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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.
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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.
Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1989?
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of 1989 went to Ireland's Brenda Fricker for her performance in "My Left Foot."
How many Australian actors have won Oscars?
The first man to win an Academy Award (Oscar) was Emil Jannings. He won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1929 for his work in The Way of All Flesh and The Last Command.
He was also the first person to win an Oscar since Best Actor was the first award presented that night.
What actresses were nominated for best actress in 1993?
The 1999 Best Actress nominees were:
Annette Bening, American Beauty
Julianne Moore, The End of the Affair
Meryl Streep, Music of the Heart
* Hilary Swank, Boys Don't Cry
Janet McTeer, Tumbleweed
Who won the Oscar for Scientific and Technical - Gordon E. Sawyer Award - in 1992?
Erich Kaestner won the Oscar for Scientific and Technical - Gordon E. Sawyer Award - in 1992.
Which film was the 1980 Academy Award winner for Best Picture?
The Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Picture in 1980 went to Ordinary People. It beat Coal Miner's Daughter, Tess, The Elephant Man and Raging Bull.
The movie showed the devastating results of the accidental drowning of the older son on an upper-middle class suburban family (led by parents Mary Tyler Moore and Donald Sutherland), and in particular, the tragedy's effects on the remaining suicidal and tormented son (Timothy Hutton), even with the aid of a psychiatrist (Judd Hirsch). The film's unsentimental story was adapted from Judith Guest's highly-regarded 1976 novel by Alvin Sargent.
It also won Best Director (Robert Redford in his directorial debut), Supporting Actor (Timothy Hutton) and Adapted Screenplay.
The Best Picture of 1980 was "Ordinary People," which marked Robert Redford's debut as a film director.
It was Robert Redford's directorial debut, "Ordinary People." Redford won the Best Director Oscar for his efforts.
Ordinary People won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1980.
Which directors have won more than 1 Oscar?
The first number is their wins; the number in parentheses is their nominations.
- 4 : John Ford (5)
- 3 : William Wyler (12)
- 3 : Frank Capra (6)
- 2 : Billy Wilder (8)
- 2 : David Lean (7)
- 2 : Fred Zinnemann (7)
- 2 : Steven Spielberg (6)
- 2 : Elia Kazan (5)
- 2 : George Stevens (5)
- 2 : Clint Eastwood (4)
- 2 : Frank Lloyd (4)
- 2 : Joseph L. Mankiewicz (4)
- 2 : Miloš Forman (3)
- 2 : Leo McCarey (3)
- 2 : Lewis Milestone (3)
- 2 : Oliver Stone (3)
- 2 : Robert Wise (3)
- 2 : Frank Borzage (2)
Who played in silence of the lamb?
The main cast included: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine and Brooke Smith.
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Meryl Streep
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How many Oscars were won by John Wayne?
John Wayne won 1 Academy Award in 1970.
He was nominated in 1961, 1950, and 1970. He did not win the first two times.
