Who won an Oscar posthumously, for Best Actor in the American film 'Network'?
"angle is employed in both instances. Network (1976 film) Network is a 1976 American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings. The film stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, and Beatrice Straight. The film won four Academy Awards, in the categories of Best Actor (Finch), Best Actress (Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Straight), and Best Original Screenplay (Chayefsky). In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the"
"Peter Finch Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as ""crazed"" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film ""Network"", which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes. He was the first of two persons to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category, both of whom were coincidentally Australian, the other being Heath Ledger. Finch was born as Frederick George"
"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 film concludes with his murder on national television; a voiceover proclaims him ""the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings."" In the 2017 stage adaptation, the role of Beale is played by Bryan Cranston in the National Theatre, London production. Howard Beale (Network) Howard Beale is a fictional character from the film ""Network"" (1976) and one of the central characters therein. He is played by Peter Finch, who won a posthumous Oscar for the role. In ""Network"", Beale, the anchorman for the ""UBS Evening News"", struggles to accept the ramifications of the"
"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"
"not emerge unscathed from a life of well-publicised hell-raising, and several biographies chronicle the affairs and the booze, but a serious appraisal of a great actor remains to be written."" A profile of Finch on the British Film Institute's Screenonline website asserts that ""it is arguable that no other actor ever chalked up such a rewarding CV in British films."" Peter Finch Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as ""crazed"" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film ""Network"", which earned him a posthumous Academy Award"
"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"
"Howard Beale (Network) Howard Beale is a fictional character from the film ""Network"" (1976) and one of the central characters therein. He is played by Peter Finch, who won a posthumous Oscar for the role. In ""Network"", Beale, the anchorman for the ""UBS Evening News"", struggles to accept the ramifications of the social ailments and depravity existing in the world. His producers exploit him for high ratings and avoid giving him the psychiatric assistance that some, especially news division president, Max Schumacher, think he needs. The image of Beale in a khaki raincoat with his wet hair plastered to his"
"only five minutes and two seconds of screen-time in ""Network"". ""Network"", along with ""All the President's Men,"" were the two biggest champs of the ceremony with four Oscars each, but Best Picture and Best Director ultimately went to ""Rocky"". Piper Laurie was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for ""Carrie"" (1976), her first role since her Best Actress-nominated performance in ""The Hustler"" (1961), thus being nominated for two consecutive roles, fifteen years apart. ""Network"" became the second film (after ""A Streetcar Named Desire"") to win three acting Oscars, and the last, as of the 90th Academy Awards, to receive five acting"
"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"
"Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies"" by David Itzkoff, the cast of the Oscar-winning film ""Network"" originally included Blossom as media mogul Arthur Jensen, but he was replaced in pre-production by Ned Beatty. Blossom is also known for starring in the 1983 horror film ""Christine"", a film directed by John Carpenter which is an adaptation of the book by Stephen King. He is best known for his role in the 1990 film ""Home Alone"", in which he played Old Man Marley alongside Macaulay Culkin. He appeared in his final film role in 1995 alongside Sharon"
"to win a posthumous Academy Award for acting (after fellow Australian actor Peter Finch, who won for 1976's ""Network""), as well as the first comic-book movie actor to win an Oscar for their acting. Ledger's family attended the ceremony on 22 February 2009, with his parents and sister accepting the award on stage on his behalf. Following talks with the Ledger family in Australia, the Academy determined that Ledger's daughter, Matilda Rose, would own the award. However, due to Matilda's age, she will not gain full ownership of the statuette until her eighteenth birthday in 2023. Until that time, her"
"Network, with actor Russell Crowe hosting both this and the AFI Craft Awards. ""Look Both Ways"" received the most feature film awards with five, including Best Film and Best Direction. ""Little Fish"" and ""The Proposition"" collected four awards each. The only other winner was ""Three Dollars"" with one for Best Adapted Screenplay. In the television categories, ""Love My Way"" won five awards, including Best Drama Series, Best Direction and Best Screenplay. ""MDA"" was given two awards. Other television winners were ""Holly's Heroes"", ""John Safran vs God"", ""The Glass House"" and ""The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant"", with one each. After"
"win an individual Academy Award, although he did receive an Academy Honorary Award in 2005 and 14 of his films were nominated for various Oscars, such as ""Network"", which was nominated for 10, winning 4. In 2005, Lumet received an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement for his ""brilliant services to screenwriters, performers, and the art of the motion picture."" Upon winning recognition from the Academy, Lumet said, ""I wanted one, damn it, and I felt I deserved one."" Nonetheless, director Spike Lee commented that ""his great work lives on with us forever. Much more important than Oscar. Ya-dig?"" A few"
"The Social Network The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book ""The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal"", the film portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as founder Mark Zuckerberg, along with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, and Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Neither Zuckerberg nor any other Facebook staff were involved with the project, although Saverin was"
"Leading Role (Jesse Eisenberg), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Andrew Garfield), and Rising Star Award (Andrew Garfield). It won three for Best Editing, Adapted Screenplay, and Best Direction on February 13, 2011. ""The Social Network"" received nominations for eight Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing at the 83rd Academy Awards on February 27, 2011. The script was leaked online in July 2009. In November 2009, executive producer Kevin"
"a series of American actress Faye Dunaway (his girlfriend at the time) at dawn on 29 March 1977, lounging next to the swimming pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel the morning after winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for ""Network"", with several newspapers scattered around her and her Oscar statuette prominently shown on a table beside her breakfast tray. The series was photographed in both color and black and white. One black and white photo from the series is in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. O'Neill was credited (as Terrence O'Neill) as an executive"
"""Network"". I saw the promise of a comeback for me in the deglamorized face of Wanda, a woman of sweet vulnerability."" The film was a small success at the box office, but received excellent reviews from critics and Dunaway earned her sixth Golden Globe Award nomination, for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama. Pauline Kael wrote that ""Dunaway plays the self-destructive Wanda with a minimum of fuss... she wins your admiration by the simplicity of her effects"", and Roger Ebert felt that both Rourke and Dunaway ""take their characters as opportunities to stretch as actors, to take changes and do"
"Sidney Lumet Sidney Arthur Lumet ( ; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated five times for the Academy Award: four for Best Director for ""12 Angry Men"" (1957), ""Serpico"" (1973), ""Dog Day Afternoon"" (1975), ""Network"" (1976), and ""The Verdict"" (1982) and one for Best Adapted Screenplay for ""Prince of the City"" (1981). He did not win an individual Academy Award, but he did receive an Academy Honorary Award and 14 of his films were nominated for various Oscars, such as ""Network"", which"
"earlier posthumous Oscar winners in non-acting categories. Finch also won five Best Actor awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), including one for ""Network"". Shortly before he died, Finch told a journalist: We all say we're going to quit occasionally. I'd like to have been more adventurous in my career. But it's a fascinating and not ignoble profession. No one lives more lives than the actor. Movie making is like geometry and I hated maths. But this kind of jigsaw I relish. When I played Lord Nelson I worked the poop deck in his uniform. I"
"to win an Academy Award. In 1976, Peter Finch posthumously became the first Australian actor to win an Oscar for his role in ""Network"". During the late 1960s and 1970s an influx of government funding saw the development of a new generation of filmmakers telling distinctively Australian stories, including directors Peter Weir, George Miller and Bruce Beresford. This era became known as the Australian New Wave. Films such as ""Wake in Fright"", ""Walkabout"" and ""Picnic at Hanging Rock"" had an immediate international impact. These successes were followed in the 1980s with the historical epic ""Gallipoli"", the romantic drama ""The Man"
"Network (play) Network is a play by Lee Hall, adapted from the 1976 film of the same name which had a Academy Award-winning screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky and was directed by Sidney Lumet. The play premiered in the Lyttleton Theatre at the National Theatre in London on 13 November 2017 (following previews from 4 November) and ran until 24 March 2018. The production was directed by Ivo Van Hove and starred Bryan Cranston as Howard Beale. The play features set and lighting design by Jan Versweyveld, video design by Tal Yarden, costume design by An D'Huys, music by Eric Sleichim"
"for his portrayal of Underwood. On July 18, 2013, Netflix earned the first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for original online only web television for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards. Three of its web series, ""Arrested Development"", ""Hemlock Grove"", and ""House of Cards"", earned nominations. For the first time, three Primetime Emmy nominations for lead roles were from web television series: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series to Spacey for his portrayal of Frank Underwood, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series to Robin Wright for her portrayal of Claire Underwood, and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series to"
"16th Critics' Choice Awards The 16th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 14, 2011 at the Hollywood Palladium, honoring the finest achievements of 2010 filmmaking. The ceremony was broadcast on VH1. The nominees were announced on December 13, 2010. The Social Network David Fincher – ""The Social Network"" Colin Firth – ""The King's Speech"" Natalie Portman – ""Black Swan"" Christian Bale – ""The Fighter"" Melissa Leo – ""The Fighter"" Hailee Steinfeld – ""True Grit"" The Fighter ""The King's Speech"" – David Seidler ""The Social Network"" – Aaron Sorkin ""Inception"" – Guy Hendrix Dyas ""Inception"" – Wally Pfister ""Alice in"
"the film written after it received its Academy Awards, Roger Ebert called it a ""supremely well-acted, intelligent film that tries for too much, that attacks not only television but also most of the other ills of the 1970s,"" though ""what it does accomplish is done so well, is seen so sharply, is presented so unforgivingly, that ""Network"" will outlive a lot of tidier movies."" Seen a quarter-century later, Ebert added the film to his Great Movies list and said the film was ""like prophecy. When Chayefsky created Howard Beale, could he have imagined Jerry Springer, Howard Stern, and the World"
"Train Home"" (""Guītú Lièchē"") 2010 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 45th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 2011, honored the best in film for 2010. 1. The Social Network<br> 2. ""Carlos""<br> 3. ""Winter's Bone"" 1. David Fincher – ""The Social Network""<br> 2. Olivier Assayas – ""Carlos""<br> 3. Roman Polanski – ""The Ghost Writer"" 1. Jesse Eisenberg – ""The Social Network""<br> 2. Colin Firth – ""The King's Speech""<br> 2. Édgar Ramírez – ""Carlos"" 1. Giovanna Mezzogiorno – ""Vincere""<br> 2. Annette Bening – ""The Kids Are All Right""<br> 3. Lesley Manville – ""Another Year"" 1. Geoffrey"
"who won an Academy Award for his performance (the film also won Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, and Editing). The character was called ""Popeye"" because that was Egan's nickname in real life. Egan played a role in the movie as Hackman's supervisor, Simonson. Egan and Grosso were also technical advisors. Hackman reprised this role in the sequel film ""French Connection II"" in 1975, which depicts a fictionalized story. In 1986, a network television series ""Popeye Doyle"" was planned based on the fictionalized character from the two films with Ed O'Neill playing the title character. While the series was never"
"work. A later screening of the film in Las Vegas resulted in Saverin and his friends meeting with Brunetti and Mezrich again. Brunetti made sure to have Kevin Spacey attend the premiere and after party as well to ensure that their Facebook-related project would have all the momentum it needed. The 14-page proposal by Mezrich resulted in a movie being sold to Sony that became ""The Social Network"". In 2011, ""The Social Network"" was nominated for 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Music (Original Score), Actor in a Leading Role, Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Sound Mixing and Writing (Adapted Screenplay). Brunetti"
"due to the visual effects used to reverse the aging in Pitt's character. It received 13 nominations at the 81st Academy Awards, including Fincher's first nomination for Best Director. It won three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, and Best Visual Effects. Fincher directed the 2010 film ""The Social Network"", about the legal battles of Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook. The film features an Oscar-winning screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, adapted from the book ""The Accidental Billionaires"". Filming started in October 2009 and was released a year later, to critical acclaim. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross created"
"Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin wrote that ""no predictor of the future—not even Orwell—has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote ""Network""."" The film ranks at number 100 in ""Empire"" magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Films of All Time. A stage adaptation by Lee Hall premiered in the Lyttleton Theatre at the National Theatre in London in November 2017. The play was directed by Ivo Van Hove featuring Bryan Cranston making his UK stage debut as Howard Beale, and Michelle Dockery as Diana. It opened on Broadway on December 6, 2018, with Cranston reprising his role as Beale,"
"praise and widespread acclaim across the film industry being bestowed upon it. The score won nine major awards, including the 2010 Golden Globe award for Best Original Score – Motion Picture, and the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 83rd Academy Awards. When Trent Reznor was originally asked by director David Fincher to score ""The Social Network"", he initially declined, partly due to just finishing up a long touring and recording schedule. After further reflecting, Reznor apologized and told Fincher to keep him in consideration, to which he told Reznor that he had been waiting for him to"
"a purported list of winners was posted online. The list, which bore a purported signature from Academy president Sid Ganis, stated that Mickey Rourke won for Best Actor, Kate Winslet won for Best Actress, Amy Adams won for Best Supporting Actress, Heath Ledger won for Best Supporting Actor, and ""Slumdog Millionaire"" won for Best Picture. AMPAS spokeswoman Leslie Unger later revealed that the list was ""a complete fraud"", and that PricewaterhouseCoopers had just begun to count the ballots. The show received a mixed reception from media publications. Some media outlets received the broadcast more positively. Television critic Robert Bianco of"
"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"