"Jones' ""The Oldest Living Graduate"" and the Emmy-nominated ""Gideon's Trumpet"" (co-starring Fay Wray in her last performance) about Clarence Gideon's fight to have the right to publicly funded legal counsel for the indigent. ""On Golden Pond"" in 1981, the film adaptation of Ernest Thompson's play, marked one final professional and personal triumph for Fonda. Directed by Mark Rydell, the project provided unprecedented collaborations between Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, along with Fonda and his daughter, Jane. The elder Fonda played an emotionally brittle and distant father who becomes more accessible at the end of his life. Jane Fonda has said that"
"Peter Fonda Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an American actor. He is the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda (by first wife, Susan Brewer, stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich). Fonda was a part of the counterculture of the 1960s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for ""Easy Rider"" (1969), and the Academy Award for Best Actor for ""Ulee's Gold"" (1997). For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Fonda also won the Golden Globe Award"
"the Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1998, Peter Fonda starred in a TV movie version of ""The Tempest"", based in part on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was directed by Jack Bender and starred Fonda, John Glover, Harold Perrineau, and Katherine Heigl. Although not available on DVD, it is available on VHS tape. Two years later Fonda appeared in the 1999 crime film ""The Limey"" as Terry Valentine, a rock music producer who murders a young girl. The film was directed by Steven Soderbergh. In 2001 a fully restored version of ""The Hired Hand"" was exhibited at"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"it gained in external splendour"". ""We all know the definition of this award ""for the production that has made the greatest contribution to the moral and spiritual betterment of humanity"". it differs from the other awards, when are normally given for artistic merit. Art for Art's sake is not the object, but rather art for the sake of man, the whole of man, heart and soul. Pious dullness is not the aim (...). The Fugitive (1947 film) The Fugitive is a 1947 American-Mexican drama film starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, based on the novel ""The Power and"
"during his career. He won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in ""Philadelphia"" (1993), as well as a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a People's Choice Award for Best Actor for ""Forrest Gump"" (1994). In 1995, Hanks became one of only two actors who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in consecutive years, with Spencer Tracy being the other. In 2004, he received the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). In 2014, he"
"Best Actor. He and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards. His other films include the satire film ""Buffalo Soldiers"" (2001), the science fiction thriller ""Signs"" (2002), the animated film ""Brother Bear"" (2003), the historical drama film ""Hotel Rwanda"" (2004), the psychological thriller ""The Village"" (2004), the documentary ""Earthlings"" (2005), the romantic drama ""Two Lovers"" (2008), the drama ""The Immigrant"" (2013), the romantic science fiction drama ""Her"" (2013), the crime comedy-drama film ""Inherent Vice"" (2014), and the thriller ""You Were Never Really Here"" (2017), for which he won the Cannes"
"Times"" cited William R. Ebersol in the role of Governor John Merwin as one of those who ""stand out in a cast that is notable for its authenticity."" It was Ebersol's only film and he does not speak. The Best Man (1964 film) The Best Man is a 1964 American political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his play of the same title. Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, and Lee Tracy, the film details the seamy political maneuverings behind the nomination of a presidential candidate. The supporting cast features Edie Adams,"
"Award for Best Picture, Golden Globe for Best Picture and BAFTA Award for Best Film. Douglas' role of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's ""Wall Street"" (1987) won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. For his portrayal of a fictional American president in the 1995 comedy ""The American President"", he was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. His performance in ""Wonder Boys"" (2000) earned him nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. He shared the Screen"
"and ""The Return of Frank James"", and war films such as ""The Longest Day"" and ""In Harm's Way"", and made frequent appearances in both television and foreign productions late in his career. He was Bette Davis' leading man in the romantic period piece ""Jezebel"" and portrayed historical figures Abraham Lincoln in ""Young Mr. Lincoln"" and Wyatt Earp in ""My Darling Clementine"". Fonda made four movies with his close friend James Stewart; ""On Our Merry Way"", ""How the West Was Won"", ""Firecreek"", and ""The Cheyenne Social Club"". Henry Fonda made no major film appearances between 1948's ""Fort Apache"" with John Wayne"
"""Ulee’s Gold"" was a critical hit and won its leading actor, Peter Fonda, his first and only Golden Globe for best actor. Fonda also received his first and only Oscar nomination for best actor. After two years of revitalizing Orion Pictures, Metromedia went on to sell Orion to MGM. Krevoy was able to take the MPCA name back as part of his original deal. In 1998, Krevoy returned to his independent filmmaking roots and restarted the Motion Picture Corporation of America with a distribution deal through MGM. Since rebooting the MPCA, Krevoy has produced a wide array of motion pictures"
"film good guy Henry Fonda as the villainous Frank, but there are also many other, more subtle reversals throughout the film. According to film critic and historian Christopher Frayling, the film quotes from as many as 30 classic American Westerns. The major films referenced include: Once Upon a Time in the West Once Upon a Time in the West () is a 1968 epic Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. It stars Henry Fonda, cast against type, as the villain, Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader, and Jason Robards as a"
"in Aegum, soon followed by daughter Annetje and another named Geertie. In 1642, the Fonda family emigrated to the Dutch colony of New Netherland (New York), and settled in the Hudson River valley, near Fort Orange (Albany), in a hamlet called Rennselaerwyck (Troy). Jellis became a blacksmith and brandy distiller, and Hester gave birth to three more children, Sarah, Abraham, and Saertje. Jellis Fonda died in 1659, only 45 years old. His widow soon remarried. Among Jellis Fonda’s best known descendants are American actor Henry Jaynes Fonda (1905–1982), an American Academy Award-winning film and stage actor, and his daughter Jane"
"Henry Fonda Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor with a career spanning five decades. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in ""The Grapes of Wrath"", a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout five decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated"
"Universal, and Paramount) to win the Best Picture Oscar. ""Rebecca"" was the first American-made film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and the only film from him to win Best Picture. Hitchcock had two films nominated for Best Picture, the other being ""Foreign Correspondent"". Two other directors also had two films in the running this year: Sam Wood (""Our Town"" and ""Kitty Foyle"") and John Ford (""The Long Voyage Home"" and ""The Grapes of Wrath"", which won Best Director). ""Pinocchio"" was the first animated film to take home competitive Oscars, for both Best Original Score and Best Original Song, starting a long"
"11 Academy Award nominations. It again won Best Picture. Coppola won Best Director and Robert DeNiro won best supporting actor for his portrayal of a young Vito Corleone. The lesson of the films' successes was not wasted on Hollywood. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the studios issued a steady flow of films about Italian American gangsters and the Mafia. Some of these were critically acclaimed. Scorsese's ""Goodfellas"" about Henry Hill's life and relationship with the Lucchese and Gambino crime families, was nominated for 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director and won the award for Best Supporting Actor"
"The Best Man (1964 film) The Best Man is a 1964 American political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his play of the same title. Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, and Lee Tracy, the film details the seamy political maneuverings behind the nomination of a presidential candidate. The supporting cast features Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Ann Sothern, Shelley Berman, Gene Raymond, and Kevin McCarthy. Lee Tracy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, and it was his final film. In May 1964, former Secretary of"
"win Best Picture without any acting nominations. Sean Penn became the ninth person to win Best Lead Actor twice. Best Supporting Actor winner Heath Ledger became the second performer to win a posthumous acting Oscar. The first actor to receive this distinction was Peter Finch who posthumously won Best Actor for ""Network"" two months after his death in January 1977. With its six nominations, ""WALL-E"" tied with 1991's ""Beauty and the Beast"" as the most nominated animated film in Oscar history. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface. The following 15 films received multiple nominations: The following four films received"
"man fighting the forces of nature. He went on to receive his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama ""The Greatest Show on Earth"" (1952), which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. His last and most famous film, ""The Ten Commandments"" (1956), also a Best Picture Academy Award nominee, is currently the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. In addition to his Best Picture Award, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions, the Palme d'Or (posthumously)"
"Best Film Editing & Best Original Screenplay. It was followed by the darker, less commercial ""The Mosquito Coast"" (1986), Paul Schrader's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel, with Ford playing a man obsessively pursuing his dream to start a new life in the Central American jungle with his family. These dramatic parts provided Harrison Ford with important opportunities to break the typecasting of his career-making roles in the ""Star Wars"" and ""Indiana Jones"" series. Both films showed off his ability to play more subtle and substantial characters and he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his work in ""Witness"","
"for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for ""The Passion of Ayn Rand"" (1999). Fonda was born in New York City, the only son of actor Henry Fonda (1905–1982) and his wife Frances Ford Seymour (1908–1950); he is the younger brother of actress Jane Fonda. He and Jane had a maternal half-sister, Frances de Villers Brokaw (1931–2008), from their mother's first marriage. Their mother committed suicide in a mental hospital when Peter, her youngest, was ten, although he did not discover the circumstances or location of her death until he was 55 years old. On his eleventh"
"and popular viewpoint: Roger Ebert listed it as one of his ""Great Movies"". The American Film Institute named Juror 8, played by Henry Fonda, 28th in a list of the 50 greatest movie heroes of the 20th century. AFI also named ""12 Angry Men"" the 42nd most inspiring film, the 88th most heart-pounding film and the 87th best film of the past hundred years. The film was also nominated for the 100 movies list in 1998. , the film holds a 100% approval rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. In 2011, the film was the second most screened"
"in a letter recounting the experience of the film's production, quoted Ford saying of Wayne's future in film: ""He'll be the biggest star ever because he is the perfect 'everyman.'"" ""Stagecoach"" marked the beginning of the most consistently successful phase of Ford's career—in just two years between 1939 and 1941 he created a string of classics films that won numerous Academy Awards. Ford's next film, the biopic ""Young Mr Lincoln"" (1939) starring Henry Fonda, was less successful than ""Stagecoach"", attracting little critical attention and winning no awards. It was not a major box-office hit although it had a respectable domestic"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"for Best Actor was first introduced in 1976 for the 1974 and 1975 years, to reward a lead performance by a male actor in film. The record for most awards is held by Robert Downey, Jr. and Mark Hamill with three wins, with Jeff Bridges and Harrison Ford as the only others to have won more than once, each winning twice. Tom Cruise is the most nominated actor in the category with ten nominations, with Arnold Schwarzenegger being second with seven (two of which for playing The Terminator) and Harrison Ford (all of them for playing either Han Solo or"
"for his role of Pancho Villa in ""Viva Villa!"" Best Actor Best Actor is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actors in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actor award was awarded for acting in a film, on May 16, 1929 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) at the Academy Awards to Emil Jannings for his role of Grand Duke Sergius Alexander in ""The Last Command"" and August Schilling in ""The Way of All Flesh"". In"
"was the first recipient of the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1973. Also in that year, Ford was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon. Ford directed 10 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Victor McLaglen, Thomas Mitchell, Edna May Oliver, Jane Darwell, Henry Fonda, Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Jack Lemmon. McLaglen, Mitchell, Darwell, Crisp and Lemmon won an Oscar for one of their roles in one of Ford's movies. A television special featuring Ford, John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda was broadcast over the CBS network on December 5,"
"for the United States, two of his films, ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975) and ""Amadeus"" (1984), acquired particular renown, and both gained him an Academy Award for Best Director. ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" became the second film to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Leading Role, Actress in Leading Role, Director, and Screenplay) after ""It Happened One Night"" in 1934—an accomplishment not repeated until 1991, by ""The Silence of the Lambs"". Forman was also nominated for a Best Director Oscar for ""The People vs. Larry Flynt"" (1996). He also won Golden Globe,"
"a record five Golden Globes, which was not surpassed until 2017. Rota's score was also nominated for Grammy Award for Best Original Score for a Motion Picture or TV Special at the 15th Grammy Awards. Rota was announced the winner of the category on March 3 at the Grammys' ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee. When the nominations for the 45th Academy Awards were revealed on February 12, 1973, ""The Godfather"" was nominated for eleven awards. The nominations were for: Best Picture, Best Costume Design, Marlon Brando for Best Actor, Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola for Best Adapted Screenplay, Pacino, Caan,"
"back in 1971."" For her performance, she was nominated for yet another Academy Award for Best Actress. She ended the decade by appearing in ""Old Gringo"". This was followed by the romantic drama ""Stanley & Iris"" (1990) with Robert De Niro, which was her final film for 15 years. Both films did not fare well at the box office, and despite receiving mixed to negative reviews, Fonda's performance as the widowed Iris in the latter was praised by Vincent Canby, who stated, ""Fonda's increasingly rich resources as an actress are evident in abundance here. They even overcome one's awareness that"
"Ford Coppola's ""The Godfather"" was released. The epic story of the Corleone family, its generational transition from post-prohibition to post-war, its fratricidal intrigues, and its tapestry of mid-century America's criminal underworld became a huge critical and commercial success. It accounted for nearly 10% of gross proceeds for all films for the entire year. It won the Oscar for Best Picture, as well as the award for Best Actor for Marlon Brando and is widely considered one of the greatest American films of all time. Two years later, ""The Godfather Part II"" became the fifth-highest-grossing film of the year and garnered"
"his early roles, Fonda played a clever, ambitious television news reporter. Vincent Canby, writing for the ""New York Times"", singled out Fonda's performance for praise: ""The three stars are splendid, but maybe Miss Fonda is just a bit more than that. Her performance is not that of an actress in a star's role, but that of an actress creating a character that happens to be major within the film. She keeps getting better and better."" This role also earned her Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. The same year, she starred in the western adventure-romance film ""The Electric"
"(1941); the con artist who falls for her intended victim (played by Henry Fonda) in ""The Lady Eve"" (1941); the extremely successful, independent doctor Helen Hunt in ""You Belong to Me"" (1941), also with Fonda; a nightclub performer who gives a professor (played by Gary Cooper) a better understanding of ""modern English"" in the comedy ""Ball of Fire"" (1941); the woman who talks an infatuated insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) into killing her husband in ""Double Indemnity"" (1944); the columnist caught up in white lies and a holiday romance in ""Christmas in Connecticut"" (1945); and the doomed wife in ""Sorry, Wrong"