Speeches for Oscar

57 Oscar acceptance speeches, from 1940 to 2021

The Academy Award, also better known as the "Oscar" or simply "Oscar", is probably the most prestigious and oldest film award in the world (it was awarded for the first time on May 16, 1929, three years before Venice Film Festival).

The volume selects and analyzes 57 Oscar acceptance speeches (from the 1940 to the 2021 edition). From that of Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to be awarded in 1940 for Gone with the Wind, to those of Frances McDormand and Chloé Zhao in 2021, passing through Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Roberto Benigni, Ennio Morricone, Leonardo DiCaprio and many other great protagonists of world cinema.

Ebook version with color images, expansions and hyperlinks (to the original videos and further details).

Gianluca Sposito (1973) is a lawyer and university professor. He is one of the leading Italian experts in rhetoric and communication.

Rhetorically Series

A paperback and e-book series published by Intra.

Global readability, Italian charm.

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INDEX

INTRODUCTION

1940, Hattie McDaniel

1957, Yul Brinner

1968, Alfred Hitchcock

1970, John Wayne

1972, Charlie Chaplin

1973, Marlon Brando

1975, Ingrid Bergman

1976, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher

1980, Dustin Hoffman

1981, Robert De Niro, Henry Fonda

1983, Meryl Streep

1984, Robert Duvall, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson

1985, Sally Field, Frank Murray Abraham

1986, Paul Newman

1987, Steven Spielberg

1988, Billy Wilder, Michael Douglas

1989, Dustin Hoffman

1990, Akira Kurosawa

1991, Sophia Loren

1992, Gabriele Salvatores

1993, Federico Fellini, Al Pacino

1994, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks

1997, Geoffrey Rush

1998, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck e Matt Damon

1999, Roberto Benigni

2001, Steven Soderbergh, Russell Crowe

2002, Halle Berry, Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier

2003, Adrien Brody

2007, Forest Whitaker, Ennio Morricone

2013, Jennifer Lawrence

2014, Cate Blanchett, Lupita Nyong'o

2015, Common e Legend, Patricia Arquette

2016, Leonardo Di Caprio

2018, Frances McDormand

2019, Rami Malek, Olivia Colman

2020, Joaquin Phoenix

2021, Frances McDormand, Chloé Zhao

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS

INDEX OF NAMES