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| 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 | |||
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| Best Picture | Braveheart | |||
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| 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[citation needed] concerning what was deemed as a lack of attention to African-American actors by the Academy[citation needed], this show was the one and only time an African-American (Quincy Jones) was hired to produce the show to date[citation needed].
Key moments in this presentation included Christopher Reeve making his first public appearance onstage after becoming paralyzed, the performance of the troupe Stomp, the sextet Take 6, and a lifetime achievement award to Kirk Douglas recovering from a stroke. A special tribute to Gene Kelly was also produced. 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 2, 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: 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.
Leaving Las Vegas - Nicolas Cage
Dead Man Walking - Susan Sarandon
The Usual Suspects - Kevin Spacey
Mighty Aphrodite - Mira Sorvino
The Usual Suspects - Christopher McQuarrie
Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson
Restoration - Eugenio Zanetti
Apollo 13 - Rick Dior , Steve Pederson , Scott Millan and David MacMillan
Apollo 13 - Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley
Braveheart - Lon Bender and Per Hallberg
Babe - Scott Anderson , Charles Gibson , Neal Scanlan and John Cox
Braveheart - Peter Frampton , Paul Pattison and Lois Burwell
Colors of the Wind - Pocahontas - Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
Il Postino - Luis Enriquez Bacalov
Pocahontas - Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave
Presented by Sharon Stone, 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 Jenkins, 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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