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The 30th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 26, 1958, to honor the best films of 1957. Two violent deaths surrounded the Oscars during this ceremony. A plane crash took the life of producer Mike Todd, ending the then-latest marriage of Elizabeth Taylor, at that time a contender for the film Raintree County.
Best Actress winner for The Three Faces of Eve, with presenter John Wayne. Miyoshi Umeki. Supporting Actress winner for Sayonara. View More Memorable Moments.
Films with the most nominations: All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016) each earned 14 Academy Award nominations. Film with the highest clean sweep: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won all 11 Academy Awards from its 11 nominations.
The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry. [1] [2] They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. [3]
The 30th Annual Academy Awards were presented on Wednesday, March 26, 1958. For the first time in their broadcast history, there was no cutaway to New York and the entire affair took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.
The Bridge on the River Kwai also won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Alec Guinness), Cinematography (Jack Hildyard), Directing (David Lean), Film Editing (Peter Taylor), Music – Scoring (Malcolm Arnold), and Writing – Screenplay based on material from another medium (Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, and Pierre Boulle).
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In the Oscar-winning Looney Tunes cartoon, a medieval court jester Bugs Bunny must recover the Singing Sword from the evil Black Knight (Yosemite Sam). Freleng's previous Oscar wins were for Tweety Pie (1947), Speedy Gonzalez (1955), and Birds Anonymous (1957).
