60th Academy Awards

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60th Academy Awards
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Date Monday, April 11, 1988
Site Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
Host Chevy Chase
Producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Director Marty Pasetta
Highlights
Best Picture The Last Emperor
Most awards The Last Emperor (9)
Most nominations The Last Emperor (9)
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Duration 3 hours, 33 minutes[1]
Ratings 42.04 million
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The 60th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1988 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was the first to be held there since the 20th Academy Awards.[1] The 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, which began on March 7, were mentioned several times during the evening: host Chevy Chase claimed his "entire monologue was generously donated by five Teamsters" and Sean Connery referred to the strike in his acceptance speech.[1]

Billy Wilder was rewarded The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. The event was otherwise dominated by two films. The Last Emperor won all nine Oscars for which it was nominated, including two for Bernardo Bertolucci, who won for his direction and for co-writing the screenplay, adapted from the title character's autobiography. It did so in spite of having been "snubbed by several Hollywood studios and mishandled by the company (Columbia Pictures) that finally distributed it." [2] Moonstruck, nominated for six Academy Awards, received three, two in acting categories (for Cher and Olympia Dukakis), and another for its original screenplay. Four films with five or more nominations were shut out: Broadcast News, Hope and Glory, Fatal Attraction, and Empire of the Sun.

Outside the ceremony.

Janet Maslin, reviewing the ceremony for The New York Times, said the ceremony "emphasiz[ed] the low-gloss aspects of today's Hollywood"—a lack of gloss made particularly evident by the appearance of presenters Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, who stood out like "visiting royalty".[3]

Contents

Awards [edit]

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[4]

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 Film Editing
Best Documentary Feature Best Documentary Short
Best Live Action Short Best Animated Short
Best Original Score Best Original Song
Best Sound Mixing Best Visual Effects
Best Art Direction Best Cinematography
Best Makeup Best Costume Design

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award [edit]

Special Achievement Award (Sound Effects Editing) [edit]

  • RoboCop – Stephen Flick and John Pospisil

Presenters [edit]

Performers [edit]

Multiple nominations and awards [edit]

These films had multiple nominations:

  • 9 nominations: The Last Emperor
  • 7 nominations: Broadcast News
  • 6 nominations: Empire of the Sun, Fatal Attraction, Moonstruck
  • 5 nominations: Hope and Glory
  • 4 nominations: The Untouchables
  • 3 nominations: Cry Freedom
  • 2 nominations: Au revoir les enfants, The Dead, Ironweed, My Life as a Dog, Radio Days, RoboCop, The Witches of Eastwick

The following films received multiple awards:

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c Last Emperor Reigns Over Oscar Ceremonies, an April 1988 review from the Chicago Tribune
  2. ^ Love And Respect, Hollywood-Style, an April 1988 article by Richard Corliss in Time
  3. ^ An Identity Crisis for the Oscars, an April 1988 review from The New York Times
  4. ^ "The 60th Academy Awards (1988) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-16. 

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