67th Academy Awards

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67th Academy Awards
Date March 27, 1995
Site Shrine Auditorium
Los Angeles, California
Host David Letterman
Producer Gil Cates
Director Jeff Margolis
Highlights
Best Picture Forrest Gump
Most awards Forrest Gump (6)
Most nominations Forrest Gump (13)
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Duration 3 hours, 32 minutes[1]
Ratings 48.87 million
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The 67th Academy Awards, honoring the best films of 1994, were held on March 27, 1995, at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by comedian and talk show host David Letterman.

The ceremony is perhaps best remembered for Letterman's performance as the host. Although some thought of him as different but good, most critics labeled his performance as terrible and expressed a wish for him never to host the Oscars again. This negative criticism arose from Letterman's absurdist brand of comedy, and it was followed by Late Show with David Letterman losing in the ratings to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno by the summer of 1995.[2] Letterman seems to have a sense of humor about it, however, because around Academy Award season he frequently references his lackluster appearance at the Academy awards on his show in a humorous tone.

Forrest Gump won Best Picture, as well as an additional five Oscars, including Tom Hanks' second consecutive Academy Award for Best Actor. Hanks became only the second person in Oscar history to accomplish the feat of winning consecutive awards in the Best Actor category, the first being Spencer Tracy. Also, Jessica Lange, winner of the 1982 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Tootsie, won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Tony Richardson's last film, Blue Sky, joining an elite group of thespians who have won Oscars in both the supporting and lead categories. Dianne Wiest won her second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Woody Allen film, becoming the first person to win two Oscars in the same category where the films were directed by the same person (she won another Best Supporting Actress in 1986 for Hannah and Her Sisters).

This year had the rarity of producing a tie. When Tim Allen opened the envelope for Best Live Action Short, much to his surprise there was a tie. There would not be another tie in an Academy Award category for another 18 years, when the award for Best Sound Editing went to both Skyfall and Zero Dark Thirty during the 85th Academy Awards.

The awards this year were also notable for the near inclusion of a documentary as Best Picture. The documentary category was then, as always, nominated by a special committee. The critically acclaimed film Hoop Dreams failed to make the documentary committee's short list, even though it was on more critics' top ten lists than any other film that year, including Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction and Quiz Show. Many prominent critics, most notably Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert campaigned for Academy members to vote to nominate Hoop Dreams for Best Picture, something that had never happened before. The effort failed, yet Hoop Dreams was nominated for Best Film Editing, one of the few documentaries ever to be nominated in a craft category.

This was only the second, and most recent, time in Oscar history where three of the four acting winners were repeats; the other time was during the 1938 Oscars. Interestingly enough, the only first timer was Martin Landau who was the oldest of the bunch.

Awards

Robert Zemeckis, Best Director winner
Tom Hanks, Best Actor winner
Jessica Lange, Best Actress winner
Martin Landau, Best Supporting Actor winner
Dianne Wiest, Best Supporting Actress winner
Rick Baker, Best Makeup winner

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface[3]

Best Picture Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short
Best Live Action Short Best Animated Short
Best Original Score Best Original Song
Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing
Best Art Direction Best Cinematography
Best Makeup Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing Best Visual Effects

Academy Honorary Award

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

In Memoriam

Presented by Sigourney Weaver. In a video montage, the Academy acknowledged the contributions of the following film makers who died during the previous year:

Presenters

Performers

Multiple nominations and awards

The following seventeen films received multiple nominations:

  • 13 nominations: Forrest Gump
  • 7 nominations: Bullets Over Broadway, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction
  • 4 nominations: The Lion King, The Madness of King George, Quiz Show
  • 3 nominations: Legends of the Fall, Little Women, Speed, Three Colours: Red
  • 2 nominations: Clear and Present Danger, Ed Wood, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Interview with the Vampire, Nobody's Fool, Tom & Viv

The following four films received multiple awards:

  • 6 awards: Forrest Gump
  • 2 awards: Ed Wood, The Lion King, Speed

See also

References

  1. ↑ 67th Annual Academy Awards by Variety
  2. ↑ Schruers, Fred (May 30, 1996). "Dave vs. Dave: Forget Leno & Koppel - Letterman May Be His Own Worst Enemy". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2009-10-22. 
  3. ↑ "The 67th Academy Awards (1995) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-23. 

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