What were some of the awards Angelina Jolie has earned?

Answer 1

Angelina Jolie is an Oscar-winning actress who has become popular by taking on the title role in the "Lara Croft" series of blockbuster movies. Off-screen, Jolie has become prominently involved in international charity projects, especially those involving refugees. She often appears on many "most beautiful women" lists, and she has a personal life that is avidly covered by the tabloid press.

In her earliest years, Angelina began absorbing the acting craft from her parents - her father is the Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight and her mother is Marcheline Bertrand, who had studied with Lee Strasberg. At age 11, Angelina began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She undertook some film studies at New York University and later joined the renowned Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles. At age 16, she took up a career in modeling and appeared in some music videos. Her exotic good looks may derive from her mixed ancestry which is Czech, French-Canadian, Iroquois and English.

In the mid-1990s, Jolie appeared in various small films where she got good notices, including Hackers (1995) and Foxfire (1996). Her critical acclaim increased when she played strong roles in the Made-for-TV Movies True Women (1997) (TV), and in George Wallace (1997) (TV) which won her a Golden Globe award and an Emmy nomination. Jolie's acclaim increased even further when she played the lead role in the HBO production Gia (1998) (TV). This was the true life story of supermodel Gia Carangi, a sensitive wild child who was both brazen and needy and who had a difficult time handling professional success and the deaths of people who were close to her. Carangi became involved with drugs and because of her needle-using habits she became, at the tender age of 26, one of the first celebrities to die of AIDS. Jolie's performance in Gia (1998) (TV) again garnered a Golden Globe award and another Emmy nomination, and she additionally earned a SAG Award.

Angelina got a major break in 1999 when she won a leading role in the successful feature The Bone Collector (1999), starring alongside Denzel Washington. In that same year, Jolie gave a tour de force performance in Girl, Interrupted (1999) playing opposite Winona Ryder. The movie was a true story of women who spent time in a psychiatric hospital. Jolie's role was reminiscent of Jack Nicholson's character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), the role which won Nicholson his first Oscar. Unlike "Cuckoo", "Girl" was a small film that received mixed reviews and barely made money at the box office. But when it came time to give out awards, Jolie won the triple crown -- "Girl" propelled her to win the Golden Globe, the SAG Award and the Academy Award for best leading actress in a supporting role.

With her new-found prominence, Jolie began to get in-depth attention from the press. Numerous aspects of her controversial personal life became news. At her wedding to her Hackers (1995) co-star Jonny Lee Miller, she had displayed her husband's name on the back of her shirt painted in her own blood. Jolie and Miller divorced and in 2000 she married her Pushing Tin (1999) co-star Billy Bob Thornton. Jolie had become the fifth wife of a man twenty years her senior. During her marriage to Thornton, the spouses each wore a vial of the other's blood around their necks. That marriage came apart in 2002 and ended in divorce. In addition, Jolie was estranged from her famous father, Jon Voight.

In 2000, Jolie was asked to star in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). At first, she expressed disinterest, but then decided that the required training for the athletic role was intriguing. The Croft character was drawn from a popular video game. Lara Croft was a female cross between Indiana Jones and James Bond. When the film was released, critics were unimpressed with the final product, but critical acclaim wasn't the point of the movie. The public paid $275 million for theater tickets to see a buffed up Jolie portray the adventuresome Lara Croft. Jolie's father Jon Voight appeared in "Croft", and during filming there was a brief rapprochement between father and daughter.

One of the Croft movie's filming locations was Cambodia. While there, Jolie witnessed the natural beauty, culture and poverty of that country. She considered this an eye opening experience, and so began the humanitarian chapter of her life. Jolie began visiting refugee camps around the world and came to be formally appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Some of her experiences were written and published in her popular book "Notes from My Travels" whose profits go to UNHCR.

Jolie has stated that she now plans to spend most of her time in humanitarian efforts, to be financed by her actress salary. She devotes one third of her income to savings, one third to living expenses and one third to charity. In 2002, Angelina adopted a Cambodian refugee boy named Maddox and in 2005 adopted an Ethiopian refugee girl named Zahara. Jolie's dramatic feature film Beyond Borders (2003) parallels some of her real life humanitarian experiences although, despite the inclusion of a romance between two westerners, many of the movie's images were too depressingly realistic -- the film was not popular among critics or at the box office.

In 2004, Jolie began filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) with co-star Brad Pitt. The film became a major box office success. There were rumors that Pitt and Jolie had an affair while filming "Smith". Jolie insisted that because her mother had been hurt by adultery, she herself could never participate in an affair with a married man, therefore there had been no affair with Pitt at that time. Nonetheless, Pitt separated from his wife Jennifer Aniston in January 2005 and, in the months that followed, he was frequently seen in public with Jolie, apparently as a couple. Pitt's divorce was finalized later in 2005.

Jolie and Pitt announced in early 2006 that they would have a child together, and Jolie gave birth to daughter Shiloh that May. They also adopted a three-year-old Vietnamese boy named Pax. The couple continues to pursue movie and humanitarian projects

Answer 2

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated $1million to US-Iraq war children funds where they will support the education of almost 8,000 affected children. The Mr & Mrs Smith couple donated the whooping amount to the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict from their charity, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. o The heavily pregnant actress said, "These educational support programs for children of conflict are the best way to help them heal." Pitt added, "We hope to encourage others to give to these great organizations." The amount donated by Pitt-Jolie is going to be evenly split between US and Irag non-profit groups who aim at helping children affected by the war with education opportunities "Mother nature seems to have got another name ……..Angelina Jolie ! We always knew that Angelina does alot for charity and especially for the children ..so that's nothing new But looks like Angelina ain't very happy with what's happening around her ..so she has decided to take everything into her own hands . Angelina has decided to put the responsibility of wildlife conversation on her son well not exactly her son but a project named after her adopted son ,Maddox .The project to promote wildlife conservation and development in Cambodia was earlier handed by a two non government organisations but it looks like Angelina wasn't very happy as she decided against renewing the contract and decided to give the job to The Madoxx Jolie-Pitt organisation ,Jolie's group is named for her five-year-old son Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia in 2002. The program operates in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Samlot in northwestern Cambodia Jolie has campaigned for environmental reform in the impoverished country, which has rewarded her work with citizenship, and last year gave her a Cambodian passport. The actress fell in love with Cambodia while shooting "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" at the famed Angkor Wat temple in 2001, and owns a home in Samlot district of northwestern Battambang province Well we are sure that Angelina will live up to her promises ……… looks like the "son"……."sun" is shining brightly over Cambodia !! "
Angelina Jolie has received many awards over the last decade or so. In 1998, Angelina Jolie won a best supporting actress Emmy Award from her performance in the TV movie George Wallace and then the following year nabbed a best actress Golden Globe for her performance in the HBO film Gia. In 2000, Angelina Jolie would win both a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for her supporting role in the drama Girl, Interrupted. Over the last few years, Angelina Jolie has received best actress nominations for her roles in A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), but did not walk away with the awards.

Answer 3

Earned? Golden Globes (2 i believe) and Oscar (Best Supporting Actress for girl, interrupted) MTV Movie Awards, Critic Choice awards, Humanitarian awards, Forbes Most powerful celebrity 2009, MAXIM's Hottest Woman Alive, People Magazine's Most Beautiful Person, America's Most Beautiful Family, & More.

Answer 4

movies, charity, modelling...