By Ian K. Fergusson. 1  Even the slightest hint of a shark attack in the Mediterranean surprises - even horrifies - the many millions of people who visit this region every year.
Why An Oscar Win For Ryan Gosling Is Historic. And How One Man Brought Cagney's Story To The Stage. Ryan Gosling may make history tonight. If he wins an Academy Award for La La Land, it would mark the first Best Actor win for an original Hollywood musical since James Cagney won his Oscar for Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1943. The only other two Best Actor winners in movie musicals were Yul Brynner (The King & I), and Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady).
Sidney Poitier was the first African-American actor to win Best Actor in a Leading Role for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field at the 36th Academy Awards. The first person named Oscar to win an Oscar was Oscar Hammerstein II for the song The Last Time I saw Paris, in the 1941 movie Lady Be Good.. The first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture was the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast.. (Back in Bugs Bunny's heyday, it would have been called a cartoon.