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Memorable Moments. Jack Lemmon, Jo Van Fleet and Ernest Borgnine. Supporting Actor winner for Mister Roberts, Supporting Actress winner for East of Eden, and Best Actor winner for Marty. Helen Keller in Her Story. Helen Keller, posing with the Documentary Feature award. Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Claudette Colbert.
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Oscars® Ceremonies. 1956. The 28th Academy Awards Memorable...
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Two decades later, the mystery was officially solved and the Academy statuette went (on May 2, 1975, presented by then Academy president Walter Mirisch) to its rightful owner, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, blacklisted in 1956 by the industry for political affiliations.
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 .
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.
The 28th Academy Awards were held on March 21, 1956 to honor the films of 1955, at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. In this year, Jerry Lewis became the host, replacing Bob Hope .
The writers that won the Oscar are listed in the description. The category was first given out in 1940, and it became one of the two screenplay categories now given after the Best Writing, Screenplay category was changed in 1956 to Best Adapted Screenplay.
Paradoxically, the 34 minute film also won the Best Writing: Original Screenplay Oscar -- without a single line of dialogue. The charming foreign film was the shortest film ever to win a screenplay award -- under Academy rules, that made it a live action short subject film.
