"is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the film year in which they were releases, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the films of its previous year. ARY Film Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role ARY Film Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role is one of the ARY Film Awards of Merit presented annually by the ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel to recognize the Male and female comic actor who has delivered an outstanding comedy"
"1972. In January, 1977, Peter Finch died of a sudden heart attack while sitting in the hotel lobby. Two months later, he was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Howard Beale in the film ""Network"". His co-star Faye Dunaway stayed at the hotel after winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for the same film; in one memorable photograph she was seated by the hotel pool lounging back in a chair surrounded by newspapers and her Oscar trophy. The exterior of the hotel was featured on the album cover art of The Eagles' album"
"Visual Effects, Best Makeup, and Best Film Editing. Heath Ledger was the first posthumous winner of the Best Supporting Actor award, and only the second posthumous acting winner ever (Peter Finch posthumously won the Best Actor award for his performance in the 1976 film ""Network""). In addition, Ledger's win marked the first win in any of the major Oscar categories (producing, directing, acting, or writing) for a superhero-based film. Notably, Richard King's win in the Sound Editing category blocked a complete awards sweep of the evening by the eventual Best Picture winner, ""Slumdog Millionaire"". Although it did not receive a"
"1975. Beatty received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor category for the acclaimed film ""Network"" (1976), portraying a television network's bombastic but shrewd chairman of the board who convinces the mad Howard Beale character (portrayed by Peter Finch) that corporation-led global dehumanization is not only inevitable, but is also a good thing. Neither Beatty nor William Holden, who shared the lead role with Finch, won an Oscar. The other three acting awards besides best supporting actor were swept by ""Network"" performers: Best Actor for Peter Finch, Best Actress for Faye Dunaway, and Best Supporting Actress for Beatrice"
"the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Finch was nominated for an Oscar for ""Network"" and went on to posthumously win the award, which was accepted by his widow, Eletha Finch. Although James Dean, Spencer Tracy and Massimo Troisi were also posthumously nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, Finch was the first actor to have won the award posthumously, as well as the first Australian actor to win a Best Actor award. He was the only posthumous winner of an Oscar in an acting category until fellow Australian Heath Ledger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009; there were many"
"the Damned"" Richard Jordan — ""Captains and the Kings"" Henry Winkler — ""Happy Days"" Susan Blakely — ""Rich Man, Poor Man"" Carol Burnett — ""The Carol Burnett Show "" Rich Man, Poor Man Barney Miller Edward Asner — ""Rich Man, Poor Man"" Josette Banzet — ""Rich Man, Poor Man"" Eleanor and Franklin 34th Golden Globe Awards The 34th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1976, were held on January 29, 1977. Peter Finch — ""Network"" Kris Kristofferson — ""A Star Is Born"" Faye Dunaway — ""Network"" Barbra Streisand — ""A Star Is Born"" Sidney Lumet"
"to the serious historical dramas popular in the 1970s, a number of films celebrating and satirizing Australian colloquial culture were produced over the decade, including: ""The Adventures of Barry McKenzie"" (1972), ""Alvin Purple"" (1973), and ""Barry McKenzie Holds His Own"" (1974). The Barry McKenzie films saw performing-artist and writer Barry Humphries collaborating with director Bruce Beresford. In 1976, Peter Finch was awarded a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the American satire ""Network"", becoming the first Australian to win an Oscar for best actor. 1980's ""Breaker Morant"" starring Jack Thompson and Edward Woodward dramatised the controversial"
"which also featured Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, David Gwillim and Anthony Quayle in principal roles. At the end of the decade, Finch's roles in films included ""Death on the Nile"" (1978). He was cast as Kane in Ridley Scott's ""Alien"" (1979), but had to drop out on the second day of filming because of a severe diabetic episode; John Hurt was cast in his place. In 1980 Finch appeared in ""Breaking Glass"", and in 1981 he played ""Luke the Evangelist"" in the television film ""Peter and Paul"", which featured Robert Foxworth and Anthony Hopkins in the title roles. In 1984"
"and with Tatiana Maslany as Diana and Tony Goldwyn as Max Schumacher. ""Network"" won three of the four acting awards. Only one other film, ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" in 1951, has won in three acting categories. Finch died before the 1977 ceremony and was the only performer to win a posthumous Academy Award until Heath Ledger won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2009. The statuette itself was collected by Finch's widow, Eletha Finch. Straight's performance as Louise Schumacher occupied only five minutes and two seconds of screen time, making it the shortest performance to win an Oscar (as of"
"49th Academy Awards The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty. This Academy Awards ceremony is notable for Peter Finch becoming the first posthumous winner of an Oscar for acting, a feat matched only by fellow Australian Heath Ledger 32 years later; Finch had suffered a fatal heart attack in mid-January. Beatrice Straight set another record by becoming the actor with the shortest performance ever in a film to win an acting Oscar, with"
"1978 and 1980. He directed ""The Ploughman's Lunch"" (written by Ian McEwan) in 1983, which won the Evening Standard Award for Best Film, ""Iris"", a biographical film of writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch (starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Jim Broadbent), and ""Stage Beauty"". Broadbent won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Iris"", and Dench and Winslet were nominated for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. He returned to the BBC in 1988 to direct the Falklands War story ""Tumbledown"" (starring Colin Firth), which won him the BAFTA Award for Best Director and the"
"the three network gray suits decide to kill Peter Finch—is lit like a commercial. The camera setups are static and framed like still pictures. The camera had also become a victim of television."" The film premiered in New York City on November 27, 1976, and went into wide release shortly afterward. ""Network"" opened to acclaim from critics, and became one of the big hits of 1976–77. Vincent Canby, in his November 1976 review of the film for ""The New York Times"", called the film ""outrageous ... brilliantly, cruelly funny, a topical American comedy that confirms Paddy Chayefsky's position as a"
"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"
"Jon Finch Jon Finch (2 March 1942 – 28 December 2012) was an English stage and film actor who became well known for his Shakespearean roles. Most notably, he starred in films for directors Roman Polanski (""Macbeth"", 1971) and Alfred Hitchcock (""Frenzy"", 1972). Finch was born on 2 March 1942, in the town of Caterham in Surrey, and was the son of a merchant banker. Between 1950 and 1960 Finch was educated at Caterham School, an independent school in his hometown of Caterham in Surrey. Upon leaving school he turned down the offer of a place at the London School"
"34th Golden Globe Awards The 34th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1976, were held on January 29, 1977. Peter Finch — ""Network"" Kris Kristofferson — ""A Star Is Born"" Faye Dunaway — ""Network"" Barbra Streisand — ""A Star Is Born"" Sidney Lumet — ""Network"" Altars of the World Rocky A Star Is Born Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte), Sweden ""Evergreen"", performed by Barbra Streisand — ""A Star Is Born"" ""A Star Is Born"" — Kenny Ascher and Paul Williams Network — Paddy Chayefsky Laurence Olivier — ""Marathon Man"" Katharine Ross — ""Voyage of"
"Goodbye Girl"" - Neil Simon ""' Peter Firth - ""Equus"" ""' Vanessa Redgrave - ""Julia"" ""' Edward Asner - ""Lou Grant"" ""' Henry Winkler - ""Happy Days"" ""' Lesley Ann Warren - ""79 Park Avenue"" ""' Carol Burnett - ""The Carol Burnett Show"" ""' ""Roots"" ""' ""All in the Family"" ""' ""Raid on Entebbe"" 35th Golden Globe Awards The 35th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1977, were held on January 28, 1978. ""' Richard Burton – ""Equus"" ""' Richard Dreyfuss – ""The Goodbye Girl"" ""' Jane Fonda – ""Julia"" ""' Diane Keaton – ""Annie"
"seven years later, however, that he directed his next film ""Salt and Pepper"" (1968), with Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford. His break-through film was ""The Omen"" (1976). A supernatural thriller made in the wake of the success obtained by ""The Exorcist"", the film stars Gregory Peck, David Warner and Lee Remick. It became the fifth highest-grossing movie of 1976. In 1978, Donner directed ""Superman: The Movie"", starring Christopher Reeve in the title role. The film became a hit worldwide, projecting both Reeve and Donner to international fame. Co-stars included Margot Kidder as Lois Lane, Marlon Brando as Jor-El and"
"news presenter Howard Beale in ""Network"" (1976), written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet. The audition was successful and Finch played the role. The movie was his biggest commercial and critical hit in years. He then played Yitzhak Rabin in ""Raid on Entebbe"" (1977). Shortly after ""Raid on Entebbe"" finished shooting, Finch undertook a promotional tour for ""Network"". On 13 January 1977 he appeared on ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"". The day after, he had a heart attack in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel and died at the age of 60. He is interred in"
"Academy Award, ""The Italian Job"" (1969), and ""Battle of Britain"" (1969). His roles in the 1970s included ""Get Carter"" (1971), ""The"" ""Last"" ""Valley"" (1971), ""Sleuth"" (1972), for which he earned his second Academy Award nomination, ""The Man Who Would Be King"" (1975), and ""A Bridge Too Far"" (1977). He achieved some of his greatest critical success in the 1980s, with ""Educating Rita"" (1983), earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 1986, he received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Woody Allen's ""Hannah and Her Sisters"". Caine played Ebenezer Scrooge in"
"the offer of a CBE in 1980 and a knighthood in 2000. He has criticised the honours system for ""perpetuating snobbery"". He has five Oscar nominations but has never won. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for ""Tom Jones"" (1963), ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974), ""The Dresser"" (1983), and ""Under the Volcano"" (1984); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ""Erin Brockovich"" (2000). Julia Roberts mentioned Albert Finney in her Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actress in ""Erin Brockovich"", thanking him and sharing the Oscar with"
"Atticus Finch, a Depression-era lawyer and widowed father, in a film adaptation of the Harper Lee novel ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". Released in 1962 during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the Southern United States, this film and his role were Peck's favorites. In 2003, Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch was named the greatest film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute. Peck served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1967, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute from 1967 to 1969, Chairman"
"British Academy Television Award for Best Actor ""'1970 Edward Woodward in ""Callan"" ""'1971 Keith Michell in ""The Six Wives of Henry VIII"" ""'1972 John Le Mesurier in ""Traitor"" ""'1973 Anthony Hopkins in ""War and Peace"" ""'1974 Frank Finlay in ""The Adventures of Don Quixote""; ""Candide""; ""The Death of Adolf Hitler"" ""'1975 Peter Barkworth in ""Crown Matrimonial"" ""'1976 John Hurt in ""The Naked Civil Servant"" ""'1977 Derek Jacobi in ""I, Claudius"" ""'1978 Peter Barkworth in ""Professional Foul"" ""'1979 Edward Fox in ""Edward and Mrs Simpson"" ""'1980 Alec Guinness in ""Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"" ""'1981 Denholm Elliott in ""Gentle Folk""; ""In Hiding"";"
"Adam 1966: ""The Blue Max"" – Wilfred Shingleton 1967: no award given 1967: ""A Man for All Seasons"" – John Box Best Production Design (and Art Direction) 1968: """" – Ernest Archer, Harry Lange, and Anthony Masters 1970: ""Waterloo"" – Mario Garbuglia 1971: ""Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia)"" – Ferdinando Scarfiotti 1972: ""Cabaret"" – Rolf Zehetbauer 1973: ""The Hireling"" – Natasha Kroll 1974: ""The Great Gatsby"" – John Box 1975: ""Rollerball"" – John Box 1976: ""Bugsy Malone"" – Geoffrey Kirkland 1977: ""Fellini's Casanova (Il Casanova di Federico Fellini)"" – Danilo Donati and Federico Fellini 1978: ""Close Encounters of the"
"""' Diahann Carroll - ""Julia"" ""' ""Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"" 26th Golden Globe Awards The 26th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1968 films, were held on February 24, 1969. ""' Peter O'Toole - ""The Lion in Winter"" ""' Ron Moody - ""Oliver!"" ""' Joanne Woodward - ""Rachel, Rachel"" ""' Barbra Streisand - ""Funny Girl"" ""' Paul Newman - ""Rachel, Rachel"" ""' ""The Lion in Winter"" ""' ""Oliver!"" ""' ""Romeo and Juliet"", Italy/UK ""' ""War and Peace (Voyna i mir)"", USSR ""' ""Charly"" - Stirling Silliphant ""' Daniel Massey - ""Star!"" ""' Ruth Gordon -"
"26th Golden Globe Awards The 26th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1968 films, were held on February 24, 1969. ""' Peter O'Toole - ""The Lion in Winter"" ""' Ron Moody - ""Oliver!"" ""' Joanne Woodward - ""Rachel, Rachel"" ""' Barbra Streisand - ""Funny Girl"" ""' Paul Newman - ""Rachel, Rachel"" ""' ""The Lion in Winter"" ""' ""Oliver!"" ""' ""Romeo and Juliet"", Italy/UK ""' ""War and Peace (Voyna i mir)"", USSR ""' ""Charly"" - Stirling Silliphant ""' Daniel Massey - ""Star!"" ""' Ruth Gordon - ""Rosemary's Baby"" ""' Carl Betz - ""Judd for the Defense"""
"Mikis Theodorakis 1970: ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" – Burt Bacharach § 1971: ""Summer of '42"" – Michel Legrand † 1972: ""The Godfather"" – Nino Rota 1973: ""O Lucky Man!"" – Alan Price 1974: ""Murder on the Orient Express"" – Richard Rodney Bennett ‡ 1975: ""Jaws"" † and ""The Towering Inferno"" ‡ – John Williams 1976: ""Taxi Driver"" – Bernard Herrmann ‡ 1977: ""A Bridge Too Far"" – John Addison 1978: ""Star Wars"" – John Williams § 1979: ""Days of Heaven"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1980: ""The Empire Strikes Back"" – John Williams ‡ 1981: ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"""
"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"
"Director; and Scott won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Scott refused to attend the 43rd Academy Awards, so McCarthy accepted Scott's Oscar on Scott's behalf. The next day, Scott refused his Oscar (the first actor to do so) and McCarthy therefore returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. McCarthy later produced an early TV movie, ""Fireball Forward"", a 1972 war drama. In 1977, he produced the film ""MacArthur"", an account of General Douglas MacArthur's life from 1942 to 1952 starring Gregory Peck. McCarthy died of cancer on December 1, 1986 at the Motion Picture &"
"for the latter. He played Caligula in the BBC TV series ""I, Claudius"" (1976). Hurt's performance in the prison drama ""Midnight Express"" (1978) brought him international renown and earned Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards, along with an Academy Award nomination. His BAFTA-nominated portrayal of astronaut Kane, in science-fiction horror ""Alien"" (1979), yielded a scene which has been named by several publications as one of the most memorable in cinematic history. Hurt earned his third competitive BAFTA, along with his second Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, as Joseph Merrick in David Lynch's biopic ""The Elephant Man"" (1980). Other significant roles during"
"""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"
"(1975), ""Forever Young, Forever Free"" (1975), ""Order to Assassinate"" (1975), ""Medical Story"" (1975), ""The Art of Crime"" (1975), ""Truman at Potsdam"" (1976) (playing Stalin), ""The Big Bus"" (1976), ""Paco"" (1976)., ""Voyage of the Damned"" (1976), ""Crash!"" (1976), ""The Sentinel"" (1977), ""Zoltan, Hound of Dracula"" (1977), ""Exo-Man"" (1977), ""Who Has Seen the Wind"" (1977), ""The Rhinemann Exchange"", ""The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover"" (1977), ""Fedora"" (1978) from Billy Wilder, ""The Amazing Captain Nemo"" (1978) (in the title role), and ""The Swarm"". He guest starred on ""Starsky and Hutch"" and ""Tales of the Unexpected"". During the Bicentennial, Ferrer narrated the world"
""""" (1973), ""The Thirsty Dead"" (1974), ""Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson"" (1976), ""Welcome to L.A."" (1976), ""The Late Show"" (1977), ""When Time Ran Out"" (1980), ""Circle of Power"" (1981), ""Endangered Species"" (1982), ""Choose Me"" (1984), ""Trouble in Mind"" (1985), ""Fat Man and Little Boy"" (1989), ""Coupe de Ville"" (1990), """" (1995) and ""The Book of Stars"" (1999). He wrote the original screenplay for-and also appeared in-the Robert Altman film ""A Wedding"" (1978), and has also had acting roles on several daytime soap operas including ""Bright Promise"" (as Dr. Brian Walsh, 1971–72); ""The Young and the"
"cinema's greatest villains. He meanwhile gave an acclaimed reading of Ludwig van Beethoven in ""Immortal Beloved"" (1994). In the 21st century, Oldman is known for his roles as Sirius Black in the ""Harry Potter"" series, James Gordon in ""The Dark Knight Trilogy"", Lord Shen in ""Kung Fu Panda 2"" (2011), George Smiley in ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"" (2011), a human leader in ""Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"" (2014), and Winston Churchill in ""Darkest Hour"" (2017), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Films in which he has starred have grossed over $11 billion. In addition to"