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      50th Oscars – The Academy Awards

      1978 Special Interest List
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      The Academy Awards — 50th Oscars

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      The Oscars pull out all the stops to recapture the glamor of yesteryear for its 50th anniversary, but provocative politics and high-profile no shows underline how this ceremony needs to move forward instead of looking back.

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      Episode 1 Aired Apr 3, 1978 50th Oscars Details

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      John Pinkney The Age (Australia) Last night's 50th Academy Awards proved typical of the genre by turning 180 minutes into a foretaste of eternity. It was difficult to understand what the show's estimated 300 million audience saw in it all. Mar 23, 2021 Full Review Will Jones Minneapolis Star Tribune Hurray for Vanessa Redgrave. Hurray for Paddy Chayefsky. Hurray for Raquel Welch. Without that trio of shaker-uppers, the show would have been merely smoothly and splendidly staged. And dull. Mar 23, 2021 Full Review John Huddy Miami Herald The Redgrave-Chayevsky exchange enlivened a long Oscar night in which there were too many silly songs, too many special awards that nobody gave a hoot about, and too many dreary acceptance speeches by obscure if talented short-subject makers. Mar 23, 2021 Full Review Joe Baltake Philadelphia Daily News Last night's Oscar festivities proved to be a series of exhilarating, funny, sentimental and corny memorable moments. Mar 24, 2021 Full Review Harold Schindler Salt Lake Tribune Obviously Vanessa Redgrave and her unseemly outburst did more than just build on the Oscar tradition of expect the unexpected, [but] from that point the evening took a downward dip. Mar 23, 2021 Full Review Bill Morrison News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) If the evening was never as nimble as a dance by Fred Astaire, it was jam-packed with nostalgia, suspense, laughter, a few tears, and production numbers as striking as anything in Oscar's history. Mar 23, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

      Season Info

      Network
      ABC
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      Special Interest
      Release Date
      Apr 3, 1978