Plot
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
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Cast
Anjelica Huston
Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
Annette Bening
Self - Interviewee
Ellen Burstyn
Self - Interviewee
Cher
Self (archive footage)
Billy Crystal
Self (archive footage)
Jane Fonda
Self - Interviewee
Jennifer Hudson
Self - Interviewee
Ben Kingsley
Self (archive footage)
Liza Minnelli
Self - Interviewee
Helen Mirren
Self (archive footage)
Jon Voight
Self (archive footage)
Phil Alden Robinson
Self - Interviewee
Jason Reitman
Self (archive footage)
Steven Spielberg
Self (archive footage)
Kathleen Kennedy
Self - Interviewee
Michael Moore
Self - Interviewee
Janusz Kamiński
Self (archive footage)
Ben Burtt
Self - Interviewee
Ve Neill
Self - Interviewee
Jeannine Oppewall
Self - Interviewee
Bruce Vilanch
Self - Interviewee
George Clooney
Self - Interviewee
Robert Osborne
Self - Interviewee
Craig Barron
Self - Interviewee
Kirk Baxter
Self - Interviewee
Jeffrey Kurland
Self - Interviewee
F. Murray Abraham
Self (archive footage)
Isabelle Adjani
Self (archive footage)
Buddy Adler
Self (archive footage)
Robert Altman
Self (archive footage)
Julie Andrews
Self (archive footage)
George Arliss
Self (archive footage)
Fred Astaire
Self (archive footage)
Richard Attenborough
Self (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall
Self (archive footage)
John Bailey
Self
Fay Bainter
Self (archive footage)
Alan Ball
Self (archive footage)
Anne Bancroft
Self (archive footage)
Ethel Barrymore
Self (archive footage)
Lionel Barrymore
Self (archive footage)
Kathy Bates
Self (archive footage)
Ned Beatty
Self (archive footage)
Warren Beatty
Self (archive footage)
Roberto Benigni
Self (archive footage)
Candice Bergen
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman
Self (archive footage)
Halle Berry
Self (archive footage)
Kathryn Bigelow
Self (archive footage)
Cate Blanchett
Self (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
Self (archive footage)
Lorraine Bracco
Self (archive footage)
Charles Brackett
Self (archive footage)
Marlon Brando
Self (archive footage)
Nicoletta Braschi
Self (archive footage)
Walter Brennan
Self (archive footage)
Adrien Brody
Self (archive footage)
Geneviève Bujold
Self (archive footage)
James Caan
Self (archive footage)
James Cagney
Self (archive footage)
Jane Campion
Self (archive footage)
Dyan Cannon
Self (archive footage)
Frank Capra
Self (archive footage)
Steve Carell
Self (archive footage)
Diahann Carroll
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage)
George Chakiris
Self (archive footage)
Carol Channing
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Oona O'Neill Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Gary Cooper
Self (archive footage)
Francis Ford Coppola
Self (archive footage)
Marion Cotillard
Self (archive footage)
Joan Crawford
Self (archive footage)
Bing Crosby
Self (archive footage)
Jon Cryer
Self (archive footage)
Tony Curtis
Self (archive footage)
Bette Davis
Self (archive footage)
Doris Day
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Day-Lewis
Self (archive footage)
Rebecca De Mornay
Self (archive footage)
Cecil B. DeMille
Self (archive footage)
Judi Dench
Self (archive footage)
Kirk Douglas
Self (archive footage)
Michael Douglas
Self (archive footage)
Richard Dreyfuss
Self (archive footage)
Faye Dunaway
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Durante
Self (archive footage)
Robert Duvall
Self (archive footage)
Blake Edwards
Self (archive footage)
Vince Edwards
Self (archive footage)
Edith Evans
Self (archive footage)
Peter Falk
Self (archive footage)
Federico Fellini
Self (archive footage)
Will Ferrell
Self (archive footage)
Laurence Fishburne
Self (archive footage)
Calista Flockhart
Self (archive footage)
Michael J. Fox
Self (archive footage)
Clark Gable
Self (archive footage)
Judy Garland
Self (archive footage)
Teri Garr
Self (archive footage)
Greer Garson
Self (archive footage)
Janet Gaynor
Self (archive footage)
Hermione Gingold
Self (archive footage)
Lillian Gish
Self (archive footage)
Louis Gossett Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Elliott Gould
Self (archive footage)
Cary Grant
Self (archive footage)
Lee Grant
Self (archive footage)
Gene Hackman
Self (archive footage)
Rex Harrison
Self (archive footage)
Howard Hawks
Self (archive footage)
Goldie Hawn
Self (archive footage)
Edith Head
Self (archive footage)
Lillian Hellman
Self (archive footage)
Justin Henry
Self (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn
Self (archive footage)
Charlton Heston
Self (archive footage)
Dustin Hoffman
Self (archive footage)
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope
Self (archive footage)
Ron Howard
Self (archive footage)
Hugh Hudson
Self (archive footage)
Rock Hudson
Self (archive footage)
Linda Hunt
Self (archive footage)
Holly Hunter
Self (archive footage)
John Huston
Self (archive footage)
Amy Irving
Self (archive footage)
James Ivory
Self (archive footage)
Ben Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Danny Kaye
Self (archive footage)
Buster Keaton
Self (archive footage)
Gene Kelly
Self (archive footage)
Grace Kelly
Self (archive footage)
Deborah Kerr
Self (archive footage)
Sally Kirkland
Self (archive footage)
Akira Kurosawa
Self (archive footage)
Diane Ladd
Self (archive footage)
Burt Lancaster
Self (archive footage)
Diane Lane
Self (archive footage)
Ang Lee
Self (archive footage)
Janet Leigh
Self (archive footage)
Jack Lemmon
Self (archive footage)
Jerry Lewis
Self (archive footage)
Sacheen Littlefeather
Self (archive footage)
Harold Lloyd
Self (archive footage)
Sophia Loren
Self (archive footage)
George Lucas
Self (archive footage)
Sidney Lumet
Self (archive footage)
Ali MacGraw
Self (archive footage)
Henry Mancini
Self (archive footage)
Dean Martin
Self (archive footage)
Steve Martin
Self (archive footage)
Lee Marvin
Self (archive footage)
Groucho Marx
Self (archive footage)
Marsha Mason
Self (archive footage)
Walter Matthau
Self (archive footage)
Louis B. Mayer
Self (archive footage)
Joseph McCarthy
Self (archive footage)
Hattie McDaniel
Self (archive footage)
Mary McDonnell
Self (archive footage)
Steve McQueen
Self (archive footage)
Bette Midler
Self (archive footage)
Sarah Miles
Self (archive footage)
Freida Lee Mock
Self
Roger Moore
Self (archive footage)
Rita Moreno
Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman
Self (archive footage)
Jack Nicholson
Self (archive footage)
Nick Nolte
Self (archive footage)
Donald O'Connor
Self (archive footage)
Peter O'Toole
Self (archive footage)
Laurence Olivier
Self (archive footage)
Gregory Peck
Self (archive footage)
Valerie Perrine
Self (archive footage)
Wolfgang Petersen
Self (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier
Self (archive footage)
Sydney Pollack
Self (archive footage)
Cole Porter
Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor
Self (archive footage)
Martha Raye
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Vanessa Redgrave
Self (archive footage)
Donna Reed
Self (archive footage)
Debbie Reynolds
Self (archive footage)
Tom Hanks
Self - Actor
Trent Reznor
Self (archive footage)
Hal Roach
Self (archive footage)
Jason Robards
Self (archive footage)
Edward G. Robinson
Self (archive footage)
Chris Rock
Self (archive footage)
Ginger Rogers
Self (archive footage)
Cesar Romero
Self (archive footage)
Atticus Ross
Self (archive footage)
Diana Ross
Self (archive footage)
Herbert Ross
Self (archive footage)
Gena Rowlands
Self (archive footage)
Mark Rydell
Self (archive footage)
Eva Marie Saint
Self (archive footage)
Bert Schneider
Self (archive footage)
Martin Scorsese
Self (archive footage)
George Segal
Self (archive footage)
David Seidler
Self (archive footage)
Tom Selleck
Self (archive footage)
Jim Sheridan
Self (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra
Self (archive footage)
Steven Soderbergh
Self (archive footage)
Sissy Spacek
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck
Self (archive footage)
Rod Steiger
Self (archive footage)
James Stewart
Self (archive footage)
Vittorio Storaro
Self (archive footage)
Meryl Streep
Self (archive footage)
Barbra Streisand
Self (archive footage)
Elizabeth Taylor
Self (archive footage)
Emma Thompson
Self (archive footage)
Gene Tierney
Self (archive footage)
Dimitri Tiomkin
Self (archive footage)
Spencer Tracy
Self (archive footage)
Twiggy
Self (archive footage)
Cicely Tyson
Self (archive footage)
Liv Ullmann
Self (archive footage)
King Vidor
Self (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner
Self (archive footage)
John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
Raquel Welch
Self (archive footage)
Billy Wilder
Self (archive footage)
Robin Williams
Self (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams
Self (archive footage)
Kate Winslet
Self (archive footage)
Shelley Winters
Self (archive footage)
Robert Wise
Self (archive footage)
Alfre Woodard
Self (archive footage)
Joanne Woodward
Self (archive footage)
Loretta Young
Self (archive footage)
Renée Zellweger
Self (archive footage)
Fred Zinnemann
Self (archive footage)
Sylvester Stallone
Self (archive footage)
John Travolta
Self (archive footage)
Denzel Washington
Self (archive footage)