50th Academy Awards order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. Sammy Davis Jr. and Marvin Hamlisch performed "Come Light the Candles" in tribute to: 50th Academy Awards The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 1978. The ceremonies were presided over by Bob Hope, who hosted the awards for the nineteenth and last time. Two of the year's biggest winners were "Star Wars", which swept the technical categories by winning 6 out of its 10 nominations and a Special Achievement
Academy Awards to date, however, was the 42nd Academy Awards (Best Picture "Midnight Cowboy") which drew a 43.4% household rating on 7 April 1970. By contrast, ceremonies honoring films that have not performed well at the box office tend to show weaker ratings. The 78th Academy Awards which awarded low-budgeted, independent film "Crash" (with a pre-Oscar gross of US$53.4 million) generated an audience of 38.64 million with a household rating of 22.91%. In 2008, the 80th Academy Awards telecast was watched by 31.76 million viewers on average with an 18.66% household rating, the lowest rated and least watched ceremony at the time,