Which important US building has its roof ripped off in Superman II?

Superman II (1980) Superman II (1980) d. Richard Lester, 127 minutes, 116 minutes Superman II (2006), Richard Donner's cut, with 83% Donner original footage Film Plot Summary This film began by reviewing short clips from the previous film, beginning with the trial of three criminals: General Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa (Sarah Douglas), and Non (Jack O'Halloran), on seditious treason charges before Krypton's Council of Elders. The trio had stealthily entered the Council Chamber where the neck of a guard was broken. However, the Council was prepared against their coup d'etat attempt and the group was apprehended. They were encircled by descending, spinning, imprisoning rings as they were declared guilty. The three were banished from the planet Krypton into the revolving, two-dimensional Phantom Zone, their prison, causing them to be flattened. Under the credits, Krypton's respected scientist Jor-El (Marlon Brando), fearing that Krypton would be destroyed by a collision with its sun, prepared a space capsule/rocket (with one green crystal) to bear his son Kal-El safely away, just before the planet exploded. There was a brief recap of Kal-El's crash landing in a wheatfield in Kansas, his encounter with adoptive parents, his summoning by the green crystal and trek to the North to create the Fortress of Solitude, Clark Kent's (Christopher Reeve) subsequent employment as a reporter in Metropolis at the Daily Planet, and Superman's first public demonstration when he rescued fellow reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder) from a crashing helicopter. The summary ended with the previous film's concluding sequence, in which Superman saved the West Coast from catastrophe when villain Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) detonated a nuclear missile on the San Andreas Fault. At the Daily Planet Office, chief Editor Perry White (Jackie Cooper) ordered his oblivious reporter Clark Kent to do a background story on a terrorist group (disguised as repairmen) that had seized the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and taken about 20 tourists as hostages. They were making demands of the French government, while threatening to explode a Hydrogen bomb (hidden in an oil drum) and level the city. Lois Lane had already been sent to Paris as White's "best reporter" to get the story. Worried about her, Clark hurriedly left the building, darted into an alley, and magically transformed himself into Superman at running speed (on camera) - rapidly soaring toward Europe. Meanwhile, ambitious and determined Lois arrived at the scene where the terrorists had released the remaining hostages. To get the story (Lois hoped for a Pulitzer or Nobel prize!), she evaded one security guard with her tourist's translation phrase book, and climbed under the lift-elevator mechanism - after which it was raised high into the air, carrying the terrorists and the bomb. To capture the terrorists, French gendarmes with cable-cutters snapped the elevator's thick steel supports, plunging it down the shaft to the ground (with Lois pinned and clinging underneath), as one of the terrorists inadvertently triggered the timer device with only 60 seconds until detonation. Superman caught the out-of-control elevator, told Lois: "I believe this is your floor," left her off on a lower level, and pushed the elevator (with the bomb) up the shaft and into outer space past Earth's moon. When it exploded, the concussion force of its shock-wave rings caused the Phantom Zone, traveling nearby, to shatter and break open - unwittingly freeing and restoring the Kryptonians as three-dimensional beings, who then flew on toward Earth. Outside the Daily Planet office, Clark jaywalked to reach Lois across the street, and was directly hit in the legs - but unhurt - by a Checker taxi, which suffered major front-end damage. He was bewildered as he entered the office, where the day's paper (an exclusive article by Lois) announced: "MERCI SUPERMAN - French Terror Scheme 'Bombs'." In the prison where bald Lex Luthor (calling himself the "greatest criminal mind...the greatest genius in this world") and bumbling assistant Otis (Ned


What is the name of the Darth Vader-to-be in the Star Wars Prequel, Episode 1?

Darth Vader Is Coming To Star Wars Rebels, Here's Why - CINEMABLEND Darth Vader Is Coming To Star Wars Rebels, Here's Why By jessica rawden 2 years ago Disney has done a lot of intense work marketing its new animated Star Wars series, Star Wars Rebels. This week, the Disney Channel premiered a 44-minute special episode called Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion to kick off the series. The special did quite well on The Disney Channel, and now Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion is headed to ABC for an additional second showing. The network's airing of Spark of Rebellion will be extra special however, as it will come with a special bonus scene and a cameo from James Earl Jones. That’s right, when Spark of Rebellion heads to ABC later this month, fans will be treated to an additional scene featuring none other than Darth Vader. And thanks to Jones’ involvement, the iconic character will get his original voice. On Thursday, executive producer Dave Filoni explained why the new scene has been added in. “We wanted to do something special for the ABC broadcast. We’ve added a scene which gives audiences insight into the Inquisitor and includes a cameo by Darth Vader voiced by the distinguished actor James Earl Jones.” The animated series takes place in the time between Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. A ragtag crew led by the soon-to-be powerful Jedi Ezra Bridger (Taylor Gray) and renegade Jedi Kanan Jarrus (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) are tasked with taking on threatening villains and saving the day. Their main threat will be the aforementioned Inquisitor (Jason Isaacs), who has been tasked by Darth Vader to rid the universe of all Jedi. The show is also notable because it is expected to be canon. As I noted prior, Disney is really crushing the marketing with its Star Wars Rebels stuff. Due to big buzz and a built-in audience, the show got off to a killer start on October 3, pulling in more than 6.5 million total viewers, numbers that are high for The Disney Channel. Additionally, the network showed a boost of confidence in the series when it signed on for Season 2 before Season 1 even premiered. Star Wars Rebels will hit the schedule in its regular form on Monday, October 13 at 9 p.m. ET. Sixteen episodes are expected to be produced for Season 1. A scene with added information and a Darth Vader cameo might inspire fans to rewatch Star Wars Rebels: Spark The Rebellion when it re-airs on ABC on October 26 at 9 p.m. ET. Even if it doesn’t, it’s still an added reason for new viewers to give the show a shot, without having to add Disney or Disney XD to their cable package in order to do so. Subscribe To Topics You're Interested In close


The 'Star Wars' Sequel That Never Happened The 'Star Wars' Sequel That Never Happened April 29, 2014 @ 11:00 AM Del Rey Books George Lucas had a backup plan. It might not seem like such a bold move today – in the era of blockbuster franchises – to be planning for a sequel before the first movie has even been released. But, in the 1970s, this was downright revolutionary thinking. Especially considering that we’re talking about a movie set in another galaxy in an era where such films were considered inane. (Granted, some people still consider them inane.) But not only did Lucas have a plan for a ' Star Wars ' sequel, he had two plans. One, as you know, became ‘The Empire Strikes Back.’ The other exists as a sort of alternative universe oddity of what could have been – a story titled ‘Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.’ Even after the enormous success of ‘Star Wars,’ its sequel, ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ nearly bankrupted Lucasfilm – which financed the film independently instead of accepting backing from 20th Century Fox as Lucas had with the first film – and if ‘Empire’ had bombed, Lucasfilm itself would have gone bust. (This, as we know, didn’t happen.) The money Lucasfilm used to finance ‘Empire’ was basically what Lucas had earned on ‘Star Wars’ after Fox took their cut. Now, in this aforementioned alternative universe, let’s pretend ‘Star Wars’ was a modest success and not an entity that changed movies and mainstream culture forever. Under this scenario, Lucas wouldn’t have the money to make a film on such a grand scale like ‘Empire,’ so – before ‘Star Wars’ was even released – he commissioned Alan Dean Foster to write a lower-budget sequel to 'Star Wars' titled 'Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.' "I was originally brought in while 'Star Wars' was still in production, on a two-book contract to do the novelization of the film," Alan Dean Foster told me by phone from his Arizona home, "but he also instructed me to write a novel that could be filmed on a low budget." 'Star Wars' did become a huge hit, so the idea for a ‘Splinter’ film was scrapped for the much more ambitious ‘Empire,’ but the novel was still released in 1978 as a follow-up story to ‘Star Wars’ – due to rights issues with stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, the book couldn’t even feature their faces, which is why Luke and Leia have their backs turned on the Ralph McQuarrie-painted cover – and the first book of the expanded universe of ‘Star Wars’ stories. The original 'Splinter of the Minds Eye' cover The plot of 'Splinter' is fairly simple. Taking place after the events of 'Star Wars,' Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa – along with C-3P0 and R2-D2 – are on their way to an important meeting with representatives of a system that might join the Rebellion. On the way, the two crash-land on a swamp planet called Mimban (Lucas asked Foster to scrap a space battle that originally led to the crash because it would be too expensive to film), where they soon discover that the Empire has a secret mining colony in operation in an effort to find something called a Kaiburr crystal. Eventually the two are discovered, ending with a showdown between Luke and Leia against Darth Vader. One character missing from the book entirely and only referenced twice (and only once by name) is Han Solo. "I couldn't use the characters of Han Solo and Chewbacca," Foster explains. "Chewbacca because he's Han Solo's buddy and Han Solo because Harrison Ford hadn't yet signed on to do anything related to future developments of 'Star Wars.'" Which, to Foster’s credit, didn’t seem to bother him too much, "It was kind of liberating. The story idea I had in mind focused on Luke, Leia and, in the background of course, Darth Vader. And working a third major character into the storyline would have been a little awkward. It was less that I had to worry about." Solo and Chewbacca aside, due to some very important plot points that are revealed during 'The Empire Strikes Back,' 'Splinter' had a tendency to create a lot confusion for anyone who happened to read it after they watched 'Empire.' It was somewher


Who did Jane Fonda play in the 60s movie of the same name where she repeatedly lost her clothes.

Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding (2011) - News NEWS 7 June 2012 2:56 PM, PDT  | WENN | See recent WENN news » Actress Catherine Keener turned hippie sage for Peace, Love & Misunderstanding co-star Jane Fonda , so the movie veteran could understand what it meant to be an earth mother, Woodstock festival-goer type in the late 1960s. Fonda, 74, had no idea how influential the inaugural music and arts event was to the hippie movement in 1969, so Keener took it upon herself to school the Barbarella star about the alternative lifestyle. In an interview on U.S. breakfast show Today, Fonda said, "I play a hippie. People think that's what I was but I never was a hippie and (Keener) was far more a hippie than I. She told me what music to listen to and (in the film) I had to say something to (co-star) Jeffrey Dean Morgan about how I was at the Woodstock festival and (her character) breached, the baby breached when... Jimi Hendrix played The Star-Spangled Banner." And Fonda only fully understood the gravity of rock icon Hendrix's performance after watching 1970's Woodstock , which documented the legendary festival on film. She added, "She (Keener) brought me the documentary so I could see what that (performance was like). No wonder my (character's) water broke! It was an amazing experience. So she helped me understand what that was all about." » 7 June 2012 6:58 AM, PDT  | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news » There are moments during certain romantic comedies when you might find yourself throwing up your hands and growling, “come on!” under your breath. And with good reason: the improbability of plotlines and inconsistencies of characters are enough to drive even the sappiest of us screaming from the theaters, scouring the streets for the realism and even cynicism that seems to have deserted us over the course of the film. “ Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding ,” from director Bruce Beresford (“ Driving Miss Daisy ,” “ Tender Mercies ”), is not one of these kinds of rom-coms. At least, not entirely. Though wildly predictable from the outset, and undoubtedly sentimental in its bits of hippie-dippie, lovey-dovey wisdom, the movie doesn’t stray too far from the real world, and ultimately drives home an honest and applicable moral about accepting your family, warts and all. The film wastes no time getting its story off the ground. Dialogue filters in over a black screen. » - Emma Bernstein 6 June 2012 9:23 AM, PDT  | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news » Even as teens and adults, people tend to be all too eager to fight with their parents over their differences in lifestyles and opinions. But the new comedy-drama ‘ Peace, Love & Misunderstanding ,’ which hits select theaters on Friday, shows that once people are pushed outside their comfort zones, they’re more willing to accept their family’s diverse views. A seemingly mismatched family unpredictably comes together after unforeseen circumstances bring them together in the Bruce Beresford -directed film. ‘Peace, Love & Misunderstanding’ follows uptight Manhattan lawyer Diane ( Catherine Keener ), who decides to visit her hippie mother Grace ( Jane Fonda ) in Woodstock for the first time in 20 years, after her husband Mark (Kyle  [ Read More ] » - Karen Benardello 4 June 2012 6:31 PM, PDT  | WENN | See recent WENN news » Watchmen star Jeffrey Dean Morgan hopes fans of The Band don't turn on him when they hear his awful rendition of the late Levon Helm 's signature turn The Weight in new movie Peace, Love & Misunderstanding , insisting he begged film director Bruce Beresford to consider an alternative. The actor croons the song with co-star Catherine Keener and accepts it's a terrible way to remember Helm, who died in April. He tells WENN, "It was horrible. I think we butchered the song. Neither of us are probably the most musical people. We love music, but talent-wise you're looking at the bottom of the talent bowl! "That was the most nervous I've been doing a scene in a long time. We were both wrecks. Bruce insisted that we do it but I was kind of hoping that somebody would just lo


Which veteran actress Katharine was the first actress to win four Oscars?

1981 Academy Awards® Winners and History Reds (1981) Actor: HENRY FONDA in "On Golden Pond", Warren Beatty in "Reds",         Burt Lancaster in "Atlantic City", Dudley Moore in "Arthur",         Paul Newman in "Absence of Malice" Actress: KATHARINE HEPBURN in "On Golden Pond", Diane Keaton         in "Reds", Marsha Mason in "Only When I Laugh",         Susan Sarandon in "Atlantic City", Meryl Streep in "The         French Lieutenant's Woman" Supporting Actor: JOHN GIELGUD in "Arthur", James Coco in "Only         When I Laugh", Ian Holm in "Chariots of Fire",         Jack Nicholson in "Reds", Howard E. Rollins, Jr. in "Ragtime" Supporting Actress: MAUREEN STAPLETON in "Reds", Melinda Dillon in "Absence         of Malice", Jane Fonda in "On Golden Pond", Joan         Hackett in "Only When I Laugh", Elizabeth McGovern         in "Ragtime" Director: WARREN BEATTY for "Reds", Hugh Hudson for "Chariots         of Fire", Louis Malle for "Atlantic City", Mark Rydell for "On Golden Pond",         Steven Spielberg for "Raiders of the          Lost Ark" The          Best Picture winner this year was a surprise and major upset win          for British producer David Puttnam's low-budget Chariots           of Fire, directed by Hugh Hudson, with seven nominations          and four wins. It also took top honors for Best Screenplay          (Colin Welland), Best Original Score (Vangelis' rich electronic,          throbbing score, especially during the iconic opening credits          sequence) and Best Costume Design. The win signaled the start of another mini-British          renaissance of film awards for this year and the next - with Gandhi           (1982) soon breaking all British film Oscar records. (It          had been 13 years since another British-made film had won Best          Picture, Oliver! (1968)) Chariots of Fire was          also the second sports film to win Best Picture (the          first was Rocky (1976) ). It          also marked the first of four biopics to win the top award          during the 80s, joining Gandhi (1982), Amadeus (1984),          and The Last Emperor (1987). Of the top five competitors for Best Picture,          two were historical epics, two were about senior-citizens,          and one was a throwback to the action/adventure films of the          past: Chariots of Fire was the inspirational           story of the 1924 Olympics running event in Paris and the           motivations of two of Britain's runners, Cambridge University           students - English Jew Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) and Scottish           Christian missionary Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson). The film,           which contained an anti-Semitism subplot, soon became the           most-successful foreign film in US box-office history Warren Beatty's $35 million, three-hour long           American epic masterpiece and front-runner in the competition, Reds (with           twelve nominations and three wins) including Best Director           (Warren Beatty), Best Supporting Actress (Maureen Stapleton),           and Best Cinematography (Vittorio Storaro, the winner of           the same award for Apocalypse            Now (1979) .) Reds was the film biography of           American communist and romantic figure John Reed, a left-wing           radical journalist and author of Ten Days That Shook the            World, who journeyed from Oregon to Greenwich Village           and then to Russia to cover first-hand the 1917 Bolshevik           Revolution on the streets of Petrograd [Beatty received simultaneous nominations as producer, director,           co-writer (with English dramatist


Who won his second Oscar in successive years for Forrest Gump?

'Forrest Gump' Anniversary: Looking Back At The American Classic 19 Years Later | The Huffington Post 'Forrest Gump' Anniversary: Looking Back At The American Classic 19 Years Later 07/06/2013 01:13 pm ET Matthew Jacobs Entertainment Reporter, The Huffington Post Paramount Pictures Nineteen years ago today, on July 6, 1994, one of the great American epics was released. "Forrest Gump" became a staple of movie culture, producing one of the most indelible title characters of all time. Tom Hanks went on to win his second consecutive Oscar for the performance, and "Gump" has seen been catalogued in Americana via countless television re-airings, a themed chain restaurant and a coveted spot in the United States National Film Registry. Based on the 1986 novel by William Groom, "Gump" held the No. 1 spot at the box office for a whopping 10 consecutive weeks, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of all time after earning $677.4 million worldwide. It currently holds on to the No. 60 spot on the list. The movie has since become a dividing point in American pop culture. Despite its historical stature, many critics and even some fans have lambasted the film's immense adoration. Some feel it's a saccharine melodrama that is far inferior to "Pulp Fiction," its chief competition for that year's Best Picture Oscar. Still, at No. 71 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies countdown, the movie is an undeniable piece of pop culture history, even if not all audiences find it as sweet as a "box of chocolates." Join us in recalling the "Forrest Gump" premiere and the movie's many accolades in the slideshow below. The Release Of 'Forrest Gump' The Release Of 'Forrest Gump' 1


Who won his second Oscar for the role of Raymond in Rain Man?

1988 Academy Awards® Winners and History Working Girl (1988) Actor: DUSTIN HOFFMAN in "Rain Man", Gene Hackman in "Mississippi         Burning", Tom Hanks in "Big", Edward James Olmos         in "Stand and Deliver", Max von Sydow in "Pelle         the Conqueror" Actress: JODIE FOSTER in "The Accused", Glenn Close in "Dangerous         Liaisons", Melanie Griffith in "Working Girl",         Meryl Streep in "A Cry in the Dark", Sigourney Weaver         in "Gorillas in the Mist" Supporting Actor: KEVIN KLINE in "A Fish Called Wanda", Alec Guinness         in "Little Dorritt", Martin Landau in "Tucker:         the Man and His Dream", River Phoenix in "Running on Empty", Dean Stockwell in "Married to the Mob" Supporting Actress: GEENA DAVIS in "The Accidental Tourist", Joan Cusack         in "Working Girl", Frances McDormand in "Mississippi         Burning", Michelle Pfeiffer in "Dangerous Liaisons",         Sigourney Weaver in "Working Girl" Director: BARRY LEVINSON for "Rain Man", Charles Crichton for "A         Fish Called Wanda", Mike Nichols for "Working Girl",         Alan Parker for "Mississippi Burning", Martin Scorsese         for "The Last Temptation of Christ" Beginning          this year, the trademark phrase: "and the winner is..." was          substituted with "and the Oscar goes to..." Director Barry Levinson's critically and financially-successful Rain          Man was the major Oscar winner in 1988. It was the buddy-road          saga of the human relationship that gradually develops between          two sibling brothers: the elder one a TV-obsessed, institutionalized          adult autistic (Hoffman), the other an ambitious, hotshot          money-maker/car salesman and hustler (Cruise). The autistic          savant's kidnapping from an asylum by his fast-talking brother          is with the intent to swindle him of his inheritance, but          during a cross-country road trip, a loving relationship develops          between the brothers with strong blood ties. Rain Man had a total of eight nominations          and four wins - for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director,          and Best Original Screenplay (by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow).          It was the year's highest-grossing picture as well, taking          in $173 million (domestic). The other Best Picture nominees included the          following: director Lawrence Kasdan's adaptation of Anne           Tyler's novel, the psychological drama The Accidental            Tourist (with four nominations and one win - Best Supporting           Actress), with two co-stars - Kathleen Turner and William           Hurt - that Kasdan had teamed together in an earlier film           - Body Heat (1981) British director Steven Frears' first American           feature film, the lush, pre-Revolutionary France costume           drama of competitive sexual seduction Dangerous Liaisons (with           seven nominations and three wins - Best Screenplay, Best           Art/Set Direction, and Best Costume Design) director Alan Parker's propagandist account           of the investigation of the disappearance of three civil           rights activists in 1964 in the social drama Mississippi            Burning (with seven nominations and only one win - Best           Cinematography) director Mike Nichols' sophisticated romantic           comedy about 80s corporate ladder-climbing and office politics           in Working Girl (with six nominations and one win           - Best Song by Carly Simon: "Let the River Run") Two of the five directors of Best Picture nominees          were not included in the list of Best Director nominees. The          tw


In 1997 James Cameron won an Oscar for which blockbuster?

1997 Academy Awards® Winners and History The Full Monty (1997, UK) Actor: JACK NICHOLSON in "As Good As It Gets", Matt Damon         in "Good Will Hunting", Dustin Hoffman in "Wag         the Dog", Robert Duvall in "The Apostle", Peter         Fonda in "Ulee's Gold" Actress: HELEN HUNT in "As Good As It Gets", Judi Dench in "(Her         Majesty) Mrs Brown", Helena Bonham Carter in "The Wings         of the Dove", Kate Winslet in "Titanic", Julie         Christie in "Afterglow" Supporting Actor: ROBIN WILLIAMS in "Good Will Hunting", Robert Forster         in "Jackie Brown", Anthony Hopkins in "Amistad",         Greg Kinnear in "As Good As It Gets", Burt Reynolds         in "Boogie Nights" Supporting Actress: KIM BASINGER in "L.A. Confidential", Joan Cusack in "In & Out", Minnie Driver in "Good Will Hunting", Julianne         Moore in "Boogie Nights", Gloria Stuart in "Titanic" Director: JAMES CAMERON for "Titanic", Peter Cattaneo for "The         Full Monty", Atom Egoyan for "The Sweet Hereafter",         Curtis Hanson for "L.A. Confidential", Gus Van Sant         for "Good Will Hunting" Director-producer-screenwriter          James Cameron's three-hour mega-hit, Titanic - both          the most expensive film ever made AND the number one, most           successful box-office film of all-time (shared by 20th          Century Fox and Paramount Studios), was the fictionalized account          of the 1912 White Star Line cruise-ship disaster. It was the          first Best Picture winner to gross over $1 billion (worldwide),          and $600 million (domestic). Cameron's film was both a love          story surrounded with the special-effects sinking of the 'unsinkable' Titanic on          its maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York. The          reconstructed ship in the film was three-quarters actual size. Titanic had a record number of nominations          and wins - fourteen, tying the all-time record set by All           About Eve (1950) . That made it the second of          only two films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including          Best Picture. It was also the second film to win 11 Academy          Awards, including Best Picture - it tied Ben-Hur           (1959) with eleven Oscar wins - the most Oscar          wins of any film in Academy Awards history. [ The           Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) would          equal the feat in six years with 11 wins.] Both Titanic and Ben-Hur          (1959) failed to win Best Original Screenplay (Titanic wasn't          even nominated in the category), although both films won          Best Picture and Best Director honors. To date, it was          the last film to win Best Picture without a Screenplay          nomination (Adapted or Original); the last Best Picture          to not have its screenplay nominated was The           Sound of Music (1965) . [The earlier version, Titanic (1953), lacked           nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, but had two           nominations, including Best Art Direction and it won an Oscar           for Best Story and Screenplay - by Charles Brackett, Walter           Reisch, and Richard Breen.] Its fourteen nominations included: Best Picture,          Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best          Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best          Film Editing, Best Make-up, Best Score, Best Song ("My          Heart Will Go On"), Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing,          and Best Visual Effects. Titanic lost only three awards          for which it was nominated - its two acting nominations, and


Which Nick won an Oscar for The Wrong Trousers?

Nick Park - IMDb IMDb Writer | Producer | Director Nick Park was born on December 6, 1958 in Preston, Lancashire, England as Nicholas Wulstan Park. He is a writer and producer, known for The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and Chicken Run (2000). See full bio » Born: a list of 28 people created 25 May 2014 a list of 22 people created 30 Sep 2014 a list of 21 people created 04 Nov 2015 a list of 33 people created 8 months ago a list of 41 people created 1 month ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Nick Park's work have you seen? User Polls Won     4     Oscars. Another    53 wins & 25 nominations. See more awards  » Known For  2015 Shaun the Sheep Movie (characters created by)   Shaun the Sheep (TV Series) (based on characters by - 76 episodes, 2007 - 2014) (original idea - 49 episodes, 2007 - 2010) (based on an original idea by - 3 episodes, 2007) (written by - 1 episode, 2009) - Fruit and Nuts (2014) ... (based on characters by) - The Stare (2014) ... (based on characters by) - Duck! (2014) ... (based on characters by) - Save the Dump (2014) ... (based on characters by) - Picture Perfect (2014) ... (based on characters by)  1989 A Grand Day Out (Short) (written by) Hide  - Timmy Makes a Splash (2012) ... (executive producer: Aardman Animations Ltd) - Timmy's Scrapbook (2011) ... (executive producer: Aardman Animations Ltd)  2007 Creature Comforts America (TV Series) (executive producer)  2003-2006 Creature Comforts (TV Series) (executive producer - 26 episodes) - Safari Park (2006) ... (executive producer) - Communication (2006) ... (executive producer)  1997 Stage Fright (Short) (executive producer) Hide   1985 Second Class Mail (Short) (color artist) Hide   2011 The Simpsons (TV Series) Nick Park - Angry Dad: The Movie (2011) ... Nick Park (voice) Hide   1989 A Grand Day Out (Short) (photographed by) Hide   1985 Second Class Mail (Short) (lots of help) Hide   2005-2015 Film 2016 (TV Series) Himself / Himself - Interviewee  2013 This Morning (TV Series) Himself  2012 Just Dandy (TV Movie documentary) Himself  2011 The Big Picture (TV Series) Himself - Executive Producer  2010 100 Greatest Toys (TV Movie) Himself (as Nick Park CBE)  2010 Breakfast (TV Series)  2007-2009 The Culture Show (TV Series documentary) Himself  2009 News Zero (TV Series) Himself  2008 The One Show (TV Series) Himself  2008 Blue Peter at 50 (TV Movie documentary) Himself  2008 All About 'Thunderbirds' (TV Movie documentary) Himself  2007 Comics Britannia (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself  2007 British Film Forever (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself  2007 The Comedy Map of Britain (TV Series documentary) Himself  2006 The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) Himself  2006 Richard & Judy (TV Series) Himself  2005 The 100 Greatest Family Films (TV Movie documentary) Himself  2005 El Magacine (TV Series) Himself  2000-2005 HBO First Look (TV Series documentary) Himself  2005 Best Ever Ads (TV Movie documentary) Himself  2005 Rove Live (TV Series) Himself  2005 Top 50 Greatest Celebrity Animals (TV Movie documentary) Himself  2005 Animation Nation (TV Series documentary) Himself  2004 The 100 Greatest Christmas Moments (TV Special documentary) Himself  2001 The 100 Greatest Films (TV Movie documentary) Himself  2001 I Love the 1990s (TV Series documentary) Himself  2000 The Panel (TV Series) Himself  2000 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) Himself  2000 The Hatching of 'Chicken Run' (TV Short documentary) Himself  1994 Limited Edition (TV Series documentary) Himself  1994 Live & Kicking (TV Series) Himself Himself - Winner: Best Animated Short Film Hide  Personal Details Other Works: [1996] Animated music video for "In Your Wildest Dreams" by Tina Turner and Barry White . See more » Publicity Listings: 5 Interviews | 2 Articles | See more » Official Sites: Did You Know? Personal Quote: [on the award-winning Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer (1986) pop video] Part of the brief in a way was to look like a fourteen-year-old kid had made it in their attic and in a way that was the way it end


What is Sean Connery's profession in The Name of the Rose?

The Name of the Rose (1986) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The Name of the Rose ( 1986 ) Der Name der Rose (original title) R | An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey. Director: User Lists Related lists from IMDb users a list of 25 titles created 30 Jan 2011 a list of 24 titles created 12 Jul 2012 a list of 32 titles created 10 Aug 2012 a list of 28 titles created 22 Feb 2013 a list of 31 titles created 06 Sep 2013 Title: The Name of the Rose (1986) 7.8/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won     2     BAFTA Film Awards. Another    15 wins & 5 nominations. See more awards  » Photos An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponent, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize". Director: Russell Mulcahy In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect or to start a war? Director: John McTiernan When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw. Director: Kevin Reynolds Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team. Director: Brian De Palma Edit Storyline 1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan's Order's belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan friar, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui. Written by Rick Munoz <rick.munoz@his.com> They believed in God, but traded with the Devil See more  » Genres: 24 September 1986 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: The Name of the Rose See more  » Filming Locations: 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)| Dolby (35 mm prints) Color: Helmut Qualtinger 's last movie. See more » Goofs The secret message on the parchment is exposed three times. The translator heated it to reveal the location of the library, William of Baskerville heated it again when he was in the scriptorium and yet again to show the others the message. When a message is written in lemon juice, heating it will cause it to be exposed because the sugar in the juice is caramelized. It does not disappear again. See more » Quotes [first lines] Voice of Adso as an Old Man : Having reached the end of my poor sinner's life, my hair now white, I prepare to leave on this parchment my testimony as to the wondrous and terrible events that I witnessed in my youth, towards the end of the year of our Lord 1327. May God grant me the wisdom and grace to be the faithful chronicler of the happenings that took place in a remote abbey in the dark north of Italy. An abbey whose name it seems, even now, pious and prudent to omit. Crazy Credits The opening credits read - A palimpsest of Umberto Eco's Novel The Name of the Rose See more » Connections The Novel Predates the Davinci Code by 20 years 13 March 2005 | by emuir-1 (United States) – See all my reviews A number of people have commented on the similarity of this film, and the Novel by Umberto Eco, to the DaVinci Code. For those who were not born then, The Name of the Rose was published in 1980, thus predating DaVinci by about 20 or more years. I must admit that I found DaVinci to


In which film did Jodie Foster play FBI agent Clarice Starling?

Hannibal (2001) - FAQ The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Visit our FAQ Help to learn more FAQ How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie? For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Hannibal can be found at here . What is 'Hannibal' about? Ten years after the events in The Silence of the Lambs, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling ( Julianne Moore ) is assigned to the case of Mason Verger ( Gary Oldman ), the only surviving, but severely disfigured, victim of cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins ), and Verger wants revenge. Lecter, who disappeared (after the events in The Silence of the Lambs), is currently living in Florence, Italy as a library curator under the assumed name of Dr Fell. Recently disgraced for a bungled drug raid, Clarice is contacted by a sympathetic Lecter. Now that Lecter's whereabouts are known, the hunt for Lecter begins. Is "Hannibal" based on a book? Hannibal is based on a 1999 novel of the same name by American writer Thomas Harris. The novel was adapted for the movie by American screenwriters David Mamet and Steven Zaillian. Hannibal is the film sequel to The Silence of the Lambs (1991). It was followed by Red Dragon (2002) and Hannibal Rising (2007), both adapted from novels by Thomas Harris and written as prequels to The Silence of the Lambs. Prior to The Silence of the Lambs, there was another Hannibal Lecter movie, Manhunter (1986), also based on Harris' 1981 novel, Red Dragon, but not considered to be part of The Silence of the Lambs franchise. Who from "The Silence of the Lambs" is back in "Hannibal"? Anthony Hopkins reprises his role as the cannibalistic serial killer, Hannibal Lecter, this time in the guise of Dr Fell, new curator of the Capponi Library in Florence, Italy. FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling is also back, although she is played by Julianne Moore, not Jodie Foster . Barney Matthews ( Frankie Faison ), the nurse who admitted Clarice to the locked row of cells in which Lector was being held at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, is seen again in a small part at the beginning of the movie. Justice Department official Paul Krendler, played by Ray Liotta rather than Ron Vawter , returns in an expanded and more sinister role. Added to the cast is Gary Oldman playing Mason Verger, a pedophile horribly disfigured by Lecter and the only one of his victims to survive. Also added to the main cast is Chief Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi ( Giancarlo Giannini ) of the Florence Questura, who recognizes Fell as Lecter and attempts to capture him for Verger. Weren't there really two surviving victims? According to the film, Mason Verger is the only surviving victim of Dr. Lecter's 14 victims. In the novels, it is said that there are three known surviving victims: (1) Verger, (2) an unnamed victim residing in a mental hospital in Colorado, and (3) Will Graham from Red Dragon. Although the novel Red Dragon was written in 1981, before The Silence of the Lambs (1988) and Hannibal (1999), it wasn't filmed until 2002, after the filming of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Hannibal (2001), so the character of Will Graham hadn't yet been introduced to the Hannibal franchise. Why did Mason Verger cut off his own face? Mason was a sexual deviant who was also infatuated with Lecter. Lecter had given him a 'popper' [in the book, a mixture of hallucinogenic and hypnotic drugs] before suggesting that he cut off his face and feed it to the dogs. Verger was based on the real case of a man named Michael who, while under the influence of PCP, did the same thing -- cut off parts of his face and fed them to some dogs. For more information on Michael, see here . Why was Mason Verger in a wheel chair? This was another mishap from his encounter with Hannibal Lecter


Which Julie won an Oscar for Darling in 1965 and was Oscar nominated in 19987 for Afterglow?

Julie Christie - Awards - IMDb Julie Christie Showing all 46 wins and 28 nominations Academy Awards, USA Evening Standard British Film Award Best Actress Evening Standard British Film Award Best Actress Most Promising New Star (Female) San Diego Film Critics Society Awards Tied with Ellen Page for Juno (2007). Village Voice Film Poll a list of 35 images created 12 Aug 2011 a list of 49 people created 06 Dec 2011 a list of 27 people created 22 Feb 2012 a list of 22 people created 29 Sep 2012 a list of 33 people created 5 months ago   IMDb Everywhere Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet!


Which musical set in gangland New York won 11 Oscars in 1961?

West Side Story (1961) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. Directors: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 31 titles created 31 Jul 2011 a list of 42 titles created 20 Aug 2012 a list of 23 images created 06 Jan 2014 a list of 40 titles created 03 Feb 2014 a list of 35 titles created 10 months ago Title: West Side Story (1961) 7.6/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won     10     Oscars. Another    18 wins & 11 nominations. See more awards  » Videos Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago. Director: Rob Marshall Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. Director: Vincente Minnelli A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. Director: John Madden An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years. Director: Bruce Beresford A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York to seek personal fortune but, in the process, finds himself a new friend. Director: John Schlesinger A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. Director: Bob Fosse A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. Director: Vincente Minnelli In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. Director: Sydney Pollack Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country. Director: Barry Levinson A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions. Director: Michel Hazanavicius Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation. Director: Robert Benton Edit Storyline West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, "Romeo and Juliet". The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs- the white Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But when Riff's best friend (and former Jet) Tony and Bernardo's younger sister Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret, planning to run away. Then the Sharks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway - whoever wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence. It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers know what's happened, tragedy strikes and doesn't stop until the climactic and heartbreaking ending. Written by Anonymous "BEST PICTURE!" Winner of 10 Academy Awards! - 1961 (post-Oscar) See more  » Genres: 23 December 1961 (Japan) See more  » Also Known As: Amor sin barreras See more  » Filming Locations: 152 min Sound Mix: 4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints)| 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording Sy


Who did Ali McGraw marry after they had made The Getaway together?

About Ali MacGraw, Ali MacGraw Biography, Ali MacGraw Bio at The Steve McQueen Site   About Ali MacGraw Ali MacGraw was born Alice MacGraw on April 1, 1938 in Pound Ridge, New York.  She was born to an Irish-American Father and a Jewish mother. She has one brother. Both parents were artists and coming from an artistic family, Ali realized from an early age she wanted a career in the arts. She attended the prestigious Wellesley College which boasts Hilary Rodham Clinton and Diane Sawyer as alumni.  At age 22, Ali became an assistant to Diana Vreeland at Harper's Bazaar and stylist at Vogue  Her natural beauty and grace impressed the photographers and she was asked to move in front of the camera and do some photo shoots. Her clean, fresh look was a bit hit and she began a successful second career modeling and appearing in TV commercials.  She started the Less-is-More look as she needed and used little make-up thus creating a huge trend in women wanting to look natural rather than made-up.  She soon turned to acting. She began her career in acting in 1968 in the movie A Lovely Way to Die  but it wasn't until she starred in the movie Goodbye Columbus that she caught the eye of Robert Evans, a Paramount executive.  They fell in love and were married in 1971 and had one child, a son Josh. With Evans guiding her career, her next film role would be one with which she would forever be associated.  In 1970, she was cast as the beautiful Jennifer Cavalleri in the huge hit Love Story co-starring Ryan O'Neal for which she received an Academy Award nomination. The role she would play after Love Story would change her life dramatically. In 1973, she was cast as Carol McCoy in the hit The Getaway in which she co-starred with Steve McQueen.  They fell madly and passionately in love while filming and Ali would eventually leave Robert Evans to be with McQueen.  The Getaway would be her last role while she was married to him.  She gave up her career to become a full-time wife to placate McQueen, he preferred his wife to be in the role of a homemaker rather than a career woman.  While Ali was happy to give up her interests to make Steve happy, he was unwilling to do the same. While he was a talented and well-loved actor, he was not a supportive or faithful husband.  Soon after they were married, he returned to his old ways of drinking, taking drugs and having numerous affairs.  Ali was devastated and soon realized she needed more than to be just Mrs. Steve McQueen to fulfill her life.  She began discussing a return to films with Steve and to her dismay, Steve became furious and demanded she remain a housewife only.  He didn't want her to take classes or have any outside interests because he wanted her to be at home and waiting for him when he decided to come home. With Steve living his double life, she was unable to maintain hers as the dutiful wife and began looking at scripts. In 1978, she signed on for a role in Sam Peckinpah's Convoy and her marriage to McQueen came to a very nasty end.  She had signed a pre-nuptial agreement and had very little of her own money since she hadn't worked in so long. Steve controlled everything.  Consequently, he kicked Ali out of their marital home and moved the woman with whom he'd been having his latest affair, into their home even as Josh was still living there and Ali's clothes were still in the closet. Her name was Barbara Minty and she would become his third wife.  Even Steve's first wife Neile was disgusted by his behavior and made the remark that it was not his most shining moment. In Steve's mind, because she had refused to do everything he'd asked, he felt Ali had betrayed him and he would never forgive her.  They divorced in 1978.  Ali had always hoped to reconcile their differences with Steve but, on his deathbed, he would not see or speak to her. Some say it is because he did not want her to see him in his condition.  According to Marshall Terrill's biography, many of Steve's closest friends and confidantes are convinced she was the one true love of his


"Who uttered the famous line ""Frankly my dear I don't give a damn?"

Greatest Film Misquotes Greatest Film Misquotes Greatest Movie Misquotes (Part 2) Greatest       Movie Mis-Quotes: Some of the most classic film lines or scenes       are really only legendary and/or apocryphal, or they are merely       movie misquotes, but after many years of repetition and being       misquoted in subsequent films, they have become part of the filmgoing       public's consciousness. Many of these examples are film quotes that       were either commonly attributed wrongly, or in fact were never actually       spoken. The top 10 most misquoted film lines are marked with      an icon Rhett      Butler's (Clark Gable) scandalous, swear-word farewell to Scarlett      (Vivien Leigh) in Gone With the Wind (1939) did      not include Scarlett's name. It was: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." (long     version) It was NOT: "Frankly, Scarlett,    I don't give a damn." The misquote was heard in Clue (1985), when      Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren) begged Wadsworth (Tim Curry) to forgive      her for trying to shoot him: Scarlet: "Wadsworth. Don't hate me for trying to shoot      you." Wadsworth: "Frankly,     Scarlet, I don't give a damn." Play clip from Clue (1985): And in The Mask (1994), the Mask/Stanley Ipkiss      (Jim Carrey) spoofed the line (along with other semi-familiar lines)      after being shot: - "Tell Scarlett I do give a damn." Play clip from The Mask (1994): The other lines were referential: - "Hold me closer, Ed." Flo (Esther Muir): "I want to be near you. I want you to hold me. Hold me closer! Closer! Closer!" Dr. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx): "If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of ya!" Referencing both The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Old Yeller (1957). - "Tell Tiny Tim I won't be comin' home this Christmas." Referencing A Christmas Carol. - "Thank you, You love me, you really love me." This line misquoted the end of Sally Field's      Oscar acceptance speech in 1985 for her performance in Places in      the Heart (1984): "...The      first time, I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't      deny the fact that you like me, right now. You like me!" Play end of Sally Field's speech: Contrary to popular opinion, Gone        With the Wind (1939) was     not the first use of the word 'damn' in a film. It reportedly was said     a few times in Glorifying      the American Girl (1929) and     in Pygmalion (1938, UK). Also, the phrase "March and sweat     the whole damned day" appeared on a dialogue card in the silent     epic war film The Big Parade (1925) . In Only Angels        Have Wings (1939) , Cary Grant said the name 'Judy' numerous        times to costar Rita Hayworth (playing a character named Judith        McPherson), such as: "Hello, Judy" -        but never repeated her name in rapid succession. "Helly, Judy." Play clip from Only Angels Have      Wings (1939) : "Judy...Judy...Judy" - was falsely attributed     to Cary Grant. Cary Grant vaguely recalled that at a party he attended,     someone introduced Judy Garland by saying, "Judy, Judy, Judy" and the   phrase was attributed to him. A 1960 New Yorker ad for several Judy Garland   albums ("Judy! Judy! Judy!") reinforced the incorrect quote. The    most beloved family film, The Wizard of Oz (1939) has    had problems with one of its most famous lines spoken by Judy Garland    (as Dorothy Gale) to her dog Toto: "Toto, I've a feeling we're      not in Kansas anymore." Play clip from The Wizard of     Oz (1939) : It's generally misquoted as: "Toto,     I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" or "I    don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto." A misquote    was heard in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), when the two    Szalinski siblings, Amy (Amy O'Neill) and Nick (Robert Oliveri) realized    that they had been miniaturized and trapped in a plastic garbage bag in    their backya


Whose voice did Marni Nixon dub in the classic My Fair Lady?

Marni Nixon - Biography - IMDb Marni Nixon Jump to: Overview  (3) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (3) | Trivia  (17) | Personal Quotes  (5) Overview (3) Margaret Nixon McEathron Mini Bio (1) "Loverly" soprano Marni Nixon has ensured herself a proper place in film history although most moviegoers would not recognize her if they passed her on the street. But if you heard her, that might be a horse of a different color. Marni is one of those unsung heroes (or should I say "much sung" heroes) whose incredible talents were given short shrift at the time. For those who think film superstars such as Deborah Kerr , Natalie Wood , and Audrey Hepburn possessed not only powerhouse dramatic talents but amazing singing voices as well...think again. Kerr's Anna in The King and I (1956), Natalie's Maria in West Side Story (1961), and Audrey's Eliza in My Fair Lady (1964) were all dubbed by the amazing Marni Nixon, and nowhere in the credits will you find that fact. Born Marni McEathron in Altadena, California, she was a former child actress and soloist with the Roger Wagner Chorale in the beginning. Trained in opera, yet possessing a versatile voice for pop music and easy standards as well, she not only sang for Arnold Schönberg and Igor Stravinsky but also recorded light songs. Marni made her Broadway musical debut in 1954 in a show that lasted two months but nothing came from it. In 1955, the singer contracted to dub Deborah Kerr in The King and I (1956) was killed in a car accident in Europe and a replacement was needed. Marni was hired...and the rest is history. Much impressed, the studios brought her in to "ghost" Ms. Kerr's voice once again in the classic tearjerker An Affair to Remember (1957). From there she went on to make Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn sound incredibly good with such classic songs as "Tonight" and "Wouldn't It Be Loverly." She finally appeared on screen in a musical in The Sound of Music (1965) starring Julie Andrews , who physically resembles Marni. The role is a small one, however, and she is only given a couple of solo lines in "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" as a singing nun. Marni's vocal career in films dissolved by the mid 1960s, but she continued on with concerts and in symphony halls, while billing herself as "The Voice of Hollywood" in one-woman cabaret shows. Throughout the years, she has played on the legit stage, including the lead roles in "The King and I" and "The Sound of Music," and in her matronly years has been seen as Fraulein Schneider in "Cabaret," and in the musicals "Follies" and "70 Girls 70." Her last filmed singing voice was as the grandmother in the animated feature Mulan (1998) in the 1990s. Married three times, twice to musicians; one of her husbands, Ernest Gold , by whom she had three children, was a film composer and is best known for his Academy Award-winning epic Exodus (1960). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net Spouse (3) Trivia (17) Hosted "Boomerang," a Seattle children's TV show. Provided the singing voice for Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961). She also was Deborah Kerr 's singing voice in both An Affair to Remember (1957) and the musical classic The King and I (1956). Started out at the age of four as a violinist and had a singing act with her sisters by age eight. Earned her reputation as "Singing Voice of the Stars" by "ghosting" other film luminaries as well, including Margaret O'Brien , Janet Leigh , and Jeanne Crain in some of their song sequences. She even touched up some singing parts for Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), dubbing the phrase "These rocks don't lose their shape" and some higher notes in the "Diamond's Are a Girl's Best Friend" number. She starred in her own local children's TV show in Seattle entitled "Boomerang" in the late 70s and early 80s and won four Emmys for her efforts. Toured extensively with both Liberace and Victor Borge . Of her three children, Andrew Gold is a rock musician, composer and producer; daughter Martha Gold Carr is a psychologist; and Melanie Gold is a singer and songwrit


Who was jailed for her 'obscene' stage play Sex?

The History of New York Scandals - Mae West’s �Sex’ Capade -- New York Magazine (Photo: Bettmann/Corbis) 1927 In a 1925ï¿½26 New York theater season with acclaimed new plays by O’Neill (The Great God Brown), O’Casey (Juno and the Paycock), and Coward (Hay Fever), critics agreed that the rock bottom was Sex, the first Broadway vehicle written by and starring the voluptuous vaudeville trouper Mae West. Sex was ï¿½street sweepings,ï¿½ in the verdict of The New Yorker, and ï¿½a crude, inept play, cheaply produced and poorly acted,ï¿½ according to the Times. The paper’s review did helpfully note that the show’s ï¿½one torrid love sceneï¿½ lived up to its title. An ad warning patrons who ï¿½cannot stand excitementï¿½ to ï¿½see your doctor before visiting Mae Westï¿½ didn’t hurt either. The play outlasted nearly all the competition. Variety christened its heroine, a Montreal lady of the evening with a fondness for sailors, ï¿½the Babe Ruth of stage prosties.ï¿½ Politics turned a hit into a Jazz Age phenomenon. When New York’s rakish mayor, Jimmy Walker , took a Havana holiday in February 1927, the acting mayor, Joseph V. (ï¿½Holy Joeï¿½) McKee, raided three risqué Broadway shows. West was the prime target: Sex, then in the tenth month of its run, had been seen by 325,000 theatergoers. To the delight of the tabloid press, its twenty actors were hauled off to a police station in Hell’s Kitchen. The star spent the night in the Jefferson Market Women’s Prison. West bailed out her company. The court had offered to drop charges if she would close the show. But she knew that in showbiz, crime paid. The grand jury’s claim that her ï¿½obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure dramaï¿½ would abet ï¿½the corruption of the morals of youthï¿½ was better than any rave review. Festooned with white roses, she rode a limo to incarceration on Welfare Island and boasted of wearing silk underwear throughout her eight-day stay there. When Liberty magazine paid her $1,000 for an exit interview, she used it to start a Mae West Memorial Library for female prisoners. A later West playï¿½The Pleasure Man, awash in female impersonators and homosexualityï¿½would be raided and shut down at its second Broadway performance in 1928. Undaunted, she eventually revived Sex and toured the Depression-era Midwest without incident, before arriving in Hollywood, where, paired with Cary Grant and W. C. Fields, she hit superstardom as she was reaching 40. The Bushwick-born, self-invented West (1893ï¿½1980) wrote the Ur-text for Madonna and Lady Gaga, repeatedly breaking gender and sexual barriers over a marathon career as a writer, performer, free-speech provocateur, and showbiz entrepreneur. Her pioneering playbook for turning scandal into profits remains the gold standard in American pop culture to this day.


Which 1997 movie equaled Ben Hur's record 11 Oscars?

Film History Milestones - 1997 Event and Significance 1997 Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension (aka Marvin the Martian in 3D), a 12-minute Warner Bros film, opened as a feature of the Warner Bros.' theme park "Movie World" in Australia. It was the first computer-animated CG film that was to be viewed with 3-D glasses. It combined the experience of watching a fully CGI film with polarized/anaglyphic glasses. 1997 James Cameron's Titanic (1997), the     most expensive film of all time at the time of its release, also soon     became the highest grossing and most successful film of all-time in     Hollywood history (at $600.8 million domestic gross box-office receipts,     and $1.8 billion total worldwide gross), surpassing the all-time box-office     (domestic) record of Star Wars (1977) .     (Titanic remained at the top until Cameron's own Avatar (2009) surpassed     it 12 years later at $760.5 million (domestic).) It was the first film     with a budget of $200 million, and it was the first movie to gross $1     billion (worldwide). When adjusted for inflation, however, Cleopatra     (1963) had the highest budget of any film, and Gone     with the Wind (1939) remained the highest grossing. Delays during production and a budget of $200 million threatened to 'sink'    the film, but didn't affect its overall success. Repeated theatrical viewings    by young teens (enthralled by the romance between Leonardo DiCaprio and    Kate Winslet) were partly responsible for the film's high returns. The    bulk of the state-of-the-art visual effects (CGI and miniature models)    were provided by Cameron's own company, Digital Domain. And the film was    backed or co-produced by two studios in order to foot the bill -- Fox and    Paramount. 1997 The blockbuster film Titanic (1997) had a record-tying     fourteen nominations and won a record-tying eleven Academy Awards (duplicating     the feat of All     About Eve (1950) ). That made it the second of only two   films to receive 14 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. It     was also the second film to win 11 Academy Awards, including     Best Picture - it tied Ben-Hur     (1959) with eleven Oscar wins - the most Oscar wins of   any film in Academy Awards history. [ The   Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) would equal the   feat in six years with 11 wins.] 1997 There were only two instances in which the same movie character was Oscar-nominated within the same film. The first     instance was in Titanic (1997), where the character of Rose     DeWitt Bukater was played by nominees Gloria Stuart and Kate Winslet.     [Note: The second instance was the character of Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001).] 1997 The 18th official Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) was the first film in cinematic history to have the largest product placement deal ever, covering its entire production budget of $110 million. The film was largely marketed through the film's promotional partners. Sponsoring companies included BMW, Ericsson cellphones, Bollinger champagne, Omega watches, Dunhill, Brioni clothing, Avis rental cars, Golden Wonder potato chips, L'Oréal cosmetics, VISA, and Heineken beer. Some joked that the Bond films had now become the "Licence to Sell." 1997 The first time product placement appeared in an animated picture was Chanel perfume in Anastasia (1997). 1997 Due to its opening against James Cameron's blockbuster Titanic      (1997), Tomorrow Never Dies      (1997) was the first (and only) Pierce Brosnan Bond film to      not open as the # 1 film at the box-office. 1997 Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt won Best Actor and Best     Actress Oscars for As Good As It Gets (1997). This was only the     seventh time in 70 years that the leading actor and actress from the     same film received the Oscars. 1997 Slim DVDs (Digital Versatile Discs), the new    generation of optical disc storage technology, began to be sold to c


Who won an Oscar wearing an eye patch in True Grit?

'The Oscars': John Wayne Wins Best Actor for 'True Grit' in 1970 | AOL.com My Queue 'The Oscars': John Wayne Wins Best Actor for 'True Grit' in 1970 Barbra Streisand presents John Wayne with the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role during the 42nd Academy Awards in 1970. This was the first and only Oscar win for the three-time nominee, who won for his role as eye patch-wearing Rooster Cogburn in 'True Grit.' During his acceptance speech, John Wayne joked that had he known he'd win, he would've put on an eye patch 35 years prior. Watch LIVE OSCAR SUNDAY on ABC. Recommended


In which film did David Niven play James Bond?

Casino Royale (1967) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH. Directors: From $9.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 25 titles created 25 May 2011 a list of 43 titles created 16 May 2012 a list of 26 titles created 05 Nov 2012 a list of 26 titles created 21 Jul 2013 a list of 42 titles created 02 Jul 2015 Search for " Casino Royale " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for     1     Oscar. Another    3 nominations. See more awards  » Photos A SPECTRE agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated. Director: Irvin Kershner A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own. Directors: Clive Donner, Richard Talmadge Stars: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider James Bond woos a mob boss's daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps that involves beautiful women from around the world. Director: Peter R. Hunt A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. Director: Terence Young A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon. Director: Guy Hamilton Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked. Director: Lewis Gilbert James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme. Director: Terence Young James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE. Director: Terence Young 007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader. Director: Guy Hamilton James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads with the help of a KGB agent whose lover he killed. Director: Lewis Gilbert A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. Director: John Glen Edit Storyline After the death of M, Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH and Le Chiffre, Bond thinks up the ultimate plan. That every agent will be named James Bond. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle. Written by simon Casino Royale is too much for one James Bond! See more  » Genres: 28 April 1967 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: Charles K. Feldman's Casino Royale See more  » Filming Locations: 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints)| Mono (35 mm prints) Color: Black and White (archive footage: Keystone Cops)| Color (Technicolor) Aspect Ratio: Cameos by Frank Sinatra , Sophia Loren , and Barbra Streisand were planned. See more » Goofs When the pod from the flying saucer "drives" up out of the water in the underground dock, the cable pulling it is p


Which Emma won an Oscar for her screenplay of Sense and Sensibility?

The Sense and sensibility screenplay & diaries: bringing Jane Austen's novel ... - Emma Thompson, Jane Austen - Google Buku 0 Resensi https://books.google.co.id/books/about/The_Sense_and_sensibility_screenplay_dia.html?hl=id&id=E3dZAAAAMAAJ Including the complete shooting script, named Best Screenplay of the Year by the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Broadcast Film Critics, the New York Film Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics, and the Boston Critics, among others. With 91 color and black-and white photographs, full cast and crew credits, and the complete text of Emma Thompson's acceptance speech at the Golden Globes. Dari dalam buku Apa yang dikatakan orang -  Tulis resensi Kami tak menemukan resensi di tempat biasanya. Isi


Which film with Ralph Fiennes won Anthony Minghella an Oscar?

The English Patient (1996) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 35 titles created 02 Aug 2012 a list of 25 titles created 18 Jul 2013 a list of 34 titles created 13 Dec 2013 a list of 23 images created 06 Jan 2014 a list of 40 titles created 03 Feb 2014 Title: The English Patient (1996) 7.4/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won     9     Oscars. Another    49 wins & 66 nominations. See more awards  » Videos A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. Director: John Madden Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. Director: Kevin Costner In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. Director: Sydney Pollack The story of the final Emperor of China. Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago. Director: Rob Marshall Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country. Director: Barry Levinson An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years. Director: Bruce Beresford Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation. Director: Robert Benton Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption. Director: Paul Haggis Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics. Director: Hugh Hudson A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions. Director: Michel Hazanavicius A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. Director: James Cameron Edit Storyline October 1944 in war torn Italy. Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical unit, feels like everything she loves in life dies on her. Because of the difficulty traveling and the dangers, especially as the landscape is still heavily booby-trapped with mines, Hana volunteers to stay behind at a church to care solely for a dying semi-amnesiac patient, who is badly burned and disfigured. She agrees to catch up to the rest of the unit after he dies. All the patient remembers is that he is English and that he is married. Their solitude is disrupted with the arrival at the church of fellow Canadian David Caravaggio, part of the Intelligence Service, who is certain that he knows the patient as a man who cooperated with the Germans. Caravaggio believes that the patient's memory is largely in tact and that he is running away from his past, in part or in its entirety. The patient does open up about his past, all surrounding his work as a cartographer in North Africa, which ... Written by Huggo In love, there are no boundaries. See more  » Genres: Rated R for sexuality, some violence and language | See all certifications  » Parents Guide: 6 December 1996 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: El paciente inglés Se


I Could Go on Singing was the last film of which screen legend?

Judy Garland - IMDb IMDb Soundtrack | Actress One of the brightest, most tragic movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Era, Judy Garland was a much-loved character whose warmth and spirit, along with her rich and exuberant voice, kept theatre-goers entertained with an array of delightful musicals. She was born Frances Ethel Gumm on 10 June 1922 in Minnesota, the youngest daughter of vaudevillians ... See full bio » Born: a list of 40 people created 04 Dec 2011 a list of 30 people created 03 Mar 2012 a list of 42 people created 03 Jul 2012 a list of 41 people created 25 Dec 2012 a list of 25 people created 29 May 2014 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Judy Garland's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for     2     Oscars. Another    6 wins & 7 nominations. See more awards  » Known For A Star Is Born Vicki Lester / Esther Blodgett (1954)  2015 Tellement Gay! Homosexualité et pop culture (TV Mini-Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) - Inside (2015) ... (performer: "Over the Rainbow")  2014 Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead")  2014 Somewhere Over the Rainbow (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - uncredited)  2014 Dancing in Small Spaces (TV Series short) (performer - 1 episode) - Steps (2014) ... (performer: "I Got Rhythm")  2014 The Lego Movie (performer: "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm")  2013 Six by Sondheim (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Get Happy")  2013 Mr Selfridge (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode #1.3 (2013) ... (performer: "Under the Bamboo Tree" - uncredited)  2012 Vegas (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Bad Seeds (2012) ... (performer: "Lucky Day")  2012 Upstairs Downstairs (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Somewhere Over the Rainbow (2012) ... (performer: "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited)  2011 Mildred Pierce (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Part Five (2011) ... (performer: "I'm always chasing rainbows") - Best Band in the Land (2010) ... (performer: "Over the Rainbow")  2010 A Star Is Born: Special Features (Video) (performer: "Gotta Have Me Go with You", "The Man That Got Away", "Lose That Long Face", "Here's What I'm Here For", "Trinidad Coconut Oil Shampoo", "Born in a Trunk")  2009 Doctors (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - O Christmas Tree (2009) ... (performer: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" - uncredited)  2009 Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe")  2009 Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - 9 (2009) ... (performer: "Over the Rainbow")  2009/I 9 (performer: "Over the Rainbow")  2009 Taking Woodstock (performer: "No Love, No Nothin'")  2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (Video documentary) (performer: "We're Off to See the Wizard" - uncredited)  2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (Video documentary) (performer: "The Trolley Song", "Hoe Down", "Strike Up the Band", "How About You?", "Look for the Silver Lining", "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", "Who?" - uncredited) - Home Is Where You Hang Your Holster (2009) ... (performer: "Over the Rainbow" - uncredited)  2008 Australia (performer: "Over the Rainbow")  2008/I Milk (performer: "Over the Rainbow")  2008 True Blood (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Mine (2008) ... (performer: "Mine" - uncredited)  2008 The Bread (Short) (performer: "Embraceable You")  2008 Sex and the City (performer: "The Trolley Song")  2008 Pageant (Documentary) (performer: "The Trolley Song")  2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "We're Off to See the Wizard", "The Trolley Song", "Hoe Down", "Look for the Silver Lining", "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis", "Get Happy" - uncredited)  2007 Eterna Magia (TV Series) (performer: "That Old Black Magic")  2007 P.S. I Love You (performer: "The Man T


Which British actor's autobiography was called What's It All About?

Michael Caine - Biography - IMDb Michael Caine Biography Showing all 212 items Jump to: Overview  (3) | Mini Bio  (2) | Spouse  (2) | Trade Mark  (5) | Trivia  (103) | Personal Quotes  (94) | Salary  (3) Overview (3) 6' 1" (1.85 m) Mini Bio (2) Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen Frances Marie (Burchell), a charlady, and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a fish-market porter. He left school at 15 and took a series of working-class jobs before joining the British army and serving in Korea during the Korean War, where he saw combat. Upon his return to England he gravitated toward the theater and got a job as an assistant stage manager. He adopted the name of Caine on the advice of his agent, taking it from a marquee that advertised The Caine Mutiny (1954). In the years that followed he worked in more than 100 television dramas, with repertory companies throughout England and eventually in the stage hit, "The Long and the Short and the Tall." Zulu (1964), the 1964 epic retelling of a historic 19th-century battle in South Africa between British soldiers and Zulu warriors, brought Caine to international attention. Instead of being typecast as a low-ranking Cockney soldier, he played a snobbish, aristocratic officer. Although "Zulu" was a major success, it was the role of Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File (1965) and the title role in Alfie (1966) that made Caine a star of the first magnitude. He epitomized the new breed of actor in mid-'60s England, the working-class bloke with glasses and a down-home accent. However, after initially starring in some excellent films, particularly in the 1960s, including Gambit (1966), Funeral in Berlin (1966), Play Dirty (1969), Battle of Britain (1969), Too Late the Hero (1970), The Last Valley (1971) and especially Get Carter (1971), he seemed to take on roles in below-average films, simply for the money he could by then command. There were some gems amongst the dross, however. He gave a magnificent performance opposite Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and turned in a solid one as a German colonel in The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Educating Rita (1983) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (for which he won his first Oscar) were highlights of the 1980s, while more recently Little Voice (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999) (his second Oscar) and Last Orders (2001) have been widely acclaimed. - IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com Michael Caine is an English actor and author. Renowned for his distinctive working class cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon. He made his breakthrough in the 1960s with starring roles in a number of acclaimed British films, including Zulu (1964), The Ipcress File (1965), Alfie (1966), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, The Italian Job (1969), and Battle of Britain (1969). His most notable roles in the 1970s included Get Carter (1971), The Last Valley (1971), for which he earned his second Academy Award nomination, The Man Who Would Be King (1975), and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He achieved some of his greatest critical success in the 1980s, with Educating Rita (1983) earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 1986, he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). Caine played Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992). Having by that time practically retired from acting on the big screen, he enjoyed a career resurgence in the late 1990s, receiving his second Golden Globe Award for his performance in Little Voice (1998) and receiving his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules (1999) the following year. Caine played Nigel Powers in the 2002 parody Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), and Alfred Pennyworth in Christopher Nolan 's Batman film series. He appeared in several other of Nolan's films including The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), and Interstellar (2014). He also appeared as a supporting character in Alfonso Cua


Judi Dench won an Oscar as which Queen in Shakespeare in Love?

Should Judi Dench keep her ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Oscar? – EW.com Pinterest Judi Dench’s roughly eight minute performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love was not the briefest to ever win an Academy Award; that record is still held by Beatrice Straight at six minutes for 1976’s Network. But it’s still pretty friggin’ short — and pretty friggin’ memorable. Dench’s droll, deftly understated take on the monarch sets much of the film’s plot in motion, gives its theatrical climax a pungent grace note, and steals every square inch of the screen for every precious second she’s on it. And yet, when Dame Judi collected her Oscar for the performance, even she felt obliged to note, while regarding her statue, “I feel for eight minutes on the screen, I should only get a little bit of him.” Should she have gotten any of him? We’ve been looking back at all the major Oscar categories from 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 years ago and asking just that question in our Recall the Gold survey of the entertainment industry. For a decade, the performances of these five best supporting actress nominees — including Kathy Bates ( Primary Colors ), Brenda Blethyn ( Little Voice ), Rachel Griffiths ( Hilary and Jackie ), and Lynn Redgrave ( Gods and Monsters ) — have percolated in the popular culture, and now we want to know if you, PopWatchers, think Dench’s still rates as the most Oscar-worthy. Ten years ago, her win wasn’t a sure thing. Redgrave had won the Golden Globe for her role as the hilariously no-nonsense maid to Bride of Frankenstein director James Whale (fellow nominee Ian McKellan). Bates had taken home the Screen Actors Guild award for her role as a hilariously take-no-prisoners political operative. Both were far more traditional supporting performances (i.e. they we’re a fair shade longer than eight minutes). Bates’ movie, however, was otherwise seen as a disappointment, and it was released way back in March 1998 — rarely an Oscar-friendly month. As for Redgrave, perhaps some voters thought Gods and Monsters should be recognized by McKellan’s performance instead (er, whoops ), or by screenwriter Bill Condon’s win for best adapted screenplay. Blethyn and Griffiths were caught in a different bind: They arguably gave lead performances against a fellow actress with a far showier role. Blethyn tore into the chance to play an oft-sozzled stage mom to Jane Horrocks’ meek title character; the movie, however, was specifically created to show off Horrocks’ jaw-dropping impersonations of legendary Hollywood singers (Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland), and Blethyn’s over-the-top scenery chewing may have turned off voters besides. (The film, alas, has also lived up to its title: I can’t even find the trailer on the Web.) Meanwhile, much of Hilary and Jackie, a biopic about sisters and musical rivals Hilary and Jacqueline du Pré, is told from Griffiths’ perspective as the older, more ordinary sister Hilary…who is overshadowed by her brilliant, egomaniacal younger sister Jackie, played by (ahem) Best Actress nominee Emily Watson. Though the Griffiths stunning work in the film launched quite the healthy career (HBO’s Six Feet Under, ABC’s Brothers & Sisters), she was, at the time, the designated “now who is she again?” nominee. So, PopWatchers, is there still, in the inimitable words of presenter Robin Williams, nothing like a Dame? Or should another actress have be anointed with Oscar gold? Vote in our poll below; if you need a reminder of the performances, check out the clips after the jump. While you’re at it, if you haven’t already, vote in all the other polls from our ongoing walk down Oscar’s memory lane . Tomorrow, we’ll take a look at the 1993 Best Picture race; also, check out coverage of this year’s awards contenders in Dave Karger’s Oscar Watch blog .   addCredit(“Steve Granitz/WireImage.com”) Judi Dench’s Oscar victory for Shakespeare in Love, with short excerpts of all five nominated performances (Robin Williams’ japery ends at the 1:20 mark) Kathy Bates, Primary Colors Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love Rachel Griffiths, Hilary and Jackie Ly


Who won the Best Actor and Best Director Oscar for Dances With Wolves?

1990 Academy Awards® Winners and History GoodFellas (1990) Actor: JEREMY IRONS in "Reversal of Fortune", Kevin Costner         in "Dances With Wolves", Robert De Niro in "Awakenings",         Gerard Depardieu in "Cyrano de Bergerac", Richard Harris         in "The Field" Actress: KATHY BATES in "Misery", Anjelica Huston in "The         Grifters", Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman", Meryl Streep in "Postcards from         the Edge", Joanne Woodward in "Mr. & Mrs. Bridge" Supporting Actor: JOE PESCI in "GoodFellas" ,         Bruce Davison in "Longtime Companion", Andy Garcia in " The          Godfather, Part III ", Graham Greene in "Dances         With Wolves", Al Pacino in "Dick Tracy" Supporting Actress: WHOOPI GOLDBERG in "Ghost", Annette Bening in "The         Grifters", Lorraine Bracco in "GoodFellas" ,         Diane Ladd in "Wild at Heart", Mary McDonnell in "Dances         With Wolves" Director: KEVIN COSTNER for "Dances With Wolves", Francis Ford         Coppola for " The Godfather,          Part III ", Stephen Frears for "The Grifters",         Barbet Schroeder for "Reversal of Fortune", Martin         Scorsese for "GoodFellas" The          Best Picture winner, co-producer/director/actor Kevin Costner's          three-hour epic and revisionistic western film Dances With           Wolves was an anomaly win in Oscar history - it was only          the second time that a western genre film won the Best          Picture Oscar. [The first Best Picture western film          was Cimarron (1930-31), sixty years earlier.] However,          some argued that Costner's (another actor-turned-director)          romantic-epic film shouldn't have been categorized as a Western. Dances With Wolves was honored with twelve nominations          and seven Oscar wins - Best Picture (Costner), Best          Director (for Costner's directorial debut film), Best Adapted          Screenplay (Michael Blake), Best Cinematography (Dean Semler),          Best Sound, Best Original Score (John Barry), and Best Film          Editing. The pretentious, but visually-impressive film told          the saga of a Civil War Union officer, Lt. John W. Dunbar,          who became disillusioned, headed west, and eventually found          peace away from white civilization with nature and the Lakota          Sioux. The film contained long portions of the Sioux-Lakota          language and detailed the native American culture. The other four Best Picture nominees were: director Penny Marshall's psychological drama Awakenings (with           three nominations and no wins), a semi-true account of a           doctor who 'awakens' catatonic patients with an experimental           drug director Jerry Zucker's highly-successful,           romantic comedy/fantasy Ghost (with five nominations           and two wins - Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay),           about a murder victim who protects his wife through a psychic director Francis Ford Coppola's long-awaited           gangster epic sequel The            Godfather, Part III (with seven nominations and snubbed           with no wins, although both previous parts of the saga won           Best Picture Oscars - and it was the first of only two trilogies           to have all three films nominated for Best Picture) - an           extension of the Mafia-tale about an older crime kingpin           Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) and his temperamental, trigger-happy           nephew (Andy Garcia) and daughter (Sofia Coppola) director Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas (with           six nominations and one win - Best Supporting Actor), a violent           and foul-mouthed adaptatio


Which Jessica was the then oldest Oscar winner for Driving Miss Daisy?

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