And The Winner Is...Youngest Oscar Winners

For my first post in me and Dawn's series of stories dedicated to all things Oscars, I will be listing Oscar youngest winners...actors and actresses. So without further adieu, here we go...


CLARK GABLE

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (YOUNGEST)

1. Adrien Brody (The Pianist, 2002) 29 years old
2. Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl, 1977) 30 years old
3. Marlon Brando (On The Waterfront, 1954) 30 years old
4. Maximillian Schell (Judgement at Nuremberg, 1961) 31 years old
5. Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, 1995) 32 years old
6. James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story, 1940) 32 years old
7. Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot, 1989) 32 years old
8. Clark Gable (It Happened One Night, 1934) 34 years old
9. Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933) 34 years old
10. Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips, 1939) 34 years old



JACK LEMMON

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (YOUNGEST)

1. Timonthy Hutton (Ordinary People, 1980) 20 years old
2. George Chakiris (West Side Story, 1961) 27 years old
3. Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Jerry Maguire, 1996) 29 years old
4. Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight, 2008) 29 years old
5. Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts, 1955) 31 years old
6. Robert DeNiro (The Godfather Part II, 1974) 31 years old
7. Van Heflin (Johnny Eager, 1942) 32 years old
8. Harold Russell (The Best Years Of Our Lives, 1946) 33 years old
9. Benicio Del Toro (Traffic, 2000) 34 years old
10. Denzel Washington (Glory, 1989) 35 years old


JANET GAYNOR

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (YOUNGEST)

1. Marlee Matlin (Children Of A Leser God, 1986) 21 years old
2. Janet Gaynor (Sunrise, 1927) 22 years old
3. Joan Fontaine (Suspicion, 1941) 24 years old
4. Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday, 1953) 24 years old
5. Jennifer Jones (The Song Of Bernadette, 1943) 25 years old
6. Julie Christie (Darling, 1965) 25 years old
7. Grace Kelly (The Country Girl, 1954) 25 years old
8. Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry, 1999) 25 years old
9. Vivien Leigh (Gone With The Wind, 1939) 26 years old
10. Jodie Foster (The Accused, 1988) 26 years old

PATTY DUKE
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (YOUNGEST)

1. Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon, 1973) 10 years old
2. Anna Paquin (The Piano, 1993) 11 years old
3. Patty Duke (The Miracle Worker, 1962) 16 years old
4. Anne Baxter (The Razor's Edge, 1946) 23 years old
5. Teresa Wright (Mrs. Miniver, 1942) 24 years old
6. Goldie Hawn (Cactus Flower, 1969) 24 years old
7. Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted, 1999) 24 years old
8. Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, 2006) 25 years old
9. Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry, 1960) 27 years old
10. Gloria Grahame (The Bad and the Beautiful, 1952) 27 years old

That's an impressive list of actors and actresses in their early years of their careers.

James Franco as Marilyn Monroe at the 2011 Oscars

James Franco, co-host of the 2011 Academy Awards, appeared dressed as Marilyn Monroe...for some reason. Could he look any more uncomfortable?


See the YouTube clip of this appearance below, or click here.

WINNERS OF THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS

BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds

BEST ACTRESS
Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mo'Nique in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Up, Pete Docter

ART DIRECTION
Avatar, Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Avatar

COSTUME DESIGN
The Young Victoria Powell

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
The Cove, Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens

SHORT SUBJECT DOCUMENTARY
Music by Prudence Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett

FILM EDITING
The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

BEST MAKEUP
Star Trek, Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

ORIGINAL SCORE
Up, Michael Giacchino

ORIGINAL SONG
The Wear Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)
from Crazy Heart Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

BEST PICTURE
The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal,
Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Logorama Nicolas Schmerkin

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
The New Tenants, Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

SOUND EDITING
The Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos), Argentina

VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Hurt Locker
written by Mark Boal

HONORARY LIFETIME AWARD
Roger Coleman and Lauren Bacall

MOST OSCARS WON BY A FILM

Three films have won 11 Oscars, The first to achieve the record was Ben-Hur (USA, 1959), which won from 12 nominations on April 4, 1960, Titanic (USA, 1997) from 14 nominations on March 23, 1998 and the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(NZ/USA, 2003), which completed a clean sweep to win all 11 of its nominations on February 29, 2004.