"about his blond male stereotype image and turned down roles in ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" and ""The Graduate"". Redford found the niche he was looking for in George Roy Hill's ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. The film was a huge success and made him a major bankable star, cementing his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy. Redford suffered through a few films that did not achieve box office success during this time, including ""Downhill Racer"" (1969); ""Tell"
"winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. In 1980, he starred in ""Brubaker"" (1980). He starred in ""Out of Africa"" (1985), which was an enormous critical and box office success, and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. He released his third film as a director, ""A River Runs Through It"", in 1992. Redford retired after completing the film ""The Old Man & the Gun"", which was released in October 2018. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for ""Quiz Show"". He received a second Academy Award—for"
"including a cover version of The Beatles' ""Hey Jude"". B. J. Thomas came full circle. The five-time Grammy Award winner made his name in the mid-1960s with easy listening hits like ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"" recorded at American Sound Studio The song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"", winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Further, David and Bacharach won Best Original Score. The version by B. J. Thomas was number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in the United States in January 1970 for"
"of the Fall"" (1994), ""The Siege"" (1998), ""The Last Samurai"" (2003), ""Blood Diamond"" (2006), and ""Defiance"" (2008). Along with Marshall Herskovitz, Zwick runs a film production company called The Bedford Falls Company (inspired by the name of the town featured in Frank Capra's ""It's A Wonderful Life""). This company has produced such notable films as ""Traffic"" and ""Shakespeare in Love"" and the TV shows ""thirtysomething"", ""Relativity"", ""Once and Again"", and ""My So-Called Life"". He was one of the recipients of the Academy Award for Best Picture for ""Shakespeare in Love""; he was also nominated in the same category for ""Traffic""."
"Actress category. Best Actor winner Paul Newman was the fourth actor to have been nominated for portraying the same character in two different films, having previously earned a nomination for his role as ""Fast Eddie"" Felson in 1961's ""The Hustler"". By virtue of his victory in the Best Actor category, Newman and wife Joanne Woodward, who won Best Actress for her performance in 1957's ""The Three Faces of Eve"", became the second married couple to win acting Oscars. """" and ""Down and Out in America""s joint win in the Best Documentary Feature category marked the fourth occurrence of a tie"
"Robert Redford Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is a retired American actor, director, producer, and businessman. He is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. Redford began acting on television in the early 1960s. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""The Voice of Charlie Pont"" (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's ""Barefoot in the Park"" (1963). Redford made his film debut in ""War Hunt"" (1962). His role in ""Inside Daisy Clover"" (1965) won him a Golden Globe"
"Best Picture-winner, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Durning won distinction as the crooked cop, Lt. Wm. Snyder, who polices and hustles professional con artists. He doggedly pursues the young grifter, Johnny Hooker (Redford), only to become the griftee in the end. Other film credits include ""Dog Day Afternoon"" with Al Pacino; ""When A Stranger Calls""; ""The Final Countdown""; ""The Hindenburg""; ""Twilight's Last Gleaming"" with Burt Lancaster; ""True Confessions"" with Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. Some television credits include ""The Connection""; ""Queen of the Stardust Ballroom"", the made-for-television musical in which he played the mailman who reaches out to"
"the set in 1957 (they had first met in 1953). He won Best Actor at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for this film. He had a supporting role in the Coen brothers' first big-budget production, 1994's ""The Hudsucker Proxy"". Newman starred in ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)"", ""The Young Philadelphians"" (1959), ""Exodus"" (1960), ""From the Terrace"", (1960), ""The Hustler"" (1961), ""Hud"" (1963), Torn Curtain (1966), ""Harper"" (1966), ""Hombre"" (1967), ""Cool Hand Luke"" (1967), ""The Towering Inferno"" (1974), ""Slap Shot"" (1977), ""Absence of Malice"" (1981) and ""The Verdict"" (1982). He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George"
"""Stranger than Paradise"" (Jim Jarmusch, 1984), ""Blue Velvet"" (David Lynch, 1986), ""The Civil War"" (Ken Burns, 1990), ""The Crying Game"" (Neil Jordan, 1992), ""Mulholland Drive"" (David Lynch, 2001), ""Brokeback Mountain"" (Ang Lee, 2005), ""The Imitation Game"" (Morten Tyldum, 2014), ""Sully"" (Clint Eastwood, 2016), ""Moonlight"" (Barry Jenkins, 2016), and ""Lady Bird"" (Greta Gerwig, 2017). Since 1995 a special medallion has also been presented annually, usually to a non-filmmaker who has had a major impact on American or international film culture. Past recipients include Milos Stehlik (founder of Facets Multi-Media), HBO, the French film magazine ""Positif"", Ted Turner, and Janus Films. Each"
"movie ""Skyfall"", directed by his longtime collaborator Sam Mendes, which celebrates the film franchise's 50th anniversary. His work on this film earned him his eleventh Oscar nomination and a second BAFTA win. During 2013, he scored Steven Soderbergh's ""Side Effects"" and ""Saving Mr. Banks"". The latter score was very well received by film music critics, earning Newman BAFTA and Oscar nominations for the second consecutive year, both of which he lost to Steven Price for ""Gravity"". Newman's 2014 projects included ""The Judge"" and ""Get on Up"". He scored 2015's ""The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"", marking the first time Newman"
"Ordinary People Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Robert Redford. The film stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton. The story concerns the disintegration of an upper-middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the death of one of their sons in a boating accident. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent was based upon the 1976 novel ""Ordinary People"" by Judith Guest. The film received six Academy Awards nominations and won four: the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director for Redford, Adapted Screenplay for Sargent, and Supporting"
"Kid"" and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, the song was a No. 1 hit for Thomas and earned him an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Movie goers became re-acquainted with ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"" when it was included in the film Spider-Man 2 (2004). The 1969 recording was inducted into the 2014, Grammy Hall of Fame. Two time Academy of Country Music Award nominee Kyle Lehning produced ""The Living Room Sessions"" at Sound Stage Studio, Nashville, Tennessee in 2012. Lehning and Thomas kept the pre-production details simple,"
"Redford was nominated for his own Golden Globe and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor. In the Indian Ocean, a man (Robert Redford) wakes to find water flooding his boat. He has collided with a wayward shipping container, ripping a hole in the hull. He uses a sea anchor to dislodge the container, then changes course to tilt the boat away from the hole. He patches the hole and uses the manual bilge pump to remove the water from the cabin. The boat's navigational and communications systems have been damaged by saltwater intrusion. The man"
"Stephen Fry for the tenth time in the award's history. The ceremony opened with a number ""Stevie"" by a British rock band Kasabian. ""Boyhood"" won three of its five nominations, including Best Film, Best Director for Richard Linklater, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Patricia Arquette. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor in a Leading Role for ""The Theory of Everything"", Julianne Moore won Best Actress in a Leading Role for ""Still Alice"", and J. K. Simmons won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ""Whiplash"". ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" won five of its eleven nominations, the most of"
"Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the ""Légion d'Honneur"". He has won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards. In April 2014, ""Time"" magazine included Redford in their annual ""Time"" 100 as one of the ""Most Influential People in the World"", declaring him the ""Godfather of Indie Film"". In 2016, Redford was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Redford was born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Martha W. (""née"" Hart) and Charles Robert Redford Sr., a milkman-turned-accountant. He has a stepbrother, William, from his father's"
"""Out of Africa"" (1985), with Redford in the male lead role opposite Meryl Streep, became an enormous critical and box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture, proving to be Redford's biggest success of the decade and Redford and Pollack's most successful of their six movies together. His next film, ""Legal Eagles"" (1986), was only a minor success at the box office. Redford continued as a major star throughout the 1990s and 2000s. He released his third film as a director, ""A River Runs Through It"", in 1992, which was a return to mainstream success for Redford as"
"the Bacharach/David song ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"", which won the Academy Award for best original song that year and hit No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in January 1970. Sales of it also exceeded one million copies, with Thomas being awarded his third gold record. The song was also released on an album of the same title. Other hits of the 1970s were ""Everybody's Out of Town"", ""I Just Can't Help Believing"" (No. 9 in 1970, covered by Elvis Presley), ""No Love at All"", ""Mighty Clouds of Joy"", and ""Rock and Roll Lullaby"". Thomas's earlier hits were"
"character traits for Raymond. Denby noted: ""Hoffman, looking suddenly older and smaller, has developed a small shuffling walk for Raymond, with shoulder bent. His eyes don't make contact with anyone else's, and he flattens his voice to a dry nasal bark."" ""Rain Man"" won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Hoffman, and Best Director for Barry Levinson. Having worked closely with Hoffman for two years on filming, Levinson offered some opinions about his skill as an actor: After ""Rain Man"", Hoffman appeared with Sean Connery and Matthew Broderick in ""Family Business"" (1989), directed by Sidney Lumet. The"
"by Vanessa Redgrave. ""The Turning Point"" set the record for the most nominations without a win (11), previously held by ""Peyton Place"" and ""The Little Foxes"", which each had 9 nominations with no wins. This record, later tied by ""The Color Purple"", still stands . ""Annie Hall"" was the last Best Picture winner to be nominated for just five awards until ""The Departed"" 29 years later in 2006. Jason Robards became the fourth actor to win back-to-back Oscars, following Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn. For the only time to date, both Best Actor and Best Actress winners won"
"the film rights for the book from Bryson after reading it more than a decade earlier, with the intent of costarring in it with Paul Newman, but had shelved the project after Newman's death. In August 2018, Redford announced his retirement from acting after completion of ""The Old Man & the Gun"", which was released in September 2018. Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the camera. As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for ""Downhill Racer"". His first film as director was 1980's Best Picture winner ""Ordinary People"", a drama about"
"for Robert Redford and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for Alvin Sargent. The lack of recognition for Christopher Tucker's make-up work on ""The Elephant Man"" prompted the creation of the Academy Award for Best Makeup the following year. Best Supporting Actress nominee Eva Le Gallienne was born in 1899, which made her the last acting nominee to be born in the nineteenth century. , this is the earliest Oscars for which all five directing nominees are still living. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). The following individuals, listed in"
"drama ""Brubaker"" (1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system, and the baseball drama ""The Natural"" (1984). Redford continued his involvement in mainstream Hollywood movies, though with a newfound focus on directing. The first film he directed, ""Ordinary People"", which followed the disintegration of an upper-class American family after the death of a son, was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars, including Best Director for Redford himself, and Best Picture. His follow-up directorial project, ""The Milagro Beanfield War"" (1987), failed to generate the same level of attention. Sydney Pollack's"
"commitment. The press conference was held at the LA Press Club. In November 2012, Pitzer launched the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College. The Redford Conservancy educates the next generation of students to create solutions for the most challenging and urgent sustainability problems. Robert Redford Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is a retired American actor, director, producer, and businessman. He is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. Redford began acting on television in the early 1960s. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""The Voice of"
"the BAFTA Film Award for Best Directing. ""East Is East"" was voted Best British Film. ""'Kevin Spacey - ""American Beauty"" ""'Annette Bening - ""American Beauty"" """"'American Beauty"" """"'Sleepy Hollow"" ""'Pedro Almodóvar - ""All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)"" """"'American Beauty"" """"'American Beauty"" """"'East Is East"" (10 Things I Hate About You) """"'All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)"" ""American Beauty"" - Thomas Newman """"'Topsy-Turvy"" """"'Sleepy Hollow"" """"'The End of the Affair"" (Mickey Blue Eyes) - Neil Jordan """"'Being John Malkovich"" (Three Seasons) - Charlie Kaufman """"'The Matrix"" ""'Jude Law - ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" ""'Maggie Smith -"
"songs to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The other four were ""Live and Let Die"" in 1973, ""For Your Eyes Only"" in 1981, ""Skyfall"", and ""Writing on the Wall"". ""Skyfall"" went on to win the award in 2013 and ""Writing on the Wall"" won in 2016. It was the first theme song with a title different from the film's, although the phrase ""the spy who loved me"" is in the lyrics. Hamlisch states in the documentary on the film's DVD that the song's opening bars were influenced by a riff in a Mozart tune. The"
"the former winning the Academy Award for best motion picture. This was echoed in Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's book ""All the President's Men"", about the Watergate scandal, referring to the failure of the President's staff to repair the damage once the scandal had leaked out. It was filmed as ""All the President's Men"" in 1976, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Similarly, Humpty Dumpty is referred to in Paul Auster's 1985 novel ""City of Glass"", when two characters discuss him as ""the purest embodiment of the human condition"" and quote extensively from ""Through the Looking Glass"". Luis d'Antin van"
"in the category of Special Effects and Sound Effects, for the earthquake and flood sequences. It became the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Special Effects, edging out other nominees including ""The Wizard of Oz"" and ""Gone with the Wind"". ""The Rains Came"" was remade in 1955 as ""The Rains of Ranchipur"", with Richard Burton, Lana Turner and Fred MacMurray in the Power, Loy and Brent roles. The 1939 film uses the original novel's ending; the 1955 film does not. The Rains Came The Rains Came is a 1939 20th Century Fox film based on an American"
"Bedford Falls Productions Bedford Falls Productions (or The Bedford Falls Company) is the production company of Marshall Herskovitz, the co-creator of the television series ""thirtysomething"" and ""Once and Again"", and the producer of ""Legends of the Fall"" and ""Blood Diamond"". The company is also known for producing the series ""My So-Called Life"", and the Academy Award-winning films ""Shakespeare in Love"" and ""Traffic"". In honor of the 1946 film ""It's a Wonderful Life""; the Bedford Falls Company was named after the fictional town, and an overhead view of a facsimile of the Bailey household appears in the production logo, which also"
"2005: ""Memoirs of a Geisha"" – John Williams ‡ 2006: ""Babel"" – Gustavo Santaolalla † 2007: ""La Vie en Rose (La môme)"" – Christopher Gunning 2008: ""Slumdog Millionaire"" – A. R. Rahman † 2009: ""Up"" – Michael Giacchino † 2010: ""The King's Speech"" – Alexandre Desplat ‡ 2011: ""The Artist"" – Ludovic Bource † 2012: ""Skyfall"" – Thomas Newman ‡ 2013: ""Gravity"" – Steven Price † 2014: ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" – Alexandre Desplat † 2015: ""The Hateful Eight"" – Ennio Morricone † 2016: ""La La Land"" – Justin Hurwitz † 2017: ""The Shape of Water"" – Alexandre Desplat †"
"1. Bill Murray – ""Rushmore""<br> 2. Donald Sutherland – ""Without Limits""<br> 3. Billy Bob Thornton – ""A Simple Plan"" 1. Judi Dench – ""Shakespeare in Love""<br> 2. Patricia Clarkson – ""High Art""<br> 3. Lisa Kudrow – ""The Opposite of Sex"" 1. Scott Frank – ""Out of Sight""<br> 2. Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard – ""Shakespeare in Love""<br> 3. Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson – ""Rushmore"" 1. John Toll – ""The Thin Red Line""<br> 2. Janusz Kamiński – ""Saving Private Ryan""<br> 3. Seamus Deasy – ""The General"" 1. Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass)<br> 2. ""Fireworks"" (""Hana-bi"")<br> 3. ""The Celebration"" (""Festen"")"
"1980, Howard made his directing debut with the 1977 low-budget comedy/action film ""Grand Theft Auto"". This came after cutting a deal with Roger Corman, wherein Corman let Howard direct a film in exchange for Howard starring in ""Eat My Dust!"", with Christopher Norris. Howard went on to direct several TV movies. His big theatrical break came in 1982, with ""Night Shift"", featuring Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, and Henry Winkler. He has since directed a number of high-visibility films, including ""Splash"", ""Cocoon"", ""Willow"", ""Parenthood"", ""Backdraft"", ""Apollo 13"", ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas"", ""A Beautiful Mind"" (for which he won the Academy"
"teaching literature at Colby College (subsequently retired). He lives in Camden, Maine. His 2001 novel ""Empire Falls"" received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has written seven other novels, a collection of short stories, and a memoir (""Elsewhere""). Russo co-wrote the 1998 film ""Twilight"" with the director Robert Benton. Benton adapted Russo's ""Nobody's Fool"" as a 1994 film of the same title, starring Paul Newman, which he also directed. Russo wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of ""Empire Falls"", the screenplay for the 2005 film ""Ice Harvest"", and the screenplay for the 2005 Niall Johnson film ""Keeping Mum"","
"features a man and a woman singing the last line of ""Buffalo Gals"" (a song featured in the movie), ""..and dance by the light of the moon."" Bedford Falls Productions Bedford Falls Productions (or The Bedford Falls Company) is the production company of Marshall Herskovitz, the co-creator of the television series ""thirtysomething"" and ""Once and Again"", and the producer of ""Legends of the Fall"" and ""Blood Diamond"". The company is also known for producing the series ""My So-Called Life"", and the Academy Award-winning films ""Shakespeare in Love"" and ""Traffic"". In honor of the 1946 film ""It's a Wonderful Life""; the"