The first Academy Awards was held on May 16, 1929.
By the time the second Oscars came around the media wanted to be involved so the ceremony was broadcasted on live radio.
In 1931 Jackie Cooper, age 9, become the youngest nominee ever for Best Actor in "Skippy". He fell asleep on Marie Dressler during the ceremony.
In 1931 Norma Shearer was nominated for best actress and it turns out she was the presenter for the Best Actress category that year. She won, making her announcement rather odd. The academy has since changed the rules that a person can not be nominated in the category that they are presenting.
The look of the statuette has never changed.
Katharine Hepburn wins her first of four Oscars in 1933.
1933: at just 66 minutes Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong" is the shortest best picture nominee ever.
Frank Capra won Best Director in 1934, 1936, and 1938.
in 1934 "It Happened One Night," was the first movie to earn all top five awards, Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay. It didn't happen again until "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," in 1975 and again in 1991 for "Silence of the Lambs."
Walter Brennan, Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day Lewis tie with three for the most Oscars won for an actor. Brennan in 1936, 1938, and 1940. Nicholson in 1975, 1983, and 1997. Lewis in 1989, 2007, 2013.
The "Supporting" category wasn't introduced until 1937. The winners received plaques rather than statues.
1937: Luise Rainer becomes the first actress to win a Best Acting award two years in succession. In years to come these people have also attained that goal. Spencer Tracy (1937, 1938) Katharine Hepburn (1967, 1968) Jason Robards (1976, 1977) and Tom Hanks (1993, 1994)
In 1939 both "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" were the first nominated movies filmed in color.
1939: Hattie McDaniel not only broke records for being the first black nominee; she also was the first African American to attend the Oscar ceremony. She would win later that night for Best Supporting Actress in "Gone With the Wind."
1939: Sidney Howard won Best Screenplay for "Gone With the Wind". He died months earlier in a farming accident. This was the first posthumous Oscar was awarded.
Legend has it either Bette Davis or Walt Disney named the award "Oscar." Either way the name has stuck ever since 1939.
Douglas Fairbanks won posthumously a Honorary Oscar in 1939. His son, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. accepted the award on his behalf.
Bob Hope holds the record for hosting the Academy Awards 18 times. His first show was in 1939.
John Ford won Best Director two consecutive years in a row, both 1940 and 1941. He holds the record with a total of four directing wins.
February 27, 1941: the academy decides that the winner should no longer be informed before the ceremony. They chose to keep the results in sealed envelopes.
During WWII the Academy decided due out of respect and over crowding that the ceremony should be held in a theater rather than a banquet hall.
In 1941 Orson Welles was nominated for Best Film, Director, Actor, and Screenplay for "Citizen Kane." He was the only person to hold that record until Warren Beatty twice for 1978's "Heaven Can Wait," and 1981's "Reds". Also Roberto Benigni for "Life is Beautiful".
In 1942 "Documentaries" were added as a category.
In 1943 plaster statuettes were given out due to the war effort. After World War II the winners awards were replaced.
In 1944 "Supporting" winners finally got real statuettes.
After winning her Best Actress Award in 1944, Ethel Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore became the first Oscar winning brother and sister in history.
The number of Best Picture nominations was limited to five in 1945.
The only Oscar to win an "Oscar" was composer Oscar Hammerstein II.
Jane Fontaine wins the Best Actress award in 1941. Olivia de Havilland wins in 1946. Making them the first sisters in history with Oscars. There was much sibling rivalry between the two actresses. They stopped speaking to each other in 1975 after their mother's death.
In 1948 James Bassett, won an honorary Oscar, making him the first African American male to win an award. Four months later the beloved Bassett died from heart failure at the young age of 44.
1948: Edmund Gwenn is the only actor to ever win an oscar for playing Santa Claus.
1948: The awards are separated between color films and black and white films.
1949: Walter and John Huston become the first son and father to both have Oscars. Other father-son winners include Harold and Carl Kress, Darryl and Richard Zanuck, Kirk and Michael Douglas, Charles and Davis Guggenheim and Russel and Christopher Rouse.
Joseph L. Manklewicz won Best Director in both 1949 and 1950. Only other director to have two consecutive years was John Ford.
With 14, the 1950's "All About Eve," was the most nominated film of all time until it was tied with 1997's "Titanic" and 2016's "La La Land".
1951: Humphrey Bogart wins his one and only Best Actor award for "The African Queen." He died five years later.
In 1953 the Academy Awards was broadcasted on television for the first time.
1953: Audrey Hepburn wins the Best Actress award in her film debut in "Roman Holiday."
Vivien Leigh's Oscar was stolen from her house during a robbery.
James Dean would die a few months before his first oscar nomination. The following people were also nominated for acting posthumously. Jeanne Eagels (heroin overdose), Peter Finch (heart attack, won), Ralph Richardson (stroke), Spencer Tracy (heart attack), Massimo Troisi (heart attack), Heath Ledger (accidental overdose, won).
All "Best Picture" nominees of 1956 were in color.
1956: Victor Young wins posthumously an Oscar for Best Score.
At the 1958's Oscars "Gigi," broke the record for the most awards won for a movie, totaling nine. However, that record was quickly beat the following year by "Ben-Hur," which won 11. This record wasn't tied until 1997's "Titanic," and then again in 2003 by "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King."
In 1958 William A. Horning posthumously won an Oscar for Best Art Direction for "Gigi". Then he won again the following year for Best Art Direction for "Ben-Hur". He is the only person to ever win posthumously two years in a row.
1958: Miyoshi Umeki wins Best Supporting Actress for the film "Sayonara". To this day she still is the only Asian woman to have won an acting Oscar.
In 1958 Sidney Poitier was the first black man to be nominated. In 1964 he would be the first black actor to win an Oscar for "Lillies of the Field."
1960: The Academy awarded both Stan Laurel and Gary Cooper with an Honorary Awards. Cooper was too ill to except it and died a month later. Jimmy Stewart accepted the award on his behalf. Laurel was also too ill to attend and died four years later. Danny Kaye accepted the award on his behalf.
1960: Eric Orbom wins posthumously the Best Oscar for Best Art Direction for "Spartacus."
1962: at age 10, Mary Badham becomes the youngest nominee ever for Best Supporting Actress in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Patty Duke hid her pet Chihuahua in her bag for good luck at the 1962 Oscars. She would win Best Supporting Actress at the age of 16 for "The Miracle Worker".
1962: Rita Moreno becomes the first actress of Latin heritage to win an Oscar for acting. She won Best Supporting Actress for playing Anita in "West Side Story".
1964: Julie Andrews wins Best Actress award for her theatrical debut in "Mary Poppins."
1966: Sisters Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave are both nominated for Best Actress. This had not happened since 1941 when Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland were both nominated together.
Before Walt Disney died in 1966 he broke the record books by having been nominated for 59 Oscars, taking home 22 of those.
The 1968 ceremony was postponed for two days for Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral.
In 1968 was the one and only tie for Best Actress. Both Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn went home with statues. (The rules have changed since then)
Katharine Hepburn holds the record for most Oscars won for best actress-four. She won Best Actress in 1967 and 1968.
The 1967 ceremony was almost cancelled due to an ongoing strike with the union AFTRA.
1968: The Oscars were broadcasted worldwide, reaching 37 nations.
At the 1970 Academy Awards George C. Scott is a no show and refused his Best Actor award for "Patton".
In 1970 Edith Head received the last Best Costume nominee of her career. In the end she ranked in a shocking 35 nominees. She went home with 8.
Charlie Chaplin receives the longest standing ovation ever, lasting over five minutes for his honorary Oscar in 1972. He died 5 years later.
In 1973 Tatum O'Neil becomes the youngest actress to win an Oscar at age ten for her supporting role in "Paper Moon."
1973: Marlon Brando refuses his Best Actor Oscar for "The Godfather" due to the way Native Americans are portrayed in films.
Groucho Marx was given an Honorary Oscar in 1974. He died three years later.
1974: A man sneaks backstage and runs across the award show stage naked while holding a peace sign.
1974: Julia Phillips become the first female producer to win Best Picture for "The Sting".
At 80 George Burns was the oldest man to win Best Supporting Actor at the 1975 Oscars.
In 1975 Louise Fletcher is the first person to every speak in sign language during her acceptance speak for Best Actress in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." (Both her parents are deaf.)
Due to his death, Peter Finch's widow accepts his Best Actor Oscar for "Network" in 1976.
In 1976 Mary Pickford wins an Honorary Oscar. She died three years later.
In 1978 Meryl Streep's fiance and co-star actor John Cazale dies from bone cancer before seeing "The Deer Hunter" win best picture. He is known in hollywood as a legend because he only acted in five films and all five were nominated for best picture.
At age 8, Justin Henry becomes the youngest nominee ever for Best Supporting Actor in "Kramer Vs. Kramer" at the 1979 Oscars.
1979: John Wayne makes a speech saying, "Oscar and I both came to Hollywood in 1928. We're both still here and plan to to be around for a whole lot longer." Two months later Wayne died from cancer.
Robert Redford wins Best Picture and Best Director in 1980 for "Ordinary People". It was his directorial debut.
At age 20 Timothy Hutton becomes the youngest male to win an Oscar for his supporting role in "Ordinary People" in 1980. It was his first movie.
The 1981 ceremony was postponed a day due to the assassination attempt on President Reagan.
William Wyler died in 1981 after three Oscar wins for Best Director. He holds the record with 12 Best directing nominations. Billy Wilder was next in line with 8.
At age 76, Henry Fonda becomes the oldest Best Actor winner for "On Golden Pond," at the 1981 Oscars. He was too ill to attend the show and died 5 months after winning. His daughter, Jane Fonda, received the award on his behalf.
At the 1982 Oscars Jessica Lange is honored with the rare occasion of being nominated for both Best Actress in "Frances" and Best Supporting Actress in "Tootsie" in the same year. She won for "Tootsie."
The 1983 ceremony was supposed to have a song segment dedicated to Irving Berlin preformed by Ethel Merman. Unfortunately, Merman had a stroke days before the show and Bernadette Peters took her place. Merman died two years later.
Shockingly George C. Scott attends the 1983 ceremony despite the fact he refused his 1971 Oscar trophy.
92 year old, Hal Roach is awarded an Honorary Oscar in 1984. He died in 1992 at the age of 100! Here are some other Oscar winners that lived to be 100 or older.... Irving Berlin 101, George Burns 100, Bob Hope 100, Robert F. Boyle 100 and nominee Gloria Stuart 100.
1984: Haing S. Ngor wins Best Supporting Actor for the film "The Killing Fields". To this day he is the only Asian man to have won an acting Oscar.
1984: Peggy Ashcroft became the oldest Best Supporting Actress for her role in "A Passage to India."
1985- "The Color Purple," was the most nominated movie (with 11) to walk away with not one award.
1985: Geraldine Page won best actress for "The Trip to Bountiful". A year later she died from a heart attack.
1985: "Kiss of the Spider Woman" was the first independent film nominated for Best Picture.
Oliver Stone won Best Director in 1986 and 1989.
1986: Marlee Matlin becomes the youngest woman to win Best Actress for her role in "Children of a Lesser God." She was 21. It was her first role.
1986: "Children of a Lesser God" was the first movie directed by a woman (Randa Haines) to be nominated for Best Picture.
1986: Actor John Randolph's wife, actress Sarah Cunningham died from an asthma attack while attending the ceremony.
1988: Ceremony is in the middle of a writer's strike.
1988: Olympia Dukakis cheers on her cousin Michael Dukakis in her acceptance speech. He was running for President at the time.
In 1988 the Academy decided to change the phrase from "And the winner is..." to a less competitive saying "And the Oscar goes to..."
In 1988 Sigourney Weaver was nominated for both Best Actress for "Gorillas in the Mist," and Best Supporting Actress for "Working Girl." She would go home empty handed.
Best Picture of 1988 was "Rain Man" which was based on the real life of savant (Laurence) Kim Peek who suffered from FG syndrome. The movie's script writer Barry Morrow met Peek in 1984, fasinated by his mind he knew he had to write a film for him. He would go on to win an Oscar for Best Screenplay, which he gave to Peek. Peek died at the age of 58 in 2009.
The 1989 ceremony was Lucille Ball's last public appearance. She died a month later.
At 80, Jessica Tandy becomes the oldest winner of the Best Actress award for her role in "Driving Miss. Daisy," in 1989. When notified of this fact back stage she said, "Am I? Well, good for me." She died four years later from cancer.
1989- Denzel Washington becomes the fourth African American to win an acting Oscar in history. That took 60 years to accomplish. The short span since then has added nine more people to that list. (not including Washington and Poitier's duplicate wins.) As Morgan Freeman said, "It is now time that we stop categorizing in terms of race and simply regard actors as actors."
1989: to date "Driving Miss. Daisy" is the last PG rated film to win Best Picture.
1990: Joe Pesci's acceptance speech for his Best Supporting Actor award for "Good Fellas" was one of the shortest ever. All in six words..."It was my privilege...Thank you."
1990- Kevin Costner tries his hand at Directing with "Dances With Wolves" and wins both Best Director and Best Picture.
In 1991 John Singleton becomes the first black and youngest male ever nominated Best Director for "Boyz N The Hood."
1991: Disney's "Beauty and The Beast" becomes the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture. They would create the "Best Animated Film" category by the year 2001.
1991: Howard Ashman wins "Best Song" for "Beauty and the Beast". He died a year earlier from AIDS. His partner accepted the award on his behalf.
1991: "Silence of the Lambs" was the first movie to already be released on video before it won Best Picture.
1992: Screenwriter Carol Sobieski was posthumously nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Fried Green Tomatoes".
Al Pacino is nominated for both Best Actor for "Scent of a Woman," and Best Supporting Actor for "Glengarry Glen Ross," in 1992. He won Best Actor.
Steven Spielberg won Best Director in 1993 and 1998. Twice in one decade is quite rare.
In 1993 Holly Hunter was nominated for both Best Actress for "The Piano" and Best Supporting Actress for "The Firm." She would win for "The Piano" which was a non-speaking role.
Meryl Streep holds the record for most nominees for a female. Jack Nicholson holds the record for male.
Vivien Leigh's Oscar for "Gone With the Wind," was auctioned off for $500,000. She was paid $15,000 for the role.
At age 11, Anna Paquin becomes the second youngest Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "The Piano," in 1993.
1993- Emma Thompson is nominated for Best Actress in "The Remains of the Day," and Best Supporting Actress for "In the Name of the Father." She would win neither.
The movie "In and Out" is based on Tom Hank's emotional acceptance speech for Best Actor in "Philadelphia."
51 actors with AIDS appeared in 1993's nominated film "Philadelphia," by 1995 43 had died.
1993: Director Federico Fellini is awarded an Honorary Oscar. He died seven months later.
1994: the "In Memoriam" segment of the show is added.
When Clark Gable's Oscar for Best Actor in "Gone with the Wind," was up for auctioning, an upset Steven Spielberg bought it for $550,000 and donated it to the Academy.
1995: Massimo Troisi is posthumously nominated for Best Actor in "Il Postino". He died from a heart attack 12 days after the movie wrapped.
The 1996 ceremony's most emotional moment came from a special appearance by Christopher Reeve who was wheelchair-bound from a horse-riding accident a year earlier.
Director Billy Wilder told Billy Bob Thornton that he was too ugly to be an actor and he'd be better off trying to be a screenwriter. In 1996 he won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Sling Blade."
In 1997 "Titanic," becomes highest-grossing film of all time, bringing in over $1 billion worldwide. The film's budget was $200,000,000 making it the most costly "Best Picture" ever. The making of the film cost more than it did to built the original ship.
"Titanic" is one of the only films to win Best Picture and yet not receive a screenplay nomination. Prior to that was "The Sound of Music".
Gloria Stuart becomes the oldest nominee for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Titanic." She was 87.
In 1997 both Best Actress and Best Actor went to Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson for "As Good As It Gets." This is the last time a movie won both those awards. It is a rare occurrence and has only happened 6 other times. ("It Happened One Night" (1934), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), "Network" (1976), "Coming Home" (1978), "On Golden Pond" (1981), "Silence of the Lambs" (1991).
1998: The award ceremony is moved for the first time to Sunday night instead of the usual monday night.
In 1998 Roberto Benigni joins Orson Welles, Warren Beatty and Woody Allen as one of the Academy's few trifecta nominees for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture for "Life is Beautiful." (He would win best foreign film and actor.) Also the only person to direct himself to a Best Actor award beside Laurence Olivier.
Angelina Jolie wins an Oscar for "Girl, Interrupted," in 1999, adding her and her father, Jon Voight to the father-daughter winners including Henry and Jane Fonda, Liza Minnelli and Vincente Minnelli, Francis Ford-Coppola and Sofia Coppola, and Anjelica and John Huston.
Michael Jackson paid $1.5 million for producer David O. Selznick's Best Picture Oscar for "Gone With the Wind."
In 1999 Richard Farnsworth became the oldest Best Actor nominee at the age of 79 for "Straight Story." He shot himself a year later.
1999- The cheerleading dance in Best Picture winner "American Beauty," was choreographed by Paula Abdul. She also choreographed The 62nd Academy Awards.
1999- Sam Mendes wins Best Picture and Best Director for "American Beauty". His first full length feature film.
1999: In Memoriam leaves out famous movie critic Gene Siskel.
During the 1990's "Silence of the Lambs" and "American Beauty" were the only non-historical films to win Best Picture.
Steven Soderbergh gets a double Best Director nomination for both "Traffic," and "Erin Brockovich in 2000. He would win for "Traffic."
Surprise! On the way to the award show 55 Oscars were stolen from the truck in 2000.
2001: Joaquin Phoenix is nominated for Best Supporting Actor, the same category his deceased brother River, was nominated in in 1988. This makes them the only acting nominated brothers.
2001: Halle Berry is the first African American female to win Best Actress for "Monster's Ball."
2001: the academy adds a Best Animated Film category. "Shrek" takes home the first award.
2002: First ceremony held in the award show's new home, the Kodak theater.
Despite winning multiple times 2002's ceremony was the first show Woody Allen attended. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks he came to give a speech to promote filming movies in N.Y.C. It was both humorous and heart-warming.
In 2002 Adrien Brody became the youngest male to win Best Actor at age 29, for "The Pianist."
2002: Cinematographer Conrad Hall posthumously wins for "Road to Perdition".
John C. Reilly is the only actor to have starred in three out of five best pictures nominees for 2002. The Hours, Gangs of New York and Chicago. He was nominated for Chicago.
Roman Polanski won Best Director for "The Pianist." Due to a warrant for his arrest in the U.S. he was not allowed to enter the country. Five months after winning Harrison Ford flew to France to hand him his award.
Julianne Moore is nominated twice in one night in 2002. One for Best Actress in "Far From Heaven," and another for Best Supporting Actress in "The Hours." Unfortunately she won neither.
At 13, Keisha Castle-Hughes becomes the youngest female nominee for Best Actress for "The Whale Rider," in 2003.
The only sequels to win Best Picture was "The Godfather II" (1974) and "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" (2003) (Both had all three films in the trilogy nominated for Best Picture)
Jamie Fox had the honor of being nominated twice at the 2004 Oscars. Best Supporting Actor for "Collateral," and Best Actor for "Ray." He won for "Ray."
At 74, Clint Eastwood became the oldest director to ever win an Oscar for "Million Dollar Baby" in 2004.
Since 1950 the statuettes won are under a contract stating that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for $1. If an Academy Award winner refuses to agree to this rule, then the Academy keeps the award.
2005: For the first time all Five nominated best pictures were not among the Top 40 box office blockbusters.
2006: Director Robert Altman was awarded a Honorary Oscar. He died seven months later.
At 10 Abigail Breslin is one of the youngest nominated females for her role in "Little Miss Sunshine," in 2006. (best supporting actress)
2006: For the first time in 44 years each of the winning actors were a first-time nominee.
Jennifer Hudson may have lost "American Idol" but won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in "Dreamgirls," in 2006. It was her first film.
The only song from a documentary film to win an Oscar was “I Need to Wake Up” by Melissa Etheridge from “An Inconvenient Truth,” in 2006.
The 2007 Oscars almost wasn't, due to an ongoing writer's strike.
Cate Blancett is nominated for both Best Supporting Actress in "I'm Not There," and Best Actress for "Elizabeth: The Golden Years." in 2007. Lost both.
2007: "No Country for Old Men" is the second film in history to share the Best Director Oscar between two directors since "West Side Story" in 1961. This making Ethan and Joel Coen the only brothers in Hollywood to have Oscars besides the Sherman and Newman brothers, who are both songwriters.
Due to his death, Heath Ledger's family accepts his Oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards. He won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Joker in "The Dark Knight".
In 2008 Art Director Robert F. Boyle, 98 becomes the oldest person to win an Honorary Oscar. He lived to see 100.
2008: Ang Lee wins Best Director for the film "Brokeback Mountain" making him the only Asian person to ever win for Directing.
2008: the In Memoriam leaves out several persons including Brad Renfro, Joel Siegel, and Robert Goulet, which was an insult. The Academy's President said "it was due to time limits." Funny how they still had time for his boring speech. And I'm sorry but why are executive producers, publicists, agents, etc. mentioned in the Memoriam do they really add to the "art" of the movies?
2009: In Memoriam leaves out George Carlin, Patrick McGoohan, Eartha Kitt and Estelle Getty. And not to mention voice actor Don LaFontaine who did the voice-over work for the 79th Academy Awards. Does this In Memoriam department not have editors?
2009: Best Picture goes to The Hurt Locker despite it being the lowest grossing best picture winner of all time.
2010: the Academy decides to increase Best Picture nominees from five to ten.
2010: In Memoriam leaves out Farrah Fawcett and Henry Gibson. First Fawcett died the same day as Michael Jackson so she was overshadowed. Now they leave her out of the Memoriam montage. Sad.
In 2010 Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to ever win for best director. Only three other woman have ever been nominated. They are Lina Wertmuller, Sofia Coppola and Jane Campion.
2011: Eddie Murphy was set to host the ceremony but stepped down and was replaced by veteran host, Billy Crystal.
2011: The academy can only come up with nine best pictures to nominate.
In 2011 Christopher Plummer, at age 82 becomes the oldest star to ever win an acting Oscar for his supporting role in "Beginners".
2011: Woody Allen holds the record for most nominations for Best Original Screenplay. 15 nominations and three wins so far...
2011: In Memoriam leaves out Corey Haim. Huge 80s star.
2012: the ceremony's home name is changed from the Kodak theater to The Dolby Theater.
2012: At 85, Emmanuelle Riva becomes the oldest Best Actress nominee in history for her work in foreign film "Amour".
2012: Newcomer Quvenzhane Wallis is nominated for Best Actress in "Beasts of the Southern Wild". At age 9 this makes her the youngest Best Actress nominee ever. It is her first acting role.
2012: Now with three, Daniel Day-Lewis holds the most awards for Best Actor.
2012: In Memoriam leaves out Harry Morgan and Michael Gough.
Thinking it would appeal to the younger demographic the show was only referred to as "The Oscars" and not the "85th Academy Awards".
2013: At 23, Jennifer Lawrence is the youngest person to be nominated three times.
2013: In Memoriam leaves out Andy Griffith and Phyllis Diller.
2015: In Memoriam leaves out Joan Rivers. Shame! and Elaine Stritch.
2016: In Memoriam leaves out Abe Vigoda
2017: Damien Chazelle becomes youngest director to win ever!
2017: First Time EVER the wrong film was announced as Best Picture. Warren Beatty was handed the wrong envelope in which contained the movie "La, La, Land". After the film was announced and the error was noticed he was handed the correct envelope. "Moonlight" won Best Picture.
2017: In Memoriam leaves out Alexis Arquette. Sister Patricia is outraged. Names also left out were Garry Shandling, Robert Vaugh and Doris Roberts. Due to Bill Paxton dying the day before the Oscars Jennifer Aniston verbally remembered him before presenting the In Memoriam segment.
2018: At age 89, James Ivory became the oldest winner of the academy award for his screenplay for "Call Me By Your Name".
2018: Rachel Morrison becomes the first woman ever nominated for cinematography for "Mudbound".
2018: Dee Rees becomes the first black woman ever nominated for Best adapted screenplay for "Mudbound".
2018: In Memoriam leaves out Adam West, Powers Booth and John Mahoney. Terrible.
2019: "Most Popular Film" was being considered as a new category in 2019. This idea was thought to draw in a younger audience. The members of the academy shot the idea down stating " it's not a popularity contest, it's about the art". I fully agree. If you want to vote for most popular film watch the MTV movie awards.
2019: "Black Panther" becomes the first superhero movie ever nominated for Best Picture.
2019: Kevin Hart was asked to host but stepped down. This is the first show since 1989 to NOT have a host.
2019: In Memoriam leaves out Verne Troyer, Dick Miller, Sondra Locke, R. Lee Ermey and Carol Channing.
2020: Scarlett Johansson is nominated twice. Best Actress for "Marriage Story" and Best Supporting Actress for "Jojo Rabbit". As it usually goes, she won neither.
2020: "Parasite" is the first International film nominated from South Korea. It is the first win from that country.
2020: "Parasite" is the first film EVER to win BOTH best foreign film and Best Picture.
2020: Zach Gottsagen becomes the first actor with Down Syndrome to present at the awards.
2020: First year to have a Female conductor named Eimear Noone conducts a segment of the show.
2020: Sid Haig, Luke Perry, Michael J. Pollard, and Bill Macy are just a few people left out of the "In Memoriam" segment.
1964: Julie Andrews wins Best Actress award for her theatrical debut in "Mary Poppins."
1966: Sisters Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave are both nominated for Best Actress. This had not happened since 1941 when Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland were both nominated together.
Before Walt Disney died in 1966 he broke the record books by having been nominated for 59 Oscars, taking home 22 of those.
The 1968 ceremony was postponed for two days for Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral.
In 1968 was the one and only tie for Best Actress. Both Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn went home with statues. (The rules have changed since then)
Katharine Hepburn holds the record for most Oscars won for best actress-four. She won Best Actress in 1967 and 1968.
The 1967 ceremony was almost cancelled due to an ongoing strike with the union AFTRA.
1968: The Oscars were broadcasted worldwide, reaching 37 nations.
At the 1970 Academy Awards George C. Scott is a no show and refused his Best Actor award for "Patton".
In 1970 Edith Head received the last Best Costume nominee of her career. In the end she ranked in a shocking 35 nominees. She went home with 8.
Charlie Chaplin receives the longest standing ovation ever, lasting over five minutes for his honorary Oscar in 1972. He died 5 years later.
In 1973 Tatum O'Neil becomes the youngest actress to win an Oscar at age ten for her supporting role in "Paper Moon."
1973: Marlon Brando refuses his Best Actor Oscar for "The Godfather" due to the way Native Americans are portrayed in films.
Groucho Marx was given an Honorary Oscar in 1974. He died three years later.
1974: A man sneaks backstage and runs across the award show stage naked while holding a peace sign.
1974: Julia Phillips become the first female producer to win Best Picture for "The Sting".
At 80 George Burns was the oldest man to win Best Supporting Actor at the 1975 Oscars.
In 1975 Louise Fletcher is the first person to every speak in sign language during her acceptance speak for Best Actress in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." (Both her parents are deaf.)
Due to his death, Peter Finch's widow accepts his Best Actor Oscar for "Network" in 1976.
In 1976 Mary Pickford wins an Honorary Oscar. She died three years later.
In 1978 Meryl Streep's fiance and co-star actor John Cazale dies from bone cancer before seeing "The Deer Hunter" win best picture. He is known in hollywood as a legend because he only acted in five films and all five were nominated for best picture.
At age 8, Justin Henry becomes the youngest nominee ever for Best Supporting Actor in "Kramer Vs. Kramer" at the 1979 Oscars.
1979: John Wayne makes a speech saying, "Oscar and I both came to Hollywood in 1928. We're both still here and plan to to be around for a whole lot longer." Two months later Wayne died from cancer.
Robert Redford wins Best Picture and Best Director in 1980 for "Ordinary People". It was his directorial debut.
At age 20 Timothy Hutton becomes the youngest male to win an Oscar for his supporting role in "Ordinary People" in 1980. It was his first movie.
The 1981 ceremony was postponed a day due to the assassination attempt on President Reagan.
William Wyler died in 1981 after three Oscar wins for Best Director. He holds the record with 12 Best directing nominations. Billy Wilder was next in line with 8.
At age 76, Henry Fonda becomes the oldest Best Actor winner for "On Golden Pond," at the 1981 Oscars. He was too ill to attend the show and died 5 months after winning. His daughter, Jane Fonda, received the award on his behalf.
At the 1982 Oscars Jessica Lange is honored with the rare occasion of being nominated for both Best Actress in "Frances" and Best Supporting Actress in "Tootsie" in the same year. She won for "Tootsie."
The 1983 ceremony was supposed to have a song segment dedicated to Irving Berlin preformed by Ethel Merman. Unfortunately, Merman had a stroke days before the show and Bernadette Peters took her place. Merman died two years later.
Shockingly George C. Scott attends the 1983 ceremony despite the fact he refused his 1971 Oscar trophy.
92 year old, Hal Roach is awarded an Honorary Oscar in 1984. He died in 1992 at the age of 100! Here are some other Oscar winners that lived to be 100 or older.... Irving Berlin 101, George Burns 100, Bob Hope 100, Robert F. Boyle 100 and nominee Gloria Stuart 100.
1984: Haing S. Ngor wins Best Supporting Actor for the film "The Killing Fields". To this day he is the only Asian man to have won an acting Oscar.
1984: Peggy Ashcroft became the oldest Best Supporting Actress for her role in "A Passage to India."
1985- "The Color Purple," was the most nominated movie (with 11) to walk away with not one award.
1985: Geraldine Page won best actress for "The Trip to Bountiful". A year later she died from a heart attack.
1985: "Kiss of the Spider Woman" was the first independent film nominated for Best Picture.
Oliver Stone won Best Director in 1986 and 1989.
1986: Marlee Matlin becomes the youngest woman to win Best Actress for her role in "Children of a Lesser God." She was 21. It was her first role.
1986: "Children of a Lesser God" was the first movie directed by a woman (Randa Haines) to be nominated for Best Picture.
1986: Actor John Randolph's wife, actress Sarah Cunningham died from an asthma attack while attending the ceremony.
1988: Ceremony is in the middle of a writer's strike.
1988: Olympia Dukakis cheers on her cousin Michael Dukakis in her acceptance speech. He was running for President at the time.
In 1988 the Academy decided to change the phrase from "And the winner is..." to a less competitive saying "And the Oscar goes to..."
In 1988 Sigourney Weaver was nominated for both Best Actress for "Gorillas in the Mist," and Best Supporting Actress for "Working Girl." She would go home empty handed.
Best Picture of 1988 was "Rain Man" which was based on the real life of savant (Laurence) Kim Peek who suffered from FG syndrome. The movie's script writer Barry Morrow met Peek in 1984, fasinated by his mind he knew he had to write a film for him. He would go on to win an Oscar for Best Screenplay, which he gave to Peek. Peek died at the age of 58 in 2009.
The 1989 ceremony was Lucille Ball's last public appearance. She died a month later.
At 80, Jessica Tandy becomes the oldest winner of the Best Actress award for her role in "Driving Miss. Daisy," in 1989. When notified of this fact back stage she said, "Am I? Well, good for me." She died four years later from cancer.
1989- Denzel Washington becomes the fourth African American to win an acting Oscar in history. That took 60 years to accomplish. The short span since then has added nine more people to that list. (not including Washington and Poitier's duplicate wins.) As Morgan Freeman said, "It is now time that we stop categorizing in terms of race and simply regard actors as actors."
1989: to date "Driving Miss. Daisy" is the last PG rated film to win Best Picture.
1990: Joe Pesci's acceptance speech for his Best Supporting Actor award for "Good Fellas" was one of the shortest ever. All in six words..."It was my privilege...Thank you."
1990- Kevin Costner tries his hand at Directing with "Dances With Wolves" and wins both Best Director and Best Picture.
In 1991 John Singleton becomes the first black and youngest male ever nominated Best Director for "Boyz N The Hood."
1991: Disney's "Beauty and The Beast" becomes the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture. They would create the "Best Animated Film" category by the year 2001.
1991: Howard Ashman wins "Best Song" for "Beauty and the Beast". He died a year earlier from AIDS. His partner accepted the award on his behalf.
1991: "Silence of the Lambs" was the first movie to already be released on video before it won Best Picture.
1992: Screenwriter Carol Sobieski was posthumously nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Fried Green Tomatoes".
Al Pacino is nominated for both Best Actor for "Scent of a Woman," and Best Supporting Actor for "Glengarry Glen Ross," in 1992. He won Best Actor.
Steven Spielberg won Best Director in 1993 and 1998. Twice in one decade is quite rare.
In 1993 Holly Hunter was nominated for both Best Actress for "The Piano" and Best Supporting Actress for "The Firm." She would win for "The Piano" which was a non-speaking role.
Meryl Streep holds the record for most nominees for a female. Jack Nicholson holds the record for male.
Vivien Leigh's Oscar for "Gone With the Wind," was auctioned off for $500,000. She was paid $15,000 for the role.
At age 11, Anna Paquin becomes the second youngest Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "The Piano," in 1993.
1993- Emma Thompson is nominated for Best Actress in "The Remains of the Day," and Best Supporting Actress for "In the Name of the Father." She would win neither.
The movie "In and Out" is based on Tom Hank's emotional acceptance speech for Best Actor in "Philadelphia."
51 actors with AIDS appeared in 1993's nominated film "Philadelphia," by 1995 43 had died.
1993: Director Federico Fellini is awarded an Honorary Oscar. He died seven months later.
1994: the "In Memoriam" segment of the show is added.
When Clark Gable's Oscar for Best Actor in "Gone with the Wind," was up for auctioning, an upset Steven Spielberg bought it for $550,000 and donated it to the Academy.
1995: Massimo Troisi is posthumously nominated for Best Actor in "Il Postino". He died from a heart attack 12 days after the movie wrapped.
The 1996 ceremony's most emotional moment came from a special appearance by Christopher Reeve who was wheelchair-bound from a horse-riding accident a year earlier.
Director Billy Wilder told Billy Bob Thornton that he was too ugly to be an actor and he'd be better off trying to be a screenwriter. In 1996 he won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Sling Blade."
In 1997 "Titanic," becomes highest-grossing film of all time, bringing in over $1 billion worldwide. The film's budget was $200,000,000 making it the most costly "Best Picture" ever. The making of the film cost more than it did to built the original ship.
"Titanic" is one of the only films to win Best Picture and yet not receive a screenplay nomination. Prior to that was "The Sound of Music".
Gloria Stuart becomes the oldest nominee for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Titanic." She was 87.
In 1997 both Best Actress and Best Actor went to Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson for "As Good As It Gets." This is the last time a movie won both those awards. It is a rare occurrence and has only happened 6 other times. ("It Happened One Night" (1934), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), "Network" (1976), "Coming Home" (1978), "On Golden Pond" (1981), "Silence of the Lambs" (1991).
1998: The award ceremony is moved for the first time to Sunday night instead of the usual monday night.
In 1998 Roberto Benigni joins Orson Welles, Warren Beatty and Woody Allen as one of the Academy's few trifecta nominees for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture for "Life is Beautiful." (He would win best foreign film and actor.) Also the only person to direct himself to a Best Actor award beside Laurence Olivier.
Angelina Jolie wins an Oscar for "Girl, Interrupted," in 1999, adding her and her father, Jon Voight to the father-daughter winners including Henry and Jane Fonda, Liza Minnelli and Vincente Minnelli, Francis Ford-Coppola and Sofia Coppola, and Anjelica and John Huston.
Michael Jackson paid $1.5 million for producer David O. Selznick's Best Picture Oscar for "Gone With the Wind."
In 1999 Richard Farnsworth became the oldest Best Actor nominee at the age of 79 for "Straight Story." He shot himself a year later.
1999- The cheerleading dance in Best Picture winner "American Beauty," was choreographed by Paula Abdul. She also choreographed The 62nd Academy Awards.
1999- Sam Mendes wins Best Picture and Best Director for "American Beauty". His first full length feature film.
1999: In Memoriam leaves out famous movie critic Gene Siskel.
During the 1990's "Silence of the Lambs" and "American Beauty" were the only non-historical films to win Best Picture.
Steven Soderbergh gets a double Best Director nomination for both "Traffic," and "Erin Brockovich in 2000. He would win for "Traffic."
Surprise! On the way to the award show 55 Oscars were stolen from the truck in 2000.
2001: Joaquin Phoenix is nominated for Best Supporting Actor, the same category his deceased brother River, was nominated in in 1988. This makes them the only acting nominated brothers.
2001: Halle Berry is the first African American female to win Best Actress for "Monster's Ball."
2001: the academy adds a Best Animated Film category. "Shrek" takes home the first award.
2002: First ceremony held in the award show's new home, the Kodak theater.
Despite winning multiple times 2002's ceremony was the first show Woody Allen attended. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks he came to give a speech to promote filming movies in N.Y.C. It was both humorous and heart-warming.
In 2002 Adrien Brody became the youngest male to win Best Actor at age 29, for "The Pianist."
2002: Cinematographer Conrad Hall posthumously wins for "Road to Perdition".
John C. Reilly is the only actor to have starred in three out of five best pictures nominees for 2002. The Hours, Gangs of New York and Chicago. He was nominated for Chicago.
Roman Polanski won Best Director for "The Pianist." Due to a warrant for his arrest in the U.S. he was not allowed to enter the country. Five months after winning Harrison Ford flew to France to hand him his award.
Julianne Moore is nominated twice in one night in 2002. One for Best Actress in "Far From Heaven," and another for Best Supporting Actress in "The Hours." Unfortunately she won neither.
At 13, Keisha Castle-Hughes becomes the youngest female nominee for Best Actress for "The Whale Rider," in 2003.
The only sequels to win Best Picture was "The Godfather II" (1974) and "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" (2003) (Both had all three films in the trilogy nominated for Best Picture)
Jamie Fox had the honor of being nominated twice at the 2004 Oscars. Best Supporting Actor for "Collateral," and Best Actor for "Ray." He won for "Ray."
At 74, Clint Eastwood became the oldest director to ever win an Oscar for "Million Dollar Baby" in 2004.
Since 1950 the statuettes won are under a contract stating that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for $1. If an Academy Award winner refuses to agree to this rule, then the Academy keeps the award.
2005: For the first time all Five nominated best pictures were not among the Top 40 box office blockbusters.
2006: Director Robert Altman was awarded a Honorary Oscar. He died seven months later.
At 10 Abigail Breslin is one of the youngest nominated females for her role in "Little Miss Sunshine," in 2006. (best supporting actress)
2006: For the first time in 44 years each of the winning actors were a first-time nominee.
Jennifer Hudson may have lost "American Idol" but won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in "Dreamgirls," in 2006. It was her first film.
The only song from a documentary film to win an Oscar was “I Need to Wake Up” by Melissa Etheridge from “An Inconvenient Truth,” in 2006.
The 2007 Oscars almost wasn't, due to an ongoing writer's strike.
Cate Blancett is nominated for both Best Supporting Actress in "I'm Not There," and Best Actress for "Elizabeth: The Golden Years." in 2007. Lost both.
2007: "No Country for Old Men" is the second film in history to share the Best Director Oscar between two directors since "West Side Story" in 1961. This making Ethan and Joel Coen the only brothers in Hollywood to have Oscars besides the Sherman and Newman brothers, who are both songwriters.
Due to his death, Heath Ledger's family accepts his Oscar at the 2008 Academy Awards. He won Best Supporting Actor for his role as Joker in "The Dark Knight".
In 2008 Art Director Robert F. Boyle, 98 becomes the oldest person to win an Honorary Oscar. He lived to see 100.
2008: Ang Lee wins Best Director for the film "Brokeback Mountain" making him the only Asian person to ever win for Directing.
2008: the In Memoriam leaves out several persons including Brad Renfro, Joel Siegel, and Robert Goulet, which was an insult. The Academy's President said "it was due to time limits." Funny how they still had time for his boring speech. And I'm sorry but why are executive producers, publicists, agents, etc. mentioned in the Memoriam do they really add to the "art" of the movies?
2009: In Memoriam leaves out George Carlin, Patrick McGoohan, Eartha Kitt and Estelle Getty. And not to mention voice actor Don LaFontaine who did the voice-over work for the 79th Academy Awards. Does this In Memoriam department not have editors?
2009: Best Picture goes to The Hurt Locker despite it being the lowest grossing best picture winner of all time.
2010: the Academy decides to increase Best Picture nominees from five to ten.
2010: In Memoriam leaves out Farrah Fawcett and Henry Gibson. First Fawcett died the same day as Michael Jackson so she was overshadowed. Now they leave her out of the Memoriam montage. Sad.
In 2010 Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to ever win for best director. Only three other woman have ever been nominated. They are Lina Wertmuller, Sofia Coppola and Jane Campion.
2011: Eddie Murphy was set to host the ceremony but stepped down and was replaced by veteran host, Billy Crystal.
2011: The academy can only come up with nine best pictures to nominate.
In 2011 Christopher Plummer, at age 82 becomes the oldest star to ever win an acting Oscar for his supporting role in "Beginners".
2011: Woody Allen holds the record for most nominations for Best Original Screenplay. 15 nominations and three wins so far...
2011: In Memoriam leaves out Corey Haim. Huge 80s star.
2012: the ceremony's home name is changed from the Kodak theater to The Dolby Theater.
2012: At 85, Emmanuelle Riva becomes the oldest Best Actress nominee in history for her work in foreign film "Amour".
2012: Newcomer Quvenzhane Wallis is nominated for Best Actress in "Beasts of the Southern Wild". At age 9 this makes her the youngest Best Actress nominee ever. It is her first acting role.
In 2012 "Silver Linings Playbook" became the first movie since "Reds" in 1981 to have been nominated in all four acting categories. Bradley Cooper for Best Actress, Jennifer Lawrence for Best Actress, Robert De Niro for Best Supporting Actor and Jacki Weaver for Best Supporting Actress. No film HAS EVER WON ALL FOUR AWARDS. Only two films in history have received three, those being "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1951 and "Network" in 1976.
2012: In Memoriam leaves out Harry Morgan and Michael Gough.
Thinking it would appeal to the younger demographic the show was only referred to as "The Oscars" and not the "85th Academy Awards".
2013: At 23, Jennifer Lawrence is the youngest person to be nominated three times.
2013: In Memoriam leaves out Andy Griffith and Phyllis Diller.
2015: In Memoriam leaves out Joan Rivers. Shame! and Elaine Stritch.
2016: In Memoriam leaves out Abe Vigoda
2017: Damien Chazelle becomes youngest director to win ever!
2017: First Time EVER the wrong film was announced as Best Picture. Warren Beatty was handed the wrong envelope in which contained the movie "La, La, Land". After the film was announced and the error was noticed he was handed the correct envelope. "Moonlight" won Best Picture.
2017: In Memoriam leaves out Alexis Arquette. Sister Patricia is outraged. Names also left out were Garry Shandling, Robert Vaugh and Doris Roberts. Due to Bill Paxton dying the day before the Oscars Jennifer Aniston verbally remembered him before presenting the In Memoriam segment.
2018: At age 89, James Ivory became the oldest winner of the academy award for his screenplay for "Call Me By Your Name".
2018: Rachel Morrison becomes the first woman ever nominated for cinematography for "Mudbound".
2018: Dee Rees becomes the first black woman ever nominated for Best adapted screenplay for "Mudbound".
2018: In Memoriam leaves out Adam West, Powers Booth and John Mahoney. Terrible.
2019: "Most Popular Film" was being considered as a new category in 2019. This idea was thought to draw in a younger audience. The members of the academy shot the idea down stating " it's not a popularity contest, it's about the art". I fully agree. If you want to vote for most popular film watch the MTV movie awards.
2019: "Black Panther" becomes the first superhero movie ever nominated for Best Picture.
2019: Kevin Hart was asked to host but stepped down. This is the first show since 1989 to NOT have a host.
2019: In Memoriam leaves out Verne Troyer, Dick Miller, Sondra Locke, R. Lee Ermey and Carol Channing.
2020: Scarlett Johansson is nominated twice. Best Actress for "Marriage Story" and Best Supporting Actress for "Jojo Rabbit". As it usually goes, she won neither.
2020: "Parasite" is the first International film nominated from South Korea. It is the first win from that country.
2020: "Parasite" is the first film EVER to win BOTH best foreign film and Best Picture.
2020: Zach Gottsagen becomes the first actor with Down Syndrome to present at the awards.
2020: First year to have a Female conductor named Eimear Noone conducts a segment of the show.
2020: Sid Haig, Luke Perry, Michael J. Pollard, and Bill Macy are just a few people left out of the "In Memoriam" segment.
2021: The Oscars are postponed from February to April due to the Covid-19 virus.
2021: Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson are the first black women to win best make-up and hair.
2021: The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award goes to the Motion Picture Television fund. First time the Hersholt award went to a charity.
