30th Academy Awards
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award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1957
Key facts
- Date
- March 26, 1958
- Site
- RKO Pantages Theatre , Hollywood , California , United States
- Hosted by
- Bob Hope , Rosalind Russell , David Niven , James Stewart , Jack Lemmon , Donald Duck (voice of Clarence Nash by premade animation)
- Produced by
- Jerry Wald
- Directed by
- Trevor Newman
- Best picture
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Most awards
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (7)
- Most nominations
- Sayonara (10)
- Network
- NBC
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 31st Academy Awards
- Follows
- 29th Academy Awards
- Location
- Hollywood
- Producer
- Jerry Wald
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1958
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- Commons category
- 1958 Academy Awards
- point in time
- 1958-03-26
- edition number
- 30
- presenter
- Donald Duck
- awarded for period
- 1957-00-00
- broadcast by
- NBC
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Encyclopedic overview
The 30th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 26, 1958, to honor the best films of 1957.
Two violent deaths surrounded the Oscars during this ceremony. A plane crash took the life of producer Mike Todd, ending the then-latest marriage of Elizabeth Taylor, at that time a contender for the film Raintree County. Lana Turner, in the running for Peyton Place, would soon be embroiled in a major scandal when Johnny Stompanato, her boyfriend, was killed in her Beverly Hills home. The Best Actress award, however, was won by a relative newcomer, Joanne Woodward, who made her own dress for the occasion, causing presenter Joan Crawford to remark that she was "setting the cause of Hollywood glamour back twenty years by making her own clothes".
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