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57th Academy Awards

57th Academy Awards
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Date March 25, 1985
Site Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Hosted by Jack Lemmon
Produced by Gregory Peck, Robert Wise, Larry Gelbart, Gene Allen
Directed by Marty Pasetta
Highlights
Best Picture Amadeus
Most awards Amadeus (8)
Most nominations Amadeus and A Passage to India (11)
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Duration 3 hours, 10 minutes

The 57th Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1985 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Jack Lemmon.

Upon winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Places in the Heart, Sally Field exclaimed, "The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!" (often misquoted as "you really like me!")

The big winner at the ceremony was Milos Forman's Amadeus, which had received 11 nominations and won 8 awards including Best Picture and Best actor for F.Murray Abraham. As of the 87th Academy Awards, Amadeus is the most recent film to receive two lead actor nominations.

The winner of Best Supporting Actor was also significant. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian surgeon who survived the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, won the award for his performance as Dith Pran in Roland Joffé's The Killing Fields, despite having no previous acting experience. Ngor and Harold Russell are the only two non-professional actors to win Academy Awards for acting.

Seventy-seven-year-old Peggy Ashcroft won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in A Passage to India, making her the oldest winner in that category.


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