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Moonstruck Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and written by John Patrick Shanley. It is about a widowed, 37-year-old, Italian-American woman who falls in love with her fiancé's estranged, hot-tempered younger brother. The film was released on December 16, 1987 in New York City, and then nationally on January 15, 1988. It was nominated for six Oscars at the 60th Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Cher), and Best Supporting Actress (Olympia Dukakis). Thirty-seven-year-old Loretta Castorini, an Italian-American widow, lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York, with her family: father Cosmo; mother
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awards and nominations for her work in films. She was nominated six times for the Golden Globe Awards, winning it three times; in 1974 for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy, in 1983 for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for her role in "Silkwood" and in 1987 for Best Actress in a Comedy for her role in "Moonstruck". She was also nominated twice for the Academy Award, in 1984 for her role in "Silkwood", and in 1987, when she won the Best Actress award for her role in "Moonstruck". Cher filmography Throughout her acting career, Cher has
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effort, during which Spike Lee at one point told him "Whatever you wanna do, you do." Aiello went on to write a crucial scene he shared with John Turturro ten minutes prior to its production. The role earned him nominations for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as film critic awards from Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles. Aiello has also portrayed more sympathetic characters. He gained recognition as the befuddled fiancé of Cher opposite her Oscar-winning performance in the romantic comedy "Moonstruck" (1987), and the actor made a comic appearance in drag
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Moonstruck Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and written by John Patrick Shanley. It is about a widowed, 37-year-old, Italian-American woman who falls in love with her fiancé's estranged, hot-tempered younger brother. The film was released on December 16, 1987 in New York City, and then nationally on January 15, 1988. It was nominated for six Oscars at the 60th Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Cher), and Best Supporting Actress (Olympia Dukakis). Thirty-seven-year-old Loretta Castorini, an Italian-American widow, lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York, with her family: father Cosmo; mother
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films: the thriller "Suspect", with Dennis Quaid and Liam Neeson; the film has been credited for the high quality of acting despite the severe loopholes of the story. In particular, Cher, in the lead role, has received positive reviews. The fantasy film "The Witches of Eastwick", with Jack Nicholson, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer; and the romantic comedy "Moonstruck" with Nicolas Cage and Olympia Dukakis. "Moonstruck" is also her most commercial success to date, grossing over $80 million in the United States alone. During 1989–1991, Cher refused many roles, like "The War of the Roses", "Thelma & Louise" and "The
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the comedy horror "The Witches of Eastwick". In Norman Jewison's romantic comedy "Moonstruck", she played an Italian widow in love with her fiancé's younger brother. The two latter films ranked among the top ten highest-grossing films of 1987, at number ten and five, respectively. "The New York Times"' Janet Maslin wrote "Moonstruck" "offers further proof that Cher has evolved into the kind of larger-than-life movie star who's worth watching whatever she does." For that film, Cher won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. By 1988, Cher
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The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 27, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Shirley Jones. "The Last Emperor" won nine awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Bernardo Bertolucci. For their performances in "Moonstruck, "Cher and Olympia Dukakis won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. Michael Douglas won Best Actor for his role in "Wall Street"; Sean Connery won Best Supporting Actor for "The Untouchables". The telecast garnered 42.2 million viewers in the United States. , this is the most recent Academy Awards ceremony to take place in April. The nominees
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(1985), Liam Neeson's mute homeless veteran in "Suspect" (1987), and Nicolas Cage's socially isolated baker with a wooden hand in "Moonstruck" (1987). Film critic Kathleen Rowe wrote of "Moonstruck" that the depiction of Cher's character as "a 'woman on top' [is] enhanced by the unruly star persona Cher brings to the part'". For "Moonstruck", Cher was ranked 1st on "Billboard"'s list of "The 100 Best Acting Performances by Musicians in Movies", and her performance was described as "the standard by which you mentally check all others". "Moonstruck" was acknowledged by the American Film Institute as the eighth best romantic comedy
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Olympia Dukakis Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931) is a Greek American actress. She started her career in theater, and won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her Off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's "Man Equals Man". She later transitioned to film acting, and in 1987, she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA nomination for her performance in "Moonstruck". She received another Golden Globe nomination for "Sinatra", and Emmy Award nominations for "Lucky Day", "More Tales of the City", and "Joan of Arc". Dukakis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Alexandra ("née"
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Zorich from 1962 until his death on January 30, 2018. They have three children. She is the cousin of Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic nominee for president. Olympia Dukakis Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931) is a Greek American actress. She started her career in theater, and won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her Off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's "Man Equals Man". She later transitioned to film acting, and in 1987, she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA nomination for her performance in "Moonstruck". She received another Golden Globe nomination for "Sinatra",
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he played the venerable Jorge de Burgos. He had a major role in "Inferno" (1980). One of his most memorable roles was as the perplexed grandfather in "Moonstruck" (1987), starring Cher. The producers, in deciding whether to hire him for the role, sought the advice of Sean Connery, who is reputed to have said, "He's great, but he will steal the show." Chaliapin also played the role of Leonides Cox, Robert De Niro's father in "Stanley & Iris" (1990). His last notable film role was as Professor Bartnev in "The Inner Circle" (1991), a true story about Soviet Russia under
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the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 chart-topping singles "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", "Half-Breed", and "Dark Lady". After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, she launched a comeback in 1979 with the disco album "Take Me Home" and earned $300,000 a week for her 1980–1982 concert residency in Las Vegas. In 1982, Cher made her Broadway debut in the play "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" and starred in its film adaptation. She subsequently earned critical acclaim for her performances in films such as "Silkwood" (1983), "Mask" (1985), and "Moonstruck" (1987), for which she won the
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Fonda, Meg Tilly and Anne Bancroft; it eventually received three Academy Award nominations. Jewison's next film proved to be one of the most popular romantic films ever made. "Moonstruck" (1987), starring Cher, was a box office hit that garnered three Academy Awards, including Cher as Best Actress. It also competed for the Oscar for Best Picture, and provided Jewison his third Best Director nomination. For the next decade Jewison continued to direct feature films released by major studios: "In Country" (1989), a drama concerned with Vietnam veterans and the daughter of a war casualty; "Other People's Money" (1991), a social
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daunting Elizabeth is one of the film's utmost treats". The following year, she was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, winning both the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. On her Oscar win, Dench joked on-stage, "I feel for eight minutes on the screen, I should only get a little bit of him." Also in 1999, Dench won the Tony Award for her 1999 Broadway performance in the role of Esme Allen in Sir David Hare's "Amy's View". The same year, she co-starred along with Cher, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, and Lily
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and "Moonstruck", for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She also played the role of Anna Madrigal in the "Tales of the City" television mini-series, which garnered her an Emmy Award nomination, and appeared on "Search for Tomorrow" as Dr. Barbara Moreno, who romanced Stu Bergman. She appears as Dolly Sinatra in the mini-series of Frank Sinatra's life (1992). Her Broadway theatre credits include "Who's Who in Hell", "Social Security", and the one-woman play "Rose". Her theater, film, and television work has also won her an Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Los Angeles Drama Critics
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comedy songs composed for her at the Gaiety, Oscar Straus's music was too demanding for her small voice, and she was sent to New York to star in the Broadway production of "The Girls of Gottenberg". After she returned to London, some of Millar's biggest successes were still in front of her. They included the title role of the hit Gaiety musical, "Our Miss Gibbs" (1909), with Millar introducing the songs "Moonstruck", "Yorkshire", and "Our farm", all written for her by Monckton. Monckton and Millar then moved to Edwardes' newest theatre, the Adelphi, where she played the title role, Prudence
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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. Saint recalls that Kazan selected her for the role after he had her do an improvisational skit with Brando playing
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to the rafters. The film was only nominated in the Best Film and Best Editing categories, not even its star, Ronald Colman getting an Oscar nod. 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
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is also number 72 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies," and number 41 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Influential film critic Roger Ebert entered the film to his "Great Movies" collection in June 2003. Moonstruck Moonstruck is a 1987 American romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and written by John Patrick Shanley. It is about a widowed, 37-year-old, Italian-American woman who falls in love with her fiancé's estranged, hot-tempered younger brother. The film was released on December 16, 1987 in New York City, and then nationally on January
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acclaim and many accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, making her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor. In 2013, she starred in "Blue Jasmine", for which she won many accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. Blanchett is one of only six actors, and the only female actor, to receive Academy Award nominations for portraying the same role in two films, accomplished with her performance as Queen Elizabeth I. She is additionally the only Australian to win two acting Oscars. A seven-time Oscar nominee, she has also
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on hold — her livelihood too — for her lover". There are many actresses who have portrayed "Chandramukhi" in film adaptations of "Devdas". The first notable award was won by Vyjayanthimala in 1956 when she won the Filmfare Awards, known as Bollywood's Oscar, in the Supporting Actress category. However, she was also the first person to decline the award, as she thought that her role was not a supporting one but was of equal importance and parallel to that of Parvathy in the 1955 version. Other actresses who played Chandramukhi in Hindi versions of the novel have also won this
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mob will kill Eadie in revenge. Despondent, Eadie slips her police escort and wanders alone on the beachfront, where she is murdered. Later that night, Reles is thrown out the window by an assassin. Joey avenges his wife's death by testifying against Lepke, who is executed. The film was the screen debut of Sylvia Miles, Seymour Cassel and Sarah Vaughan. Vincent Gardenia, who later became an acclaimed actor for his performance in "Moonstruck", plays a small role. Twentieth Century-Fox based "Murder, Inc." on a 1951 book of the same title by Burton Turkus, former District Attorney of New York, and
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Betty" (2000), she won her first Golden Globe Award, and for her portrayals of Bridget Jones in "Bridget Jones's Diary" (2001)—a role she reprised in "" (2004) and "Bridget Jones's Baby" (2016)— and Roxie Hart in "Chicago" (2002), she garnered two consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Actress; she won her second Golden Globe for the latter. Zellweger won the Oscar, the Golden Globe and the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her role of a farmer in the American Civil War context in "Cold Mountain" (2003). She played the wife of boxer James J. Braddock in "Cinderella Man" (2005)
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was a box office success worldwide. Kidman was originally set to star in the post-World War II German drama, "The Reader", working with previous collaborators Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella, but due to her pregnancy prior to filming she had to back out. The role went to Kate Winslet, who ultimately won the Oscar for Best Actress, which Kidman presented to her during the 81st Academy Awards. Kidman appeared in the 2009 Rob Marshall musical "Nine", portraying the Federico Fellini-like character's muse, Claudia Jenssen. She was featured alongside fellow Oscar winners Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz and
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from generation to generation. I saw it as more about love and its destructive power. The Holocaust is a metaphor for this recurring cycle of pain." Jacqueline Bisset, who plays the mother, says: "Boaz asked me to play the role of the mother in the film as if she were a wild animal, and in other scenes to play her as moonstruck. This combination is one of the things about the film that captivated me." It was filmed in 25 days in New York City. The film first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008. In 2008, it
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Streisand in her debut film, "Funny Girl" (1968). Both of these performances won Academy Awards. He directed Olivia de Havilland to her second Oscar in "The Heiress" (1949) and Laurence Olivier in "Wuthering Heights" (1939), for his first Oscar nomination. Olivier credited Wyler with teaching him how to act for the screen. And Bette Davis, who received three Oscar nominations under his direction and won her second Oscar in "Jezebel" (1938), said Wyler made her a "far, far better actress" than she had ever been. Other popular Wyler films include: "Hell's Heroes" (1930), "Dodsworth" (1936), "The Westerner" (1940), "The Letter"
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part that took me away from the Jenny Fields, Sarah Coopers—good, nurturing women roles. I did more preparation for that film than I've ever done." Close received her fourth Oscar nomination for this role and also won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture Actress. She played a scheming aristocrat, the Marquise de Merteuil, in 1988's "Dangerous Liaisons". Close earned stellar reviews for this performance, and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. In addition, she received her first BAFTA nomination but did not win. Close's final film role of the decade was "Immediate Family" (1989), a drama
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published in 1997. "Pollyanna" has been adapted for film several times. Some of the best known are Disney's 1960 version starring child actress Hayley Mills, who won a special Oscar for the role, and the 1920 version starring Mary Pickford. The title character is Pollyanna Whittier, a young orphan who goes to live in the fictional town of Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy but stern and cold spinster Aunt Polly, who does not want to take in Pollyanna but feels it is her duty to her late sister. Pollyanna's philosophy of life centers on what she calls "The Glad Game,"
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in Darren Aronofsky's 2010 film "Black Swan", a role of which critic Kurt Loder wrote: "Portman gives one of her most compelling performances in this film, which is saying something." To prepare for the role, she went through five to eight hours of dance training each day for six months and lost . In 2011, she won the Golden Globe Award, the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. After Portman's Oscar win, controversy arose over who performed the bulk of the on-screen dancing in
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"Hidden Figures," a film about African-American mathematicians at NASA who were critical to its success in the 1960s in the Space Race, and who each had careers there. She played mathematician and human computer Dorothy Vaughan. The role garnered her a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance and earned Spencer a second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, making her the only black actress to follow up an Oscar victory with another nomination, having previously won for "The Help". In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Spencer bought out a Los
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Susan Kohner Susanna "Susan" Kohner (born November 11, 1936) is an American actress who worked in film and television. She is best known for her role as Sarah Jane in "Imitation of Life" (1959), for which she was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award. She played a light-complexioned woman who "passed" for white as a young adult. After Kohner married menswear designer and writer John Weitz in 1964, she retired from acting to devote time to her family. Her two sons, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, have both become film directors, screenwriters, and occasional actors. Kohner
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(1957). She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1959 for the film "Separate Tables" (1958), as a lonely hotel manageress 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 domineering, possessive mother in "Sons and Lovers" (1960). She reprised her London stage role in the southern gothic "Toys in the Attic" (1963), which earned her a
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original Revue Love and "Sex on the High Holidays" with Israeli singer Ivri Lider. Among other roles, Dohan played Layla in "God's Sandbox" (2002 Manchester film festival winner), and Efrat in "Giraffes" (2003 Scottsdale Arizona Film Festival winner) – roles that earned her the Israeli Oscar nomination. Dohan recently co-wrote a movie script, "Orgy by Heart", along with Maayan Keret, which is in its early stages of production. In her latest TV series production, "Ugliest Esti", Dohan plays the central comedy role, Nataly. The series won the TV Oscar for Best Comedy Series award in 2003, and Dohan won an
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her mixed race background, be the person who brings Ravenal and Magnolia back together again after a separation of only a few years rather than twenty. And it was Freed who cast Ava Gardner in the role of Julie. Two of his films won the Academy Award for Best Picture: "An American in Paris" and "Gigi". On the night that "An American in Paris" won Best Picture, Freed received an Honorary Oscar, and his version of "Show Boat" was also up for two Oscars that year, though it lost both to "An American in Paris". "Singin' in the Rain" (1952),
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the 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). The film also was the recipient of twelve nominations at the 49th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Thompson), and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (for Winslet). In addition, the film won the Golden Bear at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival, making Lee the first director to win this twice. Despite the recognition given to the film,
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playing an Oscar-winning actor. She lent her Oscar statue to The Australian Centre for the Moving Image. That year, Blanchett won the Australian Film Institute Best Actress Award for her role as Tracy Heart, a former heroin addict, in the Australian film "Little Fish", co-produced by her and her husband's production company, Dirty Films. Though lesser known globally than some of her other films, "Little Fish" received great critical acclaim in Blanchett's native Australia and was nominated for 13 Australian Film Institute awards. In 2006, she starred opposite Brad Pitt in the multi-lingual, multi-narrative ensemble drama "Babel", directed by Alejandro
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The Evening Star The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy-drama film and a sequel to Academy Award for Best Picture-winning "Terms of Endearment", starring Shirley MacLaine, who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway, for which she won an Oscar for playing in the original film. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. The screenplay is by Robert Harling, who also served as director. The story takes place about fifteen years after the original, following the characters from 1988 to 1993. It focuses on Aurora's relationship with her three grandchildren, her late daughter Emma's best friend Patsy and her longtime
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poverty. Ursula Parrott Katherine Ursula Towle (March 26, 1900 – September 1957) better known by her pen name Ursula Parrott, was an American writer of romantic fiction stories and novels. Parrott's first novel, "Ex-Wife", was published in 1929, and was subsequently adapted for film as "The Divorcee" starring Norma Shearer (who won an Oscar for her role) in 1930. Shearer also starred in an adaptation of the 1930 "Strangers May Kiss". Her novel "Next Time We Live" was adapted for film as "Next Time We Love" in 1936. Parrott was married four times. Her marriage to the journalist Lindesay Marc
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Ursula Parrott Katherine Ursula Towle (March 26, 1900 – September 1957) better known by her pen name Ursula Parrott, was an American writer of romantic fiction stories and novels. Parrott's first novel, "Ex-Wife", was published in 1929, and was subsequently adapted for film as "The Divorcee" starring Norma Shearer (who won an Oscar for her role) in 1930. Shearer also starred in an adaptation of the 1930 "Strangers May Kiss". Her novel "Next Time We Live" was adapted for film as "Next Time We Love" in 1936. Parrott was married four times. Her marriage to the journalist Lindesay Marc Parrott
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It is a craftily contrived piece of silliness enacted by competent and attractive people: Laugh In's Goldie Hawn, Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman in that order of laudability." In her first major film role, Goldie Hawn, once described by "Time" as the "dizzy cream puff who is constantly blowing her lines [on "Laugh-In"]", was praised in that same magazine for being "a natural reactress; her timing is so canny that even her tears run amusingly". Hawn's performance in "Cactus Flower" won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, her sole Oscar to date. The film presently has a score
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prominently in the program. For her performance as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), and scoffs at Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), McDaniel won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first black American to win an Oscar. She was the first black American to have been nominated. "I loved Mammy," McDaniel said when speaking to the white press about the character. "I think I understood her because my own grandmother worked on a plantation not unlike Tara." Her role in "Gone with the Wind" had alarmed some whites in the South;
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portrayed the playwright Lillian Hellman in "Julia", receiving positive reviews from critics. Gary Arnold of the "Washington Post" described her performance as "edgy, persuasive and intriguingly tensed-up," commenting further, "Irritable, intent and agonizingly self-conscious, Fonda suggests the internal conflicts gnawing at a talented woman who craves the self-assurance, resolve and wisdom she sees in figures like Julia and Hammett." For her performance, Fonda won her first BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and received her third Best Actress Oscar nomination. During this period,
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Circle Award, and a Golden Globe. Dukakis won Academy Award and a Golden Globe for "Moonstruck" and was nominated for the Canadian Academy Award for "The Event". She provided the voice of Grandpa's love interest for "The Simpsons" episode "The Old Man and the Key". In 2003, Dukakis published her national bestselling autobiography "Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress". Recent films include "3 Needles", "", "In the Land of Women", and "Away From Her", the 2006 film which cast her alongside Gordon Pinsent as the spouses of two Alzheimers patients. In 1998, she starred as Charlotte Kiszko in
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performance, making her the first person in Academy Award history to win an Oscar when a parent and a grandparent had also won one. She also earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a con artist in Stephen Frears' "The Grifters" (1990). She starred as the lead in her father's final directorial film, "The Dead" (1987), an adaptation of a James Joyce story. She was then cast as Morticia Addams in the hugely successful 1991 movie adaptation of "The Addams Family." In 1993, she reprised the role for the sequel "Addams Family Values". She also starred in
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an Emmy in 1966 for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama for four episodes of "Dr. Kildare". Her final TV performance was in the first season of "" where she played Queen Arra in the episode "." For her film role as Mrs. Maudsley in "The Go-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
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Fickett as Eleanor Roosevelt; Anne Seymour as Sara Delano Roosevelt and, in his Broadway debut, James Earl Jones. Bellamy repeated his role in the film version of the play, but was not Oscar-nominated for his performance, though Greer Garson was Oscar-nominated for her performance as Eleanor. The production won three other Tonys including Best Play (producers were Lawrence Langner, Theresa Helburn, Armina Marshall and Dore Schary), Best Director of a Play (Vincent J. Donehue) and Henry Jones won for Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Mary Fickett was nominated for Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a
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for Best Actress for playing a female boxer in Clint Eastwood's 2004 film "Million Dollar Baby", a role for which she underwent extensive training in the ring and weight room gaining 19 pounds of muscle, aided by professional trainer Grant L. Roberts. With her second Oscar, she had joined the ranks of Vivien Leigh, Sally Field and Luise Rainer as the only actresses to have been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress twice and won both times. After winning her second Oscar, she said, "I don't know what I did in this life to deserve this. I'm just a
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elimination, River Plate still had strong chances of winning the "Clausura", and battled head-to-head with Estudiantes de La Plata and eventually won, with Ahumada playing a key role along with Ariel Ortega, Juan Pablo Carrizo and young prospect Diego Buonanotte. Ahumada was part of the Argentina squad that won the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship on home soil. Oscar Ahumada Oscar Adrián Ahumada (born 31 August 1982) is a former Argentine football midfielder who last played for All Boys in the Primera División. Born in Zárate, Buenos Aires, Ahumada made his professional debut with Club Atlético River Plate on 24
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In 1998 she starred as the Fairy Godmother in the ITV pantomime "Jack and the Beanstalk", alongside actors Neil Morrissey, Adrian Edmondson, Paul Merton, Denise van Outen and Julian Clary. From 1998 until 2000 she played Petula Gordino in Victoria Wood's BBC sitcom "Dinnerladies". In 2001, Walters won a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Arthur Miller's "All My Sons". She received her second Oscar nomination and won a BAFTA for her supporting role as the ballet teacher in "Billy Elliot" (2000). In 2002, she again won a BAFTA for her performance as Paul Reiser's mother in "My Beautiful
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nomination for "Uncle Vanya". Watson was virtually unknown until director Lars von Trier chose her to star in his controversial "Breaking the Waves" (1996) after Helena Bonham Carter dropped out. Watson's performance as Bess McNeill won her the Los Angeles, London and New York Critics' Circle Awards, the US National Society of Film Critics' Award for Best Actress, and an Oscar nomination. Watson came to public notice again in another controversial role, as cellist Jacqueline du Pré in "Hilary and Jackie", for which she learned to play the cello in three months, and received another Oscar nomination. She also played
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The Palestinian The Palestinian is a 66-minute TV documentary from 1977. It was produced by and starred Vanessa Redgrave, and directed by Roy Battersby. The film was to be shown at the Doheny Plaza theatre in Los Angeles. The morning before a showing, on June 15, 1978 at 4.26 a.m., a bomb exploded in front of the theatre. A member of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) was later convicted for the incident. That same year, Vanessa Redgrave was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscar ceremony for her role in "Julia". She won the Oscar, and in her acceptance
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portrayed by Anthony Head. While the film was met with mixed reviews, Streep's performance was widely acclaimed, and considered to be one of the greatest of her career. She received her 17th Oscar nomination for her portrayal and ultimately won the award, 29 years after her first Best Actress win. She also earned her third Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama award (her eighth Golden Globe Award win overall), and her second BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and the BAFTA Award for
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then learned the role in English and made her Broadway debut in 2012, reprising her role in July 2017. Ryoko Yonekura Yonekura studied classical ballet for 15 years from the age of five. Represented by the Oscar Promotion agency, she won a national young beauty award in 1992. In 1993, she started her career as a model, working for fashion magazines such as "CanCam". She announced her intention to start her acting career in June 1999. Her acting debut was in the TBS television drama "Koi no Kamisama" (God of Love), and has appeared in many dramas ever since. Yonekura
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a "samurai who must be faithful to an unworthy master". Oscar has appeared in the Animage top 50 character list as recently as 1992. Susan J. Napier described Oscar as a "truly complex and three-dimensional figure who offered young Japanese women a different kind of role model", citing her influence in Utena Tenjo of "Revolutionary Girl Utena". In 2007, a manga series called "" was serialised in "Chorus" and was compiled into one volume. It told the story of an office lady who is inspired by the character of Oscar to defy her managers. It was adapted into a six
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magazine, Time Out Kuala Lumpur. In a short period of time, the band were able to release a couple of singles. "Despite Everything" is about the struggles of a long-distance relationship, another song called "Moonstruck", like its predecessors, is well-acclaimed by listeners and critics around the music circuit. In the same year, Stargazer EP was born. It is a collection of their early songs and singles sans Moonstruck. The album is distributed by an American independent record label, Jigsaw Records, available for download in digital form The Strange Creatures won the Wanderband 2015. By winning this competition, they were able
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the ITV comedy-drama series "At Home with the Braithwaites" and in 2002, she featured in the serial "The Jury" and contributed "Sonnet 142" to the compilation album "When Love Speaks". For Stephen Frears' "The Queen" (2006), she was cast in the role of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother with Dame Helen Mirren who, as her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, won an Oscar for her performance. She also appeared in "The Poseidon Adventure" (2005), an American TV film with a negligible connection to the 1972 feature film. She has also taken up producing and directing. In 2009, she appeared in the
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of charge, to the opening ceremony of the Soto Grande Hotels in 1978. Later, in Taipei, he spoke on the phone with Gina Lolabrigida, attempting to lore her to the opening of the Ritz Taipei Hotel, one of the top properties in his string of successful launches. For whatever reason, that fell through, but he had a back-up plan. He easily got Anne Parillaud, the young “Brooke Shields” of Paris (who later won the French Oscar for her lead role in "Nikita") to come instead. At the time, she was 19 and was considered the new Brigitte Bardot. Although he
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California. She was interred in the family plot in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Her ashes were buried in the grave of her mother, Gladys Belzer. Loretta Young Loretta Young (born Gretchen Young; January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1947 film "The Farmer's Daughter" and received an Oscar nomination for her role in "Come to the Stable" in 1949. Young moved
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writers, such as Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. Together they changed the style of the historical romance. "Devil's Desire" and her second novel "Moonstruck Madness", each sold over a million copies. After the death of her father, McBain decided to retire from the publishing world in 1985, with only seven romances written. Laurie McBain Laurie (Lee) McBain (born October 15, 1949) is a best-selling American writer of seven historical romance novels from 1975 to 1985. Her novels "Devil's Desire" and "Moonstruck Madness" each sold over a million copies. McBain was born in Riverside, California. She was educated at San Bernardino Valley College
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by producer Dino De Laurentiis while modeling part-time for the Wilhelmina modelling agency. She made her professional film debut in his 1976 remake of the 1933 action-adventure classic "King Kong", for which she won her first Golden Globe Award. In 1982, she became the first performer in 40 years to receive two Oscar nominations within the same year; she won her second Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a soap opera star in "Tootsie", and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of the troubled
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These directors' works often span many decades and genres. Present "auteurs" include Giuseppe Tornatore, Marco Bellocchio, Ermanno Olmi, Nanni Moretti, Gabriele Salvatores, Gianni Amelio, Dario Argento and Paolo Sorrentino. In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's "Two Women". She was the first actress to win an Academy Award for a performance in any foreign language, and the second Italian leading lady Oscar-winner (after Anna Magnani). During the 1960s and 70s, Italian filmmakers Mario Bava,
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like "Moonstruck" or "Crossing Delancey"." To prepare for her role, lead actress Lauren Ambrose spent time with women of the close-knit Hasidic community. Jake Lever (Adam Kaufman) is a successful cardiologist living in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. When he dozes off at the hospital where he works, he dreams that his brother, Benjamin, tells him that they are okay. Jake is confused and is baffled after receiving a phone call later that day from his mother informing him that his brother has died suddenly. He feels guilty for not having kept in touch with his brother for
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period include the classic 1939 western "Stagecoach". Over a decade later, gained her third and final Oscar nomination for her performance in "The High and the Mighty". Two of Trevor's most memorable roles were opposite Dick Powell in "Murder, My Sweet" and with Lawrence Tierney in "Born to Kill". In "Key Largo", Trevor played Gaye Dawn, the washed-up nightclub singer and gangster's moll. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1957, she won an Emmy for her role in the "Producers' Showcase" episode entitled "Dodsworth". Trevor moved into supporting roles in the 1950s, with her appearances becoming
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explained. As a result, the role went to Dunaway, who had just won an Oscar for her performance in "Network." Streisand nevertheless felt that "Prisoner," the torch song from the film, would be a good power ballad vehicle for her. She sang it on the soundtrack and garnered a moderate hit as a result (the record peaked at number 21 on the "Billboard" Hot 100). "Eyes of Laura Mars" is said to be an example of an American version of the Italian giallo genre. The film is also noted for its use of red herrings and its twist ending. Laura
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1644 opera "Ormindo". In 2010, Fiebig was nominated for the Helpmann Awards' Best Female Performer in a Supporting Role in an Opera for "Bliss" and "La sonnambula"; she won the award for her creation of the role of Lucy in "Bliss". In 2011, she sang Yum-Yum in Opera Australia's production of "The Mikado" which was televised on ABC Television. In 2012, Fiebig added the role of Pamina in Julie Taymor's English-language production of "The Magic Flute" for Opera Australia to her repertoire. In 2013, she sang Oscar in Opera Australia's production of "Un ballo in maschera" directed by La Fura
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the TCM Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, to which Kohner and co-star Juanita Moore were invited. After the screening, the two women appeared on stage for a question-and-answer session hosted by TCM's Robert Osborne. Kohner and Moore received standing ovations. Susan Kohner Susanna "Susan" Kohner (born November 11, 1936) is an American actress who worked in film and television. She is best known for her role as Sarah Jane in "Imitation of Life" (1959), for which she was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award. She played a light-complexioned woman who "passed" for white as a
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as a lead in later summer movies such as "Julie & Julia" and "Mamma Mia!". For Hathaway, it was her first leading role in a film intended for an adult audience. Subsequent producers were impressed that she had held her own playing opposite Streep, which led eventually to her being cast in more serious roles like "Rachel Getting Married" and "Les Misérables", for which she won an Oscar. "I think what people saw was promising—it made people want to see more." Hathaway believes that Blunt's career took off because of her role. "I've never witnessed a star being born before,"
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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 her guest-starring role in "Taxi" episode "Thy Boss's Wife" (1981). In the 1990s, she appeared in "Stella" with Bette Midler, Bogdanovich's "Texasville" (the sequel to "The Last Picture Show"), and "Reckless".
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character portrayal, producer Poon Ka Tak cast Wong to portray Flora Chan's timid younger sister in the 2010 romantic comedy drama "Suspects in Love". To prepare for her role, Wong studied Maggie Cheung's performance in "Police Cadet '84". In 2012, she was cast in her first second female leading role in medical-drama The Hippocratic Crush as Tavia Yeung's younger sister. Her popularity rose and was highly praised by netizens for her character Lau Siu-Lan in L'Escargot as Oscar Leung's ferrocious wife. In the same year, she won the Most Improved Female Artiste in Malaysia's My AOD Favourite Awards and TVB
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the Japanese Army during World War II, in Bruce Beresford's film "Paradise Road" (1997), which co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand. Her first leading role was as Lucinda Leplastrier in Gillian Armstrong's romantic drama "Oscar and Lucinda" (1997), opposite Ralph Fiennes. Blanchett received wide acclaim for her performance, and earned her first AFI Award nomination as Best Leading Actress; she lost to Deborah Mailman in "Radiance" (1998). She won the AFI Best Actress Award in the same year for her role as Lizzie in the romantic comedy "Thank God He Met Lizzie" (1997), co-starring Richard Roxburgh and Frances O'Connor. By
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line is "Go for "Oscar Gold"!" In the British comedy series "Extras", actress Kate Winslet plays a caricature of herself desperate for an Oscar. During the episode, Winslet tells the character Andy Millman (portrayed by Ricky Gervais) that she took the role in the unnamed Holocaust film, claiming that films such as "Schindler's List" and "The Pianist" have "Oscars coming out of the arse". Later in the episode, Winslet also muses that "playing a mental" also guarantees an Oscar win. Winslet would later win her first Academy Award, Best Actress, for her role as an illiterate former Nazi in "The
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and "Little Miss Sunshine", for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar; and "Argo". His portrayal of Dr. Oatman, a scared and emotionally conflicted psychiatrist treating John Cusack's hit man character Martin Q. Blank in "Grosse Point Blank" was also well received. His role in "Little Miss Sunshine", as Grandfather Edwin, who was foul-mouthed and had a taste for snorting heroin, won him the BAFTA Film Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. On receiving his Academy Award on February 25, 2007, Arkin said, "More than anything,
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Oscar accept the role. En route to the Emerald City, Theodora falls in love with Oscar though he does not reciprocate her feelings. They encounter the flying monkey Finley who pledges a life debt to Oscar when he saves him from a lion. Oscar reveals his deception to Finley and forces him to maintain the lie that he is a wizard. At the Emerald City Theodora's beautiful older sister Evanora tells Oscar that the Wicked Witch resides in the Dark Forest and can be killed by destroying her wand. On the way to the forest they are joined by China
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in the 1930 revue "Sweet and Low", which starred Fannie Brice, George Jessel, and James Barton, and appeared in "Kiss and Tell", "For Love or Money" and "Wake Up, Darling" in the 1940s and 1950s. Her film debut was in "Crime Without Passion" (1934). She later played "Mrs. Fenty" in "Paint Your Wagon" and "Grandma Sarah" in "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (both with Clint Eastwood). She appeared in "Annie Hall" and "Zelig" (both by Woody Allen), "Dirty Dancing", and had an uncredited role in "Moonstruck". In 1978, she played Maggie Flannigan in "All My Children". Trueman died of natural causes
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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 for "This Sporting Life" and 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 Riding of Yorkshire. Following a nightclub altercation, in which he takes on the captain of the local rugby league
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Tony Award for her role in Tennessee Williams' "The Rose Tattoo" in 1951. (Magnani's English improved, however, and she was able to play the role in the film version, winning an Oscar.) Stapleton played in other Williams' productions, including "Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton" and "Orpheus Descending" (and its film adaptation, "The Fugitive Kind", co-starring her friend Marlon Brando), as well as Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic". She won a second Tony Award for Neil Simon's "The Gingerbread Lady", which was written especially for her, in 1971. Later Broadway roles included "Birdie" in "The Little Foxes" opposite Elizabeth Taylor
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Ximena Huilipán Ximena Huilipán Muñoz (born September 19, 1986) is a Chilean model and actress of Mapuche descent. At 14 years of age, Huilipán won the Elite Model Look Chile 2002 contest. She was discovered by Dominican fashion designer Oscar de la Renta for whom she modeled after having won the Elite Model Look Chile 2002. During her early career she also modeled for Carolina Herrera and was cast in a minor role in Jorge Olguín's movie "Sangre eterna". Later she moved further into an actor career playing a role as Lautaro's wife in a historical movie about the Arauco
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professors were Todd Solondz, Spike Lee and Darren Aronofsky. Oscar Sharp Oscar Sharp is a BAFTA-nominated British filmmaker best known for short films The Kármán Line, Sign Language and Sunspring, and upcoming feature Woolly for 20th Century Fox. In 2010 Sign Language, about an idealistic human billboard in London's Oxford Street, won the Reed Short Film Competition and Virgin Media Shorts. His 2015 film The Kármán Line, starred Olivia Colman as a wife and mother who contracts an illness causing her to gradually levitate. It won Best Short at the British Independent Film Awards and was nominated for the Best
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Oscar Sharp Oscar Sharp is a BAFTA-nominated British filmmaker best known for short films The Kármán Line, Sign Language and Sunspring, and upcoming feature Woolly for 20th Century Fox. In 2010 Sign Language, about an idealistic human billboard in London's Oxford Street, won the Reed Short Film Competition and Virgin Media Shorts. His 2015 film The Kármán Line, starred Olivia Colman as a wife and mother who contracts an illness causing her to gradually levitate. It won Best Short at the British Independent Film Awards and was nominated for the Best British Short Film at the BAFTAs. The film was
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Burt Lancaster. Her character becomes a prostitute who encounters her seducer years later and takes her revenge. The director, Richard Brooks, had originally fought against her being in the movie, but after seeing her first scene, told her she would win an Oscar for her performance. She was reunited with Ron Howard (who had played her brother in "The Music Man") in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" (1963). Jones landed the role of a lady who fell in love with the professor in "Fluffy" (1965). In 1970, after turning down the role of Carol Brady on "The Brady Bunch", a
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funny, moving characters. These twelve days are to be his last, but thanks to Mamie Rose, who forms a close and affectionate bond with Oscar, they are to become legendary as Oscar "ages" ten years each day. Oscar has several friends in this novel, including "Pop Corn," "Bacon," and "Einstein." These names are nicknames given in relation to their diseases. He falls in love with "Peggy Blue," another patient who is entirely blue due to her sickness. In 2009, the author finished a film ("Oscar and the Lady in Pink") based on the novel with Michèle Laroque in the role
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very stereotypical. One exception was her supporting role in the film version of "The King and I" as Tuptim. In 1961, Moreno landed the role of Anita in Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' film adaptation of Leonard Bernstein's and Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking Broadway musical "West Side Story", which had been played by Chita Rivera on Broadway. Moreno won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for that role. After winning the Oscar, Moreno thought she would be able to continue to perform less stereotypical film roles, but was disappointed: Moreno had a major role in "Summer and Smoke" (1961), released
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an Oscar nomination in 1969 for Best Supporting Actress, despite appearing on-screen for about six minutes. She received a second Oscar nomination for her slightly larger role (eight minutes) as Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her role in "Farewell, My Lovely". In 1978, Miles was given a cameo role in the Indian suspense film "Shalimar". She appeared in the 1982 film version of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under the Sun", portraying a Broadway producer, one of her more mainstream film roles. She played real estate agent Dolores in the Oliver Stone film "Wall Street" (1987), a role she would reprise
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Loretta Young Loretta Young (born Gretchen Young; January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1947 film "The Farmer's Daughter" and received an Oscar nomination for her role in "Come to the Stable" in 1949. Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, "The Loretta Young Show", from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards
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Sally Sagoe Sally Sagoe (born 1953 in London) is a former English actress. She first entered showbusiness on a cruise liner in the Pacific, later working extensively as a singer with her "Sally Sagoe Band". One of her first notable acting roles was playing Celia in the 1985 Joseph Losey film "Steaming". That same year she won a role in the popular BBC soap opera, "EastEnders". She played Hannah Carpenter, the religious and stern wife of the Trinidadian carpenter Tony (played by Oscar James). She remained in the role until 1987. Her one television role since leaving "EastEnders" was in
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the sale of the "Coquette" Oscar. The heirs were trying to sell the award for charity, as stipulated in Rogers's second wife's will. The Academy insisted that the Award must be offered back to them for $1, to comply with a rule made long after Pickford won her Oscar. They claimed that when she won her honorary Oscar in the 1970s she signed a contract covering the Coquette statuette as well. The heirs argued that it might not have even been her signature, as Pickford was frail at the end of her life. The Academy won the legal battle, but
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portrayal of Mama Lucas in "American Gangster". She won the Screen Actors Guild award for the same performance. At 83 years of age, Dee is currently the second oldest nominee for Best Supporting Actress, behind Gloria Stuart who was 87 when nominated for her role in "Titanic". This was Dee's only Oscar nomination. On February 12, 2009, Dee joined the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College orchestra and chorus, along with the Riverside Inspirational Choir and NYC Labor Choir, in honoring Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday at the Riverside Church in New York City. Under the direction of Maurice
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used in the opening credits. The Navy also banned the film from being shown to its servicemen, calling it "derogatory of a sister service" and a "discredit to the armed services". William Holden, who won the Best Actor Oscar for "Stalag 17", felt that Lancaster or Clift should have won. Sinatra would later comment that he thought his performance of heroin addict Frankie Machine in "The Man with the Golden Arm" was more deserving of an Oscar than his role as Maggio. An unsuccessful 30 minute television pilot starring Darren McGavin as 1st Sgt Warden, Roger Davis as Pvt Pruitt,
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for roles in "Born Yesterday" (1950) and "A Place in the Sun" (1951), Hughes refused and instead made her do a supporting role in "Macao" (1952). Despite only appearing for a little over nine minutes on screen, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in MGM's "The Bad and the Beautiful" (also 1952); she long held the record for the shortest performance on screen to win an acting Oscar until Beatrice Straight won for Network with her 5 minutes and 2 seconds of performance. Other memorable roles included the scheming Irene Neves in "Sudden Fear" (also 1952), the
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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, Hidden Dragon" and "Brokeback Mountain". Collectively, alumni have won at least 20 Academy Awards. Gregory Peck (BA 1939), nominated for four Oscars during his career, won an Oscar for acting in "To Kill a Mockingbird". Chris Innis (BA 1991) won the 2010 Oscar for film editing for her work on best picture winner, "The Hurt Locker". Walter Plunkett (BA 1923 ) won an Oscar for costume
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the comedy sketch and variety program "The Morecambe & Wise Show" on the BBC in the United Kingdom in 1971, in the "Antony and Cleopatra" sketch. After her role in this film won her an Oscar, Eric Morecambe sent her a telegram reading, "Stick with us and we will get you another one". Vickie Allessio (Glenda Jackson) is a divorced British mother of two. Steve Blackburn (George Segal) is an American married man who "has never cheated on his wife... in the same town." After sharing a London taxi, Steve invites Vickie to tea, then lunch, then takes Vickie to
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feature, "Man Up," when she was approached by a stranger at Waterloo Station who asked her if she was his blind date, which made her wonder what may have happened if she had lied and told him yes. She began writing "Man Up" in January 2011. Her inspirations for this film were Nora Ephron, Woody Allen and Nancy Meyers. The films which inspired her the most are "When Harry Met Sally", "Moonstruck" and "As Good as it Gets". To help her build the cinematic structure, Morris read Billy Mernit's book, "Writing for the Romantic Comedy". Morris finished the spec script
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Kevin Spacey at Playwrights Horizons and joined the Circle Repertory Company. She appeared in Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles", which won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1989. During the same year she appeared in both "Moonstruck" (as Loretta's hairdresser) and "Working Girl" where she played Melanie Griffith's secretary at the end of the film, her first film roles. In 1991, she was cast as one of the leads in the CBS series "Brooklyn Bridge". After the show was renewed for a second series, Aquino moved to California to be closer to where it was being filmed. After moving,
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Vic Theatre School, where she won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary. After graduation in July 2009, she joined the BBC's Radio Drama Company for five months, taking part in more than 40 productions for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra, bringing her to the attention of the producers of "The Archers" who were looking to recast the role of Emma Grundy following Felicity Jones's decision to depart. O’Hanrahan has taken to the stage in productions such as Birmingham Repertory Company 2011 double-production of Oscar Wilde’s "The Importance of Being Earnest" and Tom Stoppard’s "Travesties". In 2015,
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up the building and its inhabitants unless the film's opening was cancelled. The standoff was resolved after the deaths of a journalist and a policeman, but "the film's American box office prospects never recovered from the unfortunate controversy." Muna Wassef's role as Hind in the Arabic-language version won her international recognition. The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 for Best Music, Original Score for the music by Maurice Jarre. The musical score of "The Message" was composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. "Side One" "Side Two" In October 2008, producer Oscar
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did to their clients." Henry Rogers created the now famous Oscar campaign for Joan Crawford when he turned her from “box office poison” to an Oscar winner for best actress in a leading role for her performance in “Mildred Pierce.” The NY Times wrote, “Mr. Rogers, who was credited with making Rita Hayworth a household name and with creating the sweeping publicity campaigns that have become a fixture of the annual quest for Academy Awards, became almost as well known in Hollywood as the famous clients” who included Audrey Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Gregory Peck,
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a category in which Emma Stone had won for her role in "La La Land" several minutes prior. When the mistake was realized, Horowitz rushed to the microphone to announce "Moonlight" as the correct winner, and then graciously presented the Oscar to the winning producers. This occurred after PricewaterhouseCoopers representatives appeared on stage to discuss the mistake with the team from "La La Land" and Warren Beatty. Horowitz is married to Julia Hart, who is a Hollywood writer and director, known for "The Keeping Room" (2014), "Miss Stevens" (2016) and "Fast Color" (2018). Jordan Horowitz Jordan Horowitz (born April 10,
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Ryder. The DreamWorks/Warner Bros. production was released on December 21, 2007. Burton's work on "Sweeney Todd" won the National Board of Review Award for Best Director, received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director and won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Helena Bonham Carter won an Evening Standard British Film Award for her portrayal of Mrs. Lovett, as well as a Golden Globe nomination. The film blends explicit gore and Broadway tunes, and was well received by critics. Johnny Depp was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for the role of Sweeney Todd. Depp also won the Golden
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small role in "Morning Glory", for which Katharine Hepburn won her first Oscar; as well as having another small role in Raoul Walsh's "The Bowery", which starred Wallace Beery, George Raft, and Jackie Cooper. In 1934 he would have a featured role as Canvas Back in Shirley Temple's starring debut, "Little Miss Marker". He would follow this up the same year as one of Eddie Cantor's stepbrothers in "Kid Millions", and then appear in the featured role of Chuck in Lambert Hillyer's 1934 police drama, "Men of the Night". Kelly had a small part in the 1935 romantic comedy "We're
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Somebody Loves You", "That's Amore", and Martin's signature song "Everybody Loves Somebody" have been in films (such as the Oscar-winning "Logorama", "A Bronx Tale", "Casino", "Goodfellas", "Payback", "", "Sexy Beast", "Moonstruck", "Vegas Vacation", "Swingers" and "Return to Me"), television series (such as "American Dad!", "Friends", "The Sopranos", "House MD" and "Samurai Jack"), video games (such as "", "The Godfather II", "" and "Mafia II"), and fashion shows (such as the 2008 "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show"). Danny Gans portrayed Martin in the 1992 CBS miniseries "Sinatra". Martin was portrayed by Joe Mantegna in the 1998 HBO movie about Sinatra and Martin
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moved to Spain and did not return to Argentina until after the military "junta" fell in 1983. In 1985, her breakout role was the Argentine Academy Award-winning film "The Official Story". For her acting in the film she won, among others, the Cannes Award for best actress. She worked in several other Argentine movies such as the Academy Award-nominated "Son of the Bride", "Sol de Otoño", and "El Faro". Aleandro co-starred in a few Hollywood films such as "One Man's War," with Anthony Hopkins, and "" (1987) for which she received an Oscar nomination. She also had a minor role
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