She won her first Oscar playing Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry"
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Boys Don't Cry (1999) - IMDb  Biography  Female-born Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and ... Boys Don't Cry Poster  Trailer. 1:00 | ... Won 1 Oscar. Another 47 wins & 37 .... Cast overview, first billed only: Hilary Swank ... Brandon Teena .... Ms. Hilary Swank embraced her character with open arms, and turned him into a hero.
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Brandon Teena - Wikipedia  Brandon Teena was an American trans man who was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska. His life and death were the subject of the Academy Award-winning 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, which was partially ... JoAnn named him, her second child, after their German shepherd dog, Tina Marie. Teena and his older sister...
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Boys Don't Cry (film) - Wikipedia  Sevigny initially auditioned for the role of Brandon, but Peirce could not picture her playing a man, so she was ultimately cast as Teena's girlfriend Lana. Most of...
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Hilary Swank Talks About Her Pay for Boys Don't Cry, Which Won ...  Oct 20, 2016 ... Hilary Swank Reveals She Was Paid $3,000 for Her Oscar-Winning Boys Don't ... on the film that would eventually win her her first statuette: Boys Don't Cry. ... Swank played real-life transgender man Brandon Teena, who was...
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GIRLS DON'T CRY - Newsweek  Jan 9, 2005 ... ... before she won the 2000 Oscar for playing the struggling Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry"--she was a small-town kid living in a trailer park. ... and landed her first serious role in the indie "Boys Don't Cry" two years later.
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Lupita Nyong'o on Oscar Win: 'Midnight Came and This Did Not ...  Mar 3, 2014 ... The best supporting actress recipient also told "Live! ... Russell Crowe, Matt Damon Honor Ridley Scott at American Cinematheque Gala ... Twelve midnight came and this did not disappear," Nyong'o said of her Oscar, which she was ... it for three seconds, but she counted and playfully snatched the award...
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The 25 biggest Oscar shocks - The Telegraph  Feb 14, 2016 ... Rainer was the first winner of back-to-back acting Oscars, paving the way for .... Juliette Binoche, Best Supporting Actress winner for The English Patient (1996) ... Marcia Gay Harden, Supporting Actress winner for Pollock (2000) .... and using it to scoop up every nomination in his reach (see also: Chocolat).
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Reese Witherspoon - Best Actress Oscar for "Walk The Line" (2006 ...  Reese Witherspoon 2006 Oscars - won an Best Actress award for her role in "Walk the Line. ... Witherspoon's look from the 2006 Oscars when she won an award for her role in "Walk the Line. ..... Reese Witherspoon walked the red carpet at the 2006 Oscars in this ..... Jennifer Lawrence, walks away with her 1st acting Oscar.
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In an upset, 'Spotlight' wins best picture at Academy Awards | The ...  Feb 28, 2016 ... LOS ANGELES  In an underdog win for a movie about an. ... "Spotlight" took best picture at an Academy Awards riven by protest and outrage, and ... four times previously, Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar, for a best actor in "The ... The Sweden-born Alicia Vikander took best supporting actress for the...
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Tatum O'Neal - Wikipedia  Tatum Beatrice O'Neal (born November 5, 1963) is an American actress and author. She is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, which she won in 1974 at age 9 for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal. ... O'Neal played the role of Addie Loggins, a child con artist being tutored by a...
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Halle, Denzel Make Oscar history - ABC News  Halle, Denzel Make Oscar history. ... March 24, 2002 ... Halle Berry became the first African-American to win the Best Actress Oscar and Denzel ... Berry burst into tears as she accepted her award for her daring role as the widow of a ... Whoopi Goldberg, hosting her fourth Oscar show, made a grand entrance from the ceiling.
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The Best Moments in Oscars History: Tearful Speeches, NSFW ...  Feb 23, 2016 ... ... and Berry's tearful speech: This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll.
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OSCARS LISTS: RECORDS AND CURIOSITIES - EUdesign  This site includes a comparison of awards for the first two films. ... films. Otherwise the youngest person to win a competitive Academy Award is TATUM ... Film, was the first: she won Best Actress in 1961 for her performance in "Two Women". ... Only six films have won both an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and other...
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Hilary Swank - Animal Rights Activist, Film Actress, Television ...  Dec 1, 2015 ... Actress Hilary Swank has portrayed bold, powerful women and a ... nine and now lists two Best Actress Oscars on her resume for "Boys Don't ... "I have dreamed of being an actress since I was 8 years old," she ... In 1994, Swank appeared to get a big break, winning the leading role in The Next Karate Kid,...
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'American Beauty' wins Oscar for best picture - Washington Times  Mar 27, 2000 ... Miss Jolie, 24, thanked her father, Jon Voight, a best actor winner for "Coming ... Cowboy," saying: "Dad, you're a great actor but a better father. ... leading actress in "Boys Don't Cry," Mr. Caine for supporting actor in and ... Warren Beatty was named for the Irving Thalberg Award for a high level of producing.
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jeopardy/3088_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  OSCAR NIGHT 2003 | This Best Actress Winner said that Russell Crowe told her not to cry...but she did anyway | Nicole Kidman. right: Julie. Wrong: Value: $800.
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Chloe Sevigny Interview Magazine | Chloe Sevigny : Just Jared  May 1, 2006 ... Meanwhile, your co-stars are amazing. ... I've been doing all these bit parts since Boys Don't Cry, and I've been ... SB :: I always thought of polygamists as being so backward, and here you're portraying a family that's strangely functional. .... CS :: Well, I did have a little stop-off at Yves Saint Laurent today.
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Thora Birch - Revolvy  Thora Birch (born March 11, 1982) is an American actress. ... in Purple People Eater (1988), in which she won a Young Artist Award for "Best Young ... Burnham's alienated daughter was the best thing about American Beauty, plays a ..... Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a 42-year-old advertising executive who has a...
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19 People Who Won Oscars For Their First Movie | Mental Floss  Feb 1, 2016 ... Long before True Blood, nine-year-old Anna Paquin got her first big break in The Piano. She ... Paquin was 11 when she won Best Supporting Actress in 1994. ... Almost all first-role Oscar winners are women; only two men have ... Just four years after being nominated for a Tony for Funny Girl and losing,...
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The Brandon Teena Story: Rethinking the Body, Gender Identity and ...  Brandon Teena's story troubles conventional feminist understandings of the body, ... As narrated in Boys Don't Cry and The Brandon Teena Story, Brandon Teena's ...... Kimberly Peirce, 118 min., CBS/Fox Home Video, 1999, videocassette. 4.
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8 of the Youngest Oscar Winners and Nominees of All Time  Feb 29, 2016 ... The following is a list of the youngest Oscar nominees and winners in the acting categories. ... history-making because Brody was only 29 years old when he won. ... of Best Actress at age 9 when she was nominated for her role as the ... lost the Oscar to another child actor, Patty Duke for The Miracle Worker,...