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The actors, actresses, Directors and movies that won the Academy Awards!

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Best Picture!



The Best Directors!



The Best Actors!



The Best Actresses!



The New Oscar Nominations of 2001!

 

  And the nominees are...

Best Picture of the Year!

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • Erin Brokovich
  • Gladiator
  • Traffic

    The Best Director!

    • Stephen Daldry for "Billy Elliot"
  • Ang Lee for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
  • Steven Soderbergh for "Erin Brokovich"
  • Ridley Scott for "Gladiator"
  • Steven Soderbergh for "Traffic"

    Best Actor in a Leading Role!

    • Javier Bardem for "Before Night Falls"
  • Russell Crowe for "Gladiator"
  • Tom Hanks for "Cast Away"
  • Ed Harris for "Pollock"
  • Geoffrey Rush for "Quills"

    Best Actress in a Leading Role!

    • Joan Allen for "The Contender"
  • Juliette Binoche for "Chocolat"
  • Ellen Burstyn for "Requiem for a Dream"
  • Laura Linney for "You can Count on Me"
  • Julia Roberts for "Erin Brokovich"

    Best Actor in a Supporting Role!

    • Jeff Bridges for "The Contender"
  • Willem Dafoe for "Shadow of a Vampire"
  • Benicio del Toro for "Traffic"
  • Albert Finney for "Erin Brokovich"
  • Joaquin Phoenix for "Gladiator"

    Best Actress in a Supporting Role!

    • Judi Dench for "Chocolat"
  • Marcia Gay Harden for "Pollock"
  • Kate Hudson for "Almost Famous"
  • Frances McDormand for "Almost Famous"
  • Julie Walters for "Billy Elliot"

    Best Foreign Language Film

    • Amores Perros from Mexico
    • Wo Hu Zang Longfrom Taiwan
    • Musíme si Pomáhat from Czech Republic
    • Iedereen beroemd! from Belgium
    • Le Gout des autres from France

    Best Cinematography

    • Peter Pau for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
    • John Mathieson for "Gladiator"
    • Lajos Koltai for Malena"
    • Roger Deakins for "O Brother Where Art Thou?"
    • Caleb Deschanel for "The Patriot"

    Original Song

    • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - "A Love Before Time"- Music by Jorge Calandrelli and Tan Dun, Lyrics by James Schamus
    • Dancer in the Dark - "I've Seen it All" - Music by Bjork, Lyrics by Lans von Trier and Sjon Sigurdsson
    • The Emperor's New Groove - "My Funny Friend and Me" -Music by Sting and David Hartley, Lyrics by Sting
    • Meet the Parents - "A Fool in Love" Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman
    • Wonder Boys - "Things Have Changed" - Music and Lyrics by Bob Dylan

  • My Favorite film for the Oscar of Best Picture is "Gladiator"!

  • My Favorite for the Oscar of Best Director is Ang Lee for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"!

  • My Favorite for the Oscar of Best Actor in a Leading Role is Ed Harris for "Pollock"!

  • My Favorite for the Oscar of Best Actress in a Leading Role is Julia Roberts for "Erin Brokovich"!

  • My Favorite for the Oscar of Best Actor in a Supporting Role is Albert Finney for "Erin Brokovich"!

  • My Favorite for the Oscar of Best Actress in a Supporting Role is Kate Hudson for "Almost Famous"!


  • Mexican film "Amores Perros", Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu is nominated this year for Best Foreign Language film. The last time when a Mexican movie had an Oscar nomination, was in the year of 1975 and the film was "Actas de Marusia". ¡Muchas Felicidades Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu por la nominacion!

    • The Actors & Actresses who also deserved to be nominated this year...

    Best Actor in a Leading Role

    • Kevin Spacey for "Pay it Forward"

    Best Actress in a Supporting Role

    • Kate Winslet for "Quills"

    Best Actor in a Supporting Role

    • Oliver Reed for "Gladiator"



    The Oscar Facts!   

    • Cedric Gibbons is the man who designed the Oscar statue. He was married to Mexican Classic Actress Dolores del Rio. He won 11 Oscars for Best Art Direction.


    • Sam Mendes won his First Oscar for Best Director of the year for the great film "American Beauty" and it was his first film as a Director!

    • Kevin Spacey is the best modern actor of the cinema and he has 2 Oscars in his career, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for "The Usual Suspects" and now Best Actor in a Leading Role for "American Beauty"!

    • Kate Winslet is the youngest actress ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards, for "Sense and Sensibility" and "Titanic"!

    • Juliette Binoche is the Second French Actress who won an Oscar in Cinema History!

    • Katherine Hepburn, who not only won 4 Oscars but 2 of them were won 2 years in a row and she had 12 Oscar nominations.


    • Spencer Tracy is the first Actor in history to win an Oscar 2 years in a row.

    • Ingrid Bergman is the only European Actress who won 3 Oscars.

    • Ben Hur and Titanic are the films that have won more Oscars in the history of the Academy Awards, 11 Oscars.

    • Alfred Hitchcock was nominated 5 times but he never won.

    • "All About Eve" and "Titanic" are the films that received more Oscar nominations in the history of the Academy Awards, 14 Nominations.

    • "Wings" is the only silent film that won the Oscar of Best Picture.

    • "Gone With the Wind" is the first film in Color that won the Oscar of Best Picture!

    • The 1948 version of "Hamlet", with Laurence Olivier is the First British film that won the Oscar of Best Picture!

    • Mexican Classic Actress, Katy Jurado received 1 Oscar nomination of Best Supporting Actress for the film "Broken Lance" and she won a Golden Globe of Best Supporting Actress for the film "High Noon".

    • Rita Moreno, who won an Oscar of Best Supporting Actress for "West Side Story", is the only person in history that won an Oscar, a Tony Award, an Emmy Award and a Grammy Award.

    • Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Emma Thompson and Holly Hunter are the only actresses ever nominated as both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the same year.

    • Al Pacino is the only actor ever nominated as both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in the same year, 1992.

    • George Burns is the oldest person that won an Oscar.

    • Tatum O'Neal is the youngest person that won an Oscar.

    A lot of young children won and have been nominated for the Oscars:

  • Shirley Temple won a Special Oscar when she was 5 years old

  • Margaret O'Brien won a Special Oscar

  • Judy Garland won a Special Oscar in 1939.

  • Justin Henry got nominated for the Oscar of Best Supporting Actor for "Kramer vs Kramer"

  • Tatum O'Neal won an Oscar of Best Supporting Actress for "Paper Moon"

  • Anna Paquin won an Oscar of Best Supporting Actress for "The Piano"

  • And now Haley Joel Osment was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for "The Sixth Sense"

    More Oscar's Facts

  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz is the only Director that won an Oscar 2 years in a Row, "A Letter to Three Wives" in 1949 and "All About Eve" in 1950!

  • David O Selznick is the only Producer who won an Oscar 2 years in a Row, "Gone With the Wind" in 1939 and "Rebecca" in 1940.

  • John Ford is the only Director who won 4 Oscars of Best Director in the history of the Academy Awards.

  • Frank Capra and William Wyler are the only Directors that won 3 Oscars of Best Director in the history of the Academy Awards!

  • George C. Scott and Marlon Brando are the only actors that refused the Oscar awards in the history of the Academy Awards.

  • Walt Disney won 32 Oscars

  • Walt Disney won 8 Oscars for "Snowhite and the Seven Dwarves", 1 regular and 7 in miniatures.

  • Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" is the only Animated film who got Nominated in the category of Best Picture of the Year in the History of the Academy Awards

  • George Bernard Shaw is the only person that won an Oscar and the Nobel Prize.

  • With a career of more of 250 films, John Wayne won his First and only Oscar of Best Actor in a Leading role for the film "True Grit" in 1970.

  • Famouse Screen Couples that were Oscar winners: Vivien Leigh & Laurence Olivier, Spencer Tracy & Katherine Hepburn and Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward.

    • These are the classic actors and actresses who have been nominated a lot of times but never won an Academy Award.

    • Richard Burton, 7 Nominations

    • Peter O'Toole, 7 Nominations

    • Deborah Kerr, 6 nominations

    • Thelma Ritter, 6 nominations

    • Barbara Stanwyck, 4 nominations

    • Montgomery Clift, 4 nominations

    • Claude Rains, 4 nominations

    • Cary Grant, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Charlie Chaplin are 7 Legends that never won an Oscar

    • Ernst Lubitsch, a wonderful Classic German Director who made great Classic films like "Ninotchka" with Greta Garbo and "To be or Not to Be" with Carole Lombard never won an Academy Award.

    Actors & Actress that won many Oscars and Nominations.

  • Katherine Hepburn, 12 Nominations and 4 Oscars

  • Meryl Streep, 12 nominations and 2 Oscars

  • Jack Nicholson, 11 nominations and 3 Oscars

  • Bette Davis, 10 nominations and 2 Oscars

  • Laurence Olivier, 10 nominations, 1 Oscar, A Special Award and 1 Honorary Oscar.

  • Spencer Tracy, 9 nominations and 2 Oscars.

  • Jack Lemmon, 8 Nominations and 2 Oscars.

  • Marlon Brando, 8 Nominations and 2 Oscars.

  • Geraldine Page, 8 Nominations and 1 Oscar.

  • Al Pacino, 8 Nominations and 1 Oscar.

  • Paul Newman, 8 Nominations, 1 Oscar and 1 Honorary Oscar.

  • Ingrid Bergman, 7 nominations and 3 Oscars.

  • Dustin Hoffman, 7 nominations and 2 Oscars.

  • Greer Garson, 7 Nominations and 1 Oscar.

  • Jessican Lange, 6 nominations and 2 Oscars.

  • Vanessa Redgrave, 6 Nominations and 1 Oscar.

  • Robert deNiro, 6 Nominations and 2 Oscars.

  • Gary Cooper, 5 Nominations and 2 Oscars.

  • Elizabeth Taylor, 5 Nominations and 2 Oscars.

  • Susan Hayward, 5 Nominations and 1 Oscar

  • Gregory Peck, 5 Nominations and 1 Oscar.

  • James Stewart, 5 nominations and 1 Oscar.

  • Audrey Hepburn, 5 nominations and 1 Oscar.

    • Films that won many Academy Awards

    • Ben Hur, 11 Oscars

    • Titanic, 11 Oscars

    • Gone With the Wind, 10 Oscars

    • West Side Story, 10 Oscars

    • Gigi, 9 Oscars

    • The Last Emperor, 9 Oscars

    • The English Patient, 9 Oscars

    • The Best Years of Our Lives, 8 Oscars

    • From Here to Eternity, 8 Oscars

    • On the Waterfront, 8 Oscars

    • My Fair Lady, 8 Oscars

    • Cabaret, 8 Oscars

    • Ghandi, 8 Oscars

    • Amadeus, 8 Oscars

    • Lawrence of Arabia, 7 Oscars

    • Schindler's List, 7 Oscars

    • An American in Paris, 6 Oscars

    • American Beauty, 5 Oscars

    • The Sound of Music, 5 Oscars

    • The Silence of the Lambs, 5 Oscars

    • Braveheart, 5 Oscars

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