Trivia
- Of the 20 performers nominated in the acting categories only two didn't attend; Katharine Hepburn, whose award for Best Actress was accepted by George Cukor, was in France filming The Lion in Winter, and Spencer Tracy, whose nomination was posthumous.
- There was no Governor's Ball.
- Alfred Hitchcock's acceptance speech is on record for the shortest in Academy Awards history: "Thank you".
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