42nd Academy Awards by receiving nine nominations without one for Best Picture. This was the last time until the 68th Academy Awards wherein none of the four acting winners had appeared in Best Picture nominees, as well as the first time where every acting nomination, as well as every major nominated film, was in color. This was the first Academy Award ceremony intended to be broadcast via satellite worldwide, but according to Klaus Lehmann, a foreign sales executive of the ABC television network, in addition to Canada and Mexico (broadcasting the event since 1953, but only live since 1964), only two South American
60th Academy Awards for the 60th Academy Awards were announced on February 16, 1988, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Wise, president of the Academy, and actress Shirley MacLaine. "The Last Emperor" received the most nominations with nine total; "Broadcast News" came in second with seven. The winners were announced at the awards ceremony on April 11, 1988. "The Last Emperor" became the second film after 1958's "Gigi" to earn nine Oscar nominations and win all of them. For the first time in Oscar history, all five Best Director nominees were born