Hollywood Studio Magazine (1978)

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Things you should know about the Academy Awards Here are interesting facts ... You may not know about the Academy Awards. The youngest nominee for an acting Oscar was Jackie Cooper, nominated as best actor at the age of nine for his performance in “Skippy”. Youngest player to receive an award was Shirley Temple, who was five years old when she was voted an Honorary Juvenile Award in 1934. Youngest ever to be voted an Oscar was Tatum O’Neal, who was 10 when she won for her supporting performance in “Paper Moon.” Forty-five different actors have been best actor winners. Only Fredric March, Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper and Marlon Brando have won twice. There was one tie, in 1931/32 between March (“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”) and Wallace Beery (“The Champ.”) Spencer Tracy leads all actors in nominations -nine. Forty women have been voted best actress. Katharine Hepburn, whose eleven nominations lead all thespians in this field, is the only three-time winner in the best actress category. Two-time recipients are Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Glenda Jackson, Vivien Leigh, Luise Rainer and Elizabeth Taylor. There has been one tie, in 1968 between Katharine Hepburn (“The Lion in Winter”) and Barbra Streisand (“Funny Girl”). In the supporting actor field, only three have repeated: Walter Brennan, with three, and Anthony Quinn and Peter Ustinov, with two each. Shelley Winters is the only actress to win two Oscars in the supporting category. Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman and Jack Lemmon are the only performers in Academy history to win in both acting categories. Hayes won the best actress award in 1931/32 for “The Sin of Madelon Claudet,” and the supporting actress award in 1970 for “Airport.” Bergman won the best actress award for “Gaslight,” 1944, and “Anastasia,” 1956, and the supporting actress award for “Murder On the Orient Express,” 1974. Lemmon won the supporting actor award in 1955 for “Mister Roberts,” and the best actor award in 1973 for “Save the Tiger.” There have been nine posthumous awards, but none for acting. Only sister act among the Oscar winners: Joan Fontaine, who won the best actress award in 1941 for “Suspicion;” and Olivia de Havilland, who won two awards in the same category, 1946 for “To Each His Own” and 1949 for “The Heiress.” One brother-sister achievement: Lionel Barrymore, best actor for “A Free Soul” in 1931, and Ethel Barrymore, best supporting actress for “None But the Lonely Heart” in 1944. Brother John never won an Oscar. On two occasions father and son walked off with Oscars. Walter Huston was the best supporting actor of 1948 for “Treasure of Sierra Madre.” For directing and scripting the same movie, son John Huston won two Oscars. Similarly, in 22 HOLLYWOOD STUDIO Magazine 1974, Francis Ford Coppola won Oscars for writing and directing “The Godfather Part IT” while his father, Carmine Coppola, won an award for his original dramatic score for the same film. _ There have been 45 different masters of ceremonies, with Bob Hope holding the record for the most appearances, 15. In the acting ranks, five married couples were nominated in the same year; Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, best actor and actress, “The Guardsman,” 1931/32; Frank Sinatra, supporting actor (won award), “From Here to Eternity,” and Ava Gardner, best actress, “Mogambo,” 1953; Charles Laughton, best actor, and Elsa Lanchester, best supporting actress, “Witness for the Prosecution,” 1957; Rex Harrison, best actor, “Cleopatra,” and Rachel Roberts, best actress, “This Sporting Life,” 1963; Richard Burton, best actor, and Elizabeth Taylor, best actress (won award), “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, 1966. “Ben-Hur,” winner in 1959, is the all-time record holder among motion pictures, with 11 awards. “West Side Story” is next with ten, followed by another musical, “Gigi”, with nine. “All About Eve” received the most nominations, 14. It won six awards. Top Oscar winner of all time? Walt Disney, with an astonishing total of 31. The first Academy Awards Presentation was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Other ceremonies have been staged at the Biltmore Hotel, the Ambassador Hotel and the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, in the Academy’s own theater in its first building on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, in the Pantages Theater and Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, and in the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica. This year’s Oscar Show will be held in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center on April 3, 1978. It will be televised live by ABC. This will be the ninth year the Music Center has hosted the Awards. Janet Gaynor and Emil Jannings were the first year’s actress and best actor winners. Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, both for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” were last year’s. The writing field has had some illustrious winners: George Bernard Shaw for “Pygmalion,” Robert E. Sherwood for “The Best Years of Our Lives,” William Saroyan for “The Human Comedy” and William Inge for “Splendor in the Grass.” Irving Berlin is the only presenter ever to give himself an Oscar -when he opened the envelope in 1942 and read the winner of the best song; his own “White Christmas.” A total of 1885 Oscars have been given out over the past 48 years. Only one ever came back from the engravers (winners turn them in after the show to have name and achievement inscribed) with an error. Spencer Tracy’s for “Captains Courageous” almost went to him reading “Dick Tracy.” +