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The 8th Academy Awards | 1936. Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel. Thursday, March 5, 1936. Honoring movies released in 1935.
The 8th Academy Awards to honour films released during 1935 were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California and hosted by AMPAS president Frank Capra. This was the first year in which the awards were called "Oscars".
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.
The 8th Academy Awards Memorable Moments. Best Picture: Mutiny On The Bounty. Hal Mohr became the first, and only, write-in Oscar winner with his win for Best Cinematography for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This was the last year that write-in votes were allowed for any category.
In the 9th through 11th ceremonies (1936–38), a special award was given for color cinematography, and from the 12th to the 39th ceremonies (1939–66), except for the 30th ceremony (1957), separate Academy Awards were given for color and black-and-white cinematography.
Feb 5, 2014 · SPECIAL AWARD. To David Wark Griffith, for his distinguished creative achievements as director and producer and his invaluable initiative and lasting contributions to the progress of the motion picture arts. SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Class II) To AGFA ANSCO CORPORATION for their development of the Agfa infra-red film. [Film]
Nov 29, 2019 · From 1936 to 1938, a second Academy Award for Best Cinematography was presented as a Special Achievement Award for color cinematography (at the time, a majority of films released each year were shot in black-and-white because of the expense of the color process).
