query: who won the best actress oscar this year

pos: Academy Award for Best Actress Loren. Since its inception, the award has been given to 75 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars. Meryl Streep, who has a total of 21 Oscar nominations (three wins), has been nominated in this category on 17 occasions, resulting in two awards. As of the 2018 ceremony, Frances McDormand is the most recent winner in this category for her role as Mildred Hayes in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri". In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los

pos: Academy Award for Best Actress Loren. Since its inception, the award has been given to 75 actresses. Katharine Hepburn has won the most awards in this category, with four Oscars. Meryl Streep, who has a total of 21 Oscar nominations (three wins), has been nominated in this category on 17 occasions, resulting in two awards. As of the 2018 ceremony, Frances McDormand is the most recent winner in this category for her role as Mildred Hayes in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri". In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los

pos: Cate Blanchett 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

neg: 2010 Sundance Film Festival 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 Feature. "Gasland", which won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize, was nominated for 1 Oscar: Best Documentary Feature. "Restrepo", which won the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, was nominated for 1 Oscar: Best Documentary Feature. "Waste Land", which won the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary, was nominated for 1

neg: César Award for Best Actress 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 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

neg: 27th Academy Awards upset victory three years earlier. In a surprise win (Bing Crosby was the favored nominee), Brando received his first Oscar for his performance in "On the Waterfront", which is now seen as one of the most justified upsets in Oscar history. The win was a culmination of four consecutive Best Actor nominations for Brando (starting with "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1951), a record that remains unmatched to this day. Grace Kelly won Best Actress for "The Country Girl" in another upset. Judy Garland, who was heavily favored to win Best Actress for the movie "A Star Is Born", could

neg: Casey Affleck all were — but I am over it. It was an unfortunate situation — mostly for the innocent bystanders of the families of those involved." When Affleck won the Best Actor Oscar, the presenter Brie Larson (who had won the Best Actress Award the previous year for playing a survivor of sexual abuse) did not clap and simply handed him the award. Of her decision, Larson said the action "spoke for itself". He spoke out again after his Oscar win in February 2017; "I believe that any kind of mistreatment of anyone for any reason is unacceptable and abhorrent, and

neg: In Old Chicago Temple to MGM for their upcoming production of "The Wizard of Oz". However, this is merely a rumor, as Harlow died in June 1937, several months before MGM had even purchased the rights to "Oz". The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Alice Brady won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was the first person to win the Supporting Oscar after being nominated in the prior year. The film was also nominated in the categories of Music (Scoring), Sound Recording (E. H. Hansen), and Writing (Original Story), and won for Assistant Director

neg: 56th Academy Awards his first Best Cinematography nomination for "Zelig". Joe I. Tompkins becomes the first African-American to be nominated in Best Costume Design. James L. Brooks won three Academy Awards this year, winning as producer, director and writer of Best Picture winner "Terms of Endearment". Of its other eight nominations (the movie led all nominees with 11), two were for Best Actress; Shirley MacLaine won over Debra Winger in that category. The movie won five Oscars, the fifth being Jack Nicholson's second career Oscar (he won for Best Supporting Actor). This ceremony ended with Sammy Davis Jr. and Liza Minnelli leading the

neg: Dangerous Liaisons 43rd British Academy Film Awards, Michelle Pfeiffer won for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and Christopher Hampton won for Best Screenplay. The film received a further eight nominations, in the categories of Best Direction (Stephen Frears), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Close), Best Cinematography (Philippe Rousselot), Best Costume Design (Acheson), Best Original Film Score (Fenton), Best Editing (Mick Audsley), Best Make Up Artist (Jean-Luc Russier) and Best Production Design (Craig). In addition to his Oscar and BAFTA awards, Christopher Hampton also won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for Screenwriter of the Year, and the Writers Guild of

neg: Mrs. Miniver (character) the influence of the American Office of War Information, the film attempted to undermine Hollywood's prewar depiction of Britain as a glamorous 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

neg: Cate Blanchett on screen and stage Supporting Actress, among other honors, for portraying Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's 2004 drama "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 of the few actors to achieve

neg: This Sporting Life 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

neg: Gillo Pontecorvo Academy Awards, and it was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film. In this same year, the film won two awards: the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists awarded Didi Perego a Silver Ribbon for best supporting actress, and the Mar del Plata Film Festival awarded Susan Strasberg for best actress. Pontecorvo is best known for his 1966 masterpiece "The Battle of Algiers" (released in Italian as "La battaglia di Algeri"). It is widely viewed as one of the finest films of its genre: a realistic though fictionalized documentary. Its portrayal of the Algerian resistance during the Algerian War

neg: Two Women the 30 most popular films at the French box office that year. The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Sophia Loren, due largely to heavy promotion by its North American distributor, Joseph E. Levine. This was the first time an acting Oscar had been given for a non-English-speaking performance, although she made the English dubbing for her role herself. Loren was too nervous to attend the ceremony and elected to stay in Rome instead. Greer Garson accepted the award on Loren's behalf. Loren also won the award for Best Actress at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Loren

neg: 41st Academy Awards 1937 ("The Good Earth"), and Spencer Tracy in 1937 ("Captains 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 some controversy: less than two weeks after the ceremony, "TIME" mentioned

neg: Imitation of Life (1959 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 place in the category of Top Female Supporting Performance at the 1959 Laurel Awards, and the film won Top Drama. Douglas Sirk was nominated for the 1959 Directors Guild of America Award. Since the late 20th century, "Imitation of Life" has

neg: Fátima Ptacek the first time the category was open to all members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voting. The film won, with Ptacek in attendance. She attended the Vanity Fair Oscar party with Christensen. Ptacek has personally won Best Young Actress at the 2012 Sapporo Short Fest (the film screening there the year after with an appearance by Ptacek), A feature film of the story has been announced, with Ptacek announced to return. Best Actress at the 2013 Rincon International Film Festival, and Best Actress at the 2013 Vaughan Film Festival. Joey Dedio, screenwriter and top star of

neg: Joan of Arc (1948 film) real Joan of Arc; the Swedish actress would later play her (at age 39) in a 1954 Italian film, "Giovanna d'Arco al rogo" ("Joan at the Stake"). However, reviewers in 1948 did not object to this; it was — and still is — common in for an older actress to play a teenager, as the twenty-four-year-old Jennifer Jones had in 1943's "The Song of Bernadette", for which she won a Best Actress Oscar. Children were also sometimes played by older actors at the time; the sixteen-year-old Judy Garland had very convincingly played twelve-year-old Dorothy Gale in the 1939 film classic

neg: Blanche Yurka 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

neg: Lupita Nyong'o "is a spectacular young actress who imbues Patsey with grit and radiant grace". Nyong'o was nominated for several awards for "12 Years a Slave", including a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best 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

neg: Participant Media Awards: The film for Best Picture, Viola Davis for Best Actress, and Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Actress. Spencer won the Oscar for her role. Participant executives said in October 2011 that the studio would expand its production to make seven to twelve films a year, would begin producing features and series for television, and expand its online presence. As part of this plan, in November the studio hired advertising executive Chad Boettcher to be executive vice president for social action and advocacy and 20th Century Fox executive Gary Frenkel to be senior vice president for digital

neg: 43rd Academy Awards 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 for Best Actress were first-time nominees, as well as the last time that either lead acting category had all new nominees. Also, this was

neg: Sense and Sensibility (film) 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,

neg: On Golden Pond (1981 film) 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" is also one of the few movies to earn the nominations for five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay). An aging couple, Ethel and Norman Thayer, continue the long tradition of spending each summer at their cottage on a

neg: 18th Academy Awards she was sure she would not win the Oscar for Best Actress for "Mildred Pierce"). As it turned out she did win, and the award was delivered to her while in bed that night. This was the first year in which every film nominated for Best Picture won at least one Oscar. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 18th Academy Awards The 18th Academy Awards was the first such ceremony after World War II. As a result, the ceremony featured more glamour than had been present during

neg: Marsha Mason a widower, fell in love and got married. That same year, Mason co-starred opposite James Caan in the 20th Century Fox film "Cinderella Liberty", which netted her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. In 1977, Mason's performance in Simon's smash hit film, "The Goodbye Girl", won her a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination. In 1979, Simon successfully cast Mason as Jennie MacLaine in the screen adaptation of his hit play "Chapter Two", which was based on Mason's relationship with Simon up to their marriage. The film proved to be another big hit, garnering her a third Oscar nomination for

neg: Crissy Rock worked with who shines more brightly than Crissy Rock". Her performance won her numerous awards, including 'Best Actress' at the Berlin Film Festival, 'Best Actress' at London Film Critics Awards, and she received a 'Best Newcomer' nomination in the Evening Standard Awards. Film critic Gene Siskel said on the "CBS This Morning" programme: "No Oscar ceremony will be complete without a nomination for this brilliant performance." In 1995, Rock appeared on primetime ITV in "Peak Practice", "Celebrity Squares" and "Funny Girls". She also performed on Sky One's "Stand and Deliver". In 1996, she played Annie Greave in episode three of

neg: Jane Fonda 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,

neg: Barbra Streisand 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"). The three films she directed received a total of fourteen Oscar nominations. Streisand has stated she is writing her autobiography but has stopped

neg: 45th Academy Awards did not screen in Los Angeles until 1972. Chaplin had received honorary Academy Awards in 1929 and 1972. "Cabaret", Bob Fosse's adaptation of the Broadway stage musical, set a record for the most Oscars won without winning Best Picture. Best Picture winner "The Godfather" received only three Academy Awards. This year was the first time that two African American women received nominations for Best Actress. This was also the first year when all the Oscar winners were brought out on stage at the end of the ceremony. Winners are listed first in boldface. The following 15 films received multiple nominations.

neg: James Ivory Actor Awards for co-stars James Wilby and Hugh Grant. This was followed in 1990 by "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge", which was adapted by Jhabvala from the novels by Evan S. Connell. This film received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress (Joanne Woodward), as well as Best Actress and Best Screenplay from the New York Film Critics Circle. In 1992 Ivory directed another film adapted from Forster, "Howards End". The film was nominated for nine Academy awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three: Best Actress (Emma Thompson), Best Screenplay – Adaptation (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala), and Best Art Direction/Set

neg: Boys Don't Cry (film) 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 Sevigny both received Best Actress Awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards and an Independent Spirit Award. The film won

neg: Hilary Swank 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

neg: Katharine Hepburn 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 and six nominations from the Emmy Awards, eight Golden Globe nominations, two Tony Award nominations, and awards from the

neg: Screen International Liz Shackleton. Its official photographer is Andrew Douglas Ross. The editors of Screen International have been: A former editor in chief, Oscar Moore—who was also a columnist for "The Guardian" and a novelist—died of an AIDS-related illness in 1996. The Oscar Moore Foundation was established in 1997 as a charitable foundation administered by "Screen International". The foundation's aim is to foster new European screenwriting talent by awarding an annual prize of UK£10,000 to the best first draft screenplay in a genre which changes each year. A foundation patron, Emma Thompson, is an actress and screenwriter who has won an Academy

neg: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film) fails to harmonise the revised characterisation of Brick with the author's original conception." The film received six Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Newman), 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 with audiences. According to

neg: Funny Girl (film) Streisand's Oscar win as Best Actress, the film was nominated in the categories of Best Picture, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Medford, Best Cinematography for Stradling, Best Film Editing for Sands and Winetrobe, Best Score of a Musical Picture- Original or Adaptation for Walter Scharf, Best Original Song for the title tune by Styne and Merrill, and Best Sound. "Funny Girl", along with Columbia Pictures' other Best Picture nominee and eventual winner "Oliver!", secured a combined total of 19 nominations, the most nominations for musicals from one studio in a year. Streisand won the Golden Globe Award for

neg: Lilies of the Field (1963 film) 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 in a Supporting Role (Lilia Skala), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The film was also nominated in 1965 for the United Nations Award at the BAFTA Awards. Also, the film

neg: Reese Witherspoon article being written by Mindy Kaling. The same year, she was awarded, by a unanimous vote from the committee, the American Cinematheque for being "a perfect example of an actress flourishing in today's world" and "an active and successful movie producer who is moving her career forward both behind and in front of the camera". According to an article published by Forbes in 2017, Witherspoon is said to have $198 million-plus career earnings, which made her the top-paid primetime Emmy nominee that year. Witherspoon has won numerous awards, including the BAFTA Award and the Oscar for Best Actress for her

neg: Leanne Jones Pigs (Palace Theatre), Jack & The Beanstalk (The Woodville). Television & Film - ‘Rumble’ directed by Charlie Manton 2017. BBC’s ‘Silent Witness’ 2017, Jones' performance as Tracy Turnblad in "Hairspray" won her a number of awards, including a Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Musical, the Critics Circle Award 2008 for Most Promising Newcomer and the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She was also nominated in 2009 for a Glamour Woman of the Year Award for Best Actress. Jones has two sons called Oscar and Barnaby, born in 2013 and 2015. In 2016,

neg: Paolo Virzì at his mother’s side during her very last days. The film received 18 nominations for the David di Donatello Award in 2010, winning three prizes for Best Screenplay (by Paolo Virzì with Francesco Bruni and Francesco Piccolo), for Best Actress (Micaela Ramazzotti) and Best Actor (Valerio Mastandrea). In July 2010, La prima cosa bella won 4 Silver Ribbon awards: Director of the Best Film of the Year (Paolo Virzì), Best Actress Micaela Ramazzotti and Stefania Sandrelli, Best Screenplay Paolo Virzì, Francesco Bruni, Francesco Piccolo) and Best Costume Design to the Oscar winner Gabriella Pescucci. The film attended many prestigious international

neg: Stanley Clements to the East Side Kids, such as "Right to the Heart", 1950's "Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang", and "Boots Malone". In August 1945, Clements married actress Gloria Grahame, who played bad girl Violet Bick in "It's a Wonderful Life", and who later won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "The Bad and The Beautiful". The marriage was a stormy one, with Grahame objecting to Clements's drinking and gambling, and Clements being jealous of her dalliances with other men, and it ended in 1948. He married Maria Walek in 1951, and in 1964 they adopted her then eight-year-old nephew,

neg: 14th Academy Awards on the Best Actress race between sibling rivals Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock’s "Suspicion" and Olivia de Havilland for "Hold Back the Dawn". Fontaine’s victory was the only time a performer won for a role in a Hitchcock film. This was also the first year in which documentaries were included. The first Oscar for a documentary was awarded to "Churchill's Island". "The Little Foxes" established a new high of nine nominations without winning a single Oscar. Its mark was matched by "Peyton Place" in 1957, and exceeded by "The Turning Point" and "The Color Purple", both of which received 11

neg: 36th Academy Awards the Best Actress category for her lead (or supporting) role in "Hud". The movie also won for Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas and Best Cinematography – Black and White. It was the second and, to date, last film to win two acting awards without being nominated for Best Picture (the other being "The Miracle Worker"). At age 71 Margaret Rutherford set a then record for the oldest winner for Best Supporting Actress. Coincidentally, the year before Patty Duke set a then record for the youngest winner ever. Rutherford was also only the 2nd Oscar winner to be over the

neg: Martha Coolidge Girl" (1983), which is now best remembered for launching the career of Nicolas Cage. It also helped the popularity of the British band Modern English's hit song "I Melt with You". Her film "Rambling Rose" (1991) won three IFP Independent Spirit Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress for Diane Ladd, and earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Ladd and Laura Dern (Best Actress). "Rambling Rose" was well reviewed and made many top ten lists for the year. Despite a limited release hampered by economic problems suffered by the production company, the film played for months

neg: 48th Academy Awards actress to be nominated in the leading actress category, breaking the record set by 22-year-old Elizabeth Hartman in 1965. This record would later be surpassed by 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes in 2004, and again in 2013 by nine-year old Quvenzhané Wallis. Adjani also presented the Best Film Editing award that night along with Gould who delivered the Indiana joke during the presentation. At age 80, George Burns became the oldest acting and Best Supporting Actor awardee, a record which stood until Jessica Tandy won Best Actress in 1989. For males, Burns was succeeded by Christopher Plummer, who won Best Supporting Actor

neg: Ned Beatty 1975. Beatty received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor category for the acclaimed film "Network" (1976), portraying a television network's bombastic but shrewd chairman of the board who convinces the mad Howard Beale character (portrayed by Peter Finch) that corporation-led global dehumanization is not only inevitable, but is also a good thing. 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

neg: Boys Don't Cry (film) three awards at the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Actress (Swank), Best Supporting Actress (Sevigny) and Best Director (Peirce). Swank and Sevigny won Satellite Awards for their performances, and the film was nominated in two categories; Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director. It was named one of the best films of the year by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. The family of Brandon Teena criticized Swank for her repeated use of the male gender pronoun "he" in her Oscar acceptance speech. Teena's mother JoAnn Brandon said her child's transgenderism was a defense mechanism that was

neg: Emma Thompson Austen's style and wit", and Graham Fuller of "Sight and Sound" saw her as the film's auteur. Thompson received a third nomination for Best Actress and won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making her the only person in history to win an Oscar for both acting and writing. She also earned a second BAFTA Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. Thompson was absent from screens in 1996, but returned the following year with Alan Rickman's directorial debut, "The Winter Guest". Set over one day in a Scottish seaside village, the drama allowed Thompson

neg: Serbian Americans last appointed governor of the Territory of Alaska in the 1950s. Many notable Serbian Americans have been active in the fields of film and art, such as Brad Dexter and Peter Bogdanovich. 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.

neg: Katharine Hepburn in the south of France, an experience she loved despite being—according to director Anthony Harvey—"enormously vulnerable" throughout. John Russell Taylor of "The Times" suggested that Eleanor was "the performance of her ... career", and proved that she was "a growing, developing, still surprising actress". The movie was nominated in all the major categories at the Academy Awards, and for the second year running Hepburn won the Oscar for Best Actress (shared with Barbra Streisand for "Funny Girl"). The role, combined with her performance in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", also received a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) for Best Actress.

neg: Jessica Lange 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

neg: Whoopi Goldberg in 1986 for "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 "Whoopi Goldberg: Direct from Broadway," becoming only the second woman at the time to

neg: J. C. Chandor Film Festival. It received critical acclaim, especially for Robert Redford's solo performance which featured almost no dialogue, for which Redford won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and Critics' Choice Award. The film was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Design. In 2014, Chandor directed Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain in "A Most Violent Year" which was nominated for a Golden Globe an Independent Spirit Award and which won three National Board of Review awards: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Picture for Chandor

neg: Ray Stark Herrmann, and Aileen Quinn in her film debut. Over an 18-year period Stark produced eleven scripts by acclaimed playwright Neil Simon, including "The Sunshine Boys" (1975), for which George Burns won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor; "Murder by Death" (1976), featuring an eclectic cast of Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Maggie Smith; "The Goodbye Girl" (1977) with Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason, for which Dreyfus won the Academy Award for Best Actor; and "California Suite" (1978), which won Maggie Smith the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

neg: University of California, Berkeley 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

neg: Samantha Spiro Spiro played the role of Mrs Erlynne in Kathy Burke's production of Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan" at London's Vaudeville Theatre. This production was recorded and shown in cinemas under the "More2Screen" initiative. In 2001, Spiro was awarded the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in the 2000 season Donmar Warehouse production of "Merrily We Roll Along". She won a Whatsonstage.com award for Best Actress in a Musical for the same production. In 2010, Spiro was once again awarded the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in "Hello, Dolly!" at

neg: Glenn Close 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

neg: Vera Farmiga as Lorena Fanchetti in the comedy-drama "Dummy" (2003), alongside Adrien Brody. The following year, Farmiga had her breakthrough role as a drug-addicted mother, Irene Morrison, in the independent drama film "Down to the Bone", which premiered at Sundance in January 2004. Praising her performance, Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" wrote: "If there were an ounce of taste left in Hollywood, the magnificent Vera Farmiga would be a front-runner for the Best Actress Oscar". She won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, and earned a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. Farmiga next

neg: Cate Blanchett 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

neg: Perhaps Love (2005 film) Dora Ng), Best Original Film Score (Peter Kam and Leon Ko), and Best Original Film Song, "Perhaps Love" (this award was shared between composer Peter Kam, lyricist Him Yiu, and Jacky Cheung, who performed the song in the film). The film won four awards at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards, which are: Best Actress (for Zhou Xun), Best Director (for Peter Chan), Best Cinematography (for Peter Pau) and Best Original Film Song (for Leon Ko) Though Christopher Doyle worked on the cinematography for the film along with Oscar-winner Peter Pau, it's unclear whether he actually shared the Hong Kong Film

neg: I Remember Mama (play) and Oscar Homolka who reprised the role of Uncle Chris, which he had created on Broadway. The film was nominated for 5 Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Irene 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

neg: Kajal Aggarwal filmography latter fetching her the CineMAA Award for Best Actress. The following year, she appeared in "Mr. Perfect", which earned another Filmfare nomination for Best Actress in Telugu. In the same year, she returned to Hindi cinema with "Singham", a remake of the 2010 Tamil film "Singam". For this, she received a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut nomination. Aggarwal's performance in AR Murugadoss' "Thuppakki" (2012) won her the CineMAA Award for Best Tamil Actress, and "Govindudu Andarivadele" (2014) earned her a Filmfare nomination for Best Telugu Actress. Kajal Aggarwal filmography Kajal Aggarwal is an Indian actress who appears in primarily

neg: Grace Kelly 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 performances in her three big movie roles of 1954: "Rear Window", "Dial M For Murder", and "The Country Girl". At the Golden Globe Awards in 1955, Garland

neg: 36th Academy Awards win Best Actor until 2001 when Denzel Washington won for his portrayal of Alonzo Harris in "Training Day". 36th Academy Awards The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Jack Lemmon. Best Picture winner "Tom Jones" became the only film in history to garner three Best Supporting Actress nominations; it also tied the Oscar record of five unsuccessful acting nominations, set by "Peyton Place" at the 30th Academy Awards. This year's winner for Best Actress category was

neg: Taraji P. Henson numerous awards, including three Oscar nominations (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Octavia Spencer) and two Golden Globes (Best Supporting Actress for Spencer and Best Original Score). It won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In 2018, Henson was slated to star in three films. In January, Henson starred in Sony Screen Gems's thriller-drama film "Proud Mary," as a hit woman whose life is turned around when she meets a young boy who awakens the maternal instinct she had never known she had possessed. In March, she

neg: Oscar love curse 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 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 positive professional consequences for male and female actors but more enduring negative

neg: Natalia Oreiro by Ariel Winograd. In 2012 she started in "Lynch", a series created in Colombia and broadcast throughout Latin America. The same year the film Clandestine Childhood, that takes place during Argentina's last military dictatorship, premiered in Argentina. The film was selected to compete for a nomination in the best foreign film category on 2013 Oscar awards. For her work in this film Oreiro won the Silver Condor award and the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences Award for the best actress. At the end of 2012 she returned on stage and performed in "Superdiscoteca of the 90s" Festival, which

neg: The Iron Lady (film) 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

neg: The Lucky Star (1997 film) score, and was nominated for 4 others, including Jordi Mollà for best actor and Maribel Verdú for best actress. "La Buena Estrella" won over "Secretos del corazón", a film that was ultimately Spain's candidate to the Oscar where it was among that year's nominees. Ricardo Franco, the director, left his next film unfinished, dying of a heart attack only one year after the release of "La Buena Estrella", his best regarded work. Although Antonio Resines won the best actor award, many found Jordi Mollá's performance in the film more compelling. Some critics found the story too grim, the euthanasia issue

neg: Sudden Fear a chance to act out on her hysteria after her happy marriage is unmasked as a charade, and does a fine job of trying to remain calm while knowing her hubby and girlfriend are planning to kill her ... The film is grandly topped off by Charles B. Lang Jr. and his remarkably glossy black-and-white photography." Crawford received her third and final Oscar nomination for this film, the one and only time she competed against archrival Bette Davis for Best Actress, who was nominated (for the ninth time) for "The Star". Neither actress won; Shirley Booth took home the prize

neg: 2009 Soul Train Music Awards 2009 Soul Train Music Awards The 2009 Soul Train Music Awards were held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia on November 29, 2009. The show was hosted by Oscar nominated actor Terrence Howard and Oscar nominated actress Taraji P. Henson. Performers included Keri Hilson, Toni Braxton, Trey Songz, Mario, Raheem DeVaughn, Ludacris, Ryan Leslie, and Robin Thicke. Singers Chaka Khan and Charlie Wilson received the honoree Soul Train Legend Award. Michael Jackson was honoree for posthumous award for Entertainer of the Year. Beyoncé won three awards; Best Female Artist, Song of the Year, and Album of the

neg: 2nd Asian Film Awards Warlords" won the award for best visual effects. "The Sun Also Rises" by Jiang Wen had five nominations, and it won the prize for Best Supporting Actress, Joan Chen, who was also nominated for best actress for "The Home Song Stories". Japan's "I Just Didn't Do It" had four nominations. For this year, the awards categories were expanded from 10 to 12 to include nominations for best supporting actor and best supporting actress. The awards were sponsored by Mission Hills Golf Club. A reported Chinese media ban kept "Lust, Caution" lead actress Tang Wei from attending the ceremony. 2nd Asian

neg: The Sea Inside its melodramatic story with tenderness and grace." "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 Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay. The Sea Inside The Sea Inside () is a 2004 Spanish drama film written, produced, directed, and scored by Alejandro Amenábar, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It is based on the real-life story of Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem),

neg: 36th Academy Awards 36th Academy Awards The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Jack Lemmon. Best Picture winner "Tom Jones" became the only film in history to garner three Best Supporting Actress nominations; it also tied the Oscar record of five unsuccessful acting nominations, set by "Peyton Place" at the 30th Academy Awards. This year's winner for Best Actress category was unique. Although playing a supporting role and having a relatively small amount on the screen, Patricia Neal won

neg: Laia Costa English. Laia Costa Laia Costa Bertrán (Spanish pronunciation: [l[ai]a ˈkɔsta]; born 18 February 1985, Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish actress who has worked in Spain, Russia, Germany, Argentina, Italy, UK and the United States. Laia Costa starred in the critically acclaimed 2015 film "Victoria", which was almost entirely improvised by the actors. The 134-minute film was, amazingly, shot in one single take. Costa won the Lola (German's equivalent of the Oscar) for Best Actress and was nominated for a European Film Awards for Best European Actress. Her performance also garnered her a nomination for the prestigious BAFTA EE Rising Star

neg: Laia Costa Laia Costa Laia Costa Bertrán (Spanish pronunciation: [l[ai]a ˈkɔsta]; born 18 February 1985, Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish actress who has worked in Spain, Russia, Germany, Argentina, Italy, UK and the United States. Laia Costa starred in the critically acclaimed 2015 film "Victoria", which was almost entirely improvised by the actors. The 134-minute film was, amazingly, shot in one single take. Costa won the Lola (German's equivalent of the Oscar) for Best Actress and was nominated for a European Film Awards for Best European Actress. Her performance also garnered her a nomination for the prestigious BAFTA EE Rising Star Award.

neg: The Three Faces of Eve 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. Eventually she is sent to see a personality psychiatrist Dr. Luther, and while having a conversation, a "new personality", the wild, fun-loving Eve Black, emerges. Eve

neg: Oscar love curse personal consequences for female actors, thus emphasizing an important conundrum for female actors: Oscar nominations/wins can help a career but can also ruin a marriage." Some actresses have managed to "break" the curse. On even rarer occasions, actresses (e.g., Maggie Smith) both experience and break the curse. 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 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

neg: Producers Guild Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra are the overall most-nominated performers in the female acting categories, with 8 nominations overall. Deepika having 8 for Best Actress, and Priyanka having 7 for Best Actress and 1 for Best Supporting Actress. Deepika Padukone also holds the record for most consecutive year nominations with 7 between 2013 and 2016, being nominated thrice in 2014 and twice in 2016. Deepika Padukone who received three out of the six nominations of this category in 2014 (and eventually won for "Chennai Express"), holds the record for the highest number of Best Actress nominations in a single year.

neg: Moulin Rouge! Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (for Ewan McGregor), Best Original Score (for Craig Armstrong), Best Director (for Baz Luhrmann) and Best Song ("Come What May"). It won three including the coveted Best Picture trophy. A few weeks later, it received 13 nominations at the BAFTA Awards, making it the most nominated film of the year for that ceremony. It took home three, 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

neg: RKO Pictures pledge to "eliminate any subversives". Scott, Dmytryk, and eight others who also defied HUAC—dubbed the Hollywood Ten—were blacklisted across the industry. Ironically, the studio's major success of the year was "Crossfire", a Scott–Dmytryk film. Odlum concluded it was time to exit the film business, and he put his remaining RKO shares—approximately 25 percent of the outstanding stock—on the market. Before the turn of the year, the Pathé-branded newsreel was sold to Warner Bros. For her performance in "The Farmer's Daughter" (1947), a coproduction with Selznick's Vanguard Films, Loretta Young won the Best Actress Oscar the following March. It would turn

neg: Greer Garson the 1940 film, "Pride and Prejudice". Garson starred with Joan Crawford in "When Ladies Meet" in 1941 (a poorly received and sanitized re-make of a Pre-Code version of the same name, which had starred Ann Harding and Myrna Loy) and that same year became a major box-office star with the sentimental Technicolor drama "Blossoms in the Dust", which brought her the first of five consecutive Best Actress Oscar nominations, tying Bette Davis's 1938–1942 record, which still stands. Garson won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942 for her role as a strong British wife and mother in the middle

neg: Winona Ryder nomination, and in the same year appeared alongside Johnny Depp in Burton's dark fairy-tale "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), and shortly thereafter opposite Gary Oldman in Francis Ford Coppola's gothic horror romance "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992). Having played diverse roles in many well-received films in the mid to late 1980s and early 1990s, Ryder won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of socialite May Welland in Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence" (1993), as well as another Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Jo March in the film adaptation

neg: Judd Apatow "Bridesmaids", which received Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Melissa McCarthy) and Best Original Screenplay (Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig), as well as two Golden Globe Award nominations and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. "Bridesmaids" also won a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Comedy Movie, a People's Choice Award for Favorite Comedy Movie and was named one of AFI's Movies of the Year. That same year, he produced "Girls" after seeing Lena Dunham's 2010 film "Tiny Furniture". In a January 2013 interview in Fast Company, Apatow and Dunham discussed the creative process of working on the show, saying

neg: Janet Grillo Oscar Nomination that year. Most recently, Grillo directed and executive produced "Jack of The Red Hearts", a narrative feature starring Famke Janssen and AnnaSophia Robb. It won the Jury Prize at the inaugural Bentonville Film Festival, which was co-founded by actress/activist Geena Davis to advance women and diversity. The film won Audience Award at Woods Hole Film Festival, and Director Prize for Best Young Actress, for Taylor Richardson's performance as a severely Autistic child. She has one son, Matt Russell with ex-husband David O. Russell. Janet Grillo Janet Grillo is an Emmy Award Winning Producer, award winning, critically acclaimed filmmaker,

neg: Marion Cotillard for a foreign language performance since 1972, when Liv Ullmann won for "The Emigrants". She is also the first person to win a (Comedy or Musical) Golden Globe for a foreign language performance. On 10 February 2008, Cotillard became the first French actress to be awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role since Stéphane Audran in 1973. At the Academy Awards, she won Best Actress, becoming the first woman and second person (after Adrien Brody, "The Pianist") to win both a César and an Oscar for the same performance. Cotillard is the second French cinema actress

neg: Purge (2012 film) nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actress. 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 Sound

neg: 80th Academy Awards to win the award for the same film. Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise first accomplished this feat for co-directing 1961's "West Side Story". This was also the second time in Oscar history (the first being 1964's 37th Academy Awards) that none of the four acting winners was American. Daniel Day-Lewis became the eighth person to win Best Actor twice. Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard was the fifth person to win for a non-English speaking performance and the second person to do so in the aforementioned category, after Sophia Loren who won for 1961's "Two Women". Cate Blanchett became the eleventh

neg: Elia Kazan 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

neg: 57th Academy Awards Supporting Actress for her performance in "A Passage to India", making her the oldest winner in that category. This ceremony marked the first time that multiple black nominees would win an Oscar, when Prince and Stevie Wonder won for their respective work on "Purple Rain" and "The Woman in Red". Additionally, it was the only time that all five nominees in Best Original Song topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart. One of the more notable gaffes in Oscar history occurred during the ceremony. Presenting the Best Picture award, Sir Laurence Olivier forgot to list the nominees and simply tore open

neg: 56th Academy Awards 56th Academy Awards The 56th Academy Awards were presented April 9, 1984, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson. The Best Supporting Actress winner this year was unique. 4’9” Linda Hunt won the award for her role as Billy Kwan a male Chinese-Australian photographer in Peter Weir's "The Year of Living Dangerously", making her the first actor to win an Oscar for playing a character of the opposite sex. Gordon Willis, a respected cinematographer most famous for his un-nominated work on "The Godfather", "The Godfather Part II", and Woody Allen's "Manhattan", received

neg: Wendy Hiller (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

neg: Jessica Lange actress Frances Farmer, in "Frances". Lange received three more nominations for "Country" (1984), "Sweet Dreams" (1985) and "Music Box" (1989), before winning her third Golden Globe Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a manic depressive housewife in "Blue Sky" (1994). In 1995, Lange became the second actress in Oscar history, after Meryl Streep, to win Best Actress after winning Best Supporting Actress; an achievement that was not repeated until nearly twenty years later by Cate Blanchett. In 2010, she won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' famed aunt,

neg: Sunrise at Campobello (play) 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

neg: The Palestinian 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

neg: Albert Finney the offer of a CBE in 1980 and a knighthood in 2000. He has criticised the honours system for "perpetuating snobbery". He has five Oscar nominations but has never won. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for "Tom Jones" (1963), "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974), "The Dresser" (1983), and "Under the Volcano" (1984); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "Erin Brockovich" (2000). Julia Roberts mentioned Albert Finney in her Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in "Erin Brockovich", thanking him and sharing the Oscar with

neg: Northeast Film Festival was held from September 5–7. The Lifetime Achievement Award was given to legendary producer Sam Sherman, with a Spirit of Independent Filmmaking Award being given to Lloyd Kaufman and the Icon Award given to Harry Lennix. Before I Disappear, directed by Oscar winner Shawn Christensen, was the opening night feature and won Best Feature, Best Director, Best Actress (Fatima Ptacek), Best Actor (Shawn Christensen), and Best Supporting Actress (Emmy Rossum), It also was nominated for 4 additional awards, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Isabelle McNally) and both Ron Perlman and Paul Wesley for Best Supporting Actor. The Make A Film

neg: Anthony Harvey I said, 'Kate when you’re simple, you’re devastating.' She was adorable about it". The film was a critical and commercial success and was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture; Hepburn won the Academy Award for Best Actress (with Barbra Streisand, the only time this has been a joint award) and Harvey was nominated for a Best Director Oscar and won Best Director at the Golden Globes, as well as several other major awards. It was the screen debuts actors Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton. Harvey later fondly recalled the deep familial rapport that developed among the cast, and

neg: Lee Grant "first and only choice" for the part was Grant, who he said was equally at home with dramatists such as Chekhov or Sidney Kingsley, yet could also be "hilariously funny" when the script called for it, as she was able to portray essential honesty in her acting. Among her most notable roles was as Warren Beatty's older lover in "Shampoo" (1975), for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. The film received mixed reviews, but was Columbia's biggest hit in the studio's 50-year history. "Shampoo" was the second film in which Grant acted under director Hal Ashby. Critic