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Oscars
The Oscars, also known as the Academy Awards, are an annual awards ceremony. Awards are given out for cinematic excellence. The awards ceremony is held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
3,339 Questions
Who won the Oscar for Best Director in 2009?
The Mexican-born filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón won the 2013 Best Director award for his space thriller "Gravity." It was the first of three consecutive Oscars in the category that went to a director from Mexico. The 2014 and 2015 awards were won by Cuarón's good friend Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who directed "Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" and "The Revenant."
Jack Nicholson won an Oscar for playing Garrett Breedlove a retired astronaut in what movie?
Terms of Endearment (1983).
She acted in "The Piano" as a young girl and got an Academy Award for it/ Answer: Anna
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Did Beyond the Sea win an Oscar?
The 2004 Kevin Spacey movie Beyond the Sea about Bobby Darin wasn't nominated for a single Academy Award.
Dame Helen Mirren is an accomplished British actress of Russian ancestry who has been nominated for four Academy Awards. She won the 2006 Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Britain's Elizabeth II in "The Queen."
Which book does the film No country for old men come from?
A book by the same title, "No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy.
In the Bedroom (2001) was nominated in five categories: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress and Adapted Screenplay.
An Oscar in one of three categories: Best screenplay, best supporting actress, or best film score. I would win it for any or, hopefully, all three! :-)
The circumstances for receiving it would be, I think, included in my answer already.
In which decade have the most Westerns won Oscars for Best Picture?
The 1990s. Only three Westerns have won the Oscar for Best Picture:
Cimarron (1931), Dances with Wolves (1990) and Unforgiven (1992).
So the most Best Picture-winning Westerns were from the '90s.
No. He was only nominated once, as Best Supporting Actor for A Man for All Seasons (1966).
What kind of earrings does meryll streep wear in mama mia?
THATS A STUPID QUESTION BUT HE ANSWER IS DANGALY CIRCLE ONES
Katharine Hepburn- 1933 Best Actress, Morning Glory 1935 Best Actress, Alice Adams 1940 Best Actress, The Philadelphia Story 1942 Best Actress, Woman of the Year 1951 Best Actress, The African Queen 1955 Best Actress, Summertime 1956 Best Actress, The Rainmaker 1959 Best Actress, Suddenly Last Summer 1962 Best Actress, Long Journey Into Night 1967 Best Actress, Guess Who's Coming for Dinner 1968 Best Actress, A Lion in Winter 1981 Best Actress, On Golden Pond Audrey Hepburn- 1953 Best Actress, Roman Holiday 1954 Best Actress, Sabrina 1959 Best Actress, The Nun's Story 1961 Best Actress, Breakfast at Tiffany's 1967 Best Actress, Wait Until Dark
Are Oscars nominated by scenes in a movie?
No. The whole movie is nominated. Sometimes they just show scenes of the nominated movies, or with nominated actors, but they view and judge the whole movie.
Who hasn't been nominated for an Oscar for a role in a Mike Nichols-directed film?
A lot of actors haven't been nominated! Here are some leading men and women- Harrison Ford (Working Girl, Regarding Henry), Jude Law and Julia Roberts (Closer), Kurt Russell (Silkwood), Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson (Heartburn), Tom Hanks (Charlie Wilson's War), John Travolta and Emma Thompson (Primary Colors), ... How about those who have been nominated for a a role in a Mike Nichols-directed film? It's much easier. (The two winners underlined) 1966 Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1967 Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katherine Ross, The Graduate 1971 Ann-Margret, Carnal Knowledge 1983 Meryl Streep and Cher, Silkwood 1988 Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver and Joan Cusack, Working Girl 1990 Meryl Streep, Postcards from the Edge 1998 Kathy Bates, Primary Colors 2004 Clive Owen and Natalie Portman, Closer 2007 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Helen Hayes (1900-1993) was the first to achieve this feat, followed by Rita Moreno (1931 - ) and Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993). If Daytime Emmy count as Emmy Awards, then Whoopi Goldburg qualifies and if Honorary Awards count then Barbra Streisand and Liza Minelli also qualify for this elite group.
What were the Oscar-winning movies of 1995?
Best Picture- Braveheart Best Director- Mel Gibson, Braveheart Best Actor- Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas Best Actress- Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking Best Supporting Actor- Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects Best Supporting Actress- Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite Best Original Screenplay- Christopher McQuarrie, The Usual Suspects Best Adapted Screenplay- Emma Thompson, Sense & Sensibility Best Editing- Apollo 13 Best Cinematography- Braveheart Best Art Directon-Restoration Best Costume Design- Restoration Best Sound- Apollo 13 Best Score (Drama)- Il Postino (The Postman) Best Score (Comedy)- Pocahontas Best Visual Effects- Babe Best Sound Effects Editing- Braveheart Best Makeup- Braveheart Best Song- "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas Best Foreign Language Film- Antonia's Line (Netherlands)
What is the shortest performance to win an Oscar?
Judi Dench won an Oscar for her 8 mintues in Shakespeare in Love (1998), but the shortest Oscar winning performance goes to a different supporting actress: Beatrice Straight and her 5 mintues in Network (1976).
Who is the youngest person to ever win an Oscar?
Youngest Best Actor winner: 29-year-old Adrien Brody, The Pianist (2002)
Youngest Best Actress winner: 5-year-old Shirley Temple - in 1934
Youngest Best Supporting Actress winner: 10-year-old Tatum O'Neal, Paper Moon (1973)
Youngest Best Supporting Actor winner: 20-year-old Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People (1980)
NOTE: Both O'Neal and Hutton had the lead roles in their movies, but were moved to the supporting categories to better their chances in winning, and both were nominated against truly supporting co-stars (Madeline Kahn in Paper Moon, Judd Hirsch in Ordinary People).
Youngest Best Director winner: 32-year-old Norman Taurog, Skippy (1931)
Youngest nominees:
Youngest Best Actor nominee: 9-year-old Jackie Cooper, Skippy (the only one under 19 nominated in this category)
Only teenage Best Actress nominee: 12-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes, Whale Rider (2003)
Youngest Best Supporting Actor nominee: 8-year-old Justin Henry, Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) (the only one under 10 nominated in this category)
Youngest Best Supporting Actress nominees: 10-year-old Mary Badham, Quinn Cummings and Abigail Bresling for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Goodbye Girl (1977) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006), respectively.
Youngest Best Director nominee: 24-year-old John Singleton, Boyz n the Hood (1991)
* Shirley Temple received a special Oscar (she didn't win because she was never nominated) when she was 6-years-old!
The youngest person to win a competitive Oscar was Tatum O'Neal, who won the 1973 Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Addie Pray in "Paper Moon." When she accepted the award on April 2, 1974, she was 10 years and 148 days old.
The youngest to receive an honorary Oscar was Shirley Temple, who was six years and 310 days old when she was presented a special Juvenile award on February 27, 1935.
What was Confusion's position on educated Chinese woman?
educated? he said:" wives must obey everything the husbands said." And that's all he had over 3000 students, none was female.
When did lose yourself win an Oscar?
"Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile won the Academy Award for Best Song in 2002.
