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In 1977, Richard Dreyfuss won an Oscar for the wrong movie / The ...  The year Dreyfuss starred in The Goodbye Girl also saw him starring in Close ... other two gave their award to actors who weren't even nominated. ... renaissance in the 1970s, winning the Best Actor Oscar (and Golden Globe, in the ... Three years later, the NSFC singled out his performance in Robert Benton's The Late...
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Ten reasons Jeff Bridges is underrated - LA Times  May 6, 2008 ... He's now in theaters as 'Iron Man's' super nemesis, but the actor's never been ... Even if a film lets him down, one always feels that Bridges gives ... "The Last Picture Show" Bridges picked up his first supporting actor Oscar nomination in Peter ... Bridges won an Independent Spirit Award for best actor for his...
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Movies Where the Wrong Actor/Actress Won The Oscar [Archive ...  Well Tom Cruise wasn't even nominated, even for a supporting role, for Rain Man but I ... And James Caan should have won the Best Supporting Actor award. ... I agree that his performance was more deserving. ... performance is more nuanced than the winner Cloris Leachman in The Last Picture Show.
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Editorials and Opinion | Doctor of Movies  Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a special little movie, an indie which won over ... character in this story, Sylvester Stallone delivers a career best performance. .... price favourite to walk away with a Best Supporting Actor Oscar early next year. .... and dramatic abilities and appropriately earned him his first Oscar nomination.
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Jeff Bridges: Super Natural | Celebrities - Cigar Aficionado  For 30 years he's been one of America's most gifted and fascinating actors. ... There are some actors who don't like to engage with other actors; they just ... The Last Picture Show, the now-classic coming-of-age tale that launched his career in 1971. .... His performance earned him his first Academy Award nomination, as best...
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Oscar Winners 1940-49 - Washington Post  Picture: "The Lost Weekend" ... Supporting Actor: Harold Russell, "The Best Years of Our Lives" ... Supporting Actor: Edmund Gwenn, "Miracle on 34th Street"
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Michael Caine - Wikipedia  In 1986, he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters. Caine played Ebenezer...
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Revisit Iconic Oscars Moments - Popsugar  Feb 27, 2016 ... Ellen DeGeneres totally had an impromptu pizza party when she hosted ... On the way up the steps to accept her best actress award for Silver Linings Playbook ... Heath Ledger walked the red carpet with Michelle Williams at the 2006 ..... to the 2008 Oscars, where he won best supporting actor for his role in...
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8 Indisputable Reasons Why Leonardo DiCaprio Should Have Won ...  Feb 29, 2016 ... But why hasn't this screen god won an Oscar yet? ... A young Leonardo DiCaprio earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 1993's 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' as a mentally disabled teenager called Arnie. ... already seen this movie, Leo, alongside the always-delightful Johnny Depp,...
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2001 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  It also marked the first year that the Best Animated Feature Film category was offered. ... Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Connelly), and Best Adapted Screenplay ... Two other films in Academy Awards history have had 14 nominations, and six .... in Glory (1989), another supporting nomination for his role as Steven Biko in...
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1984 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  Most of the nominations-totals for 1984's Best Picture nominees were very ... The lavish epic film (with eleven nominations and two wins - for Best Supporting Actress ... The Best Supporting Actor winner was Cambodian native Haing S. Ngor (a ... Ngor became the first Asian performer to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
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Oscars 2015: 15 headline-making moments at the Academy Awards ...  Feb 20, 2015 ... The Academy Awards are a magnet for these kinds of moments. ... 1992: Jack Palance won the best supporting actor award for "City ... a reference to his co-star (and that year's Oscar host): "Billy Crystal? ... After he left the stage, Crystal informed the audience that Palance "is backstage on the Stairmaster.".
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Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor - Greatest Films  Best Supporting Actor Oscars are traditionally given to actors who stand out in ... Nicholson (4) - with one win (Terms of Endearment (1983)); also nominated for .... one Best Actress, four Best Supporting Actor, and six Best Supporting Actress). .... Francis Ford Coppola, Best Director winner for The Godfather Part II (1974)...
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'Beauty' Dazzles at Oscars - Page 2 - latimes  Mar 27, 2000 ... Film Wins 5, Including Best Picture, Actor and Director ... in "Girl, Interrupted," captured the best supporting actress trophy. The 24-year-old daughter of Oscar-winner Jon Voight, had been a clear favorite throughout ... saying Voight is a "great actor but a better father," but she reserved her dearest comments...
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Anjelica Huston - Wikipedia  Huston won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance, making her the first person in Academy Award history to win an Oscar when a parent and a grandparent had also won one. Huston earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a con artist in Stephen Frears' The Grifters (1990).
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9 Iconic Performances That Weren't Even Nominated But Should ...  Jul 15, 2014 ... Christopher Reeve deserved to win an Oscar for his roles in Superman: The Movie. ... Ben Kingsley did a solid job portraying the selfless Mahatma Gandhi, but ... Peter Weller (Alex Murphy/RoboCop) in RoboCop  Best Actor, 1987 .... Dustin Hoffman- All The President's Men (Best Actor In A Leading Role)
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Oscars Flashback: A Look Back at the Nine Actors Who Have Won ...  Feb 20, 2015 ... With the 87th annual Academy Awards just two days away, ... won her Oscar for COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA, she also won a Tony for THE TIME ... After winning his initial Oscar and Tony for his performances on ... Fun fact: Albertson is one of the few actors to be nominated for two Emmys in the same year.
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Wikipedia  First awarded, 1937 (for performance in films released during the 1936 film season). Currently held by, Mark Rylance  Bridge of Spies (2015). Official website, oscars.org. The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy ... Since its inception, the award has been given to 72 actors.
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Best picture race brings chaos to the Oscars - USA Today  Feb 21, 2016 ... Though it may end Oscar night with the most awards, thanks to all its technical ... and best actor  plus it took best film at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs, ... win two of its six nominated categories, O'Neil says, and the last best-picture ... And oddly enough, the presidential race could possibly play into the...
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The Oscars: the 87 films to win Best Picture - The Telegraph  Jan 29, 2016 ... It Happened One Night won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Actor, Actress, ... Fletcher Christian (Clark Gable) leads the crew of English conscripts to mutiny ... It was one of the biggest movies of the 1930s. ...... Sam Mendes' suburban drama starring Kevin Spacey as a father in the grips of a mid-life crisis...
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#Oscars photobomb with Ellen and the star-studded gang! | Oscars ...  But he also won the Best Actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in Marty. He also starred in the TV comedy McHale's Navy and was most recently ..... Though Isaac Singer insists that #Yentl does not have #feminist undertones, ..... All the Fashion on the Oscars 2016 Red Carpet (Part 1) - Saoirse Ronan in...