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On Golden Pond (1981 film)


Thompson's screenplay and Hepburn and Fonda's performances. The film received ten nominations at the 54th Academy Awards including Best Picture and won three: Best Actor (Fonda), Best Actress (Hepburn) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Thompson). Henry Fonda won his only competitive Oscar with this film and at the age of 76 became the oldest winner in the Best Actor category, while Katharine Hepburn won her fourth Best Actress award, extending her own record for the most Oscars won by a thespian. "On Golden Pond"
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Katharine Hepburn


who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. This marked the first instance where the portrayal of an Academy Award-winning actress itself won an Academy Award. Hepburn won four Academy Awards, the record number for a performer, and a total of 12 Oscar nominations for Best Actress—a number surpassed only by Meryl Streep. Hepburn also holds the record for the longest time span between first and last Oscar nominations, at 48 years. She received two awards and five nominations from the British Academy Film Awards, one award
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


sexual themes, and overruled the award's advisory committee, awarding no Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1963. A film adaptation of the play was released in 1966. It was directed by Mike Nichols and starred Elizabeth Taylor as Martha, Richard Burton as George, George Segal as Nick and Sandy Dennis as Honey. All four major actors were nominated for Academy Awards: Taylor and Burton for Best Actress and Actor and Dennis and Segal for Supporting Oscars. Both actresses won – Elizabeth Taylor won the Oscar for Best Actress but Richard Burton
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Sissy Spacek


), and with Diane Keaton and Jessica Lange in 1986's "Crimes of the Heart" (1986). She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for all of these roles, but won her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for the latter. Other performances of the decade included star turns in husband Jack Fisk's directorial debut "Raggedy Man" (1981) and the drama "'night, Mother" (1986). Spacek showed a lighter side by voicing the brain
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Lilies of the Field (1963 film)


who arranged the vocal parts, also dubbed the vocals for Poitier, who is famously tone-deaf. Poitier won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actor, the first African-American to win a Best Actor award and the second African-American to win any Oscar (the first was Hattie McDaniel who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Gone with the Wind"). Poitier also won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was also nominated for Best Actress
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Cate Blanchett on screen and stage


"The Aviator", making her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor. Her only screen appearance in 2005 was in "Little Fish", for which she won the AACTA Award for Best Actress. Blanchett's performance in the 2006 thriller "Notes on a Scandal" garnered her another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 2007, she received both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations for her roles in "" and "I'm Not There", becoming one
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Inequality in Hollywood


Years a Slave. Only 4 African American actors have won Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Halle Berry is the only black actress to have won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Jordan Peele is the only black man to have won an Oscar for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) for the film Get Out, which was in 2018. There is also a disparity in the budgets and box office grosses between films with white and non-white directors, with white director's budgets being higher
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To Kill a Mockingbird


won three Oscars: Best Actor for Gregory Peck, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for Horton Foote. It was nominated for five more Oscars including Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mary Badham, the actress who played Scout. Lee was pleased with the film, "In that film the man and the part met ... I've had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but
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2010 Sundance Film Festival


Bening for Best Actress, Mark Ruffalo for Best Supporting Actor, and Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg for Best Original Screenplay. "Blue Valentine", which screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, was nominated for 1 Oscar: Michelle Williams for Best Actress. "Animal Kingdom", which won the World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic, was nominated for 1 Oscar: Jacki Weaver for Best Supporting Actress. "Exit Through the Gift Shop", which screened in the U.S. Documentary Competition, was nominated for 1 Oscar: Best Documentary
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César Award for Best Actress


two different films. Bérénice Bejo is the only actress to have been nominated for the César Award for Best Actress and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 2012 for The Artist; she won the César but lost the Oscar. Juliette Binoche is the only actress to have won both awards, but for two different performances. Two actresses have won both the Best Actress César and the Best Actress Award of the Cannes Film Festival for the same performance: Isabelle Adjani for "Possession" and Elodie Bouchez for "The Dreamlife
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Eileen Brennan


the 1978 movie, "FM", a comedy-drama about life at a rock-music radio station. In 1980, Brennan received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role as Goldie Hawn's nasty commanding officer in "Private Benjamin". She reprised the role in the television adaptation (1981–1983), for which she won an Emmy (supporting actress) as well as a Golden Globe (lead actress). She had one additional Golden Globe nomination and six Emmy nominations. Brennan received an Emmy nomination for
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University of California, Berkeley


(BA 1961) and Charles H. Ferguson (BA 1978) have each won an Oscar for documentary filmmaking. Mark Berger (BA 1964) has won four Oscars for sound mixing and is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley. Edith Head (BA 1918), who was nominated for 34 Oscars during her career, won eight Oscars for costume design. Joe Letteri (BA 1981) has won four Oscars for Best Visual Effects in the James Cameron film "Avatar" and the Peter Jackson films "King Kong", "
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Serbian Americans


Karl Malden won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor while Steve Tesich was Oscar-winning screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie "Breaking Away." Predrag Bjelac is mostly known for his roles in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and . Catherine Oxenberg is an actress who is a daughter of Princess Jelisaveta Karađorđević, from Karađorđević Dynasty. Darko Tresnjak is a theatre and opera director born in Zemun, who won four Tony Awards in 2014. Charles Simic and
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Maureen Stapleton


Janet Leigh, Paul Lynde and Ann-Margret. Stapleton played the role of Dick Van Dyke's mother, even though she was only five months and 22 days older than Van Dyke. She was nominated again for an Oscar for "Airport" (1970) and Woody Allen's "Interiors" (1978). She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "Reds" (1981), directed by Warren Beatty, in which she portrayed the Lithuanian-born anarchist, Emma Goldman. In her acceptance speech, she
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Lupita Nyong'o


Actress in a Supporting Role, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, including Best Supporting Actress, which she won. She was also awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the sixth black actress to win the award. She is the first African actress to win the award, the first Kenyan actress to win an Oscar, and the first Mexican to win the award. She was the 15th actress to win an Oscar for a debut performance in a feature film. Following a supporting role in the action-thriller
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César Award for Best Actress


in "Fear and Trembing" (2004). In addition, Bérénice Bejo is the only performer in the history of the César to receive an award for a silent role, in "The Artist" (2012). Five actresses have received nominations for both the César Award for Best Actress and the Academy Award for Best Actress: Cotillard is the only woman to have won a Best Actress César and Oscar for the same performance. The other actress to have won both awards is Simone Signoret, but she did it with
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Robert Rossen


Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film "All the King's Men" won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. He won the Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. In 1961 he directed "The Hustler", which was nominated for nine Oscars
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And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going


Effie. Jennifer Holliday originated the role on Broadway in 1981 and won a Tony Award for her performance as well as the Grammy for Best R&B Performance, Female for its re-release in 1982 for which it became a number-one R&B hit for Holliday. Jennifer Hudson portrayed Effie in the 2006 film adaptation of "Dreamgirls", winning an Oscar for the role. Hudson's version became a Top 20 R&B single, and a number-one dance hit. In 1982, Jennifer Holliday, the actress who portrayed Effie
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List of awards and nominations received by Ingrid Bergman


her second David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress. Bergman won three Academy Awards for acting - two for Best Actress, and one for Best Supporting Actress. She ranks tied for second place in terms of Oscars won, with Walter Brennan (all three for Best Supporting Actor), Jack Nicholson (two for Best Actor, and one for Best Supporting Actor), Meryl Streep (two for Best Actress, and one for Best Supporting Actress), and Daniel Day-Lewis (all three for Best Actor). Katharine
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Penelope Milford


she plays a young woman dealing with the effects of war on those around her alongside her friend Sally (Jane Fonda). The film was nominated for many Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for Milford. In 1980 she appeared in the film "The Last Word" also starring Karen Black. She plays a supporting role in the 1981 film "Take This Job and Shove It", starring Barbara Hershey and also in 1981 appears in Franco Zeffirelli's Oscar-nominated "Endless Love"
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The Three Faces of Eve


by Nunnally Johnson. Joanne Woodward won the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first actress to win an Oscar for portraying three personalities (Eve White, Eve Black, and Jane). "The Three Faces of Eve" also became the first film since 1936 to win the Best Actress award without getting nominated in another category after Bette Davis won for "Dangerous" (1935). In 1952, Eve White is a timid, self-effacing wife and mother who has severe and blinding headaches and occasional blackouts
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The Awful Truth


"The Awful Truth". "The Awful Truth" was nominated for six Oscars at the 10th Academy Awards: Best Picture (then called "Outstanding Production"), Best Director (McCarey), Best Actress (Dunne), Best Supporting Actor (Bellamy), Best Writing (Screenplay) (Delmar), and Best Editing (Al Clark). McCarey won for Best Director and editor Clark won for Best Editing. After winning the Oscar, McCarey he said he'd won it for the wrong picture, since
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Mrs. Miniver (character)


bastion of social privilege, anachronistic habits and snobbery in favour of more democratic, modern images. To this end, the social status enjoyed by the Miniver family in the print version was downgraded and increased attention was given to the erosion of class barriers under the pressures of wartime. In 1942, the film won an Oscar in the Best Picture category and both Greer Garson and Teresa Wright won an Oscar in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories respectively. The film grossed $5,358,000 in North America (the highest for any
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List of American films of 1950


with the Wind" (13). Newcomer Judy Holliday won the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of showgirl mistress "Billie Dawn" in the film version of the play "Born Yesterday", a role which she had originated on Broadway. Other Best Actress nominees for that year were Bette Davis and Anne Baxter for "All About Eve", Eleanor Parker for "Caged" and Gloria Swanson for "Sunset Boulevard". José Ferrer won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as the title character in the
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)


being "Cimarron") to be nominated in every eligible category at the Academy Awards. Each of the four actors was nominated for an Oscar but only Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis won, for Best Actress and Supporting Actress, respectively. The film also won the Black and White Cinematography award for Haskell Wexler's stark, black-and-white camera work (it was the last film to win before the category was eliminated), Best Costume Design and for Best Art Direction (Richard Sylbert, George James Hopkins).
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Boys Don't Cry (film)


"Boys Don't Cry" took the liberty of placing Tisdel at the crime scene, albeit without any intention of setting Brandon up. The film won a variety of awards, most of which went to Swank for her performance. Swank won a Best Actress Oscar while Sevigny received a nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actress. From the Hollywood Foreign Press, the film received two Golden Globe nominations in the same two categories (Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress) for Swank and Sevigny, winning Best Actress. Swank and
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Dynasty (1981 TV series)


every year from 1981 to 1986, winning in 1984. Forsythe and Collins were also nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress every year from 1981 to 1986, and Evans was nominated for Best Actress every year from 1981 to 1985. Evans won in 1982 (tying with Barbara Bel Geddes of rival series "Dallas"), Forsythe won in 1983 and 1984, and Collins won in 1983. John James and Gordon Thomson were also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (
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Fred Zinnemann


. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won three, for Best Screenplay (Alvin Sargent), Best Supporting Actor (Jason Robards), and Best Supporting Actress for Redgrave, who drew scattered boos on Oscar night for her "Zionist hoodlums" acceptance speech. Zinnemann thought that Fonda's acting was extraordinary and she also deserved an Oscar. Zinnemann's final film was "Five Days One Summer" (1982), filmed in Switzerland and based on the short story "Maiden, Maiden" by Kay Boyle.
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Michael Curtiz


Best Supporting Actress for the film, said "Curtiz was one of the few directors who knew what he wanted and was able to express himself exactly, even in his amusing Hungarian accent." "Mildred Pierce" was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Only Crawford won, for Best Actress, her first and only Oscar. The novel's author, James M. Cain, gave her a leather-bound copy of "Mildred Pierce", which he inscribed: "To Joan Crawford, who brought Mildred
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Ned Beatty


Neither Beatty nor William Holden, who shared the lead role with Finch, won an Oscar. The other three acting awards besides best supporting actor were swept by "Network" performers: Best Actor for Peter Finch, Best Actress for Faye Dunaway, and Best Supporting Actress for Beatrice Straight. In 1976, he appeared in "All the President's Men", "The Big Bus", "Silver Streak" and "Mikey and Nicky". In 1977, he returned to work with John Boorman in "" (
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Padmini Kolhapure


Padmini Kolhapure (born 1 November 1965) is an Indian actress and singer, who appeared primarily in Hindi films. During her successful career, she received three Filmfare Awards and was a popular actress in the 1980s. Kolhapure, at the age of fifteen, won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the revenge drama "Insaf Ka Tarazu" (1981), and at the age of seventeen, won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for the tragic romance "Prem Rog" (1983), thus
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Arthur (1981 film)


1981. Its title song, "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)", won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Co-written by Christopher Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen, it was performed by Christopher Cross. Sir John Gielgud also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. It was nominated for two other Academy Awards. Arthur Bach is a spoiled alcoholic from New York City, who likes to be driven in his chauffeured Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith limousine through Central
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43rd Academy Awards


public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons." With her Best Supporting Actress win, Helen Hayes became the first performer to win Oscars in both lead and supporting categories (having won Best Actress 38 years before for "The Sin of Madelon Claudet"). She also has the record of having the biggest gap between acting wins. The documentary film "Woodstock" garnered three Oscar nominations, making it the most nominated documentary film in Oscar history. This was the only time since the 2nd Academy Awards that all five nominees
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A Separation


, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. "A Separation" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012, becoming the first Iranian film to win the award. It received the Golden Bear for Best Film and the Silver Bears for Best Actress and Best Actor at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, becoming the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. and the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film. The film was nominated for the Academy
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Silver Linings Playbook


the United States on November 16, 2012. The film opened to major critical success and earned numerous accolades. It received eight Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It became the first film since 1981's "Reds" to be Oscar-nominated for the four acting categories and the first since 2004's "Million Dollar Baby" to be nominated for the Big Five Oscars, with Lawrence winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. It also achieved four Golden Globe Award nominations
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Octavia Spencer


Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her work in "The Help." On February 12, 2012, Spencer won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her Performance in "The Help", and on February 26 she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same performance; it was her first Oscar nomination and first win. Spencer was given a standing ovation at the ceremony, and was moved to tears during her acceptance speech. In June 2012, Spencer was invited to join the Academy
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Oscar love curse


The Oscar love curse or Oscar curse is a superstition that the woman who wins the Academy Award for Best Actress will have her boyfriend, fiancé, or husband cheat on her or divorce her soon after. It has also been applied to the Best Supporting Actress. In their paper published in "Organization Science", Michael Jensen and Heeyon Kim use the "Oscar Curse" to examine the negative consequences of upward mobility following a sudden positive status shift. With an empirical study, the authors find "Oscar nominations/wins have
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Moulin Rouge!


including Best Supporting Actor for Jim Broadbent. The film received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Picture. The film was not nominated for Best Director (Luhrmann); commenting on this during the Oscar ceremony, host Whoopi Goldberg remarked, "I guess "Moulin Rouge!" just directed itself." The film won the awards for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction. "Come What May" (the only original song in the film) was disqualified from nomination for an Oscar because
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Elia Kazan


those factors. In 1954 he again used Brando as a star in "On the Waterfront". As a continuation of the socially relevant themes that he developed in New York, the film exposed corruption within New York's longshoremen's union. It too was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, and won 8, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, for Marlon Brando. "On the Waterfront" was also the screen debut for Eva Marie Saint, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role.
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Peter Shaffer


York Drama Critics' Circle that year as well. His screenplay adaptation of the play was nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in 1978. Shaffer's play "Amadeus" won the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics' Award for its initial London production. Upon moving to Broadway, "Amadeus" won the 1981 Tony Award for Best Play. His screenplay adaptation of the play won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar as well as the Golden Globe Best Screenplay in 1984. Shaffer's play "Lettice and Lovage" was
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Marianne and Juliane


named the film as one of his favourite eleven films of all time in 1994. At the 1981 Venice Film Festival, Trotta won the Golden Lion and the FIPRESCI awards, while the actresses who played the title sisters tied for Best Actress. In 1982, the film won the Outstanding Feature Film Award in West Germany, and Trotta received a special award commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany. At the Créteil Films de Femmes, an International Woman's Film Festival, 1981, the film won the Prix du
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Peggy Ashcroft


" she won a BAFTA award for best actress in 1984, and for her portrayal of Mrs Moore in David Lean's 1985 film "A Passage to India" she won another BAFTA best actress award and the 1985 Oscar for best supporting actress. She was the grandmother of the French singer Emily Loizeau. Ashcroft died from a stroke in London at the age of 83. Her ashes were scattered around a mulberry tree in the Great Garden at New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, which she had planted in 1969.
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Daniel Day-Lewis


Owen Association until her death in 2009. In 2008, when he received the Academy Award for Best Actor from Helen Mirren (who was on presenting duty having won the previous year's Best Actress Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen"), Day-Lewis knelt before her, and she tapped him on each shoulder with the Oscar statuette, to which he quipped: "That's the closest I'll come to ever getting a knighthood." Day-Lewis was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2014
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Peggy Cass


Auntie Mame" on Broadway and in the film version (1958), a role for which she won the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress, and later received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was part of the nine-member ensemble cast for the 1960 Broadway revue "A Thurber Carnival", adapted by James Thurber from his own works. As "First Woman", according to the script, she played the mother in "The Wolf at the Door", a woman who insisted "Macbeth"
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Darren Aronofsky


unexpectedly high $329,398,046. On January 25, 2011, the film was nominated for a total of five Academy Awards; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing. On February 27, 2011, Portman won for Best Actress. The film was awarded the PRISM Award from the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration for its depiction of mental health issues. Aronofsky served as an executive producer on "The Fighter", which was also nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars and won two
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The French Lieutenant's Woman


Wilton and Leo McKern. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Streep was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress and the film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Writing, but both lost to "On Golden Pond". Streep won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for best actress. The film's music and sound both won BAFTAs, despite not winning the Oscar. Pinter was nominated for a Golden Globe for best script and the work as a whole in the category Best Motion Picture – Drama. During 2006
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Anjelica Huston


favored troupe of models, nicknamed the Halstonettes. Huston studied acting in the early 1980s after deciding to focus more on films. Her first notable role was in Bob Rafelson's remake of "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1981). Later, her father cast her as Maerose, daughter of a Mafia don whose love is scorned by a hit man (Jack Nicholson) in the film adaptation of Richard Condon's Mafia-satire novel "Prizzi's Honor" (1985). Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar
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Wendy Hiller


victim of the Mau Mau uprising in "Something of Value" (1957). She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1959 for the film "Separate Tables" (1958), as a lonely hotel manager and mistress of Burt Lancaster. She remained uncompromising in her indifference to film stardom, as evidenced by her surprising reaction to her Oscar win: "Never mind the honour, cold hard cash is what it means to me." She received a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of the
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41st Academy Awards


Courageous") and 1938 ("Boys Town"). The previous year, Hepburn had won Best Actress for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". As the special effects director and designer for "", Stanley Kubrick was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects this year. It was the only Oscar he would ever win. Cliff Robertson's performance in "Charly" was met with a generally mixed reception from critics and audiences. When he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, it engendered
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Imitation of Life (1959 film)


" was the fourth-most successful motion picture of 1959, grossing $6.4 million. "Imitation of Life" was Universal-International's top-grossing film that year, and ranked as Universal's most successful film until the release of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967). Both Moore and Kohner were nominated for the 1959 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the 1959 Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actress. While neither actress won the Oscar, Kohner won the Golden Globe for her performance. Moore won second
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List of awards and nominations received by Emma Stone


Supporting Actress for the film. Stone won the Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Volpi Cup for Best Actress for playing an aspiring actress in the musical "La La Land" (2016). Her portrayal of Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham in "The Favourite" (2017), earned her second Best Supporting Actress nominations for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and BAFTA Awards. The Academy Awards, commonly known as the "Oscars", are a set
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Precious (film)


from critics; the performances of Sidibe and Mo'Nique, the story, and its message were generally praised. The film was a box office success, earning over $63 million on a $10 million budget. "Precious" received six nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Daniels, and Best Actress for Sidibe. Mo'Nique won the award for Best Supporting Actress, while Geoffrey Fletcher won for Best Adapted Screenplay, becoming the first African-American to win a screenplay award at the Oscars.
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Susan Peters (Nigerian actress)


Susan Peters (born 30 May 1980) is a multiple award-winning Nigerian actress with over 50 credits in Nollywood (Nigerian) films. She is a star on Nigerian TV, a successful model, interior designer and beauty salon owner. Recently, she won the 2011 Afro Hollywood Best Actress (English) Award for her role in "Bursting Out", NAFCA Awards (Nollywood and African Film Critics Awards) North Carolina Nigerian Oscars: Best Actress in Supporting Role 2011 the BON (Best Of Nollywood) Best Supporting Actress
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Mercedes Sampietro


Mercedes Sampietro Marro (born 24 January 1947 in Barcelona) is a Spanish actress. Her debut on stage was in 1979, and in cinema, seven years later, with Jaime Chávarri's "A un dios desconocido". She has worked five times with Pilar Miró. In 1981 she won the award for Best Actress at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival for her role in "Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven". She won one Goya Award for Best Actress thanks to her role in Argentinian-Spanish film Lugares
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César Award for Best Actress


modified the nomination rules to ensure that no one could receive more than one individual nomination by category. Eight women have won both the César Award for Best Actress and the César Award for Best Supporting Actress: Nathalie Baye is the only actress with multiple wins in both categories. She is also the only performer to have won an acting César in three consecutive years, in 1981, 1982 and 1983. Three films have received both accolades: "One Deadly Summer" in 1984 (Best Actress to Isabelle Adjani, Best Supporting Actress
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Simone Signoret


, based on Arthur Miller's "The Crucible". In 1958, Signoret acted in the English independent film, "Room at the Top" (1959), which won her numerous awards including the Best Female Performance Prize at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was the only French cinema actress to receive an Oscar until Juliette Binoche in 1997 (Supporting Actress) and Marion Cotillard in 2008 (Best Actress), and the first woman to win the award appearing in a foreign film. She was offered
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This Sporting Life


was Harris's first starring role, and won him the Best Actor Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. He was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Roberts won her second BAFTA award and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Harris was nominated for the BAFTA that year as well. The film opened at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 7 February 1963. Set in Wakefield, the film concerns Frank Machin (Harris) a bitter young coal miner from the West
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Barbra Streisand


; the 1992 Grammy Legend Award and the 1994 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame four times. In 2011, she was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year by the Grammy Foundation for her artistic achievement in the music industry. Streisand has won two Academy Awards (Oscar) against five nominations: two for acting, two for songwriting and one for Best Picture. She won Oscars for Best Actress ("Funny Girl") and Best Original Song ("Evergreen")
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The King and I


Awards and won five, including Best Actor for Brynner, with Kerr nominated for Best Actress. Sharaff won for best costume design. The film was directed by Walter Lang (who was also nominated for an Oscar) and choreographed by Robbins. Marni Nixon dubbed the singing voice of Anna, and Rita Moreno played Tuptim. Saunders as Thiang, Adiarte as Chulalongkorn and Benson as the Kralahome reprised their stage roles, as did dancers Yuriko and de Lappe. Alan Mowbray appeared in the new role of the British Ambassador, while Sir
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California Suite (film)


sets up each of its coconuts and knocks them over with a sure eye, but ultimately it's emotional sushi rather than satisfying catharsis." For her portrayal of an Oscar nominee, Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the "Evening Standard" British Film Award for Best Actress, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, and tied with Ellen Burstyn in "Same Time, Next Year" for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She was
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Mourning Becomes Electra (film)


after it performed poorly at the box office and won no Oscars. It has since been restored to its full length and shown on Turner Classic Movies. An Oscar upset occurred in connection with the film. All who saw it had taken it for granted that Rosalind Russell would win for her performance as Lavinia, to the point that Russell actually began to rise from her seat just before the winner's name was called. However, it was Loretta Young, and not Russell, who was named Best Actress for her performance in
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Ingrid Bergman


was written after her children warned her that she would only be known through rumors and interviews if she did not tell her own story. It was through this autobiography that her affair with Robert Capa became known. Bergman won three Academy Awards for acting - two for Best Actress, and one for Best Supporting Actress. She ranks tied for second place in terms of Oscars won, with Walter Brennan (all three for Best Supporting Actor), Jack Nicholson (two for Best Actor, and one for Best Supporting Actor),
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Cimarron (1931 film)


Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Writing). Additionally, it is one of only two films (the other being "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") to receive nominations in every eligible category. It won for three of them, including Best Picture. It would win the first of only two Best Picture Oscars for the studio, the other being awarded to 1946's "The Best Years of Our Lives". It was the first Western to win the Best Picture award, and it
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Frances McDormand


Kitteridge", co-produced by and starring McDormand. The role won her the Primetime Emmy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. With her Emmy win, McDormand became the 12th actress in history to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting", for competitive Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award wins in the acting categories. McDormand starred in the 2017 film "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri", for which she won her second Academy Award for Best Actress (her statuette was stolen briefly following the awards
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Brooklyn (film)


Michael Collins" opened to $662,000 in November 1996. "The Hollywood Reporter" calculated the film made a net profit of $3–4 million. "Brooklyn" received many nominations for industry and critics awards, including three nominations for the 88th Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actress. Ronan's performance in particular was praised and garnered her Oscar, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, and SAG nominations for best actress. She also won the BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in
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Mary Chase (playwright)


Fay and James Stewart were the most famous actors to portray Elwood P. Dowd. Josephine Hull portrayed his increasingly concerned (and socially obsessed) sister on Broadway originally, and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in the film. Ruth McDevitt, Marion Lorne, Helen Hayes, and Swoosie Kurtz, among other actresses, also portrayed Veta either onstage or on television. James Stewart was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for the film version, but lost out to Jose Ferrer in the 1950 film version of "Cyrano de Bergerac".
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Whoopi Goldberg


The Color Purple", and Best Supporting Actress in 1991 for "Ghost"). For "Ghost", she also won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1991. In February 2002, Goldberg sent her Oscar statuette from "Ghost" to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to be cleaned and replated. During this time, the statuette was taken from its shipping container and later retrieved by the shipping company, UPS. She won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1985 for
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Blanche Yurka


She sought to play O-Lan in the 1937 film "The Good Earth" but lost out to Luise Rainer, who won an Academy Award for her performance. She also lost the role of Pilar in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" to Greek actress Katina Paxinou, who went on to win an Oscar for best supporting actress. Her follow-up to "A Tale of Two Cities" was the lead in a B movie shoot-'em-up, "Queen of the Mob" (1940), in which
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Yang Chia-yun


Miss Calabash" was sent to show in the Edinburgh International Film Festival. This movie also got three nominations in the 18th Golden Horse Awards, best actress and best film original music, and Wang Lai, supporting actress of the movie, won the golden horse award of the best supporting actress. Chia-Yun Yang also tried to direct the works of other subjects, such as a thriller "Who Dare Challenge Me" in 1981 and a horror movie "Exposed to Danger" in 1982. In 1998, Chia-Yun
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David Lean


to "Ryan's Daughter", the film opened to universally enthusiastic reviews; the film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and Lean himself nominated for three Academy Awards in directing, editing, and writing. His female star, in the complex role of a confused young British woman who falsely accuses an Indian man of rape, gained Australian actress Judy Davis her first Academy nomination. Peggy Ashcroft, as the sensitive Mrs. Moore, won the Oscar for best supporting actress, making her, at 77, the oldest actress to win
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Yvonne Cherrie


Yvonne Cherrie (also known as Monalisa, born August 19, 1981) is a Tanzanian actress. In 2010 she won Zanzibar International Film Festival for the 'Best Actress' award. She was also nominated for 2011 Nigeria Entertainment Awards for Pan African Actress Of The Year. She is cited as the one of the best actresses and pioneers in the movie industry of Tanzania. Cherrie was born on August 19, 1981 at Muhimbili, the national hospital of Tanzania. Her mother, Suzan Lewis, is also an actress. She
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54th Academy Awards


competitive Oscar this year, as Best Actor for "On Golden Pond". At 76 years of age, Fonda became the oldest winner in the Best Actor category in Academy history. The only other nomination he received in his career was Best Actor for his performance in "The Grapes of Wrath" 41 years earlier – a record gap between acting nominations. His co-star, Katharine Hepburn, won her fourth Best Actress award, extending her own record for the most Best Actress wins by any actress. This year's
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Richard Brooks


the time. As it had for "Blackboard Jungle" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", controversy accompanied the film's release and helped bring people to theaters. The movie received five Academy Award nominations, including one for best picture, and won Oscars for Lancaster as lead actor, for Shirley Jones as supporting actress, and for Brooks' script. Brooks adapted and directed another Tennessee Williams play, "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1962). Ed Begley won a Best Supporting Oscar for his role in
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Charito Solis


Papa". After her fifth win, in 1984, she became the first actress to be inducted into the FAMAS Hall of Fame. She also won the Gawad Urian Best Actress award in 1979 for "Ina, Kapatid, Anak", and for Best Supporting Actress for in 1981 and 1982 for "Kisapmata" and "Karnal", respectively. In 1984, Solís won Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a narrator in "Karnal" from Philippine Academy of the Philippines (FAP Awards). In the first-
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La La Land (film)


Best Actor (for Gosling), Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, a second nomination for Best Original Song ("Audition (The Fools Who Dream)"), Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing. During the Oscars ceremony, presenter Faye Dunaway incorrectly announced that "La La Land" had won Best Picture, reading from the card Warren Beatty opened, which was actually a duplicate of the Best Actress card for Emma Stone. After the cast and crew of "La La Land
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The Piano


1993, the film won the "Palme d'Or" at the Cannes Film Festival. It won three Academy Awards out of eight total nominations in March 1994: Best Actress for Hunter, Best Supporting Actress for Paquin, and Best Original Screenplay for Campion. Paquin was 11 years old at the time and is the second youngest actor to win an Oscar in a competitive category. An electively mute Scotswoman named Ada McGrath is sold by her father into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman named Alisdair Stewart, bringing her young daughter Flora with
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)


, Best Actress (Taylor), Best Director (Brooks), Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and Best Cinematography, Color (William Daniels). "Cat" may have been too controversial for the Academy voters; the film eventually didn't win any Oscars and the Best Picture award went to "Gigi", another Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, that year. Ives won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "The Big Country" at the same ceremony. The film was a hit
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El Crack (1981 film)


El Crack () is a 1981 Spanish film drama co-written and directed by José Luis Garci, starring Alfredo Landa. José Luis Garci won the Oscar to Best Foreign picture the next year with his next film "Volver a Empezar" ("Begin The Beguine"), the first Oscar won by Spanish cinema. The plot was inspired by the novels written by Dashiell Hammett, to whom the film is dedicated. It is a detective film and basically a Spanish film noir. The whole story takes place in Madrid
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Separate Tables (film)


was nominated for seven Oscars, Best Picture, Best Actress (Kerr), Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography (Black and White), and Best Dramatic or Comedy Score, and won two (Niven for Best Actor and Hiller for Best Supporting Actress). Burt Lancaster was also co-producer (Clifton Productions, a subsidiary of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions). Rita Hayworth was married to James Hill at the time. Rod Taylor agreed to play a small part in the film because of the quality
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I Remember Mama (play)


Dunne); Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Oscar Homolka); Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Barbara Bel Geddes); Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Ellen Corby); and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Nicholas Musuraca). While they did not win any Oscars, Ellen Corby did win the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. In 1979, Richard Rodgers transformed the original play, which he had co-produced with Oscar Hammerstein
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University of California, Berkeley


Oscar-nominated actress Angela Bassett. Randi Mayem Singer (BA 1979) wrote the screenplay for "Mrs. Doubtfire", which starred Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams and Oscar-winning actress Sally Field. Audrey Wells (BA 1981) wrote the screenplay "The Truth About Cats & Dogs", which starred Oscar-nominated actress Uma Thurman. James Schamus (BA 1982, MA 1987, PhD 2003) has collaborated on screenplays with Oscar-winning director Ang Lee on the Academy Award-winning movies "Crouching Tiger,
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Gentleman's Agreement


Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 American drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson's best-selling novel of the same name. It concerns a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to research an exposé on the widespread distrust and dislike of Jews in New York City and the affluent communities of New Canaan, Connecticut and Darien, Connecticut. It was nominated for eight Oscars and won three: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director (Elia Kazan). The movie
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Jessica Lange


Jessica Phyllis Lange (; born April 20, 1949) is an American actress. She is the thirteenth actress in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having won two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, one Tony Award, one Screen Actors Guild Award and five Golden Globe Awards. Additionally, she is the second actress in history to win the Academy Award for Best Actress after winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; the third actress and first performer since 1943 to receive two Oscar nominations within the same year
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The Sea Inside


summary states: "Held aloft by a transfixing performance from Javier Bardem as a terminally ill man who chooses to die, The Sea Inside transcends its melodramatic story with tenderness and grace." The storyline of 2010 Bollywood film Guzaarish is similar to that of "Mar adentro". "The Sea Inside" won the 2004 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the 2004 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and 14 Goya Awards including awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best
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Yūko Tanaka


Best Supporting Actress and one of the Best Newcomer of the Year awards from the Japan Academy. She also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Hochi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Tanaka returned to television drama in late 1981 with the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) series about three office ladies (OL) reaching their 25th birthdays. The series, which also starred Masako Mori and Yūko Kotegawa, ran from September to December 1981. In May 1982, Tanaka starred in the film directed by
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Katherine Helmond


God Brown". She was nominated for an Emmy for her role on "Soap" four times in a row (1978–1981) as Best Actress in a Comedy Series. In 1988 and 1989, she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on "Who's the Boss?". In 2002, she was nominated as Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in "Everybody Loves Raymond". She was nominated for Emmy awards seven times. She had won two Golden Globe awards
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Glenn Close


plays a younger version of Joan Castleman's character. Close won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress. She earned her seventh Academy Award nomination, her fourth time being nominated in the Best Actress category, which has made her the most nominated actress without a win. She was widely expected to win the Oscar due to her aforementioned wins, but ultimately lost
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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte


maintains a rating of 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 20 reviews. "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" received Academy Award nominations for the following: Moorehead won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Farrell and Heller won a 1965 Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. The title song became a hit for Patti Page, who took it to no. 8 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The film's seven Oscar nominations were the most for
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1970s in film


Best Score (Bernard Herrmann), and Best Picture. "All the President's Men" dealt with the impeachment of Richard Nixon, while Lumet's "Network" portrayed greed and narcissism in both American society and television media. The film won Oscars for Best Actor (Peter Finch), Best Actress (Faye Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight), and Best Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky). Thanks to a stellar cast, experienced director, and a poignant story, "Network" became one of the
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Purge (2012 film)


Purge () is a 2012 Finnish drama film directed by Antti Jokinen, based on the novel of the same name by Sofi Oksanen. The film was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make it to the final shortlist. At the 2013 Jussi Award, the film received eight nominations, including Best Film, Best Direction and Best Costume Design. It won Best Actress for Birn, Best Supporting Actress for Liisi Tandefelt, along with Best Cinematography, Best
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Cate Blanchett


Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female nomination; and the biographical film "Veronica Guerin", which earned her a Golden Globe Best Actress Drama nomination. In 2005, she won her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her acclaimed portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator". This made Blanchett the first actor to win an Academy Award for portraying an Academy Award-winning actor. She lent her Oscar statuette to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. That year, Blanchett won the Australian Film
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Jessica Lange


in second place for the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress. She became the second actress in history, after Meryl Streep, to follow up a Best Supporting Actress Oscar win with a Best Actress Oscar win, an achievement not repeated until nearly twenty years later by Cate Blanchett. In 1995, she followed her victory with further critically lauded performances in "Losing Isaiah", opposite Halle Berry, and
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Margaret Leighton


-Between" (1970), Leighton won the British BAFTA Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received a BAFTA nomination for Best British Actress for her role as Valerie Carrington in "Carrington V.C." (1955). She received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for "The Go-Between". Leighton had three husbands: publisher Max Reinhardt (1947–55); actor Laurence Harvey (1957–61); and actor Michael Wilding (1964–76), her death). She had no children. She was appointed a
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Academy Juvenile Award


Worker" and in 1963, was nominated for and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the film, becoming the youngest actress at the time to ever win an Academy Award of merit and for the first time, proving that a juvenile could win in a competitive category. From this point onward, child actors were recognized in the same categories as their adult counterparts, or not at all. , a total of only three minors (including Duke) have won Oscars, all in the Best Supporting
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Lindsay Doran


are too cynical to believe in romance." Thompson fit Doran's criteria for a good screenwriter, despite the actress never having written a screenplay before. The resulting production of "Sense and Sensibility" earned Thompson an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making her the only person to have won an Oscar for both her writing and acting (Thompson won the Best Actress award for "Howards End", in 1993). Along with producing, Doran had a small cameo in the film as a maid. In 1996 Doran
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Grace Kelly


suit her role in the film. She was initially dressed in fashionable dresses, but this wardrobe changed to ordinary-looking cardigans and "house dresses" toward the end of the film. As a result of her performance in "The Country Girl", Kelly was nominated for and ultimately won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Her main competitor was Judy Garland for her performance in "A Star Is Born". After receiving the Oscar nomination, Kelly won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actress for her
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2010 Sundance Film Festival


indieWire noted the 15 nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards that came from 9 films from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. "Winter's Bone", which won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, was nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Jennifer Lawrence for Best Actress, John Hawkes as Best Supporting Actor, and Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Best Adapted Screenplay. "The Kids Are All Right", which screened in the Premieres category, was nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Annette
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The English Patient (film)


the love affair he was involved in before the war. The film was released to critical acclaim, and received 12 nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, winning nine, including Best Picture, Best Director for Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress for Juliette Binoche. It was also the first to receive a Best Editing Oscar for a digitally edited film. Ralph Fiennes, playing the titular character, and Kristin Scott Thomas were Oscar-nominated for their performances. The film also won five BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globes. The British
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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress


Big Family", and "Volver". The jury also on occasion cites actresses with a special citation that is separate from the main award. The award can be for lead or supporting roles with the exception of the period from 1979 to 1981, when the festival used to award a separate "Best Supporting Actress" prize. Isabelle Adjani is the only actress to ever win the award for two films in one festival, which she did in 1981. Barbara Hershey won the award consecutively in 1987 and 1988. ‡ -
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Sheila Florance


. Florance was the only original actress who was cast without an audition; Watson saw her photograph and her list of credits, and offered her the role. Initially, Lizzie was a background role, but by 1980 had become a main character alongside Doreen (Colette Mann) and Bea Smith (Val Lehman), and Florance became a household name. She won two Logie Awards; as Best Lead Actress in a Series in 1981, and Best Supporting Actress in a Series in 1983. She was with the show from episode
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