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Alec Guinness - Awards and Honours

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He won the Academy Award as Best Actor in 1957 for his role in Bridge on the River Kwai. He was nominated again in 1958 for his screenplay adapted from Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth. He also received an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievements in 1980. He was appointed CBE in 1955, and was knighted in 1959. He became a Companion of Honour in 1994 at the age of 80. He also has a sta ...

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Alec Guinness: Encyclopedia II - Alec Guinness - Awards and Honours

Alec Guinness - Awards and Honours

He won the Academy Award as Best Actor in 1957 for his role in Bridge on the River Kwai. He was nominated again in 1958 for his screenplay adapted from Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth. He also received an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievements in 1980.

He was appointed CBE in 1955, and was knighted in 1959. He became a Companion of Honour in 1994 at the age of 80.

He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1559 Vine Street.

Guinness wrote three volumes of bestselling autobiography, beginning with Blessings in Disguise in 1985, followed by My Name Escapes Me in 1996, and A Positively Final Appearance in 1999.

Guinness died on August 5, 2000 at the age of 86 from liver cancer, at Midhurst in West Sussex, and was interred in Petersfield, Hampshire, England. His widow died of cancer two months later and is interred with her husband of 62 years.

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