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The 79th Academy Awards Memorable Moments. Best Picture: The Departed. The Departed also won Academy Awards for Directing (Martin Scorsese), Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker), and Writing – Adapted Screenplay (William Monahan). After seven previous nominations, five of which were for directing, Martin Scorsese won his first Oscar for The ...
An Inconvenient Truth. Documentary Feature winner Davis Guggenheim with Al Gore, Lawrence Bender, Laurie David, Scott Burns and Lesley Chilcott. Jennifer Hudson. Supporting Actress winner for Dreamgirls. View More Memorable Moments.
The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2006 and took place February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 ...
Mar 2, 2018 · Take a look back at the most surprising, heart-warming, scandalous and talked-about moments in Oscars history.
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- 1940: Hattie McDaniel Makes History. It took more than a decade for the first Black person to win an Academy Award. The honor went to Hattie McDaniel for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).
- 1943: Greer Garson Delivers Record-Breaking Speech. Greer Garson set a record that has yet to be broken with her very, very long acceptance speech after winning Best Actress for her performance in Mrs. Miniver (1942).
- 1968: Alfred Hitchcock Gives a Short Acceptance Speech. The Master of Suspense was nominated for five Oscars over the course of his long career, but Alfred Hitchcock never won until 1968 — and even then, it was a bit of technicality.
- 1969: Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn Tie for Best Actress. There have been six ties in Oscars' history, and the one that got the most buzz came in 1969, when Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn both won Best Actress: Streisand for Funny Girl (1968) and Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968).
Mar 29, 2022 · Over the years, there have been all kinds of Oscar moments that have been memorable for reasons good and bad – well-deserved recognition for iconic stars and filmmakers, hilarious...
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Feb 20, 2024 · There have been countless moments throughout the history of the Academy Awards that shook the entertainment industry—and shaped it.