Mayer, along with fellow movie moguls Irving Thalberg, Carl Laemmle and the Warner brothers, helped bankroll the cavernous Wilshire Boulevard Temple, which debuted in 1929 as the cornerstone of the largest Jewish congregation west of Chicago.

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Eastwood's victory makes him, at 74, the oldest person ever to win a best director Oscar, and caps a hat-trick of statuettes (he previously won for Unforgiven in 1993 and was given the Irving G Thalberg memorial award two years later).

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