Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world.

Academy Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization. Actors make up the largest voting bloc. The votes have been tabulated and certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers for 72 years, since close to the awards' inception. They are intended for the films and persons the Academy believes have the top achievements of the year.

The annual Oscar presentation has been held since 1929.

In 1968, Alfred Hitchcock was presented with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

In 2008, the honorary Academy Award was presented to 98 year old production designer Robert F. Boyle.

Awards

• Rebecca (1940)
  • won Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (George Barnes)
  • won Best Picture (David O Selznick)

• Suspicion (1941)
  • won Best Actress In A Leading Role (Joan Fontaine)

• Spellbound (1945)
  • won Best Music, Scoring Of A Dramatic Or Comedy Picture (Miklós Rózsa)

• To Catch a Thief (1955)
  • won Best Cinematography, Color (Robert Burks)

• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
  • won Best Music, Original Song for the song "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" (Jay Livingston & Ray Evans)

• Robert F. Boyle
  • recipient of the 2008 Honorary Academy Award for his work as a Production Designer

Nominations

• Rebecca (1940)
  • nominated for Best Actor In A Leading Role (Laurence Olivier)
  • nominated for Best Actress In A Leading Role (Joan Fontaine)
  • nominated for Best Actress In A Supporting Role (Judith Anderson)
  • nominated for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White (Lyle R. Wheeler)
  • nominated for Best Director (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • nominated for Best Effects, Special Effects (Jack Cosgrove & Arthur Johns)
  • nominated for Best Film Editing (Hal C. Kern)
  • nominated for Best Music, Original Score (Franz Waxman)
  • nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay (Robert E. Sherwood & Joan Harrison)

• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
  • nominated Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Albert Bassermann)
  • nominated for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White (Alexander Golitzen)
  • nominated for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Rudolph Maté)
  • nominated for Best Effects, Special Effects (Paul Eagler & Thomas T. Moulton)
  • nominated for Best Picture (Walter Wanger)
  • nominated for Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Charles Bennett & Joan Harrison)

• Suspicion (1941)
  • nominated for Best Music, Scoring Of A Dramatic Picture (Franz Waxman)
  • nominated for Best Picture (Alfred Hitchcock)

• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  • nominated for Best Writing, Original Story (Gordon McDonell for "Uncle Charlie")

• Lifeboat (1944)
  • nominated for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Glen MacWilliams)
  • nominated for Best Director (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • nominated for Best Writing, Original Story (John Steinbeck)

• Spellbound (1945)
  • nominated Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Michael Chekhov)
  • nominated for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (George Barnes)
  • nominated for Best Director (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • nominated for Best Effects, Special Effects (Jack Cosgrove)
  • nominated for Best Picture (David O. Selznick)

• Notorious (1946)
  • nominated for Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Claude Rains)
  • nominated for Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Ben Hecht)

• The Paradine Case (1947)
  • nominated for Best Actress In A Supporting Role (Ethel Barrymore)

• Strangers on a Train (1951)
  • nominated Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Robert Burks)

• Rear Window (1954)
  • nominated for Best Cinematography, Color (Robert Burks)
  • nominated for Best Director (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • nominated for Best Sound, Recording (Loren L. Ryder)
  • nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay (John Michael Hayes)

• To Catch a Thief (1955)
  • nominated for Best Costume Design, Color (Edith Head)
  • nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color (Hal Pereira)

• Vertigo (1958)
  • nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White Or Color (Hal Pereira & Henry Bumstead)
  • nominated for Best Sound (George Dutton)

• North by Northwest (1959)
  • nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
  • nominated for Best Film Editing (George Tomasini)
  • nominated for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen (Ernest Lehman)

• Psycho (1960)
  • nominated for Best Director (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Janet Leigh)
  • nominated for Best Art Direction: Set Decoration, Black-and-White
  • nominated for Best Cinematography: Set Decoration, Black-and-White (John L. Russell)

• The Birds (1963)
  • nominated for Best Effects, Special Visual Effects (Ub Iwerks)

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Links

• Official Web Site
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