In 1947, he won an honorary Oscar for being an inspiration to returning veterans, as well as a Best Supporting Actor statue. Having lost his hands while in service, Russell used hooks to serve as his hands, and appeared in “The Best Years of Our Lives” as a soldier coping with this loss. WWII veteran Russell was the first non-professional actor to win an acting Oscar, as well as the only to receive two awards for the same performance. Matlin was the first deaf person to win an acting Oscar. Sidney Poitier was the first Black man to be nominated for Best Actor (in 1959, for “The Defiant Ones”) and the first to win the award (in 1964, for “Lilies of the Field”). Some on that stage represent some of the most accomplished performers of their generations. She was once again up for Best Actress (“Afterglow”), while three of the Best Actor nominees were prior Oscar champs: Robert Duvall (“The Apostle”), Dustin Hoffman (“Wag the Dog”) and Jack Nicholson, who won his third statue that night, for “As Good as It Gets.” Also representing the youngest in the lead categories were Maximillian Schell, Jennifer Jones and Julie Christie.Ĭhristie was also one of four previous acting Oscar recipients who were nominated that evening. Marlee Matlin has held the record for youngest Best Actress winner for 35 years at the time of the ceremony, Richard Dreyfuss was the youngest Best Actor winner. and George Chakiris Jack Lemmon, Robert De Niro and Harold Russell also remain in the top 10. Several of the youngest Supporting Actor winners appeared, including the three youngest to date: Timothy Hutton, Cuba Gooding, Jr. Paquin’s fellow Supporting Actress winners Teresa Wright and Shirley Jones remain among the 10 youngest winners in that category. Several of the youngest competitive winners of all time showed up to shine one more time. Seated just a few chairs down from Rainer was the youngest to participate, 15 year-old Anna Paquin, who had become one of the youngest Oscar winners in history with her Best Supporting Actress win at the age of 11 just a few years before. At the age of 88, she was the oldest one on the stage when she died in 2014, she was just 13 days shy of her 105th birthday, making her the longest-living acting Oscar winner of all time ( Olivia de Havilland had just turned 104 when she died many years later). SEE Oscar flashback 25 years to 1998: Winners are Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Robin Williams and ‘Titanic’ ratings for ABCĪmong those present was the first performer to win back-to-back acting Oscars, Best Actress champ Luise Rainer. Let’s flashback to the first Oscars family album featured in the ceremony 25 years ago (view the video above, with an introduction by Susan Sarandon).
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