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20 Incredibly Classy Vintage Pics of Academy Awards Winners Past

Let's journey back to the days of Audrey Hepburn and Paul Newman at the Oscars

By Alex Heigl Updated March 25, 2022 03:45 PM
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AUDREY HEPBURN

AUDREY HEPBURN
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Hepburn gets close with her Academy Award for Roman Holiday in 1954.

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DONNA REED

DONNA REED
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Reed poses while letting the world know about her 1954 Best Supporting Actress win for From Here to Eternity.

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ELIZABETH TAYLOR

ELIZABETH TAYLOR
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Taylor and her then-husband, Eddie Fisher, celebrate Taylor's Best Actress win for Butterfield 8 in 1960.

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FRANK SINATRA & DONNA REED

FRANK SINATRA & DONNA REED
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Sinatra and Reed celebrate after their dual Best Supporting wins for From Here to Eternity in 1954.

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FRANK MCCARTHY

FRANK MCCARTHY
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Producer McCarthy is flanked by Goldie Hawn (left) and Jeanne Moreau in 1970 as Karl Malden (far left) and Steve McQueen look on.

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GRACE KELLY

GRACE KELLY
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Kelly celebrates what would be her lone Oscar win, a 1955 Best Actress statue for 1954's The Country Girl.

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HATTIE MCDANIEL

HATTIE MCDANIEL
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McDaniel's groundbreaking Best Supporting Actress win in 1940 was for her role in 1939's Gone with the Wind. She was the first Black person to be nominated for and win an Oscar.

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HUMPHREY BOGART

HUMPHREY BOGART
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Bogart's 3-year-old Stephen holds his dad's 1952 Oscar (for The African Queen) with Bogart and mom Lauren Bacall.

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JACK LEMMON

JACK LEMMON
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Lemmon puckers up for Oscar — the actor won this statue in 1974 for Save the Tiger.

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JAMES STEWART & GINGER ROGERS

JAMES STEWART & GINGER ROGERS
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Stewart and Rogers pose with their 1941 Academy Awards (Best Actor, The Philadelphia Story, and Best Actress, Kitty Foyle, respectively) in Los Angeles.

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SIDNEY POITIER

SIDNEY POITIER
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Poitier, the first Black man to win the Best Actor Oscar (for 1963's Lilies of the Field), reflects with his Academy Award in 1964.

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JOHN WAYNE & BARBRA STREISAND

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The Duke and Babs celebrate Wayne's 1970 Best Actor win for 1969's True Grit.

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LIZA MINNELLI

LIZA MINNELLI
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Liza and her father Vincent are all smiles following the actress's 1973 Best Actress win for Cabaret.

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MERYL STREEP & DUSTIN HOFFMAN

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The Hollywood legends see eye-to-eye over their Best Actor and Best Actress awards (for Kramer vs. Kramer) at the 1980 Academy Awards.

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PATRICIA NEAL

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Neal takes in her 1964 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1963's Hud at home with her three children.

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PAUL NEWMAN & JOANNE WOODWARD

1958: American actor Joanne Woodward holds her Oscar statuette while sitting next to husband, American actor Paul Newman, during the Governor's Ball, an Academy Awards party held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California.
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Newman's adoration for his wife is on full display in this candid pic of them in 1958, the year Woodward won Best Actress for The Three Faces of Eve.

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JACK NICHOLSON & SHIRLEY MACLAINE

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Nicholson and MacLaine ham it up with their respective Best Supporting Actor and Best Actress statues they picked up in 1984 for Terms of Endearment.

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SHIRLEY TEMPLE & CLAUDETTE COLBERT

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Temple presents Colbert with her Best Actress Oscar for It Happened One Night in 1935.

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SOPHIA LOREN

SOPHIA LOREN
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Loren, the first actress to win an Academy Award for a foreign-language film, won for 1960's La Ciociara.

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WALT DISNEY

WALT DISNEY
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Disney juggles the four Academy Awards he picked up in 1954 for Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom, Bear Country, The Alaskan Eskimo and The Living Desert.

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    1 of 20 AUDREY HEPBURN
    2 of 20 DONNA REED
    3 of 20 ELIZABETH TAYLOR
    4 of 20 FRANK SINATRA & DONNA REED
    5 of 20 FRANK MCCARTHY
    6 of 20 GRACE KELLY
    7 of 20 HATTIE MCDANIEL
    8 of 20 HUMPHREY BOGART
    9 of 20 JACK LEMMON
    10 of 20 JAMES STEWART & GINGER ROGERS
    11 of 20 SIDNEY POITIER
    12 of 20 JOHN WAYNE & BARBRA STREISAND
    13 of 20 LIZA MINNELLI
    14 of 20 MERYL STREEP & DUSTIN HOFFMAN
    15 of 20 PATRICIA NEAL
    16 of 20 PAUL NEWMAN & JOANNE WOODWARD
    17 of 20 JACK NICHOLSON & SHIRLEY MACLAINE
    18 of 20 SHIRLEY TEMPLE & CLAUDETTE COLBERT
    19 of 20 SOPHIA LOREN
    20 of 20 WALT DISNEY

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