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- February 26, 2017 | 06:57PM PT. Viola Davis won the best supporting actress Oscar Sunday night for her performance in Denzel Washington’s “Fences.”. “You know there’s one place where all the people with the greatest potential are gathered, and that’s the graveyard,” Davis began her acceptance speech with fervor.
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Viola Davis wins supporting actress Oscar for 'Fences' Viola Davis wins supporting actress Oscar for 'Fences'. Davis made good on that potential Sunday, winning the supporting actress Oscar for her portrayal of Rose Maxson, a devoted housewife living in the shadow of her husband, played in the film (as he did opposite Davis on Broadway) by Denzel Washington.
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Oscars 2012: The Artist triumphs with five Academy Awards Meryl Streep won her third Oscar last night, but The Artist was evening's big winner taking five awards including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. By Florence Waters. 7:06AM GMT 27 Feb 2012. The Artist, a black and white tribute to Hollywood's golden age, is the first silent film to take the main award since the Oscars began 83 years ago. The film, which has been described as the most joyful movie of the year, took three of the five big awards at this year's Oscars including Best Actor for Jean Dujardin.
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The veteran actor and five-time Golden Globe nominee, who will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award this Sunday, shares with THR the movies changed his life. Freeman earned Globe and SAG nominations and won his first Academy Award for a supporting turn as veteran boxing trainer Eddie Dupris in Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning drama. Clint is my most favorite director of all. Hooking up again with him after making Unforgiven was really fun.
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Top 10 Oscar-Nomination Snubs Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Jaws. The opposite of Sally Field’s gushing “You like me, you really like me” upon winning an Oscar was Steven Spielberg’s response when his first big movie, Jaws, was nominated for Best Picture but stiffed in the Best Director category.
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Martin Scorsese After his win for The Departed, he received a seventh Best Director nomination for Hugo (2011), which won five technical Oscars. Actors who have won Oscars for performances in Scorsese movies include: Ellen Burstyn for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974): Robert De Niro for Raging Bull; Paul Newman for The Color of Money (1986); Joe Pesci for Goodfellas; and Cate Blanchett for The Aviator.
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Matthew McConaughey Wins The Best Actor Oscar For Dallas Buyers Club By Eric Eisenberg 2 years ago comments. Ben Affleck completed his absolutely incredible career turnaround last year when his third directorial effort, Argo, took home the Academy Award for Best Picture, and now Matthew McConaughey has managed to achieve a very similar feat.
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Fences  (play) Fences is a 1983 play by American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part  Pittsburgh Cycle . Like all of the Pittsburgh plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes.The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play.he fence referred to by the play's title is revealed to be finished in the final act of the play, and Bono has bought his wife a refrigerator as he promised Troy he would do if he finished building it.
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Fences  (film) Fences is an upcoming 2016 American drama film directed by Denzel Washington and written by August Wilson, based on his play of the same name. The film stars Washington in the title role, with Viola Davis, Mykelti Williamson, Russell Hornsby, and Jovan Adepo. Principal photography on the film began on April 25, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The film is scheduled for a limited December 16, 2016 release by Paramount Pictures, before expanding on December 25.
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- Published January 14, 2016. FoxNews.com. Nominations for the 88th annual Academy Awards were announced this morning. Many of the names called out were foregone conclusions: “Spotlight” for Best Picture, Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Revenant” for Best Actor, and Cate Blanchett in “Carol” for Best Actress.
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Biography Only four African-American actors have won the Best Actor Oscar: Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field (1963) Denzel Washington for Training Day (2001) Jamie Foxx for Ray (2004) Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland (2006) Five of the 20 acting nominations in 2004 and 2006 were African-American nominees.
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Oscars 2010: Kathryn Bigelow becomes first woman to win best director as Hurt Locker blasts ex-husband's Avatar with six gongs Kathryn Bigelow made history last night after becoming the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director-and trounced her ex-husband in the process. Her Iraq war thriller The Hurt Locker scooped six Oscars, including Best Picture, while Avatar, directed by James Cameron, won only three minor gongs. Avatar-the highest grossing film ever having already taken $2billion worldwide at the box office-won only for art direction, cinematography and visual effects.
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- African-American playwright August Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for his play Fences, and earned a second Pulitzer Prize for The Piano Lesson.
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87th Academy Awards Los Angeles Times staff. Oscars 2015: The complete list of nominees and winners for the 87th Academy Awards. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) won the Oscar for best picture at the 87th Academy Awards. Birdman was one of the top winners of the night, also winning for director, original screenplay and cinematography.
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Casey Affleck's best actor Oscar win receives backlash online Casey Affleck's best actor Oscar win receives backlash online. Casey Affleck has won his first-ever Academy Award. The Manchester by the Sea star took home the Oscar for Best Actor, winning for his gut-wrenching portrayal of a man tasked with raising his teenage nephew after the death of his brother. Affleck notably beat out Denzel Washington for Fences, who had made a late push for his third Oscar — and even won at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last month.
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- This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon winning an Oscar® for writing Good Will Hunting - 70th Annual Academy Awards® in 1997. Presented by Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. 1  Entertainment. 2  Standard YouTube License.
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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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Fences  (film) Fences (film) Fences is a 2016 American period drama film directed by and starring Denzel Washington and written by August Wilson, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name (Wilson died in 2005, but completed a screenplay before his death).
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- Robbins did not win Best Director. Otherwise, it would be Frances McDormand who also won the Best Actress Oscar for Fargo (1996), directed by her spouse, nominated husband Joel Coen. McDormand's brother-in-law, Ethan Coen, was the film's producer.exican film director Alfonso Cuaron, 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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- Fences trailer: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis face off in Oscar-tipped film. A charged adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer prize-winning play about a dysfunctional family dynamic is being pushed as an awards contender. This article is 7 months old. Tuesday 27 September 2016 10.40 EDT Last modified on Monday 27 February 2017 04.05 EST.
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- Oscar nominations: Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese top list for best director. January 24, 2012 | 6:02 am. Veteran filmmakers Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) and Martin Scorsese (Hugo) will compete for the best director Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards, it was announced Tuesday morning. Also nominated for the director prize were Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist, Terrence Malick for The Tree of Life and Alexander Payne for The Descendants.
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55th Academy Awards 55th Academy Awards. The 55th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1983 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau. The awards were dominated by the Best Picture winner Gandhi, which won eight awards out of its eleven nominations. Louis Gossett, Jr. became the first African-American actor to win Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the tough and principled drill sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman.
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- Oscars 2015 live: 'Birdman,' 'Grand Budapest Hotel' lead winners The 87th Academy Awards show has ended, with “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and Birdman winning four trophies apiece. Julianne Moore won for lead actress and Eddie Redmayne for lead actor.
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Tom Skerritt Tom Skerritt : Tobias. Tom Skerritt, Best Actor Emmy® winner for his series “Picket Fences,” is one of the most versatile and acclaimed American actors of movies and TV. At UCLA Film School, he acted in theatre and began writing for screen as a means to understand the full embrace of his primary interest, directing film.
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- Scorsese, 69, earned his first director Oscar nomination for 1980’s “Raging Bull” and won the award five years ago for gangster film “The Departed.” Scorsese won the Golden Globe, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review honors for directing “Hugo.”
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Oscars: Every single best actor winner Burt Lancaster (1961) – Burt Lancaster was a winner two times over at the 1961 Oscar ceremony. He won the best actor prize for the title role in Elmer Gantry, and he had glamorous Elizabeth Taylor, best actress winner for Butterfield 8, by his side backstage.
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Fences trailer: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis face off in Oscar-tipped film With a 16 December release date, Paramount Pictures is clearly betting Fences is a contender. This marks Washington’s third outing as director, following Antwone Fisher and The Great Debaters. As an actor, he’s won two Oscars (for Training Day and Glory); he’s been nominated an additional four times.