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Official site of the Academy with history and general information on the Academy Awards, as well as photographs, events and screenings, and press releases.
Billy Crystal. The Oscar host makes a dramatic exit. John Barry. Original Score winner for Dances with Wolves. Dean Semler. Cinematography winner for Dances with Wolves. View More Memorable Moments.
The 36th Academy Awards | 1964 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Monday, April 13, 1964 Honoring movies released in 1963
Splash. Screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman; Screen Story by Bruce Jay Friedman; Based on a story by Brian Grazer. The 57th Academy Awards | 1985.
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.
Best Actor winner for Tender Mercies, with presenter Dolly Parton. Horton Foote. Original Screenplay winner, with presenters Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek. James L. Brooks, Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson. Terms of Endearment winners for Directing/Best Picture/Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress, and Supporting Actor. View More Memorable Moments.
Memorable Moments. Mike Nichols. Best Directing winner for The Gradaute, with presenter Leslie Caron. In the Heat of the Night. Film Editing winner Hal Ashby, director Norman Jewison, Best Actor Rod Steiger and Best Picture-winning producer Walter Mirisch. Gregory Peck.
