22nd Academy Awards
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award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1949
Key facts
- Date
- March 23, 1950
- Site
- RKO Pantages Theatre , Hollywood, California
- Hosted by
- Paul Douglas
- Best picture
- All the King's Men
- Most awards
- The Heiress (4)
- Most nominations
- The Heiress (8)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 23rd Academy Awards
- Follows
- 21st Academy Awards
- Location
- Hollywood Pantages Theatre
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1950
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- Commons category
- 1950 Academy Awards
- awarded for period
- 1949-00-00
- point in time
- 1950-03-23
- edition number
- 22
- presenter
- Paul Douglas
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Encyclopedic overview
The 22nd Academy Awards were held on March 23, 1950, at the RKO Pantages Theatre, honoring the films in 1949. This was the final year in which all five Best Picture nominees were in Black & White, and the first year in which every film nominated for Best Picture won multiple Oscars.
All the King's Men became the first of two films to date to win Best Picture and two acting Oscars, yet lose Best Director (the other being Shakespeare in Love (1998)). This year marked the only occasion to date of two films each receiving two acting nominations within the same category: both Pinky and Come to the Stable received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters, and Celeste Holm and Elsa Lanchester, respectively). A Chance to Live and So Much for So Little's joint win in the Best Documentary (Short Subject) category marked the second occurrence of a tie in Oscar history.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “22nd Academy Awards” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.