"a ""relatively simple story of adolescent love and frustration"" that has been ""jargoned-up and chaptered-out till it sounds like an angry psychosociological monograph describing the sexual mores of the heartless heartland."" At the 34th Academy Awards, Inge won an Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay—Written Directly for the Screen; Wood was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role, losing to Sophia Loren in Two Women. Elia Kazan received a nomination for a Directors Guild of America (DGA) award. The film received three nominations in the 1961 Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards: Best Picture - Drama, Best Performance by"
"Two Women Two Women ( , roughly translated as ""The Woman from Ciociaria"") is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her young daughter from the horrors of war. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, and Andrea Checchi. The film was adapted by De Sica and Cesare Zavattini from the novel of the same name written by Alberto Moravia. The story is fictional, but based on actual events of July 1943 in Rome and rural Lazio, and during what the Italians"
"a non-English-language performance or to an Italian actress. She won 22 international awards for ""Two Women"". The film was extremely well received by critics and a huge commercial success. Though proud of this accomplishment, Loren did not show up to this award, citing fear of fainting at the award ceremony. Nevertheless, Cary Grant telephoned her in Rome the next day to inform her of the Oscar award. During the 1960s, Loren was one of the most popular actresses in the world, and continued to make films in the United States and Europe, starring with prominent leading men. In 1964, her"
"won 22 international awards for ""Two Women"". ""La Ciociara"" was remade for television in 1988. It was adapted by Diana Gould, Lidia Ravera, Dino Risi, and Bernardino Zapponi. It was directed by Risi, and starred Loren, Robert Loggia, Leonardo Ferrantini, Dario Ghirardi, and Sydney Penny. An opera, La Ciociara, in a re-write by scenario writer Luca Rossi, with music composed by Marco Tutino, received its premiere at San Francisco Opera, and a European premiere at Teatro Lirico, Cagliari. Two Women Two Women ( , roughly translated as ""The Woman from Ciociaria"") is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio De"
"first time. In 1960, she starred in Vittorio De Sica's ""Two Women"", a stark, gritty story of a mother who is trying to protect her 12-year-old daughter in war-torn Italy. The two end up gang-raped inside a church as they travel back to their home city following cessation of bombings there. Originally cast as the daughter, Loren fought against type and was changed as the mother (actress Eleonora Brown would portray the daughter). Loren's performance earned her many awards, including the Cannes Film Festival's best performance prize, and an Academy Award for Best Actress, the first major Academy Award for"
"recognized until her performance as Cesira in Vittorio De Sica's ""Two Women""; Loren's performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1962 and made her the first actress to win an Oscar for a foreign-language performance. She holds the record for having earned six David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress: ""Two Women""; ""Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow""; ""Marriage Italian Style"" (for which she was nominated for a second Oscar); ""Sunflower""; ""The Voyage""; and ""A Special Day"". After starting a family in the early 1970s, Loren chose to make only occasional film appearances. In later years, she has appeared"
"1960s. During that decade, he reached the peak of his career and his prestige, which he was able to sustain into the 1970s. In 1961, Levine bought North American distribution rights for ""Two Women"" after seeing no more than three minutes of its ""rushes."" He was not credited as the ""executive producer"" of ""Two Women,"" which was based on a novella written by Alberto Moravia, had been directed by Vittorio de Sica, and starred Sophia Loren and Eleanora Brown, who acted out the respective roles of a mother and her young daughter whom World War II had displaced from their"
"(1963), Jacques Demy’s ""Lola"" (1961), George Cukor’s ""Justine"" (1969), Bernardo Bertolucci’s ""Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man"" (1981) and Robert Altman’s ""Prêt à Porter"" (1994). She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her acting in ""A Man and a Woman"" (1966). The film ""virtually reignited the lush on-screen romance in an era of skeptical modernism,"" and brought her international fame. She won the Award for Best Actress at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. In 2002 she received"
"to win the award for the same film. Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise first accomplished this feat for co-directing 1961's ""West Side Story"". This was also the second time in Oscar history (the first being 1964's 37th Academy Awards) that none of the four acting winners was American. Daniel Day-Lewis became the eighth person to win Best Actor twice. Best Actress winner Marion Cotillard was the fifth person to win for a non-English speaking performance and the second person to do so in the aforementioned category, after Sophia Loren who won for 1961's ""Two Women"". Cate Blanchett became the eleventh"
"Two Women (novel) Two Women (original title in Italian: La Ciociara) is a 1957 Italian-language novel by Alberto Moravia. It tells the story of a woman trying to protect her teenaged daughter from the horrors of war. When both are raped, the daughter suffers a nervous breakdown. A film based on the novel starred Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi and Andrea Checchi. A daughter and her mother fight to survive in Rome during the Second World War. Cesira, a widowed Roman shopkeeper, and Rosetta, a naive teenager of beauty and devout faith. When the German army prepares"
"of a Queen"". In the 1970s, she won a second Best Actress ""Evening Standard"" Award and won the Olivier Award (then the Society of London awards) for Best Actress in a Revival for ""A Month in the Country"" and ""The Double Dealer"". Her films included ""The Importance of Being Earnest"" (1952), ""The Beggar's Opera"" (1953), ""A Tale of Two Cities"" (1958), ""Savage Messiah"" (1972) and ""The Shooting Party"" (1985). An obituary in ""The Daily Telegraph"" described her as ""one of the most enchanting, accomplished and intelligent leading ladies on the post-war British stage. With her husky voice, deep brown eyes,"
"to the play's then-controversial use of profanity and sexual themes, and overruled the award's advisory committee, awarding no Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1963. A film adaptation of the play was released in 1966. It was directed by Mike Nichols and starred Elizabeth Taylor as Martha, Richard Burton as George, George Segal as Nick and Sandy Dennis as Honey. All four major actors were nominated for Academy Awards: Taylor and Burton for Best Actress and Actor and Dennis and Segal for Supporting Oscars. Both actresses won - Elizabeth Taylor won the Oscar for Best Actress but Richard Burton was passed"
"These directors' works often span many decades and genres. Present ""auteurs"" include Giuseppe Tornatore, Marco Bellocchio, Ermanno Olmi, Nanni Moretti, Gabriele Salvatores, Gianni Amelio, Dario Argento and Paolo Sorrentino. In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's ""Two Women"". She was the first actress to win an Academy Award for a performance in any foreign language, and the second Italian leading lady Oscar-winner (after Anna Magnani). During the 1960s and 70s, Italian filmmakers Mario Bava,"
"film ""Two Women"", the main role which was performed by Ralph Fiennes. Glagoleva was awarded the People's Artist of Russia in 2011. She was first married to actor Rodion Nakhapetov from 1974 to 1988. The couple had two children. Later, she married for the second time to businessman Kirill Shubsky. Glagoleva died at a hospital in Germany on 16 August 2017 of cancer at the age of 61. Vera Glagoleva Vera Vitalievna Glagoleva (; 31 January 1956 – 16 August 2017) was a Russian actress and film director. Glagoleva was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union in 1956<ref name=""teleweek.ru/66724"">Вера"
"Two People (film) Two People is a 1973 American drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise and starring Peter Fonda and Lindsay Wagner. The screenplay by Richard De Roy focuses on the brief relationship shared by a Vietnam War deserter and a fashion model. Deirdre McCluskey is a Manhattan-based fashion model who has completed an assignment for ""Vogue"" with photographer, Ron Kesselman, who is also her lover, and Barbara Newman, an editor, in Marrakech. Ron has announced plans to explore the Sahara Desert in lieu of returning home to his son out-of-wedlock with Deirdre, Marcus, leaving them to go"
"Sarah Jessica Parker Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress, producer, and designer. She is known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series ""Sex and the City"" (1998–2004), for which she won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. The character was widely popular during the airing of the series and was later recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American television. She later reprised the role in films ""Sex and the City"" (2008) and ""Sex and"
"Eleonora Brown Eleonora Brown (born August 22, 1948 in Naples) is an Italian film actress. Her first, and arguably biggest, role was at age twelve as Sophia Loren's daughter in ""Two Women"" (1960). In a later interview, Brown stated that Loren protected her from some of the underlying implications of the rape scene in the film, and also stated that director Vittorio De Sica brought her to tears for the climatic final scene (upon hearing that the character played by Jean-Paul Belmondo had died) by saying that a telegram had arrived saying that Brown's parents had died in an accident."
"Actress category. Best Actor winner Paul Newman was the fourth actor to have been nominated for portraying the same character in two different films, having previously earned a nomination for his role as ""Fast Eddie"" Felson in 1961's ""The Hustler"". By virtue of his victory in the Best Actor category, Newman and wife Joanne Woodward, who won Best Actress for her performance in 1957's ""The Three Faces of Eve"", became the second married couple to win acting Oscars. """" and ""Down and Out in America""s joint win in the Best Documentary Feature category marked the fourth occurrence of a tie"
"nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She starred in the musical films ""West Side Story"" (1961) and ""Gypsy"" (1962), and received Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in ""Splendor in the Grass"" (1961) and ""Love with the Proper Stranger"" (1963). Her career continued with films such as ""Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"" (1969). After this, she took a break from acting and had two children with different husbands, appearing in only three theatrical films during the 1970s. She was married to actor Robert Wagner, then to producer Richard Gregson, and then back"
"home. One segment of it showed Moroccan soldiers raping the mother and the daughter. Levine's promotional campaign focused on one still photograph, which showed Loren, as the mother, wearing a torn dress, kneeling in the dirt, and weeping with rage and grief. Predicting that she would win the Academy Award for her performance, Levine brought Loren to the United States for interviews, bought space for, and placed, large advertisements in newspapers, and saw to it that ""Two Women"" appeared in the cities of residence of Academy Award jury members. Levine's efforts paid off when Loren became the first cast member"
"for Best Supporting Actress), and Daniel Day-Lewis (all three for Best Actor). Katharine Hepburn still holds the record, with four (all for Best Actress). Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in ""Casablanca"" (1942) and Alicia Huberman in ""Notorious"" (1946). Bergman was born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and a German"
"with a double dagger (). These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 42nd Academy Awards The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. For the second year in a row, there was no official host. Awards were presented by seventeen ""Friends of Oscar"": Bob Hope, John Wayne, Barbra Streisand, Fred Astaire, Jon Voight, Myrna Loy, Clint Eastwood, Raquel Welch, Candice Bergen, James Earl Jones, Katharine Ross, Cliff Robertson, Ali MacGraw, Barbara McNair, Elliott Gould, Claudia Cardinale, and Elizabeth Taylor. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony"
"in """" (1962). She went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" She also won the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for ""Images"". Her other film appearances included ""Sands of the Kalahari"" (1965), ""The Killing of Sister George"" (1968), ""Battle of Britain"" (1969), ""Jane Eyre"" (1970), ""Zee and Co."" (1972), ""Gold"" (1974), ""The Maids"" (1975), ""Conduct Unbecoming"" (1975), ""Eliza Fraser"" (1976), ""The Shout"" (1978), ""The Silent Partner"" (1978), and ""Superman"" (1978). She was appointed"
"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 unique. Although playing a supporting role and having a relatively small amount on the screen, Patricia Neal won"
"Age"" (1949) directed by Edmond T. Gréville, ""Only Two Can Play"" (1962) co-starring Peter Sellers and directed by Sidney Gilliat, and ""The Witches"" (1990), an adaptation of Roald Dahl's book directed by Nicolas Roeg. Having gained a reputation as a sex symbol in dramas and thrillers, she was equally effective in comedies, and also was very active in British television in the 50s and 60s. She began directing in the early 1960s, starting with political documentaries and a short film called ""The War Game"" (1962), which was nominated for a BAFTA award, and won a Silver Lion at Venice. Her"
"Two-Faced Woman Two-Faced Woman is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, and Roland Young. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Garbo plays a wife who pretends to be her own fictitious twin sister in order to recapture the affections of her estranged husband (Douglas), who has left her for a former girlfriend (Bennett). The film is generally regarded as a box-office bomb and an unsuccessful attempt to ""Americanize"" Garbo in order to increase her United States fan base. By mutual agreement, Garbo's contract with MGM was terminated shortly after"
"(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"
"Kathleen Turner Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954), better known as Kathleen Turner, is an American film and stage actress and director. Known for her distinctive husky voice, Turner has won two Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award. Turner rose to fame during the 1980s, after roles in ""Body Heat"" (1981), ""The Man with Two Brains"" (1983), ""Crimes of Passion"" (1984), ""Romancing the Stone"" (1984), and ""Prizzi's Honor"" (1985), the last two earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In the later 1980s and early 1990s,"
"story adequately told but without much cutting edge ... On the other hand, the main body of the story comes over remarkably well."" The film was nominated at 38th Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Director, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. It was the last of William Wyler's record 12 Academy Award nominations for Best Director. Stamp won the Best Actor Award and Eggar won the Best Actress Award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. Eggar also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion"
"Elizabeth Allen (actress) Elizabeth Allen (born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease, January 25, 1929 — September 19, 2006) was an American theatre, television and film actress and singer whose forty-year career lasted from the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s and included scores of TV episodes as well as six theatrical features, two of which (1963's ""Donovan's Reef"", for which she received a 2nd place Golden Laurel Award as Top New Female Personality, and 1964's ""Cheyenne Autumn"") were directed by John Ford. She was a cast member in five TV series: ""The Jackie Gleason Show"" (1956–1957), ""Bracken's World"" (1969–1970), ""The Paul Lynde Show"" (1972–1973),"
"who decides to stay at the hotel. The film took the two plays and opened them up to create a screenplay that introduced some new parts, and stars Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster, and May Hallatt, who already played Miss Meacham on stage. ""Variety"" wrote, ""Rattigan and John Gay have masterfully blended the two playlets into one literate and absorbing full-length film."" The film was nominated for seven Oscars, Best Picture, Best Actress (Kerr), Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography (Black and White), and Best Dramatic or Comedy Score, and won two (Niven for Best"
"gained her first Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination. Her second Oscar nomination came two years later for ""The Apartment"" (1960), starring with Jack Lemmon. The film won five Oscars, including Best Director for Billy Wilder. She later said, ""I thought I would win for ""The Apartment"", but then, Elizabeth Taylor had a tracheotomy."" She starred in ""The Children's Hour"" (1961), also starring Audrey Hepburn and James Garner, based on the play by Lillian Hellman, and directed by William Wyler. She was again nominated, this time for ""Irma la Douce"" (1963), which reunited her with Wilder and Lemmon."
"Joanne Woodward Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her performance in ""The Three Faces of Eve"" (1957), which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In a career spanning over six decades, she received four Academy Award nominations (winning one), ten Golden Globe Award nominations (winning three), four BAFTA Film Award nominations (winning one), and nine Primetime Emmy Award nominations (winning three). Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward was born on February 27,"