60th Academy Awards 60th Academy Awards The 60th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on April 11, 1988, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 22 categories honoring films released in 1987. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and directed by Marty Pasetta. Actor Chevy Chase hosted the show for the second consecutive year. Two weeks earlier in a ceremony held at
Eugene Clark (actor) Ontario Broadway production of The Lion King for two years. Clark's best-known theatrical film role was in George A. Romero's "Land of the Dead" as the head zombie, "Big Daddy". Eugene Clark (actor) Eugene Clark (born December 3, 1951) is a Canadian film and television character actor. Clark was born in Los Angeles, California. He was an actor four years before he began playing college football and he was an all-conference offensive guard at UCLA. Named to the first All Star teams for both the Pacific-8 and the West Coast Athletic Conferences, Clark also received All Star All American Honourable