Academy Awards (redirect from Oscar award)
Awards. The Oscar statuette depicts a knight, rendered in the Art Deco style. The first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16, 1929, at a private...
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Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (/ˈhæmərstaɪn/; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and...
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1929 Academy Awards may refer to: 1st Academy Awards, the Academy Awards ceremony that took place on May 16, 1929, honoring films released in 1927 and...
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Academy Award for Best Picture (redirect from Best Picture Oscar)
(also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes...
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John AIDS Foundation Academy Award Party. "The 1st Academy Awards | 1929". Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 8 October 2014. Archived...
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Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) was an American concert pianist, composer, conductor, author, radio game show panelist, television...
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John Stange(r) Heiss Oscar Asche (24 January 1871 – 23 March 1936), better known as Oscar Asche, was an Australian actor, director, and writer, best known...
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Oscar Rex (sometimes spelled Oskar; 26 March 1857 – 8 February 1929) was an Austrian genre painter. Born in Graz, Rex grew up in Prague. From 1876 to...
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Oscar Chisini (14 March 1889 – 10 April 1967) was an Italian mathematician. He introduced the Chisini mean in 1929. Chisini was born in Bergamo. In 1929...
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Oscar Fitzallen Holcombe (December 31, 1888 – June 18, 1968) was an American businessman who served as the mayor of Houston, Texas, for 22 years, in 11...
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Oscar Núñez (1929 – 9 February 2012) was an Argentine actor known for his work in film and theatre. Some of his best known film credits included Nine...
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Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈoskaʁ ni.eˈmajeʁ])...
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Oscar Sherman Adams (January 9, 1874 – March 5, 1962) was an American mathematician, geodesist, and cartographer who worked for the United States Coast...
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List of Academy Award records (redirect from Oscar records)
year George Arliss, born 10 April 1868 (Best Actor, Disraeli, 1929) Earliest-born Oscar nominee by birth year May Robson, born 19 April 1858 (Best Actress...
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dialogue track. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor films released in 1927/28, there was no separate category for foreign...
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Oscar Wilder Underwood (May 6, 1862 – January 25, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician from Alabama, and also a candidate for President of the United...
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Oscar Gustaf Björck (15 January 1860 – 5 December 1929) was a Swedish painter and a professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. Born in Stockholm,...
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Academy Honorary Award (redirect from Oscar for lifetime achievement)
(Letter from the Academy to Mr. Chaplin, dated February 19, 1929.)] "Walt Disney's Oscars® | the Walt Disney Family Museum". Archived from the original...
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Hal Ashby (category 1929 births)
William Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 – December 27, 1988) was an American film director and editor. His work exemplified the countercultural attitude of...
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Lucky Day (1929), Frank Capra's Flight (1929), One Hysterical Night (1929) (a bigger role), The Last Performance (1929), The Long Long Trail (1929) with Gibson...
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Oscar Stanton De Priest (March 9, 1871 – May 12, 1951) was an American politician and civil rights advocate from Chicago. A member of the Illinois Republican...
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Joe Pass (category 1929 births)
13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. Pass is well known for his work stemming from numerous collaborations with pianist Oscar Peterson...
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Academy Award for Best Actor (redirect from Oscar for Best Actor)
August 27, 2013. Chilton, Martin (May 16, 2016). "The first Oscars: what happened in 1929". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on May 19...
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Oscar Gallardo (born 10 June 1929) is an Argentine boxer. He competed in the men's light welterweight event at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Evans, Hilary;...
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Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (US: /mɪˈʃoʊ/ ; (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than...
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List of Academy Awards ceremonies (redirect from Oscar hosts)
is current as of the 96th Academy Awards ceremony held on March 10, 2024. 1929: The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel 1930–1943: Alternated between the Ambassador...
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Academy Award for Best Cinematography (redirect from Oscar for Best Cinematography)
competed in a combined Best Cinematography category. "Oscar nominations". January 24, 2009. "Oscar Breakdown: Best Cinematography". Archived from the original...
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Corp, a subsidiary of Canadian corporate group Exertis | JAM. Oscar Schmidt (1857–1929) was a German immigrant to the United States who was involved in...
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List of actors with more than one Academy Award nomination in the acting categories (redirect from Most Oscar nominations)
known as the Oscars, for over 90 years. The Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress have been presented since the 1st ceremony in 1929, and the awards...
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received an Oscar nomination for the role of Leslie Crosbie in the 1940 version. List of rediscovered films List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) The...
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