The 60th Annual Academy Awards (1988) (TV)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Marty Pasetta

Release Date:

11 April 1988 (USA)

Plot Keywords:

Oscar Statuette | Oscar | Live Performance | Award | Awards Show

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 3 nominations

Cast

Chevy Chase	...	Himself - Host
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Norma Aleandro	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Anne Archer	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Bernardo Bertolucci	...	Himself - Winner: Best Director & Best Adapted Screenplay
John Boorman	...	Himself - Nominee: Best Picture, Best Director & Best Original Screenplay
Albert Brooks	...	Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
David Byrne	...	Himself - Best Original Score Winner
Nicolas Cage	...	Himself -Co-Presenter: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
John Candy	...	Himself - Presenter: Best Makeup
Joan Chen	...	Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Cher	...	Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Co-Presenter: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Glenn Close	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role & Co-Presenter: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Sean Connery	...	Himself - Winner: Best Actor in a Supporting Role & Presenter: Best Visual Effects
Kevin Costner	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Costume Design
Billy Crystal	...	Himself - Presenter: Best Sound
Olivia de Havilland	...	Herself - Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Willy DeVille	...	Himself - Performer
Michael Douglas	...	Himself - Winner: Best Actor in a Leading Role & Co-presenter: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Olympia Dukakis	...	Herself - Winner: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Faye Dunaway	...	Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film
Gloria Estefan	...	Herself - Performer
George Fenton	...	Himself - Performer & Nominee: Best Original Score & Best Original Song
Morgan Freeman	...	Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Vincent Gardenia	...	Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
James Garner	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film
Mel Gibson	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Cinematography
Danny Glover	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Cinematography
Jennifer Grey	...	Herself - Co-presenter: Best Original Score
Steve Guttenberg	...	Himself - Presenter: Best Documentary, Features
Jonas Gwangwa	...	Himself - Performer & Nominee: Best Original Score & Best Original Song
Lasse Hallström	...	Himself - Nominee: Best Director & Best Adapted Screenplay
Daryl Hannah	...	Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Costume Design
Audrey Hepburn	...	Herself - Co-presenter: Writing Awards
Holly Hunter	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role
William Hurt	...	Tom Grunick (archive footage)
Norman Jewison	...	Himself - Nominee: Best Picture & Best Director
Shirley Jones	...	Herself
Sally Kirkland	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role
Jack Lemmon	...	Himself - Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Little Richard	...	Himself - Performer
John Lone	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Rob Lowe	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Film Editing
Adrian Lyne	...	Himself - Nominee: Best Director
Marcello Mastroianni	...	Romano (archive footage)
Marlee Matlin	...	Herself - Presenter: Best Actor in a Leading Role
Bill Medley	...	Himself - Performer
Liza Minnelli	...	Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Original Song
Dudley Moore	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Original Song
Eddie Murphy	...	Himself - Presenter: Best Picture
Paul Newman	...	Himself - Presenter: Best Actress
Jack Nicholson	...	Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role
Gregory Peck	...	Himself - Co-presenter: Writing Awards
Mark Peploe	...	Himself - Best Adapted Screenplay Winner
Anne Ramsey	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Paul Reubens	...	Himself - Presenter: Best Short Film, Live Action
Tom Selleck	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Short Film, Animated
John Patrick Shanley	...	Himself - Best Original Screenplay Winner
Ann Sothern	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Vittorio Storaro	...	Himself - Winner: Best Cinematography
Meryl Streep	...	Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Leading Role
Patrick Swayze	...	Himself - Co-Presenter: Best Original Score
Jeremy Thomas	...	Himself - Winner: Best Picture
Jennifer Warnes	...	Herself - Performer
Denzel Washington	...	Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Billy Wilder	...	Himself - Winner: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Robin Williams	...	Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role & Presenter: Best Director
Sean Young	...	Herself - Co-Presenter: Best Film Editing

Country:

USA

Language:

English | American Sign Language | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Shrine Auditorium - 665 W. Jefferson Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

Trivia:

Billy Wilder dedicated his honorary Oscar to legendary writer and friend I.A.L. Diamond who was in frail health. He died 10 days later.

Quotes:

[Accepting the Best Actress award]
Cher: And I don't think that this means that I am somebody, but... I guess I'm on my way. Thank you.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Tom Hanks/Randy Travis (#13.12)" (1988)

Soundtrack:

Storybook Love

60 Years of Oscar!! Still holds up.

Just watched this again. Hard to believe it's almost 20 years!!! Where does the time go? This was the first show in many years to be held at the Shrine Auditorium.

This was the year Cher finally got her Oscar. Everyone cheered (except Sally Kirkland-- the look on her face at that moment is priceless!) Co-star Olympia Dukakis ended her speech with a rousing call to her cousin Michael, then running for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.

Old favorites surfaced as nominees: Vincent Gardinia, Ann Sothern, Sean Connery, etc. Hollywood legends Olivia DeHavilland, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman all made appearances. Liza Minnelli and Dudley Moore reunited to present an award. And Faye Dunaway made a quiet return to the Oscars for the first time since her victory in Network 11 years earlier.

Trivia Note: This was the last year "And the Winner is..." was used at the opening of an envelope.

Best Moments: The montage of past Oscar footage introduced by Charlton Heston. What a joy to go through frame by frame and pick out many of those nominees often forgotten on Oscar night (Beah Richards, Lee Strasberg, Jack Wild, Burgess Meredith, Debra Winger). It was by far the best montage I've ever seen on the show.

Bernardo Bertolucci's excited victory. Calling Hollywood "the big nipple", was hysterical coming from the man who gave us Last Tango in Paris and The Conformist.

Worst Moment: Eddie Murphy's diatribe which revealed a chip on his shoulder which was still there 19 years later (perhaps why he lost to Alan Arkin). Ironically, this year marked the first Nomination for both Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman, who would later win three Oscars between them.

All in all one of the best Oscar shows. I give it a 9 of 10 for one reason. For the part of the show that never happened.

The producers had rounded up at least one cast member from every Best Picture winner for 60 years (thus in the audience one saw Celeste Holm, Joan Fontaine, Rod Steiger, Mercedes McCambridge, Ann Miller, etc.).

Shortly before air time Anita Page (still going strong at nearly 100!!) was overcome with exhaustion and rushed to Good Samaritan hospital. As the surviving star of Broadway Melody, she would have left a void in the presentation so the segment was scrapped at the last minute. I'm certain that would have been a great Oscar moment!!