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The Academy Honorary Award, instituted in 1948
1948 in film

The year 1948 in film involved some significant events....
 for the 21st Academy Awards
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 directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance....
 (previously called the Special Award), is given by the discretion of the Board of Governors
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
 of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
 (AMPAS) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
. Unless otherwise specified, Honorary Award recipients receive the same gold Oscar statuettes received by winners of the competitive Academy Awards.






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The Academy Honorary Award, instituted in 1948
1948 in film

The year 1948 in film involved some significant events....
 for the 21st Academy Awards
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 directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance....
 (previously called the Special Award), is given by the discretion of the Board of Governors
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
 of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
 (AMPAS) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
. Unless otherwise specified, Honorary Award recipients receive the same gold Oscar statuettes received by winners of the competitive Academy Awards. Unlike the Special Achievement Award
Academy Special Achievement Award

The Special Achievement Award is an Academy Awards given for an achievement which makes an exceptional contribution to the motion picture for which it was created, but for which there is no annual award category....
 instituted in 1972
1972 in film

The year 1972 in film involved some significant events....
, those on whom the Academy confers its Honorary Award do not have to meet "the Academy's eligibility year and deadline requirements." Like the Special Achievement Award, the Special Award and Honorary Award have been used to reward significant achievements of the year that did not fit in existing categories, subsequently leading the Academy to establish several new categories, and to honor exceptional career achievements, contributions to the motion picture industry, and service to the Academy.

Recipients


[Sources: Years for which the Special Award and Honorary Award recipients received their awards and the annual Academy Awards ceremonies at which they received them provided within parentheses throughout (as pertinent) follow this information for recipients listed in the Official Academy Award Database and Web
Web

Web may refer to:...
-based official AMPAS documents.]


1920s

  • 1927/28 (1st
    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....
    ) - Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.

    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
     - "for producing The Jazz Singer
    The Jazz Singer (1927 film)

    The Jazz Singer is a American musical film. The first feature film motion picture with synchronization dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "sound film" and the decline of the silent film era....
     [1927], the pioneer outstanding talking picture, which has revolutionized the industry. [statuette]." ("Special Award")
  • 1927/28 (1st
    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....
    ) - Charles Chaplin
    Charlie Chaplin

    Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
     - "for acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus
    The Circus (silent film)

    The Circus is a 1928 in film silent film film which finds Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character being chased by a police officer at a circus....
     [1928]. [statuette]." (Removing him from the contests in which he had been nominated for an Academy Award in the "competitive classes", the Academy gave Chaplin this "Special Award" because, as it wrote to him, his "collective accomplishments" in The Circus merited his placement "in a class" by himself.)
  • 1928/29 (2nd
    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....
    ) - [no award]
  • 1929/30 (3rd
    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....
    ) - [no award]


1930s

  • 1930/31 (4th
    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:...
    ) - [no award]
  • 1931/32 (5th
    5th Academy Awards

    The 5th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1931/1932, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award winners were as follows:...
    ) - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
     - "for the creation of 'Mickey Mouse.' [statuette]." ("Special Award")
  • 1932/33 (6th
    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....
    ) - [There was no ceremony held in calendar year 1933 because of changed qualifying periods; the awards ceremony honoring accomplishments during the period covered from 1932 to 1933 was held in calendar year 1934; no "Special Awards".]
  • 1934 (7th
    7th Academy Awards

    The 7th Academy Awards, honoring the 1934 in film, were held on February 27 1935 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Irvin S. Cobb....
    ) - Shirley Temple
    Shirley Temple

    Shirley Jane Temple is an Academy Award-winning actress and tap dancer, most famous for being an iconic United States child actress of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult....
     - "in grateful recognition of her outstanding contribution to screen entertainment during the year 1934. [miniature statuette]." ("Special Award")
  • 1935 (8th
    8th Academy Awards

    The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Frank Capra....
     - David Wark Griffith
    D. W. Griffith

    David Llewelyn Wark "D. W." Griffith was a premier pioneering Academy Award-winning American film director. He is best known as the director of the groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance ....
     - "for his distinguished creative achievements as director and producer and his invaluable initiative and lasting contributions to the progress of the motion picture arts. [statuette]." ("Special Award")
  • 1936 (9th
    9th Academy Awards

    The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by George Jessel ....
    ) - March of Time - "for its significance to motion pictures and for having revolutionized one of the most important branches of the industry - the newsreel." ("Special Award")
  • 1936 (9th
    9th Academy Awards

    The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by George Jessel ....
    ) - W. Howard Greene
    W. Howard Greene

    William Howard Greene was an Academy Awards winning cinematographer. He was born in Connecticut and died in Los Angeles....
     and Harold Rosson
    Harold Rosson

    Harold G. "Hal" Rosson, A.S.C. was an United States cinematographer during the early and classical Hollywood cinema. He is best known for his work on the 1938 in film masterpiece The Wizard of Oz ....
     - "for the color cinematography of the Selznick International Production
    David O. Selznick

    David O. Selznick, born David Selznick , was one of the iconic Hollywood film producer of the Golden Age. He is best known for producing the epic blockbuster Gone with the Wind which earned him an Academy Awards for Best Picture....
    , The Garden of Allah. [plaque]." ("Special Award")
  • 1937 (10th
    10th Academy Awards

    The 10th Academy Awards were held on March 10, 1938 at the Millennium 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....
    ) - Edgar Bergen
    Edgar Bergen

    Edgar John Bergen was an Academy Award-winning United States actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquism....
     - "for his outstanding comedy creation, 'Charlie McCarthy.' [wooden statuette, with movable mouth]." ("Special Award")
  • 1937 (10th
    10th Academy Awards

    The 10th Academy Awards were held on March 10, 1938 at the Millennium 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....
    ) - Museum of Modern Art
    Museum of Modern Art

    The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues....
     Film Library - "for its significant work in collecting films dating from 1895 to the present and for the first time making available to the public the means of studying the historical and aesthetic development of the motion picture as one of the major arts. [scroll certificate]." ("Special Award")
  • 1937 (10th
    10th Academy Awards

    The 10th Academy Awards were held on March 10, 1938 at the Millennium 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....
    ) - Mack Sennett
    Mack Sennett

    Mack Sennett was a Canadian -born Academy Award-winning director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy."...
     - "for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique
    Comedy

    Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
     of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius - Mack Sennett." [statuette]." ("Special Award")
  • 1937 (10th
    10th Academy Awards

    The 10th Academy Awards were held on March 10, 1938 at the Millennium 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....
    ) - W. Howard Greene
    W. Howard Greene

    William Howard Greene was an Academy Awards winning cinematographer. He was born in Connecticut and died in Los Angeles....
     - "for the color photography of A Star Is Born
    A Star Is Born

    A Star Is Born may refer to:* A Star Is Born , starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March* A Star Is Born , starring Judy Garland and James Mason...
    . (This Award was recommended by a committee of leading cinematographers after viewing all the color pictures made during the year.) [plaque]." ("Special Award")
  • 1938 (11th
    11th Academy Awards

    The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host....
    ) - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
     - "for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [1937], recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon. [one statuette and seven miniature statuettes on a stepped base]." ("Special Award")
  • 1938 (11th
    11th Academy Awards

    The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host....
    ) - J. Arthur Ball - "for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of color in Motion Picture Photography. [scroll]." ("Special Award")
  • 1938 (11th
    11th Academy Awards

    The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host....
    ) - Harry Warner
    Harry Warner

    Harry Morris Warner was an United States studio executive, one of the founders of Warner Bros., and a major contributor to the development of the film industry....
     - "in recognition of patriotic service in the production of historical short subjects presenting significant episodes in the early struggle of the American people for liberty. [scroll]." ("Special Award")
  • 1938 (11th
    11th Academy Awards

    The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host....
    ) - Gordon Jennings (special effects), Jan Domela (assistant special effects), Devereaux Jennings (assistant special effects), Irmin Roberts (assistant special effects), Art Smith (assistant special effects), Farciot Edouart (transparencies), Loyal Griggs
    Loyal Griggs

    Loyal Griggs , was an Academy Award-winning U.S. cinematographer.Griggs joined the staff of Paramount Pictures in 1924 after graduating from school and initially worked at the studio's process department....
     (assistant transparencies), Loren L. Ryder (sound effects), Harry D. Mills (assistant sound effects), Louis Mesenkop (assistant sound effects), Walter Oberst (assistant sound effects) - "For outstanding achievement in creating Special Photographic and Sound Effects in the Paramount
    Paramount Pictures

    Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production company and distribution company, located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, California....
     production, Spawn of the North
    Spawn of the North

    Spawn of the North is a 1938 in film film about rival fishermen in Alaska starring George Raft, Henry Fonda, and John Barrymore. The film was directed by Henry Hathaway....
    .... [plaque]." ("Special Award")
  • 1938 (11th
    11th Academy Awards

    The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host....
    ) - Oliver T. Marsh and Allen M. Davey - "for the color cinematography of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, Sweethearts
    Sweethearts (film)

    Sweethearts is a 1938 in film Musical film romance, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first feature-length Technicolor film. It was directed by Woody Van Dyke and starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy....
    . [plaque]." ("Special Award")
  • 1939 (12th
    12th Academy Awards

    The 12th Academy Awards, honoring the 1939 in film, was held on February 29, 1940 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles....
    ) - The Technicolor Company
    Technicolor

    Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
     - "for its contributions in successfully bringing three-color feature production to the screen.[statuette]."
  • 1939 (12th
    12th Academy Awards

    The 12th Academy Awards, honoring the 1939 in film, was held on February 29, 1940 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles....
    ) - "To The Motion Picture Relief Fund - acknowledging the outstanding services to the industry during the past year of the Motion Picture Relief Fund and its progressive leadership. Presented to Jean Hersholt
    Jean Hersholt

    'Jean Hersholt' was a Danish actor who lived in the United States where he was a leading film and radio talent, best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr....
    , President; Ralph Morgan
    Ralph Morgan

    Ralph Morgan was a Hollywood film, stage and character actor, and the lookalike older brother of Frank Morgan .Born as Raphael Kuhner Wuppermann, Ralph Morgan graduated from Columbia University with a law degree....
    , Chairman of the Executive Committee; Ralph Block
    Ralph Block

    Ralph Block was an American film producer in the 1920s and became a full-time screenwriter in 1930. He is most famous, however, for being President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1934 to 1935....
    , First Vice-President; and Conrad Nagel
    Conrad Nagel

    Conrad Nagel was an American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond. He was also a well known television actor and radio performer....
    . [plaque]."
  • 1939 (12th
    12th Academy Awards

    The 12th Academy Awards, honoring the 1939 in film, was held on February 29, 1940 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles....
    ) - Douglas Fairbanks
    Douglas Fairbanks

    Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., was an United States actor, screenwriter, film director and film producer, who was best known for his Swashbuckler films roles in Silent film films such as The Thief of Bagdad , Robin Hood , and The Mark of Zorro ....
     - "recognizing the unique and outstanding contribution of Douglas Fairbanks, first President of the Academy, to the international development of the motion picture. [statuette]." ("Commemorative Award")
  • 1939 (12th
    12th Academy Awards

    The 12th Academy Awards, honoring the 1939 in film, was held on February 29, 1940 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles....
    ) - William Cameron Menzies
    William Cameron Menzies

    William Cameron Menzies was an Academy Award-winning United States film production designer and art director who also worked as a Film director, Film producer, and screenwriter during a career spanning five decades....
     - "for outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood in the production of Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (film)

    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 in film Cinema of the United States drama film-romance film-film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in literature Gone with the Wind and directed by Victor Fleming ....
    . [plaque]."


1940s

  • 1940 (13th
    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 firm of Price Waterhouse was hired to count the ballots, after the fiasco of leaked voting result...
    ) - Bob Hope
    Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
     - "in recognition of his unselfish services to the Motion Picture Industry. [special silver plaque]."
  • 1940 (13th
    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 firm of Price Waterhouse was hired to count the ballots, after the fiasco of leaked voting result...
    ) - Colonel Nathan Levinson - "for his outstanding service to the industry and the Army
    United States Army

    The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for Army operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S....
     during the past nine years, which has made possible the present efficient mobilization of the motion picture industry facilities for the production of Army Training Films. [statuette]."
  • 1941 (14th
    14th Academy Awards

    The 14th Academy Awards may be most infamous, in retrospect, as the year in which Citizen Kane did not win Best Picture. Rather, Best Picture was awarded to How Green Was My Valley , the story of Welsh coalminers in changing times....
    ) - Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    , William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company
    RCA

    RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. Today, the RCA is owned by the France conglomerate Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson....
     – "for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia. [certificate of merit]."
  • 1941 (14th
    14th Academy Awards

    The 14th Academy Awards may be most infamous, in retrospect, as the year in which Citizen Kane did not win Best Picture. Rather, Best Picture was awarded to How Green Was My Valley , the story of Welsh coalminers in changing times....
    ) - Leopold Stokowski
    Leopold Stokowski

    Leopold Stokowski was a famous orchestral conducting, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted....
     and his associates – "for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production, Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form. [certificate of merit]."
  • 1941 (14th
    14th Academy Awards

    The 14th Academy Awards may be most infamous, in retrospect, as the year in which Citizen Kane did not win Best Picture. Rather, Best Picture was awarded to How Green Was My Valley , the story of Welsh coalminers in changing times....
    ) - Rey Scott - "for his extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan
    Kukan

    Kukan is a 1941 in film documentary film by Rey Scott about the Republic of China resistance to Empire of Japan aggression during the early part of World War II ....
    , the film record of China
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
    's struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions. [certificate of merit]."
  • 1941(14th
    14th Academy Awards

    The 14th Academy Awards may be most infamous, in retrospect, as the year in which Citizen Kane did not win Best Picture. Rather, Best Picture was awarded to How Green Was My Valley , the story of Welsh coalminers in changing times....
    ) - British Ministry of Information
    Minister of Information

    The ministryFormed on 4 September 1939, the day after Britain's declaration of war, the Ministry of Information was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War....
     – "for its vivid and dramatic presentation of the heroism of the RAF in the documentary film, Target for Tonight
    Target for Tonight

    Target for Tonight is a 1941 in film documentary film billed as being filmed by and acted by the Royal Air Force, all while under fire. It was directed by Harry Watt....
    . [certificate of merit]."
  • 1942 (15th
    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 ....
    ) - Charles Boyer
    Charles Boyer

    Charles Boyer was a four-time Academy Award-nominated France-born actor. Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in European and Hollywood movies during the 1930s, and continued to act in films, television and theatre over the next several decades....
     - "for his progressive cultural achievement in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles
    Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
     as a source of reference for the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry. [certificate of merit]."
  • 1942 (15th
    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 ....
    ) - Noël Coward
    Noël Coward

    Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise"....
     - "for his outstanding production achievement in In Which We Serve
    In Which We Serve

    In Which We Serve is a 1942 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom war film directed by David Lean and No?l Coward. The screenplay by Coward was inspired by the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was in command of the destroyer HMS Kelly when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete....
    . [certificate of merit]."
  • 1942 (15th
    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 ....
    ) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – "for its achievement in representing the American Way of Life in the production of the 'Andy Hardy' series of films. [certificate of merit]."
  • 1943 (16th
    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....
    ) - George Pál
    George Pál

    George Pal , born Gy?rgy P?l Marczincs?k, was a Hungarian-born United States animator and film producer, principally associated with the science fiction genre....
     - "for the development of novel methods and techniques in the production of short subjects known as Puppetoons
    Puppetoons

    George P?l's Puppetoons were a series of animated puppet films made in Europe in the 1930s and in the U.S. in the 1940s. They are memorable for their use of "replacement" animation - using a new hand-carved wooden puppet for each frame of film , rather than moving a single puppet, as is the case with most stop-motion puppet animation....
    . [plaque; replaced with statuette in 1967]."
  • 1944 (17th
    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....
    ) - Bob Hope
    Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
     - "for his many services to the Academy. [life membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]."
  • 1944 (18th
    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....
    ) - Margaret O'Brien
    Margaret O'Brien

    Margaret O'Brien is an Academy Award-winning United Statesn film actor, and although her career was brief, was one of the most highly regarded child actors in cinema history....
     - "outstanding child actress of 1944. [miniature statuette]." ("Special Award") [Presented in 1946, not 1945.]
  • 1945 (18th
    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....
    ) - "To Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg
    Daniel J. Bloomberg

    Daniel J. Bloomberg was an Academy award-winning audio engineer. Bloomberg's first Hollywood credit was in 1934, his last his Academy Awards-nominated work on John Ford?s The Quiet Man 18 years later....
     and the Republic Studio Sound Department for the building of an outstanding musical scoring auditorium which provides optimum recording conditions and combines all elements of acoustic and engineering design. [certificate]." [Presented in 1946.]
  • 1945 (18th
    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....
     - Walter Wanger
    Walter Wanger

    Walter Wanger was an Academy Award-winning United States film producer. An intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas, Wanger's career started at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a contract produc...
     - "for his six years service as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
    . [special plaque]."
  • 1945 (19th
    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 as they adjust to life on the home front after World War II....
    ) - Peggy Ann Garner
    Peggy Ann Garner

    Peggy Ann Garner was an Academy Award-winning American cinema and theater actress....
     - "outstanding child actress of 1945. [miniature statuette]." ("Special Award") [Presented in 1947.]
  • 1946 (19th
    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 as they adjust to life on the home front after World War II....
    ) - Harold Russell
    Harold Russell

    Harold John Russell was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Awards for acting ....
     - "for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance in The Best Years of Our Lives
    The Best Years of Our Lives

    The Best Years of Our Lives is an Cinema of the United States drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II....
     [Special Award]. [statuette]."
  • 1946 (19th
    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 as they adjust to life on the home front after World War II....
    ) - "To The House I Live In
    The House I Live In

    The House I Live In is a ten-minute short film written by Albert Maltz and made by producer Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy, and actor Frank Sinatra to oppose anti-Semitism and racism at the end of World War II....
    , tolerance short subject; produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy
    Mervyn LeRoy

    Mervyn LeRoy was an Academy Award-winning United States film director, film producer and sometime actor....
    ; directed by Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay by Albert Maltz
    Albert Maltz

    Albert Maltz was an American author and screenwriter who was one of the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism....
    ; song "The House I Live In
    The House I Live In

    The House I Live In is a ten-minute short film written by Albert Maltz and made by producer Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy, and actor Frank Sinatra to oppose anti-Semitism and racism at the end of World War II....
    ," music by Earl Robinson
    Earl Robinson

    Earl Hawley Robinson was a songwriter and composer from Seattle, Washington. Robinson is probably as well remembered for his left-wing politics-leaning political views as he is for his music, including the songs "Joe Hill", "The Ink is Black, the Page Is White", and the cantata "Ballad for Americans"....
    , lyrics by Lewis Allan
    Abel Meeropol

    Abel Meeropol was an United States writer,and inadvertent song-writer, best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan and as the adoptive father of the young sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg....
    ; starring Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
    ; released by RKO Radio. [certificate]."
  • 1946 (19th
    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 as they adjust to life on the home front after World War II....
    ) - Laurence Olivier
    Laurence Olivier

    Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
     - "for his outstanding achievement as actor, producer and director in bringing Henry V
    Henry V (1944 film)

    Henry V is a 1944 in film film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V . The on-screen title is The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France ....
     to the screen. [statuette]."
  • 1946 (19th
    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 as they adjust to life on the home front after World War II....
    ) - Ernst Lubitsch
    Ernst Lubitsch

    Ernst Lubitsch , was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch"....
     - "for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture. [certificate]."
  • 1946 (19th
    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 as they adjust to life on the home front after World War II....
    ) - Claude Jarman, Jr. - "outstanding child actor of 1946. [miniature statuette]." ("Special Award")
  • 1947 (20th
    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....
    ) - James Baskett
    James Baskett

    James Baskett was an Academy Award-winning United States actor known for his portrayal of Uncle Remus, singing the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" in the 1946 The Walt Disney Company feature film Song of the South, for which he was given an Honorary Academy Award, making him the first male performer of African descent to receive an Oscar in the...
     - "for his able and heart-warming characterization of Uncle Remus
    Uncle Remus

    Uncle Remus is a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form in 1881....
    , friend and story teller to the children of the world in Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    's Song of the South
    Song of the South

    Song of the South is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released on November 12, 1946, by RKO Pictures and based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris....
    . [statuette]." ("Special Award")
  • 1947 (20th
    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....
    ) - Thomas Armat
    Thomas Armat

    Thomas J. Armat was an United States mechanic and inventor, a pioneer of film best known through the co-invention of the Edison Vitascope....
    , Colonel William N. Selig
    William Selig

    William Nicholas Selig was a pioneer of the United States motion picture industry....
    , Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor - members of "the small group of pioneers whose belief in a new medium, and whose contributions to its development, blazed the trail along which the motion picture has progressed, in their lifetime, from obscurity to world-wide acclaim. [statuette]."
  • 1947 (20th
    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....
    ) - "To Bill and Coo
    Bill and Coo

    Bill and Coo is a 1948 in film, directed by Dean Riesner and conceived to showcase George Burton 's trained birds .The 61-minute live action film stars many types of birds, including Budgerigars and lovebirds....
    , in which artistry and patience blended in a novel and entertaining use of the medium of motion pictures. [plaque; replaced with statuette in 1976]."
  • 1947 (20th
    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....
    ) - "To Shoe-Shine [Sciuscià] [Italy] - the high quality of this motion picture, brought to eloquent life in a country scarred by war, is proof to the world that the creative spirit can triumph over adversity. [statuette]." ("Special Award")
  • 1948 (21st
    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 directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance....
    ) - Walter Wanger
    Walter Wanger

    Walter Wanger was an Academy Award-winning United States film producer. An intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas, Wanger's career started at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a contract produc...
     - "for distinguished service to the industry in adding to its moral stature in the world community by his production of the picture Joan of Arc
    Joan of Arc (1948 film)

    Joan of Arc is a 1948 in film Technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming; starring Ingrid Bergman as the Joan of Arc. It was produced by Walter Wanger....
    . [statuette]."
  • 1948 (21st
    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 directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance....
    ) - "To Monsieur Vincent
    Monsieur Vincent

    Monsieur Vincent is a 1947 French film about Vincent de Paul, the seventeenth century priest and charity worker. It depicts his struggle to help the poor in the face of obstacles such as the Black Death....
     [France] - voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1948. [statuette]." ("Special Foreign Language Film Award")
  • 1948 (21st
    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 directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance....
    ) - Sid Grauman
    Sid Grauman

    Sidney Patrick Grauman was an United States showman who created one of Southern California's most recognizable and visited landmarks, Grauman's Chinese Theater....
     - "master showman, who raised the standard of exhibition of motion pictures. [statuette]."
  • 1948 (21st
    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 directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance....
    ) - Adolph Zukor
    Adolph Zukor

    Adolf Zukor, born Adolph Cukor, was a film Media proprietor and founder of Paramount Pictures.He was born to a Jewish family in Ricse, Hungary, which was then a part of the Austria-Hungary empire....
     - "a man who has been called the father of the feature film in America, for his services to the industry over a period of forty years. [statuette]."
  • 1948 (21st
    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 directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance....
    ) - Walter Wanger
    Walter Wanger

    Walter Wanger was an Academy Award-winning United States film producer. An intellectual and a socially conscious movie executive who produced provocative message movies and glittering romantic melodramas, Wanger's career started at Paramount Pictures in the 1920s and led him to work at virtually every major studio as either a contract produc...
     - "for distinguished service to the industry in adding to its moral stature in the world community by his production of the picture Joan of Arc
    Joan of Arc (1948 film)

    Joan of Arc is a 1948 in film Technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming; starring Ingrid Bergman as the Joan of Arc. It was produced by Walter Wanger....
    . [statuette]."
  • 1948 (21st
    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 directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance....
    ) - Jean Hersholt
    Jean Hersholt

    'Jean Hersholt' was a Danish actor who lived in the United States where he was a leading film and radio talent, best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr....
     - "in recognition of his service to the Academy during four terms as president. [statuette on a square wood base]."
  • 1949 (22nd
    22nd Academy Awards

    The 22nd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1949....
    ) - Fred Astaire
    Fred Astaire

    Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
     - "for his unique artistry and his contributions to the technique of musical pictures. [statuette]."
  • 1949 (22nd
    22nd Academy Awards

    The 22nd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1949....
     - Cecil B. DeMille
    Cecil B. DeMille

    Cecil Blount DeMille was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies....
     - "distinguished motion picture pioneer for 37 years of brilliant showmanship. [statuette]."
  • 1949 (22nd
    22nd Academy Awards

    The 22nd Academy Awards Ceremony awarded Oscars for the best in films in 1949....
    ) - "To The Bicycle Thief
    Bicycle Thieves

    Ladri di biciclette is a 1948 in film Italian neorealism film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a poor man searching the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle, which he needs to be able to work....
     [Ladri di biciclette (Italy)] - voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949. [statuette]." ("Special Foreign Language Film Award")


1950s

  • 1950 (23rd
    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 ....
    ) - Louis B. Mayer - "for distinguished service to the motion picture industry. [statuette]."
  • 1950 (23rd
    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 ....
    ) - George Murphy
    George Murphy

    George Lloyd Murphy was an United States dancer, actor, and politician....
     - "for his services in interpreting the film industry to the country at large. [statuette]."
  • 1950 (23rd
    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 ....
    ) - "To The Walls of Malapaga
    The Walls of Malapaga

    The Walls of Malapaga , is a 1949 in film France-Italy film co-production made by Francinex and Italia Produzione. It was directed by Ren? Cl?ment and produced by Alfredo Guarini from a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Alfredo Guarini adapted by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost....
     [France/Italy] [Italian: Le mura di Malapaga, French: Au-delà des grilles (Beyond the Gates)] - voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States in 1950. [statuette]."
  • 1951 (24th
    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 scoops six Oscars, including Best Picture....
    ) - Gene Kelly
    Gene Kelly

    Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an United States dancer, actor, singer, film director, Film producer, and choreographer.A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen....
     - "in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film. [statuette]."
  • 1951 (24th
    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 scoops six Oscars, including Best Picture....
    ) - "To Rashômon [Japan] - voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951. [statuette]."
  • 1952 (25th
    25th Academy Awards

    The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best 1952 in film, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre, New York, New York....
    ) - Merian C. Cooper
    Merian C. Cooper

    Merian Caldwell Cooper was an United States aviator, United States Air Force and Polish Air Force officer, adventurer, film director, screenwriter and Film producer....
     - "for his many innovations and contributions to the art of motion pictures. [statuette]."
  • 1952 (25th
    25th Academy Awards

    The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best 1952 in film, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre, New York, New York....
    ) - Bob Hope
    Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
     - "for his contribution to the laughter of the world, his service to the motion picture industry, and his devotion to the American premise. [statuette]."
  • 1952 (25th
    25th Academy Awards

    The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best 1952 in film, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre, New York, New York....
    ) - Harold Lloyd
    Harold Lloyd

    Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an United States film actor and film producer, most famous for his silent film comedies.Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era....
     - "master comedian and good citizen. [statuette]."
  • 1952 (25th
    25th Academy Awards

    The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best 1952 in film, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre, New York, New York....
    ) - George Alfred Mitchell
    Mitchell Camera

    Mitchell Camera Corporation was founded in 1919 by Henry Boger and George Alfred Mitchell. Their first camera was designed and patented by John E....
     - "for the design and development of the camera which bears his name and for his continued and dominant presence in the field of cinematography. [statuette]."
  • 1952 (25th
    25th Academy Awards

    The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best 1952 in film, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre, New York, New York....
    ) - Joseph M. Schenck - "for long and distinguished service to the motion picture industry. [statuette]."
  • 1952 (25th
    25th Academy Awards

    The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best 1952 in film, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre, New York, New York....
    ) - "To Forbidden Games
    Forbidden Games

    Forbidden Games , is a 1952 French language film directed by Ren? Cl?ment and based on Fran?ois Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits ....
     [France] [Jeux interdits] - "Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1952. [statuette]." (Honorary Foreign Language Film Award")
  • 1953 (26th
    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....
    ) - 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation - "in recognition of their imagination, showmanship and foresight in introducing the revolutionary process known as CinemaScope
    CinemaScope

    CinemaScope was a widescreen movie format used from 1953 to 1967. Anamorphices allowed the process to project film up to a 2.66:1 Aspect ratio , almost twice as wide as the conventional format of 1.37:1....
    . [statuette]."
  • 1953 (26th
    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....
    ) - Bell and Howell
    Böwe Bell & Howell

    B?we Bell & Howell is a United States-based former manufacturer of motion picture machinery.According to its charter, Bell & Howell Company was incorporated February 17, 1907....
     Company - "for their pioneering and basic achievements in the advancement of the motion picture industry. [statuette]."
  • 1953 (26th
    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....
    ) - Joseph Breen
    Joseph I. Breen

    Joseph Ignatius Breen was an United States film censor. He worked with the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America to enforce the so-called Hays Code in film production....
     - "for his conscientious, open-minded and dignified management of the Motion Picture Production Code. [statuette]."
  • 1953 (26th
    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....
    ) - Pete Smith
    Pete Smith (film producer)

    Pete Smith was a film producer and narrator of "short subject" films from 1931 to 1955.Smith was a publicist at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who was recruited to overdub the actions of trained dogs in the studio's "Dogville" comedies....
     - "for his witty and pungent observations on the American scene in his series of 'Pete Smith Specialties'. [statuette]."
  • 1954 (27th
    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....
    ) - Bausch & Lomb
    Bausch & Lomb

    Bausch & Lomb is an United States company based in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, is one of the world's leading suppliers of eye health products, such as contact lenses and lens care products today....
     Optical Company - "for their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry. [statuette]."
  • 1954 (27th
    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....
    ) - Danny Kaye
    Danny Kaye

    Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
     - "for his unique talents, his service to the Academy, the motion picture industry, and the American people. [statuette]."
  • 1954 (27th
    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....
    ) - Kemp R. Niver - "for the development of the Renovare Process which has made possible the restoration of the Library of Congress
    Library of Congress

    The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books....
     Paper Film Collection. [statuette]."
  • 1954 (27th
    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....
    ) - Greta Garbo
    Greta Garbo

    Greta Garbo was a Swedish-American actor during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age of Hollywood.Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances...
     - "for her unforgettable screen performances. [statuette]."
  • 1954 (27th
    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....
    ) - John Whitley - "for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers
    The Little Kidnappers

    Set in Nova Scotia in 1903, The Little Kidnappers is a Disney Channel film that tells the story of orphans Harry and Davy MacKenzie and of their grandfather, James MacKenzie ....
    . [miniature statuette]."
  • 1954 (27th
    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....
    ) - Vincent Winter
    Vincent Winter

    Vincent Winter was a Scotland film actor who was successful as a child actor....
     - "for his outstanding juvenile performance in The Little Kidnappers
    The Little Kidnappers

    Set in Nova Scotia in 1903, The Little Kidnappers is a Disney Channel film that tells the story of orphans Harry and Davy MacKenzie and of their grandfather, James MacKenzie ....
    . [miniature statuette]."
  • 1954 (27th
    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....
    ) - "To Gate of Hell
    Jigokumon

    is a 1953 film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It tells the story of a samurai who tries to marry a woman he rescues, only to discover that she is already married to someone else....
     [Japan] - Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1954. [statuette]."
  • 1955 (28th
    28th Academy Awards

    The 28th Academy Awards were presented at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. It honored the top films of 1955, and awarded the winners the coveted "Oscar"....
    ) - "To Samurai, The Legend of Musashi [Japan] - Best Foreign Language Film first released in the United States during 1955. [statuette]."
  • 1956 (29th
    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 Honorary Award or as a Best Picture nominee ....
    ) - Eddie Cantor
    Eddie Cantor

    Eddie Cantor was an United States comedian, singer, actor, and songwriter. Familiar to Broadway theatre, radio and early television audiences, this "Apostle of Pep" was regarded almost as a family member by millions because his top-rated radio shows revealed intimate stories and amusing anecdotes about his wife Ida and five children....
     - for distinguished service to the film industry. [statuette]."
  • 1957 (30th
    30th Academy Awards

    The 30th Academy Awards was the first time the entire ceremony was live broadcast.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 English....
    ) - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
    Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

    The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers or SMPTE, , founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is an international professional association, based in the United States of America, of engineers working in the motion imaging industries....
     (SMPTE) - "for their contributions to the advancement of the motion picture industry. [statuette]."
  • 1957 (30th
    30th Academy Awards

    The 30th Academy Awards was the first time the entire ceremony was live broadcast.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 English....
    ) - Gilbert M. ("Broncho Billy") Anderson
    Broncho Billy Anderson

    Broncho Billy Anderson was an United States actor, writer, director, and producer, who is best known as the first star of the Western film genre....
    - "motion picture pioneer, for his contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment. [statuette]."
  • 1957 (30th
    30th Academy Awards

    The 30th Academy Awards was the first time the entire ceremony was live broadcast.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 English....
    ) - Charles Brackett
    Charles Brackett

    Charles Brackett was an United States novelist, screenwriter, and film producer.Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, Charles William Brackett was the son of New York State Senator, lawyer, and banker, Edgar Truman Brackett....
     - "for outstanding service to the Academy. [statuette]."
  • 1957 (30th
    30th Academy Awards

    The 30th Academy Awards was the first time the entire ceremony was live broadcast.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 English....
    ) - B. B. Kahane - "for distinguished service to the motion picture industry. [statuette]."
  • 1958 (31st
    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....
    ) - Maurice Chevalier
    Maurice Chevalier

    Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine"....
     - "for his contributions to the world of entertainment for more than half a century. [statuette]."
  • 1959 (32nd
    32nd Academy Awards

    The 32nd Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1959 on 4 April 1960.MGM's and director William Wyler's three and a half-hour long epic drama Ben-Hur broke the previous year's all-time record of Gigi ....
    ) - Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
     - "for his unique talents which brought immortal comedies to the screen. [statuette]."
  • 1959 (32nd
    32nd Academy Awards

    The 32nd Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1959 on 4 April 1960.MGM's and director William Wyler's three and a half-hour long epic drama Ben-Hur broke the previous year's all-time record of Gigi ....
    ) - Lee De Forest
    Lee De Forest

    Lee De Forest was an United States inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion tube, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them....
     - "for his pioneering inventions which brought sound to the motion picture. [statuette]."


1960s

  • 1960 (33rd
    33rd Academy Awards

    The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the 1960 in film, were held on April 17, 1961 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) - Gary Cooper
    Gary Cooper

    Frank James ?Gary? Cooper was an Cinema of the United States film actor and iconic star. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Western movie he made....
     - "for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry. [statuette]."
  • 1960 (33rd
    33rd Academy Awards

    The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the 1960 in film, were held on April 17, 1961 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) - Stan Laurel
    Stan Laurel

    Stan Laurel was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II....
     - "for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy. [statuette]."
  • 1961 (34th
    34th Academy Awards

    The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the 1961 in film, were held on April 9, 1962 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) - Fred L. Metzler - "for his dedication and outstanding service to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
    . [statuette]."
  • 1961 (34th
    34th Academy Awards

    The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the 1961 in film, were held on April 9, 1962 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) - Jerome Robbins
    Jerome Robbins

    Jerome Robbins was an United States film director and choreographer whose work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater....
     - "for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film. [statuette]."
  • 1961 (34th
    34th Academy Awards

    The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the 1961 in film, were held on April 9, 1962 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) - William L. Hendricks - "for his outstanding patriotic service in the conception, writing and production of the Marine Corps film, A Force in Readiness, which has brought honor to the Academy and the motion picture industry. [statuette]."
  • 1962 (35th
    35th Academy Awards

    The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the 1962 in film, were held on April 8, 1963 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) - [no award]
  • 1963 (36th
    36th Academy Awards

    The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the 1963 in film, were held on April 13 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) - [no award]
  • 1964 (37th
    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 2007 in film....
    ) - William Tuttle - "for his outstanding make-up achievement for 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
    7 Faces of Dr. Lao

    7 Faces of Dr. Lao is a 1963 in film film adaptation of the 1935 fantasy novel The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney. It details the visit of a magical circus to a small town in the southwest United States, and the effects that visit has on the people of the town....
    . [statuette]."
  • 1965 (38th
    38th Academy Awards

    The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the 1965 in film, were held on April 18 1966 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) - Bob Hope
    Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
     - "for unique and distinguished service to our industry and the Academy. [gold medal]."
  • 1966 (39th
    39th Academy Awards

    The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the 1966 in film, were held on April 10, 1967 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) - Yakima Canutt
    Yakima Canutt

    Yakima Canutt, also known as Yak Canutt, was an United States rodeo, actor, stunt double and action second unit director.Biography...
     - "for achievements as a stunt man and for developing safety devices to protect stunt men everywhere. [statuette]."
  • 1966 (39th
    39th Academy Awards

    The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the 1966 in film, were held on April 10, 1967 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California....
    ) - Y. Frank Freeman
    Y. Frank Freeman

    Young Frank Freeman was an American film company corporate officer for Paramount Pictures. Freeman graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1910....
     - "for unusual and outstanding service to the Academy during his thirty years in Hollywood. [statuette]."
  • 1967 (40th
    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....
    ) - Arthur Freed
    Arthur Freed

    Arthur Freed was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was an United States lyricist and a Hollywood film producer....
     - "for distinguished service to the Academy and the production of six top-rated Awards telecasts. [statuette]."
  • 1968 (41st
    41st Academy Awards

    The 41st Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host....
    ) - John Chambers
    John Chambers (make-up artist)

    John Chambers was a famous make-up artist who became a veteran in both television and film. Although he worked on some of the sleeper movies such as Halloween II and his first movie, Around the World in Eighty Days , his work became known worldwide in the Planet of the Apes series, for which he won a special Academy Honorary Awar...
     - "for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes
    Planet of the Apes (1968 film)

    Planet of the Apes is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner loosely based on the novel Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle....
    . [statuette]."
  • 1968 (41st
    41st Academy Awards

    The 41st Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1969 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host....
    ) - Onna White
    Onna White

    Onna White was a Canada choreographer and dancer nominated for eight Tony Awards. White was especially adept at choreographing dance numbers for actors with little or no dance training....
     - "for her outstanding choreography achievement for Oliver!
    Oliver! (film)

    Oliver! is a 1968 in film musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart....
    . [statuette]."
  • 1969 (42nd
    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....
    ) - Cary Grant
    Cary Grant

    Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
     - "for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues. [statuette]."


1970s

  • 1970 (43rd
    43rd Academy Awards

    The 43rd Academy Awards were presented April 15, 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host....
    ) - Lillian Gish
    Lillian Gish

    Lillian Diana Gish , was an United States stage, screen and television actor whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W....
     - "for superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures. [statuette]."
  • 1970 (43rd
    43rd Academy Awards

    The 43rd Academy Awards were presented April 15, 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. There was no host....
    ) - Orson Welles
    Orson Welles

    George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
     - "for superlative artistry and versatility in the creation of motion pictures. [statuette]."
  • 1971 (44th
    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....
    ) - Charles Chaplin
    Charlie Chaplin

    Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire , better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning England comedy film actor and filmmaker....
     - "for the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century. [statuette]."
  • 1972 (45th
    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....
    ) - Charles S. Boren - "Leader for 38 years of the industry's enlightened labor relations and architect of its policy of non-discrimination. With the respect and affection of all who work in films. [statuette]."
  • 1972 (45th
    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....
    ) - Edward G. Robinson
    Edward G. Robinson

    Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. was an honorary Academy Award-winning United States actor born in Romania. Although he has played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar....
     - "who achieved greatness as a player, a patron of the arts and a dedicated citizen...in sum, a Renaissance man. From his friends in the industry he loves. [statuette]."
  • 1973 (46th
    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....
    ) - Groucho Marx
    Groucho Marx

    Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx , was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho....
     - "in recognition of his brilliant creativity and for the unequalled achievements of the Marx Brothers
    Marx Brothers

    The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling comedians who appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film, and television....
     in the art of motion picture comedy. [statuette]."
  • 1973 (46th
    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....
    ) - Henri Langlois
    Henri Langlois

    Henri Langlois was a French pioneer of film preservation. He was co-founder of the Cin?math?que Fran?aise with Georges Franju and Jean Mitry....
     - "for his devotion to the art of film, his massive contributions in preserving its past and his unswerving faith in its future. [statuette]."
  • 1974 (47th
    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....
    ) - Howard Hawks
    Howard Hawks

    Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, Film producer and writer of the Classical Hollywood cinema. He died in Palm Springs, California, California, after a fall....
     - "A master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema. [statuette]."
  • 1974 (47th
    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....
    ) - Jean Renoir
    Jean Renoir

    Jean Renoir , born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir....
     - "a genius who, with grace, responsibility and enviable devotion through silent film, sound film, feature, documentary and television, has won the world's admiration. [statuette]."
  • 1975 (48th
    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....
    ) - Mary Pickford
    Mary Pickford

    Mary Pickford was an Academy Award-winning Canada film actor, as well as a co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences....
     - "in recognition of her unique contributions to the film industry and the development of film as an artistic medium. [statuette]."
  • 1976 (49th
    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....
    ) - [no award in this category; Special Achievement Award
    Academy Special Achievement Award

    The Special Achievement Award is an Academy Awards given for an achievement which makes an exceptional contribution to the motion picture for which it was created, but for which there is no annual award category....
    s for "Visual Effects
    Visual effects

    Visual effects are the various processes by which imagery is created and/or manipulated outside the context of a live action shoot. Visual effects often involve the integration of live-action footage and computer generated imagery in order to create environments which look realistic, but would be dangerous, costly, or simply impossible to...
    " were, however, given for King Kong
    King Kong (1976 film)

    King Kong is a 1976 in film Cinema of the United States motion picture produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 classic King Kong , about how a giant ape is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition....
     and Logan's Run
    Logan's Run (1976 film)

    Logan's Run is a 1976 science fiction film based on the Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. It depicts a Dystopian future society in which population and the consumption of resources are managed and maintained in equilibrium by the simple expediency of killing everyone who reaches the age of thirty, preventing over...
    .
  • 1977 (50th
    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....
    ) - Ben Burtt
    Ben Burtt

    Benjamin Burtt, Jr. is a four-time Academy Awards-winning United States sound designer for many famous and noteworthy films, including Star Wars, Indiana Jones franchise, and WALL-E, as well as a film director, screenwriter, and film editor....
     - "for exceptional sound effects in Star Wars
    Star Wars

    Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
    . [statuette]."
  • 1977 (50th
    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....
    ) - Margaret Booth
    Margaret Booth

    Margaret Booth was an United States film editor.Born in Los Angeles, California, she started her Hollywood career as a 'patcher', editing films by David Wark Griffith, around 1915....
     - "for her exceptional contribution to the art of film editing in the motion picture industry. [statuette]."
  • 1978 (51st
    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....
    ) - Laurence Olivier
    Laurence Olivier

    Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, Order of Merit was an English people Stage actor, Theatre director, and Theatrical producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson....
     - "for the full body of his work, for the unique achievements of his entire career and his lifetime of contribution to the art of film. [statuette]."
  • 1978 (51st
    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....
    ) - Museum of Modern Art
    Museum of Modern Art

    The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues....
    , Department of Film - "for the contribution it has made to the public's perception of movies as an art form. [statuette]."
  • 1978 (51st
    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....
    ) - Walter Lantz
    Walter Lantz

    Walter Benjamin Lantz was an United States cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker....
     - "for bringing joy and laughter to every part of the world through his unique animated motion pictures. [statuette]."
  • 1978 (51st
    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....
    ) - King Vidor
    King Vidor

    King Wallis Vidor was an acclaimed United States film director whose career spanned nearly seven decades.He was born in Galveston, Texas, Texas, where he survived the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900....
     - "for his incomparable achievements as a cinematic creator and innovator. [statuette]."
  • 1979 (52nd
    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....
    ) - Alec Guinness
    Alec Guinness

    Sir Alec Guinness, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire was an Academy Award for Best Actor winning English actor....
     - "for advancing the art of screen acting through a host of memorable and distinguished performances. [statuette]."
  • 1979 (52nd
    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....
    ) - Hal Elias - "for his dedication and distinguished service to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
    . [statuette]."


1980s

  • 1980 (53rd
    53rd Academy Awards

    The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980 in film, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles....
    ) - Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda

    Henry Jaynes Fonda was an United States Academy Awards-winning film and Stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, Naturalism acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
     - "the consummate actor, in recognition of his brilliant accomplishments and enduring contribution to the art of motion pictures. [statuette]."
  • 1981 (54th
    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....
    ) - Barbara Stanwyck
    Barbara Stanwyck

    Barbara Stanwyck was an United States actor, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B....
     - "for superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting. [statuette]."
  • 1982 (55th
    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....
    ) - Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
     - "in recognition of his 60 years of versatility in a variety of memorable film performances. [statuette]."
  • 1983 (56th
    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....
    ) - Hal Roach
    Hal Roach

    Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an United States film producer and television producer from the 1910s to the 1990s....
     - "in recognition of his unparalleled record of distinguished contributions to the motion picture art form. [statuette]."
  • 1984 (57th
    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....
    ) - James Stewart
    James Stewart (actor)

    James Maitland Stewart , popularly known as Jimmy Stewart, was an United States film and stage actor best known for his self-effacing persona....
     - "for his fifty years of memorable performances. For his high ideals both on and off the screen. With the respect and affection of his colleagues. [statuette]."
  • 1984 (57th
    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....
    ) - The National Endowment for the Arts - "in recognition of its 20th anniversary and its dedicated commitment to fostering artistic and creative activity and excellence in every area of the arts. [statuette]."
  • 1985 (58th
    58th Academy Awards

    The 58th Academy Awards, honoring the 1985 in film, 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....
    ) - Alex North
    Alex North

    Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
     - "in recognition of his brilliant artistry in the creation of memorable music for a host of distinguished motion pictures. [statuette]."
  • 1985 (58th
    58th Academy Awards

    The 58th Academy Awards, honoring the 1985 in film, 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....
    ) - Paul Newman
    Paul Newman

    Paul Leonard Newman was an United States actor, film director, entrepreneur, Humanitarianism, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations three Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a...
     - "in recognition of his many and memorable compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft. [statuette]."
  • 1986 (59th
    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....
    ) - Ralph Bellamy
    Ralph Bellamy

    Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an United States actor with a career spanning sixty-two years....
     - "for his unique artistry and his distinguished service to the profession of acting."
  • 1987 (60th
    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....
    ) - [no award]
  • 1988 (61st
    61st Academy Awards

    The 61st Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles....
    ) - Eastman Kodak Company
    Eastman Kodak

    Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational corporation public company which produces imaging and photography materials and equipment. Long known for its wide range of photographic film products, Kodak is re-focusing on two major markets: digital photography and digital printing....
     - "in recognition of the company's fundamental contributions to the art of motion pictures during the first century of film history. [statuette]."
  • 1988 (61st
    61st Academy Awards

    The 61st Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles....
    ) - National Film Board of Canada
    National Film Board of Canada

    The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes innovative, socially relevant documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions....
     - "in recognition of its 50th anniversary and its dedicated commitment to originate artistic, creative and technological activity and excellence in every area of film making. [statuette]."
  • 1989 (62nd
    62nd Academy Awards

    The 62nd Academy Awards were presented March 26, 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was not only hosted in Hollywood, California, but it was also co-hosted in five cities around the globe....
    ) - Akira Kurosawa
    Akira Kurosawa

    was a prominent Japanese people filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and film editing. His first credited film as director, , was released in 1943, his last as director, , in 1993....
     - "for cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world. [statuette]."


1990s

  • 1990 (63rd
    63rd Academy Awards

    The 63rd Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1991 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. The show was hosted by Billy Crystal.The prominent winner was the film Dances with Wolves which earned three major awards....
    ) - Sophia Loren
    Sophia Loren

    Sophia Loren is an Academy Award-winning Italian people film actress. She is widely considered to be the most popular Italian actress of her time and is also famous for being a major international sex symbol....
     - "one of the genuine treasures of world cinema who, in a career rich with memorable performances, has added permanent luster to our art form. [statuette]."
  • 1990 (63rd
    63rd Academy Awards

    The 63rd Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1991 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. The show was hosted by Billy Crystal.The prominent winner was the film Dances with Wolves which earned three major awards....
    ) - Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy

    Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
     - "in recognition of her extraordinary qualities both on screen and off, with appreciation for a lifetime's worth of indelible performances. [statuette]."
  • 1991 (64th
    64th Academy Awards

    The 64th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was the third consecutive to be hosted by Billy Crystal....
    ) - Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray

    Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali people filmmaker. Ray is regarded as one of the greatest Auteur theory of 20th century Film. Born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali people family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College, Calcutta and at the Visva-Bharati University....
     - "in recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world. [statuette]."
  • 1992 (65th
    65th Academy Awards

    The 65th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1993 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was hosted by Billy Crystal.Unforgiven won four awards including Academy Award for Best Picture....
    ) - Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini

    Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
     - "in recognition of his cinematic accomplishments that have thrilled and entertained worldwide audiences. [statuette]."
  • 1993 (66th
    66th Academy Awards

    The 66th Academy Awards were presented March 21, 1994 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was landmark in that it featured a female African American host for the first time, Whoopi Goldberg, and represented a direct contrast in edgy style from Billy Crystal who had hosted the show the previous four years....
    ) - Deborah Kerr
    Deborah Kerr

    Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Commander of the British Empire was a Scottish people stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she appeared in on Broadway , a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I , and she was al...
     - "in appreciation for a full career's worth of elegant and beautifully crafted performances. [statuette]."
  • 1994 (67th
    67th Academy Awards

    The 67th Academy Awards, honoring the 1994 in film, were held on March 27, 1995 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by well-known comedian and talk show host David Letterman....
    ) - Michelangelo Antonioni
    Michelangelo Antonioni

    Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian orders of merit was an Italian people modernist film director....
     - "in recognition of his place as one of the cinema's master visual stylists. [statuette]."
  • 1995 (68th
    68th Academy Awards

    The 68th Academy Awards was held on March 25, 1996 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The show was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg....
    ) - Chuck Jones
    Chuck Jones

    Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, film producer, and film director of animation films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros....
     - "for the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than a half century. [statuette]."
  • 1995 (69th
    68th Academy Awards

    The 68th Academy Awards was held on March 25, 1996 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The show was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg....
    ) - Kirk Douglas
    Kirk Douglas

    Kirk Douglas is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor and film producer known for his cleft chin, his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches"....
     - "for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community. [statuette]."
  • 1996 (69th
    69th Academy Awards

    The 69th Academy Awards were dominated by movies produced by independent studios, financed outside of mainstream Hollywood, California, leading to 1997 being dubbed "The Year of the Independents"....
    ) - Michael Kidd
    Michael Kidd

    Michael Kidd was an United States film and musical theatre choreographer....
     - "in recognition of his services to the art of the dance in the art of the screen. [statuette]."
  • 1997 (70th
    70th Academy Awards

    The 70th Academy Awards were noted for their high ratings and the 11 wins racked up by the Academy Award for Best Picture, Titanic . Billy Crystal hosted the ceremony for the sixth time, and received an Emmy Awards for his performance....
    ) - Stanley Donen
    Stanley Donen

    Stanley Donen is an American film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as "the King of the Hollywood musicals". His most famous work is Singin' in the Rain , which he co-directed with Gene Kelly....
     - "in appreciation of a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation. [statuette]."
  • 1998 (71st
    71st Academy Awards

    The 71st Academy Awards ceremony was the last to take place at Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Music Center, and was Whoopi Goldberg third time hosting the Awards....
    ) - Elia Kazan
    Elia Kazan

    Elia Kazan, September 7 1909 – September 28 2003, was an United States award-winning film director and Theatre direction, film producer and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947....
     - "in appreciation of a long, distinguished and unparalleled career during which he has influenced the very nature of filmmaking through his creation of cinematic masterpieces. [statuette]."
  • 1999 (72nd
    72nd Academy Awards

    The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony took place at Los Angeles, California Shrine Auditorium, and was Billy Crystal's seventh time hosting the Awards....
    ) - Andrzej Wajda
    Andrzej Wajda

    Andrzej Wajda is a Poland film director. Recipient of an honorary Academy Awards, he is one of the most prominent members of the Polish Film School....
     - "in recognition of five decades of extraordinary film direction. [statuette]."


2000s

  • 2000 (73rd
    73rd Academy Awards

    The 73rd Academy Awards ceremony was the last to take place at the Los Angeles, California Shrine Auditorium. It was hosted by first-time host Steve Martin, who was nominated for an Emmy Awards for his presentation....
    ) - Jack Cardiff
    Jack Cardiff

    Jack Cardiff Order of the British Empire, B.S.C. is an Academy Awards-winning United Kingdom cinematographer, film director and photographer....
     - "master of light and color. [statuette]."
  • 2000 (73rd
    73rd Academy Awards

    The 73rd Academy Awards ceremony was the last to take place at the Los Angeles, California Shrine Auditorium. It was hosted by first-time host Steve Martin, who was nominated for an Emmy Awards for his presentation....
    ) - Ernest Lehman
    Ernest Lehman

    Ernest Lehman was an United States screenwriter. He received 6 Academy Awards nominations during his screenwriting career. In 2001 he received an honorary Oscar for his works, the first screenwriter to receive that honor....
     - "in appreciation of a body of varied and enduring work. [statuette]."
  • 2001 (74th
    74th Academy Awards

    The 74th Academy Awards honored the 2001 in film and were held on March 24 2002, for the first time at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
    ) - Sidney Poitier
    Sidney Poitier

    Sir Sidney Poitier, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Grammy award-winning Bahamas-United States actor, film director, author, and diplomat....
     - "in recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human. [statuette]."
  • 2001 (74th
    74th Academy Awards

    The 74th Academy Awards honored the 2001 in film and were held on March 24 2002, for the first time at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California....
    ) - Robert Redford
    Robert Redford

    Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, actor, film producer, businessman, model , environmentalism, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival....
     - "Actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance
    Sundance Film Festival

    The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in the state of Utah, in the United States. It is the largest Independent film cinema festival in the U.S....
    , inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere. [statuette]."
  • 2002 (75th
    75th Academy Awards

    The 75th Academy Awards honored the 2002 in film, were held on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was produced by Gilbert Cates and hosted by Steve Martin, who also hosted the 73rd Academy Awards....
    ) - Peter O'Toole
    Peter O'Toole

    Peter Seamus O'Toole is an Irish people actor of stage and screen who achieved instant stardom in 1962 playing T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia ....
     - "whose remarkable talents have provided cinema history with some of its most memorable characters. [statuette]."
  • 2003 (76th
    76th Academy Awards

    The 76th Academy Awards ceremony honored the 2003 in film and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on American Broadcasting Company beginning at 5:30 p.m....
    ) - Blake Edwards
    Blake Edwards

    Blake Edwards is an Academy Award-winning United States film director, screenwriter, and film producer.Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards was the son of a stage director....
     - "in recognition of his writing, directing and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen. [statuette]."
  • 2004 (77th
    77th Academy Awards

    The 77th Academy Awards honored the 2004 in film and were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by comedian Chris Rock....
    ) - Sidney Lumet
    Sidney Lumet

    Sidney Lumet is an Academy Award winning United States film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men , Serpico , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict , all of which, except for Serpico , earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director....
     - "in recognition of his brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture. [statuette]."
  • 2005 (78th
    78th Academy Awards

    The 78th Academy Awards honored the 2005 in film and were held on March 5 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart....
    ) - Robert Altman
    Robert Altman

    Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
     - "in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form and inspired filmmakers and audiences alike. [statuette]."
  • 2006 (79th
    79th Academy Awards

    The 79th Academy Awards ceremony , honored the 2006 in film and took place on February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on American Broadcasting Company....
    ) - Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone

    Ennio Morricone, Italian orders of merit#Order of Merit of the Republic is an acclaimed List of Italian composers Academy Award-winning composer....
     - "in recognition of his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music. [statuette]."
  • 2007 (80th
    80th Academy Awards

    The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 in film and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on American Broadcasting Company beginning at 5:30 p.m....
    ) - Robert F. Boyle
    Robert F. Boyle

    Robert F. Boyle is an Academy Award-winning United States art director and production designer. He is the oldest living recipient of an Academy Award....
     - "in recognition of one of cinema's great careers in art direction. [statuette]."
  • 2008 (81st
    81st Academy Awards

    The 81st Academy Awards ceremony was held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor its selection of the best 2008 in film on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California....
    ) - [no award]


See also

  • Academy Awards
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
     (Oscars)
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures....
     (AMPAS)


External links

  • – Official Website.
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