Postpartum Oscar: Heath Ledger, Walt Disney … 15 Talents Awarded After Their Death

If the Oscar Academy traditionally greets its deceased at each ceremony, there is always a very moving “reminder” section, some of the talents who died between filmmaking and the Hollywood masses sometimes receiving posthumous gold awards. Sculpture. Thus, during the 94 years of the Oscars, more than 70 postpartum nominations were announced in the competition categories of 15 winners.

Gill Freeze – Oscar for Best Documentary 2014

Date of death : December 13, 2012
Date of the ceremony: March 2, 2014 20 feet from the star, or the celebration of the number of shadows. Influential music producer (he directed A & M Records (1977 to 1990), Gil Friesen accompanied this Morgan Neville documentary, which tells the story of The history of singers is behind the biggest hits. Prior to the film’s release, the leukemia sufferer received an Oscar with director and producer Catherine Rogers.

Heath Ledger – Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2009

Date of death : January 22, 2008
Date of the ceremony: February 22, 2009 This is probably the most famous postpartum Oscar winner … and it’s celebrated. The Unforgettable Joker The Dark Knight: The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger died in January 2008, at the age of 28, a few months before the release of Christopher Nolan’s film. It was his father, mother and sister who received the statue in his name in 2009.

Conrad L. Hall – Oscar for Best Cinematography 2003

Date of death : January 4, 2003
Date of the ceremony: On March 23, 2003, the great director of photography considered one of the most influential by his peers, Conrad L. Hall received two sculptures from the academy, in 1979 for Butch Cassidy and Child, and in 2000 for Sam Mendes’s American Beauty. Her reunion with filmmaker The Paths of Perdition brought her a postpartum Oscar, which was awarded to her son, Conrad U. Hall, as well as a director of photography.

Thomas Goodwin – 1993 Academy Award for Best Short Documentary

Date of death : December 11, 1992
Date of the ceremony: March 29, 1993 Peter’s upbringing, i.e. the school year of a young boy with a mental disability who intends to undergo apprenticeship and schooling in a traditional institution among other non-disabled students. Behind this moving Gerardine Würzburg documentary, we find producer Thomas Goodwin, a sculptor with a director.

Howard Ashman – Oscar for Best Song in 1992

Date of death : March 14, 1991
Date of the ceremony: March 30, 1992 In 1992, lyricist Howard Ashman was nominated three times with Alan Menken in the same category (!) For the songs Beauty and the Beast: “Belle”, “C’est la fête” and “La Belle and the Beast”. It was this latest work that earned him his second Oscar in his career, after being awarded in 1990 for The Little Mermaid for “Ocean Under the Under the Ocean.” In 1991, at the age of 40, he contracted AIDS, finally receiving it after his death. Nominated in 1993 for Aladdin’s film “I’m Your Best Friend.”

Jeffrey Unsworth – Oscar for Best Cinematography 1981

Date of death : October 28, 1978
Date of the ceremony: March 31, 1981, Cabaret, Superman … Jeffrey Unsworth left his mark on American cinema, working in photography since the early 1940s. Died of a heart attack at Roman Polanski’s shooting range Tess’s shooting range in 1978: Frenchman Gislen Klochet. Finishes the film behind the camera and both won an Oscar in 1981. Gislen Clockett However was nominated (and awarded) alone to Caesar the previous year.

Peter Finch – Oscar for Best Actor in 1977

Date of death : January 14, 1977
Date of the ceremony: On March 28, 1977, on charges against the media, the network offered Sidney Lumet Television a Peter Finch lead role as a presenter, played by his managers and audience imperatives. His memorable monologue in the Rain (“I’m Mad As Hell”) took him to the statue of Best Actor, two months after he died of a heart attack at the age of 60. This is the first postpartum Oscar to be awarded to an actress.

Raymond Rashi and Larry Russell – Oscar for Best Music in 1973

Date of death: 23 December 1964 and 14 February 1954
Date of the ceremony: March 27, 1973, Stranger Fate Than Limelights, Charlie Chaplin’s last American film, shot in 1952 but banned from the United States for two decades due to McCarthyism. Meanwhile, his co-composers Raymond Rush and Larry Russell disappeared in 1964 and 1954, respectively. Released in Los Angeles in 1972, the film was nominated for an Oscar and received a Golden Statue … the only thing that was ever awarded to Chaplin. (With the exception of the Honorary Oscar).

Walt Disney – Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 1969

Date of death : December 15, 1966
Date of the ceremony: On April 14, 1969, Uncle Walt’s loyal employee, director Wolfgang Reitermann, receives this Oscar in his name in 1969, when his famous producer died before the mid-year film Winnie the Pooh in the Wind (where Tiger and Pig will make their grand debut). This is the last twenty-two (!) Statues to be awarded to Walt Disney during his prolific career.

Eric Orbom – Oscar for Best Design in 1961

Date of death : May 23, 1959
Date of the ceremony: Disappeared on April 17, 1961, at the age of 43, the Swedish-American feature filmmaker featured in some thirty feature films in the 1950s. Among them is Stanley Kubrick Spartak, who won four Oscars in 1961: Best Supporting Role. , The best cinematography, the best costumes and the best scenery were awarded to Eric Orbom and his staff Alexander Golitsen, Russell A. Listen and Julia Heron.

Sam Zimbalist and William A.. Horning – Oscar for Best Picture and Best Design in 1960

Date of death : November 4, 1958 and March 2, 1959
Date of the ceremony: April 4, 1960 Among the eleven Oscars awarded to Ben-Hur in 1960 (recall that the film has a record with the Titanic and the return of the King), two were posthumous. Thus, producer Sam Zimbalist hailed the (major) sculpture for Best Picture, while art director William A. Horning received the Cup for Best Decoration … or her second postpartum Oscar (see below).

William Horning – Oscar for Best Design in 1959

Date of death : March 2, 1959
Date of the ceremony: Died April 6, 1959, March 1959. William A. Horning She is still the only person to have been awarded twice since giving birth. Indeed, a year before his sculpture Ben Hur, The 31st Academy Awards, held in April 1959, welcomed his work on the set of Vincent Minnell’s Musical Gig. That’s why the artist never got into the academy in his life, he was nominated for the Oz Magician or Quo Term.

Victor Young – Oscar for Best Music in 1957

Date of death : November 10, 1956
Date of the ceremony: March 27, 1957 More than 300 compositions and songs for the film from 1930-1956, 22 Oscar nominations throughout his career … and one Golden Statue, awarded after his death in 1957, a few months after his death, for the film “Around the World” . At the point of 80 days. That same year Victor Young was also nominated for Best Song for Written on Wind.

Sidney Howard – Oscar for Best Screenplay (adaptation) 1940

Date of death : August 23, 1939
Date of the ceremony: On February 29, 1940, the only screenwriter to be officially awarded the title “Gone with the Wind” (despite extensive writing and rewriting), Sidney Howard became the first postnatal Oscar winner in the 1940 competition category. The playwright was the victim of a terrible accident last year when he was hit by his own tractor on his own farm.