jessica Tandy won an Oscar for ""Driving Miss Daisy"" in 1989. In 1977, Burns made another hit film, ""Oh, God!"", playing the omnipotent title role opposite singer John Denver as an earnest but befuddled supermarket manager, whom God picks at random to revive his message. The image of Burns in a sailor's cap and light springtime jacket as"
"interview that aired on March 7, 2010, Plummer added, tongue-in-cheek, ""Well, I said it's about time! I mean, I'm 80 years old, for God's sake. Have mercy."" On Oscar night, March 7, 2010, however, he lost to Christoph Waltz. Plummer received his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Beginners"" (2011), and was announced as the winner at the 84th Academy Awards. Plummer's win made him, at age 82, the oldest actor to win an Academy Award. When he accepted the award, he quipped ""You're only two years older than me, darling. Where"
"for the 60th Academy Awards were announced on February 16, 1988, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Wise, president of the Academy, and actress Shirley MacLaine. ""The Last Emperor"" received the most nominations with nine total; ""Broadcast News"" came in second with seven. The winners were announced at the awards ceremony on April 11, 1988. ""The Last Emperor"" became the second film after 1958's ""Gigi"" to earn nine Oscar nominations and win all of them. For the first time in Oscar history, all five Best Director nominees were born"
"their advanced ages at the time (77, 76, 74 and a ""young"" 56), this is also the most recent ceremony (as of the 2017 presentation of the 89th Academy Awards) for which the four acting award winners are all now deceased – though two of the four did live into their late 90s. ""Chariots of Fire"" became the last film to win Best Picture and not win for directing until ""Driving Miss Daisy"" in 1990. Similar to 1976 and 1977, these Oscars were scheduled directly opposite the NCAA basketball championship game, which this year was broadcast on CBS. Beginning in"
"52nd Academy Awards The 52nd Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1980, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson who, in noting the long duration of the production, joked that President Jimmy Carter was working hard for their ""release"" from the ceremonies, a clear reference to the Iranian hostage crisis. Among the nominees for Best Supporting Actor were 8 year-old Justin Henry—the youngest Best Supporting Actor nominee ever—and 79-year-old Melvyn Douglas. This was the largest age difference between two competing actors in Oscar history until 2013. Their age difference was partially"
"20th Academy Awards No film received more than three awards at the 20th Academy Awards. This would not recur until the 78th Academy Awards. Rosalind Russell was highly favored to win Best Actress her performance in ""Mourning Becomes Electra"", but Loretta Young won instead for ""The Farmer's Daughter"". James Baskett received an Academy Honorary Award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in ""Song of the South"", which made him the first African-American man and the first Walt Disney star to win an Academy Award for acting. At age 71, Edmund Gwenn was the oldest Oscar-winner to that time. The previous"
"Kron and Jeanine Tesori became the first all-woman team to win the award for ""Fun Home"". Lin-Manuel Miranda is the youngest person to win the award; he was 28 when he won for ""In the Heights"". Adolph Green is the oldest person to win the award; he was 76 when he won for ""The Will Rogers Follies"". If T. S. Eliot were alive when he won for ""Cats"", he would have been 94. Eliot is one of two people to receive the award posthumously, the other being Jonathan Larson, who won for ""Rent"". He would have been 36. Only 3"
"nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner (""The Bad and the Beautiful"" and ""Hans Christian Andersen"", both with six). This occurred again at the 79th Academy Awards. Shirley Booth became the last person born in the 19th century to win an Oscar in a Leading Role. She is also the first woman in her 50s to win the award, at the age of 54 (the second woman in her 50s to win, Julianne Moore, was 54 when awarded at the 87th Academy Awards). John Ford's fourth win for Best Director set a record for the most wins"
"age of 70 at the time of her win. The other was Edmund Gwenn. This was the only time in the history of the Academy Awards that all Best Supporting Actress nominees were born outside the United States. This was the first time a Black actor won Best Actor, and the first time a winning film (""An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"") had been aired on network television before the ceremony. Sammy Davis Jr. announced the winner in the category scoring of music, adaptation or treatment but was given the envelope with the name of a winner in a different"
"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"
"and ""Ran"" with one. The nominees for the 58th Academy Awards were announced on February 5, 1986. ""The Color Purple"" and ""Out of Africa"" led all nominees with eleven each. Winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 24, 1986. With its 11 nominations and zero wins, ""The Color Purple"" joined ""The Turning Point"" as the most nominated films in Oscar history without a single win. At age 79, John Huston became the oldest person nominated for Best Director. By virtue of his father Walter's previous wins, John's daughter Anjelica's victory in the Best Supporting Actress category made her"
"78th ceremony held in 2006. Two weeks earlier in a gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on February 9, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Jessica Alba. ""No Country for Old Men"" won the most awards of the ceremony with four including Best Picture. Other winners included ""The Bourne Ultimatum"" with three awards, ""La Vie en Rose (La môme)"" and ""There Will Be Blood"" with two awards, and ""Atonement"", ""The Counterfeiters"", """", ""Freeheld"", ""The Golden Compass"", ""Juno"", ""Michael Clayton"", ""The Mozart of Pickpockets"", ""Once"", ""Peter and the Wolf"", ""Ratatouille"", """", and"
"the oldest Oscar nominee up to that time (1980) until Gloria Stuart in 1997; and won an Emmy Award for a televised version of ""The Royal Family"" after having starred in a Broadway revival of that play in 1976. She made a rare guest appearance in a 1984 episode of ""St. Elsewhere"" which starred her former apprentice Norman Lloyd, appearing with Brenda Vaccaro and Blythe Danner as three women sharing a hospital room. On June 3, 1991, Le Gallienne died at her home in Weston, Connecticut from natural causes, aged 92, and her ashes were scattered over her property in"
"rated televised Oscar ceremony at the time. The nominees for the 75th Academy Awards were announced on February 11, 2003, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Frank Pierson, president of the Academy, and actress Marisa Tomei. ""Chicago"" received the most nominations with thirteen. It was the eighth film to receive that many nominations. ""Gangs of New York"" came in second with ten. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 23, 2003. ""Chicago"" became the first musical film to win Best Picture since 1968's ""Oliver!"" At age 29, Adrien Brody was the youngest person"
"United States. The nominees for the 77th Academy Awards were announced on January 25, 2005 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Frank Pierson, president of the Academy, and actor Adrien Brody. ""The Aviator"" received the most nominations with eleven; ""Finding Neverland"" and ""Million Dollar Baby"" tied for second with seven nominations each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 27, 2005. At age 74, Clint Eastwood became the oldest winner for Best Director in Oscar history. With his latest unsuccessful nomination for directing ""The Aviator"", nominee Martin Scorsese joined Robert Altman, Clarence Brown,"
"died at her London home on December 30, 2014, at the age of 104 from pneumonia. She was thirteen days shy of her 105th birthday. Rainer spent her final years living in a flat formerly occupied by actress Vivien Leigh at 54 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London. Her memorabilia was auctioned in 2015. The auction netted US$489,069 for her heirs. Luise Rainer Luise Rainer (; January 12, 1910 – December 30, 2014) was a German-American film actress. She was the first actor to win more than one Academy Award; at the time of her death she was the longest-lived Oscar recipient."
"49th Academy Awards The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty. This Academy Awards ceremony is notable for Peter Finch becoming the first posthumous winner of an Oscar for acting, a feat matched only by fellow Australian Heath Ledger 32 years later; Finch had suffered a fatal heart attack in mid-January. Beatrice Straight set another record by becoming the actor with the shortest performance ever in a film to win an acting Oscar, with"
"Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara"", ""Harvie Krumpet"", ""Lost in Translation"", ""Monster"" and ""Two Soldiers"" with one. The telecast garnered nearly 44 million viewers in North America the United States, making it the most-watched telecast in four years. The nominees for the 76th Academy Awards were announced on January 27, 2004, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Frank Pierson, president of the Academy, and the actress Sigourney Weaver. """" received the most nominations with eleven; """" came in second with ten. The winners were announced during the"
"is nominated for a specific performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year. Since its inception, the award has been given to 80 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars. Spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2018 ceremony, Gary Oldman is the most recent winner in this category for portraying former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in ""Darkest Hour"". In the following table, the years are"
"winner Christopher Plummer also made Oscar history by becoming the oldest ever performer to win a competitive acting Oscar. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The Academy held its 3rd Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 12, 2011, during which the following awards were presented. The following 18 films received multiple nominations: The following three films received multiple awards: The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. Because of the declining viewership of recent Academy Awards ceremonies, the Academy sought ideas to revamp the show while"
"46th Academy Awards The 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday, April 2, 1974, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston, and David Niven. ""The Sting"" won 7 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for George Roy Hill. ""The Exorcist"" and ""The Way We Were"" were the only other films to win multiple awards. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). The 46th Academy Awards ceremony is perhaps best remembered as the ceremony in which a streaker named"
"categories. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are the only married couple to win, for """". Geoffrey S. Fletcher (for ""Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire""), John Ridley (for ""12 Years a Slave""), and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (both for ""Moonlight"") are the only African-Americans to win in this category; Fletcher is also the first African-American to win in any writing category. Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Paddy Chayefsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Horton Foote, William Goldman, Robert Benton, Bo Goldman, and the Coen brothers have won Oscars for both original and adapted screenplays. James Ivory is the oldest"
"76th Academy Awards The 76th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2003 and took place on February 29, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Joe Roth and was directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actor Billy Crystal hosted for the eighth time. He first presided over the 62nd ceremony"
"directed by Steven Spielberg. He won the 1978 Academy Award for Best Actor at the 50th Academy Awards ceremony for his portrayal of a struggling actor in ""The Goodbye Girl"" (1977), becoming the youngest actor to do so (at the age of 30 years, 125 days old), besting Marlon Brando, who had won his first Oscar in 1955 at the age of 30 years 360 days old. This record stood for 25 years until it was broken in 2003 by Adrien Brody, who was three weeks shy of age 30 at the time of the 75th Academy Awards ceremony. Around"
"and Laurence Olivier (1930s–1970s) have been nominated for an acting (lead or supporting) Academy Award in five different decades. With three Oscar wins, he also ties with Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ingrid Bergman, and Meryl Streep for the second-most Oscar wins in acting categories. Only Katharine Hepburn, with four Oscars, won more. In 2012, Nicholson co-presented the Academy Award for Best Picture with First Lady Michelle Obama. This ceremony marked the eighth time he has presented the Academy Award for Best Picture (1972, 1977, 1978, 1990, 1993, 2006, 2007, and 2012). Nicholson is an active and voting member of the"
"50th Academy Awards The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 1978. The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope, who hosted the awards for the nineteenth and last time. Two of the year's biggest winners were ""Star Wars"", which swept the technical categories by winning 6 out of its 10 nominations and a Special Achievement for Sound Effects Editing, and ""Annie Hall"", winning 4 out of 5 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director. The awards show was also notable for a very politically charged acceptance speech"
"56th Academy Awards The 56th Academy Awards were presented April 9, 1984, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson. The Best Supporting Actress winner this year was unique. 4’9” Linda Hunt won the award for her role as Billy Kwan a male Chinese-Australian photographer in Peter Weir's ""The Year of Living Dangerously"", making her the first actor to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex. Gordon Willis, a respected cinematographer most famous for his un-nominated work on ""The Godfather"", ""The Godfather Part II"", and Woody Allen's ""Manhattan"", received"
"Director nomination. At age 80, Jessica Tandy became the oldest winner of competitive acting Oscar at the time. Kenneth Branagh was the fifth person nominated for Best Lead Actor and Best Director for the same film. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double-dagger (). The following 19 films received multiple nominations: The following five films received multiple awards: The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers. After the negative reception received from the preceding year's ceremony, AMPAS created an Awards Presentation Review Committee to evaluate and determine why the telecast earned such a negative"
"for an Oscar for an award on the basis of multiple films within the year. Joseph won his Best Writing - Title Cards award for the films ""Fair Co-Ed""; ""Laugh, Clown, Laugh""; and ""Telling the World"". This was the only year that an Oscar for title cards would be awarded. Joseph Farnham was the very first Academy Award-winner to die. He died in 1931 of a heart attack while living in Los Angeles, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Joseph W. Farnham Joseph White Farnham (December 2, 1884 – June 2, 1931)"
"The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. 46th Academy Awards The 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday, April 2, 1974, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston, and David Niven. ""The Sting"" won 7 awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for George Roy Hill. ""The Exorcist"" and ""The Way We Were"" were the only other films to win multiple awards. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). The 46th Academy"