"Fellowes, a brother-in-law of Diana, Princess of Wales; Janvrin was the ""deputy"" private secretary until 1999. However, the film is accurate in depicting Janvrin as the person who delivered the news of Diana's accident to the Queen at Balmoral during the night. The film's screenwriter Peter Morgan adapted his script for the stage, under a new title, ""The Audience"", with Helen Mirren continuing her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II. The play opened in London and then transferred to the Broadway stage, where Mirren won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The film exceeded box-office expectations; with a"
"Helen Mirren Dame Helen Lydia Mirren, (; born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967, and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in ""The Queen"" and received the Olivier Award for Best Actress and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the same role in ""The Audience"". Mirren's other Academy Award nominations include ""The Madness of King George"" (1994), ""Gosford Park"""
"year's Best Actress Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth II in ""The Queen""), Day-Lewis knelt before her, and she tapped him on each shoulder with the Oscar statuette, to which he quipped: ""That's the closest I'll come to ever getting a knighthood."" Day-Lewis was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to drama. On 14 November 2014, he was knighted by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, in an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Daniel Day-Lewis Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship. Born"
"in 1993 and 1994 and the Film BAFTA for Best Leading Actress for ""The Queen"" in 2007. She was the sixth of seven people to have won the British Triple Crown of Acting, with Peggy Ashcroft, Judi Dench, Nigel Hawthorne, Albert Finney and Julie Walters all preceding her to the honour and Mark Rylance succeeding her. American actress Frances McDormand (born 1957) completed the triple crown in 2015. She is a 5-time Oscar (2), 2-time Tony (1), and 2-time (1) acting Emmy nominee, for a total of nine TC nominations. McDormand has won four awards. American actress Jessica Lange (born"
"""The Crown"" was praised for its acting, directing, writing, cinematography, production values, and the relatively accurate historical account of Queen Elizabeth's reign. It has received several accolades, including winning Best Actress and Best Actor at the 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards for Foy and Lithgow, respectively, in addition to receiving a total of 26 nominations for its first two seasons at the Primetime Emmy Awards, including twice for Outstanding Drama Series. ""The Crown"" traces the life of Queen Elizabeth II from her wedding in 1947 through to the present day. The first season, in which Claire Foy portrays the Queen"
"performer to receive double acting nominations in the same year. By virtue of her nomination for her role as the title character in """", she also was the first actress and fifth performer overall to be nominated for portraying the same character in two different films (she previously earned a nomination for playing Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1998's ""Elizabeth""). At age 82, Best Supporting Actor nominee Hal Holbrook was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. Robert F. Boyle became the oldest recipient of the Academy Honorary award at the age of 98. Winners are listed first,"
"""' ""Elizabeth"" - ""Jenny Shircore"" ""' ""Elizabeth"" - ""David Hirschfelder"" 52nd British Academy Film Awards The 52nd BAFTA Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 11 April 1999, honoured the best in film for 1998. Shakespeare in Love won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture) and Best Editing. ""Elizabeth"" was voted Best British Film. Both Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett won awards for their portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I. Geoffrey Rush won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Italian actor Roberto Benigni won the award for Best"
"acclaim and many accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, making her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor. In 2013, she starred in ""Blue Jasmine"", for which she won many accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actress. Blanchett is one of only six actors, and the only female actor, to receive Academy Award nominations for portraying the same role in two films, accomplished with her performance as Queen Elizabeth I. She is additionally the only Australian to win two acting Oscars. A seven-time Oscar nominee, she has also"
"possess identifiable intelligence, [the film] is not as difficult to sit through as some bad movies I can think of. It's just solemn, well-groomed and dumb."" Roger Ebert gave the film three stars and lauded the interpretation of Redgrave and Jackson stating, ""Vanessa Redgrave is a tall, straight-backed, finely spirited Mary, and Glenda Jackson makes a perfectly shrewish, wise Elizabeth."" ""Mary, Queen of Scots"" was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Vanessa Redgrave), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Terence Marsh, Robert Cartwright, Peter Howitt), Best Costume Design (Margaret Furse), Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, (John Barry),"
"""Z"" in 1969). Moreover, its seven nominations were the most for a foreign language film, to date. Best Actor winner Roberto Benigni was the second person to direct himself to an acting Oscar win. Laurence Olivier first achieved this feat for his performance in 1948's ""Hamlet"". He also became the fourth individual to earn acting, directing, screenwriting nominations for the same film. In addition, Benigni was the third performer to win an Oscar for a non-English speaking role. By virtue of their nominations for portraying Queen Elizabeth I of England, Best Actress nominee Cate Blanchett and Best Supporting Actress winner"
"the ITV comedy-drama series ""At Home with the Braithwaites"" and in 2002, she featured in the serial ""The Jury"" and contributed ""Sonnet 142"" to the compilation album ""When Love Speaks"". For Stephen Frears' ""The Queen"" (2006), she was cast in the role of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother with Dame Helen Mirren who, as her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, won an Oscar for her performance. She also appeared in ""The Poseidon Adventure"" (2005), an American TV film with a negligible connection to the 1972 feature film. She has also taken up producing and directing. In 2009, she appeared in the"
"Miller. 60th British Academy Film Awards The 60th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 11 February 2007 and honoured the best films of 2006. ""The Queen"" won Best Film and Best Actress for Helen Mirren. Paul Greengrass won Best Director for ""United 93"", which also won Best Editing. Forest Whitaker won Best Actor for ""The Last King of Scotland"", which also won Outstanding British Film and Best Adapted Screenplay. The ceremony also featured the inaugural BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, which was awarded to ""Happy Feet"", directed by"
"Helena Bonham Carter Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. She is known for her roles in both low-budget independent art films and large-scale blockbusters. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Kate Croy in ""The Wings of the Dove"" (1997). For her role as Queen Elizabeth in ""The King's Speech"" (2010), she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She also won the 2010 International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her role"
"Awards: The film for Best Picture, Viola Davis for Best Actress, and Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Actress. Spencer won the Oscar for her role. Participant executives said in October 2011 that the studio would expand its production to make seven to twelve films a year, would begin producing features and series for television, and expand its online presence. As part of this plan, in November the studio hired advertising executive Chad Boettcher to be executive vice president for social action and advocacy and 20th Century Fox executive Gary Frenkel to be senior vice president for digital"
"II life and women's roles. Due to public concerns that the extras in the film were in fact real mental patients being exploited, the British censor added a foreword explaining that everyone who appeared on screen was a paid actor and that conditions in British hospitals were unlike those portrayed in the film. It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Recording (Thomas T. Moulton), and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Olivia de Havilland), Best Director, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay. The film also won the"
"most of her acceptance speeches, she expressed her admiration for the real Queen, and dedicated both her Golden Globe and her Oscar to Elizabeth II. 79th Academy Awards (2006) 2006 British Academy Film (BAFTA) Awards 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards 2006 Directors Guild of America Awards 2006 Writers Guild of America Awards 2006 Producers Guild of America Awards 64th Golden Globe Awards 2006 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2006 National Society of Film Critics Awards 2006 Satellite Awards 2006 National"
"1. Kirsten Dunst – ""Melancholia"" (39)<br> 2. Yoon Jeong-hee – ""Poetry"" (25)<br> 3. Meryl Streep – ""The Iron Lady"" (20) 1. Albert Brooks – ""Drive"" (38)<br> 2. Christopher Plummer – ""Beginners"" (24)<br> 3. Patton Oswalt – ""Young Adult"" (19) 1. Jessica Chastain – ""The Help"", ""Take Shelter"", and ""The Tree of Life"" (30)<br> 2. Jeannie Berlin – ""Margaret"" (19)<br> 3. Shailene Woodley – ""The Descendants"" (17) 1. Asghar Farhadi – ""A Separation"" (39)<br> 2. Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin – ""Moneyball"" (22)<br> 3. Woody Allen – ""Midnight in Paris"" (16) 1. Emmanuel Lubezki – ""The Tree of Life"" (76)<br> 2."
"for Best Supporting Actress), and Daniel Day-Lewis (all three for Best Actor). Katharine Hepburn still holds the record, with four (all for Best Actress). Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and Alicia Huberman in ""Notorious"" (1946). Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German"
"top honors: Best Picture, Best Director (Barry Jenkins), Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), and the Russell Smith Award. ""La La Land"" and ""Manchester by the Sea"" both won two awards. ""Manchester by the Sea"" won Best Actor (Casey Affleck) and Best Screenplay (Kenneth Lonergan), while ""La La Land"" won Best Cinematography (Linus Sandgren) and Best Musical Score (Justin Hurwitz). Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Other films ranked by the annual poll are listed in order. While most categories saw 5 honorees named, categories ranged from as many as 10 (Best Film) to as few as 2 (Best"
"II, accompanied with a live orchestra by the Southbank Sinfonia. The production sold out with rave reviews and returned to the Olivier Theatre at the NT with Msamati and Gillen reprising the roles of Salieri and Mozart from February to 24 April 2018, again with rave reviews. The 1984 film adaptation won an Academy Award for Best Picture. In total, the film won eight Academy Awards. It starred F. Murray Abraham as Salieri (winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance), Tom Hulce as Mozart, and Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze. The play was thoroughly reworked by Shaffer and the"
"Cate Blanchett Catherine Elise Blanchett, (; born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received international acclaim and many accolades for her work, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards, six AACTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Blanchett came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in ""Elizabeth"" (1998), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award, and earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in ""The Aviator"" (2004) brought her critical"
"the Best Actress category for her lead (or supporting) role in ""Hud"". The movie also won for Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas and Best Cinematography – Black and White. It was the second and, to date, last film to win two acting awards without being nominated for Best Picture (the other being ""The Miracle Worker""). At age 71 Margaret Rutherford set a then record for the oldest winner for Best Supporting Actress. Coincidentally, the year before Patty Duke set a then record for the youngest winner ever. Rutherford was also only the 2nd Oscar winner to be over the"
"60th British Academy Film Awards The 60th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 11 February 2007 and honoured the best films of 2006. ""The Queen"" won Best Film and Best Actress for Helen Mirren. Paul Greengrass won Best Director for ""United 93"", which also won Best Editing. Forest Whitaker won Best Actor for ""The Last King of Scotland"", which also won Outstanding British Film and Best Adapted Screenplay. The ceremony also featured the inaugural BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, which was awarded to ""Happy Feet"", directed by George"
"Willa Holland Willa Joanna Chance Holland (born June 18, 1991) is an American actress, voice actress and model. She is known for her roles as Kaitlin Cooper in the Fox teen drama ""The O.C."", Agnes Andrews in The CW series ""Gossip Girl"", Aqua in ""Kingdom Hearts"", and Thea Queen/Speedy in ""Arrow"". Holland was born in Los Angeles to cinematographer Keith Holland and actress Darnell Gregorio-De Palma. Her mother was remarried to director Brian De Palma from 1995–97. She grew up with two sisters: Brianna Holland (b. 1988) and Piper De Palma (b. 1996). Holland attended Palisades Charter High School for"
"Academy Awards, the award for Best Actress went to Andrews for her performance as Mary Poppins. Hepburn was not nominated. Despite this, many critics greatly applauded Hepburn's ""exquisite"" performance. ""The happiest thing about [""My Fair Lady""]"", wrote Bosley Crowther, ""is that Audrey Hepburn superbly justifies the decision of Jack Warner to get her to play the title role."" Her co-star Rex Harrison, also called Hepburn his favourite leading lady and Gene Ringgold of ""Soundstage"" also commented that ""Audrey Hepburn is magnificent. She is Eliza for the ages,"" while adding, ""Everyone agreed that if Julie Andrews was not to be in"
"able to gather information about the story. Valentine Logue asked Seidler to contact the Queen Mother and ask her for approval of the story being publicized. The Queen responded she did not want the story told until after she died. The Queen Mother died in 2002, and it wasn't until 2005 that Seidler began working on the story again. It was instead conceived as film. The film version of ""The King's Speech"", that starred Colin Firth as King George and Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue, was a critical success and won several Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best"
"an Oscar, with Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis winning. Burton later said, ""I didn't think I could learn anything about comedy - I'd done all of Shakespeare's. But from him I learned,"" adding, ""He conspires with you to get your best."" However, it was Taylor who chose Nichols to be their director, because, writes biographer David Bret, ""she particularly admired him because he had done a number of ad-hoc jobs to pay for his education after arriving in America as a seven-year-old Jewish refugee."" Producer Ernest Lehman agreed with her choice: ""He was the only one who could handle them,"""
"calling it an ""effective but uneven work"" with performances that ""cannot conceal the storyline's shortcomings."" Ellen Burstyn won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Diane Ladd was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress but lost to Ingrid Bergman in ""Murder on the Orient Express"", and Robert Getchell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay but lost to Robert Towne for ""Chinatown"". The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and BAFTA Awards went to Burstyn for Best Actress in a Leading Role, to Diane Ladd for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and"
"52nd British Academy Film Awards The 52nd BAFTA Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 11 April 1999, honoured the best in film for 1998. Shakespeare in Love won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture) and Best Editing. ""Elizabeth"" was voted Best British Film. Both Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett won awards for their portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I. Geoffrey Rush won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Italian actor Roberto Benigni won the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in ""La vita è bella"
"Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2011, she starred as Violet in """" at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. In 2017, Reid stars as Queen Elizabeth II in the Mirvish Productions presentation of ""The Audience"" at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. The role was originated in the West End and on Broadway by Helen Mirren. She has twice won the Dora Mavor Moore Award, in 1993 for ""Fallen Angels"" and in 1995 for ""Six Degrees of Separation"". She won an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award (Sterling Award) for her performance in """". In 2006, she was made a Member"
"during its tour with co-star Mercedes McCambridge. Her performances in two other plays earned her two other Tony nominations: in 1995, as Best Actress (Featured Role – Play) for a revival of ""The Shadow Box""; and in 2002, as Best Actress (Play) for Edward Albee's ""The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?"". Her most acclaimed film role was in ""The Fisher King""; her performance in the film earned her the 1991 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an American Comedy Award, a Boston Society of Film Critics Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and a Golden"
"The African Queen (film) The African Queen is a 1951 British-American adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel. It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and had a music score by Allan Gray. The film stars Humphrey Bogart (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor – his only Oscar), and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner"
"were originally awarded in the Best Actress – Television Series Drama category before the creation of this category. Since its inception, the award has been given to 34 actresses. Nicole Kidman is the current recipient of the award for her portrayal of Celeste Wright on ""Big Little Lies"". Ann-Margret, Judy Davis and Helen Mirren have won the most awards in this category, winning two times. Jessica Lange has been nominated for the award on eight occasions, the most within the category. Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees. Golden Globe"