The interiors of Mickey Rourke's Manhattan apartment were inspired by a few of his favorite hotels in Europe. "I was going to study interior or fashion design at one point, but I was also into acting and boxing," Rourke told Architectural Digest. He's nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for "The Wrestler." The Academy Awards will be presented tonight.

Architecturaldigest.com is saluting Oscar by taking a look at Academy Award winners at home, with pictures and info from past issues of the magazine spanning over many years.

Years ago, Diane Keaton renovated a 1930s ranch house near Tucson, Ariz. "The living room was very dark and had a run-down charm -- it couldn't have been more appealing," she said.

Paul Newman said that he and his wife Joanne Woodward shared more than 10 rented houses in the Los Angeles area.

"Orange is the happiest color," Frank Sinatra said, and his favorite hue was evident in his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The 7,000-square-foot home is available for rental, according to VRBO.com (Vacation Rentals By Owner). The media room is still equipped with Sinatra's bullet-proof windows.

In 1929, movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer loaned $40,000 to Joan Crawford so she could buy a more lavish home befitting a star. The magazine pictured her beside her ornate gilt grand piano. She furnished the home in "green and gold, silks and brocades," hoping to achieve the sophistication she lacked, a biographer suggested. Later, Crawford called her decorating efforts a "hodgepodge."

In 1933, Gary Cooper, then a bachelor, lived in a home formerly owned by Greta Garbo, where he displayed prizes he gathered on an African safari.

Claudette Colbert restored a 19th century plantation house in Barbados in the 1960s. "I saw the bones of a lovely house that needed everything, and I saw the beach," she said.

Cher's Malibu home has stone chairs decorated with a cheetah pattern. "The way we work is really strange," Cher said about working with designer Ron Wilson. "I'll tell him that I want something that doesn't exist -- a style that isn't a style -- and then he'll make it exist for me."

Samuel L. Jackson and his wife, Latanya, asked a designer to help them decorate their house in the San Fernando Valley. "We wanted our daughter to live in a homey environment," Jackson said.

Spencer Tracy and his wife, Louise, bought a 12-acre ranch in Encino in 1936. "That was the damndest farm you ever saw," said MGM publicist Emily Torchia. "That sentimental Irishman wouldn't allow anything to be killed, not even the chickens. So it became kind of an old-age home for animals."

Helen Mirren and her husband, director Taylor Hackford, own a home in New Orleans. "In spite of the destruction and hard times, we will never abandon the most beautiful city in America," Hackford said.

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier resided in a house endowed by Henry V in the 15th century. "Of all the houses I've lived in over the years, Notley is my favorite," Olivier said. "I could easily drown in its atmosphere."

In the last four months of 2008, 75 individuals and families have found new homes, access to credit and tens of thousands of dollars in incentives through the City of Chicago's "Find Your Place in Chicago" program. Info: www.findyourplaceinchicago.org.