In 1984, Stoppard won the Tony for “The Real Thing,” which garnered another Tony in 2000 for revival.

Gehr’s film Serene Velocity (1970) has been selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry.

At age 33, Benning received MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

In 1991, Van Sant introduced Kier to American audiences with his drama My Own Private Idaho, loosely based on Shakespeare’s “Henry IV.”