60th Academy Awards

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60th Academy Awards
Official poster
DateApril 11, 1988
SiteShrine Auditorium
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted byChevy Chase
Produced bySamuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Directed byMarty Pasetta
Highlights
Best PictureThe Last Emperor
Most awardsThe Last Emperor (9)
Most nominationsThe Last Emperor (9)
TV in the United States
NetworkABC
Duration3 hours, 33 minutes[1]
Ratings42.40 million
28.67% (Nielsen ratings)

The 60th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on April 11, 1988, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 22 categories honoring films released in 1987. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. and directed by Marty Pasetta.[2][3] Actor Chevy Chase hosted the show for the second consecutive year.[4] Two weeks earlier in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 27, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Shirley Jones.[5]

The Last Emperor won nine awards including Best Picture.[6][7] Other winners included Moonstruck with three awards, and Babette's Feast, Dirty Dancing, Harry and the Hendersons, Innerspace, The Man Who Planted Trees, Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall, RoboCop, The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, The Untouchables, Wall Street and Young at Heart with one. The telecast garnered more than 42 million viewers in the United States.

Winners and nominees

The nominees for the 60th Academy Awards were announced on February 16, 1988, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Wise, president of the Academy, and actress Shirley MacLaine.[8] The Last Emperor received the most nominations with nine total; Broadcast News came in second with seven.[9][10]

The winners were announced at the awards ceremony on April 11, 1988.[11] The Last Emperor became the eighth film to win Best Picture without any acting nominations.[12] Moreover, its clean sweep of its nine nominations tied Gigi's nine awards for the largest sweep for a single film in Oscar history at the time.[13] For the first time in Oscar history, all five Best Director nominees were born outside the United States.[14] Best Actor winner Michael Douglas became the second person to win Oscars for both acting and producing. He previously won a Best Picture award as co-producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.[15]

Awards

Photo of a balding Italian male with his hands nearly clasped in front of his face. He is wearing a brown unbuttoned collared shirt underneath a black coat.
Bernardo Bertolucci, Best Director winner
Heashot of a Caucasian man in his mid-sixties wearing a black coat over a white collared shirt and a black tie.
Michael Douglas, Best Actor winner
A picture of a female with red hair. She is wearing a black leather jacket.
Cher, Best Actress winner
A man in his late fifties is waving his right hand. He is wearing a tuxedo and a black bow tie.
Sean Connery, Best Supporting Actor winner
Olympia Dukakis, Best Supporting Actress winner
Photo of a smiling male with white hair. He is wearing a red and white striped collared shirt.
John Patrick Shanley, Best Original Screenplay winner
A photo of a bearded man being interviewed by another person holding a microphone. He is wearing a black suit and tie and a white shirt.
Rick Baker, Best Makeup winner

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.[16]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Special Achievement Award (Sound Effects Editing)

Multiple nominations and awards

Presenters and performers

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.[19][20]

Presenters

Name(s) Role
Hank Sims Announcer for the 60th annual Academy Awards
Robert Wise (AMPAS President) Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony
Sean Connery Presenter of the award for Best Visual Effects
Glenn Close
Michael Douglas		 Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Olivia de Havilland Presenter of the award for Best Art Direction
Mel Gibson
Danny Glover		 Presenters of the award for Best Cinematography
Mickey Mouse
Tom Selleck		 Presenters of the award for Best Animated Short
Joan Chen
John Lone		 Presenters of the award for Best Documentary Short Subject
Charlton Heston Presenter of the Academy Awards history montage
Steve Guttenberg Presenters of the award for Best Documentary Feature
Billy Crystal Presenters of the award for Best Sound
Nicolas Cage
Cher		 Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Rob Lowe
Sean Young		 Presenters of the award for Best Film Editing
Jack Lemmon Presenter of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Billy Wilder
Liza Minnelli
Dudley Moore		 Presenters of the award for Best Original Song
Jennifer Grey
Patrick Swayze		 Presenters of the award for Best Original Score
Marlee Matlin Presenter of the award for Best Actor
Shirley Jones (pre-recorded footage) Presenter of the segment of the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement and Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Peter Weller as RoboCop Presenter of the award for Best Sound Effects Editing
Paul Reubens as Pee-Wee Herman Presenter of the award for Best Live Action Short Film
Kevin Costner
Daryl Hannah		 Presenters of the award for Best Costume Design
Robin Williams Presenter of the award for Best Director
John Candy Presenter of the award for Best Makeup
Audrey Hepburn
Gregory Peck		 Presenters of the awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay
Faye Dunaway
James Garner		 Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Paul Newman Presenter of the award for Best Actress
Eddie Murphy Presenter of the award for Best Picture

Performers

Name(s) Role Performed
Bill Conti Musical Arranger Orchestral
Academy Awards Chorus Performers "I Hope I Get It" from A Chorus Line
Willy DeVille Performer "Storybook Love" from The Princess Bride
Starship
Gloria Estefan		 Performers "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" from Mannequin
George Fenton
Jonas Gwangwa		 Performers "Cry Freedom" from Cry Freedom
Little Richard Performer "Shakedown" from Beverly Hills Cop II
Bill Medley
Jennifer Warnes		 Performers "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing

Ceremony information

A picture of a man in his early forties who is wearing a tuxedo and a black bowtie.
Chevy Chase hosted the 60th Academy Awards.

In view the 60th anniversary of the Academy Awards, the Academy hired film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. to oversee the telecast for the second straight year. Three months later, Goldwyn, Jr. selected actor and comedian Chevy Chase to emcee the 1988 ceremony. In addition, after being held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for almost two decades, AMPAS decided to move the telecast to the Shrine Auditorium in order to accommodate more rehearsal time and take advantage of the large venue's seating capacity.[21][22] This marked the first time the facility served as the site for the Oscars since the 20th ceremony held in 1948.[23] Additionally, Goldwyn and Passetta originally planned to feature pre-recorded red carpet arrivals footage of actors who had roles in the 59 previous Best Picture winners. However, the segment was dropped altogether due to traffic problems amongst guests arriving to the ceremony.[24][25]

Furthermore, the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, which began more than a month before the ceremony, affected the telecast and its surrounding events. Despite the Writers Guild of America refused to grant a waiver permitting writers to work on the scripted dialogue for the gala, the three head writers for the telecast Ernest Lehman, Melville Shavelson, and Jack Rose assured to the Academy and ABC that more than half of the material had already been completed.[26] To compensate for the missing portions of the script, Goldwyn heavily utilized comedians such as John Candy, Billy Crystal, Eddie Murphy, and Robin Williams to ad lib and improvise jokes.[27][28] During the show, many of the participants expressed support for the writers such as Best Supporting Actor winner Sean Connery who remarked in his acceptance speech, "If such a thing as a wish accompanied this award mine would be that we ended the writers' strike."[29]

Box office performance of nominated films

At the time of the nominations announcement on February 16, the combined gross of the five Best Picture nominees at the US box office was $221 million with an average of $48.9 million.[30] Fatal Attraction was the highest earner among the Best Picture nominees with $142 million in the domestic box office receipts. The film was followed by Broadcast News ($36.7 million), Moonstruck ($25.4 million), The Last Emperor ($11.9 million) and Hope and Glory ($5.2 million).[30]

Of the 50 grossing movies of the year, 39 nominations went to 17 films on the list. Only Fatal Attraction (2nd), The Untouchables (4th), Good Morning Vietnam (10th), Throw Momma from the Train (14th), Full Metal Jacket (21st), Broadcast News (26th), Wall Street (30th), and Moonstruck (39th) were nominated for Best Picture, acting, directing, or screenwriting. The other top 50 box office hits that earned nomination were Beverly Hills Cop II (1st), Lethal Weapon (7th), The Witches of Eastwick (8th), Dirty Dancing (9th), Predator (11th), RoboCop (15th), Mannequin (23rd), The Princess Bride (38th), and Innerspace (45th).[31]

Critical reviews

The telecast received a negative reception for most media outlets. Los Angeles Times television critic Howard Rosenberg lamented, "Monday night's Academy Awards telecast on ABC was the Michael Dukakis and George Bush of TV awards programs: parched, drab and leaden. You kept hoping they'd draft Mario Cuomo."[32] Tom Shales from The Washington Post complained, "Of hope there was little and of glory almost none last night at the 60th annual Academy Awards, telecast live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on ABC. Even considering the low standards set in previous years, the program seemed unusually lackluster from the word go." [33] Columnist Matt Roush of USA Today bemoaned, "Chevy Chase stopped the show. Cold. Over and over. As the ever-unctuous host, he tried to get laughs by picking his nose and sneezing into his hand when his ad-libs failed, which was often." He also whined that The Last Emperor domination of the awards created a dull and anticlimactic atmosphere to the proceedings.[34]

Ratings and reception

The American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 42.40 million people over its length, which was a 13% increase from the previous year's ceremony.[35] An estimated 69.31 million total viewers watched all or part of the awards.[36] The show also drew higher Nielsen ratings compared to the previous ceremony with 28.67% of households watching over a 49.22 share.[37]

In July 1988, the ceremony presentation received four nominations at the 40th Primetime Emmys.[38][39] The following month, the ceremony won one of those nominations for Outstanding Variety Music Events Programming (Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.).[40]

See also

References

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