|
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Oscar night when the great and 'good' of hollywod assemble to pat and stab each others backs has been a source for the trivia collector for years, here are a few bits and pieces to sample.
The first posthumous oscar was awarded to Sidney Howard for his screenplay for Gone with the Wind in 1939 Comic book hero Dick Tracy received an accidental Oscar in 1937 when his name was inscribed on the statuette awarded to Spencer Tracy for his performance in Captains Courageous Although several have done it since, the first person to refuse an Oscar was Dudley Nichols (screenwriter) for The Informer (1935) due to a union boycott of the ceremony that year George Arliss took the first acting Oscar to Britain for his performance in Disraeli (1929) and Vivian Leigh repeated the achievement for the fair sex when she picked up her award for Gone with the Wind (1939) The ceremony was first televised by NBC on 19 March 1953 from RKO Pantages Theater Hollywood. It may surprise you to learn that Richard Burton never received an Oscar despite being nominated no less than 7 times. The Huston family contained three generations of winners, Walter, best actor in 1948 for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, his son John, best director for the same film and Johns daughter Anjelica, best actress for Prizzi's Honor in 1986 Woody Allen failed to pick up his 3 oscars in 1977 for Annie Hall as he was playing clarinet at the Manhatten jazz cellar, he was nominated for best picture, director and screenwriter The Oscars are televised in 85 countries including bizarrely The Peoples Republic of China The Turning Point was nominated for 11 Oscars in 1977 and received none, a feat repeated by Steven Spielbergs The Color Purple in 1986 In 1969 Marlon Brando applied to the academy for a replacement of the statuette he won for On The Waterfront in 1954 after the original was stolen. Two years later he refused to accept a brand new Oscar for The Godfather Despite the location of Hollywood it wasn't until 1963 that a Californian won an Oscar, Gregory Peck broke the duck for To Kill A Mockingbird
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
