Search results
Best Actor winner for The African Queen, with presenter Claire Trevor. Vivien Leigh. Accepting her Best Actress award for A Streetcar Named Desire from Harry Cohn in London, England. View More Memorable Moments.
Feb 5, 2014 · honorary award To George Alfred Mitchell for the design and development of the camera which bears his name and for his continued and dominant presence in the field of cinematography. To Joseph M. Schenck for long and distinguished service to the motion picture industry.
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 .
Several things seemed certain on the night of Thursday, March 20, 1952. Danny Kaye would host, Marlon Brando would be named Best Actor, and either A Streetcar Named Desire or A Place in the Sun would be named Best Picture.
Starting with the 13th ceremony (1940), original writing received two awards, one for best original story and one for best original screenplay, with the exception of the 21st ceremony (1948), wherein only one award was given, for best screenplay.
Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's greatest writers, won an Oscar for best original story for Underworld (1927) at the first Academy Awards in 1929 and had a hand in the writing of many classic films.
[The Lavender Hill Mob, a film about a clever bank heist orchestrated by a timid bank clerk, did bring, however, a Best Actor nomination to Alec Guinness, and the film won the Best Writing (Story and Screenplay) Award.]
