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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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What songs were nominated for Oscars in 1983?
Video of the Year
* Beyoncé - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
* Eminem - "We Made You"
* Lady Gaga - "Poker Face"
* Britney Spears - "Womanizer"
* Kanye West - "Love Lockdown"
Best Male Video
* Eminem - "We Made You"
* Jay-Z - "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)"
* Ne-Yo - "Miss Independent"
* T.I. (featuring Rihanna) - "Live Your Life"
* Kanye West - "Love Lockdown"
Best Female Video
* Beyoncé - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
* Kelly Clarkson - "My Life Would Suck Without You"
* Lady Gaga - "Poker Face"
* Katy Perry - "Hot N Cold"
* Pink - "So What"
* Taylor Swift - "You Belong with Me"
Best New Artist
* 3OH!3 - "Don't Trust Me"
* Drake - "Best I Ever Had"
* Kid Cudi - "Day 'n' Nite"
* Lady Gaga - "Poker Face"
* Asher Roth - "I Love College"
Best Pop Video
* Beyoncé - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
* Cobra Starship (featuring Leighton Meester) - "Good Girls Go Bad"
* Lady Gaga - "Poker Face"
* Britney Spears - "Womanizer"
* Wisin & Yandel - "Abusadora"
Best Rock Video
* Coldplay - "Viva la Vida"
* Fall Out Boy - "I Don't Care"
* Green Day - "21 Guns"
* Kings of Leon - "Use Somebody"
* Paramore - "Decode"
Best Hip-Hop Video
* Eminem - "We Made You"
* Flo Rida - "Right Round"
* Jay-Z - "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)"
* Asher Roth - "I Love College"
* Kanye West - "Love Lockdown"
Breakthrough Video
* Anjulie - "Boom"
* Bat for Lashes - "Daniel"
* Chairlift - "Evident Utensil"
* Cold War Kids - "I've Seen Enough"
* Death Cab for Cutie - "Grapevine Fires"
* Gnarls Barkley - "Who's Gonna Save My Soul"
* Major Lazer - "Hold the Line"
* Matt and Kim - "Lessons Learned"
* Passion Pit - "The Reeling"
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll"
Best Direction in a Video
* Beyoncé - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Director: Jake Nava)
* Cobra Starship (featuring Leighton Meester) - "Good Girls Go Bad" (Director: Kai Regan)
* Green Day - "21 Guns" (Director: Marc Webb)
* Lady Gaga - "Paparazzi" (Director: Jonas Ã…kerlund)
* Britney Spears - "Circus" (Director: Francis Lawrence)
Best Choreography in a Video
* Beyoncé - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Choreographers: Frank Gatson and JaQuel Knight)
* Ciara (featuring Justin Timberlake) - "Love Sex Magic" (Choreographers: Jamaica Craft and "Marty")
* Kristinia DeBarge - "Goodbye" (Choreographer: Jamaica Craft)
* A.R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls (featuring Nicole Scherzinger) - "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)" (Choreographers: Robin Antin and Mikey Minden)
* Britney Spears - "Circus" (Choreographer: Andre Fuentes)
Best Special Effects in a Video
* Beyoncé - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Special Effects: VFX Effects and Louis Mackall V)
* Eminem - "We Made You" (Special Effects: Ingenuity Engine)
* Gnarls Barkley - "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" (Special Effects: Gradient Effects and Image Metrics)
* Lady Gaga - "Paparazzi" (Special Effects: Chimney Pot)
* Kanye West (featuring Mr Hudson) - "Paranoid" (Special Effects: Wizardflex and Ghost Town Media)
Best Art Direction in a Video
* Beyoncé - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Art Director: Niamh Byrne)
* Coldplay - "Viva la Vida" (Art Director: Gregory de Maria)
* Gnarls Barkley - "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" (Art Director: Zach Matthews)
* Lady Gaga - "Paparazzi" (Art Director: Jason Hamilton)
* Britney Spears - "Circus" (Art Directors: Laura Fox and Charles Varga)
Best Editing in a Video
* Beyoncé - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)
* Coldplay - "Viva la Vida" (Editor: Hype Williams)
* Miley Cyrus - "7 Things" (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)
* Lady Gaga - "Paparazzi" (Editors: Danny Tull and Jonas Ã…kerlund)
* Britney Spears - "Circus" (Editor: Jarrett Fijal)
Best Cinematography in a Video
* Beyoncé - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" (Director of Photography: Jim Fealy)
* Coldplay - "Viva la Vida" (Director of Photography: John Perez)
* Green Day - "21 Guns" (Director of Photography: Jonathan Sela)
* Lady Gaga - "Paparazzi" (Director of Photography: Eric Broms)
* Britney Spears - "Circus" (Director of Photography: Thomas Kloss)
Best Video (That Should Have Won a Moonman)
* Beastie Boys - "Sabotage"
* Björk - "Human Behaviour"
* Dr. Dre - "Nuthin' but a "G" Thang"
* Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
* George Michael - "Freedom! '90"
* OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"
* Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Into the Great Wide Open"
* Radiohead - "Karma Police"
* David Lee Roth - "California Girls"
* U2 - "Where the Streets Have No Name"
Best Performance in a Pepsi Rock Band Video
The following have received nominations for "Best Performance in a Pepsi Rock Band Video":
* Blaq Star - "Shining Star"
* Nerds in Disguise - "My Own Worst Enemy"
* One (Wo)Man Band - "Bad Reputation"
* The Sleezy Treezy - "Here It Goes Again"
* Synopsis - "The Kill"
Best Breakout New York City Artist Award
The following have received nominations for "Best Breakout New York City Artist Award":
* MeTalkPretty
* Red Directors
* The Shells
How many Oscar-winning Best Pictures featured Clark Gable?
Clark Gable won one (1) Academy Award (Oscar).
- Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Nominated Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Won Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for: It Happened One Night (1934) In 1996, Steven Spielberg anonymously purchased Clark Gable's Oscar to protect it from further commercial exploitation, gave it back to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, commenting that he could think of "no better sanctuary for Gable's only Oscar than the Motion Picture Academy".
How many Oscars did the movie Wall E win?
Five. "Up" won Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature of 2009 and Best Original Score (Michael Giacchino). The Disney-Pixar film also was nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Achievement in Sound Editing.
Hattie McDaniel, "Gone With the Wind" (1939). The Civil War.
Who is youngest female actress to be nominated for an Academy Award?
Youngest actress to be nominated for Best Actress is Keisha Castle-Hughes (age 13) in Whale Rider.
The youngest actresses to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress (all age 10) are Abigail Breslin, Mary Bedham, Quinn Cummings and Tatum O'Neal.
How many Oscars has reese witherspoon won?
Rebecca (1940) won two Academy Awards (Oscars).
- Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - George Barnes
- Best Picture
Also nominated for
- Best Actor in a Leading Role - Laurence Olivier
- Best Actress in a Leading Role - Joan Fontaine
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Judith Anderson
- Best Art Direction, Black-and-White - Lyle R. Wheeler
- Best Director - Alfred Hitchcock
- Best Effects, Special Effects - Jack Cosgrove (photographic) and Arthur Johns (sound)
- Best Film Editing - Hal C. Kern
- Best Music, Original Score - Franz Waxman
- Best Writing, Screenplay - Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison
What tv series did Holly Hunter play in?
Holly Hunter stars in the TNT series, Saving Grace. It's the story of an Oklahoma City police officer whose guardian angel comes to save her from herself. Hunter won an Emmy for her portrayal of Grace Hanadarko, a hard-drinking, hard-living woman who seems to be self-destructing.
First deaf actress Academy Award?
Marlee Matlin won Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God (1986).
It was the film adaptation of the musical "Chicago."
Who was Oscars leading role actor nominated 1941?
Nominated for the Academy Award for, "Best Male Actor," for 1950 are:
Humphrey Bogart, in The African Queen
Marlon Brando, in A Streetcar Named Desire
Montgomery Clift, in A Place in the Sun
Arthur Kennedy, in Bright Valley
Frederic March, in Death of a Salesman
THE WINNER IS: Humphrey Bogart, in The African Queen
What movies were nominated for picture of the year in 2008?
The Academy Award nominees for Best Picture of 2008 were: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"; "Frost/Nixon"; "Milk"; "The Reader"; and "Slumdog Millionaire." The Oscar went to "Slumdog Millionaire."
What's the name of the last movie of Silence of the Lambs?
I think you mean Hannibal Rising (2007)?
Thomas Harris published four novels that feature the Hannibal Lecter character. First was Red Dragon (1981), and the first movie based on it, Manhunter (1986). In Manhunter, the Hannibal Lecter character is played by Brian Cox, not Anthony Hopkins. The second movie that was based on Red Dragon(which is also titled Red Dragon) came out in 2002. Red Dragon (2002) stars Edward Norton, and Anthony Hopkins plays Hannibal Lecter.
Harris published the Silence of the Lambs in 1988. The movie came out in 1991. Then came Hannibal the novel (1999) and Hannibal the movie (2001). Hannibal Rising, the novel, came out in 2006, and Hannibal Rising the movie came out the next year (2007).
How many Welsh people have won an Oscar Award?
Many - lots and lots of Brits people have won Oscar awards.
Best Director winners from the United Kingdom:
- Richard Attenborough,
- Danny Boyle,
- David Lean,
- Sam Mendes,
- Anthony Minghella,
- Carol Reed,
- Tony Richardson, and
- John Schlesinger
Best Actor winners from the United Kingdom:
- George Arliss,
- Kenneth Branagh,
- Michael Caine,
- Ronald Colman,
- Daniel Day-Lewis,
- Robert Donat,
- Ralph Fiennes,
- Colin Firth,
- Alec Guinness,
- Rex Harrison,
- Nigel Hawthorne,
- Anthony Hopkins,
- Jeremy Irons,
- Ben Kingsley,
- Charles Laughton,
- Jude Law,
- Ian McKellen,
- Victor McLaglen,
- Ray Milland,
- David Niven,
- Laurence Olivier,
- Paul Scofield,
- Richard Todd,
- Tom Wilkinson
Best Actress winners from the United Kingdom:
- Vivien Leigh,
- Joan Fontaine,
- Greer Garson,
- Olivia de Havilland,
- Audrey Hepburn,
- Elizabeth Taylor,
- Julie Andrews,
- Julie Christie,
- Maggie Smith,
- Glenda Jackson,
- Jessica Tandy,
- Emma Thompson,
- Helen Mirren,
- Kate Winslet
Best Supporting Actor winners from the United Kingdom:
- Jim Broadbent,
- Michael Caine,
- Sean Connery,
- Donald Crisp,
- John Gielgud,
- Hugh Griffith,
- Edmund Gwenn,
- John Mills,
- George Sanders, and
- Peter Ustinov
Best Supporting Actress winners from the United Kingdom:
- Peggy Ashcroft,
- Judi Dench,
- Wendy Hiller,
- Vanessa Redgrave,
- Margaret Rutherford,
- Maggie Smith,
- Tilda Swinton,
- Rachel Weisz, and
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
How many times have mammoty been nominated for national awards for best actor?
AwardsWinsNominationsNational Film Awards44Kerala State Film Awards99Filmfare Awards South98IIFA Awards11Star Screen Awards11Asianet Film Awards88Annual Malayalam Movie Awards(Dubai)23Kerala Film Critics Awards7NilVanitha Film Awards5NilOther Awards38Nil
Mohanlal has won a number of awards please see table.
Who won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1952?
The Academy Award for Best Actor for 1959 went to Charleton Heston for Ben-Hur. The film was also nominated and won for ten other Academy Awards. They were for Actor in a Supporting Role (Hugh Griffith), Directing (William Wyler), Sound Effects, Sound, Art Direction, Costume Design, Editing, Music, Cinematography and Best Picture.
The Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1959 was Charlton Heston in the movie "Ben-Hur"
How old is Sean Maguire in good will hunting?
when Sean Mcgee sad-fully passed he was thirty seven rip Sean mcgee
Who selects nominees for the Oscar Awards?
There are only about 3000 seats in the Kodak Theatre (which is where the Academy Awards are held) so the invitations are extremely exclusive. Not even all of the members of the actual Academy are invited. For someone not directly involved in the film industry to have the opportunity to attend, you'd need to be the guest of someone who was invited.
What Sequence of events during a battalion awards ceremony?
Formation of troops, commander's remarks, Honors to the Nation, Awards ceremony, and conclusion.
Did Kirk Douglas ever win an Oscar?
No. He was nominated twice, in 1972, as Supporting Actor in "The French Connection" and 1980, as Best Actor for "All That Jazz." He lost to Ben Johnson for "The Last Picture Show" in 1972, and to Dustin Hoffman for "Kramer Vs. Kramer" in 1980
Who won the Oscars for best actress by African Americans?
Sidney Poitier was the first African American man to win an academy award. He was nominated for the Best Actor award, and he won for his role in Lilies of the Field(1963).
Denzel Washingtonwas the second African American to win Best Actor. He won for his role in Training Day(2001). He had previously been nominated in the Best Actor category for The Hurricane in 1999 and Malcolm X in 1992.
Jamie Foxx was the third African American to win Best Actor for his role as Ray Charles in Ray (2004). He was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role of the cab driver in Collateral(2004).
Are the Oscars just for movies and actors?
Oscars are also presented in scientific and technical caterories. They cover things like discovering substances, processes and gadgets that make the filmmaking smoother and more reaiistic.These ceremonies are held a few weeks before the "Big Night."
Did Dolores del Rio win an Oscar?
Doris Day has won a number of awards during the course of her lengthy career: Golden Globes, an Oscar nomination, an honorary Grammy, six Gold Records, the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes, and the highest civilian honor in the nation (U.S.), the Presidential Medal of Honor.
Which movie earned Tom Hanks his third Oscar nomination?
As of 03/07/2010, Tom Hanks has not yet been nominated three years in a row.
He was nominated for Philadelphia in 1993 and Forest Gump in 1994. He won both of those nominations, but he was not nominated in 1992 or 1995. In 1992, he appeared in A League of Their Own, and in 1995 he appeared in Apollo 13.
He was nominated for Saving Private Ryan in 1998 and for Cast Away in 2000, but he was not nominated in 1999. In 1999, he appeared in You've Got Mail and The Green Mile.
- Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Big (1988)
- Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Philadelphia (1993) WINNER
- Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Forrest Gump (1994) WINNER
- Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Saving Private Ryan(1998)
- Best Actor in a Leading Role for: Cast Away (2000)
All of his nominations have been in the Best Actor category; however, he is also a producer of films, and it still remains possible that he will one day be nominated three years in a row.
Did midnight cowboy win an Oscar?
1972.
The Answer of this question is not 1972, in fact this movie is the only x-rated movie to win an Oscar for Best-Pic in 1969, director John Schlesinger also won the Oscar for Best-Dir that year.
The Godfather has won this category in the 1972 Academy Award presentation.
