"Best Picture, Best Director for Lean, and Best Actress for Judy Davis for her portrayal as Adela Quested. Peggy Ashcroft won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal as Mrs Moore, making her, at 77, the oldest actress to win the award, and Maurice Jarre won his third Academy Award for Best Original Score. Adela Quested (Judy Davis) is sailing from England to British Raj India with Mrs Moore (Peggy Ashcroft), the latter the mother of her intended bridegroom, Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers); Mrs Moore's son from her first marriage. He is the Collector and the City"
"1 as a part of the ""Play of the Month"" series. In 1981, David Lean was able to gain the rights to make a feature-film production of the play. Filmed in 1983, and released in 1984, from a script almost entirely re-written by Lean, the film received positive reception from critics. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film won two awards. Peggy Ashcroft won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Mrs. Moore, and Judy Davis was nominated for Lead Actress. The film also won for Best Original Score. A"
"King's Gold Medal, Norway (1955), and the Order of St Olav, Norway (Commander, 1976). She was awarded honorary degrees by eight universities and was an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. In addition to the Oscar and BAFTA awards mentioned above, she received a Venice Film Festival Award for ""She's Been Away"" (1989), a BAFTA Award for the television play ""Caught on a Train"" (1980), a special award from the British Theatre Association for the television play ""Cream in My Coffee"" (1982), a special award from BAFTA (1990) and a special Laurence Olivier Award (1991). Ashcroft is commemorated with"
"1984 Academy Awards ceremony. Other songs in the film include ""It Hurts to Face Reality"" by Lefty Frizzell, ""If You'll Hold the Ladder (I'll Climb to the Top)"" by Buzz Rabin and Sara Busby, ""The Best Bedroom in Town"" and ""Champagne Ladies & Barroom Babies"" by Charlie Craig, ""I'm Drinkin' Canada Dry"" by Johnny Cymbal and Austin Roberts, and ""You Are What Love Means To Me"" by Craig Bickhardt. Mac Sledge finds redemption largely through his relationship and eventual marriage with Rosa Lee. This is in keeping with the motif of fidelity common in the works of Foote, inspired, said"
"won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in ""Coal Miner's Daughter"" (1980). Her other Oscar nominated roles include ""Missing"" (1982), ""The River"" (1984), ""Crimes of the Heart"" (1986) and ""In the Bedroom"" (2001). Her other films include ""Raggedy Man"" (1981), ""JFK"" (1991), ""Affliction"" (1997), ""The Straight Story"" (1999), ""Tuck Everlasting"" (2002), ""Nine Lives"" (2005), ""The Help"" (2011), and ""The Old Man & the Gun"" (2018). On television, Spacek received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for ""The Good Old Boys"" (1995), ""Last Call"" (2002), ""Big Love"" (2011) and portrayed matriarch Sally Rayburn on the Netflix thriller"
"leading actors included Peggy Ashcroft (who won the BAFTA Best TV Actress award for her performance), Tim Pigott-Smith, Geraldine James, Judy Parfitt, Rachel Kempson, Eric Porter, Susan Wooldridge, Zohra Sehgal, Saeed Jaffrey, and Karan Kapoor (son of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal). The complexities of the plot ensured that no one character was at the centre of the action throughout. All four ""Best TV Actress"" nominations at that year's BAFTAs went to stars of the series, with Ashcroft winning over Wooldridge, James and Parfitt. Pigott-Smith won Best TV Actor. In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes compiled"
"performance as Dith Pran in Roland Joffé's ""The Killing Fields"", despite having had no previous acting experience. Ngor and Harold Russell are the only two non-professional actors to win Academy Awards for acting. Sally Field won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in ""Places in the Heart"". In her acceptance speech, she exclaimed, ""The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"" (often misquoted as ""you ""really"" like me!"") 77-year-old Peggy Ashcroft won the Academy Award for Best"
"the age of 80, Redgrave made her directorial debut with the feature documentary ""Sea Sorrow"", which covers the plight of child migrants in the Calais refugee camps and the broader European migrant crisis. It premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Critics praised the documentary's message but criticized the structure for a ""scattershot lack of focus"" and the ""ungainliness of its production values."" Theatre Redgrave won four Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress in four decades. She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Revival in 1984 for ""The Aspern Papers"". In 2000, her"
"""The Jungle Book"" (1967) - Louis Prima/Phil Harris/Bruce Reitherman 7. The Aristocats: ""The Aristocats"" (1970) - Maurice Chevalier 8. Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat: ""The Aristocats"" (1970) - Phil Harris/Scatman Crothers/Thurl Ravenscroft/Liz English 9. The Age Of Not Believing: ""Bedknobs And Broomsticks"" (1971) - Angela Lansbury 10. Nobody's Problems: ""Bedknobs And Broomsticks"" (1971) - Angela Lansbury 11. Oo-De-Lally: ""Robin Hood"" (1973) - Roger Miller 12. Someone's Waiting For You: ""The Rescuers"" (1977) - Shelby Flint 13. Candle On The Water: ""Pete's Dragon"" (1977) - Helen Reddy 14. Best Of Friends: ""The Fox And The Hound"" (1981) - Pearl Bailey"
"to the project to write the screenplay for the 1987 film adaptation starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins. The ""dramatis personae"" were expanded to include Hanff's Manhattan friends, the bookshop staff, and Doel's wife Nora, played by Judi Dench. Bancroft won a BAFTA Award as Best Actress; Whitemore and Dench were nominated for Director and Supporting Actress, respectively. The Chinese-Hong Kong film ""Book of Love"" or ""Finding Mr. Right 2"" (Chinese: 北京遇上西雅圖之不二情書) (2016) references, and is loosely inspired by, ""84, Charing Cross Road"". 84, Charing Cross Road 84, Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made"
"by Clayton's longtime colleague Oswald Morris, with whom he had worked on many projects during their days with Romulus Films; it also marked the first of five collaborations between Clayton and noted French composer Georges Delerue, and the first film appearance by rising star Maggie Smith. A psycho-sexual drama, set in contemporary London, it examined a marriage in crisis, with Anne Bancroft starring as an affluent middle-aged woman who becomes estranged from her unfaithful and emotionally distant husband, a successful author (Peter Finch). LIke both its predecessors, the film was widely acclaimed by critics - Harold Pinter won the 1964"
"""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"
"what will become the opportunities of a lifetime: to Meryl Streep, obviously, in ""The French Lieutenant's Woman""; to Peter Finch and Anne Bancroft in one of the most overlooked of all British films, ""The Pumpkin Eater""; and, unforgettably, to Dirk Bogarde, both in ""Accident"" and ""The Servant""."" Anne Bancroft won the award for Best Actress at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, and the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress. She was also nominated for the Best Actress at the 37th Academy Awards, losing that award to Julie Andrews (who won for her role in ""Mary Poppins""). Harold Pinter won the"
"54th Academy Awards The 54th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1982, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson. ""Chariots of Fire"" was the surprise winner (with a leading 12 nominations, ""Reds"" had been expected to win) of the Best Picture Oscar. It was the first time in 13 years that a British film won the Academy's top honor. The next year's winner, ""Gandhi"", was also a British production. Henry Fonda won his only competitive Oscar this year, as Best Actor for ""On Golden Pond"". At 76 years of age, Fonda"
"the 2002 television movie ""Prince William""; in a 2006 updated edition of ""The Afternoon Play"" entitled ""Tea with Betty""; and in 2009's ""Margaret"". She played ""Miss Plum"" in an episode of Heartbeat called ""Strangers Meet on a Train"" in 2004. Leach died in a London hospital, aged 81, following a short but undisclosed illness. Rosemary Leach Rosemary Anne Leach (18 December 1935 – 21 October 2017) was a British stage, television and film actress. She won the 1982 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a New Play for ""84, Charing Cross Road"" and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for"
"the score), Alec Guinness in his sixth and final role for Lean, as an eccentric Hindu Brahmin, and John Box, the production designer for ""Dr. Zhivago"". Reversing the critical response to ""Ryan's Daughter"", the film opened to universally enthusiastic reviews; the film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and Lean himself nominated for three Academy Awards in directing, editing, and writing. His female star, in the complex role of a confused young British woman who falsely accuses an Indian man of rape, gained Australian actress Judy Davis her first Academy nomination. Peggy Ashcroft, as the sensitive Mrs. Moore, won the"
"a Golden Globe. She received a second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in the 2000 film ""Billy Elliot"", which also won her a BAFTA. Her other film credits include ""Personal Services"", ""Prick Up Your Ears"" (both 1987), ""Buster"" (1988), ""Stepping Out"" (1991), ""Sister My Sister"" (1994), ""Girls' Night"", ""Titanic Town"" (both 1998), ""Calendar Girls"" (2003), ""Wah-Wah"" (2005), ""Driving Lessons"" (2006), ""Becoming Jane"" (2007), ""Mamma Mia!"" (2008) and its sequel (2018), ""Brave"" (2012), ""Paddington"" (2014) and its sequel (2017), ""Effie Gray"" (2014), ""Brooklyn"" (2015), ""Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool"" (2017), and ""Mary Poppins"
"1984 through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). A married couple, Frank and Lee, has problems with their sexual relationship. The psychotherapist recommends them to hire a mysterious woman who will give them new imaginations to restore their passion. Soon they find themselves drawn to a disastrous web of violence, insanity, and murder. The Surrogate (1984 film) The Surrogate is a 1984 Canadian thriller film directed by Don Carmody and starring Art Hindle, Carole Laure, Shannon Tweed, and Jackie Burroughs. The film was written by Don Carmody and Robert Geoffrion, produced by Don Carmody and John Dunning, and executively produced by André Fleury and"
"Award presenter Paddy Chayefsky, and sparked controversy. One Redgrave biography noted that ""The scandal of her awards speech and the negative press it occasioned had a destructive effect on her acting opportunities that would last for years to come."" Later film roles include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in ""The Bostonians"" (1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in ""Second Serve"" (1986), Blanche Hudson in the television remake of ""What Ever Happened to Baby Jane"" (1991), Mrs. Wilcox in ""Howards End"" (1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role); crime"
"the award: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Fontaine, Bette Davis, and the winner Ginger Rogers. With an Oscar nomination on her résumé, Scott found steady movie work for the next four decades, appearing in major epics such as ""The Ten Commandments"", ""Ben-Hur"", ""The Desperate Hours"", and ""Airport 1975"". Charlton Heston was a frequent co-star with Scott on both stage and screen. As she told an interviewer in 1988, ""I played his mother twice and his wife twice. I was his mother in ""Ben Hur"" and ""The Ten Commandments"". I was his wife on the stage in New York in ""Design For a"
"Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film) Nineteen Eighty-Four, also known as 1984, is a 1984 British dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell's novel of the same name. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking civil servant in a post-disaster London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. Smith (Hurt) struggles to maintain his sanity and his grip on reality as the regime's overwhelming power and influence persecutes individualism and individual thinking on both a political and personal level. The film, which features"
"noted the film was ""solid, well-acted, if somewhat forgettable drama"". Academy Awards Golden Globe Awards BAFTA Awards Berlin International Film Festival Mainichi Film Awards National Board of Review in 2015, the BBC produced a TV adaptation of the film starring Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen, with Emily Watson as a co-star, shown on BBC 2. Reviewed generally as a triumph. The Dresser (1983 film) The Dresser is a 1983 British drama film, with a screenplay by Ronald Harwood, based on his 1980 play ""The Dresser"". It tells the story of an aging actor's personal assistant, who struggles to keep his"
"the Oscar) as Annie Sullivan and Melissa Gilbert as Helen Keller. It produced a TV sequel, """" in 1984. Young Helen Keller (Melissa Gilbert), blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a ""half-blind Yankee schoolgirl"" named Annie Sullivan (Patty Duke) to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate. The Miracle Worker (1979"
"a landmark film, and is regarded as one of the first films of the New Hollywood era, since it broke many cinematic taboos and was popular with the younger generation. For some members of the counterculture, the film was considered to be a ""rallying cry."" Its success prompted other filmmakers to be more open in presenting sex and violence in their films. The film's ending also became iconic as ""one of the bloodiest death scenes in cinematic history."" The film received Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Estelle Parsons) and Best Cinematography (Burnett Guffey). It was among the first 100"
"production of ""Foxfire"" in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, winning both a Tony Award and an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Annie Nations. During these years, she appeared in films such as ""Cocoon"" (1985), also with Cronyn. She became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), for which she also won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ""Fried Green Tomatoes"" (1991). At the height of her success, she was named as one"
"1980, she played the role of Portia in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of ""The Merchant of Venice"", opposite Warren Mitchell's Shylock. Jones played Mrs. Dashwood alongside Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson in the Academy Award-winning period drama ""Sense and Sensibility"" (1995). Her other notable roles include Mrs. Fairfax in Jane Eyre (1997) Lady Queensbury in ""Wilde"" (1997), Grace Winslow in ""The Winslow Boy"" (1999), Bridget's mother Pam Jones in ""Bridget Jones's Diary"" (2001) and Poppy Pomfrey in ""Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"" (2002), reprising her role in ""Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"" (2009) and"
"latter two productions she won Best Actress at the 1991 Sony Awards, the radio equivalent of the Oscars. In 2004 she played Eurycleia in BBC Radio 4's acclaimed dramatisation of ""The Odyssey"". In ""The Archers"" in 1951 her character Jane Maxwell was the original stumbling block to the engagement of Phil Archer and his future (first) wife Grace. In 1965 she played schoolteacher Elsie Catcher, and was a regular on the programme for two years until the character retired. In 1969 she returned for a time as Lady Isabel Lander and she finally came back in 1992 as Julia Pargetter."
"were ""Spellbound"" (1945), ""The Paradine Case"" (1947), ""The Gunfighter"" (1950), ""Moby Dick"" (1956), ""The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit"" (1956), ""On the Beach"" (1959), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, ""The Guns of Navarone"" (1961), and ""Roman Holiday"" (1953), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role. Peck and Hepburn were close friends until her death; Peck even introduced her to her first husband, Mel Ferrer. Peck once again teamed up with director William Wyler in the epic Western ""The Big Country"" (1958), which he co-produced. Peck won the Academy Award with his fifth nomination, playing"
"A Christmas Carol (1984 film) A Christmas Carol is a 1984 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous 1843 novella of the same name. The film is directed by Clive Donner, who had been an editor of the 1951 film ""Scrooge"", and stars George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. It was filmed in the historic medieval county town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire. On Christmas Eve in 1843 London, Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly money-lender at a local counting house, does not share the merriment of Christmas. Scrooge declines his nephew Fred Hollywell's invitation for Christmas dinner and reluctantly accepts his"
"Maurice Jarre ""Amadeus"" - Paul LeBlanc, Dick Smith ""Brazil"" - Norman Garwood ""Amadeus"" Brazil Jeremy Isaacs 39th British Academy Film Awards The 39th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1986, honoured the best films of 1985. ""The Purple Rose of Cairo"" William Hurt in ""Kiss of the Spider Woman"" Denholm Elliott in ""Defence of the Realm"" Peggy Ashcroft in ""A Passage to India"" Rosanna Arquette in ""Desperately Seeking Susan"" ""The Purple Rose of Cairo"" - Woody Allen ""Prizzi's Honor ""- Richard Condon and Janet Roach ""Colonel Redl"" ""Amadeus"" - Miroslav Ondricek ""'"
"impressed critics, President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan were moved by it after a screening at the White House on June 27, 1982. Princess Diana was in tears after watching it. On September 17, 1982, it was screened at the United Nations, and Spielberg received a UN Peace Medal. CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film a rare ""A+"" grade, the first known film to earn that grade. The film was nominated for nine Oscars at the 55th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. ""Gandhi"" won that award, but its director, Richard Attenborough, declared, ""I was certain that not"
"Award for their contributions to the screenplay. 84 Charing Cross Road (film) 84 Charing Cross Road is a 1987 British-American drama film directed by David Jones. The screenplay by Hugh Whitemore is based on a play by James Roose-Evans, which itself was an adaptation of the 1970 epistolary memoir of the same name by Helene Hanff, a compilation of letters between herself and Frank Doel dating from 1949 to 1968. The play has only two characters, but the dramatis personae for the film were expanded to include Hanff's Manhattan friends, the bookshop staff and Doel's wife Nora. In 1949, Helene"
"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"