query: who won the first oscar for best actress

pos: Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Actress The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in "7th Heaven", "Street Angel", and "". Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Margaret Leighton 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

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: 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: Renée Zellweger 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)

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: Simone Signoret Salem"; 1956), based on Arthur Miller's "The Crucible". In 1958, Signoret acted in the English independent film, "Room at the Top" (1959), which won her numerous awards including the Best Female Performance Prize at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was the only French cinema actress to receive an Oscar until Juliette Binoche in 1997 (Supporting Actress) and Marion Cotillard in 2008 (Best Actress), and the first woman to win the award appearing in a foreign film. She was offered films in Hollywood, but turned them down, continuing to work in France and England—notably opposite Laurence Olivier

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: Jane Fonda Bette Davis did in the thirties." For her performance, she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Fonda was very selective by the end of the decade, turning down lead roles in "Rosemary's Baby" and "Bonnie and Clyde". In the seventies, Fonda enjoyed her most critically acclaimed period as an actress despite some setbacks for her ongoing activism. According to writer and critic Hilton Als, her performances starting with "They Kill Horses, Don't They?" "heralded a new kind of acting: for the first time, she was willing

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: 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: 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: 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: J. A. Bayona 2012, to positive critical response. In its first weekend it grossed $8.6 million, breaking the record for the best opening in the history of the Spanish box office. "The Impossible" was nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards in the category of Best Actress for the interpretation of Naomi Watts. The film was also nominated in 14 categories at the Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor (Tom Holland), of which it won five awards. In 2013 "The Impossible" received a National Film Award in the framework of the 61st International

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: 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: 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: Deborah Kerr where she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1709 Vine Street for her contributions to the motion picture industry. Kerr won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy" for "The King and I" in 1957 and a Henrietta Award for "World Film Favorite – Female". She was the first performer to win the New York Film Critics Circle Award for "Best Actress" three times (1947, 1957 and 1960). Although she never won a BAFTA, Oscar or Cannes Film Festival award in a competitive category, all three organisations gave Kerr honorary

neg: Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte rating of 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 20 reviews. "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" received Academy Award nominations for the following: Moorehead won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Farrell and Heller won a 1965 Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. The title song became a hit for Patti Page, who took it to no. 8 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The film's seven Oscar nominations were the most for a movie of the horror genre up to that time. "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" was first released on DVD on August 9,

neg: Daniela Vega wouldn’t herself go." Her name was strongly mentioned for an Oscar nomination as Best Actress. She won an award for her performance at the Palm Springs International Film Festival for Best Actress in a Foreign Language Film. "A Fantastic Woman" went on to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Vega became the first openly transgender person ever to be a presenter at the Academy Awards ceremony in 2018. In 2018, it was announced that Vega would have a recurring role in the Netflix miniseries "Tales of the City". Vega became the first transgender person in history

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: 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: Irving Thalberg as a Chinese peasant, she was required to act totally subservient to her husband, being perpetually huddled in submission, and barely spoke a word of dialogue during the entire film. Rainer recalls that Mayer did not approve of the film being produced or her part in it: "He was horrified at Irving Thalberg's insistence for me to play O-lan, the poor uncomely little Chinese peasant." However, she again won the Oscar for Best Actress, becoming the first actress to win two consecutive Oscars, a feat not matched until Katharine Hepburn's two Oscar wins thirty years later. Besides bringing a distinctive

neg: Sandra Bullock filmography "The Proposal", "All About Steve", and "The Blind Side". Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "The Blind Side", and also received the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for "All About Steve". In doing so, she became the first person to win both a Razzie and an Oscar in the same weekend. In 2013, Bullock starred in the films "The Heat" and "Gravity". For her performance in the latter, she received the Saturn Award for Best Actress and was also nominated at the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, and Golden Globe Awards. In

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: 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: 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: 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: Robert Wise (1962) and "The Sound of Music" (1965). In 1961, teamed with Jerome Robbins, Wise won the Academy Award for Best Director for "West Side Story", which Wise also produced. Wise and Robbins were the first duo to share an Academy Award for directing. Wise won a second Oscar, for Best Picture, as the film's producer, "West Side Story" won ten out of its 11 Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (George Chakiris), Supporting Actress (Rita Moreno), Cinematography (color), Art/Set Decoration (color), Sound, Scoring of a Musical Picture, Editing, and Costume Design (color). It lost for Best Screenplay based

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: Michael Curtiz Pierce" was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Only Crawford won, for Best Actress, her first and only Oscar. The novel's author, James M. Cain, gave her a leather-bound copy of "Mildred Pierce", which he inscribed: "To Joan Crawford, who brought Mildred to life as I had always hoped she would be, and who has my lifelong gratitude." The film returned Crawford to the ranks of leading stars. After the success of the film, Jack Warner gave Curtiz two new and exceptional contracts in appreciation, boosting his salary and reducing the number of films he had to direct

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: 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: 70th Academy Awards 1998. With eleven awards, "Titanic" tied with "Ben-Hur" for the most Academy Awards in Oscar history. It also became the first film to win Best Picture without a screenwriting nomination since 1965's "The Sound of Music". Best Actress winner Helen Hunt became the first performer to win an Oscar while concurrently starring in a television series; Jack Nicholson became the fourth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. Both won for their roles in "As Good as It Gets", making it the seventh film to win both lead acting awards. Nominated for their performances as Rose DeWitt Bukater in

neg: Kimberly Peirce other awards for the film's star, Hilary Swank. Chloë Sevigny was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and Golden Globe and won the Independent Spirit Award and many other awards for her role as Lana Tisdale. The film received the International Critics prize for Best Film at both the London and Stockholm Film Festivals, the Satyajit Ray Foundation Award for Best First Feature at the London Film Festival, and was named "Best American Feature," by Janet Maslin. Peirce won honors as Best Debut Director from the National Board of Review and Best New Filmmaker from the Boston Society of

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: Marsha Mason Marsha Mason Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942) is an American actress and director. She was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Actress; for her performances in "Cinderella Liberty" (1973), "The Goodbye Girl" (1977), "Chapter Two" (1979), and "Only When I Laugh" (1981). The first two films also won her Golden Globe Awards. She was married for ten years (1973–83) to the playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon, who was the writer of three of her four Oscar-nominated roles. Mason's film debut was in the 1966 film "Hot Rod Hullabaloo". Her other films include "Blume in Love" (1973),

neg: Triple Crown of Acting Oscar and Tony wins. Her Grammy win was in 1972 in the Best Recording for Children category. Moreno is the first Hispanic actor to win the Triple Crown and is one of only two Triple Crown winners who have also achieved the EGOT. American actress Maureen Stapleton (1925–2006) completed the triple crown in 1982. She was a 7-time Emmy (1), 6-time Tony (2), and 4-time Oscar (1) nominee, for a total of 17 nominations. Stapleton won four awards. American actor Jason Robards (1922–2000) completed the triple crown in 1988. He was an 8-time Tony (1), 5-time Emmy (1), and 3-time

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: Cavalcade (1933 film) sacrifices true emotion for mawkishness." "Cavalcade" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Frank Lloyd won the Academy Award for Best Director, and the Academy Award for Best Art Direction went to William S. Darling. Diana Wynyard was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress but lost to Katharine Hepburn for "Morning Glory". "Cavalcade" was the first film produced by Fox Film Corporation to win the Best Picture Oscar, and the only one before it merged with 20th Century Pictures in 1935 to form 20th Century Fox. The Academy Film Archive preserved "Cavalcade" in 2002. In addition to several

neg: Cinema of Italy 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,

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: 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: Ira Levin Novel. "A Kiss Before Dying" was turned into a movie twice, first in 1956 and again in 1991. Levin's best-known novel is "Rosemary's Baby," a horror story of modern-day Satanism and other occultisms, set in Manhattan's Upper West Side. In 1968, it was made into a film starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes. Ruth Gordon won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance. Roman Polanski, who wrote and directed the film, was nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Levin said in 2002, "I feel guilty that 'Rosemary's Baby' led to

neg: Triple Crown of Acting Moreno are the only triple crown winners in competitive acting categories who have also won a Grammy Award to complete the EGOT. American actress Helen Hayes (1900–1993) was the first performer to achieve the triple crown of acting. She completed the triple crown in 1953. Hayes was a 9-time Emmy (1), 3-time Tony (2), and 2-time Oscar (2) nominee, for a total of 14 TC nominations. She won two Oscars, two Tonys and an Emmy for a total of five competitive triple crown awards. She also won a Grammy in 1977 for Best Spoken Word Recording to complete the EGOT,

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: Michael Oher Academy Awards for both Best Picture and Best Actress for Bullock. Bullock won an Oscar for her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy. Oher wrote his autobiography, "I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness to The Blind Side and Beyond", in 2011. Michael Oher Michael Jerome Oher (; né Williams Jr.; born May 28, 1986) is an American football offensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He played college football for the University of Mississippi, and was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He has also played for the Tennessee Titans and Carolina

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: 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: 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: 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: William Wyler 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"

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: 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: 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: 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: Karl E. Landler as . His co-star is the César award (French Oscar)-winning actress Zita Hanrot. He played the boyfriend of the NRJ's award winner singer Amel Bent in her music video Je reste. it peaked as number one on the Belgian Singles Chart. He co-wrote, directed and starred in the short film DuO alongside Marem Hassler his co-star in Metal Hurlant Chronicles. DuO won best comedy and best actress and got nominated for best actor and best director at Los Angeles Independent Films festival. His and AlloCine page he is on Instagram, Facebook Page and Twitter He was honored at the first

neg: All About Eve Ritter, Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest roles, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates and Walter Hampden. Praised by critics at the time of its release, "All About Eve" received 14 Academy Award nominations and won six, including Best Picture. "All About Eve" is the only film in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations (Davis and Baxter as Best Actress, Holm and Ritter as Best Supporting Actress). "All About Eve" was selected in 1990 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry and was among the first 50 films to be registered. "All About Eve" appeared at #16

neg: 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: Stacey Slater departure was nominated for 'Best Exit' at the 2011 British Soap Awards. In August 2017, Turner was longlisted for Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards. She did not progress to the viewer-voted shortlist. Turner's portrayal of Stacey during the postpartum psychosis storyline earned her much praise from viewers with many commenting that Turner's acting was 'Oscar-worthy.' Turner's acting also won her multiple awards including 'Best Actress' and 'Best Female Dramatic Performance' at the 2016 British Soap Awards. At the same ceremony, Stacey's postpartum psychosis won the award for 'Best Storyline.' A reporter writing for the "Inside Soap Yearbook 2017"

neg: The Danish Girl (film) Oscar and all other prizes in the supporting actress category, in which many lead actresses have been nominated and even won. She was intentionally not shortlisted in the best actress category as she would have been competing against Brie Larson for her role in "Room", which would have decreased her chances of winning while the supporting actress category had little competition. At both the Golden Globe Awards and the British Academy Awards, Vikander's performance in "The Danish Girl" was nominated for Best Actress and she was included in the Best Supporting Actress category for her work in "Ex Machina". The

neg: Peter Weir novel by Christopher Koch, which was based in part on the experiences of Koch's journalist brother Philip, the ABC's Jakarta correspondent and one of the few western journalists in the city during the 1965 attempted coup. The film also won Linda Hunt (who played a man in the film) an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The film was produced by Jim McElroy, who with his brother Hal McElroy had also (co-)produced Weir's first three films, "The Cars That Ate Paris", "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and "The Last Wave". Weir's first American film was the successful thriller "Witness"

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: The King and I Kralahome. The production was filmed and shown in theatres in late 2018. "The King and I" continues to be a popular choice for productions by community theatres, school and university groups, summer camps and regional theatre companies. The musical was filmed in 1956 with Brynner re-creating his role opposite Deborah Kerr. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won five, including Best Actor for Brynner, with Kerr nominated for Best Actress. Sharaff won for best costume design. The film was directed by Walter Lang (who was also nominated for an Oscar) and choreographed by Robbins. Marni Nixon dubbed

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: 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: Amy Adams confirmed reports that Russell had been hard on her and had made her cry frequently; she said that she feared bringing such a negative experience home to her daughter. "American Hustle" was acclaimed by critics; Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" believed that Adams "goes deeper here than she's ever been allowed to" and wrote that she had successfully "turn[ed] an unpredictable character into a thrillingly wild one". She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical and received her fifth Oscar nomination (her first for Best Actress). "Her" and "American Hustle" were deemed

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: 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: Octavia Spencer "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

neg: Jonathan Demme New York City for fifteen years. Demme won the Academy Award for "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)—one of only three films to win all the major categories (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress). Inspired by his friend Juan Suárez Botas's illness with AIDS and fueled by his own moral convictions, Demme then used his influence to make "Philadelphia" (1993), one of the first major films to address the AIDS crisis and which garnered star Tom Hanks his first Best Actor Oscar. He also co-directed (with his nephew Ted) the music video for Bruce Springsteen's

neg: Tender Mercies promote its candidacy: only four Oscar campaign advertisements were purchased; all of them appeared in the trade journal "Variety", and Duvall had declined to campaign for himself or the film. Beresford and studio executives were surprised when the film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Harper was believed by some to be a strong contender for either Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress, but ultimately she was nominated in neither category. Duvall was the only American actor nominated for the Best Actor Oscar; his competition were Britons Michael Caine (who had co-starred with Duvall in the 1976

neg: Robert Rossen Robert Rossen Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film "All the King's Men" won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. He won the Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. In 1961 he directed "The Hustler", which was nominated for nine Oscars and won two. After directing and writing for the stage in New York, Rossen moved

neg: 34th Academy Awards Actress for a film with singular nomination, a feat that wouldn't occur again until twenty-seven years later, in 1989, when Jodie Foster won Best Actress for her role in "The Accused", the film's only nomination. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface The most memorable event of the night was when Stan Berman, a New York City cabdriver, awarded Bob Hope a homemade Oscar after he had slipped through security and made his way to the stage. Both Jackie Gleason (in "The Hustler") and Judy Garland (in "Judgment At Nuremberg") were heavily favored to win the awards for best

neg: Hattie McDaniel 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;

neg: Leslie Caron Hollywood considers musical dancers as hoofers. Regrettable expression." She also starred in the successful musicals "Lili" (1953), with Mel Ferrer; "Daddy Long Legs" (1955), with Fred Astaire, and "Gigi" (1958) with Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier. In 1953, Caron was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in "Lili." For her performance in the British drama "The L-Shaped Room" (1962), she won the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress and Golden Globe awards, and was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. In the 1960s and thereafter, Caron worked in European films, as well. Her later

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: Purge (2012 film) 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 Design and Best Make-Up Design. Birn was also

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: Mary Chase (playwright) Road", "Abie's Irish Rose", "Deathtrap", and "Gemini". Frank Fay and James Stewart were the most famous actors to portray Elwood P. Dowd. Josephine Hull portrayed his increasingly concerned (and socially obsessed) sister on Broadway originally, and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in the film. Ruth McDevitt, Marion Lorne, Helen Hayes, and Swoosie Kurtz, among other actresses, also portrayed Veta either onstage or on television. James Stewart was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for the film version, but lost out to Jose Ferrer in the 1950 film version of "Cyrano de Bergerac". In 1945, she won the Pulitzer Prize

neg: Asghar Farhadi Bejo won the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance in the film. His 2016 film "The Salesman", starring Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti, competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. "The Salesman" won two Awards: Best Actor for Shahab Hosseini and Best Screenplay for Farhadi. On 26 February 2017, he won his second Oscar for Best Foreign Film for "The Salesman" at the 89th Academy Awards. "The Salesman" had already won the award for the Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival. Following Donald Trump's executive order barring Iranians from entering the country, Farhadi

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