Oscar Directors: Stone, Oliver–Background, Career, Awards–Draft

January 18, 2022 by

Platoon won rave reviews, large audiences, and Oscar Awards for Best Picture and Best Director

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Directors: Richard Oswald’s Filmography (Different from the Others (1919), First Pro-Gay Film Ever Made (Gal Identity, Paragraph 175)

January 18, 2022 by

Partially funded the production through his Institute for Sexual Science, the film was intended as polemic against the then-current laws under Germany’s “Paragraph 175,” which made homosexuality a criminal offense.

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Oscar Actors: Shearer, Norma–Background, Career, Awards

January 18, 2022 by

Norma Shearer was the first person to be nominated five times for the Best Actress Oscar, winning the award for her performance in The Divorcee (1930).

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Movie Stars: Lanza, Mario–Singer, Actor, Star

January 13, 2022 by

At the height of his career, Lanza was voted by exhibitors as being among the most popular stars in the country:

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Cukor, George: Hollywood Best Actor Director–Constance Bennett, Our Betters (1933)

January 11, 2022 by

Our Betters, a farce about a free-spirited American social climber, is the only Somerset Maugham play Cukor directed, despite close friendship.

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