Oscar's Golden Moments:1953 Fox Movietone "News"

Whether or not you think Fox News is fair and balanced, in 1953 the studio's newsreel division didn't hesitate to play favorites.

This Fox Movietone Newsreel on the Academy Awards for 1952 highlights winners from Fox pictures – Alfred Newman,  Susan Hayward, Anthony Quinn – and allots more time to studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck, presenting the Irving Thalberg Award, than it does to its recipient, Cecil B. DeMille.

The clip gives only a quick nod to Gary Cooper, who was named Best Actor for "High Noon"  from United Artists. Other award winners handily omitted were Best Actress Shirley Boothe ("Come Back, Little Sheba)), Best Supporting Actress Gloria Grahame ("The Bad and the Beautiful"), and Best Director John Ford "The Quiet Man").

Oscar's Golden Moments: Mae West and Rock Hudson

Jerry Lewis hosted the 1957 Oscar show,
but Mae and Rock stole it 

It might have been cold outside, but it was steamy inside The Pantages in 1957 when screen legend Mae West and leading man Rock Hudson took the stage to sing Frank Loesser's Oscar-winning duet, first performed by Ricardo Montalban and Esther Williams in 1948's "Neptune's Daughter."

Oscar's Golden Moments: Jennifer Lawrence Answers Questions in the Press Room

They can't trip up this smart cookie 

Oscar's Golden Moments: That Was Entertainment

A Fine Bromance!

On the 1979 broadcast, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Steve Lawrence performed this clever tribute to memorable songs that did not receive Oscar nominations.

Oscar's Golden Moments: Jack Nicholson Wins His First Oscar for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

Against heavy competition from Al Pacino, Walter Mathau,  Maximilian Schell, and James Whitmore, a young Jack Nicholson won his first Best Actor Oscar for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975).

The film received nine Oscar nominations, winning five for Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay.