The 90th Academy Awards celebrating the 2017 film year will be held on March 4th, 2018, just 344 days from now. Only two previous ceremonies have been held on March 4th with those Oscars going to The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and Mrs Miniver (1942). Hmmm. Does this mean we'll get a showbiz biopic set during WW II as Best Picture next season?
Useless Oscar Trivia of the Day!
March 25th, today, shares with March 29th (coming right up) the distinction of being the date on which the most Oscar nights have been held. Both dates have seen five Oscar nights so if you were born on either of those dates please know that your birthday is also a special anniversary for many movies, creatives, and actors and for some of you THE ACTUAL special day. Consider...
March 25th Ceremonies
3/25/54: The 1953 Oscars: From Here to Eternity, Hepburn, Holden, Reed, Sinatra. While there are plentiful pictures from this Oscar night, only the second to be broadcast on TV, strangely I have been unable to find a photo of all four Oscar acting winners together. When did the winning quartet posing together become a tradition?
3/25/85: The 1984 Oscars: Amadeus, Field, Abraham, Ashcroft, and Ngor. Dame Peggy Ashcroft was not present and I couldn't find a picture of the other three together.
3/25/91: The 1990 Oscars: Dances With Wolves, Bates, Irons, Goldberg, Pesci
3/25/96: The 1995 Oscars: Braveheart, Sarandon, Cage, Sorvino, Spacey. (This was such a fun Oscar year... well, except for the big winner.)
3/25/01: The 2000 Oscars: Gladiator, Roberts, Crowe, Harden, Del Toro
Golly, look how young they all look!
As for the other most Oscar-nighty day, that's the following big nights...
March 29th Ceremonies
3/29/1951: The 1950 Oscars: All About Eve, Holliday, Ferrer, Hull, Sanders,
3/29/1976: The 1975 Oscars: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Fletcher, Nicholson, Grant, Burns
3/29/1982: The 1981 Oscars: Chariots of Fire, Hepburn, Fonda, Stapleton, Gielgud
3/29/1989: The 1988 Oscars: Rain Man, Foster, Hoffman, Davis, Kline
3/29/1993: The 1992 Oscars: Unforgiven, Thompson, Pacino, Tomei, Hackman
If you were born on any of those 10 specific dates, someone was quite possibly crying whilst holding their Oscar just as your parents were doing the same while cradling infant you. Okay, this is weird now. Byyy-yyyyye have a great weekend.