Sentences with phrase «won academy award»

As that full slate of upcoming projects on IMDb indicates, yes, there is work, although not much of it with a twice Oscar - nominated scribe like George (who also won an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in 2012).

WHY: «The Great Beauty» may have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but there were far better movies released last year.

She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show.

So what was it like for Krasinski, a Boston native, to work work with Damon — who won an Academy Award for co-writing the iconic Boston movie «Good Will Hunting» — as both a writing partner and a scene partner?

Allen recently won an Academy Award ® for Best Original Screenplay for MIDNIGHT IN PARIS.

His last film, A Beautiful Mind, won the Academy Award.

The source material is a (fantastic) 2009 Argentinean film which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film the following year.

There was also an Oscar for Catherine Biggs who was part of the team that won an Academy Award for Makeup and Hairstyling for Mad Max: Fury Road.

«Les Girls» won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design: Orry - Kelly; also received Golden Globe Awards (Musical / Comedy): Best Film, Best Actress (Kay Kendall)

1988's «Cocktail» earned Cruise the Razzie Award for Worst Actor, but followed that up with «Rain Man» alongside Dustin Hoffman, which won the Academy Award for Best Film.

Fuck, he won an Academy Award for Shine.

The film was followed up four years later by the pretty terrible «The Fly II,» the feature debut of special effects and make - up Chris Walas, who had previously worked on the original «The Fly» (and won an Academy Award for his efforts), «Scanners» and would later lend his hand to «Naked Lunch.»

The role garnered the actress her first of three Golden Globe Awards.Subsequently She received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), which she reprised in its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago (2002), and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Cold Mountain (2003).

It's the only Stephen King adaptation to have ever won an Academy Award, and it's well earned; Kathy Bates» take on Annie Wilkes is nightmare fuel.

Pretty notable, considering the particularly selective Day - Lewis hasn't made a film since 2012's Lincoln, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Bad and the Beautiful.

Jamie Foxx is preparing to play Mike Tyson in a biopic of the legendary boxer.The 49 - year - old actor - who previously won an Academy Award for his portrayal of music star Ray Charles - has agreed...

Guillermo del Toro has won the Academy Award for Best Director for «The Shape of Water,» marking the first Oscar win for the prolific and beloved Mexican filmmaker.

He has never won an Academy Award - Despite the fact that he has been nominated three times (for «Born on the Fourth of July», «Jerry Maguire» and «Magnolia») he has never actually landed an Oscar.

The makeup department for Halloween 2018 is being headed up by Christopher Nelson, whose team won an Academy Award for 2016's Suicide Squad, where he was specifically responsible for the makeup of Killer Croc, while overseeing all of that film's extensive special fx work.

As Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (probably) prepares for a large haul of shiny statuettes, one only has to look at «Billboards» director Martin McDonagh who won an Academy Award in 2006 for his short and directorial debut Six Shooter.

Berry won an Academy Award for her riveting performance in Lionsgate's Monster's Ball and has starred in such films as X Men, X Men: The Last Stand, Die Another Day, Bulworth, Swordfish and the upcoming X Men: Days of Future Past.

2:00 pm — TCM — Stalag 17 William Holden won an Academy Award as a POW in this Billy Wilder film.

Clint Eastwood won an Academy Award for his direction of the aching «Million Dollar Baby,» which also won the award for best picture for 2005.

Nearly twenty years ago, Ben Kingsley won the Academy Award for his role in Gandhi.

In addition, this film is also the 10th to be released on Blu - ray Disc (the 2nd from Warner Bros) with a Dolby Atmos - encoded soundtrack, and having won an Academy Award for best Sound Editing, this is of particular interest for home theater viewing, but is it a worthy addition to your Blu - ray Disc collection?

Jeff Bridges won an Academy Award ® for his role as the richly comedic, semi-tragic, romantic anti-hero, Bad Blake, in the debut feature film, Crazy Heart, from writer - director Scott Cooper.

It was the role that thrust Geoffrey Rush onto the world stage and won him an Academy Award for Best Actor in the process — portraying brilliant but mentally ill Australian pianist David Helfgott.

Plus Antoine Fuqua directed «Training Day,» in which Denzel Washington won an Academy Award for Best Actor.

Alongside John Legend, he won the Academy Award and Golden Globe in 2015 for «Best Original Song in a Motion Picture» for «Glory» which was featured in the film.

At the Oscars on Sunday, Frances McDormand, who won an Academy Award for «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» delivered a rousing acceptance speech that ended with the term «inclusion rider» (and a mic drop).

So what's surprising isn't that Hoffman won the Academy Award for best actor for «Capote,» it's that «Capote» was his first nomination.

After all, Vikander had not only already won an Academy Award (for The Danish Girl), but also received critical acclaim for delivering mesmerizing performances in Ex Machina and Testament of Youth.

Penélope Cruz won an Academy Award for «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» in 2008.

She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in «Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.»

Directed by Paul McGuigan (in a decisive change of pace after «Victor Frankenstein»), the film offers a «My Week With Marilyn» - style gloss on the life of the great, oft - neglected stage and screen actress Gloria Grahame (Bening), who won an Academy Award for «The Bad and the Beautiful» and who is perhaps best remembered now for her heartbreaking performance opposite Humphrey Bogart in Nicholas Ray's 1950 noir masterpiece, «In a Lonely Place.»

She won an Academy Award for her turn in 1952's «The Bad and the Beautiful.»

But even with Deakins's trophy collection — three BAFTAs, his field's highest lifetime - achievement award, the first C.B.E. ever given to a cinematographer — he has not yet won an Academy Award, despite 10 previous nominations, including two in 2008, for No Country for Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

When A Separation won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film last month, Iranian state TV reportedly trumpeted the win as a triumph over Israel, whose own Oscar submission, Footnote, was also among the nominees.

An actor who was widely respected, Hoffman won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 2005 for his role as Truman Capote in the movie Capote.

Sorkin won an Academy Award for writing «The Social Network.»

Neither man, I am dismayed to report, has ever won an Academy Award.

She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter.

Haneke is one of the most revered filmmakers of his generation, winning the top prize at Cannes for both «The White Ribbon» and «Amour,» which also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign - Language Film.

In 1951 the film «Kon - Tiki,» a film detailing the voyage of famed Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, won the Academy Award as the year's best documentary feature.

Woody Allen's film Midnight in Paris won the Academy Award for best original screenplay over this film but Allen himself said that A Separation was the best film of 2011.

, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind deservedly won the Academy Award ™ for Best Original Screenplay, which is the category I'm sure Jonze has his eyes set on most.

Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in «The Blind Side.»

She won an Academy Award in 2005 for her role in «The Constant Gardener» and also recently starred opposite Colin Farrell in «The Lobster.»

This film's merit lies in its stunning color photography, for which it won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, which is also why the new Blu - ray release from 20th Century Fox's is a total winner: the film has received a glorious transfer with results that are nothing short of dazzling.