15th Academy Awards to garner five acting nominations. Also notable at the ceremony, Irving Berlin presented the Academy Award for Best Song, which he ended up winning for "White Christmas". Voting for the Best Documentary category resulted in a four-way tie, an outcome that has not happened before or since. A portion of the ceremony was broadcast by CBS Radio. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 15th Academy Awards The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles honoring the films of
Patience (Dreamgirls song) hustling record business figure Curtis Taylor, Jr. (played by Jamie Foxx). Movie critic Peter Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor remarked that the emotional scene displayed "Murphy at his best." Similar praise came from David Rooney of "Variety". Although nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 79th Academy Awards, "Patience" ultimately lost the Oscar to "I Need to Wake Up" by Melissa Etheridge, which the songwriter created for "An Inconvenient Truth". "Patience" didn't exist during the creation of the original "Dreamgirls" musical, a stage drama which made its debut on Broadway in December 1981. Songwriters Henry