Sources: ABC
Nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards are released, with "Sinners" receiving 16 overall nominations, surpassing the record for most nominations for a film that was previously held by "All About Eve" (1950), "Titanic" (1997), and "La La Land" (2016). 2026-01-22
"West Side Story" star Ariana DeBose wins Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first queer woman of colour to win an Academy Award 2022-03-27
South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung wins Best Supporting Actress for "Minari", becoming the first Korean to win in any of the acting categories. 2021-04-25
Casey Affleck wins the Best Actor for his role in "Manchester by the Sea", which also won Best Original Screenplay. 2017-02-26
"Moonlight" wins Best Picture, moments after "La La Land" was mistakenly announced as the winner. It also won Best Adapted Screenplay. 2017-02-26
"The Salesman" directed by Asghar Farhadi won Best Foreign Language Film. Farhadi and other film crew did not attend the ceremony in protest of Donald Trump's visa ban. First Iranian in space Anousheh Ansari and scienist Firouz Naderi attended in place of Farhadi. 2017-02-26
The 89th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, California. 2017-02-26
The Netflix "documentary" "The White Helmets", a film about the Syrian Civil War, wins the Best Documentary Short.The cinematographer Khaled Khatib who is himself a member of the rebel-aligned group couldn't attend the ceremony because officials from the Department of Homeland Security discovered "derogatory information" about him. 2017-02-26
"La La Land" wins five awards. "I, Daniel Blake" wins Best British Film. Emma Stone, Casey Affleck, Viola Davis and Dev Patel win in their respective acting categories. 2017-02-12
Gloria Stuart, the oldest-ever nominee for an Academy Award, specifically the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the elder Rose in the 1997 film "Titanic", dies in Los Angeles, aged 100. 2010-09-27