Oscar Movies (2010): 127 Hours–Six Nominations, including Best Picture
Danny Boyle’s fact-based survival adventure, 127 Hours, starring James Franco, was nominated for six Oscar, including Best Picture (but not Best Director).
Reds (1981): Warren Beatty’s Lavish Epic, Starring Diane Keaton, Himself, Jack Nicholson
In 1981, the British sports melodrama “Chariots of Fire,” was the surprise winner of the Best Picture Oscar, with seven nominations and four awards. Warren Beatty's semi-successful epic “Reds,” which received the largest number of nominations (12), won two Oscars: Best Director for Beatty and Supporting Actress for Maureen Stapleton.
Oscar Directors: Arcand, Denys (Decline of the American Empire, The Barbarian Invasions
His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2003.
Oscar Artists: Ryskind, Morrie–Nominated Screenwriter (Stage Door,
Morrie Ryskind (October 20, 1895 – August 24, 1985) Ryskind was born in New York City, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Ida (Edelson) and Abraham Ryskind. He attended Columbia University but was suspended shortly before he was due to graduate after he called university president Nicholas Murray Butler “Czar Nicholas” in the pages of […]
Oscar Actors: Dunne, Irene–Five-Time Oscar Nominee
Irene Dunne was nominated five times for the Best Actress Oscar, but had never won.
Oscar Movies: Gone Baby Gone (2007)–Amy Ryan
Ben Affleck’s acclaimed feature directing debut, the psychological thriller Gone Baby Gone, received one Oscar nomination: Best Supporting Actress for Amy Ryan, who swept all the critics groups awards that year.
Oscar Actors: Rockwell, Sam–Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Dixon seems to be everything you would despise in a man, but there’s something in him, and it’s partly in the way that Sam Rockwell plays him, which is childlike and moving despite all his obnoxiousness and horrible faults.
Oscar 1935: Winners and Nominees in All Categories
In 1935, “Mutiny on the Bounty” won the Best Picture Oscar in a contest that included “Alice Adams,” “Broadway Melody of 1936,” “Captain Blood,” “David Copperfield,” “The Informer,”
“Les Miserables,” “The Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” “Naughty Marietta,” “Ruggles of Red Gap,” and “Top Hat.”Oscar: Best Actor–Shortest Performances
Appearing on-screen for only 23 minutes in the film, Niven’s was one of the briefest performances ever to win the Best Actor Oscar.
Oscar Impact: Star Is Born–Sale of Lady Gaga’s Song Shallow
At the Oscars, the conversation on social media peaked with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s performance of “Shallow” from the Oscar nominated movie, A Star Is Born, which generated 69,000 Twitter interactions.
