Oscars

Elia Kazan won the Golden Globe for Best Director - Motion Picture in 1955.

Tom Hanks won 2 Academy Awards, for Best Actor. "Philadelphia" (1993), and "Forrest Gump" (1994).

Kevin Costner took 2 Academy Awards home for his work in, "Dance with Wolves."

Mel Gibson took 2 Academy Awards home for his work in, "Braveheart."

The host of the 86th Academy Awards, held on March 2, 2014, is Ellen DeGeneres.

Invisible, or seamless editing means a good job was done deleting and the bad parts and selecting the shots with the best angle , and merging from scene to scene in a coherent, non-disruptive manner.

I think Parasite was the best movie of the year for a few reasons (no spoilers included). First of all, it was a completely original story. It wasn't a remake or a prequel or a sequel, which pretty much everything is these days. Secondly, it was a foreign film that didn't have any big name American actors to draw a crowd. The movie got buzz based on word of mouth alone. The script and the acting were both extremely well done and it also had several plot twists. It was a very unpredictable movie that made watching it very suspenseful and exciting. It also managed to tell a very enthralling story without the use of special effects or CGI. The movie was entertaining purely for the dialogue, story, and character development. It was over 2 hours but did not have a ton of "filler"; it was well paced and never dragged. Finally, I thought it had a very satisfactory ending, which many movies do not. Many films start strong but tend to lose momentum along the way and don't have a solid finish. This movie really had it all and I hope it wins Best Picture!

Yes. Her most recent screen appearance was in "The Help," one of the summer hits of 2011. In 2012, she will co-star in the crime drama "Blackbird."

Here are some of the major Academy Award winners from the year 1978:

- Picture: "The Deer Hunter"

- Director: Michael Cimino, "The Deer Hunter"

- Actor: Jon Voight, "Coming Home"

- Actress: Jane Fonda, "Coming Home"

- Supporting Actor: Christopher Walken, "The Deer Hunter"

- Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith, "California Suite"

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Either Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj or Rihanna.

Any it just has to be a great film

No. In fact, some industry insiders are already predicting she'll receive her 21st Oscar-nomination for her upcoming performance as Katherine Graham, the late publisher of The Washington Post in "The Papers."

George C. Scott for Patton.
The Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1970 was George C. Scott in "Patton"

He did not ever win an Oscar, he was nominated for Best Actor for Hotel Rwanda in about 2006.

The Academy Award for Best Actor of 1979 went to Dustin Hoffman for his performance as newly divorced father Ted Kramer in "Kramer vs. Kramer."

The three Indian movies nominated for an Oscar in the foreign language category were: Mother India (1957), Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Lagaan (2001). Shwaas (2004) as someone really likes to mention wasn't nominated for an Oscar. It was submitted by India with 49 other movies from different countries but did not make the final cut.

Penny Marshall's 1992 film about women's professional baseball did not receive any Academy Award nominations. But it did produce one of the most-remembered lines from the movies: "There's no crying in baseball!"

Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for the Best Actor category in 2013.

Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for their roles in Gone with the Wind (1939).

It has happened several times, but perhaps the biggest winner was "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." It was nominated for 11 Oscars for the year 2003 and won in every category, including Best Picture.

Bhanu Athaiya was the First Indian to Get an Oscar. She won the award for the Best Costume Designer for Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi in 1982. Bhanu Athaiya has been associated with the Hindi Film Industry for more than 50 years. She was born as Bhanumati Annasaheb Rajopadhye in Kolhapur in Maharashtra.

The two most nominated films were The Sound of Music and Doctor Zhivago, each with ten nominations. Although both films ultimately won five awards, the winner of Best Picture was 20th Century Fox's and Robert Wise's The Sound of Music, adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical.

Justin Henry was 8 years and 276 days old when he was nominated in 1980 as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979). He broke the record held by Jackie Cooper, who was 9 years and 20 days old when he was nominated in 1931 as Best Actor for his work in the movie "Skippy."

Henry did not win the Oscar, which went to 79-year-old Melvyn Douglas for his performance in "Being There."

Yes. Whitaker won the 2006 Best Actor award for his portrayal of the 1970s Ugandan strongman Idi Ami Dada in the drama "The Last King of Scotland."