Bette Davis wins first Academy Award 1936

Film icon Bette Davis won her first Academy Award for her work in the movie Dangerous, at the 8th annual ceremony held March 5, 1936.  It was her second nomination having been nominated the year before.  

Mutiny on the Bounty was nominated for 8 Academy Awards but only took home the Best Picture award.

The Informer was nominated for 6 Academy Awards and won four: Best director for John Ford; Best Actor for Victor McLaglen, Best Writing Screenplay for Dudley Nichols, and Best Score for Max Steiner.   

 

Bette Davis wins second and last Oscar 1939

Bette Davis took home the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Jezebel at the 11th annual ceremony held February 23, 1939. She had been nominated twice before and won the award for her work in Dangerous in 1935.  After this, she racked up eight more nominations, but failed to win any of them.

Jezebel took home another prize, Best Supporting Actress for Fay Bainter for her performance.

Jezebel had been nominated for Outstanding Production, Best Scoring for Max Steiner, and Best Cinematography.

Walt Disney was given an Honorary Award "for creating Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,". The Academy gave him one statuette and seven miniature statuettes indicating the seven dwarfs.  This is a rare case of a film being recognized in two consecutive years.  Snow White had been nominated for Best Score the previous year. 

Singer Natalie Cole born 1950

Natalie Cole, born February 6, 1950 in Los Angeles, California, was the daughter of the amazing Nat King Cole and won 9 Grammy Awards.

She was the first African-American artist to win Best New Artist in 1976 along with her performance of This Will Be.  In 1991, she released Unforgettable in which she sings a duet with her famous father.  It garnered her 3 more Grammys. She won numerous other awards such as American Music Awards, and NAACP Image Awards for her music and acting.

She passed away December 31, 2015 in Los Angeles.  

I've always loved her song Dangerous.  Listen to it here: