50th Academy Awards

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50th Academy Awards

colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" class="hiddenStructure" |style="text-align: right;|Preshow | |- |style="text-align: right;|Host | |- class="hiddenStructure" |style="text-align: right;|Producer | |- class="hiddenStructure" |style="text-align: right;|Director | |- class="hiddenStructure" |style="text-align: right;|Duration | |} The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on April 3 1978. Two of the year's biggest winners are , winning 6 out of 10 nominations, and Annie Hall, winning 4 out of 5 nominations, narrowly beating out Star Wars for best picture. This incarnation of the awards show was notable for a politically-charged acceptance speech by Vanessa Redgrave. Contents 1 Redgrave speech 2 Winners 2.1 Feature Films 2.2 Acting 2.3 Special honors 3 See also 4 External links Redgrave speech During the ceremony, Vanessa Redgrave won the Best Supporting Actress award for Julia, and gave a controversial acceptance speech proclaiming her pro-Palestinian views. Shortly thereafter, when it came his turn to announce an award winner (for Best Writing), Paddy Chayefsky, apparently perturbed by political speeches at the Academy Awards, replied: Winners See also: 50th Academy Awards nominees Feature Films Best motion picture of the year: Annie Hall Acting Category Winner Movie Best actor in a leading role Richard Dreyfuss The Goodbye Girl Best actress in a leading role Diane Keaton Annie Hall Best actor in a supporting role Jason Robards Julia Best actress in a supporting role Vanessa Redgrave Julia Special honors The Academy gave the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Walter Mirisch and The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Charlton Heston. See also Academy Awards List of Academy Awards ceremonies External links [E! Online - 75 Years of Oscar - 1978] [IMDb: Academy Awards, USA: 1978] [filmsite.org: 1977 Academy Awards® Winners and History] [Redgrave's 'Zionist Hoodlums' Speech Shocks Hollywood] Academy Awards ceremonies 1927/28 | 1928/29 | 1929/30 | 1930/31 | 1931/32 | 1932/33 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 (years are of film release; ceremonies are the next year)   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: