Academy Award Nominations

The other picture presented at the ceremony, Reds, was nominated in twelve categories and it gained three Oscars. The awards included: Best Director (Warren Beatty), Best Supporting Actress (Maureen Stapleton), and Best Cinematography). The picture narrates about an American communist John Reed. Being a left-wing radical journalist, who wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, Reed takes a trip to Russia. His firm intention consists in getting the information about the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution at first hand on the streets of Petrograd. The film Reds was nominated in all four acting categories. However, only one of four actors won the acting award in the category Best Supporting Actress.

The winners for Best Actress and Best Actor became distinguished actors, who acted in the same film On Golden Pond. It was the fifth film in succession that had award wins in the categories Best Actress and Best Actor in the same film. Moreover, it was the only time when the actor, Henry Fonda, played with his real-life daughter Jane. Henry Fonda received his first Oscar for the part of an old man Norman Thayer. This Oscar was a well deserved award for Henry Fonda’s merits in film-making. It should be noted that Fonda, aged 76 at that time, became the oldest winner in the category Best Actor. 41 years earlier the actor was nominated in the category Best Actor for the part in the film The Grapes of Wrath. However he did not win at that ceremony. Undoubtedly, the gap of 41 years between two nominations and the actor’s final win represents a record itself.