"theatrical actress Margo Channing in ""All About Eve"" (1950). Davis read the script, described it as the best she had ever read, and accepted the role. Within days, she joined the cast in San Francisco to begin filming. During production, she established what would become a life-long friendship with her co-star Anne Baxter and a romantic relationship with her leading man Gary Merrill, which led to marriage. The film's director, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, later remarked: ""Bette was letter perfect. She was syllable-perfect. The director's dream: the prepared actress."" Critics responded positively to Davis' performance, and several of her lines became"
"52nd British Academy Film Awards The 52nd BAFTA Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 11 April 1999, honoured the best in film for 1998. Shakespeare in Love won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture) and Best Editing. ""Elizabeth"" was voted Best British Film. Both Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett won awards for their portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I. Geoffrey Rush won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Italian actor Roberto Benigni won the award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in ""La vita è bella"
"""Tea with Mussolini"" (Los lobos de Washington) """"'The Matrix"" Winners Losers (minimum two nominations) 53rd British Academy Film Awards The 53rd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 9 April 2000, honoured the best in film for 1999. Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey; had won the Academy Award) and Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing and Film Music. Jude Law (""The Talented Mr. Ripley"") and Maggie Smith (""Tea with Mussolini"") won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and"
"Best Actor (for ""Lilies of the Field"" in 1963). (James Baskett was the first African-American male to receive an Oscar, an Honorary Academy Award for his performance as Uncle Remus in the Walt Disney production of ""Song of the South"" in 1948, while Hattie McDaniel predated them both, winning as Best Supporting Actress for her role in 1939's ""Gone with the Wind"", making her the first person of African descent to be nominated for and receive an Oscar). His satisfaction at this honor was undermined by his concerns that this award was more of the industry congratulating itself for having"
"Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Beth Morgan in the 1941 film ""How Green Was My Valley"". She also had memorable roles in the 1941 retelling of ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", ""It Happened in Flatbush"" (1942), ""Jane Eyre"" (1943), ""The Lodger"" (1944), ""The Keys of the Kingdom"" (1944), ""The Spiral Staircase"" (1946), ""The Fabulous Dorseys"" (1947), and the original ""Cheaper by the Dozen"" (1950). Allgood became a United States citizen in 1945 and died of a heart attack in 1950 in Woodland Hills, California. Sara Allgood Sara Ellen Allgood (29 November 1879 – 13 September 1950)"
"a leading man in ""Black Jack"" (1950) but back to supporting/villain roles in ""I Can Get It for You Wholesale"" (1951). He signed a three picture deal with MGM for whom he did ""The Light Touch"" (1951) and ""Ivanhoe"" (1952), playing Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert and dying in a duel with Robert Taylor after professing his love for the Jewish maiden Rebecca, played by Elizabeth Taylor. It was a huge success. He followed it with ""Assignment – Paris!"" (1952), a thriller; ""Call Me Madam"" (1953), a rare musical role for Sanders; and ""Witness to Murder"" (1954). He starred as King"
"""A Streetcar Named Desire"" and 1952's ""Viva Zapata!"". He would win the following year for ""On the Waterfront"". ""Julius Caesar"" won BAFTA awards for Best British Actor (John Gielgud) and Best Foreign Actor (Marlon Brando), and was also nominated for Best Film. It was Brando's second of three consecutive BAFTA Best Actor awards, for ""Viva Zapata!"" (1952), ""Julius Caesar"" (1953), and ""On the Waterfront"" (1954). The National Board of Review awarded ""Julius Caesar"" Best Film and Best Actor (James Mason), and it also won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. Julius Caesar (1953 film) Julius Caesar is"
"""Be better!"" However, Heston notes that by the time a scene is done, regardless of how hard it was to do, it always came off well: Fourteen actors won Oscars under Wyler's direction, including Bette Davis in ""Jezebel"" (1938) and her nomination for ""The Letter"" (1940). Davis summed up their work together: ""It was ""he"" who helped me to realize my full potential as an actress. I met my match in this exceptionally creative and talented director."" Other Oscar winners were Olivia de Havilland in ""The Heiress"" (1949), Audrey Hepburn in her debut film, ""Roman Holiday"" (1953), Charlton Heston in"
"Arms"" (1944), which also stars Dana Andrews; 1947's ""Killer McCoy"" with Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, and Ann Blyth; ""Homecoming"" (1948), starring Clark Gable, Lana Turner, and Anne Baxter; ""That Wonderful Urge"" (1949), starring Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney; ""David and Bathsheba"" (1951), starring Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward; and Cecil B. DeMille's 1952 blockbuster, ""The Greatest Show on Earth"". During his 25-year acting career, he appeared in over 110 films. His final appearance in film was in 1954's ""The Eddie Cantor Story"", in which he had a small supporting role. In the late 1940s he also began working as a"
"45th British Academy Film Awards The 45th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1992, honoured the best films of 1991. Alan Parker's The Commitments won the awards for Best Film, Director, Adapted Screenplay and Editing. ""The Silence of the Lambs"" won the awards for Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins) and Actress (Jodie Foster). It went on to win the same Academy Awards. Alan Rickman was voted Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his work in """". Kate Nelligan (""Frankie and Johnny"") won the award for Best Supporting Actress. Anthony Hopkins in ""The"
"to continue his higher education and contribute something to the world. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $2,202,000 domestically and $1,447,000 foreign. The Corn Is Green (1945 film) The Corn Is Green is a 1945 drama film starring Bette Davis as a schoolteacher determined to bring education to a Welsh coal mining town, despite great opposition. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Emlyn Williams starring Ethel Barrymore. John Dall and Joan Lorring were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively. In 1979 the play was adapted"
"53rd British Academy Film Awards The 53rd British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 9 April 2000, honoured the best in film for 1999. Sam Mendes's American Beauty won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture), Actor (Kevin Spacey; had won the Academy Award) and Actress (Annette Bening), Cinematography, Editing and Film Music. Jude Law (""The Talented Mr. Ripley"") and Maggie Smith (""Tea with Mussolini"") won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Pedro Almodóvar, director of ""Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother)"", won"
"""' ""Elizabeth"" - ""Jenny Shircore"" ""' ""Elizabeth"" - ""David Hirschfelder"" 52nd British Academy Film Awards The 52nd BAFTA Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 11 April 1999, honoured the best in film for 1998. Shakespeare in Love won the award for Best Film (also won the Academy Award for Best Picture) and Best Editing. ""Elizabeth"" was voted Best British Film. Both Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett won awards for their portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I. Geoffrey Rush won the award for Best Supporting Actor. Italian actor Roberto Benigni won the award for Best"
"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 first African-American to win a Best Actor award and the second African-American to win any Oscar (the first was Hattie McDaniel who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ""Gone with the Wind""). Poitier also won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was also nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lilia Skala), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The film was also nominated in 1965 for the United Nations Award at the BAFTA Awards. Also, the film"
"escapist entertainment to take their minds off the Cold War. The film was screened as part of the 13th Venice Film Festival official program. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Carrie (1952 film) Carrie is a 1952 feature film based on the novel ""Sister Carrie"" by Theodore Dreiser. Directed by William Wyler, the film stars Jennifer Jones in the title role and Laurence Olivier as Hurstwood. Eddie Albert played Charles Drouet. ""Carrie"" received two Academy Award nominations: Costume Design (Edith Head), and Best Art Direction (Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Emile Kuri). Around the turn of"
"a 91% approval rating on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on eleven reviews. AllMovie called it ""one of Hammer Films' better non-supernatural outings of the 1960s"". The movie screening rights were sold to American television for nearly $400,000. The Nanny (1965 film) The Nanny is a 1965 British suspense film directed by Seth Holt, and starring Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, and Jill Bennett. Davis appears as a supposedly devoted nanny caring for a 10-year-old boy recently discharged from a home for disturbed children. It is based on the novel of the same title by Evelyn Piper (a pseudonym"
"Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was entered in the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. Berry-Berry Willart (Beatty) is a young, handsome hedonistic drifter who has no trouble living off the women of all ages he seduces. When the women become too attached to him, his charm turns sadistic and frequently lands him in jail for battery. Berry-Berry is always on the road far from home, is rarely seen by his drunken father Ralph (Karl Malden), his adoring but controlling and manipulative mother, Annabel (Angela Lansbury), or his sixteen-year-old brother Clinton (Brandon deWilde). The story follows Clinton, who idolizes"
"""Traffic"" Julie Walters – ""Billy Elliot"" The Perfect Storm 54th British Academy Film Awards The 54th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 25 February 2001 and honoured the best films of 2000. Ridley Scott's Gladiator won Best Film, while Ang Lee won Best Director for ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)"". ""Billy Elliot"" was voted Best British Film of 2000, and the film's lead actor, Jamie Bell, won Best Actor in a Leading Role. In addition, Julia Roberts won Best Actress in a Leading Role for her"
"Oscar for Best Original Music Score and two BAFTAs, Best British Cinematography (Colour) and Best British Costume (Colour) (Alan Barrett). Set in the rural West Country in Victorian England, the story features Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie), a beautiful, headstrong, independently minded woman who inherits her uncle's farm and decides to manage it herself. This engenders some disapproval from the local farming community. She employs a former neighbour, Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), to be her shepherd; rejected by her earlier as a suitor, Gabriel lost his own flock of sheep when they escaped from their enclosure, fled from a dog, and"
"chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the top ten films of 2016, and was nominated for numerous awards, including four Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Washington), Best Supporting Actress (Davis) and Best Adapted Screenplay, with Davis winning for her performance. It also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for Washington and a Best Supporting Actress win for Davis. In 1950s Pittsburgh, Troy Maxson lives with his wife Rose and their son Cory, and works as a waste collector alongside his best friend, Jim Bono. Troy's younger brother, Gabriel, sustained"
"54th British Academy Film Awards The 54th British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 25 February 2001 and honoured the best films of 2000. Ridley Scott's Gladiator won Best Film, while Ang Lee won Best Director for ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)"". ""Billy Elliot"" was voted Best British Film of 2000, and the film's lead actor, Jamie Bell, won Best Actor in a Leading Role. In addition, Julia Roberts won Best Actress in a Leading Role for her role in ""Erin Brockovich"", Benicio del Toro won Best"
"finds this out and, his cover blown, destroys the consignment. To escape the law, he then heads in his yacht for Tangier and Ingrid agrees to flee with him. But police launches pursue them and shoot Alexander dead. Black Jack (1950 film) Black Jack, also known as Captain Blackjack, is a 1950 adventure film written and directed by Julien Duvivier and starring George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Roc and Dennis Wyndham. Set on the Mediterranean, it tells the story of a man who does evil deeds. Although his conscience is awakened and he has fallen in love, escaping his past"
"1950 films include: the psychological thriller directed by Mel Ferrer, ""The Secret Fury"", starring Claudette Colbert and Robert Ryan; the Bette Davis vehicle, ""Payment on Demand"" (1951), which also stars Barry Sullivan; the 1951 color musical, ""Two Tickets to Broadway"", starring Tony Martin and Janet Leigh; the musical comedy ""Double Dynamite"", starring Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra; the 1953 romantic comedy ""Susan Slept Here"", starring Debbie Reynolds and Dick Powell, in his last screen appearance; the Civil War Western, ""Great Day in the Morning"", starring Robert Stack and Virginia Mayo; the 1956 musical comedy, ""Bundle of Joy"", starring"
"Outstanding British Film, Best Cinematography, Best Original Music, Best Sound, and Best Special Visual Effects. ""12 Years a Slave"" won Best Film and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Chiwetel Ejiofor. Cate Blanchett won Best Actress in a Leading Role for ""Blue Jasmine"", Barkhad Abdi won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ""Captain Phillips"", and Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ""American Hustle"". The ceremony was broadcast on BBC One and BBC Three. It was hosted by Stephen Fry, the ninth time he's hosted the ceremony. The ceremony opened with a duet call ""Heroes"""
"(1957). She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1959 for the film ""Separate Tables"" (1958), as a lonely hotel manageress and mistress of Burt Lancaster. She remained uncompromising in her indifference to film stardom, as evidenced by her surprising reaction to her Oscar win: ""Never mind the honour, cold hard cash is what it means to me."" She received a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of the domineering, possessive mother in ""Sons and Lovers"" (1960). She reprised her London stage role in the southern gothic ""Toys in the Attic"" (1963), which earned her a"
"Film Academy award for best British actress. She died less than two years afterwards having only appeared in a single further film. She also appeared in the BBC science fiction serial ""The Quatermass Experiment"" (1953) and played a spy in ""I See a Dark Stranger"" (1946). Katie Johnson (English actress) Bessie Kate ""Katie"" Johnson (18 November 1878 in Clayton, Sussex – 4 May 1957 in Elham, Kent) was an English actress who appeared on stage from 1894 and on screen from the 1930s to the 1950s. In 1908 she married the actor Frank Goodenough Bayly (1873 – 28 November 1923,"
"Audrey Hepburn Walt Disney for artistic merit in ""The Living Desert"" Jean Hersholt ""Brigadoon"" photographed by Joseph Ruttenberg ""On The Waterfront"" photographed by Boris Kaufman ""Broken Lance"" - directed by Edward Dmytryk 12th Golden Globe Awards The 12th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1954, were held on February 24, 1955, in the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. ""On The Waterfront"" directed by Elia Kazan ""Carmen Jones"" directed by Otto Preminger Marlon Brando - ""On The Waterfront"" James Mason - ""A Star Is Born"" Judy Garland - ""A Star Is Born"" Grace"
"her key scenes. As a result of her performance, Astor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, thanking Bette Davis and Tchaikovsky in her acceptance speech. Astor and Davis became good friends. Astor was not propelled into the upper echelon of movie stars by these successes, however. She always declined offers of starring in her own right. Not wanting the responsibility of top billing and having to carry the picture, she preferred the security of being a featured player. In 1942, she reunited with Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet in John Huston's ""Across the Pacific"". Though usually cast in"
"The Star (1952 film) The Star is a 1952 American drama film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Bette Davis. The plot tells the story of an aging, washed up actress who is desperate to restart her career. Even though the film was a critical and commercial failure, Bette Davis received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Academy Award-winning star Margaret ""Maggie"" Elliot (Bette Davis) is a bankrupt actress of a certain age struggling to accept her new non-wealthy reality. She is in denial, and confident she can somehow build herself up again and re-launch her career to its"
"for the aging diva role, before giving it to Bette Davis. Davis, who had recently ended an 18-year association with Warner Bros. after several poorly received films, immediately accepted the role after realizing it was one of the best she had ever read. Channing had originally been conceived as genteel and knowingly humorous, but with the casting of Davis, Mankiewicz revised the character to be more abrasive. Mankiewicz praised Davis both for her professionalism and for the caliber of her performance. Anne Baxter had spent a decade in supporting roles and had won the 1946 Academy Award for Best Supporting"
"who accepts. Officer McShane also asks to adopt Annie Laurie and give her his last name. Francie and Neeley think Annie Laurie's life with McShane as a father will be much easier, but not nearly as much fun. The film ends as Francie sees the courtyard tree begin to grow again, just as her father said it would. James Dunn won the 1945 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Frank Davis and Tess Slesinger were nominated for Writing, Adapted Screenplay, and Peggy Ann Garner won the 1945 Academy Juvenile Award. In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the"
"of female characters in their animated cartoons of the early 1940s through the mid-1950s. Benaderet was then a prominent figure on television in situation comedies, first with ""The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"" from 1950 to 1958, for which she earned two Emmy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. In the 1960s, she had regular roles in four series up until her death from lung cancer in 1968, including the commercial successes ""The Beverly Hillbillies"", ""The Flintstones"", and her best known role as Kate Bradley in ""Petticoat Junction"". She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring"