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Diane Keaton (Best Actress)

Richard Dreyfuss (Best Actor)

Vanessa Redgrave (Best Supporting Actress)

Jason Robards (Best Supporting Actor) not present

1978

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Sisters (and Best Actress nominees) Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave forget about the competition and enjoy the evening, 1967

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Vanessa Redgrave takes home a 1978 Best Supporting Actress award for her work in "Julia", but not before managing to cause a stir in the audience. She had been boycotted by the Jewish Defense League because of her participation in a documentary film entitled "The Palestinian"

Here's what she said in her acceptance speech:

"My dear colleagues, I thank you very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I think this is in part due to our director, Fred Zinnemann. And I also think it's in part because we believed and we believe in what we were expressing--two out of millions who gave their lives and were prepared to sacrifice everything in the fight against fascist and racist Nazi Germany. And I salute you, and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should be very proud that in the last few weeks you've stood firm, and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression. And I salute that record and I salute all of you for having stood firm and dealt a final blow against that period when Nixon and McCarthy launched a worldwide witch-hunt against those who tried to express in their lives and their work the truth that they believe in. I salute you and I thank you and I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism and fascism."

Family Ties

The Redgraves are a British acting dynasty. It mostly started with actor Michael Redgrave (whose parents were actors) and his wife actress Rachel Kempson. They had EGOT winner (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) Vanessa Redgrave, Corin Redgrave, and Oscar nominee Lynn Redgrave. Vanessa had Golden Globe nominee Joely Richardson and Tony winner Natasha Richardson.

* in this picture ( from left: Natasha Richardson, Rachel Kempson, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, and Joely's daughter, Daisy)

You Say It's Your Birthday!

Happy 74th Birthday, Vanessa Redgrave!!!!

on the set of "Camelot", where she met her

future husband, actor Franco Nero, 1967

on the set of "Isadora", 1968

with daughters Natasha and Joely, late 60s

with sister Lynn Redgrave, 1960s

with Jane Fonda on the set of "Julia", 1977

winning Best Supporting Actress and delivering

a very controversial acceptance speech, 1978

with the late Natasha Richardson

and Joely Richardson, 2000s

still going at it, 2000s