Film awards ceremony

The 76th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best in film for 2003, was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST, February 29, 2004 (01:30 March 1 UTC). The show was produced by Joe Roth and was hosted...

The 75th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2002, were held on March 23 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It was produced by Gil Cates and hosted by Steve Martin, who also hosted the 73rd Academy Awards. The nominees were announced on...

The 70th Academy Awards were noted for their high ratings and the 11 wins racked up by the Best Picture, Titanic. Billy Crystal hosted the ceremony for the sixth time, and received an Emmy award for his performance. Although the evening was dominated by Titanic, the...

The 74th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2001, were held on March 24 2002, for the first time at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. The ceremony was historically notable for honoring two African American...

The 73rd Academy Awards ceremony was the last to take place at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. It was hosted by first-time host Steve Martin, who was nominated for an Emmy Award for his presentation. Notable films receiving Academy Awards at the ceremony included...

The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony (also known as Oscars 2000) took place at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, and was Billy Crystal's seventh time hosting the Awards. The ceremony attracted 46.53 million viewers, an audience 3.7% bigger the previous ceremony. The...

The 71st Academy Awards ceremony was the last to take place at Los Angeles County Music Center, and was Whoopi Goldberg's third time hosting the Awards. It was the first time the ceremony took place on a Sunday. The Academy Award ceremony ran extremely long, due...

The 69th Academy Awards were dominated by movies produced by independent studios, financed outside of mainstream Hollywood, leading to 1997 being dubbed "The Year of the Independents". All but one of the nominees for Best Picture were low-budget independent movies (the...

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...

The 77th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2004, were held on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by comedian Chris Rock. The nominees were announced on January 25, 2005. Martin Scorsese's biopic of the...

The 67th Academy Awards, honoring the best movies of 1994, were held on March 27, 1995 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by well-known comedian and talk show host David Letterman. The ceremony is perhaps best remembered for Letterman...

The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best movies of 1952, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and the NBC International Theatre, New York, New York. It was the first Academy Award ceremony to be televised, and the first...

The 1st Academy Awards were presented on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Tickets cost $5 and fewer than 250 people attended. The whole ceremony lasted only 15 minutes. Unlike later events, the winners had been announced months...

The 68th Academy Awards was held on March 25, 1996 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The show was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. The ceremony was watched 44.48 million viewers, with 30.5% households watching. Despite controversy from the NAACP...

The 66th Academy Award were presented March 21, 1994 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was landmark in that it featured a female African American host for the first time, Whoopi Goldberg, and represented a direct contrast in edgy style from Billy...

The 65th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1993 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was hosted by Billy Crystal. Unforgiven won four awards including Best Picture. The following is an incomplete list of winners:

The 64th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was the third consecutive to be hosted by Billy Crystal and also featured Jack Palance's memorable one-handed push ups. The Silence of the Lambs won five...

The 63rd Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1991 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. The show was hosted by Billy Crystal. The prominent winner was the film Dances with Wolves which earned three major awards. Kevin Costner was the movie's director and leading...

The 62nd Academy Awards were presented March 26, 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was not only hosted in Hollywood, California; it was also co-hosted in five cities around the globe: -Buenos Aires, Argentina-London, United Kingdom-Moscow,...

The 61st Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. The producers of the ceremony attempted to change established Oscar traditions for this year's show. One noticeable difference was that instead of an award presenter saying, ...

The 60th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1988 at the Shrine Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Chevy Chase. Academy Awards

The 2nd Academy Awards were presented on April 3, 1930 at an awards banquet in the Cocoanut Grove of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and broadcast live on the radio. This second ceremony would include a number of changes over the first. Most importantly, this was...

The 58th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1985, were held on March 24 1986 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams. The ceremony was watched by 38.93 million viewers, tying the 78th Academy...

The 59th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Paul Hogan. The Academy awards show was broadcast on the ABC network at the same time as CBS...

The London Film Critics' Circle is the name by which the Film Section of the The Critics' Circle is known internationally. The word London was added because it was thought the term Critics' Circle Film Awards lacked meaning — for people in LA for example — and the...

The 78th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were held on March 5 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart. The ceremony was pushed back from its newly established February date because of...

The 79th Academy Award ceremony (also known as the Oscars), honoring the best in film for 2006, took place on February 25 2007 5:00 p.m. PT/8:00 p.m. ET at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC. Ellen DeGeneres hosted the ceremony for the first time. The...

The 3rd Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1929/1930, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award winners were as follows: For a complete list of nominees and winners, see: 3rd Academy Awards nominees and winners NOTE:...

The 4th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1930/1931, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award winners were as follows: For a complete list of nominees and winners, see: 4th Academy Awards nominees and winners NOTE:...

The 5th Academy Awards were awarded to films completed and screened in 1931/1932, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The award winners were as follows: For a complete list of nominees and winners, see: 5th Academy Awards nominees and winners TIE ...