"Oklahoma!" wins two Academy Awards 1956

The movie adaption of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma! won two Academy Awards at the 28th annual ceremony on March 21, 1956.  It won the awards for Best Sound Recording for Fred Hynes, and Best Scoring of a Musical Picture for Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, and Adolph Deutsch.

This was the first of five Academy Awards for Hynes, who would win awards for South Pacific and The Sound of Music. It was the only Oscar for Bennett and Blackton, but the first of three for Deutsch.

It was also nominated for Best Cinematography, Color and Best Film Editing, did not win either.  It was one of five movies to win two or more Oscars that evening!

"Oklahoma!" released nation-wide 1956

The movie adaptation of  Rodgers and Hammerstein's wildly successful Broadway musical Oklahoma! opened in theaters across the US, November 16, 1956, the forty-ninth birthday of the state.  It had premiered in Los Angeles and Chicago the previous year. 

It starred Gordon MacRae as Curly and Shirley Jones as Laurey.  Eddie Albert, James Whitmore, and Rod Steiger also appeared.

Oklahoma! was nominated for four Academy Awards and won two: Best Sound Recording and Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture.  The two other nominations were for Best Cinematography, Color and Best Film Editing. 

On the centennial birthday of Oklahoma, November 16, 2007, the movie was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. 

"Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris" released 1999

The third of a trilogy of Gamera movies, Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris, was released in Japan March 6, 1999.  It follows a girl Ayana discovering an egg in a cave and it hatches, releasing a demon.  She uses her psychic bond with the creature to exact revenge on Gamera with whom she holds a grudge.

It has been praised as one of the best in the Gamera series.  It won an award for Best Sound Recording at the 54th Mainichi Film Concours, a series of film awards sponsored by Mainichi Shinbun, one of the largest newspaper companies in Japan.