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Paramount Famous Lasky

Paramount Famous Lasky

Company·1927/28–1958

Nominated at 30 ceremonies, most recently the 31st Academy Awards (1958).

Most awarded film: The War of the Worlds (1953)
Nominations 72
Wins 23
Span 1927/28–1958
Films 52
Oscar history Nominated films IMDb page
Vertigo poster

Latest result

1 nomination

At the 31st Academy Awards (1958), for Vertigo.

Sound Mixing
72Nominations
23Wins
13Categories
30Ceremonies
52Films
1927/28–1958Span
1958 Most Recent

Oscar History

Every nomination and win on record for Paramount Famous Lasky, by ceremony.

31st Academy Awards

1958

30th Academy Awards

1957

29th Academy Awards

1956

28th Academy Awards

1955
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Iii)
Film: —
Detail: Special Photographic
Citation: To FARCIOT EDOUART, HAL CORL and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO TRANSPARENCY DEPARTMENT for an improved dual stereopticon background projector.
Winner

27th Academy Awards

1954

26th Academy Awards

1953

24th Academy Awards

1951
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Ii)
Film: —
Detail: Special Photographic
Citation: To GORDON JENNINGS, S. L. STANCLIFFE and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC and ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS for the design, construction and application of a servo-operated recording and repeating device.
Winner

23rd Academy Awards

1950
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Ii)
Film: —
Detail: Sound
Citation: To LOREN L. RYDER and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the first studio-wide application of magnetic sound recording to motion picture production.
Winner

22nd Academy Awards

1949
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Iii)
Film: —
Detail: Editorial
Citation: To CHARLES R. DAILY, STEVE CSILLAG and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO ENGINEERING, EDITORIAL and MUSIC DEPARTMENTS for a new precision method of computing variable tempo click tracks.
Winner
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Iii)
Film: —
Detail: Stage Operations
Citation: To LOREN L. RYDER, BRUCE H. DENNEY, ROBERT CARR and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the development and application of the supersonic playback and public address system.
Winner

21st Academy Awards

1948
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Ii)
Film: —
Detail: Props
Citation: To VICTOR CACCIALANZA, MAURICE AYERS and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO SET CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT for the development and application of "Paralite," a new lightweight plaster process for set construction.
Winner

20th Academy Awards

1947
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Iii)
Film: —
Detail: Lighting
Citation: To FARCIOT EDOUART, C. R. DAILY, HAL CORL, H. G. CARTWRIGHT and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO TRANSPARENCY and ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS for the first application of a special anti-solarizing glass to high-intensity background and spot arc projectors.
Winner

19th Academy Awards

1946

18th Academy Awards

1945
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Iii)
Film: —
Detail: Sound
Citation: To LOREN L. RYDER, CHARLES R. DAILY and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for the design, construction and use of the first dial controlled step-by-step sound channel line-up and test circuit.
Winner

17th Academy Awards

1944

16th Academy Awards

1943
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Ii)
Film: —
Detail: Special Photographic
Citation: To FARCIOT EDOUART, EARLE MORGAN, BARTON THOMPSON and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO ENGINEERING and TRANSPARENCY DEPARTMENTS for the development and practical application to motion picture production of a method of duplicating and enlarging natural color photographs, transferring the image emulsions to glass plates and projecting these slides by especially designed stereopticon equipment.
Winner
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Iii)
Film: —
Detail: Special Photographic
Citation: To FARCIOT EDOUART and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO TRANSPARENCY DEPARTMENT for an automatic electric transparency cueing timer.
Winner

15th Academy Awards

1942

14th Academy Awards

1941
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Iii)
Film: —
Detail: Sound
Citation: To DOUGLAS SHEARER and the METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT, and to LOREN RYDER and the PARAMOUNT STUDIO SOUND DEPARTMENT for pioneering the development of fine grain emulsions for variable density original sound recording in studio production.
Winner

13th Academy Awards

1940

12th Academy Awards

1939

11th Academy Awards

1938

10th Academy Awards

1937
Scientific Or Technical Award (class Ii)
Film: —
Detail: Special Photographic
Citation: To FARCIOT EDOUART and PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC. for the development of the Paramount dual screen transparency camera setup.
Winner

9th Academy Awards

1936

8th Academy Awards

1935

7th Academy Awards

1934

6th Academy Awards

1932/33

5th Academy Awards

1931/32
Sound Recording
Film: —
Note: NOTE: This award was not associated with any specific film title.
Winner

4th Academy Awards

1930/31
Sound Recording
Film: —
Note: NOTE: This award was not associated with any specific film title.
Winner

3rd Academy Awards

1929/30
The Love Parade poster
Sound Recording
Film: The Love Parade
Note: NOTE: For the third Academy Awards no certificates of nomination were given out in this category, only the titles of the nominated films and their companies were listed. When the winners were revealed, only the names of the individuals involved with the winning achievements were announced. The name(s) of those credited with this achievement are indicated here in parens.
Nominee

2nd Academy Awards

1928/29
The Patriot poster
Best Picture
Film: The Patriot
Note: NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL NOMINATION. There were no announcements of nominations, no certificates of nomination or honorable mention, and only the winners (*) were revealed during the awards banquet on April 3, 1930. Though not official nominations, the additional names in each category, according to in-house records, were under consideration by the various boards of judges.
Nominee

1st Academy Awards

1927/28

Nominated Films

Films with nominations credited to Paramount Famous Lasky, most awarded first. Showing 12 of 52.

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Wings poster

Wings

1 nomination 1 win 1 category
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