The 45th annual Academy Awards presentation from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. Marlon Brando refused to accept his best actor award for his performance in The Godfather. Charlie Chaplin received an award for the best original score for his 20 year old film, Limelight. 

Hosted by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Rock Hudson, and Charlton Heston.                      

The 45th annual Academy Awards presentation from the Dorothy Chandler Pavillon in Los Angeles, California. Marlo Brando refused to accept his best actor award for his performance in The Godfather. Charlie Chaplin received an award for the best original score for his 20 year old film, Limelight. 

Hosted by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Rock Hudson, and Charleton Heston.    

Duplicate of # 7505.                  

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In 1977 Phil Donahue shifted his base of operations to Chicago from Dayton, Ohio and the show's title became known simply as "Donahue," a one-hour show usually devoted to a single topic or guest.  

The guests are Harry Belafonte and Billy Dee Williams.                               

   In 1865, after President Lincoln's assassination Ford's 
Theater in Washington D.C. closed for 103 years. It reopened in 1968 with an all-star television gala. Tonight, another gala marks the 10th anniversary of its rebirth.

  The scheduled highlights presented in this special are excerpts from plays produced at Ford's, featuring the stars who appeared in them...one-man shows with James Whitmore as Will Rogers and Vincent Price as Oscar Wilde; Billy Dee Williams as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in "I Have a Dream"; Patti LuPone, Mary Joan Negro and Mary Lou Rosato in Chekhov's "Three Sisters"; Linda Hopkins, singing "A Good Man's Hard to Find," in "Bessie and Me"; and the cast of "Oh Coward!"-Roderick Cook, Jamie Ross and Barbara Cason-singing "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" and "Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs. Worthington."

   Lorne Green is the host; Alexis Smith, John Houseman and Henry Fonda are scheduled to introduce the segments.             

Bob Hope for the 22nd time as Master of Ceremonies, hosts the 50th Anniversary of The Academy Awards. Fifty-two presenters and award winners making stage appearances include John Travolta, Vanessa Redgrave, Paddy Chayevsky, Mark Hamill, Paul Williams, Jody Foster, Debbie Boone, William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Fontaine, Raquel Welch, Kirk Douglas, Jane Powell, Billy Dee Williams, Cicely Tyson, Sammy Davis Jr., Greer Garson, Henry Winkler, Eva Marie Saint, Jack Valenti, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Johnny Green, Henry Mancini, John Williams, Jonathan Tunick, Vilmos Zsigmond, Jon Voight, Goldie Hawn, Bette Davis, Charlton Heston, Marvin Hamlish, Maggie Booth, Olivia de Havilland, Farrah Fawcett Majors, Marcello Mastroianni, Aretha Franklin, Fred Astaire, Walter Mirisch, Stanley Kramer, King Vidor, Marshall Brickman, Alvin Sargent, Janet Gaynor, Diane Keaton, Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson and Richard Dreyfuss.
                          

Bob Hope for the 22nd time as Master of Ceremonies, hosts the 50th Anniversary of The Academy Awards. Fifty-two presenters and award winners making stage appearances include John Travolta, Vanessa Redgrave, Paddy Chayevsky, Mark Hamill, Paul Williams, Jody Foster, Debbie Boone, William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Fontaine, Raquel Welch, Kirk Douglas, Jane Powell, Billy Dee Williams, Cicely Tyson, Sammy Davis Jr., Greer Garson, Henry Winkler, Eva Marie Saint, Jack Valenti, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Johnny Green, Henry Mancini, John Williams, Jonathan Tunick, Vilmos Zsigmond, Jon Voight, Goldie Hawn, Bette Davis, Charlton Heston, Marvin Hamlish, Maggie Booth, Olivia de Havilland, Farrah Fawcett Majors, Marcello Mastroianni, Aretha Franklin, Fred Astaire, Walter Mirisch, Stanley Kramer, King Vidor, Marshall Brickman, Alvin Sargent, Janet Gaynor, Diane Keaton, Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson and Richard Dreyfuss.

Duplicate of #853.
                                       

The 53rd annual Academy Awards presentation from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies, originally scheduled for March 30th, were delayed one day due to the assassination attempt on President Reagan on March 30th.

Host: Johnny Carson.      

Best Picture: Ordinary People
Best Actor: Robert De Niro
Best Actress: Sissy Spacek
Best Supporting Actor: Timothy Hutton
Best Supporting Actress: Mary Steenburgen         

Henry Fonda was awarded the Academy Honorary Award. He received an Oscar for best actor the following year.