what did george clooney win an academy award for?
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George Clooney Throughout his career, Clooney has won two Academy Awards, one for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Syriana and one for Best Picture as one of the producers for Argo, as well as a BAFTA and a Golden Globe.
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12 Members of the EGOT Winnerâs Circle Unlike his three predecessors, the Oscar wasn’t the first award John Gielgud won on his road to EGOT. Instead it was the Tony, which he first won in 1948 for The Importance of Being Earnest. He won a second Tony in 1961, as the director of Big Fish, Little Fish. Next came the Grammy, in 1979, for his dramatic recording of Ages of Man.
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The actor took home the Oscar for his portrayal of AIDS patient Ron Woodroof. The actor took home the Oscar for his portrayal of AIDS patient Ron Woodroof. Matthew McConaughey won the Oscar for best actor for his performance in Dallas Buyers Club on Sunday during the 86th Academy Awards. PHOTOS: Oscars 2014: The Red Carpet Arrivals.
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Academy Awards Trivia and Interesting Facts Nichols, who had won Best Screenplay for The Informer (1935), boycotted the Academy Awards ceremony because of ongoing conflicts between the Academy and the Writer's Guild. For his dramatic portrayal of the World War II general in Patton (1970), George C. Scott won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Scott refused the honor, stating that the awards ceremony was a a two-hour meat parade.. Marlon Brando also refused his award for Best Actor for The Godfather (1972). Brando, who said he refused the award because of the discrimination toward Native Americans by the U.S. and Hollywood, sent a woman supposedly named, Sacheen Littlefeather, to collect his award.
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Mexican Americans Mexican film director Alfonso Cuarón, although a three-time nominee, was nominated for the first time as Best Director, and won the Oscar for Gravity (2013). He was the first Mexican-born director to win Best Director.
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People Are Not Happy that Casey Affleck Won the Best Actor Oscar Feb 27, 2017. 1  Tonight, Casey Affleck took home the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Manchester by the Sea. While this might be a reason for celebration for the new Oscar-winner, not everyone was so eager to join in with the applause.
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Clooney blasts Trump as Huppert's 'Elle' wins at 'French Oscars' Clooney blasts Trump as Huppert's 'Elle' wins at 'French Oscars'. Isabelle Huppert and her hit thriller Elle were the big winners late Friday at the French Oscars -- the Cesars -- in a highly political ceremony marked by Hollywood star George Clooney warning that freedom had to be defended in the face of Donald Trump's US presidency. Courage trumps fear.
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- Fast Facts. 1  Sulfasalazine is a drug used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and some other autoimmune conditions. 2  It helps with pain and swelling and also slows the progression of arthritis over time. 3  It should be held if there are signs or symptoms of an infection.ulfasalazine is a DMARD. DMARDs work to decrease pain and inflammation, reduce/prevent joint damage, and preserve joint mobility. So, Sulfasalazine treats swelling, pain and stiffness in arthritis.
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- Casablanca won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1943. Casablanca won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1943.
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The actor took home the Oscar for his portrayal of AIDS patient Ron Woodroof. Last year's best actress winner, Jennifer Lawrence [for Silver Linings Playbook ], presented the award. VIDEO: Matthew McConaughey Practices His Oscar Speech With Jimmy Kimme. Dallas Buyers Club had a total of six nominations, including best picture and best supporting actor, which Jared Leto won earlier in the evening.
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- Meryl Streep won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of 1979 for her performance as troubled wife and mother Joanna Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer.. It was her first Oscar win in two nominations.
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Leonardo DiCaprio He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award eight times as an actor, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004). He has also been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
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Oscars 2014: Leonardo DiCaprio loss to Matthew McConaughey results in âPoor Leoâ online trend Leonardo DiCaprio is perhaps most famous for not winning the Oscar he arguably deserves. The five-time Academy Award nominee came up short again on Sunday, after losing the Best Actor award to Dallas Buyers Club star Matthew McConaughey.
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'I won an Oscar - now I'm broke': How did Richard Dreyfuss - star of Jaws and Close Encounters - squander a fortune and end up scrabbling around for work? 'I won an Oscar - now I'm broke': How did Richard Dreyfuss - star of Jaws and Close Encounters - squander a fortune and end up scrabbling around for work? Richard Dreyfuss has appeared in some of the biggest blockbusters ever. He won his Oscar in 1978 for Neil Simon comedy The Goodbye Girl.
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- Alfred Hitchcock simply said Thank you in 1968 when he was  presented the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for excellence as a  producer.   Runner-up:   When Prin…ce won the Oscar for Best Music, Original Song  Score for: Purple Rain (1984), he simply said: Thank you  very much..
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Oscars 2016: Leonardo DiCaprio finally wins Academy Award Composer Ennio Morricone won the Oscar for best original film score for The Hateful Eight - the first Academy Award the 87-year-old has won in his career. Irish director Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage won the best live action short Oscar for Stutterer, about a man with a severe stammer.
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George Clooney Clooney made his acting debut on television in 1978, and later gained wide recognition in his role as Dr. Doug Ross on the long-running medical drama ER from 1994 to 1999, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
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- More on the historic Argo Oscar win here: The 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture was awarded to Hollywood's favorite film: Argo.. Oscar looked good in Ben Affleck's hand, especially as the star was notably snubbed in the Best Directing category.
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- Academy Awards: Django Unchained , Adele Win Big. Academy Awards: Django Unchained , Adele Win Big. Argo beats Lincoln for Best Picture, Jennifer Hudson performance wows. It's a wrap on the Oscars! Django Unchained was the night's first winner, scoring a Best Supporting Actor prize for Christoph Waltz.
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PHOTOS: Growing Up Clooney PHOTOS: Growing Up Clooney. Before They Were Famous. Oscar-winning actor George Clooney was born in Lexington, Ky., in May 1961, the son of Nina and Nick Clooney. His mother was a former state beauty queen and his father was a TV newscaster and talk-show host. Courtesy of Nick and Nina Clooney.
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- Some keep their Oscars in their study or their library, while others (Emma Thompson and Susan Sarandon among them) plump for the downstairs toilet. Not Richard Dreyfuss. Some keep their Oscars in their study or their library, while others (Emma Thompson and Susan Sarandon among them) plump for the downstairs toilet. But not Richard Dreyfuss. The star of ‘Jaws’ scored his golden statuette in 1978 for his leading role in Neil Simon’s ‘The Goodbye Girl’, at the time the youngest actor ever to win an Oscar.
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OSCARS: Is George Clooney Now King Of The Academy Awards? He won the Directing Oscar for Reds as well as the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award and has 14 nominations in all, but none of them were in the Supporting Actor category and that’s where Clooney topped him. In fact, Beatty has yet to play a supporting role in any film.
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How many times has Denzel Washington been nominated for Oscars? Denzel Washington won 2 Oscars, for Best Actor in 2002 for Training Day and for Best Supporting Actor in 1990 for Glory. He received an additional 3 nominations for The Hurric…ane, Malcolm X, and Cry Freedom for a total of 5 nominations.
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- He was, however, nominated for … the Best Actor Oscar for his role as Rick Blaine in the movie 'Casablanca' in 1943 which won Best Picture that year, and for his role as Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg in the movie 'The Caine Mutiny' in 1954.
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Steven Spielberg exists and is an alternate of . He won his first two, for directing and producing 1993 Best Picture winner Schindler's List.Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).
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8 Academy Award Nominees and Winners Who Snubbed the Oscars Scott literally telegraphed the Academy his intention to refuse the award before the ceremony, so when presenter Goldie Hawn ripped open the envelope and cried, “Oh my God! The winner is George C. Scott,” no one was surprised to learn he was home at his farm in New York.