80th Academy Awards to win the award for the same film. Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise first accomplished this feat for co-directing 1961's "West Side Story". This was also the second time in Oscar history (the first being 1964's 37th Academy Awards) that none of the four acting winners was American. Daniel Day-Lewis became the eighth person to win Best Actor twice. Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard was the fifth person to win for a non-English speaking performance and the second person to do so in the aforementioned category, after Sophia Loren who won for 1961's "Two Women". Cate Blanchett became the eleventh
56th Academy Awards 56th Academy Awards The 56th Academy Awards were presented April 9, 1984, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson. The Best Supporting Actress winner this year was unique. 4’9” Linda Hunt won the award for her role as Billy Kwan a male Chinese-Australian photographer in Peter Weir's "The Year of Living Dangerously", making her the first actor to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex. Gordon Willis, a respected cinematographer most famous for his un-nominated work on "The Godfather", "The Godfather Part II", and Woody Allen's "Manhattan", received