Oscars

The first man to win an Academy Award (Oscar) was Emil Jannings. He won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1929 for his work in The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command.

He was also the first person to win an Oscar since Best Actor was the first award presented that night.

The 1999 Best Actress nominees were:

Annette Bening, American Beauty

Julianne Moore, The End of the Affair

Meryl Streep, Music of the Heart

* Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry

Janet McTeer, Tumbleweed

The Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Picture in 1980 went to Ordinary People. It beat Coal Miner's Daughter, Tess, The Elephant Man and Raging Bull.

The movie showed the devastating results of the accidental drowning of the older son on an upper-middle class suburban family (led by parents Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland), and in particular, the tragedy's effects on the remaining suicidal and tormented son (Timothy Hutton), even with the aid of a psychiatrist (Judd Hirsch). The film's unsentimental story was adapted from Judith Guest's highly-regarded 1976 novel by Alvin Sargent.

It also won Best Director (Robert Redford in his directorial debut), Supporting Actor (Timothy Hutton) and Adapted Screenplay.
The Best Picture of 1980 was "Ordinary People," which marked Robert Redford's debut as a film director.
It was Robert Redford's directorial debut, "Ordinary People." Redford won the Best Director Oscar for his efforts.
Ordinary People won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1980.

The first number is their wins; the number in parentheses is their nominations.

• 4 : John Ford (5)
• 3 : William Wyler (12)
• 3 : Frank Capra (6)
• 2 : Billy Wilder (8)
• 2 : David Lean (7)
• 2 : Fred Zinnemann (7)
• 2 : Steven Spielberg (6)
• 2 : Elia Kazan (5)
• 2 : George Stevens (5)
• 2 : Clint Eastwood (4)
• 2 : Frank Lloyd (4)
• 2 : Joseph L. Mankiewicz (4)
• 2 : MiloÅ¡ Forman (3)
• 2 : Leo McCarey (3)
• 2 : Lewis Milestone (3)
• 2 : Oliver Stone (3)
• 2 : Robert Wise (3)
• 2 : Frank Borzage (2)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001):

Best Cinematography

Best Effects, Visual Effects

Best Makeup

Best Music, Original Score (4/13)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002):

Best Sound Editing

Best Visual Effects (2/6)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003):

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

Best Costume Design

Best Director

Best Editing

Best Makeup

Best Music, Original Score

Best Music, Original Song

Best Picture

Best Visual Effects

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (11/11)

That's a total of 17 Oscars. All three movies won for Visual Effects.

George C. Scott

In 1971, George C. Scott made international headlines by refusing to accept his Best Actor Oscar for his performance in the title role of Patton, deriding the awards ceremony as a "meat parade." Marlon Brando would do the same thing two years later, claiming Hollywood's mistreatment towards Native American actors as his reason for rejecting the Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather.

2009It's Complicated

Jane 2009 Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia(video short)

Julia Child

2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox

Mrs. Fox (voice)

2009 Julie & Julia

Julia Child

2008/I Doubt

Sister Aloysius Beauvier

2008 Mamma Mia!

Donna

2007 Lions for Lambs

Janine Roth

2007 Rendition

Corrine Whitman

2007 Evening

Lila Ross

2007/I Dark Matter

Joanna Silver

2006 The Ant Bully

Queen (voice)

2006 The Devil Wears Prada

Miranda Priestly

2006 The Music of Regret (short)

The Woman

2006 A Prairie Home Companion

Yolanda Johnson

2005 Prime

Lisa Metzger

2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Aunt Josephine

2004 The Manchurian Candidate

Eleanor Shaw

2003 Angels in America (TV mini-series)

Ethel Rosenberg / Hannah Pitt - Part 2 Perestroika (2003) … Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg

- Part 1 Millennium Approaches (2003) … Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg

2003 Freedom: A History of Us (TV series documentary)

Abigail Adams / Margaret Chase Smith / Mary Easty / … - Democracy and Struggles (2003) … Margaret Chase Smith

- Independence (2003) … Abigail Adams

- Liberty for All (2003) … Mary Easty

- Yearning to Breathe Free (2003) … Mother Jones

2002 The Hours

Clarissa Vaughan

2002 Adaptation.

Susan Orlean

2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Blue Mecha (voice)

1999 King of the Hill (TV series)

Aunt Esme Dauterive - A Beer Can Named Desire (1999) … Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice)

1999 Music of the Heart

Roberta Guaspari

1999 Chrysanthemum (short)

Narrator (voice)

1998 One True Thing

Kate Gulden

1998 Dancing at Lughnasa

Kate 'Kit' Mundy

1997 ...First Do No Harm (TV movie)

Lori Reimuller

1996 Marvin's Room

Lee

1996 Before and After

Dr. Carolyn Ryan

1995 The Bridges of Madison County

Francesca Johnson

1994 The Simpsons (TV series)

Jessica Lovejoy / Ned Flanders' Singing Voice - Bart's Girlfriend (1994) … Jessica Lovejoy (voice) / Ned Flanders' Singing Voice (voice)

1994 The River Wild

Gail Hartman

1993 The House of the Spirits

Clara del Valle Trueba

1992 Death Becomes Her

Madeline Ashton

1991 Defending Your Life

Julia

1990 Postcards from the Edge

Suzanne Vale

1989 She-Devil

Mary Fisher

1989 Rabbit Ears: The Fisherman and His Wife (video short)

Storyteller

1988 A Cry in the Dark

Lindy Chamberlain

1988 The Tailor of Gloucester (video)

Narrator

1987 Ironweed

Helen Archer

1987 Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Peter Rabbit (video)

Storyteller (voice)

1987 Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher(video)

Storyteller (voice)

1986 Heartburn

Rachel Samstat

1985 Out of Africa

Karen

1985 Plenty

Susan Traherne

1984 Falling in Love

Molly Gilmore

1983 Silkwood

Karen Silkwood

1982 Sophie's Choice

Sophie

1982 Still of the Night

Brooke Reynolds

1982 Alice at the Palace (TV movie)

Alice

1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman

Sarah / Anna

1981 Kiss Me, Petruchio (TV movie)

Katherine

1979 Kramer vs. Kramer

Joanna Kramer

1979 The Seduction of Joe Tynan

Karen Traynor

1979 Uncommon Women... and Others (TV movie)

Leilah

1979 Manhattan

Jill

1978 The Deer Hunter

Linda

1978 Holocaust (TV mini-series)

Inga Helms Weiss - Part 4 (1978) … Inga Helms Weiss

- Part 2 (1978) … Inga Helms Weiss

- Part I: The Gathering Darkness (1978) … Inga Helms Weiss

1977 Julia

Anne Marie

1977 The Deadliest Season (TV movie)

Sharon Miller

1977 Secret Service (TV movie)

Edith Varney

1975 Everybody Rides the Carousel

Stage 6 (voice)

Katharine Hepburn, with four wins, has more Best Actress Oscars than any other actress. Eleven women have won two Best Actress Academy Awards; in chronological order, they are

1. Luise Rainer,
2. Bette Davis,
3. Olivia de Havilland,
4. Vivien Leigh,
5. Ingrid Bergman,
6. Elizabeth Taylor,
7. Glenda Jackson,
8. Jane Fonda,
9. Sally Field,
10. Jodie Foster, and
11. Hilary Swank.

In 1939, "The Wizard of Oz," took home Academy Awards for:

MUSIC (BEST SONG): "Over the Rainbow."

MUSIC (BEST ORIGINAL SCORE)

Judy Garland was awarded a minature statuette for her outstanding performance for a juvenile during the past year.

But, the Champ this year was, "Gone With The Wind." It received 13 Nominations (a record it held until 1959, when "Ben-Hur" came along).

The film took 8 Academy Awards home, and held the record for any motion picture winning the most Oscars, again, until 1959, when "Ben-Hur" walked away with 11 Oscars.

For the 82nd Annual Academy Award (airing 03/03/2010), the following films are nominated for Best Animated Feature Film of 2009

1. Coraline; Henry Selick
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox; Wes Anderson
3. The Princess and the Frog John Musker and Ron Clements
4. The Secret of Kells; Tomm Moore
5. Up; Pete Docter

(Up is the favorite to win.)