The Academy Awards
The 78th Annual Academy Awards
Sunday 5 March 2006 on NBC

"The 78th Annual Academy Awards" were held on Sunday March 5, 2006 from the Kodak Theatre, Hollywood & Highland. This year's awards continued the trend of nominating films produced independently, veering away from the big-budget blockbusters as four of the Best Picture nominees were...

In 1998, Anne appeared as 'funding generously provided by' in the credits of the film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg. (edit) Anne was only six years older than Dustin Hoffman when she played his girlfriend's mother in The Graduate. (edit) Premiere Magazine ranked Anne's performance as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate as #47 in their '100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time' list. (edit) In 1958, Anne won the Tony Award in the category of Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in the play Two for the Seesaw. (edit) Anne was the godmother of Alan Yentob's children. (edit)

Anne: Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can. (edit) Anne: I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it? (edit) Anne: The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. (edit) Anne: When Mel told his Jewish mother he was marrying an Italian girl, she said: 'Bring her over. I'll be in the kitchen - with my head in the oven'. (edit)

Star
Freddie and Max Maxine Chandler

Guest Star
ABC Stage 67 I'm Getting Married Virginia	Alcoa Hour Hostages to Fortune Giselle
Alcoa Hour Key Largo Alegre	Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre Out of the Outskirts of Town Faye Benet Garret
Climax Mad Bomber Elena	Climax Fear is the Hunter Audrey