Charlie Chaplin won an 'Oscar' for the film 'Limelight', in which category?
"about this decision and remained so throughout the film's production. When filming began at the end of 1928, Chaplin had been working on the story for almost a year. ""City Lights"" followed the Tramp's love for a blind flower girl (played by Virginia Cherrill) and his efforts to raise money for her sight-saving operation. It was a challenging production that lasted 21 months, with Chaplin later confessing that he ""had worked himself into a neurotic state of wanting perfection"". One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the opportunity to record a musical score for the film, which he composed"
"Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a reception, panel, and film screening at their Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, on October 3, 2012. Cast members Claire Bloom and Norman Lloyd shared their recollections in a conversation moderated by Chaplin biographer and archivist Jeffrey Vance. Limelight (1952 film) Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The score was composed by Chaplin and arranged by Ray Rasch. The film stars Chaplin as a washed-up comedian who saves a suicidal dancer, played by Claire Bloom, from killing herself, and both try to"
"like a self-conscious summing up of his life and career. As a journey back to his beginnings and an often rapier-sharp self-critique, ""Limelight"" is Chaplin's most deeply personal and introspective film."" The theme to the film, titled ""Terry's Theme"" (written by Chaplin), became a popular and often-covered song as ""Eternally"", with words by Geoff Parsons and John Turner. In 1973, over 20 years after the film's first release, Chaplin and his musical collaborators Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell were awarded an Oscar for Best Original Dramatic Score. In the case of Larry Russell, JazzWax journalist Marc Myers reports that this"
"Limelight (1952 film) Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The score was composed by Chaplin and arranged by Ray Rasch. The film stars Chaplin as a washed-up comedian who saves a suicidal dancer, played by Claire Bloom, from killing herself, and both try to get through life; additional roles are provided by Nigel Bruce, Sydney Earl Chaplin, Wheeler Dryden, and Norman Lloyd with an appearance from Buster Keaton. In dance scenes, Bloom is doubled by Melissa Hayden. Upon the film's release, critics' reception was divided; it was heavily boycotted in the United"
"premiere of his film ""Limelight"", his American re-entry permit was rescinded. Chaplin eventually settled in Switzerland, where he remained for the rest of his life. He made his last two films in England. During his lifetime, Chaplin received three awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. At the first Academy Awards ceremony, held on 16 May 1929, he was originally nominated for Best Actor and Best Director for ""The Circus"" (1928). The Academy dropped his two nominations, and he won an honorary award for writing, directing, producing, and acting. In 1972, he returned to the United States"
"theatres, but surprisingly it promoted more filmgoing rather than curtailing it. ""Limelight"" is probably a unique film in at least one interesting respect. Its two leads, Charlie Chaplin and Claire Bloom, were in the industry in no less than three different centuries. In the 19th Century, Chaplin made his theatrical debut at the age of eight, in 1897, in a clog dancing troupe, The Eight Lancaster Lads. In the 21st Century, Bloom is still enjoying a full and productive career, having appeared in dozens of films and television series produced up to and including 2013. She received particular acclaim for"
"for Nat King Cole in 1954. For ""Limelight"", Chaplin composed ""Terry's Theme"", which was popularised by Jimmy Young as ""Eternally"" (1952). Finally, ""This Is My Song"", performed by Petula Clark for ""A Countess from Hong Kong"" (1967), reached number one on the UK and other European charts. Chaplin also received his only competitive Oscar for his composition work, as the ""Limelight"" theme won an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1973 following the film's re-release. In 1998, the film critic Andrew Sarris called Chaplin ""arguably the single most important artist produced by the cinema, certainly its most extraordinary performer"
"Whittaker, Engelbert Humperdinck (1973 and 2007), Victor Wood (1971), Amália Rodrigues, John Serry Sr. (""Squeeze Play"", 1956), Majida El Roumi Ghazal album 2012, among many others. Eternally (Charles Chaplin song) ""Eternally"" is a song with music by Charles Chaplin, and words by the English lyricists Geoff Parsons and John Turner. The music was initially composed for Charles Chaplin's film ""Limelight"" (1952) titled ""Terry's Theme""; the film won an Oscar for ""Best Original Dramatic Score"" at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973. ""Eternally"" was recorded by Jimmy Young (UK #8, 1953), Vic Damone (U.S. Pop #12, 1953), Li Xianglan (in Chinese"
"was a case of mistaken identity and Russell Garcia was the actual composer who should have been awarded the 1972 Oscar. Larry Russell's family denies the report. Regardless, it was the only competitive Academy Award that Chaplin ever received (he had previously received two Honorary Oscars). In 2003, ""Limelight"" was released in the United States on a special edition two disc DVD from Warner Home Video. It later went out of print. The Criterion Collection released the film on both Blu-ray and DVD in the United States on May 19, 2015. The sixtieth anniversary of ""Limelight"" was celebrated by the"
"after nearly two decades to receive another honorary award, this time for his overall achievements in cinema. The following year, Chaplin's score for ""Limelight"" received the Academy Award for Best Music. Although 20 years old by this time, ""Limelight"" had not been released in the Los Angeles area until 1972, and had not been eligible for Academy Award consideration before then. Chaplin also received Academy Award nominations in 1940 for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay for ""The Great Dictator"". In 1942, Chaplin released a new version of ""The Gold Rush"", taking the original silent 1925 film and composing and"
"Eternally (Charles Chaplin song) ""Eternally"" is a song with music by Charles Chaplin, and words by the English lyricists Geoff Parsons and John Turner. The music was initially composed for Charles Chaplin's film ""Limelight"" (1952) titled ""Terry's Theme""; the film won an Oscar for ""Best Original Dramatic Score"" at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973. ""Eternally"" was recorded by Jimmy Young (UK #8, 1953), Vic Damone (U.S. Pop #12, 1953), Li Xianglan (in Chinese and Japanese), Petula Clark (""These Are My Songs"", 1967), Bing Crosby (for his radio show), Dinah Shore, Steve Lawrence, Michel Legrand, Jerry Vale, Sarah Vaughan, Roger"
"producers celebrated for having created outstanding work that dispelled stereotypes of women. [[Gurinder Chadha]] picked up the Chaplin Limelight Award for directing presented by [[Charlie Chaplin|Charlie Chaplan]]'s granddaughter [[Kiera Chaplin]] for whom this award was created. The animated series Kim Possible, and [[Kathy Najimy]] also won this same award two years later. The WIN Awards 2005 Winners: Held at UCLA, Senator Barbara Boxer accepted The Woman of The Year Honor. British actress [[Helen Mirren]] won 2 WIN tributes which actress [[Katie Holmes]] accepted on her behalf. Event co-chairs were [[Martha Luttrell]], [[Jane Fonda]] and [[Susan Sarandon]]. [[Harry Shearer]] hosted. ""American"
"an Oscar for his score for the Charlie Chaplin film ""Limelight"". (The film was released in 1952, but was not shown in Los Angeles until twenty years later. Under the rules in effect at the time, it was eligible for that year's Academy Awards.) Lawrence S. Russell died in Los Angeles on February 14, 1954. Larry Russell Larry Russell (October 14, 1913 – February 14, 1954) was an American composer working mostly in the motion picture industry. He is widely remembered as being one of three writers of the song ""Vaya Con Dios"", which has been recorded over 500 times."
"to work on ""The Glenn Miller Story"". Universal Studios contracted Garcia to work as composer, arranger and conductor in the 1950s. He remained in the post for 15 years. According to Garcia's obituary in the ""Los Angeles Times"" and Marc Myers in Jazzwax, a highly ranked daily jazz blog Garcia did the orchestration for ""the 65-piece studio symphony"" for Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film ""Limelight"". However, in 1972, when ""Limelight"" won an Oscar for the best original dramatic score, the three Oscars were given to Chaplin, Raymond Rasch and posthumously to Larry Russell, who was also a composer and movie arranger"
"who also directed, to co-star alongside him. The film catapulted Bloom to stardom, and remains one of her most memorable roles. Biographer Dan Kamin states that ""Limelight"" is a similar story to Chaplin's ""City Lights"", made twenty years earlier, in which Chaplin also helps a heroine overcome a physical handicap. In this film, Bloom plays a suicidal ballerina who ""suffers from hysterical paralysis"". The film had personal meaning for Chaplin as it contained numerous references to his life and family: the theatre where he and Bloom performed in the film was the same theatre where his mother gave her last"
"the film was not seen by the American moviegoing public. It was not until 1972 that the film was finally seen in wide American release. ""Limelight"" currently holds an excellent 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film was massively popular in Japan. It was enormously successful in Europe and around the world. However, in the U.S. it was a relative disappointment, only taking in $1 million. ""Limelight"" enjoyed a cumulative worldwide gross of $8 million. Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance notes that the film's reputation has slowly grown over the decades. Vance maintains """"Limelight"" is Chaplin's last great film, and it plays"
"motion pictures the art form of this century"" in 1972, and a Best Score award in 1973 for ""Limelight"" (shared with Ray Rasch and Larry Russell). He was further nominated in the Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Picture (as producer) categories for ""The Great Dictator"", and received another Best Original Screenplay nomination for ""Monsieur Verdoux"". In 1976, Chaplin was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress: ""The Immigrant"" (1917), ""The Kid"""
"categories. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are the only married couple to win, for """". Geoffrey S. Fletcher (for ""Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire""), John Ridley (for ""12 Years a Slave""), and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (both for ""Moonlight"") are the only African-Americans to win in this category; Fletcher is also the first African-American to win in any writing category. Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Paddy Chayefsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Horton Foote, William Goldman, Robert Benton, Bo Goldman, and the Coen brothers have won Oscars for both original and adapted screenplays. James Ivory is the oldest"
"Sydney Chaplin (American actor) Sydney Earl Chaplin (March 30, 1926 – March 3, 2009) was an American actor. He was the second son of Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey. One of his major roles was his father's film ""Limelight"" (1952). Born in Beverly Hills, California, Chaplin was the second son of Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey. His parents had married in November 1924 when Lita became pregnant with Sydney's elder brother Charles. Sydney was born five weeks prematurely, 10 months after the birth of his older brother. His parents divorced a year after his birth. He later had eight half-siblings"
"Coe of ""The Washington Post"" declared, ""Mr. Chaplin's gentle picture, over-long and under-disciplined it may be, restates the timeless lesson of human companionship that is the theme of philosophers and preachers. For all its shortcomings, 'Limelight' is a creative, distinguished film."" John McCarten of ""The New Yorker"" wrote, ""Regrettably, Mr. Chaplin isn't as quick as Shakespeare in getting the point across. There are, however, rewarding flashes of the sort of comedy and pathos that distinguished Mr. Chaplin's work in the past, and his portrait of an eminent performer who has fallen out of public favor carries a sad conviction."" ""The"
"as ""Vogue"" and ""Elle"" as well as the 2002 Pirelli Calendar. She was awarded a ""Lifestyle Icon"" award by the Vienna Awards for Fashion and Lifestyle in 2010. In addition to modelling, Chaplin is a film actress and producer. She has a 30% stake in the Hollywood-based film company Limelight Productions, named after her grandfather's last American film, and has appeared in supporting roles in films such as ""The Importance of Being Earnest"" (2002), the Bollywood productions ""Yatna"" (2005) and Chaurahen, the biopic """" (2006), the Peter Fonda film ""Japan"" (2008) and the Italian drama ""Interno Giorno"" by Tommaso Rossellini"
"audience and became an alcoholic, which led to his death in 1901. In both his 1964 autobiography, and his 1974 book ""My Life in Pictures"", however, Chaplin insists that Calvero is based on the life of stage actor Frank Tinney. ""Limelight"" was made during a time where Chaplin himself was starting to lose his audience; in many ways, the movie remains highly autobiographical. The pairing of Chaplin and Buster Keaton in the final musical number is historic for being the only time the two performed together on film. Chaplin at first had not written the part for Keaton because he"
"45th Academy Awards The 45th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday, March 27, 1973, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, honoring the best films of 1972. The ceremonies were presided over by Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, and Rock Hudson. The ceremony was marked by Marlon Brando's boycott of the Oscars and his sending of Sacheen Littlefeather to explain why he would not show up to collect his Best Actor award for ""The Godfather"", and by Charlie Chaplin's only competitive Oscar win for Best Original Dramatic Score for his 20-year-old film ""Limelight"", which was eligible because it"
"London. Chaplin prominently featured members of his family in the film, including five of his children and his half-brother Wheeler Dryden. Chaplin chose stage actress Claire Bloom for the role of Terry, her first major film role. Chaplin told his older sons he expected ""Limelight"" to be his last film. By all accounts he was very happy and energized during production, a fact often attributed to the joy of recreating his early career in the Music Hall. Chaplin biographers have assumed that his character in the film was based on his father Charles Chaplin, Sr. who had also lost his"
"Europe, Chaplin turned to acting both on stage and in films. He gained early acting experience in The Circle Theater, now known as El Centro Theatre, including acting in three plays directed by his father. He also appeared in several Broadway productions, including ""Bells Are Ringing"" opposite Judy Holliday in 1957, for which he won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical, and ""Funny Girl"" opposite Barbra Streisand in 1964, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Chaplin also had supporting roles in two of his father's films, ""Limelight"" (1952) and ""A"
"the film industry, Chaplin received a special Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1972, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lincoln Center Film Society the same year. The latter has since been presented annually to filmmakers as The Chaplin Award. Chaplin was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1972, having been previously excluded because of his political beliefs. Chaplin received three Academy Awards: an Honorary Award for ""versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing, and producing ""The Circus"""" in 1929, a second Honorary Award for ""the incalculable effect he has had in making"
"as the best romantic comedy of American cinema in 2008's ""10 Top 10"". The Tramp was number 38 on AFI's list of the 50 Best Heroes, and the film ranked at 38th among the funniest films, 10th among the greatest love stories, and 33rd on the most inspiring films. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: City Lights City Lights is a 1931 American pre-Code silent romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill)"
"Oona O'Neill, an actress who looks identical to his first love Hetty Kelly and the woman he will spend the remainder of his life with. However Chaplin is hit with another scandal when it is alleged that he is father to the child of his former lover Joan Barry and despite a blood test proving that the child is not his, Chaplin is ordered to provide financial support for the child. His reputation severely damaged, Chaplin stays out of the public eye for over seven years until re-emerging to produce a new film ""Limelight"". In 1952 during the height of"
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"her home and children, O'Neill also spent time at the studios if Chaplin was working. He often consulted O'Neill for her opinion. She also acted as a stand-in for lead actress Claire Bloom in ""Limelight"" (1952), when a scene had to be reshot after filming had wrapped, and Bloom was already working on another project. While living in Switzerland, the Chaplins added four more children to their family: Eugene Anthony (b. August 1953), Jane Cecil (b. May 1957), Annette Emily (b. December 1959) and Christopher James (b. July 1962). When Chaplin's health gradually started to fail in the late 1960s,"
"given the Best Actor award for his work in both ""The Way of All Flesh"" and ""The Last Command"". Also, Charlie Chaplin and Warner Brothers each received an Honorary Award. Major winners at the ceremony included ""7th Heaven"" and """", which each received three awards, and ""Wings"", receiving two awards. Among its honors, ""Sunrise"" won the award for Unique and Artistic Picture and ""Wings"" won the award for Outstanding Picture (now known as Best Picture). These two categories at the time were regarded equally as the top award of the night intended to honor different and important aspects of superior"
"and Charlie Chaplin were looking for a project on which to collaborate, with Lloyd as director and Chaplin as producer. Lloyd purchased the rights to Horace McCoy's novel for $3,000 and planned to cast Chaplin's son, Sydney, and newcomer Marilyn Monroe in the lead roles. Once arrangements were completed, in 1952 Chaplin took his family on what was intended to be a brief trip to the United Kingdom, for the London premiere of ""Limelight"". During this trip, in part because Chaplin was accused of being a Communist supporter during the McCarthy era, FBI head J. Edgar Hoover negotiated with the"
"""Limelight"" in London, since it was the setting of the film. As he left Los Angeles, he expressed a premonition that he would not be returning. At New York, he boarded the with his family on 18 September 1952. The next day, attorney general James P. McGranery revoked Chaplin's re-entry permit and stated that he would have to submit to an interview concerning his political views and moral behaviour in order to re-enter the US. Although McGranery told the press that he had ""a pretty good case against Chaplin"", Maland has concluded, on the basis of the FBI files that"