Which year saw the end of the Korean War, the death of Josef Stalin and the first televised Academy Awards Ceremony?
"The Death of Stalin The Death of Stalin is a 2017 political satire comedy film written and directed by Armando Iannucci and co-written by David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows. It stars Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, and Jeffrey Tambor, with Olga Kurylenko, Paul Chahidi, Dermot Crowley, Adrian McLoughlin, and Paul Whitehouse appearing in support roles. Based on the French graphic novel ""La mort de Staline,"" the film depicts the power struggle following the death of Soviet revolutionary and politician Joseph Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) in 1953. ""The Death of"
"Jon Stewart hosted the show for the first time. Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California held on February 18, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Rachel McAdams. ""Crash"" won three awards including Academy Award for Best Picture. Other winners included ""Brokeback Mountain"", ""King Kong"" and ""Memoirs of a Geisha"" also with three awards apiece, and ""Capote"", """", ""The Constant Gardener"", ""Hustle & Flow"", ""March of the Penguins"", """", """", ""Six Shooter"", ""Syriana"", ""Tsotsi"", ""Walk the Line"" and """" with one each. The telecast garnered nearly 39 million viewers"
"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"
"the film, the series was set during the Korean War in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. The 2½-hour series finale, in its initial airing on February 28, 1983, had peak viewership of up to 125 million Americans (77% of all television viewership in the U.S. that night), which established it as the all-time most watched single U.S. television episode; it also held the ubiquitous distinction of having the largest single-night primetime viewership of any television program in U.S. history until it was surpassed by the Super Bowl, which have taken the record consistently since 2010 (through the annual championship game's"
"The telecast garnered more than 57 million viewers in the United States, making it the most watched Oscars broadcast in history. The nominees for the 70th Academy Awards were announced on February 10, 1998, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Rehme, president of the Academy, and actress Geena Davis. ""Titanic"" received the most nominations with a record-tying fourteen (1950's ""All About Eve"", and later 2016's ""La La Land"", also achieved this distinction); ""Good Will Hunting"" and ""L.A. Confidential"" came in second with nine apiece. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 23,"
"at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on February 26, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Laura Dern. ""Schindler's List"" won seven awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Steven Spielberg. Other winners included ""Jurassic Park"" and ""The Piano"" with three awards each, ""Philadelphia"" with two awards, and ""The Age of Innocence"", ""Belle Epoque"", ""Defending Our Lives"", ""The Fugitive"", """", ""Mrs. Doubtfire"", ""Schwarzfahrer"" and ""The Wrong Trousers"" with one. The telecast was watched by more than 46 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 66th Academy Awards were announced on February"
"1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the ""Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)"" case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created."
"by receiving nine nominations without one for Best Picture. This was the last time until the 68th Academy Awards wherein none of the four acting winners had appeared in Best Picture nominees, as well as the first time where every acting nomination, as well as every major nominated film, was in color. This was the first Academy Award ceremony intended to be broadcast via satellite worldwide, but according to Klaus Lehmann, a foreign sales executive of the ABC television network, in addition to Canada and Mexico (broadcasting the event since 1953, but only live since 1964), only two South American"
"from 1990 to 2001) but debuted in 1986, well beyond the wiping era. Several award shows from the 1950s and 1960s, such as the Academy Awards and the Emmy Awards, only survive in kinescope format. From 1957 to 1965, the Academy Awards were taped in black and white, but only survive in kinescope format for overseas distribution, especially for the European TV audiences, which used another system (625 lines as opposed to 525 lines), as the tapes used for late broadcasting were reused. All of the taped broadcasts of the Academy Awards from 1966 onward (the first to be broadcast"
"order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. Sammy Davis Jr. and Marvin Hamlisch performed ""Come Light the Candles"" in tribute to: 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"
"in spite of celebrating 80 years of the Academy Awards. The Best Picture winner of that particular ceremony was another independently financed film (""No Country for Old Men""). In 1929, the first Academy Awards were presented at a banquet dinner at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. From 1930 to 1943, the ceremony alternated between two venues: the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard and the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood then hosted the awards from 1944 to 1946, followed by the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1948. The 21st Academy Awards in 1949"
"17th Academy Awards The 17th Academy Awards marked the first time the complete awards ceremony was broadcast nationally, on the Blue Network (ABC Radio). Bob Hope hosted the 70-minute broadcast, which included film clips that required explanation for the radio audience. This tradition ended abruptly after the 1948 ceremony as a result of the Paramount antitrust decrees, only to return gradually since the late 1960s. This is the first year that the Best Picture category was limited to five pictures. This was also the first and only time an individual was nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for"
"2001. Three weeks earlier in a ceremony at Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on March 1, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Kate Hudson. ""Chicago"" won six awards including Best Picture. Other winners included ""The Pianist"" with three awards, ""Frida"" and """" with two, and ""Adaptation"", ""Bowling for Columbine"", ""The ChubbChubbs!"", ""8 Mile"", ""The Hours"", ""Nowhere in Africa"", ""Road to Perdition"", ""Spirited Away"", ""Talk to Her"", ""This Charming Man"", and ""Twin Towers"" with one. The telecast garnered about 33 million viewers in the United States, making it the least watched and lowest"
"16th Academy Awards The 16th Academy Awards, in 1944, was the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Free passes were given out to men and women in uniform. Originating on KFWB, the complete ceremony was internationally broadcast by CBS Radio via shortwave. Jack Benny served as master of ceremonies for the event, which lasted fewer than 30 minutes. The ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoon series won its first Oscar this year for ""The Yankee Doodle Mouse"" after two failed nominations in a row. It would go on to win another six Oscars, including three in"
"information, support for the war effort, and a degree of propaganda. Newsreels, ostensibly simply for information, were made in both Allied and Axis countries, and were often dramatised. More recently, in the Iran–Iraq War, Morteza Avini's ""Ravayat-e Fath"" (Chronicles of Victory) television series combined front-line footage with commentary. Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 historical drama ""Alexander Nevsky"" depicts Prince Alexander's defeat of the attempted invasion of the Russian city of Novgorod by the Teutonic Knights. By April 1939 the film had been seen by 23,000,000 people. In 1941 the director and three others were awarded the Stalin Prize for their contributions. The"
"in this category that remains unmatched to this day. For the first time since the introduction of Supporting Actor and Actress awards in 1936, Best Picture, Best Director, and all four acting Oscars went to six different films. This has happened only three times since, at the 29th Academy Awards for 1956, the 78th for 2005, and the 85th for 2012. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. Among the 2,800 in attendance at the Pantages Theatre were: The 25th Academy Awards ceremony was the first to be broadcast on television: The telecast was prompted by the need to"
"outside of the Americas) in more desirable local timeslots. The ceremony was broadcast live internationally for the first time via satellite since 1970, but only two South American countries, Chile and Brazil, purchased the rights to air the broadcast. By that time, the television rights to the Academy Awards had been sold in 50 countries. A decade later, the rights were already being sold to 60 countries, and by 1984, the TV rights to the Awards were licensed in 76 countries. The ceremonies were moved up from late March/early April to late February since 2004 to help disrupt and shorten"
"""A Greek Tragedy"", ""The Mission"", ""Precious Images"", ""Round Midnight"", ""Top Gun"", and ""Women – for America, for the World"" with one. The nominees for the 59th Academy Awards were announced on February 11, 1987, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Wise, president of the Academy, actor Don Ameche, and actress Anjelica Huston. ""Platoon"" and ""A Room with a View"" led all nominees with eight each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 30, 1987. Marlee Matlin was the first deaf performer to win an Oscar and the youngest winner in the Best"
"held in 1990 and had last hosted the 72nd ceremony held in 2000. Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at The Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, California held on February 14, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Jennifer Garner. """" won all eleven awards it was nominated for, tying the Academy Awards record for most awards won (alongside ""Ben-Hur"" and ""Titanic""), including Best Director for Peter Jackson and Best Picture. Other winners included """" and ""Mystic River"" with two awards and ""The Barbarian Invasions"", ""Chernobyl Heart"", ""Cold Mountain"", ""Finding Nemo"", ""The Fog of War:"
"earlier in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California held on February 10, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Maggie Gyllenhaal. ""The Departed"" won four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Martin Scorsese. Other winners included ""Pan's Labyrinth"" with three, ""An Inconvenient Truth"", ""Dreamgirls"" and ""Little Miss Sunshine"" with two, and ""Babel"", ""The Blood of Yingzhou District"", ""The Danish Poet"", ""Happy Feet"", ""The Last King of Scotland"", ""Letters from Iwo Jima"", ""The Lives of Others"", ""Marie Antoinette"", """", ""The Queen"" and ""West Bank Story"" with one. The telecast garnered nearly"
"Academy Awards ceremony not to be broadcast either on radio or television. The radio broadcast was introduced the following year in 1930. During the ceremony, the AMPAS presented Academy Awards, now known as the Oscars in 12 categories. Winners were announced three months before the live event. Some nominations were announced without reference to a specific film, such as for Ralph Hammeras and Nugent Slaughter, who received nominations in the now defunct category of Engineering Effects. Unlike later ceremonies, an actor could be awarded for multiple works within a calendar year for the same category. Emil Jannings, for example, was"
"38th Academy Awards The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on April 18, 1966, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope. The ceremony was broadcast on the ABC network and was the first to be broadcast live in color. The two most nominated films were ""The Sound of Music"" and ""Doctor Zhivago"", each with ten nominations and five wins. The winner of Best Picture was 20th Century Fox's and Robert Wise's ""The Sound of Music"", adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical. Both movies"
"during a ceremony held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 6, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Sharon Stone. ""Unforgiven"" won four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Clint Eastwood, and Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman. Al Pacino and Emma Thompson won lead acting honors for ""Scent of a Woman"" and ""Howards End"", respectively. Marisa Tomei won Best Supporting Actress for ""My Cousin Vinny"". The telecast garnered 45.7 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 65th Academy Awards were announced on February 17, 1993, at the Samuel"
"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"
"Awards since 1930, locked himself into a booth and was able to broadcast for a few minutes before security guards broke down the door. Partial radio coverage was permitted again at the 1942 ceremony. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. The following twenty-six films received multiple nominations: The following four films received multiple awards: 11th Academy Awards The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host. This was also the first ceremony in which a foreign language film"
"boldface These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 33rd Academy Awards The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope. This was the first ceremony to be aired on ABC television, which has aired the Academy Awards ever since (save for the period between 1971 and 1975, when they were aired on NBC for the first time since the previous year.) ""The Apartment"" was the last black-and-white film to win Best Picture"
"Laura Ziskin Laura Ellen Ziskin (March 3, 1950 – June 12, 2011) was an American film producer, known as the Executive Producer of the romantic comedy ""Pretty Woman"" (1990) and as the first woman to produce the Academy Awards telecast alone, producing the 74th Academy Awards (2002) and the 79th Academy Awards (2007). Ziskin was born and raised in a Jewish family in the San Fernando Valley, California, the daughter of Jay Ziskin and Elaine Edelman. Jay was a psychologist and lawyer who died of prostate cancer, aged 77, on June 14, 1997. After graduating from the University of Southern"
"11th Academy Awards The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host. This was also the first ceremony in which a foreign language film (Jean Renoir's ""Grand Illusion"") was nominated for Best Picture. Frank Capra became the first person to win three Best Director awards, to be followed by John Ford (who would go on to win four) and William Wyler. This was the first of only two times in Oscar history that three of the four acting awards were"
"1st Academy Awards The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1927 and 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks hosted the show. Tickets cost $5 (which would be $ in considering inflation), 270 people attended the event and the presentation ceremony lasted 15 minutes. Awards were created by Louis B. Mayer, founder of Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation (at present merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). It is the only"
"multiple awards. The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. 40th Academy Awards The 40th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1967. Originally scheduled for April 8, 1968, the awards were postponed to two days later, April 10, 1968, because of the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.. Bob Hope was once again the host of the ceremony. Due to the increasing rarity of black and white feature films, the awards for cinematography, art direction and costume design were combined into single categories rather than a distinction between color and monochrome. The Best Picture"
"35th Golden Globe Awards The 35th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1977, were held on January 28, 1978. ""' Richard Burton – ""Equus"" ""' Richard Dreyfuss – ""The Goodbye Girl"" ""' Jane Fonda – ""Julia"" ""' Diane Keaton – ""Annie Hall"" <br> ""' Marsha Mason – ""The Goodbye Girl"" ""' Herbert Ross - ""The Turning Point"" ""' ""The Turning Point"" ""' ""The Goodbye Girl"" ""' ""A Special Day (Una giornata particolare)"", Italy ""Star Wars"" - John Williams ""' ""You Light Up My Life"" by Joseph Brooks - ""You Light Up My Life"" ""' ""The"
"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"
"an Oscars ceremony. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 55th Academy Awards The 55th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1983, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau. The awards were dominated by the Best Picture winner ""Gandhi"", which won eight awards out of its eleven nominations. Jessica Lange became the first"