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2007 'The Departed' wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards
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 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 2000 Charles Gray, actor, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dies at 71 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 Hurd Hatfield, actor, Picture of Dorian Gray, dies at 80 1998 Persis Khambatta, actress, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, dies at 47 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 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 Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer, dies at 80 1994 "What's Wrong With this Picture?" opens at Circle in Sq New York City for 12 per 1992 Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL 1992 Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint 1990 Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating 1976 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany 1975 Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen 1973 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab) 1973 "Rocky Horror Picture Show," stage production opens in London 1968 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X) 1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system 1968 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover 1967 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's" is photographed 1965 Illeana Douglas, born in Massachusetts, actress, Picture Perfect, To Die For, Hacks 1951 Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54 1951 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated 1950 Cybill Shepherd, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress, Moonlighting, Last Picture Show 1944 Helmut Berger, actor, Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray 1941 Barbara Barendrecht, BHM Wurfbain, actress, Dirty Picture 1939 Peter Bogdanovich, born in Kingston, New York, director/producer, Last Picture Show 1936 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce 1929 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (New York City) 1929 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona" 1928 1st all-talking motion picture shown in New York (Lights of New York) 1927 "Wings," the only silent film to win an Oscar for best picture, opens 1927 Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms 1926 Cloris Leachman, born in Des Moines, Iowa, actress, Last Picture Show, Phyllis 1925 Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island 1922 Alan Scott, Haddonfield, New Jersey, TV host/songwriter, Spin the Picture 1921 Jack Valenti, born in Houston, Texas, Motion Picture Association of America President, created MPAA film rating system 1916 Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer 1914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed 1906 Carol Reed, motion picture director, 3rd Man 1902 1st motion picture theater opens in Los Angeles 1895 Moving picture projector patented 1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing 1893 1st U.S. commemoratives and 1st U.S. stamp to picture a woman issued 1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera 1891 1st motion picture shown to National Federation of Women's Clubs 1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture 1885 Eastman Film Co. manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film 1878 1st attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground 1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia 1869 O. B. Brown patents moving picture projector 1869 Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers 1864 Louis Lumiere, with brother Auguste made 1st motion picture in 1895 1861 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale |
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