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2007 79th Academy Awards hosted by Ellen DeGeneres in Hollywood
2007 'The Departed' wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards 2006 Otto Zykan, composer, pianist, student, Vienna Music Academy, wrote operas 'Kunst kommt von Gonnen', 'Auszahlreim', dies in Sachsendorf, Austria 2006 Jack Wild, actor, theater, stage, Academy Award nominee at age 16 for role of Artful Dodger in film production of 'Oliver!', favorite subject, teen magazines, dies of cancer, in Tebworth, England, at age 53 2004 76th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King sweeps all eleven nominations, including Best Picture, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron win lead acting awards 2003 75th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Steve Martin hosts, Chicago wins Best Picture, Adrian Brody and Nicole Kidman win lead acting awards 2002 74th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, A Beautiful Mind wins Best Picture, Denzell Washington and Hallie Berry win lead acting awards 2001 David Graf, actor, Police Academy, movies, dies at 50 2001 73rd Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Steve Martin hosts, Gladiator wins Best Picture, Russell Crowe and Julia Roberts win lead acting awards 2000 72nd Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, American Beauty wins Best Picture, Kevin Spacey and Hilary Swank win lead acting awards 1999 71st Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg hosts, Shakespeare in Love wins Best Picture, Roberto Benigni and Gwyneth Paltrow win lead acting awards 1998 70th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, Titanic wins eleven Oscars, including Best Picture, Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt win lead acting awards 1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder 1997 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards: LeAnn Rines and Brooks and Dunn 1997 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards 1996 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain 1996 68th Academy Awards - "Braveheart," Nicholas Cage and Susan Sarandon win 1995 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Reba McEntire wins 1995 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange and Tom Hanks win 1995 Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 76 1995 Paul Monette, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy, dies of AIDS in Los Angeles, California at 49 1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins 1994 66th Academy Awards - "Schindler's List," Tom Hanks and Holly Hunter win 1993 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins 1993 65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven," Al Pacino and Emma Thompson win 1992 Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500 1992 27th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks 1992 64th Academy Awards - "Silence of Lamb," A Hopkins and Jodie Foster win 1991 Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer and Professor (Swedish Academy), dies 1991 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks 1991 David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83 1991 63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves," Kathy Bates and J Irons win 1990 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled 1990 25th Academy of Country Music Awards: Clint Black and Kathy Mattea win 1990 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win 1989 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams, Jr., Alabama 1989 61st Academy Awards - "Rainman," Dustin Hoffman and Jodie Foster win 1988 Wayne Gretzky (NHL) and Janet Jones (Police Academy 5) wed in Edmonton 1988 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams, Jr. 1987 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams Jr 1987 59th Academy Awards - "Platoon," Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win 1986 21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire 1986 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt and G Page win 1985 Sam Spiegel, Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal), dies at 84 1985 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Judds win 1985 57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus," F Murray Abraham and Sally Field win 1984 19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama 1984 56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment," R Duvall and S Maclaine win 1983 Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76 1983 18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Willie Nelson 1983 55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi," Ben Kingsley and Meryl Streep win 1982 Roy Webb, composer, arranger for over 200 films, Academy Award nominee, wrote fight song 'Roar, Lion, Roar', dies at 94 1982 17th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama, Barbara Mandrell 1982 54th Academy Awards - "Chariots of Fire," Henry Fonda and K Hepburn win 1982 Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy), dies at 60 1981 16th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell and George Jones 1981 53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People," R De Niro and Sissy Spacek win 1980 15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins 1980 52nd Academy Awards - "Kramer vs Kramer," D Hoffman and Sally Field win 1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar) 1979 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell 1979 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight and Jane Fonda win 1978 50th Academy Awards - "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton win 1977 49th Academy Awards - "Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway win 1976 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo 1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy 1975 Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll 1975 47th Academy Awards - "Godfather II," Ellen Burstyn and Art Carney win 1974 Moslem fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis Egypt 1974 46th Academy Awards - "Stng," Glenda Jackson and Jack Lemmon win 1973 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians 1973 Friendsville Academy (Tennessee) ends 138-game basketball losing streak 1972 Jude Law, born in Lewisham, England, actor, producer, director, Academy Award nominee for movie 'Cold Mountain' 1972 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection," G Hackman and Jane Fonda win 1971 43rd Academy Awards - "Patton," George C Scott and Glenda Jackson win 1970 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne and Maggie Smith win 1969 41st Academy Awards - "Oliver," C Robertson and K Hepburn/Striesand win 1969 Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston 1968 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night," Rod Steiger and K Hepburn win 1968 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," E Taylor and P Scofield win 1967 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards 1966 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie and L Marvin win 1965 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and J Andrews win 1964 36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier and Patricia Neal win 1963 35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia," A Bancroft and G Peck win 1962 Bob[cat] Goldthwait, Syracuse, New York, comedian, Police Academy 1962 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Max Schell win 1961 Gary Cooper, 2 time Academy award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60 1961 33rd Academy Awards - "Apartment," Burt Lancaster and Liz Taylor win 1960 Michael Winslow, born in Spokane, Washington, actor/comedian, Police Academy 1960 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win 1959 1st U.S. Air Force Academy graduation 1959 1st class graduates from Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo 1959 31st Academy Awards - "Gigi," Susan Hayward and David Niven win 1958 Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo 1958 Steve Guttenberg, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Police Academy, Short Circuit 1958 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward and Guinness win 1957 Frances McDormand, actress, Fargo, Academy Award 1957 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win 1956 28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win 1955 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets 1955 27th Academy Awards - "On the Waterfront," Brando and Grace Kelly win 1954 Tobias Picker, born in New York City, New York, composer, awarded Joseph H. Bearns Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters, composer-in-residence for Houston Symphony, 1985 - 1990, music publisher, Schott Music Corporation 1954 U.S. Air Force Academy forms 1954 U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, established 1954 26th Academy Awards - "From Here to Eternity," Holden and A Hepburn win 1953 25th Academy Awards - "Greatest Show on Earth," Gary Cooper and Shirley Booth win (1st time televised) 1952 Hans Abrahamsen, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, composer, musician, played French horn, studied at Royal Danish Academy of Music, compositions employ New Simplicity style 1952 Jack Wild, actor, theater, stage, Academy Award nominee at age 16 for role of Artful Dodger in film production of 'Oliver!', favorite subject, teen magazines 1952 Dominic Muldowney, born in Southampton, England, composer, created television, film scores for Loose Connections, King Lear, radio work, theater music, created large-scale oboe concerto, versatile has created music for David Bowie, Royal Academy of Music teacher 1952 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris," H Bogart and Vivian Leigh win 1952 Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese, rocker, Academy Award 1988, Yellow Magic Orchestra 1951 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve," Judy Holliday and J Ferrer win 1950 Toni Alessandrini, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Vice Academy Part 2 1950 David Graff, Lancaster Ohio, actor, Police Academy 2, 3, 4, 6 1950 22rd Academy Awards - "All King's Men," Crawford and De Havilland win 1950 Tim Kazurinsky, born Johnstown, Pennsylvania, comedian, SNL, Police Academy 2, 3, 4 1949 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier and Jane Wyman win 1948 Bruce Vilanch, born in New York City, New York, comedy writer, appeared regularly with Whoopi Goldberg on Hollywood Squares, appeared in Bosom Buddies, Law & Order, wrote for show Billy Crystal, Academy Awards host 1948 Kathy Bates, born in Memphis, Tennessee, academy award winning actress, Misery 1948 Jim Bailey, NCAA punter, most punts in season-101, Virginia Miltary Academy 1948 20th Academy Awards - "Gentleman's Agreement," L Young, R Colman win minutes by 2nd live televised musical Arturo Toscvanni on NBC 1947 Paul Patterson, born in Britain, composer, professor, Royal Academy of Music, composes for orchestra, ensemble, film, television, education 1947 Priscilla Yates, director, Royal Academy of Dancing 1947 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win 1946 Cher, born in El Centro, California, born Cherilyn Sarkisian, singer, songwriter, director, record producer, won Academy Award, sold over 100 million records 1946 David Wall, English ballet dancers/director, Royal Academy of Dancing 1945 Paul Monette, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy 1945 17th Academy Awards - "Going my Way," Bing Cosby and Ingrid Bergman win 1945 Charles "Bubba" Smith, Texas, NFLer for the Baltimore Colts/actor, Police Academy 1944 16th Academy Awards - "Casablanca," Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas win 1944 Leif Segerstam, born in Vaasa, Finland, composer, chief conductor, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra 1995 - 2007, professor Sibelius Academy 1942 14th Academy Awards - "How Green was My Valley," Cooper and Fontaine win 1941 Academy copyrights Oscar statuette 1941 John Williams, born in Melbourne, Australia, guitarist, Academy Award 1940 12th Academy Awards - "Gone with the Wind," R Donat and V Leigh win 1938 Richard Stoker, born in Britain, composer, writer, guitarist, fellow, Royal Academy of Music, studied under Nadia Boulanger in Paris 1938 Zygmunt Krauze, born in Poland, composer, pianist, contemporary classical music genre, professor, Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy 1935 Otto Zykan, born in Vienna, Austria, composer, pianist, student, Vienna Music Academy, wrote operas 'Kunst kommt von Gonnen', 'Auszahlreim' 1935 Renata Scotto, born in Savona, Italy, singer, soprano, performed La Traviata at age 18, received 15 curtain calls performing Walter in La Wally at La Scala, 1953, directs opera and teaches at her opera academy in Italy, New York 1934 Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky) 1932 Igor Stuhec, born in Slovenia, composer, studied under Hanns Jelinek at Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, wrote orchestral works applying textural techniques, and two operas 1932 "Flowers and Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon 1932 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery and Fredric March 1932 Adrian Henri, poet and president, Liverpool Academy of Arts 1932 Jerome Lowenthal, Philadelphia, pianist and professor, Jerusalem Academy of Music 1930 Toma Prosev, born in Macedonia, composer, professor, studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and professor L.M. Skerjanc at Ljubljana Music Academy 1930 Eino Tamberg, born in Estonia, composer, neoclassical Estonian music, teacher, Estonian Academy of Music, wrote ballet, 'Johanna tentate' 1929 Oliver Neville, principal, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts 1929 1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings and Janet Gaynor wins 1929 Harvey Lichtenstein, President, Brooklyn Academy of Music 1927 Tzvi Avni, born in Saarbrucken, Germany, composer, Israeli emigrated to Palestine, student of Paul Ben-Haim, founded electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music 1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards 1927 Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms 1926 Arthur Wills, born in England, composer, professor at Royal Academy of Music in London, Director of Music at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, composed music for the organ and secular music based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1925 Robert Finch, actor, Academy Theater 1924 Norman Ayrton, opera director, Royal Shakespearean Academy - UK 1923 John Hale, born in Ashford, Kent, linguist, historian, professor, editor, attended Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, served as a Fellow of the British Academy 1923 Sun Yat Sen founds military academy 1922 Ilja Hurnik, born in Poruba, Czechoslovakia, composer, essayist, studied at Prague Conservatory, Prague Academy of Arts, recorded 'sonata da camera', for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord on Cedille Records 1921 Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director, Free Academy 1920 Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St. New York City 1920 I. A. L. Diamond, screenwriter, 1960 Academy Award-Apartment 1918 Ingmar Bergman, born in Sweden, director, writer, producer for stage, film and television, Academy Award winner 1918 Roger de Grey, president, Royal Academy 1917 Isang Yun, born in Tongyeong, South Korea, composer, professor, son of renowned poet Yun Ki-hyon, exhiled from South Korea, taught at Hanover Academy of Music 1917 Jane Wyman, born in Missouri, actress, film, television, Academy Award-winner, first wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan 1914 Jack Delano, born in Kiev, Ukraine, attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, composer for Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra 1913 Gyula David, born in Hungary, composer, violinist, conductor, studied at the Liszt academy, conducted for the National Theatre 1945 - 1949, wrote folk song music and 12 tone serial music 1909 Alfred Uhl, born in Austria, composer, professor, studied at Vienna Music Academy with Franz Schmidt, vibrant style combined neo-classicism, atonality, serialism, works include concerto for clarinet and orchestra 1908 Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in New York City 1906 Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Swedish Academy, Agadir 1905 Jule Styne, England, songwriter/composer, 1954 Academy Award, 1968 Tony 1905 Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School 1904 American Academy of Arts and Letters forms 1901 Gary Cooper, Montana, actor, 2 Academy Awards-Sergeant York, High Noon 1900 Jean Negulesco, born in Craiova, Dolj, Romania, film director, screenwriter, directed The Mask of Dimitrios, Three Strangers, Academy award nominee for Johnny Belinda 1899 Noel Coward, England, playwright, In Which We Serve-1942 Academy Award 1896 Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy (1878-96), dies 1895 Paul Muni, actor, Academy Award 1936-Angel on My Shoulder, Juarez 1894 Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia, composer, Academy Award 1954-High and Mighty 1892 Thomas Mitchell, born in New Jersey, academy award winning actor, Outlaw, Adventures 1891 Ronald Colman, England, 1947 Academy Award actor, Tale of 2 Cities 1889 American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Philadelphia 1889 Uncle Art Satherly, entertainer, 1968 Academy of Country Music Award 1888 Roy Webb, born in New York City, New York, composer, arranger for over 200 films, Academy Award nominee, wrote fight song 'Roar, Lion, Roar' 1888 Barry Fitzgerald, born in Dublin, Ireland, actor, Academy Award-Going My Way 1886 Victor McLaglen, born in England, actor, Informer, Academy Award-1935 1886 Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class 1886 Josephine Hull, Newtonville, Massachusetts, Academy award actress, Harvey 1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences 1863 Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences 1862 U.S. Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis Maryland to Newport, Rhode Island 1852 Edwin Markham, U.S., poet, 1st winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937 1852 John Landseer, printer/engraver (Royal Academy), dies 1850 Sonya Kurtovsky Kovalevsky, mathemetician, Academy of Science 1845 Naval School (now called U.S. Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis 1843 Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens 1842 James Morrison Steele Mackaye, U.S. actor, American Academy of Dramatic Art 1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science 1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn 1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established 1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy 1823 1st normal school in U.S. opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt 1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia 1802 U.S. Military Academy officially opens at West Point, New York 1802 U.S. Academy at West Point founded 1802 Law signed to establish U.S. Miltary Academy (West Point, New York) 1792 Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of London 1785 Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51) 1780 2nd oldest learned society in U.S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) forms (Boston) 1780 American Academy of Arts and Science founded 1771 Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy 1752 Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna 1741 Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich 1708 Albrecht von Haller, born in Switzerland, experimental physiology, Academy of Science 1585 Friese academy opens 942 Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies |
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