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In Sweden, there was never any law against women appearing on stage, as it was in other countrys in Europe; nor did the other Nordic countries have such a law. However, Sweden's first theater, Bollhuset in Stockholm, (oppened in 1667) only employed foreign theatre troups, mostly from France or Germany, and with the exeption of an al male student troup in 1686-1691, neither male nor female native actors performed there. The perhaps first female actor in the foreign troups was Ariana Nozeman in the 1650s.

The very first native actors most likely performed in travelling troups, but they did not perform in the official stages and there names are unknown.

The nobility performed in amateur performances in Bollhuset in the 1720s, but it was not until 1737, that the first Swedish speaking theatre troup, made of native actors, was allowed to perform in Bollhuset. Acording to the sources, they were made of "students, secretarys and chamber maids".

In the first performances in April, the female parts were made by men, but in May, two women were hired to play two of the four female parts in a play on the 25 May, and in June, two more was hired. Of the two hired in May, one was soon fired and her name does not appear to be known, but the other one played the leading female part of Lotta Enterfelt in the first Swedish speaking original play on Bollhuset in october 1737, "Den Svenska Sprätthöken". Her name was Beata Sabina Straas, and she is considered to be Sweden's first known professional native actress.

Beata Sabina Straas, who's birth-year are unknown, was the sister of a footman at the royal court and had ben the chamber maid of two ladies-in-waiting, which was a good experience when she played the part of Lotta Enterfelt, who were a noblewoman; she knew how to act to perform the part of a noblewoman, and was admired for her unblushing grace and a posture that were better than the German actresses though worse than the French ones. She was newly married tho a servant and known as madame Åberg. She reitred only two yeras afterward and run a coffee-house with her husband before they were, in 1745, again emplyed at court, were she remained as a house-keeper until her death in 1773.

This first Swedish speaking theatre was closed in 1753, when the Sweish actors was replaced with a French troup, and was not until 1773, that Sweden had a permanent theatre in its native language. Many Swedish actors of the 1740s are known only in name, the female ones less known than the male; the two actresses hired in June 1737 are only known as "Miss Lund" and "miss Wijkman". In 1740, four actresses were hired; Anna Maria Göttling, Brita Christina Schenbohm, Anna Lindbohm and Susanna Catharina Steenberg. The most known of the female actresses from this period was Elisabeth Lillström and Margareta Maria Fabritz, who coninued their carees outside of Bollhuset after 1753.

The development in the other Nordic countrys was similar, though it took longer in Norway and Finland, as these countries was under foreign rule; the first national theatre, that emplyed native actors, was founded in Denmark in 1748, the first femle actors their being Caroline Thielo and Lisbeth Cathrien Amalie Rose; a public Danish speaking theatre had existed temporarily in 1722-1728 but excisted of French actors trying to speak Danish. In Finland, Swedish theatre troups had toured in the 1750s, and the first public theatre was founded in 1827, whos first female star was Maria Sylvan; however, as the upper-classes in Finland, due to the long history under Swedish rule, only spoke Swedish, the Finnish language was not accepted on stage until the 1860s, launched by a Swedish actress, Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm. In Norway, the first theatre in Oslo was founded in the 1770s but closed the same year; newer projects was launched the following years, and the first permanent stage was founded in 1837, though the city of Bergen got it's first theatre in 1800. Norwegian actresses worked in travelling theatre troups in both Norway and Sweden in the 18th century, but it was not until the later half of the 19th century that they were considered good enough to appear at the national stage in Oslo (founded in 1837), were first mostly Danish actors dominated.

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1927and 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in Los Angeles , California.

Sketchers

Oscar , voiced by Will Smith , is a bluestreak cleaner wrasse .

For best actress in the movie Requiem for a Dream.

Both Diane Ladd and her daughter Laura Dern received Oscar nominations for their performances in the 1991 film "Rambling Rose." Dern was nominated for Best Actress; Ladd for Best Supporting Actress.

The cast of The Best of Torvill and Dean - 1984 includes: Jayne Torvill as Herself - Performer

George C. Scott was never complimentary of the Academy Awards, and once referred to the ceremony as "a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons."

When he earned his first-ever nomination, a 1959 Best Supporting Actor nod for "Anatomy of a Murder," Scott apparently tolerated recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It was a different story two years later, when he again was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, this time for the 1961 drama "The Hustler." He declined the nomination because of his dislike of Oscar competition and campaigns.

It all came to a head in the spring of 1970, when Scott began receiving critical praise for his performance in the biopic "Patton" as U.S. Army Gen. George S. Patton, a hero of World War II. Appearing on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," Scott was asked what he would do if he received another Oscar nomination. The actor responded that he would decline it, too.

Sure enough, when the 1970 Oscar field was revealed several months later, Scott received a nomination for Best Actor. He sent a telegram to the Academy, declaring his intention to decline the award and not attend the ceremony. True to his word, Scott was not in attendance on April 15, 1971, when presenter Goldie Hawn announced that he had won the Best Actor award.

Interestingly, Scott was nominated for Best Actor a year later for his performance in "The Hospital," a 1971 black comedy by Paddy Chayefsky. The veteran actor didn't show up that time, either.

This could describe either Polonius or Claudius.

William Wyler has a record 12 nominations, with three wins.

Marty (1955).

The film was called Network.

At the 86th Academy Awards ceremony on March 2, 2014, John Ridley won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for "12 Years a Slave," the film that was named Best Picture of 2013. The drama was based on the 1853 autobiography of Simon Northup, a free Northern black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Ridley became the second African-American writer to win the award in that category. In 2010, Geoffrey Fletcher became the first African-American nominee to win a screenwriting Oscar. He won the Best Adapted Screenplay award for "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."

Edmund Gwenn won the 1947 Best Supporting Actor award for his performance as Kris Kringle in "Miracle On 34th Street."

The 64th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992. The film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture that night was The Silence of the Lambs. The film won an overall 5 Academy Awards that year.

Sean Connery is far far cooler. Jack Nicholson is an old bag of STDs.

That's easy: Titanic, the 1997 Best Picture winner, is the highest grossing film of all time.

Yes. It was nominated for four and won one for "Best Visual Effects".

"Dances with Wolves" won in 1990. "Birdman" won in 2014.

No. The late boyfriend of Princess Diana was an executive producer of "Chariots of Fire," the Best Picture winner of 1981. But the film's only award recipient for the top Oscar was producer David Puttnam.

It was the movie "The Iron Lady"

t's Complicated (2009) Jane

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) (voice) Mrs. Fox

Julie & Julia (2009) Julia Child

Doubt (2008/I) Sister Aloysius Beauvier

Mamma Mia! (2008) Donna Sheridan

Lions for Lambs (2007) Janine Roth

Rendition (2007) Corrine Whitman

Evening (2007) Lila Ross

Dark Matter (2007/I) Joanna Silver

The Ant Bully (2006) (voice) Queen

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Miranda Priestly

The Music of Regret (2006) The Woman

A Prairie Home Companion (2006) Yolanda Johnson

Prime (2005) Lisa Metzger

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) Aunt Josephine

The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Eleanor Shaw

The Hours (2002) Clarissa Vaughan

Adaptation. (2002) Susan Orlean

Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) (voice) Blue Mecha

Music of the Heart (1999) Roberta Guaspari

Chrysanthemum (1999) (voice) Narrator

One True Thing (1998) Kate Gulden

Dancing at Lughnasa (1998) Kate 'Kit' Mundy

First Do No Harm (1997) (TV) Lori Reimuller

Marvin's Room (1996) Lee

Before and After (1996) Dr. Carolyn Ryan

The Bridges of Madison County (1995) Francesca Johnson

The River Wild (1994) Gail Hartman

The House of the Spirits (1993) Clara del Valle Trueba

Death Becomes Her (1992) Madeline Ashton

Defending Your Life (1991) Julia

Postcards from the Edge (1990) Suzanne Vale

She-Devil (1989) Mary Fisher

Rabbit Ears: The Fisherman and His Wife (1989) (V) Storyteller

Evil Angels (1988) Lindy Chamberlain

The Tailor of Gloucester (1988) Narrator

Ironweed (1987) Helen Archer

Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1987) (voice) Storyteller

Rabbit Ears: The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1987) (voice) Storyteller

Heartburn (1986) Rachel Samstat

Plenty (1985) Susan Traherne

Out of Africa (1985) Karen Blixen

Falling in Love (1984) Molly Gilmore

Silkwood (1983) Karen Silkwood

Sophie's Choice (1982) Sophie Zawistowski

Still of the Night (1982) Brooke Reynolds

Alice at the Palace (1982) (TV) Alice

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) Sarah / Anna

Kiss Me, Petruchio (1981) (TV) Katherine

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Joanna Kramer

The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) Karen Traynor

Uncommon Women… and Others (1979) (TV) Leilah

Manhattan (1979) Jill

The Deer Hunter (1978) Linda

Julia (1977) Anne Marie

The Deadliest Season (1977) (TV) Sharon Miller

Secret Service (1977) (TV) Edith Varney

Everybody Rides the Carousel (1975) (voice) Stage 6

Marlon Brando.

yes, he won one for "the Departed"