The film “Pinocchio” was released to theaters by RKO Radio
Pictures and was the second animated feature film produced
by Disney. The film won the Academy Awards for Best Original
Song and Best Original Score, the first Disney film to win either.
Sandy Kozel
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II
(July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960)
Songwriter Hammerstein won the first of two of his Oscars for
the song “The Last Time I Saw Paris” from the 1941 musical
Lady Be Good.
The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films
of 1927 and 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner
held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks hosted the show. Tickets cost
five dollars, 270 people attended the event and the presentation
ceremony lasted fifteen minutes.
The awards were created by Louis B. Mayer, founder of Louis B.
Mayer Pictures Corporation (at present merged into Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer).
"Theme From A Summer Place" by Percy Faith began its nine
week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. It remains the
longest-running number-one instrumental in the history of
the chart and brought Faith a Grammy Award for Record of
the Year in 1961.
Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976)
