50th Academy Awards
| Also known as |
- Add other possible names for this topic
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. Two of the year's biggest winners were Star Wars, which swept the Oscars by winning 6 out of 10 nominations, and Annie Hall, winning 4 out of 5 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Director. This incarnation of the awards show was also notable for a very politically-charged acceptance speech by Vanessa Redgrave.
During the ceremony, Vanessa Redgrave won the Best Supporting Actress award for Julia, and, aware of members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) protesting outside, made the following comments:
Two hours later, when it came his turn to announce an award winner (for Best Writing), Paddy Chayefsky, perturbed by what he perceived as "cracks about Jews" at the Academy Awards, replied:
Released in May 1977, Star Wars was the year's highest-grossing...
full article at wikipedia
With the exception of Wikipedia summaries and some images the
content on this page is typically distributed under
the Creative Commons
Attribution license or Public Domain.
The original description for this topic was automatically generated from the Wikipedia article "50th Academy Awards" licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
| Gallery | add an image |
There are no images for this topic yet.
Recent Discussions about 50th Academy Awards
There are no conversations on this topic. Would you like to start one?
Start the Discussion