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The First Oscar Presentation and Banquet. Held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Joseph Farnham. Farnham receiving his Oscar from presenter Douglas Fairbanks. Janet Gaynor. Best Actress winner for 7th Heaven, Street Angel and Sunrise. View More Memorable Moments.
Wings is the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, which was at the time known as Outstanding Picture. Also won an award for the Best Engineering Effects.
Nov 24, 2009 · Its first president and the host of the May 1929 ceremony was the actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Unlike today, the winners of the first Oscars—as the coveted gold-plated statuettes later...
Mar 10, 2024 · Who was the first person to win Best Actor at the Oscars? Emil Jannings, a Swiss-born German actor, won the first Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the films "The Last Command" and "The Way...
- First Black Artist To Win An Oscar: Hattie McDaniel. In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American artist to be nominated for an Oscar—then the first to win an Oscar—when she took home the Best Supporting Actress statuette for her performance in Gone with the Wind.
- First Actor To Refuse An Oscar: George C. Scott. In 1971, George C. Scott refused both the nomination and eventual win for Best Actor in Patton. Scott sent the academy a telegram saying that he refused to accept the nomination because he disliked the voting process and felt that competing against his fellow actors was artistically wrong.
- First Person To Present Him/Herself With An Oscar: Norma Shearer. During the third Academy Awards in 1931, Norma Shearer was the presenter for the Best Actress category.
- First Color Movie To Win A Best Picture Oscar: Gone With The Wind. In 1938, A Star Is Born became the first all-color movie to receive a Best Picture nomination.
Mar 3, 2022 · The first was in Street Smart, followed by Driving Miss Daisy, in which his co-star Jessica Tandy won an Oscar at the age of 80. As for Freeman, he picked up a third nomination for The Shawshank Redemption and then finally won for Best Supporting Actor in 2004 for Million Dollar Baby at the age of 67.
Feb 19, 2016 · Jonathan Glancey takes a look. Emil Jannings, a German actor who would go on to make propaganda films for the Nazis in the 1930s, was the first recipient of the legendary Oscar. Had there...
