11th Academy Awards 11th Academy Awards The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. It was the first Academy Awards show without any official host. This was also the first ceremony in which a foreign language film (Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion") was nominated for Best Picture. Frank Capra became the first person to win three Best Director awards, to be followed by John Ford (who would go on to win four) and William Wyler. This was the first of only two times in Oscar history that three of the four acting awards were
39th Academy Awards 39th Academy Awards The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1966, were held on April 10, 1967, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Bob Hope. Only two of the Best Picture nominees were nominated for Best Director: "A Man for All Seasons" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Both were adaptations of stage dramas. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards