Short Film Winners: 1966 Oscars

Don Knotts and Elke Sommer present the Oscar for Short Subject (Live Action) to Claude Berri for The Chicken (Le Poulet), and the Oscar for Short Subject (Cartoon) to Chuck Jones and Les Goldman for The Dot and the Line at the 38th Academy Awards.
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Barney Fife at the Oscars

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The man won 5 Emmys for that role. Don Knotts was a comedic genius.

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I had read somewhere that Samantha Eggar and Michael Dunn attended this ceremony. I'd also read that Ruth Gordon and Ian Bannen did not. Well Gordon and Bannen are there. And yes, Dunn too. I can barely see him obscured by the woman seated next to Gene Raymond (who is she? she looks so familiar.).

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Elke Sommer was so beautiful, she has to be one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the silver screen

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+JoJoGunn several recent eye witness accounts c!aim that tom.s.hsiry has been greatly over rated and highly exaggerated

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Claude Berri,the great director.

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Chuck Jones's only competitive Oscar. It's interesting he didn't win for any of The Looney Tunes cartoons. He was snubbed so many times before like Duck Amuck and What's Opera s Doc? which weren't even nominated even though they are considered to be the greatest cartoons of all times. I'm glad he at least won 1 Oscar though.

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And he didn’t actually direct it. He started on the project, the result was bad and/or not to the taste of the producers. The producers called Maurice Noble to take over and Maurice made it basically on his own.
It deeply hurt Noble to see his work be attributed and rewarded to someone who contributed nothing to it. It became a painful sore spot between the two and strained their professional relationship to the end. Amends were only made with Chuck phoning Maurice on his deathbed to finally talk it out.
Not a proud moment for an otherwise great director.
Source: The Noble approach by Tod Polson.

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He won 2 Oscars at Warner Bros. He and Friz Freleng we're the only directors at the studio to win the award. Chuck also received a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 1996, giving him 4 total.

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As they were bringing out the envelope someone should have yelled out "Way to go Luther"

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Yeeeeeeeeessss!

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Atta boy, Luther!!

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Elke could play Dusty Springfield (if she could drop the German accent).

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Mickey Mouse himself as voice of Jeremy Stennett

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why didn't time piece win?

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Evidently, the judges thought The Chicken was superior.