What was the first foreign film to win an Oscar?
Several actors (male and female) have won acting Oscars for foreign language performances, but not all of those performances were part of a foreign film, so the first female actor to win an acting Oscar for a foreign-language film was Sophia Loren, and the first male actor was Roberto Benigni.
Who were English actors and actresses to win an Oscar in the last ten years?
The last four actors to win Oscars received their awards on 03/07/2010:
Who is the youngest winner of the Oscar for Best Actor?
Adrian Brody, 29, for The Pianist (2002). I have to mention Timothy Hutton. He was 20 when he won for Ordinary People (1980). Though obviously the lead role in the movie, he was nominated for Supporting Actor, to avoid competition with Robert de Niro (who won for Raging Bull).
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1995?
Nicolas Cage won his only Oscar to date in 1995 for Leaving Las Vegas.
What Oscars did Mel Gibson win?
Mel Gibson won two Academy Awards for Braveheart: Best Picture and Best Director.
As an actor, Mel Gibson has never won an Academy Award nor been nominated for one.
PCH: Best Director
best diretor
In which month are the annual Academy Awards held?
Since 1929, the Academy Awards ceremony has been held in the months of February, March, April, May and November. But in recent years, the event has been conducted in February or March, despite hints by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that it will move the awards to January.
The 87th Oscars ceremony will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015.
Who sat next to Meryl Streep at the Oscars?
It was her brother, Henry who sat next to her at the oscar.
How many Academy Award nominations did Walt Disney receive during his lifetime?
Walt Disney was nominated 59 times and won 22 awards, more than any individual in Oscars history, 3 additional special awards and one honorary award. He won as producer for (including all 4 in 1953!): Short Subject (cartoon): Flowers and Trees, The Three Little Pigs, The Tortoise and the Hare, Three Orphan Kittens, The Country Cousin, The Old Mill, Fredinand the Bull, The Ugly Duckling, Lend a Paw, Der Fuehrer's Face, Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (the last won posthumous). [12] Short Subject: Seal Island, In Beaver Valley, Nature's Half Acre, Water Birds, Bear County, Grand Canyon. [6] Documentary (feature): The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie. [2] Documentary (short subject): The Alaskan Eskimo, Men Against the Arctic. [2] * He received a special award for: The creation of Mickey Mouse, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Fantasia. [3] ** And was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg award. He was nominated only once as producer of a Best Picture nominee, for Mary Poppins.
Did Casablanca win the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Yes. The Humphrey Bogart-Ingrid Bergman classic was named the Best Picture of 1943.
Does Meryl Streep still smoke?
Well I know she use to smoke back in 2004 , there is a picture , check out the link . Now maybe she stoped or maybe it was just a smoke because she was stressed out , anyways check it out . on simplystreep.com , at her AFI tribute, she has cigarette in one of these pictures
What Puerto Rican actress won a 1961 Academy Award for playing anita in west side story?
Rita Moreno, she also won the academy award for best supporting actress for West Side Story 1961.
What were hattie mcdaniel major accomplishments?
Hattie Mcdaniel was the first black woman to sing on the radio. She was also the first black woman to win an Oscar(she played the role of "mammy" in Gone With The Wind).
What films won Oscars for Nick Park?
The British master of stop-motion animation has won four Academy Awards -- three for Best Animated Short Film and one for Best Animated Feature Film. The Animated Short winners were "Creature Comforts" (1990), "The Wrong Trousers" (1993) and "A Close Shave" (1995). Park won the 2005 Animated Feature award for "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit."
Nomination in the Oscars for the Best Foreign Film in 2002?
The nominees were: "Nowhere in Africa" (Germany); "The Crime of Father Amaro" (Mexico); "Hero" (China); "The Man Without a Past" (Finland); and "Zus and Zo" (the Netherlands). The Oscar was awarded to "Nowhere in Africa."
What Tri Star film won five out of eighteen Academy Award nominations?
Wilson, How Green Was My Valley, It Happened One Night, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mary Poppins, Gladiator, Terms of Endearment, The Aviator, The Artist, The Sound of Music, Saving Private Ryan, Hugo, Braveheart, Doctor Zhivago, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The King and I, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Deer Hunter, Raiders of the Lost Ark, American Beauty, The French Connection, Around the World in 80 Days, The Silence of the Lambs, In the Heat of the Night and The Bad and the Beautiful.
What film earned Francis Ford Coppola his first Oscar for screenwriting?
John Ford won his first Academy Award for Best Director for The Informer (1935).
1935 (8th) * DIRECTING -- The Informer [statuette]
1939 (12th) DIRECTING -- Stagecoach
1940 (13th) * DIRECTING -- The Grapes of Wrath [statuette]
1941 (14th) * DIRECTING -- How Green Was My Valley [statuette]
1952 (25th) * DIRECTING -- The Quiet Man [statuette]
BEST MOTION PICTURE -- The Quiet Man [John Ford and Merian C. Cooper, Producers]
How many Oscars did Gone With the Wind win?
The classic film Gone with the Wind won nine Academy Awards: Best Actress (Vivian Leigh), Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel), Best Director (Victor Fleming), Best Picture, Editing, Screenplay, Art Direction, and Cinematography. R.D. Musgrave won an award for Technical Achievement, as well. It was also nominated for Original Score, Sound, and Best Actor (Clark Gable). The movie also received two special awards for color and for equipment projection.
Did the green mile win any oscars?
None.
In the 2000 Academy Awards the movie was nominated for four awards (Best Picture, Best Actor In A Supporting Role, Best Writing- Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced or Published, and Best Sound) but won none of them.
Who was the first person an Academy Award Oscar to himself?
Walt Disney announced himself as the winner for Best Animated Short in 1932, and Irving Berling announced himself as the winner for Best Song in 1942.
Who won the most Academy Awards for Best Actor?
1975 Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 Peter Finch, Network
1977 Richard Dreyfuss, The Goodbye Girl
1978 Jon Voight, Coming Home
1979 Dustin Hoffman, Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 Robert de Niro, Raging Bull
1981 Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond
1982 Ben Kingsley, Gandhi
1983 Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies
1984 F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus
1985 William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman
1986 Paul Newman, The Color of Money
1987 Michael Douglas, Wall Street
1988 Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot
1990 Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune
1991 Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs
1992 Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman
1993 Tom Hanks, Philadelphia
1994 Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump
1995 Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas
1996 Geoffrey Rush, Shine
1997 Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets
1998 Roberto Benigni, Life Is Beautiful
1999 Kevin Spacey, American Beauty
2000 Russell Crowe, Gladiator
2001 Denzel Washington, Training Day
2002 Adrien Brody, The Pianist
2003 Sean Penn, Mystic River
2004 Jamie Foxx, Ray
2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
2006 Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
2008 Sean Penn, Milk
2009 Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Use the link below and you'll arrive at a site where all the winners are listed.
Who won the Oscar for best actress in 1954?
The Oscar for Best Actress of 1954 went to Grace Kelly (later Princess Grace of Monaco) for "The Country Girl."
The Oscar for Best Actress of 1954 went to Grace Kelly (later Princess Grace of Monaco) for "The Country Girl."
For which films did Steven Spielberg win the best Director Oscars?
he has directed
E.T
Jaws
Close encounters of the third kind
Schindlers list
raiders of the lost ark
Indiana Jones and the temple of doom
the last crusade
Jurassic park 1,2 and 3
saving private Ryan
hook
A.I
minority report
war of the worlds
munich
and Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull is in theaters may 2008.
Who won the 2001 Best Actor Oscar?
The Academy Award for Best Actor of 2003 went to Sean Penn for his performance as the distraught father of a murdered teenager in "Mystic River." He won the 2008 Best Actor award for his portrayal in "Milk" of real-life San Francisco politician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk.