14th Academy Awards 14th Academy Awards The 14th Academy Awards honored film achievements in 1941 and was held in the Biltmore Bowl at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony is now considered notable, in retrospect, as the year in which "Citizen Kane" failed to win Best Picture, which instead was awarded to John Ford's "How Green Was My Valley". Ford won his third award for Best Director, becoming the second to accomplish three wins in that category, and the first to win in consecutive years (having won for "The Grapes of Wrath" the previous year). Most public attention was focused
31st Academy Awards that night, making him the only host in Oscar history to have won an award during the same ceremony. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 31st Academy Awards The 31st Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1959, to honor the best films of 1958. The show's producer, Jerry Wald, started cutting numbers from the show to make sure it ran on time. He cut too much material and the ceremony ended 20 minutes early, leaving Jerry Lewis to attempt to fill in the time. Eventually,