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Sidney Howard who won Best Screenplay for Gone with the Wind (1939).
Peter Finch is the only posthumous winner of the Best Actor award, though he was alive when his nomination was announced (the only other posthumous winner in any acting category was another Australian, Heath Ledger, who won the Best Supporting Actor award in 2009). The only posthumously nominated performers for Best Actor were James Dean, Spencer Tracy, and Massimo Troisi. Dean was posthumously nominated twice.
Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor for The Dark Knight (2008), and became only the second to win an acting Oscar posthumously, following Peter Finch who won Best Actor for Network (1976).
1939 Sidney Howard, Gone with the Wind (screenplay)
1942 Frank Churchill, Bambi (score)
1956 Victor Young, Around the World in 80 Days (score)
1958 William Horning, Gigi (art direction)
1959 William Horning, Ben-Hur (art direction)
1959 Zam Zimbalist, Ben-Hur (Best Picture)
1960 Eric Orborn, Spartacus (art direction)
1968 Walt Disney, Winnie the pooh and the Blustery Day (short cartoon)
1972 both Raymond Rasch & Larry Russell, Limelight (score)
1976 Peter Finch, Network (actor)
1980 Geoffrey Unsworth, Tess (cinematography)
1991 Howard Ashman, Beauty and the Beast (song)
1992 Thomas C. Goodwin, Educating Peter (short documentary)
2002 Conrad L. Hall, Road to Perdition (cimenatography)
2008 Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (supporting actor)
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Who was the first person to win an Emmy and an Oscar?
Helen Hayes.
The first black person to win an acting Oscar since Hattie McDaniel?
Sidney Poitier.
Thanks to In America former ER cast member Djimon Hounsou became the first person from what country nominated for an acting Oscar?
Benin
What is the original color of Oscar the grouch?
The answer is Green. Actually he was yellow for the first show and orange for almost the first month. My first experience was seeing an orange Oscar the Grouch singing I Love Trash.
Who is Oscar Hijuelos?
Oscar Hijuelos was the first Hispanic American author to win the Pulitzer Prize.
Did Audrey Hepburn receive an Oscar posthumously?
Yes, for her Humanitarian work with UNICEF, making it her second Oscar, the first being awarded to her for 'Roman Holiday' (1953) :)
Who is the first Oscar award winner?
The German actor, Emil Jannings was the first person ever to be awarded an Oscar for Best Actor in 1929.
When was the first Oscar for Best Documentary awarded?
The first Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Documentary was awarded in 1942.
What did peter finch die from?
In 1976, Peter Finch died of a heart attack a couple of months before being awarded the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in Network. He was the first actor to have won the award posthumously.
Who won Australia's first Oscar?
The first nomination and award for an Australia was in 1942 when Ken Hall and Damien Parer (posthumously) received an Oscar for their documentary Kokoda Front Line.
Who was the first World War 2 royal navy commander to be posthumously awarded the Victoria cross?
Captain Bernhard Warburton-Liegh RN at the first battle of Narvik April 10 1940
Who was the first person to win a gold medal?
The first gold medals at the Olympics were not awarded until 1904. The first person that was awarded a gold medal was Charles Jewtraw.
Is James Dean only person to receive nominations posthumously?
He was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only person to have two posthumous acting nominations (although other people had more than one posthumous nomination in other Oscar categories).
When was the first Oscar awarded to black actor or actress?
1940 - Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American win an Oscar. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and she won for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).
Was Jannings the first actor to win an Oscar?
Yes, Emil Jannings was the first person to with the Oscar for Best Actor. Since this was the first Oscar presented at the first Academy Awards ceremony, he is also the firs man ever to win an Academy Award (Oscar).
Who is the first person to receive the Oscar award?
It seems to have become traditional to present the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor first every night at the Academy Award (Oscar) ceremony.
Who was the first person to win an Emmy and an Oscar?
Helen Hayes.
