The Academy Awards have been giving out the Oscar since 1929 and have been making history ever since by creating some special moments. From Best Picture Winner 'Wings' 1992 to 'The Kings Speech' 2011 there has been a variety of movies like 'Casablanca' 1944, 'The Bridge on River Kwai' 1958, 'The Sound of Music' 1966, and 'Platoon' 1987 that follows many different stories of heroism in unique ways under war torn circumstances. Their has also been some society changing first to take place at the Oscars like the great Sidney Poitier for 'Lilies of the Field' in 1963 became the first African American winner for Best Actor and Halle Berry became the first African American winner for Best Actress for her role in 'Monster Ball' 2001. Check out some some special records from Wikipedia.
NBC's Los Angeles has a great slide show of some of their favorite Academy Awards moments from the past or you can follow E Online for their celebrity Twitter Tracker to see who is trending. Nobody gets press like Sacha Baron Cohen in 2012 but who were the serious press grabbers from the past.
Jack Palance gets an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1992 for City Slickers and says he craps bigger than his co-star Billy Crystal and then does one armed pushups to prove how tough he is at the age of 73.
Who can forget the famous acceptance speech "You like me. Right now you like me." hysterics of a shocked and surprised Sally Fields winning for Best Actress in 'Places In The Heart' 1985.
Whoopi Goldberg's emotional win for Best Supporting Actress in 'Ghost' 1991 and talks of her pride to be a part of the industry of actors.
You can't forget Matt Damon and Ben Affleck trying to beat the clock at The Academy Awards winning for Best Writing of 'Goodwill Hunting' 1997 and trying to fit in all the thanks they can before the music starts to play.
Meryl Streep wins her Oscar for her role as JoAnna in 'Kramer vs Kramer' as Best Actress in 1980.
Widely talked about as one of the best acceptance speeches ever Dustin Hoffman accepts the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the dramatic tale of family torn apart in 'Kramer vs Kramer' 1980. "Thank you. He has no genitalia and he is hold a sword. I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.", were the first words out of Hoffman's mouth before sharing his Oscar with everyone in the entire movie business.
All of these great moments and many more can be found at The Academy's YouTube for The Oscars.
It truly does take a huge amount of cooperation by many talented people to put together a film and it is always nice to hear amazing actors like Dustin Hoffman to acknowledge the crews of the films in an early faze of his career. Without makeup, lighting, grips, assistants, and so many more these movies would never make it to the big screen and all the marketing in the world, producers, and executives may be pulling the strings; but it is the collective efforts of the hard working crews that are pumping out our fondest heart warming memories from the silver screen. I for one respect and appreciate the efforts of the amazingly talented people not walking the Red Carpet just as much as my favorite Actors that are all pimped out at The Academy Awards.
Happy Oscar Day!!!
K.C. Murdock
Executive Producer
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