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Mar 15, 2021 · Find out who won the 93rd Academy Awards, honouring the movie industry's finest from the past 12 months. See the full list of winners in all categories, from best picture to best visual...
Apr 25, 2021 · See which films and filmmakers won the coveted Oscars at the 2021 Academy Awards. Nomadland led with three awards, including Best Picture, while Chloé Zhao made history as the first woman of...
- Lupita Nyong'o
- Anna Paquin
- Gale Sondergaard
- Katina Paxinou
- Harold Russell
- Mercedes Mccambridge
- Shirley Booth
- Barbra Streisand
- Eva Marie Saint
- Jo Van Fleet
Lupita Nyong'o wasn't a total film novice when she landed the role of Patsey in Steve McQueen's Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave (2013). In 2009, she produced, directed, edited, and handled all the publicity for the documentary In My Genes. But 12 Years a Slave marked her debut in front of the camera, and what a debut it was. In addition to the...
Long before True Blood, 9-year-old Anna Paquin got her first big break in The Piano. She beat 5000 other girls, including her sister, for the role. Her only acting experience: a small role as a skunk in the school play. Paquin was 11 when she won Best Supporting Actress in 1994. Holly Hunter won Best Actress for playing her character's mother.
Gale Sondergaard won Best Supporting Actress in 1937 for the costume drama Anthony Adverse. It was the only Academy Award of her career. Years later, she dropped out of playing the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, reportedly because she didn't want to wear disfiguring makeup. That's how people win Oscars nowadays!
Greek actress Katina Paxinou also peaked early. She honed her acting skills on stage, even when her parents disowned her for her career choice. When Paxinou finally got in front of a movie camera in the 1943 film For Whom the Bell Tolls, she won Best Supporting Actress.
In 2014, Barkhad Abdi was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in his first film role. Before playing a Somali pirate leader in Captain Phillips, he worked as a chauffeur. Almost all first-role Oscar winners are women; only two men have accomplished the same feat. The first was Harold Russell, a World War II veteran who lost both hands in the war. H...
Orson Welles called her "the world's greatest living radio actress," but Mercedes McCambridge was also impressive enough on camera to win Best Supporting Actress for All the King's Men in 1950. She was nominated for the same award again for Giant in 1957, but didn't take home the golden statuette. One of her strangest later roles: The voice of Pazu...
Sometimes a rookie carries an entire film. Shirley Booth's first role in 1952's Come Back, Little Shebawon her an Academy Award for Best Actress. There was a reason Booth was trusted with a big part: She won her second Tony two years earlier playing the same role.
It's hard enough to win an Oscar. But Barbra Streisand is among the few performers to have collected at least one Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award. Just four years after being nominated for a Tony for Funny Girl and losing, Streisand won Best Actress for the same role in the 1968 film. Then she was honored with a Special Tony for career achievem...
Before she played the femme fatale in the Hitchcock classic North by Northwest, Eva Marie Saint's breakout role was in 1954's On the Waterfront. She won Best Supporting Actress. She had some prior TV and stage experience, but it was still her film debut.
A year after Saint's win, another upstart—stage actress Jo Van Fleet—took home the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Both actresses won Oscars under the direction of Elia Kazan, but their careers took very different turns: After playing Kate in East of Eden, Fleet was typecast as an old woman, often much older than she actually was. Ouch.
Mar 10, 2024 · The Boy and the Heron GKIDS. The Boy and the Heron won the Oscar for best animated feature on Sunday (March 10), 21 years after Spirited Away took the award. Hayao Miyazaki won for both films,...
Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter who won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine and worked on Toy Story 3, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and The Hunger Games. Learn about his life, career, filmography, and awards on Wikipedia.
Apr 26, 2021 · The Oscars 2021 are announcing the winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Actor and more. Get live updates on Oscar winners and the awards ceremony.
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Apr 6, 2014 · Little Miss Sunshine changed the industry. It proved an indie film could enter the Oscar race and that it could win. Screenwriter Michael Arndt took home the Best Original Screenplay Award in 2007 for his simple yet complex script.
