"Secret People (film) Secret People is a 1952 British drama film, directed by Thorold Dickinson and produced by Sidney Cole for Ealing Studios, with a screenplay from Thorold Dickinson, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Joyce Carey and Christianna Brand. ""Secret People"" stars Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani and Audrey Hepburn and premiered in the U.K. on 8 February 1952. The film provided Audrey Hepburn with her first significant film role, leading to her big breakthrough in ""Roman Holiday"". In 1930, Maria Brentano (Valentina Cortese) and her younger sister Nora (Audrey Hepburn) flee to London as their father is about to be executed by his"
"Emmy Award nomination for playing wistful Southern mother Amanda Wingfield, which opened her mind to future work on the small screen. Her next project was the television movie ""Love Among the Ruins"" (1975), a London-based Edwardian drama with her friend Laurence Olivier. It received positive reviews and high ratings, and earned Hepburn her only Emmy Award. Hepburn made her only appearance at the Academy Awards in 1974, to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to Lawrence Weingarten. She received a standing ovation, and joked with the audience, ""I'm very happy I didn't hear anyone call out, 'It's about time'."""
"won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. Hepburn appeared in fewer films as her life went on, devoting much of her later life to UNICEF. She had contributed to the organisation since 1954, then worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in December 1992. A month later, Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland at the age of 63. Audrey Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston or Edda Kathleen"
"British Academy Awards, three Critics' Choice Movie Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three Independent Spirit Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, four Helpmann Awards, six Australian Academy Awards, and awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Board of Review, National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, and Venice Film Festival. Her performance as Katharine Hepburn in ""The Aviator"" made her the only actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor. Blanchett is only the third actress, after Jessica Lange and Meryl Streep, to win Best Actress after winning Best Supporting Actress. She is"
"her a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Nine years later, Hepburn played Maid Marian opposite Sean Connery as Robin Hood in ""Robin and Marian"". Her final film appearance was a cameo as an angel in Steven Spielberg's ""Always"" (1989). Hepburn's final screen role was as the host of the television documentary series ""Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn"" (1993) for which she posthumously received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming. In recognition of her career, Hepburn earned the Special Award from BAFTA, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement"
"and the last movie musical to win until ""Chicago"" in 2003 (though others have been nominated between 1969 and 2003: ""Hello, Dolly!"", ""Fiddler on the Roof"", ""Cabaret"", ""All That Jazz"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", and ""Moulin Rouge!""). The year was notable for the first—and so far, only—tie for Best Actress (or any female acting category). Katharine Hepburn in ""The Lion in Winter"" and Barbra Streisand in ""Funny Girl"" shared the award. Hepburn also became the second actress and third performer overall to win an acting Oscar two years in a row, after Luise Rainer in 1936 (""The Great Ziegfeld"") and"
"on to star in a number of successful films, such as ""Sabrina"" (1954), ""The Nun's Story"" (1959), ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), ""Charade"" (1963), ""My Fair Lady"" (1964), and ""Wait Until Dark"" (1967), for which she received an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from BAFTA, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of only 15 people who have"
"Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received a record of four Academy Awards for Best Actress. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at Bryn Mawr College. After four years"
"Best Actress (Hepburn) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Thompson). Henry Fonda won his only competitive Oscar with this film and at the age of 76 became the oldest winner in the Best Actor category, while Katharine Hepburn won her fourth Best Actress award, extending her own record for the most Oscars won by a thespian. ""On Golden Pond"" is also one of the few movies to earn the nominations for five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay). An aging couple, Ethel and Norman Thayer, continue the long tradition of spending each summer at their cottage on a"
"romantically pursued his. The film turned out to be a positive experience for him; he said, ""All I want for Christmas is another picture with Audrey Hepburn."" The role earned Hepburn her third, and final, competitive BAFTA Award, and another Golden Globe nomination. Critic Bosley Crowther was less kind to her performance, stating that, ""Hepburn is cheerfully committed to a mood of how-nuts-can-you-be in an obviously comforting assortment of expensive Givenchy costumes."" Hepburn reteamed with her ""Sabrina"" co-star William Holden in ""Paris When It Sizzles"" (1964), a screwball comedy in which she played the young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter,"
"Award, and the Special Tony Award. Audrey Hepburn on screen and stage Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress who had an extensive career in film, television, and on the stage from 1948 to 1993. Considered by some to be one of the most beautiful women of all time, she was ranked as the third greatest screen legend in American cinema by the American Film Institute. Hepburn is also remembered as both a film and style icon. Her debut was as a flight stewardess in the 1948 Dutch film ""Dutch in Seven Lessons"". Hepburn"
"Pond"", specifically for her father and her. The father-daughter rift depicted on screen closely paralleled the real-life relationship between the two Fondas; they eventually became the first father-daughter duo to earn Oscar nominations (Jane earned her first Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination) for their roles in the same film. ""On Golden Pond"", which also starred four-time Oscar winner Katharine Hepburn, brought Henry Fonda his only Academy Award for Best Actor, which Jane accepted on his behalf, as he was ill and could not leave home. He died five months later. Fonda continued to appear in feature films throughout the 1980s,"
"she openly promoted birth control and supported the legal right to abortion. She described herself as a ""dedicated Democrat. She practiced Albert Schweitzer's theory of ""Reverence for Life"", but did not believe in religion or the afterlife. In 1991, Hepburn told a journalist, ""I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know, except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people."" Her public declarations of these beliefs led the American Humanist Association to award her the Humanist Arts Award in 1985. Hepburn's only marriage was to Ludlow Ogden"
"in demeanor, she was as game and modern as she had ever been."" Hepburn played her final role in the television film ""One Christmas"" (1994), for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination at 87 years old. Hepburn was known for being fiercely private, and would not give interviews or talk to fans for much of her career. She distanced herself from the celebrity lifestyle, uninterested in a social scene she saw as tedious and superficial, and she wore casual clothes that went strongly against convention in an era of glamour. She rarely appeared in public, even avoiding"
"for ""Mary Poppins"" at the 37th Academy Awards (1964) while Hepburn was not even nominated, despite ""My Fair Lady's"" accumulation of eight out of a possible twelve awards. Regardless, critics greatly applauded Hepburn's ""exquisite"" performance. Crowther wrote that, ""The happiest thing about [""My Fair Lady""] is that Audrey Hepburn superbly justifies the decision of Jack Warner to get her to play the title role."" 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 the film, Audrey Hepburn was the"
"that have received few or no nominations or awards. Only three animated films have been nominated - ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Up"" (2009) and ""Toy Story 3"" (2010), the latter two having been nominated after the Academy expanded the number of nominees—but none have won. No science fiction film or superhero film has won (none of the latter has been nominated); only two fantasy films have won — """" (2003) and ""The Shape of Water"" (2017). ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991) is the only horror film to win Best Picture, and only five other have been nominated for"
"occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950, but whose death has marked a completed body of work. The top stars of their respective gender are Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. They starred together in the classic adventure 1951 film ""The African Queen"", for which Bogart won his only Academy Award. AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is a list of the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 15,"
"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"
"features Hepburn in 1938, after being labeled ""box office poison"", and the second act in 1983, where she reflects on her life and career. It premiered in 2002 at the Hartford Stage. Hepburn has been portrayed in ""Tea at Five"" by Kate Mulgrew, Tovah Feldshuh, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Charles Busch. Feldshuh also appeared as Hepburn in ""The Amazing Howard Hughes"", a 1977 television movie, while Mearle Ann Taylor later portrayed her in ""The Scarlett O'Hara War"" (1980). In Martin Scorsese's 2004 biopic of Howard Hughes, ""The Aviator"", Hepburn was portrayed by Cate Blanchett, who won the Academy Award for Best"
"husband, Sydney Box, for the 1945 film ""The Seventh Veil"". The Boxes are also the first married couple to win in this category. Only three other married couples won an Oscar in another category—Earl W. Wallace and Pamela Wallace (for Original Screenplay), Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (for Adapted Screenplay and Picture), and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (for Original Song). In 1996, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen became the only siblings to win in this category (for ""Fargo""). Francis Ford Coppola (""Patton"", 1970) and Sofia Coppola (""Lost in Translation"", 2003) are the only father-daughter pair to win. Preston Sturges"
"a lukewarm reception for starring with Anthony Perkins in the romantic adventure ""Green Mansions"" (1959), in which she played Rima, a jungle girl who falls in love with a Venezuelan traveller, and ""The Unforgiven"" (1960), her only western film, in which she appeared opposite Burt Lancaster and Lillian Gish in a story of racism against a group of Native Americans. Hepburn next starred as New Yorker Holly Golightly, in Blake Edwards's ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1961), a film loosely based on the Truman Capote novella of the same name. Capote disapproved of many changes that were made to sanitise the story"
"of critically acclaimed and influential films. ""Roman Holiday"" (1953) introduced Audrey Hepburn to American audiences in her first starring role, winning her an Academy Award for Best Actress. Wyler said of Hepburn years later, when describing truly great actresses, ""In that league there's only ever been Garbo, and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it."" The film was an instant hit, also winning for Best Costume Design (Edith Head), and Best Writing (Dalton Trumbo). Hepburn would eventually do three movies with Wyler, who her son said was one"
"categories]], ""Sunset Boulevard"" is one of only three not to win in any category, the others being ""[[My Man Godfrey]]"" (1936) and ""[[American Hustle]]"" (2013). At the time its eleven Oscar nominations were exceeded only by the fourteen received by ""[[All About Eve]]"", which won six awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Many critics predicted that the Best Actress award would be given to Gloria Swanson or [[Bette Davis]] for ""All About Eve"" and were surprised that the recipient was newcomer [[Judy Holliday]] for ""[[Born Yesterday (1950 film)|Born Yesterday]]""""."" Bette Davis believed that her and Swanson's comparable characters effectively"
"of genres, including screwball comedies, period dramas, and adaptations of works by top American playwrights. She appeared on the stage in every decade from the 1920s to the 1980s, performing plays by Shakespeare and Shaw, and a Broadway musical. Select filmography: Select theatre roles: Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received a record of four"
"Supporting Actress. This marked the first instance where the portrayal of an Academy Award-winning actress itself won an Academy Award. Hepburn won four Academy Awards, the record number for a performer, and a total of 12 Oscar nominations for Best Actress—a number surpassed only by Meryl Streep. Hepburn also holds the record for the longest time span between first and last Oscar nominations, at 48 years. She received two awards and five nominations from the British Academy Film Awards, one award and six nominations from the Emmy Awards, eight Golden Globe nominations, two Tony Award nominations, and awards from the"
"The Audrey Hepburn Story The Audrey Hepburn Story is a 2000 drama film biopic of actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, who also produced the film. Emmy Rossum and Sarah Hyland appear during the early scenes of the film playing Hepburn in her early years. The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and enduring life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. She then settles in the U.S. where she succeeds in making it big as a"
"of its stars, Dorothy Stratten, and received only a limited release. Six years later, Hepburn co-starred with Robert Wagner in a made-for-television caper film, ""Love Among Thieves"" (1987). After finishing her last motion picture role in 1988—a cameo appearance as an angel in Steven Spielberg's ""Always""—Hepburn completed only two more entertainment-related projects, both critically acclaimed. ""Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn"" was a PBS documentary series, which was filmed on location in seven countries in the spring and summer of 1990. A one-hour special preceded it in March 1991, and the series itself began airing the day after her"
"Revenant"", respectively. The Directors Guild of America Award for Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for both Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards. Only seven times since the DGA Award's inception has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award; in 1968 (Carol Reed won the Oscar for directing ""Oliver!""); 1972 (Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing ""Cabaret""); 1985 (Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing ""Out of Africa"", as Steven Spielberg was not nominated for directing ""The Color Purple""); 1995 (Mel Gibson won for directing ""Braveheart"", as Ron Howard was not nominated for"
"Guntner, the style of the film owes much to German Expressionism and to ""film noir"": the cavernous sets featuring narrow winding stairwells correspond to the labyrinths of Hamlet's psyche. The 1948 ""Hamlet"" was the only film in which the leading actor had directed himself to an Oscar-winning performance, until 1998, when Roberto Benigni directed himself to an Oscar in ""Life Is Beautiful"". Olivier is also the only actor to win an Oscar for a Shakespearean role. ""Hamlet"" was the only film to have won both the Golden Lion and the Academy Award for Best Picture until ""The Shape of Water"""
"was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street, the only award she as received. In 1972 the First International Festival of Women's Films honored her by screening ""The Wild Party"", and her oeuvre was given a full retrospective at the Second Festival in 1976. In 1975 the Director's Guild of America honored her with ""A Tribute to Dorothy Arzner."" During the tribute, a telegram from Katharine Hepburn was read: ""Isn't it wonderful that you've had such a great career, when you had no right to have a career at all?"" In March 2018, Paramount"
"Glory"", she won an Academy Award for Best Actress. She had seen the script on the desk of producer Pandro S. Berman and, convinced that she was born to play the part, insisted that the role be hers. Hepburn chose not to attend the awards ceremony—as she would not for the duration of her career—but was thrilled with the win. Her success continued with the role of Jo in the film ""Little Women"" (1933). The picture was a hit, one of the film industry's biggest successes to date, and Hepburn won the Best Actress prize at the Venice Film Festival."
"winner of the year for ""Mary Poppins"" – as well as the revelation that the majority of her singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon (which wasn't approved by Hepburn herself) were seen as the main reasons for the snub. The ceremony was produced by MGM's Joe Pasternak and hosted, for the 14th time, by Bob Hope. The awards show was a star-studded one, including an appearance by Judy Garland, who sang a medley of Cole Porter songs in tribute to the composer, who had died in October 1964. This year was the only time in Oscar history where three films"
"37th Academy Awards The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. The Best Picture winner of 1964, director George Cukor's ""My Fair Lady"", was about the transformative training of a rough-speaking flower girl into a lady. The musical had run for many years on the stage in both NYC and London. Audrey Hepburn, the female lead of the film, was controversially not nominated for Best Actress. The unpopularity of her replacing Julie Andrews – who had originated the role on Broadway and, coincidentally, the Best Actress"