Which two-time Academy Award nominee and one-time Emmy Award winner starred in a film that was shot in Flint, Michigan?
Woody Harrelson Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor, activist, and playwright. He is a two-time Academy Award nominee and has won one Emmy Award out of seven nominations. His breakout role came in 1985, joining the television sitcom "Cheers" as bartender Woody Boyd, for which he earned five Emmy Award nominations (one win). Some notable film characters include basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in "White Men Can't Jump", one-handed bowler Roy Munson in "Kingpin", Haymitch Abernathy in "The Hunger Games" film series, Pepper Lewis in "The Cowboy Way", Tallahassee in "Zombieland", serial killer Mickey Knox in "Natural Born Killers", magazine publisher Larry Flynt in "The People vs. Larry Flynt", country singer Dusty in "A Prairie Home Companion", and magician/mentalist Merritt McKinney in "Now You See Me" and the Colonel in "War for the Planet of the Apes".
68th Academy Awards The 68th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1995 in the United States and took place on March 25, 1996, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Quincy Jones and directed by Jeff Margolis. Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the second time, having previously presided over the 66th ceremony in 1994. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Richard Dreyfuss.