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The Academy Awards — 50th Oscars

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The Oscars pull out all the stops to recapture the glamor of yesteryear for its 50th anniversary, but provocative politics and high-profile no shows underline how this ceremony needs to move forward instead of looking back.

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John Pinkney The Age (Australia) 03/23/2021
Last night's 50th Academy Awards proved typical of the genre by turning 180 minutes into a foretaste of eternity. It was difficult to understand what the show's estimated 300 million audience saw in it all. Go to Full Review Will Jones Minneapolis Star Tribune 03/23/2021
Hurray for Vanessa Redgrave. Hurray for Paddy Chayefsky. Hurray for Raquel Welch. Without that trio of shaker-uppers, the show would have been merely smoothly and splendidly staged. And dull. Go to Full Review Charles Champlin Los Angeles Times 03/23/2021
The Oscar show as a show had more of what it has recently been short of, which is the presence of authentic film stars. It had refreshingly less of what it has sometimes had too much of, which is awkward and underrehearsed cross-talk. Go to Full Review Joe Baltake Philadelphia Daily News 03/24/2021
Last night's Oscar festivities proved to be a series of exhilarating, funny, sentimental and corny memorable moments. Go to Full Review Harold Schindler Salt Lake Tribune 03/23/2021
Obviously Vanessa Redgrave and her unseemly outburst did more than just build on the Oscar tradition of expect the unexpected, [but] from that point the evening took a downward dip. Go to Full Review Bill Morrison News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) 03/23/2021
If the evening was never as nimble as a dance by Fred Astaire, it was jam-packed with nostalgia, suspense, laughter, a few tears, and production numbers as striking as anything in Oscar's history. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Bob Hope

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Episode 1 Aired Apr 3, 1978 50th Oscars Details

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Season Info

Network
ABC
Genre
Special Interest
Release Date
Apr 3, 1978