Oscar Actors: Domingo, Colman–Best Actor Nominee, “Rustin”–Background, Career, Awards (Gay, Cum Advantage, Tony, Emmy)

Oscar Actors: Domingo Colman–Best Actor Nominee, “Rustin”–Background, Career, Awards (Cum Advantage, Tony, Emmy)

Death: Taviani, Paolo–Co-Directed with Brother Vittorio Classics,”Padre Padrone” and “The Night of the Shooting Stars,” Dies at 92

Paolo Taviani, a movie director who worked in inseparable tandem with his brother to create some of the most lauded works in modern Italian film, among them “Padre Padrone” and “The Night of the Shooting Stars,” died Feb. 29 at a hospital in Rome. He was 92.

Oscar Actors: Day-Lewis, Daniel–Only Man to Win Three Best Actor Award–Really Retired

Day-Lewis followed his Oscar win for Sheridan’s “My Left Foot” with two more wins in the category thanks to “There Will Be Blood” and “Lincoln”

Oscar Directors: Spielberg–from Commercial Filmmaker of Popcorn (“Indiana Jones”) to a Film Artist (“Schindler’s List”)

Schindler’s List was the film that did that, signaling Spielberg as a “serious” filmmaker capable of winning multiple Oscars for his hard work.

Death in Hollywood: Lewis, Richard–Comic and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Actor, Dies at 76

He also starred with Jamie Lee Curtis on Anything but Love, with Don Rickles in ‘Daddy Dearest’ and as Prince John in Robin Hood: Men in Tights.