Photos of the most glamorous night in Hollywood throughout history.
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Here's What The Oscars Looked Like The Year You Were Born
2010
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Sandra Bullock ( Best Actress for 'The Blind Side') arrives on the red carpet. Her acceptance speech began with "Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?"
2011
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Colin Firth (Best Actor, 'The King's Speech') poses with his wife, Livia Giuggioli, before the ceremony.
2012
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Perennial Best Actress Meryl Streep (for 'The Iron Lady ' this time) wears a custom gold lamé Lanvin gown to the awards ceremony.
2013
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Jennifer Lawrence stumbles when heading up the steps to collect her Best Actress award for 'Silver Linings Playbook'.
2014
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Best Supporting Actress Lupita Nyong'o ('12 Years A Slave') and her ice blue gown also won best performance on the red carpet in 2014.
2015
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Julianne Moore commissioned a custom dress from Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld which she wore to pick up her Best Actress award for 'Still Alice'.
2016
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Leonardo Di Caprio (Best Actor, 'The Revenant') arrives on the red carpet with his former 'Titanic' costar Kate Winslet.
1929
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At the first Academy Awards, winners were announced three months in advance and were chosen on the basis of all their film work during during the calendar year. The girlish Janet Gaynor won the first Best Actress award, here accepting the statue, pre-ceremony, from Academy president Douglas Fairbanks,
1930
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As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gained traction, it was decided that two ceremonies would be held in 1930 - one in spring, on in fall - to catch up with current crop of films. At the April event, Mary Pickford won Best Actress for Coquette. Pickford has been acting since age 8, and had been in motion pictures since 1909.
1931
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At the November ceremony, Norma Shearer accepts the Best Actress award for The Divorcee. Her brother won an Oscar for Best Sound Recording and the family still holds the record for the most Academy Awards received.
1932
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Marie Dressler (Min and Bill) and Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul) pose with their Best Actor awards. Barrymore, a son and siblings of actors, was reluctant to join the family business. In addition to acting, he also studied fine art, composed orchestral music, and wrote a historic novel.
1933
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Helen Hayes displays her Best Actress award, earned for 'The Sin of Madelon Claudet'. In the course of her long career, hayes won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, an achievement on 12 people to date can claim.
1934
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Host Will Rogers stands between two winners, Franklin Hansen (Best Sound Recording, 'A Farewell to Arms') And Frank Lloyd (Best Director, 'Cavalcade'). Rogers, when announcing Best Director, simply said, "Come up and get it, frank," forgetting that two Franks, Lloyd and Capra, were nominees. Capra was halfway to the stage before Rogers' gaffe was clarified.
1935
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Clarke Gable, dapper in white tie and tails, picks up the Best Actor award for 'It Happened One Night'. The film also won Best Actress from Claudett Colbert, Best Director for Frank Capra, and Outstanding Production.
1936
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Bette Davis picks up the first of her ten eventual Best Actress awards (this one for 'Dangerous') from producer Jack Warner. Forced by Warner to attend the awards instead of take a vacation, davis selected an outfit - a costume from a Warner film that had failed - that she hoped he would recognize.
1937
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Luise Rainer - who was discovered in Germany by MGM scout in 1935 - wins Best Actress for 'The Great Ziegfeld'. (She later confessed that she wore her nicest nightgown to the ceremony because she didn't have any formal dresses.) She poses here with Paul Muni (Best Actor for 'The Life of Louis Pasteur') and Frank Capra (Best Director for 'Mr Deeds Goes To Town').
1938
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The lovely Luise Rainer becomes the first actor to win an award in two consecutive years, this time for 'The Good Earth', and again attends the awards without makeup but has found a formal gown.
1939
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To accept her Best Actress award for 'Jezebel', Bette Davis opted for a simple frock with a tulle skirt and a dramatic feathered neckline. Spencer Tracy, picking up his Best Actor award for 'Boys Town', wore a black tuxedo, of course.
1940
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Vivien Leigh poses with her Best Actress award for 'Gone With The Wind'. She attended the ceremony with her fiance Lawrence Olivier, who was nominated in the Best Actor category for 'Wuthering Heights'.
1941
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This year's Best Actors, James Stewart ('The Philadelphia Story') and Ginger Rogers ('Kitty Foyle'), pose with their awards. A month later, Stewart became the first Hollywood actor to enlist for service in World War II.
1942
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Best Actor nominee Cary Grant ('Penny Serenade') is teased by dinner companion Rosalind Russell during the ceremony at the Biltmore Hotel. Because of the war, the award ceremonies through 1945 were more austere and less formal than in previous years.
1943
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Actress Greer Garson shows her Oscar to film producer Louis B. Mayer at the Academy Awards dinner.
1944
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Best Actress winner Jennifer Jone ('The Song of Bernadette') shows her Oscar to Best Actress nominee Ingrid Bergman ('For Whom The Bells Tolls'). Because of wartime metal shortages, the 1943, 1944 and 1945 statuettes were made of painted plaster.
1945
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Winners Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman and Barry Fitzgerald pose with their Oscars back stage.
1946
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Joan Crawford accepts the award for Best Actress for 'Mildred Pierce' while she recuperates from a mysterious illness (one rumoured to have been caused by a strong reluctance to lose in public to the odds-on favourite Ingrid Bergman).
1947
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Olivia de Havilland, clutching her evening bag, picks up her Best Actress award from presenter Ray Milland for her film 'To Each His Own'.
1948
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Best Actress winner Loretta Young ('The Farmer's Daughter') takes the stage in a ruffled gown.
1949
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'Johnny Belinda' costars Lew Ayres (Best Actor nominee) and Jane Wyman (Best Actress winner) arrive at the awards ceremony.
1954
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A 34-year-old Kirk Douglas, Best Actor nominee for 'Champion', waits to be announced on the red carpet. (The award went to Broderick Crawford for 'All The King's Men').
1951
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Actress Josephine Hull receives her award for Best Supporting Actress from Dean Jagger.
1952
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Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall, stop for a smoke on their way into the theatre. Bogart picked up the Best Actor award for 'The African Queen' that year.
1953
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Actress Gloria Grahame chats with an unidentified man backstage after winning the award for Best Supporting Actress for the film 'The Bad And The Beautiful'.
1954
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Even more gamine than usual, Audrey Hepburn poses with her Best Actress award for her performance in 'Roman Holiday'. The event was held in New York at the NBC Century Theatre.
1955
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Hollywood royalty Grace Kelly poses here with her Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in 'The Country Girl'.
1956
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Presenters and recent Best Actress winners, Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly engage in a gloves-on competition backstage to determine the most elegant creature.
1957
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Dorothy Malone ('Written On The Wind') and Anthony Quinn ('Lust For Life') pick up Best Supporting awards. Quinn also starred in 'La Strada' that year, a film that won the Best Foreign Film prize awarded.
1958
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Her Best Actress trophy for 'The Three Faces of Eve' in hand, Joanne Woodward and he husband Paul Newman attend the Governors Ball after-party. (Woodward sewed her own evening dress.)
1959
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After the awards, Burl Ives (Best Supporting Actor for 'The Big Country'), Susan Hayward (Best Actress for 'I Want To Live!') and David Niven (Best Actor for 'Separate Tables') pose with presenter Ingrid Bergman.
1960
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Husband and wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh arrive for the awards ceremony wearing decidedly modern bangs (him) and space-travel formal wear (her).
1961
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Elizabeth Taylor introduces us to the era of colour photography with her violet eyes, butter-yellow Dior gown, and shiny gold Best Actress Oscar for 'Butterfield 8' at the after-party.
1962
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best Actress nominee 'Splendor In The Grass', Natalie Wood showed up with arm-candy and costar Warren Beatty.
1963
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Gregory Peck holds his award for Best Actor ('To Kill A Mockingbird') alongside presenter Sophia Loren.
1964
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Best Actor winner Sidney Poitier ('Lilies Of The Field') poses with presenter Anne Bancroft. (The next time a black actor would win the Best Actor award would be in 2002 when Denzel Washington won for 'Training Day').
1965
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Julie Andrews poses here with Audrey Hepburn and her Academy Award for 'Mary Poppins'.
1966
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Lee Marvin, Julie Christie, Shelley Winters and Martin Balsam enjoy the post-award glow. Marvin won Best Actor for 'Cat Ballou'; Christie won Best Actress for 'darling'; and Best Supporting awards went to Winters for 'A Patch Of Blue' and Balsam for 'A Thousand Clowns'. This year marked the first Academy Awards broadcast in colour, but apparently black-and-white was still a force in still photography.
1967
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Steve McQueen, nominated for Best Actor for his work in 'The Sand Pebbles', arrives with his wife Neile Adams. (Paul Scofield took the prize for 'A Man For All Seasons')
1968
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Sonny and Cher were not nominated for awards, but their outfits think otherwise.
1969
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Barbra Streisand ('Funny Girl'), arriving here with her husband Elliot Gould. Streisand shared the Best Actress award that year with Katherine Hepburn ('The Lion In Winter'), the only time that category has ended in a tie.
1970
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Maggie Smith, Best Actress winner for 'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie' is still years from her Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Downton Abbey or Harry Potter's Professor McGonagall.
1971
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Best Actress nominee for 'Love Story', Ali McGraw sits with the movie's producer and her then-husband, Robert Evans. George C. Scott refused the Best Actor award for his work in 'Patton', calling the ceremony a "two-hour meat parade," though he attended in subsequent years.
1972
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'Klute' costar Donald Sutherland sits with Jane Fonda, who picked up the Best Actress award. The two would go on to make a controversial anti-Vietnam War documentary, F.T.A. the following year.
1973
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Marlon Brando won the Best Actor award for his work in 'The Godfather'. He sent Sacheen Littlefeather in his place to refuse the award, to protest the treatment of American Indians by the film industry.
1974
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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (she was nominated for Best Actress for 'Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams') arrive at the ceremonies. While vestiges of an older somewhat dignified Hollywood - Liz Taylor, Gene Kelly and Groucho Marx, among others - appeared onstage during the year's ceremony, so did a streaker.
1975
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Husband and wife John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, both nominated for their work on 'A Woman Under The Influence' (his nomination was for directing, hers as Best Actress), arrive outside the ceremony.
1976
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'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' was a big winner this year, with Jack Nicholson and louise Fletcher taking home the Best Actor awards, Milosz Forman winning Best Director. It also won Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
1977
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Sylvester Stallone whose film 'Rocky' won Best Picture and Best Director, poses with Eletha Finch, who accepted the Best Actor award for her late husband, Peter Finch, and Faye Dunaway who won Best Actress for her role in 'Network'.
1978
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Best Actress Diane Keaton ('Annie Hall') and Best Actor Richard Dreyfuss ('The Goodbye Girl') pose after the ceremony. Star Wars takes six of the 10 technical awards and a special achievement award.
1979
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'Coming Home' garnered acting awards for both its stars, seen here: Jon Voight and Jane Fonda.
1980
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Sally Field ('Norma Rae') and Dustin Hoffman ('Kramer Vs. Kramer') pause after having accepted top acting awards. Attempting a second Oscar-worthy performance, later that year, Field would appear in 'Smokey and the Bandit II'.
1981
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Robert Redford takes home the Best Director award for his extraordinary first effort, 'Ordinary People'.
1982
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Warren Beatty, who wrote, directed, produced and starred in 'Reds', picks up his award for Best Director. (Maureen Stapleton won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Emma Goldman in the movie.)
1983
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Awarded her first Best Actress title for her role in 'Sophie's Choice', Meryl Streep was six months' pregnant, a condition mostly concealed by her gold Christian Leigh gown.
1984
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Shirley MacLaine, James L. Brooks and Jack Nicholson share the spotlights with their awards for 'Terms Of Endearment', Nicholson's for Best Supporting Actor, MacLaine's for Best Actress and Brooks' for Best Director and Best Picture.
1985
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Sally Field, who won Best Actress for her role in 'Places In The Heart', about to break into her famous "You really like me!" acceptance speech.
1986
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William Hurt (Best Actor, 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman'), Anjelica Houston (Best Actress 'Prizzi's Honor'), Geraldine Page (Best Supporting Actress, 'The Trip To Bountiful') and Sidney Pollack (Best Director and Best Picture, 'Out Of Africa') pose with their just-won statuettes.
1987
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Presenter Dustin Hoffman shows Best Director winner Oliver Stoner ('Platoon') how it's done.
1988
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Michael Douglas (Best Actor, 'Wall Street') and his tuxedo can't compete with Cher (Best Actress, 'Moonstruck') and her Bob Mackie-designed get-up.
1989
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Jodie Foster (Best Actress, 'The Accused') and Dustin Hoffman (Best Actor, 'Rain Man') with their awards.
1990
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The dashing Denzel Washington, here with presenter Geena Davis, earned a Best Supporting Actor for his work in 'Glory'.
1991
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Actor Jeremy Irons arrived alone but went home with the award for Best Actor for his role as Claus von Bulow in 'Reversal of Fortune'.
1992
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Costars Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins won Best Acting awards for their film 'The Silence Of The Lambs', which garnered wins for Best Picture and Best Director.
1993
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Emma Thompson, winner of the Best Actress award for her work on 'Howards End', clowns for her fans on the red carpet.
1994
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'The Color Of Money' costars Tom Cruise and Paul Newman celebrate Newman's Humanitarian award.
1995
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Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson arrive in time for Hanks to pick up his second Best Actor award in a row; this time for 'Forrest Gump', the previous year for 'Philadelphia'.
1996
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Winners Nicolas cage (Best Actor, 'Leaving Las Vegas'), Mira Sorvino (Best Supporting Actress, 'Mighty Aphrodite'), Kevin Spacey (Best Supporting Actor, 'The Usual Suspects') and Susan Sarandon (Best Actress, 'Dead Man Walking') pose for photographers.
1997
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'The English Patient' costars Kristin Scott Thomas (nominee for Best Actress) and Juliette Binoche (winner of Best Supporting Actress) arrive on the red carpet.
1998
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Best Supporting Actress winner (L.A. Confidential) arrives at the Academy Awards with then-husband Alec Baldwin.
1999
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Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow impersonates Grace Kelly on her way to accept a Best Actress award for 'Shakespeare in Love'.
2000
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Best Actress Hilary Swank ('Boys Don't Cry') is escorted to the press area by presenter Roberto Benigni.
2001
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Julia Roberts leaves the ceremony with then-boyfriend Benjamin Bratt after picking up her Best Actress award for 'Erin Brockovich'.
2002
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Halle Berry (Best Actress, 'Monster's Ball') and Denzel Washington (Best Actor, Training Day) share the spotlight accepting their statuettes.
2003
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Borrowing Gwyneth Paltrow's 199 idea, Best Actress Nicole Kidman accepts her award for 'The Hours' dressed up à la Grace Kelly.
2004
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Charlize Theron, Best Actress for her turn as a serial killer and drifter in 'Monster', wears a killer Gucci gown on the red carpet.
2005
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Best Supporting Actors Cate Blanchett ('The Aviator') and Morgan Freeman ('Million Dollar Baby') join Best Actor winners Hillary Swank ('Million Dollar Baby') and Jamie Foxx ('Ray') for a photo op.
2006
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Her vintage Dior gown proves good luck for Reese Witherspoon, who won Best Actress for 'Walk The Line'.
2007
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British actress Helen Mirren's role as Queen Elizabeth in 'The Queen' brought her victory as Best Actress,
2008
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Spanish dreamboat Javier Bardem eschews the traditional tuxedo for a Prada suit when he arrives for his Best Supporting Actor award for 'No Country For Old Men'.
2009
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Kate Winslet (Best Actress, The Reader), Sean Penn (Best Actor, 'Milk') and Penelope Cruz (Best Supporting Actress, 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona') take their turn in the press room during the ceremony. Heath Ledger wins 2009's Best Supporting Actor for 'The Dark Knight' posthumously.