Spain’s Gil Parrondo, an Oscar Award winning art director for “Patton” and “Nicholas and Alexandra,” died on Saturday in Madrid. He was 95.

It’s really impossible to pick the best of any movie, or any kind of art form, but the Oscar is a great Hollywood tradition, and I love being part of it–Ron Howard

Oprah Winfrey, nominated for the Best Supporting Actress in 1985 for The Color Purple, recalled: “It’s my favorite night of the year. I’ve watched it every single year, never missed since I was 19 year old.”

Multiple Oscar winner Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity, The Apartment) once quipped: “Hollywood should give an Oscar for the best deal of the year.”

This year, 16 of the 85 submitted films (about 19 percent) for the Best Foreign Language Film are directed by women.