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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are...
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1st Academy Awards
The 1st Academy Awards were presented on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Tickets cost $5 and fewer than 250 people attended. The ceremony lasted only 15 minutes. Unlike later events, the winners had been...
- x Start date:
- May 16, 1929
- x End date:
- May 16, 1929
- x Location(s):
- Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
2nd Academy Awards
The 2nd Academy Awards were presented on April 3, 1930 at an awards banquet in the Cocoanut Grove of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and broadcast live on the radio. The awards were for films released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929....
- x Start date:
- Apr 3, 1930
- x End date:
- Apr 3, 1930
- x Location(s):
- The Ambassador Hotel
3rd Academy Awards
The 3rd Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1929/1930, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
NOTE: As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films....
- x Start date:
- Nov 5, 1930
- x End date:
- Nov 5, 1930
- x Location(s):
- The Ambassador Hotel
4th Academy Awards
The 4th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1930/1931, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award winners were as follows:
- x Start date:
- Nov 10, 1931
- x End date:
- Nov 10, 1931
- x Location(s):
- Millennium Biltmore Hotel
5th Academy Awards
The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932 at a ceremony held at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by Conrad Nagel. Films screened in Los...
- x Start date:
- Nov 18, 1932
- x End date:
- Nov 18, 1932
- x Location(s):
- The Ambassador Hotel
6th Academy Awards
The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934 at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Will Rogers and Rogers also presented all of the awards.
Winners are highlighted in boldface.
(Seven winners.)
Shirley Temple...
- x Start date:
- Mar 16, 1934
- x End date:
- Mar 16, 1934
- x Location(s):
- The Ambassador Hotel
7th Academy Awards
The 7th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1934, were held on February 27, 1935 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Irvin S. Cobb.
Frank Capra's influential romantic comedy It Happened One Night became...
- x Start date:
- Feb 27, 1935
- x End date:
- Feb 27, 1935
- x Location(s):
- Millennium Biltmore Hotel
8th Academy Awards
The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Frank Capra. This was the first year in which the gold statuettes were called "Oscars."
The short-lived category of Best Dance...
- x Start date:
- Mar 5, 1936
- x End date:
- Mar 5, 1936
- x Location(s):
- Millennium Biltmore Hotel
9th Academy Awards
The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by George Jessel. This ceremony marked the first time in which the categories of Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress...
- x Start date:
- Mar 4, 1937
- x End date:
- Mar 4, 1937
- x Location(s):
- Millennium Biltmore Hotel
10th Academy Awards
The 10th Academy Awards were held on March 10, 1938 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
Originally scheduled to be held on March 3, 1938, the ceremony was postponed due to heavy flooding in Los Angeles. The host of the ceremony was Bob...
- x Start date:
- Mar 10, 1938
- x End date:
- Mar 10, 1938
- x Location(s):
- Millennium Biltmore Hotel
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, as well as the first to have a foreign language film (Jean Renoir's The Grand...
- x Start date:
- Feb 23, 1939
- x End date:
- Feb 23, 1939
- x Location(s):
- Millennium Biltmore Hotel
12th Academy Awards
The 12th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1939, was held on February 29, 1940 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Bob Hope (for the first time).
David O. Selznick's Gone with the...
- x Start date:
- Feb 29, 1940
- x End date:
- Feb 29, 1940
- x Location(s):
- The Ambassador Hotel
13th Academy Awards
The 13th Academy Awards honored American film achievements in 1940. This was the first year that sealed envelopes were used to keep secret the names of the winners which led to the famous phrase: "May I have the Envelope, please." The accounting...
- x Start date:
- Feb 27, 1941
- x End date:
- Feb 27, 1941
- x Location(s):
- Millennium Biltmore Hotel
14th Academy Awards
The 14th Academy Awards may be most infamous, in retrospect, as the year in which Citizen Kane (consistently regarded as one of the greatest films ever made) did not win Best Picture. Rather, Best Picture was awarded to How Green Was My Valley, the...
- x Start date:
- Feb 26, 1942
- x End date:
- Feb 26, 1942
- x Location(s):
- Millennium Biltmore Hotel
15th Academy Awards
The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Best Picture honors went to the film Mrs. Miniver. The ceremony is most famous for the speech by the film’s Oscar-winning actress Greer Garson. Garson’s...
- x Start date:
- Mar 4, 1943
- x End date:
- Mar 4, 1943
- x Location(s):
- The Ambassador Hotel
16th Academy Awards
The 16th Academy Awards, in 1944, was the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Free passes were given out to men and women in uniform. The more theatrical approach makes it a forerunner of the contemporary...
- x Start date:
- Mar 2, 1944
- x End date:
- Mar 2, 1944
- x Location(s):
- Grauman's Chinese Theatre
17th Academy Awards
The 17th Academy Awards marked the first time this awards ceremony was broadcast nationally on the ABC Radio network.
Through the 1940’s, the ceremony and academy rules continued to evolve into the form by which we know them today. This is the first...
- x Start date:
- Mar 15, 1945
- x End date:
- Mar 15, 1945
- x Location(s):
- Grauman's Chinese Theatre
18th Academy Awards
The 18th Academy Awards was the first such ceremony after World War II. As a result, the ceremony featured more glamour than had been present during the war. Plaster statuettes that had been given out during the war years were replaced with bronze...
- x Start date:
- Mar 7, 1946
- x End date:
- Mar 7, 1946
- x Location(s):
- Grauman's Chinese Theatre
19th Academy Awards
The 19th Academy Awards continued a trend through the late-1940s of the Oscar voters honoring films about contemporary social issues. The Best Years of Our Lives concerns the lives of three returning veterans from three branches of military service...
- x Start date:
- Mar 7, 1946
- x End date:
- Mar 7, 1946
- x Location(s):
- Shrine Auditorium
20th Academy Awards
The 20th Academy Awards spread awards around, with no film receiving more than 3 awards, the last time this would happen until the 78th Academy Awards.
The surprise winner for this year was Loretta Young for The Farmer's Daughter despite Rosalind...
- x Start date:
- Mar 20, 1948
- x End date:
- Mar 20, 1948
- x Location(s):
- Shrine Auditorium
22nd Academy Awards
The 22nd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1949.
The nominees are listed by award. The winner of each category is in bold.
- x Start date:
- 1949
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
21st Academy Awards
The 21st Academy Awards features numerous firsts. It was the first time a non-Hollywood production won Best Picture, Hamlet. It was the first time an individual (Laurence Olivier) directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance. Director John...
- x Start date:
- Mar 24, 1949
- x End date:
- Mar 24, 1949
- x Location(s):
- Academy Theater
23rd Academy Awards
The 23rd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1950. The nominations were noticeable this year, as All About Eve was nominated for fourteen Oscars, beating the previous record of Gone with the Wind.
The nominees are listed...
- x Start date:
- 1950
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
24th Academy Awards
The 24th Academy Awards is an event that honored the Greatest Films of 1951.
The single film which came out with the largest number of honors was An American in Paris, which received six Oscars, including Best Picture. However, A Streetcar Named...
- x Start date:
- Mar 20, 1952
- x End date:
- Mar 20, 1952
- x Location(s):
- Pantages Theatre
26th Academy Awards
The 26th Academy Awards honored the best in films of 1953.
The second national telecast of the Awards show draws an estimated 43,000,000 viewers. Shirley Booth, appearing in a play in Philadelphia, presents the Best Actor award through a live...
- x Start date:
- 1953
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
25th Academy Awards
The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best movies of 1952, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre, New York, New York.
It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be...
- x Start date:
- Mar 19, 1953
- x End date:
- Mar 19, 1953
- x Location(s):
- Pantages Theatre
27th Academy Awards
The 27th Academy Awards honored the best films produced in 1954. The Best Picture winner, On the Waterfront, was produced by Sam Spiegel and directed by Elia Kazan. It had twelve nominations and eight wins, matching two other films, Gone with the...
- x Start date:
- 1954
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
29th Academy Awards
During the 29th Academy Awards, the regular competitive category of Best Foreign Language Film was introduced, instead of only being recognized as a Special Achievement Award or as a Best Picture nominee (as in 1938). The first winner in this new...
- x Start date:
- Mar 27, 1957
- x End date:
- Mar 27, 1957
- x Location(s):
- Pantages Theatre
30th Academy Awards
The 30th Academy Awards was the first time the entire ceremony was broadcast live.
The Oscar for Writing Based on Material From Another Medium was awarded to Pierre Boulle for The Bridge on the River Kwai, despite the fact that he did not know...
- x Start date:
- Mar 26, 1958
- x End date:
- Mar 26, 1958
- x Location(s):
- Pantages Theatre
31st Academy Awards
The telecast of the 31st Academy Awards is among the most infamous. The show’s producer Jerry Wald started cutting numbers from the show to make sure it ran on time. Unfortunately, he cut too much material and the ceremony ended 20 minutes early,...
- x Start date:
- Apr 6, 1959
- x End date:
- Apr 6, 1959
- x Location(s):
- Pantages Theatre
32nd Academy Awards
The 32nd Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1959 on 4 April 1960.
MGM's (producer Sam Zimbalist) and director William Wyler's three and a half-hour long epic drama Ben-Hur (with a spectacular sea battle and eleven minute chariot race...
- x Start date:
- Apr 4, 1960
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
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.
Due to an intense ad campaign and appeals to patriotism from...
- x Start date:
- Apr 17, 1961
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
34th Academy Awards
The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961, were held on April 9, 1962 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope; this was the seventh time Hope hosted the Oscars. For the first...
- x Start date:
- Apr 9, 1962
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
35th Academy Awards
The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Frank Sinatra.
- x Start date:
- Apr 8, 1963
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
37th Academy Awards
The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. All four acting awards went to non-American actors, something not repeated until the 80th Academy Awards were awarded for...
- x Start date:
- 1964
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
36th Academy Awards
The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Jack Lemmon.
Best Picture winner Tom Jones became the only film in history...
- x Start date:
- Apr 13, 1964
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
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...
- x Start date:
- Apr 18, 1966
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
40th Academy Awards
The 40th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1967. Originally scheduled for 8 April 1968, the awards were postponed to two days later, 10 April 1968, because of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..
Due to the increasing rarity...
- x Start date:
- 1967
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
39th Academy Awards
The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1966, were held on April 10, 1967 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope.
Only two of the Best Picture nominees also had nominations for...
- x Start date:
- Apr 10, 1967
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
41st Academy Awards
The 41st Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. It was the first Academy Awards ceremony broadcast worldwide. There was no host.
Oliver! became the first - and so far only - G-rated film to win...
- x Start date:
- Apr 14, 1969
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
42nd Academy Awards
The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.
This is currently the highest rated of the televised Academy Awards ceremonies, according to Nielsen ratings.
Midnight Cowboy...
- x Start date:
- Apr 7, 1970
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
43rd Academy Awards
The 43rd Academy Awards were presented April 15, 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host.
It was during this ceremony that George C. Scott became the first actor to reject an Oscar, claiming that the Academy Awards were...
- x Start date:
- Apr 15, 1971
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
44th Academy Awards
The 44th Academy Awards were presented April 10, 1972 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Jack Lemmon.
A major snub in the category of Best Actor occurred...
- x Start date:
- Apr 10, 1972
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
45th Academy Awards
The 45th Academy Awards were presented March 27, 1973 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson.
The ceremony was marked by Marlon Brando's...
- x Start date:
- Mar 27, 1973
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
46th Academy Awards
The 46th Academy Awards were presented April 2, 1974 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by John Huston, Diana Ross, Burt Reynolds, David Niven.
The Sting
Save the Tiger - Jack Lemmon
A Touch of Class -...
- x Start date:
- Apr 2, 1974
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
47th Academy Awards
The 47th Academy Awards were presented April 8, 1975 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, and Frank Sinatra.
Between the two of them, father and son Carmine...
- x Start date:
- Apr 8, 1975
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
48th Academy Awards
The 48th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, George Segal, Goldie Hawn, and Gene Kelly.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One...
- x Start date:
- Mar 29, 1976
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
49th Academy Awards
The 49th Academy Awards were presented March 28, 1977 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, and Warren Beatty.
This Academy Awards ceremony is notable for Peter...
- x Start date:
- Mar 28, 1977
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
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 eighteenth and last time.
Two of the year's biggest winners...
- x Start date:
- Apr 3, 1978
- x End date:
- Apr 3, 1978
- x Location(s):
- Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
51st Academy Awards
The 51st Academy Awards were presented April 9, 1979 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson.
Curiously, the two "front-runners" for Best Picture this year - Coming Home and The Deer Hunter -...
- x Start date:
- Apr 9, 1979
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
52nd Academy Awards
The 52nd Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1980 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson.
Among the nominees for Best Supporting Actor were 8 year-old Justin Henry - the youngest Best...
- x Start date:
- Apr 14, 1980
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
53rd Academy Awards
The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, was originally scheduled the previous day but...
- x Start date:
- Mar 31, 1981
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
54th Academy Awards
The 54th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1982 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson.
Chariots of Fire was the surprise winner (Reds was the favored nominee) of the Best Picture...
- x Start date:
- Mar 29, 1982
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
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.
Louis Gossett, Jr. became the first African...
- x Start date:
- Apr 11, 1983
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
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...
- x Start date:
- Apr 9, 1984
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
57th Academy Awards
The 57th Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1985 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Jack Lemmon.
This ceremony is best-remembered for perhaps the most quoted and famous Academy Award acceptance...
- x Start date:
- Mar 25, 1985
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
58th Academy Awards
The 58th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1985, were held on March 24, 1986 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams. The ceremony was watched by 38.93...
- x Start date:
- Mar 24, 1986
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
59th Academy Awards
The 59th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Paul Hogan.
The Academy Awards show was broadcast on the ABC network at the same...
- x Start date:
- Mar 30, 1987
- x End date:
- x Location(s):
60th Academy Awards
The 60th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1988 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was the first to be held there since the 20th Academy Awards. The 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, which began on March 7,...
- x Start date:
- Apr 11, 1988
- x End date:
- Apr 11, 1988
- x Location(s):
- Shrine Auditorium
61st Academy Awards
The 61st Academy Awards were presented March 27, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles.
The producers of the ceremony attempted to change established Oscar traditions for this year's show. One noticeable difference was that instead of an award...
- x Start date:
- Mar 29, 1989
- x End date:
- Mar 29, 1989
- x Location(s):
- Shrine Auditorium
