Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse won the film’s only Oscar for best original song score and its adaptation or adaptation scoreĪnd “The World According to Garp” earned a supporting actor nomination for John Lithgow as a transgender ex-football player named Robert. The box office hit won supporting actress for Jessica Lange, who was also nominated for lead actress as troubled performer Frances Farmer in “Frances.”īlake Edwards’ musical comedy “Victor/Victoria” earned seven nominations including best actress for Julie Andrews as a struggling singer who disguises herself as a male entertaining pretending to be a woman veteran Robert Preston for supporting actor as an aging gay performer and supporting actress for Lesley Ann Warren as a gangster’s clueless blonde moll. It was quite the gender-bender year with “Tootsie,” Sydney Pollack’s comedy about an actor who disguises himself as a woman in order to get a job received 10 nominations including best actor for Dustin Hoffman. Williams was also nominated for best original song with lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman for “If We Were in Love” from “Yes, Giorgio.” “E.T” won four including Williams for original score. Bhauna Athaiya became the first Indian to win for costume design for the film. Richard Attenborough’s acclaimed biographical epic “Gandhi” entered the Academy Awards with 11 nominations and won eight including best film, director and screenplay. The quartet even performed the song “It All Comes Down to This.” The ceremony took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with four hosts: Walter Matthau, Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore and Richard Pryor. She and Carl Weathers gave the Sound Effects Editing Academy Award to “E.T.” This year, Germany’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” based on Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 harrowing World War I novel is nominated for nine Oscars including best film, international feature, adapted screenplay and cinematography.Īnd Jamie Lee Curtis, who has earned her first Oscar nod at 64 in the supporting category for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” was a presenter at the ceremony four decades ago. Malaysian Chinese performer Michelle Yeoh has the chance to become the first Asian actress to win the top prize for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”įorty years ago, the classic German World War II submarine thriller “Das Boot” was nominated for six Oscars including best director and adapted screenplay for Wolfgang Petersen and cinematography. in “An Officer and a Gentleman.” This year, history could be made again in the best actress category. become the first black actor to win in the supporting category with his iconic turn as tough-nosed D.I.
The 55th Oscars made history with Ben Kingsley becoming the first actor of Indian descent to win the best actor Oscar for his extraordinary portrayal of “Gandhi” while Louis Gossett Jr.
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