28th Academy Awards
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award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1955
Key facts
- Date
- March 21, 1956
- Site
- RKO Pantages Theatre , Hollywood, California , NBC Century Theatre , New York City , New York
- Hosted by
- Jerry Lewis (Los Angeles), Claudette Colbert (New York) and , Joseph L. Mankiewicz (New York)
- Produced by
- Robert Emmett Dolan
- Directed by
- George Seaton
- Best picture
- Marty
- Most awards
- Marty (4)
- Most nominations
- Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing , Marty , and The Rose Tattoo (8)
- Network
- NBC
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 29th Academy Awards
- Follows
- 27th Academy Awards
- Location
- California
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1956
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- Commons category
- 1956 Academy Awards
- point in time
- 1956-03-21
- edition number
- 28
- presenter
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- awarded for period
- 1955-00-00
- broadcast by
- NBC
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
At just 90 minutes, Marty became the shortest film to win Best Picture, as well as the second to have also won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (after The Lost Weekend in 1945). All of the various winners, with the exception of Anna Magnani, collected their Oscars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “28th Academy Awards” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.