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1 day ago · Three films have won 11 Academy Awards: Ben-Hur (1959): nominated in 12 of the 15 possible categories. Titanic (1997): nominated in 14 of the 17 possible categories. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): nominated in 11 of the 17 possible categories. Most nominations received by a single film: 14.
1 day ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only ...
4 days ago · The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). An adaptation of L. Frank Baum 's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.
4 days ago · The Duellists (1977), set in Napoleonic France, was Ridley Scott’s first film as a director. The movie won the best first-feature award at the Cannes film festival . Did Ridley Scott win an Oscar for Thelma & Louise ?
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- Ridley Scott is a British film director and producer whose movies are acclaimed for their visual style and rich details. His best-known films inclu...
- Ridley Scott was nominated as best director for his film Thelma & Louise (1991), but he did not win that Oscar. (Jonathan Demme did instead.) Scott...
- Alien (1979), a science-fiction–horror story, and Blade Runner (1982), a dystopian neo-noir fable based on a Philip K. Dick novel and notable for S...
4 days ago · Harold Russell - Best Supporting Actor (1947) Former soldier Harold Russell owns numerous interesting distinctions. He won an Oscar for his very first film, 1946’s "The Best Years of Our Lives ...
4 days ago · He was on the right side of the law in the popular ‘G’ Men (1935), whereas such films as Angels with Dirty Faces (1938; Oscar nomination for best actor), Each Dawn I Die (1939), and The Roaring Twenties (1939) featured Cagney in increasingly complex studies of criminal pathology.
4 days ago · Chariots of Fire, British dramatic film, released in 1981, that tells the true story of two British runners who brought glory to their country in the Olympic Games of 1924 in Paris. The film won both the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for best picture and also garnered the Golden Globe Award for best foreign movie.
