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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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Who was the first English actor to win an Oscar?
Jeremy Irons was the last Englishman to win the Best Actor Oscar (Actor In A Leading Role). He won it in 1990 for his role as Claus Von Bulow in "Reversal of Fortune".
Update: Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for There Will Be Blood (2007).
In between the 2 above dates in 1991 Sir Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for best actor in The Silence of the Lambs in the lead role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
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I would offer that Sha-Rock (Sharon Green) from the group the Funky Four Plus One was the 1st female MC's in hip hop.
I would say that the biggest commercial airplay hits at the time with females rapping were Rapture by Blondie and Square Biz by Tina Marie
Who is the fist woman to win Oscar award for the best director?
Kathryn Bigelow won the 2009 Best Director Academy Award for her work on "The Hurt Locker." She also won an Oscar as a producer of the film, which was named Best Picture.
Bigelow was the fourth woman nominated for Best Director, after Lina Wertmuller for "Seven Beauties" (1975), Jane Campion for "The Piano" (1993) and Sofia Coppola for "Lost in Translation" (2003).
Who was the first African American to receive an Oscar?
Sidney Poitier was first to win a Best Actor Oscar for the movie 'Lilies of the Field' (1963)
Who is the first black actrees who won the Oscar awards for best acting?
Halle Berry was the first African-American to win the Best Actress award. She won for her role as Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball (2001). As of 2009, no other African American has won this award.
Dorothy Dandridgewas the first African-American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Carmen Jones (1954)
Other nominees include:
- Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues(1972)
- Cicely Tyson as Rebecca Morgan in Sounder (1972)
- Diahann Carroll as Claudine in Claudine (1974)
- Whoopi Goldberg as Celie Harris in The Color Purple(1985)
- Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
- Gabourey Sidibe as Claireece "Precious" Jones in Precious (2009)
What film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1989?
The Academy Award for Best Picture of 1997 went to Titanic.
The other nominees were:
- As Good As It Gets
- The Full Monty
- Good Will Hunting
- L.A. Confidential
Who beat out jack nicholson in 1992 for the Oscar?
Nicholson was nominated as Best Supporting Actor of 1992 for his performance as Col. Nathan R. Jessep in "A Few Good Men." But the Oscar went to another film veteran, Gene Hackman, who won for his work as a sadistic town sheriff in "Unforgiven."
Who won four Oscars 20 Grammys and two emmys for his musical scores?
John Williams has won five Oscars, 21 Grammys and three Emmys during his brilliant career as a musician.
Fred Astaire won his only Oscar nomination for a small role in what disaster movie?
He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor of 1974 for "The Towering Inferno." The Oscar went to Robert De Niro for his performance in "The Godfather Part II."
What was the 2011 movie of the year?
The Academy Award for Best Picture of 2011 went to "The Artist."
Why Hattie McDaniel was famous?
First African American to win an oscar.
She was the first black performer to win an Academy Award. She won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."
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What film earned Bruce springsteen and Tom Hanks an Academy Award?
Philadelphia. Tom Hanks won best actor & Bruce Springsteen won for the song "The Streets of Philadelphia"
Has Natalie Portman won any other Academy Awards?
Her 2010 Best Actress win for "Black Swan" was her first Academy Award. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress of 2004 for "Closer."
What was the only Jack Lemmon movie with a death scene?
Jack Lemmon's most popular death scene was in The China Syndrome.
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How many people have won EGOTs?
As of October 2019, 15 people have won EGOTs.
That phrasing might be a little misleading. The EGOT isn’t a specific award; it’s an accomplishment. To say that someone “has” an EGOT simply means they’ve won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
Here’s a list of the 15 winners:
- Richard Rodgers
- Helen Hayes
- Rita Moreno
- John Gielgud
- Audrey Hepburn
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Jonathan Tunick
- Mel Brooks
- Mike Nichols
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Scott Rudin
- Robert Lopez
- John Legend
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Tim Rice
The term "EGOT" was invented by Miami Vice actor Philip Michael Thomas, who mentioned the achievement in a 1984 interview. Thomas has not been nominated for any of the awards, but he did commission a gold EGOT pendant, which he wore around his neck (a decision parodied by Tracy Morgan on the sitcom 30 Rock).
To win an EGOT, a celebrity can win any award in any competitive category. Several entertainers who technically have all four awards aren’t typically considered EGOT achievers because they won non-competitive awards (Barbra Streisand, for instance, received a "Star of the Decade" Tony Award in 1970). And while the general consensus is to count Daytime Emmys toward EGOTs (the E in Goldberg’s EGOT, for example, is a Daytime Emmy), there is some contention over whether it should be restricted to the primetime segment of the awards.
It’s also possible to achieve an EGOT posthumously—Audrey Hepburn, for example, completed hers about a year after her death with a 1994 Grammy win for her children’s album Audrey Hepburn’s Enchanted Tales.
More than 40 entertainers are one award away from an EGOT, including Viola Davis, Cher, Common, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, and Helen Mirren.
Girl, Interrupted
Yes, she did say it on Girl, Interrupted, but it is actually a poem by Dorothy Parker known as Resume.
