He directed Jessica Tandy's Oscar-winning performance in "Driving Miss Daisy"
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Driving Miss Daisy: 1989 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 11, 2014 ... Driving Miss Daisy picked up 4 Oscars out of its 9 nominations, most ... He directed Jessica Tandy's Oscar-winning performance in Driving...
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'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for Jessica Tandy ...  Mar 27, 1990 ... 'Driving Miss Daisy' Wins 4 Oscars, Including One for Jessica Tandy ... actor went to the British actor Daniel Day-Lewis, for his performance as Brown. ... In accepting, the actor said that when the artist was alive he needed very little ... Italy's ''Cinema Paradiso,'' directed by Guiseppee Tornatore, a story of a...
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Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - IMDb  Drama  An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have ... Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone. ... FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW ... Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy (in Oscar Winning performance) invoke grace and...
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Driving Miss Daisy | About the Play | Great Performances | PBS  Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, a 2010 hit on ... Directed for the stage by David Esbjornson, Driving Miss Daisy airs on Great ... 1987 to the remarkable success of the Oscar-winning film version with Jessica Tandy and ... He is well known for his voiceover work including Darth Vader in the Star...
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Driving Miss Daisy - Wikipedia  Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film adapted from the Alfred Uhry play of the same name. The film was directed by Bruce Beresford, with Morgan Freeman reprising his role as Hoke Colburn (whom he also portrayed in the play) and Jessica Tandy playing Miss Daisy. .... The performances of Tandy and Freeman were also praised by Vincent...
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Jessica Tandy, a Patrician Star Of Theater and Film, Dies at 85  Sep 12, 1994 ... Jessica Tandy, who enhanced the American theater and enriched ... as few actresses have, died yesterday at her home in Easton, Conn. She was 85. The cause was ovarian cancer, said her husband, the actor Hume ... The Academy Award came one year after she won an Emmy for her ..... Cocoon (1985)
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'Driving Miss Daisy' rides again | Newsday  Driving Miss Daisy 2.5 stars While Alfred Uhry's three-character drama Driving Miss ... The 90-minute play, which is only now making its Broadway debut, observes the ... Daisy Werthan, a 72-year-old southern widow, and Hoke Coleburn, her ... After Daisy wrecks her new car by accidentally driving in reverse, her son...
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The New York Times: Best Pictures  Just getting the part of Miss Daisy was a surprise, she said. ... Dana Ivey created the role of Daisy Werthan in the play, and Miss Tandy saw Frances Sternhagen ... In the film, the chauffeur is forced on Daisy after she crashes her new 1948 Packard in her neighbor's garden. ... Luckily, I can still act like a vigorous 72-year-old!
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1994 Academy Awards Winners - Greatest Films  JESSICA LANGE in "Blue Sky", Jodie Foster in "Nell", Miranda Richardson in "Tom and Viv", Winona Ryder in "Little Women", Susan Sarandon in "The Client"
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BIOGRAPHY: Morgan Freeman Lifetime  He may have played a stoic chauffeur in the 1989 film 'Driving Miss Daisy' but what drives the ... Freeman received Oscar nominations for his roles in 1987's 'Street Smart', 1989's ... He finally won his Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in the ... his Obie award-winning role in the stage version of 'Driving Miss Daisy'.
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Cele|bitchy | Jodie Foster calls lower percentage of female directors ...  Apr 25, 2011 ... Just one year ago, Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for Best Director, ... Regardless, Jodie Foster is now complaining about Hollywood's ... So naturally, she continues to support Mel Gibson, who actually beats ... I'm gonna hand over $60 million to somebody I don't know. .... Are we supporting him as well?
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From the Archives: Jessica Tandy, Star of Stage, Screen and TV ...  Sep 12, 1994 ... ... actress who electrified Broadway audiences as the original Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' classic "A Streetcar Named Desire," and went ... as the Oscar-winning heroine of the film "Driving Miss Daisy," died Sunday.
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Breaker Morant - Based on a Book  The movie Breaker Morant was based on the book The Breaker. ... films as Tender Mercies and Driving Miss Daisy, Australian director Bruce Beresford made a...
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Great Performances (Frances / Plenty / Tender Mercies) - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com. Frances Jessica Lange gives a career performance in a role ... Tender Mercies was directed by Australian Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Breaker Morant), written by Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird),...
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Academy Awards, USA (1974) - IMDb  Julia Phillips became the first female producer to win the Best Picture ... The film's writer-director-producer Melvin Frank accepted the award on her behalf.
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Jessica Tandy, 1909-1994: She Performed in More Than 100 Plays ...  Sep 6, 2008 ... Today, we tell the story of Jessica Tandy who died in nineteen ninety-four. She won many awards ... That same year, she married actor Jack Hawkins. They had a ... But then her husband did something that changed her life. He gave her ... Tandy won the first of her four Tony awards for best actress in a play.
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1989 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  Driving Miss Daisy was the most nominated film and the Best Picture winner in 1989 ... [The first woman in Oscar history to receive an award for co-producing the ... an obvious tribute to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, and writer/director/actor .... unsuccessful nomination for Best Original Screenplay even though it was the...
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Jessica Tandy - Wikipedia  Jessica Tandy was an English-American stage and film actress, who spent most of her 67-year ... She received the Tony Award for best performance by a Leading Actress in A .... Tandy was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful ... 1948, Woman's Vengeance, AA Woman's Vengeance, Janet Spence.
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Actor Morgan Freeman to Receive Honorary Degree | BU Today ...  May 15, 2013 ... Those roles just begin to hint at the versatility actor Morgan Freeman has ... At age 12, he won a statewide drama competition, and as a high school student ... That year, he earned his first Oscar nomination, as a fast-talking pimp in ... Colburn opposite Jessica Tandy in the film version of Driving Miss Daisy.
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Jessica Tandy, a Patrician Star Of Theater and Film, Dies at 85  Sep 12, 1994 ... Miss Tandy triumphed on Broadway in 1947 as Blanche Dubois in ... she played the title character in the 1989 film "Driving Miss Daisy." In the years between, she and Mr. Cronyn, played opposite each other in ... that only poets, not theater critics, should be allowed to write about her. ..... Here is a sampling.
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Hume Cronyn - Wikipedia  Hume Blake Cronyn, Jr., OC (July 18, 1911  June 15, 2003) was a Canadian-American actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a ... Cronyn married the actress Jessica Tandy in 1942, and appeared with her in many of their more ... film and television outings, including The Green Years (1946), The Seventh Cross (1944),...