Sentences with phrase «became an academy award»

Before «Once» was such a big deal and became an Academy Award winning film (for Best Song «Falling Slowly» in 2007), I was already a huge fan of the film and its music.

He composed the music for the classic Broadway musical «West Side Story,» which later became an Academy Award - winning film.

Just last year, «The Disaster Artist» screened as a work in progress, and of course that became an Academy Award nominee.

Take a look at the films we think have a chance of bagging gold and becoming an Academy Award winner this year, and keep reading for more 2018 Oscars predictions and news...

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Winfrey described watching the Oscars in 1964 as Sidney Poitier (who also won the Cecil B. DeMille Award, in 1982) became the first African American to win an Academy Award and how that changed history.

The 2015 film, «Amy,» based on the life of singer - songwriter Amy Winehouse, became the highest - grossing British documentary film ever and has now won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Before Jennifer Lawrence was the embodiment of girl power in The Hunger Games and became every woman, everywhere, she was the star of the Academy Award - nominated film Winter's Bone.

COLLEGE: ROGER STAUBACH (SI, Dec. 2), the U.S. Naval Academy's junior quarterback, overwhelmingly won the Heisman Trophy to become the second Navy player in four years (Joe Bellino, 1960) and only the fourth junior in history (Doc Blanchard, 1945; Doak Walker, 1948; and Vic Janowicz, 1950) to win the award.

Academy Award winner Geena Davis is one of Hollywood's most respected actors, appearing in several roles that became cultural landmarks.

«Since the Blavatnik Awards were established, so many of our Laureates and Finalists have continued to make groundbreaking discoveries and become leaders in their respective fields,» said Len Blavatnik, Founder and Chairman of Access Industries, head of the Blavatnik Family Foundation, and an Academy Board Governor.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990, became a founding fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998, and has been awarded numerous scientific awards for his contributions to the field of immunology.

Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award - winning actress who became popular after playing the title role in the Lara Croft blockbuster movies, as well as Seven Names of God.

When he evicts Dennis Nash (Golden Globe nominee Andrew Garfield), a single father trying to care for his mother (Academy Award nominee Laura Dern) and young son (newcomer Noah Lomax), Nash becomes so desperate to provide for his family that he goes to work for Carver — the very man who evicted him in the first place.

In addition to earning his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, he also became an icon of the era, his white - suited visage and cocky, rhythmic strut enduring as defining images of late -»70s American culture.

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.

A critical as well as commercial smash, Pulp Fiction introduced Travolta to a new generation of moviegoers, and suddenly he was again a major star who could command a massive salary, with a second Academy Award nomination to prove it.In the wake of Pulp Fiction, the resurrected Travolta became one of the hardest - working actors in Hollywood, and on Tarantino's advice

Daniel Craig and Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz star as a couple that unknowingly moves into a New England home where several grisly murders were committed, only to become the killer's next target.

The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early»70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.

Honored with a Golden Globe nomination and an Independent Spirit Award for his work, Farnsworth would also receive a Best Actor nod at the 2000 Academy Awards — becoming the oldest person to be nominated for the aAward for his work, Farnsworth would also receive a Best Actor nod at the 2000 Academy Awards — becoming the oldest person to be nominated for the awardaward.

The Academy Award's 2017 Best Original Song category became possibly the queerest of any category in Oscar history with gay crooner Sam Smith's Spectre theme also competing against bisexual Lady Gaga's showtune - ish ballad from campus rape documentary The Hunting Ground.

In 2012 he became the second stuntman, after Yakima Canutt, to receive an honorary Academy Award for his stunt pioneering and film career.

And this year she became the first American actress to win a Cesar, France's Academy Award,...

Jordan Peele became the first black screenwriter to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday.

It was in 1992, however, when he wrote and directed THE CRYING GAME, which was nominated for six academy awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Stephen Rea), Best Supporting Actor (Jaye Davidson) and for which Neil won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay that the wider public became aware of him as a once in a lifetime directing talent.

A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill (Academy Award - nominee Gary Oldman) must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation.

Jennifer Garner became the new Chrissy Teigen when a confused expression crossing her face at an inopportune moment was caught on camera during the 90th Annual Academy Awards earlier this month.

Two - time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain stars in the real - life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II.

We talk quite a bit around these parts about how uninteresting award shows have become (aside from the massive blip that was the 2017 Academy Awards).

Jennifer Lawrence made Oscar history today by becoming the youngest person to garner three Academy Award nominations (she's just 23) and the youngest to get a nomination after a win.

Black transgender director Yance Ford just made history by becoming the first trans filmmaker ever to be nominated for an Academy Award.

The Toronto International Film Festival has become the showcase for ambitious autumn releases by studios hoping for Academy Awards, or at least for good reviews of movies that adults can enjoy without resorting to their child within.

In 1992, the USC film school alumnus became both the youngest person and the first African - American ever to land an Academy Award nomination in the Best Director category for Boyz N the Hood.

Pirates of the Caribbean is the first film ever released under the Walt Disney Pictures brand to receive higher than a PG rating (the film is rated PG - 13), and the team assembled to make the film is a virtual Who's who of hot properties: Director Gore Verbinski had a huge hit last year with the spook fest The Ring, Writers Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott were the writing team behind Shrek, Actor Johnny Depp is so extremely selective in his roles no one would ever imagine he'd do a Disney film, Orlando Bloom is fresh off the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Geoffrey Rush has at least one Academy Award under his belt, and Keira Knightley has become a hot property after her performance in the run away indie hit Bend It Like Beckham.

And it's captured by Coogler's Fruitvale Station director of photography, Rachel Morrison, who just made history by becoming the first woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for her work on Dee Rees's Mudbound.

The OFCS has nominated the eventual Oscar winner for Best Picture in eight of the last ten years; matching Oscar winners 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Hurt Locker (2009), No Country for Old Men (2007) and Argo (2012), becoming the first major critics group to recognize Ben Affleck's future Academy Award recipient.

Burbank, CA, April 5 — See the unique story of three friends who became heroes when «The 15:17 to Paris» arrives From Academy Award winning director it * Clint Eastwood which tells the real - life story of three men whose brave act turned them into heroes during a high - speed railway ride.

Hell, long Oscar acceptance speeches have become such a staple that 2018 Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel even created a whole new category for shortest acceptance speech.

In the last 12 months, French director Agnès Varda became the oldest Oscar nominee in history for Faces Places, as well as the winner of an Honorary Academy Award — a long - overdue recognition of the director's work.

Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle's new film, 127 Hours, is a gripping account of mountain climber Aron Ralston's harrowing ordeal after he becomes pinned under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and must take desperate measures in...

Because of that, the Academy Awards became increasingly competitive.

Rachel Morrison made history Tuesday morning, becoming the first woman nominated for cinematography in the 90 - year history of the Academy Awards.

Peele could become the first black director to win the Academy Award.

Academy Award Nominees: Into the Wild • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street • In the Valley of Elah Miramax Films: Blindness • Becoming Jane • Gone Baby Gone • The Hoax • The Queen • Venus • Chicago • The Lookout Set in France: Mr. Bean's Holiday • Ratatouille • Rush Hour 3 • Monkeys, Go Home!

Beginning as the anti-Oscars, airing the day before the Academy Awards in a beach tent in Santa Monica, they've become rather...

On Sunday, Jordan Peele made history at the 90th Academy Awards when he became the first black screenwriter to win Best Original Screenplay.

THE DANISH GIRL, directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper, is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener (being portrayed, respectively, by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander), whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world's first transgender women, Lili Elbe.

Most notable in this glorified TV movie is that the mom is movingly portrayed by Catalina Sandino Moreno, who became the first Colombian - born actress to be nominated for an Academy Award as the star of 2004's «Maria Full of Grace.»

Official Synopsis: Academy Award winner Meryl Streep delivers a «hilarious and touching» performance as a New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer.

Academy Award winning Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence (2012's Silver Linings Playbook) headlines the all - star cast in this action - adventure which became the # 1 movie of 2013 and the 12th highest - grossing film of all time at the domestic box office.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has become the first repeat winner in 65 years at the Academy Awards by taking home the best director Oscar for «The Revenant».