| 68th Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | Monday, March 25, 1996 | |||
| Site | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Los Angeles, California |
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| Host | Whoopi Goldberg | |||
| Producer | Quincy Jones | |||
| Director | Jeff Margolis | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | Braveheart | |||
| Most awards | Braveheart (5) | |||
| Most nominations | Braveheart (10) | |||
| TV in the United States | ||||
| Network | ABC | |||
| Duration | 3 hours, 38 minutes | |||
| Viewership | 44.81 million 30.48 (Nielsen rating) |
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The 68th Academy Awards were held on March 25, 1996, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The show was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. The ceremony was watched 44.48 million viewers, with 30.5% households watching. Despite controversy from the NAACP concerning what was deemed as a lack of attention to African-American actors by the Academy , this show was the one and only time an African-American (Quincy Jones) was hired to produce the show to date .
Key moments in this presentation included Christopher Reeve making his first public appearance onstage after becoming paralyzed, and a Lifetime Achievement Award to Kirk Douglas (recovering from a stroke), and a tribute to Gene Kelly from Savion Glover (Kelly had died one month prior to the ceremonies). Perhaps the most moving moment of all for those more concerned with true heroes than the celluloid variety, was when Best Documentary Feature winner Jon Blair introduced the distinctly unglamourous, tiny, gray-haired, bespectacled lady next to him as Miep Gies, the last survivor of the group of people who had sheltered Anne Frank and her family and 4 other people in their secret Amsterdam hiding place during World War II, and the person who had saved Anne Frank's now famous diary for posterity. The entire audience in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion rose to their feet and gave Miep a lengthy standing ovation.
Braveheart won five Oscars out of ten nominations including Best Picture. It is however, one of the few Best Picture winners that did not receive any acting nominations, a feat that would not be repeated until 2004, when The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was nominated for (and won) eleven Oscars, none of which were in an acting category. The year ceremony was noted with the last time Special Achievement Academy Award was given, to the first CGI animated feature Toy Story from Pixar, for making the first CGI animated film. Also, Mira Sorvino's won for Best Supporting Actress for Mighty Aphrodite making her the second winner of Best Supporting Actress from a Woody Allen's film in a row, after last year Dianne Wiest also won Best Supporting Actress for Bullets Over Broadway, a Woody Allen film.
As of 2011 this is the last Oscars where all 4 acting winners were not in a Best Picture nominated film. Last time that happened was during the 42nd Academy Awards
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Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface[1]
Presented by Arthur Hiller, a tribute honoring those members in the motion picture industry that died in the previous year: Ginger Rogers, composer Miklós Rózsa, Maxine Andrews, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Martin, Viveca Lindfors, Martin Balsam, animator Friz Freleng, Burl Ives, Butterfly McQueen, costume designer Dorothy Jeakins, Nancy Kelly, Lana Turner, Elisha Cook Jr., Ida Lupino, art director Harry Horner, writer Terry Southern, Haing S. Ngor, Michael Hordern, producer Don Simpson, producer Ross Hunter, director Frank Perry, Alexander Godunov, director Louis Malle, director/writer Howard Koch, and George Burns.
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The following nineteen films received multiple nominations:
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The following five films received multiple awards:
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