did sly win any oscars
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Emmy Awards: HBO, Jon Hamm and Viola Davis win big Sylvester Stallone has never won an Oscar. He has been nominated twice, once for acting and once for writing, both for Rocky (1976). He is one of very few actors to be nominat … ed in the writing category and acting category for the same film.
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- She accepted two film roles turned down by Ginger Rogers, To Each His Own (1946) and The Snake Pit (1948). Olivia won an Oscar for To Each His Own (1946) and was nominated for The Snake Pit (1948). Rogers later regretted turning down the roles and wrote: It seemed Olivia knew a good thing when she saw it.
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Tweetie Pie Tweetie Pie. Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, depicting the first pairing of Tweety and Sylvester. Tweetie Pie won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, breaking Tom and Jerry's streak of four consecutive wins on the category.
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- Not at all. But allegedly Sly wanted to use old footage of Weathers in the fantastic Rocky Balboa and Weathers-in a really silly move not worthy of him-allegedly said no b … ecause he wanted to be in the film itself. Considering his character Apollo was killed in Rocky IV it was a ridiculous request.
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SLY DUNBAR Lowell Fillmore Dunbar of Jamaica is best known as the Sly, half of the powerhouse rhythm and production team, Sly and Robbie. An established musician on the Jamaican scene, Sly Dunbar started collaborating with Robbie Shakespeare in the mid-1970s when they recorded several albums in Jamaica with the Revolutionaries. In their first major project as a duo, Sly and Robbie performed with Peter Tosh's backing band Word, Sound, and Power.
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- Whitney Houston won two Emmy awards; one for her performance at the 28th Annual Grammy Awards and one for her performance in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.. 3 people found this useful. Edit. Share to: Donna Halper. Media historian, educator and author.
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Sly and the Family Stone In the preface of his 1998 book For the Record: Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History, Joel Selvin sums up the importance of Sly and the Family Stone's influence on African American music by stating there are two types of black music: black music before Sly Stone, and black music after Sly Stone.he original members of the Family Stone were in attendance, except Sly. Just as the band took the podium to receive their awards, Sly suddenly appeared. He accepted his award, made some very brief remarks (See you soon), and disappeared from public view.
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What college did Steve Jobs go to? Steve Jobs attended Monta Loma Elementary, Mountain View, Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California.
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Oscar shockers: Who got snubbed? SNUB: Quentin Tarantino The Academy apparently wasn't wowed by Tarantino's direction of his eighth film (which also was snubbed for screenplay and best picture), but Jennifer Jason Leigh did walk away with a best supporting-actress nomination for The Hateful Eight.
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- Like Edward G. Robinson, win-less Rosalind Russell (after four unsuccessful Best Actress nominations in 1942, 1946, 1947, and 1958), accepted the Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Cinematographer Gordon Willis' work on the Best Picture winner, The Godfather, was completely overlooked.
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10 questions about this year's Oscar nominees answered In 2006, Miller won the best animated feature Oscar for Happy Feet, and he was nominated for three other Academy Awards: for the Lorenzo's Oil screenplay and for best picture and adapted screenplay for Babe.. Mad Max: Fury Road marks his first time receiving a best director nomination.
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- Lesson Summary. Social conflict theory sees social life as a competition and focuses on the distribution of resources, power, and inequality. Conflict theorists view society as an arena of inequality that generates social conflict and social change. Karl Marx is considered the father of social conflict theory.
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- Fridge… where Richard Dreyfuss keeps his Oscar – Credit: Yahoo File More 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. And obviously, he keeps it in his fridge, clarifying his choice to The Hollywood Reporter. “I don’t like to brag, but I like everyone to know about it,” he said.
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Did Star Wars win an Oscar? Confidence votes 57. 1977's Star Wars won 6 Oscars: Editing, Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound, Score, Visual Effects and received a special achievement award for Sound Effects. 1980's The Empire Strikes Back won 2 Oscars: Sound and Visual Effects. No other Star Wars movie won an Oscar, despite all other four being nominated.
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- In 1973 Marlon Brando. refused his Best Actor Globe for The Godfather in 1973 to protest U.S. imperialism and racism. He similarly didn't accept his Oscar statuette that year.
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Did Marisa Tomei Win Her Best Supporting Actress Oscar By Mistake? A rumor is currently making the rounds in Manhattan, fanned by no less than the former son-in-law of a distinguished Academy Award winner, to wit that last year Marisa Tomei received her Oscar statue by error, with a resultant scandal about it soon to be exposed, much to the shame of the Academy.
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Lent Lent. Last updated 2009-06-22. Lent is the period of forty days which comes before Easter in the Christian calendar, traditionally a time of fasting and reflection. It is preceded by Shrove Tuesday and begins with Ash Wednesday.
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70th Academy Awards The film was followed by As Good as It Gets ($92.6 million), Good Will Hunting ($68.9 million), L.A. Confidential ($39.7 million), and finally The Full Monty ($38.7 million). Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 40 nominations went to 15 films on the list.Only Titanic (1st), As Good as It Gets (16th), Good Will Hunting (20th), and In & Out (24th) were nominated for directing, acting, screenwriting, or Best Picture.inners and nominees [edit]. The nominees for the 70th Academy Awards were announced on February 10, 1998, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Rehme, president of the Academy, and actress Geena Davis.
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Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey talks about his new Shakespeare documentary, life in the theater and why he's 'nuts' Kevin Spacey has two Oscars – one for his turn as the crippled small-time crook Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects and the other for perfectly capturing the tragi-comic life of Lester Burnham, a man in the midst of a monster of a midlife crisis in American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes.
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The Graduate (1967) Even so, the smash success of The Graduate made Hoffman a hot commodity, earning two more nominations for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Lenny (1974) before winning the Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).The rest is history, including a nomination for Tootsie (1982) and a second win for Rain Man (1988).ven so, the smash success of The Graduate made Hoffman a hot commodity, earning two more nominations for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Lenny (1974) before winning the Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).
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Who twice won an Oscar and refused it both times? In 1972 Marlon Brando refused the Oscars for his award-winning role in The Godfather. They weren't the first, though. In 1935 a writer named Dudley Nichols refused to accept the Oscar for his movie The Informer because the Writers Guild was on strike against the movie studios at the time.
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- Slye ended up winning the contest and became Roy Rogers. Slye's stage name was suggested by Republic Picture's staff after Will Rogers and the shortening of Leroy, and he was assigned the lead in Under Western Stars. Rogers became a matinee idol and American legend.
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Trivia The film features 2 Oscar winners with a total of 3 wins, and 7 Oscar nominees with a total of 19 nominations. The winners are Gene Hackman (2) and Holly Hunter (1), and nominees are Hackman (5), Hunter (4, including Best Supporting Actress in The Firm), Tom Cruise (3), Ed Harris (4), and 1 each for David Strathairn, Hal Holbrook and Gary Busy. Director Sidney Pollack also has two Oscar wins and 7 nominations.
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Richard Pryor Pryor won an Emmy Award in 1973, and five Grammy Awards in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, and 1982. In 1974, he also won two American Academy of Humor awards and the Writers Guild of America Award. Pryor is listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians.is body of work includes the concert movies and recordings Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin ', That Nigger's Crazy, .Is It Something I Said? , Bicentennial Nigger, Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip, and Richard Pryor: Here and Now.
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"Why Are the Academy Awards Statuettes Called ""Oscars""?" Many claim that during Walt Disney’s Academy Award acceptance speech for Three Little Pigs in 1934—the same year Skolsky first covered the Awards—Disney referred to the statuette as “the Oscar,” which was supposedly an already well-established nickname for it within the industry.
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8 Academy Award Nominees and Winners Who Snubbed the Oscars A couple years after Scott skipped the Oscars, Brando one-upped him by sending an Apache named Sacheen Littlefeather to refuse the Oscar he won for The Godfather. Littlefeather was booed and catcalled when she announced she was sent to protest Hollywood’s treatment of Native Americans.