For which film did Jack Lemmon receive the Best Actor Oscar in 1973?
"Jack Lemmon John Uhler ""Jack"" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. Lemmon was an eight-time Academy Award nominee, with two wins. He starred in over 60 films, such as ""Some Like It Hot"", ""The Apartment"", ""Mister Roberts"" (for which he won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), ""Days of Wine and Roses"", ""The Great Race"", ""Irma la Douce"", ""The Odd Couple"" and its sequel ""The Odd Couple II"" (and other frequent collaborations with ""Odd Couple"" co-star Walter Matthau), ""Save the Tiger"" (for which he won the 1973 Academy Award"
"Jack Lemmon was voted Best Actor by the National Board of Review. Al Pacino was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor but did not win. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role but lost to Gene Hackman for ""Unforgiven""; the same year he was nominated and won the Best Actor Oscar for ""Scent of a Woman"". ""Empire"" magazine voted the film the 470th greatest film in their ""500 Greatest Movies of All Time"" list. Lemmon's portrayal of Shelley Levene was a major source of inspiration in the creation of"
"Under the Yum Yum Tree Under the Yum Yum Tree is a 1963 comedy film directed by David Swift and starring Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, and Edie Adams, with supporting roles by Imogene Coca and Paul Lynde. The sex comedy was a successful small comic film that gained Lemmon a Golden Globe nomination. It was based on a Broadway play that first ran in 1960–61. Jack Lemmon stars as the playboy landlord Hogan, a swinging bachelor. Women are mere playthings to him, plus he's a master con man. His bachelor pad is a holy temple of seduction: blood-red"
"of Lemmon/Some Like It Hot"", a single CD on Collector's Choice Music, in 2001. Two singles, ""Daphne""/""Sleepy Lagoon"" (released in 1959) and ""I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles""/""I Cover the Waterfront"" (released in 1960) did not appear on either album. Epic released a third single in 1960, Lemmon's piano solo of the theme to the film ""The Apartment"", backed with his own composition ""Lemmon Blues"". In 1963, Lemmon released a third album, this time on Capitol Records, entitled ""Jack Lemmon Plays Piano Selections from Irma La Douce."" Lemmon was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1956 for ""Mister Roberts"" (1955) and"
"was the first recipient of the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1973. Also in that year, Ford was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon. Ford directed 10 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Victor McLaglen, Thomas Mitchell, Edna May Oliver, Jane Darwell, Henry Fonda, Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Jack Lemmon. McLaglen, Mitchell, Darwell, Crisp and Lemmon won an Oscar for one of their roles in one of Ford's movies. A television special featuring Ford, John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda was broadcast over the CBS network on December 5,"
"Cannes award for his performance in ""Missing"" (which received the Palme d'Or as well). In 1986, the U.S. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures gave Lemmon a ""Career Achievement"" award; two years later, the American Film Institute gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award. ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962) was a favorite role of Lemmon's. He portrayed Joe Clay, a young, fun-loving alcoholic businessman. In that film, Lemmon delivered the line, ""My name is Joe Clay ... I'm an alcoholic."" Three and a half decades later, he stated on the television program ""Inside the Actors Studio"" that he was"
"win Best Actor until 2001 when Denzel Washington won for his portrayal of Alonzo Harris in ""Training Day"". 36th Academy Awards The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Jack Lemmon. Best Picture winner ""Tom Jones"" became the only film in history to garner three Best Supporting Actress nominations; it also tied the Oscar record of five unsuccessful acting nominations, set by ""Peyton Place"" at the 30th Academy Awards. This year's winner for Best Actress category was"
"Film Guide"" as ""intense"" and ""tightly clenched"". Pacino boycotted the Academy Award ceremony, insulted at being nominated for the Supporting Acting award, as he noted that he had more screen time than co-star and Best Actor winner Marlon Brandowho also boycotted the awards, but for unrelated reasons. In 1973, Pacino co-starred in ""Scarecrow"", with Gene Hackman, and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. That same year, Pacino was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor after starring in ""Serpico"", based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose"
"point, he received a long letter from a major editor at Doubleday apologizing for not publishing the novel. Setlowe successfully ventured from journalism into motion pictures, in the early 1970s at ABC Pictures as Vice President of Creative Affairs. The feature films produced during his tenure included several critically significant pictures: the comedy ""Kotch"" (1971), starring Best Actor Oscar winner Walter Matthau, with Jack Lemmon in his directorial debut (Academy Award nominations also for Film Editing, Best Song, and Sound); Sam Peckinpah's controversial thriller ""Straw Dogs"" (1971), starring Dustin Hoffman; and the Bob Fosse (Best Director) musical ""Cabaret"" (1972), starring"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"success with the low budget feature ""Joe"" (1970) which received critical acclaim for star Peter Boyle and moderate box office business. This was followed by another critical success, ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), that was nominated for three Oscars, winning Best Actor for star Jack Lemmon. Both ""Joe"" and ""Save the Tiger"" were about losers, but as the '70s continued, Avildsen shifted to people who went on to be victorious. Avildsen's greatest success was ""Rocky"" (1976), which he directed working in conjunction with writer and star Sylvester Stallone. The film was a major critical and commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing film"
"and computer worker Lion reuniting, and Lion learning his son is alive. The film sequel was made difficult, if not impossible, by the studio's lack of support and Hackman's retirement from acting. Scarecrow (1973 film) Scarecrow is a 1973 U.S. road movie directed by Jerry Schatzberg, and starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. The story revolves around the relationship between two men who travel from California, aiming to start a business in Pittsburgh. At the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, it tied for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the highest honor. While a box office bomb in its"
"Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?"" (1971), ""Straw Dogs"" (also 1971), and ""Papillon"" (1973). Hoffman next starred in ""Lenny"" (1974), for which he was again nominated for Best Actor. ""Lenny"" was based on the life of stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce, who died at the age of 40, and was known for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. Expectations were high that Hoffman would win an Oscar for his portrayal, especially after his similar role in ""Midnight Cowboy."" Film critic Katharine Lowry speculates that director Bob Fosse"
"for Best Actor), ""The Out-of-Towners"", ""The China Syndrome"", ""Missing"", ""Glengarry Glen Ross"", ""Tuesdays with Morrie"", ""Out to Sea"", ""Grumpy Old Men"", and ""Grumpier Old Men"". Lemmon was born on February 8, 1925, in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His father was of Irish heritage, and Lemmon was raised Catholic. He attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. During his acceptance of his lifetime achievement award, he"
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"in together was ""The Fortune Cookie"" (for which Matthau won the 1966 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), ""The Front Page"" and ""Buddy Buddy"". In 1971, Lemmon directed Matthau in the comedy ""Kotch"". It was the only movie that Lemmon directed and Matthau was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his performance. Additionally, Lemmon and Matthau had small parts in Oliver Stone's 1991 film, ""JFK"" (the only film in which both appeared without sharing screen time). In 1993, the duo teamed again to star in ""Grumpy Old Men"". The film was a surprise hit, earning the two actors a new"
"in Ledger's previous performances, including his clown act in Terry Gilliam's fantasy film ""The Brothers Grimm"". It also references paintings by artist Francis Bacon, Anthony Burgess' novel ""A Clockwork Orange"", and various punk rock musicians. The Joker is considered to be Ledger's finest performance; he himself regarded it as his most enjoyable. When the film was released in July 2008, six months after the actor had died from an accidental prescription drug overdose, the performance caused a sensation and received universal acclaim; Ledger was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Jared Leto portrays the Joker in the"
"""Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin"" ""Emma Thompson in Howards End"" ""Gene Hackman in Unforgiven"" ""Miranda Richardson in Damage"" ""The Crying Game - Neil Jordan"" ""Husbands and Wives - Woody Allen"" ""The Player - Michael Tolkin"" ""The Last of the Mohicans"" - Dante Spinotti ""Strictly Ballroom"" - Catherine Martin ""JFK"" ""JFK"" - Joe Hutshing ""Death Becomes Her"" ""Strictly Ballroom"" - ""David Hirschfelder"" ""Daumier's Law"" ""Omnibus"" ""The Last of the Mohicans"" - Peter Robb-King ""Strictly Ballroom"" - Catherine Martin 46th British Academy Film Awards The 46th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1993, honoured"
"Jack Kehoe Jack Kehoe (born November 21, 1938) is an American film actor appearing in a wide variety of films, including the crime dramas ""Serpico"" (1973), ""The Pope of Greenwich Village"" (1984) and Brian De Palma's ""The Untouchables"" (1987), as well as the cult favorites ""Car Wash"" (1976) and ""Midnight Run"" (1988), the popular western ""Young Guns II"" (1990), and ""On the Nickel"" (1980). Kehoe has also appeared in several Academy Award-winning films, including Jonathan Demme's ""Melvin and Howard"" (1980) and Best Picture winner ""The Sting"" (1973), in which Kehoe (as grifter Joe Erie, aka The Erie Kid) and co-stars"
"weeks of rehearsal in Los Angeles. There is also a novel version of ""Save the Tiger"", by Shagan: the title comes from a campaign to save tigers from extinction to which Stoner contributes. The movie failed financially at the box office, but critics and viewers who saw it liked the performance of Lemmon as Stoner. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 83% based on 12 reviews, and an average rating of 7.2/10. Save the Tiger Save the Tiger is a 1973 drama film about moral conflict in contemporary America directed by John G."
"(1973), ""Terms of Endearment"" (1983), ""As Good as It Gets"" (1997), ""About Schmidt"" (2002), and ""The Bucket List"" (2007); the neo-noir mystery ""Chinatown"" (1974); the horror film ""The Shining"" (1980); the biopic ""Reds"" (1981); the fantasy comedy ""The Witches of Eastwick"" (1987); the superhero film ""Batman"" (1989) as the Joker; the legal drama ""A Few Good Men"" (1992); the romantic horror film ""Wolf"" (1994); the science fiction comedy ""Mars Attacks!"" (1996); the comedy ""Anger Management"" (2003); the romantic comedy ""Something's Gotta Give"" (2003); and the crime drama ""The Departed"" (2006). Nicholson has not acted in a film since ""How Do"
"""In Search of America"". His first major role came in the 1971 film ""The Last Picture Show"", for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He co-starred in the 1972 critically acclaimed neo-noir boxing film ""Fat City"", directed by John Huston. He was nominated again for Best Supporting Actor for his performance opposite Clint Eastwood in the 1974 film ""Thunderbolt and Lightfoot"". In 1976, he starred as the protagonist Jack Prescott in the first remake of ""King Kong"", opposite Jessica Lange. This film was a commercial success, earning $90 million worldwide, more than triple"
"Academy. Nicholson's acting career spans over sixty years. He has won three Academy Awards, and with twelve nominations, he is the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. Among his most notable films are ""Easy Rider"" (1969), ""Five Easy Pieces"" (1970), ""The Last Detail"" (1973), ""Chinatown"" (1974), ""The Passenger"" (1975), ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975), ""The Shining"" (1980), ""Terms of Endearment"" (1983), ""Batman"" (1989), ""A Few Good Men"" (1992), ""As Good as It Gets"" (1997), ""About Schmidt"" (2002), ""Something's Gotta Give"" (2003), ""The Departed"" (2006), and ""The Bucket List"" (2007). Jack Nicholson John Joseph Nicholson (born April"
"30th Golden Globe Awards The 30th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1972 films, were held on 28 January 1973. ""' Marlon Brando - ""The Godfather"" ""' Jack Lemmon - ""Avanti!"" ""' Liv Ullmann - ""The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)"" ""' Liza Minnelli - ""Cabaret"" ""' ""The Godfather"" ""' ""Cabaret"" ""' Francis Ford Coppola - ""The Godfather"" ""' ""Elvis on Tour"" <br> ""' ""Walls of Fire"" ""' ""Young Winston"" ""' ""The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)"", Sweden <br> ""' ""The New Land (Nybyggarna)"", Sweden The Godfather- Nino Rota ""Ben"" by Michael Jackson – Ben ""' ""The Godfather"" - Francis Ford"
"Scarecrow (1973 film) Scarecrow is a 1973 U.S. road movie directed by Jerry Schatzberg, and starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. The story revolves around the relationship between two men who travel from California, aiming to start a business in Pittsburgh. At the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, it tied for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the highest honor. While a box office bomb in its own country, it later gained cult status. Two vagabonds, Max Millan, a short-tempered ex-convict, and Francis Lionel Delbuchi, a childlike ex-sailor, meet on the road in California and agree to become partners"
"in the movie. Films with the four Marx Brothers: Films with the three Marx Brothers (post-Zeppo): Solo endeavors: In the 1974 Academy Awards telecast, Jack Lemmon presented Groucho with an honorary Academy Award to a standing ovation. The award was also on behalf of Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo, whom Lemmon mentioned by name. It was one of Groucho's final major public appearances. ""I wish that Harpo and Chico could be here to share with me this great honor,"" he said, naming the two deceased brothers (Zeppo was still alive at the time). Groucho also praised the late Margaret Dumont as"
"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"
"David Brown. All these films were finally produced in cooperation with DR. In 1982, Wolf filmed Jack Lemmon again, while she was shooting the behind the scenes material of ""Missing"" for Universal. The film first premiered in 1976. Jack Lemmon - A Twist of Lemmon In the setting of his office, Jack Lemmon shares some memories of his childhood and his relationship with his father that led him to develop a certain sense of humour and, ultimately, to become a professional entertainer. Lemmon expresses his personal mantra about film acting (“Simple is good”), and discusses some of his most important"
"California. The film earned rentals of $3.6 million in North America and $1.4 million in other countries. It recorded an overall profit of $330,000. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Walter Matthau), Best Film Editing (Ralph E. Winters), Best Music, Song (for Marvin Hamlisch and Johnny Mercer for ""Life Is What You Make It""), and Best Sound (Richard Portman and Jack Solomon). ""Kotch"" was released in a Region 1 DVD by Fox Video on July 6, 2004. Kotch Kotch is a 1971 American comedy-drama film directed by Jack Lemmon and starring Walter"
"Philadelphia (film) Philadelphia is a 1993 American drama film and one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS, homosexuality, and homophobia. It was written by Ron Nyswaner, directed by Jonathan Demme and stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 66th Academy Awards for his role as Andrew Beckett in the film, while the song ""Streets of Philadelphia"" by Bruce Springsteen won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Nyswaner was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but lost to Jane Campion for ""The Piano"". Andrew"
"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"
"- ""The Paper Chase"" ""' Linda Blair - ""The Exorcist"" ""' Paul Le Mat - ""American Graffiti"" ""' Tatum O'Neal - ""Paper Moon"" Best Actor - Drama Series Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Series Best Actress - Drama Series Best Actress - Musical or Comedy Series Best Series - Drama Best Series - Musical or Comedy Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress 31st Golden Globe Awards The 31st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1973, were held on January 26, 1974. ""' Al Pacino - ""Serpico"" ""' George Segal - ""A Touch of Class"""
"for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, along with similar recognition from the Golden Globes, BAFTAs and others. The film itself received positive reviews with critics praising the performances, and received three nominations at the 75th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Director and Best Actress – Drama for Williams. In 1973, 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) (AKA Paul), grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer) who was at that time the world's richest private citizen, is kidnapped in Rome by an organized crime ring. The kidnappers demand a ransom of $17 million. Flashbacks show that"