"Actor Awards for co-stars James Wilby and Hugh Grant. This was followed in 1990 by ""Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"", which was adapted by Jhabvala from the novels by Evan S. Connell. This film received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress (Joanne Woodward), as well as Best Actress and Best Screenplay from the New York Film Critics Circle. In 1992 Ivory directed another film adapted from Forster, ""Howards End"". The film was nominated for nine Academy awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three: Best Actress (Emma Thompson), Best Screenplay – Adaptation (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala), and Best Art Direction/Set"
"for Cannes International Film Festival and won the 45th Anniversary Award. In 1993, the film received nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture for Ismail Merchant and Best Director for James Ivory. The film won three awards, including for Best Art Direction (Art Direction: Luciana Arrighi; Set Decoration: Ian Whittaker). Ruth Prawer Jhabvala earned her second Academy Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published, while Emma Thompson won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Actress. In Edwardian Britain, Helen Schlegel becomes engaged to Paul Wilcox during a moment of passion, while she is staying at the"
"during a ceremony held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 6, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Sharon Stone. ""Unforgiven"" won four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Clint Eastwood, and Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman. Al Pacino and Emma Thompson won lead acting honors for ""Scent of a Woman"" and ""Howards End"", respectively. Marisa Tomei won Best Supporting Actress for ""My Cousin Vinny"". The telecast garnered 45.7 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 65th Academy Awards were announced on February 17, 1993, at the Samuel"
"Jane Austen's most endearing character, the disastrously self-assured matchmaker Emma Woodhouse. A fine cast, speedy pacing and playful direction make this a solid contender for the Austen sweepstakes."" Emma (1996 theatrical film) Emma is a 1996 period film based on the 1815 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Written and directed by Douglas McGrath, the film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, and Jeremy Northam. The film describes a year in the life of Emma Woodhouse, a congenial but naïve young woman who thinks of herself as a romantic matchmaker in her small community in"
"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"
"""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"
"any man would leave Elizabeth Taylor. It's a good thing we never see Henry Fonda's bimbo, because if we did, we wouldn't be convinced."" Elizabeth Taylor was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama but lost to Marsha Mason in ""Cinderella Liberty"". Ash Wednesday (1973 film) Ash Wednesday is a 1973 American drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor, directed by Larry Peerce and produced by Dominick Dunne. The screenplay by Jean-Claude Tramont focuses on the effect that extensive cosmetic surgery has on the life of a middle-aged married woman. In a desperate attempt to save"
"Emma (1996 theatrical film) Emma is a 1996 period film based on the 1815 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Written and directed by Douglas McGrath, the film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, and Jeremy Northam. The film describes a year in the life of Emma Woodhouse, a congenial but naïve young woman who thinks of herself as a romantic matchmaker in her small community in early-19th-century England. When her governess, Miss Taylor, gets married and goes to live with her new husband, Mr Weston, Emma proudly takes the credit for having brought the"
"The film stars Leonor Silveira as Ema, a discontent Portuguese woman who wants a passionate life like the one she reads about in Flaubert's novel. Like Madame Bovary, Ema marries a doctor that she does not love and has many extramarital affairs before dying in an accident that may or may not be a suicide. Unlike Madame Bovary, there is no scandal in her love affairs, which are simply accepted by both her husband and the society that she lives in. The film won the Critics award at the 1993 São Paulo International Film Festival, as well as an award"
"film. Doran explained, ""For 10 years I'd been trying to find somebody I thought could adapt it. Usually romantics are too optimistic and dreamy to see Austen's cynicism, and satirists are too cynical to believe in romance."" Thompson fit Doran's criteria for a good screenwriter, despite the actress never having written a screenplay before. The resulting production of ""Sense and Sensibility"" earned Thompson an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making her the only person to have won an Oscar for both her writing and acting (Thompson won the Best Actress award for ""Howards End"", in 1993). Along with producing,"
"recognition of Emma Thompson. The film received five nominations at the 67th British Academy Film Awards, including Best British Film, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, Best Film Music, and Best Costume Design. The film received a Best Original Score nomination at the 86th Academy Awards, where—despite not earning a nomination—the film was widely considered by pundits to be a front-runner for Best Picture and Best Actress. The film also received single nominations at the 71st Golden Globe Awards and 20th Screen Actors Guild Awards, where Thompson was nominated for Best"
"office failure earning only $5.9 million on a budget of $33 million. The music, by composer Kitaro, won the 1993 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Heaven & Earth (1993 film) Heaven & Earth is a 1993 American biographical war drama film written and directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, and Hiep Thi Le. It is the third and final film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, which also includes ""Platoon"" (1986) and ""Born on the Fourth of July"" (1989). The film was based on the books ""When Heaven and Earth Changed"
"or Musical at the 74th Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for her role in ""La La Land"". Emma Stone Emily Jean ""Emma"" Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress. The recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was the highest-paid actress in the world in 2017. Stone has appeared in ""Forbes"" Celebrity 100 in 2013 and 2017, and was featured by ""Time"" as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Born"
"and BAFTA nominations. Her other films include: ""Emma"" (1996), ""Clockwatchers"" (1997), ""Velvet Goldmine"" (1998), ""Changing Lanes"", ""The Hours"" (both 2002), ""In Her Shoes"" (2005), ""The Night Listener"" (2006), ""Fright Night"" (2011), ""Mental"", ""Hitchcock"" (both 2012), ""Lucky Them"", ""Enough Said"" (both 2013), ""Tammy"" (2014), ""Miss You Already"", ""Krampus"" (both 2015), ""Imperium"" (2016), """" (2017), and ""Hereditary"" (2018). From 2009 to 2011, she played the lead roles on the television series ""United States of Tara"", for which she won Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Best Actress. Collette returned to Broadway in 2014 in ""The Realistic Joneses"", for which she earned"
"World Apart"" (1970–71). In 1974, she co-starred as a young Zelda Fitzgerald surrogate in the TV movie ""F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'"" and in 1975, she starred in the popular cult film ""The Rocky Horror Picture Show"". She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for ""Atlantic City"" (1980), ""Thelma & Louise"" (1991), ""Lorenzo's Oil"" (1992), and ""The Client"" (1994), before winning for ""Dead Man Walking"" (1995). She has also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for ""The Client"", and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress for"
"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"
"according to ReelzChannel. However, several chick flicks have received high critical acclaim for their stories and performances. For example, the 1983 film ""Terms of Endearment"" received Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Actor in a Supporting Role. More recently, the film ""La La Land"" (called a chick flick in some circles), featuring both Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, won Best Actress at the Academy Awards. Both of these actors were well known for their roles in chick flicks before jumping to the academy level. Some frequent elements of chick flicks include having a"
"Emma Thompson was nominated for an Oscar playing Gareth in the 1993 movie ""In The Name of the Father"", with Daniel Day-Lewis also nominated for his role as Conlon. Alzira married again to Chuck Albaugh having her fourth child, Kathleen Swoboda. She was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Art, a New Deal agency, to paint two murals. In 1938 she completed ""Ellsworth, Lumber Port"" in Ellsworth, Maine and in 1939 ""Shipwreck at Night"" in South Portland, Maine. An avid artist, she created many sculptures, paintings, and drawings. She moved to New Mexico and worked as an organizer for"
"category for a performance in a film directed by Woody Allen. Best Adapted Screenplay winner Emma Thompson was the first person to win Oscars for both acting and screenwriting. She had previously won Best Actress for her performance in the 1992 film ""Howards End"". This was the first year since the 42nd Academy Awards—and last to date—that none of the acting winners appeared in Best Picture nominees. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The following 19 films received multiple nominations: The following five films received multiple awards: The following individuals, listed in"
"for ""Indecent Proposal"". ""Much Ado About Nothing"" was ranked #11 on Rotten Tomatoes list of Greatest Shakespeare Movies. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film) Much Ado About Nothing is a 1993 British/American romantic comedy film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the film. The film also stars Branagh's then-wife Emma Thompson, Robert Sean Leonard, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, Keanu Reeves, and Kate Beckinsale in her film debut. The film was released"
"Angela Bassett Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress and activist. She is known for her biographical film roles, most notably her performance as Tina Turner in the biopic ""What's Love Got to Do with It"" (1993), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Bassett has additionally portrayed Betty Shabazz in both ""Malcolm X"" (1992) and ""Panther"" (1995), Katherine Jackson in """" (1992), Voletta Wallace in ""Notorious"" (2009), and Coretta Scott King in ""Betty & Coretta"""
"sex symbol and rose to international recognition when she starred as Catherine Tramell in another Verhoeven film, the erotic thriller ""Basic Instinct"" (1992), for which she earned her first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She received further critical acclaim with her performance in Martin Scorsese's crime drama ""Casino"" (1995), garnering the Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Stone received two more Golden Globe Award nominations for her roles in ""The Mighty"" (1998) and ""The Muse"" (1999). Her other notable film roles include ""Sliver"" (1993), ""The Specialist"" (1994),"
"Sex?"", and ""The Wizard of Loneliness"". She also had a prominent role in the 1989 TV film ""Nightbreaker"", for which she was nominated for a CableACE Award. In the early 1990s, Thompson starred as the mother of the eponymous character in ""Dennis the Menace"" (1993), the villainess in ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" (1993), and a snooty ballet instructor in ""The Little Rascals"" (1994). She also appeared in several TV films throughout the 1990s, including ""The Substitute Wife"" (1994) and ""The Right To Remain Silent"" (1996). Thompson found moderate critical and popular success as the star of the NBC sitcom ""Caroline in"
"Jane Seymour (actress) Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951), is an English-American actress. Best known for her performances in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" (1973); ""Somewhere In Time"" (1980); ""East of Eden"" (1981); ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1982 film); ""Onassis: The Richest Man in the World"" (1988); ""War and Remembrance"" (1988); the French epic ""La Révolution française"" (1989) as the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette; ""Wedding Crashers"" (2005); and the American television series ""Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"" (1993–1998), she has earned an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a star on the Hollywood"
"And I did not. So I had, like, five days to learn really, really complicated water-skiing things, because I had to fit into the Sea World water-skiing show. I don’t even know how to swim!"" She followed this with ""All the Right Moves"" (1983), ""Red Dawn"" (1984), and ""The Wild Life"" (1984). Thompson's most famous role is that of Lorraine Baines McFly in the ""Back to the Future"" trilogy, with the first film released in 1985. Thompson's character is the mother of Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, whom Marty meets when she is a 1950s adolescent age after"
"of 52% based on 23 reviews, and an average rating of 6.2/10. Carrington (film) Carrington is a 1995 British biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington (1893–1932), who was known simply as ""Carrington"". The screenplay is based on biographies of writer and critic Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) by Michael Holroyd. The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey, played by Jonathan Pryce, as well as with other members of the Bloomsbury Group. The film is divided into 6 chapters. The"
"Carrington (film) Carrington is a 1995 British biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington (1893–1932), who was known simply as ""Carrington"". The screenplay is based on biographies of writer and critic Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) by Michael Holroyd. The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey, played by Jonathan Pryce, as well as with other members of the Bloomsbury Group. The film is divided into 6 chapters. The score of the film was composed by Michael Nyman. It was primarily"
"Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for her work in the miniseries ""Ellis Island"" (1985) and received critical acclaim for her performance in Barbet Schroeder's drama ""Barfly"" (1987), opposite Mickey Rourke. Her role in a 1993 episode of ""Columbo"" earned her a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She co-starred with Johnny Depp twice, in the surrealist comedy-drama ""Arizona Dream"" (1993) and the romantic comedy ""Don Juan DeMarco"" (1995). Her portrayal of Wilhelmina Cooper in the drama ""Gia"" (1998) with Angelina Jolie earned her a third Golden Globe Award, for Best Supporting"
"Pacino and Meryl Streep, dealt with the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era America. Thompson played three roles – a nurse, a homeless woman, and the title role of The Angel of America – and was again nominated for an Emmy Award. In 2004, she played the eccentric Divination teacher Sybill Trelawney in the third ""Harry Potter"" film, the ""Prisoner of Azkaban"", her character described as a ""hippy chick professor who teaches fortune-telling"". She later reprised her role in the ""Order of the Phoenix"" (2007) and the ""Deathly Hallows – Part 2"" (2011), and has called her time on the popular franchise"
"the Footlights troupe. After appearing in several comedy programmes, she first came to prominence in 1987 in two BBC TV series, ""Tutti Frutti"" and ""Fortunes of War"", winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her work in both series. Her first film role was in the 1989 romantic comedy ""The Tall Guy"", and in the early 1990s, she frequently collaborated with her then husband, actor and director Kenneth Branagh. The pair became popular in the British media and co-starred in several films, including ""Dead Again"" (1991) and ""Much Ado About Nothing"" (1993). In 1992, Thompson won an Academy"
"Much Ado About Nothing (1993 film) Much Ado About Nothing is a 1993 British/American romantic comedy film based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the film. The film also stars Branagh's then-wife Emma Thompson, Robert Sean Leonard, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, Keanu Reeves, and Kate Beckinsale in her film debut. The film was released on May 7, 1993, reaching 200 U.S. screens at its widest release. It earned $22 million at the U.S. box office and $36 million total worldwide, which, despite failing"
"least try to look interested, they can't sustain a show that has lost its best asset — a twisted joy in its own trashiness."" The series won the People's Choice Award in 1993 for 'Favorite New TV Dramatic Series'. Heather Locklear was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama for her role as Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place, in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996. Laura Leighton was nominated in 1995 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series for her role as Sydney Andrews. In May 1994,"
"Emmy nomination for portraying NBC correspondent Betty Rollin's struggle with breast cancer. Her later TV films included the medical drama ""Heartsounds"" (1984) with James Garner, which brought her another Emmy nomination, ""Finnegan Begin Again"" (1985) with Robert Preston, which earned her a CableACE Award nomination, the 1988 mini-series ""Lincoln"", which brought her another Emmy nod for playing Mary Todd Lincoln, and ""Stolen Babies"", for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 1993. Later she reunited with old co-stars in ""Mary and Rhoda"" (2000) with Valerie Harper, and ""The Gin Game"" (2003) (based on the Broadway play),"