And the Oscar Goes To...

And the Oscar Goes To...

100 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Feb. 1, 2014

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.

And the Oscar Goes To...

100 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Feb. 1, 2014

And the Oscar Goes To...
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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Turner Classic Movies
Original title And the Oscar Goes To...
Directors Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
Writers Sharon Wood, Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein

Cast

Anjelica Huston

as Narrator (voice) (archive footage)

Annette Bening

as Self - Interviewee

Ellen Burstyn

as Self - Interviewee

Cher

as Self (archive footage)

Billy Crystal

as Self (archive footage)

Benicio del Toro

as Self (archive footage)

Jane Fonda

as Self - Interviewee

Whoopi Goldberg

as Self - Interviewee

Tom Hanks

as Self - Interviewee

Jennifer Hudson

as Self - Interviewee

Ben Kingsley

as Self (archive footage)

Liza Minnelli

as Self - Interviewee

Helen Mirren

as Self (archive footage)

Jon Voight

as Self (archive footage)

Phil Alden Robinson

as Self - Interviewee

Jason Reitman

as Self (archive footage)

Steven Spielberg

as Self (archive footage)

Kathleen Kennedy

as Self - Interviewee

Michael Moore

as Self - Interviewee

Janusz Kamiński

as Self (archive footage)

Ben Burtt

as Self - Interviewee

Ve Neill

as Self - Interviewee

Jeannine Oppewall

as Self - Interviewee

Bruce Vilanch

as Self - Interviewee

George Clooney

as Self - Interviewee

Robert Osborne

as Self - Interviewee

Craig Barron

as Self - Interviewee

Kirk Baxter

as Self - Interviewee

Jeffrey Kurland

as Self - Interviewee

F. Murray Abraham

as Self (archive footage)

Isabelle Adjani

as Self (archive footage)

Buddy Adler

as Self (archive footage)

Ben Affleck

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Altman

as Self (archive footage)

Julie Andrews

as Self (archive footage)

George Arliss

as Self (archive footage)

Fred Astaire

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Attenborough

as Self (archive footage)

Lauren Bacall

as Self (archive footage)

John Bailey

as Self

Fay Bainter

as Self (archive footage)

Alan Ball

as Self (archive footage)

Anne Bancroft

as Self (archive footage)

Ethel Barrymore

as Self (archive footage)

Lionel Barrymore

as Self (archive footage)

Kathy Bates

as Self (archive footage)

Ned Beatty

as Self (archive footage)

Warren Beatty

as Self (archive footage)

Roberto Benigni

as Self (archive footage)

Candice Bergen

as Self (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman

as Self (archive footage)

Halle Berry

as Self (archive footage)

Kathryn Bigelow

as Self (archive footage)

Cate Blanchett

as Self (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart

as Self (archive footage)

Lorraine Bracco

as Self (archive footage)

Charles Brackett

as Self (archive footage)

Marlon Brando

as Self (archive footage)

Nicoletta Braschi

as Self (archive footage)

Walter Brennan

as Self (archive footage)

Adrien Brody

as Self (archive footage)

Geneviève Bujold

as Self (archive footage)

James Caan

as Self (archive footage)

James Cagney

as Self (archive footage)

Jane Campion

as Self (archive footage)

Dyan Cannon

as Self (archive footage)

Frank Capra

as Self (archive footage)

Steve Carell

as Self (archive footage)

Jim Carrey

as Self (archive footage)

Diahann Carroll

as Self (archive footage)

Johnny Carson

as Self (archive footage)

George Chakiris

as Self (archive footage)

Carol Channing

as Self (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

as Self (archive footage)

Oona O'Neill Chaplin

as Self (archive footage)

Glenn Close

as Self (archive footage)

Gary Cooper

as Self (archive footage)

Francis Ford Coppola

as Self (archive footage)

Marion Cotillard

as Self (archive footage)

Joan Crawford

as Self (archive footage)

Bing Crosby

as Self (archive footage)

Russell Crowe

as Self (archive footage)

Tom Cruise

as Self (archive footage)

Penélope Cruz

as Self (archive footage)

Jon Cryer

as Self (archive footage)

Tony Curtis

as Self (archive footage)

Matt Damon

as Self (archive footage)

Bette Davis

as Self (archive footage)

Doris Day

as Self (archive footage)

Daniel Day-Lewis

as Self (archive footage)

Rebecca De Mornay

as Self (archive footage)

Cecil B. DeMille

as Self (archive footage)

Judi Dench

as Self (archive footage)

Kirk Douglas

as Self (archive footage)

Michael Douglas

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Dreyfuss

as Self (archive footage)

Faye Dunaway

as Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Durante

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Duvall

as Self (archive footage)

Clint Eastwood

as Self (archive footage)

Blake Edwards

as Self (archive footage)

Vince Edwards

as Self (archive footage)

Edith Evans

as Self (archive footage)

Peter Falk

as Self (archive footage)

Federico Fellini

as Self (archive footage)

Will Ferrell

as Self (archive footage)

Laurence Fishburne

as Self (archive footage)

Calista Flockhart

as Self (archive footage)

Harrison Ford

as Self (archive footage)

Jodie Foster

as Self (archive footage)

Michael J. Fox

as Self (archive footage)

Clark Gable

as Self (archive footage)

Judy Garland

as Self (archive footage)

Teri Garr

as Self (archive footage)

Greer Garson

as Self (archive footage)

Janet Gaynor

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Gere

as Self (archive footage)

Hermione Gingold

as Self (archive footage)

Lillian Gish

as Self (archive footage)

Louis Gossett Jr.

as Self (archive footage)

Elliott Gould

as Self (archive footage)

Cary Grant

as Self (archive footage)

Lee Grant

as Self (archive footage)

Gene Hackman

as Self (archive footage)

Rex Harrison

as Self (archive footage)

Howard Hawks

as Self (archive footage)

Goldie Hawn

as Self (archive footage)

Edith Head

as Self (archive footage)

Lillian Hellman

as Self (archive footage)

Justin Henry

as Self (archive footage)

Audrey Hepburn

as Self (archive footage)

Charlton Heston

as Self (archive footage)

Dustin Hoffman

as Self (archive footage)

Philip Seymour Hoffman

as Self (archive footage)

Bob Hope

as Self (archive footage)

Anthony Hopkins

as Self (archive footage)

Ron Howard

as Self (archive footage)

Hugh Hudson

as Self (archive footage)

Rock Hudson

as Self (archive footage)

Linda Hunt

as Self (archive footage)

Holly Hunter

as Self (archive footage)

John Huston

as Self (archive footage)

Amy Irving

as Self (archive footage)

James Ivory

as Self (archive footage)

Ben Johnson

as Self (archive footage)

Angelina Jolie

as Self (archive footage)

Danny Kaye

as Self (archive footage)

Buster Keaton

as Self (archive footage)

Gene Kelly

as Self (archive footage)

Grace Kelly

as Self (archive footage)

Deborah Kerr

as Self (archive footage)

Nicole Kidman

as Self (archive footage)

Sally Kirkland

as Self (archive footage)

Akira Kurosawa

as Self (archive footage)

Diane Ladd

as Self (archive footage)

Burt Lancaster

as Self (archive footage)

Diane Lane

as Self (archive footage)

Ang Lee

as Self (archive footage)

Janet Leigh

as Self (archive footage)

Jack Lemmon

as Self (archive footage)

Jerry Lewis

as Self (archive footage)

Sacheen Littlefeather

as Self (archive footage)

Harold Lloyd

as Self (archive footage)

Sophia Loren

as Self (archive footage)

George Lucas

as Self (archive footage)

Sidney Lumet

as Self (archive footage)

Ali MacGraw

as Self (archive footage)

Henry Mancini

as Self (archive footage)

Dean Martin

as Self (archive footage)

Steve Martin

as Self (archive footage)

Lee Marvin

as Self (archive footage)

Groucho Marx

as Self (archive footage)

Marsha Mason

as Self (archive footage)

Walter Matthau

as Self (archive footage)

Louis B. Mayer

as Self (archive footage)

Joseph McCarthy

as Self (archive footage)

Hattie McDaniel

as Self (archive footage)

Mary McDonnell

as Self (archive footage)

Steve McQueen

as Self (archive footage)

Bette Midler

as Self (archive footage)

Sarah Miles

as Self (archive footage)

Freida Lee Mock

as Self

Roger Moore

as Self (archive footage)

Rita Moreno

as Self (archive footage)

Liam Neeson

as Self (archive footage)

Paul Newman

as Self (archive footage)

Jack Nicholson

as Self (archive footage)

Nick Nolte

as Self (archive footage)

Donald O'Connor

as Self (archive footage)

Peter O'Toole

as Self (archive footage)

Laurence Olivier

as Self (archive footage)

Gregory Peck

as Self (archive footage)

Valerie Perrine

as Self (archive footage)

Wolfgang Petersen

as Self (archive footage)

Sidney Poitier

as Self (archive footage)

Sydney Pollack

as Self (archive footage)

Cole Porter

as Self (archive footage)

Richard Pryor

as Self (archive footage)

Martha Raye

as Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

as Self (archive footage)

Vanessa Redgrave

as Self (archive footage)

Donna Reed

as Self (archive footage)

Debbie Reynolds

as Self (archive footage)

Trent Reznor

as Self (archive footage)

Hal Roach

as Self (archive footage)

Jason Robards

as Self (archive footage)

Julia Roberts

as Self (archive footage)

Edward G. Robinson

as Self (archive footage)

Chris Rock

as Self (archive footage)

Ginger Rogers

as Self (archive footage)

Cesar Romero

as Self (archive footage)

Atticus Ross

as Self (archive footage)

Diana Ross

as Self (archive footage)

Herbert Ross

as Self (archive footage)

Gena Rowlands

as Self (archive footage)

Mark Rydell

as Self (archive footage)

Eva Marie Saint

as Self (archive footage)

Bert Schneider

as Self (archive footage)

Martin Scorsese

as Self (archive footage)

George Segal

as Self (archive footage)

David Seidler

as Self (archive footage)

Tom Selleck

as Self (archive footage)

Jim Sheridan

as Self (archive footage)

Frank Sinatra

as Self (archive footage)

Steven Soderbergh

as Self (archive footage)

Sissy Spacek

as Self (archive footage)

Sylvester Stallone

as Self (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck

as Self (archive footage)

Rod Steiger

as Self (archive footage)

James Stewart

as Self (archive footage)

Vittorio Storaro

as Self (archive footage)

Meryl Streep

as Self (archive footage)

Barbra Streisand

as Self (archive footage)

Elizabeth Taylor

as Self (archive footage)

Emma Thompson

as Self (archive footage)

Gene Tierney

as Self (archive footage)

Dimitri Tiomkin

as Self (archive footage)

Spencer Tracy

as Self (archive footage)

John Travolta

as Self (archive footage)

Twiggy

as Self (archive footage)

Cicely Tyson

as Self (archive footage)

Liv Ullmann

as Self (archive footage)

King Vidor

as Self (archive footage)

Jack L. Warner

as Self (archive footage)

Denzel Washington

as Self (archive footage)

John Wayne

as Self (archive footage)

Raquel Welch

as Self (archive footage)

Billy Wilder

as Self (archive footage)

Robin Williams

as Self (archive footage)

Tennessee Williams

as Self (archive footage)

Kate Winslet

as Self (archive footage)

Shelley Winters

as Self (archive footage)

Robert Wise

as Self (archive footage)

Alfre Woodard

as Self (archive footage)

Joanne Woodward

as Self (archive footage)

Loretta Young

as Self (archive footage)

Renée Zellweger

as Self (archive footage)

Fred Zinnemann

as Self (archive footage)