Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000. Winners are listed first, followed by the ...

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• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - 1930s
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - 1940s
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - 1950s
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - 1960s
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - 1970s
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - 1980s
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - 1990s
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - 2000s

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Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress. She was born in New York City, New York, USA. Bel Geddes, the daughter of Helen Belle Sneider and industrial architect Norman Bel Geddes, began as a stage actress at the age of 18. In 1952, she received the prestigious Woman of the Year Award by Hasty Pudding Theatricals USA, America's oldest theater company. Her most notable stage performances were originating the role of Maggie in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway in 1956, and her performance in Jean Kerr's comedy Mary, Mary ...

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Ann-Margret (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-born actress and singer. Born Ann-Margret Olsson in Valsjöbyn, Jämtland, Sweden, she moved to the United States when she was young, and grew up in Wilmette, Illinois. She attended Northwestern University and was discovered singing in a nightclub by George Burns. She was often referred to as a "sex-kitten" and the "female Elvis". Ann-Margret - Career. Ann-Margret started recording for RCA in 1961. Her recording career was not as successful as her movie ...

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All About Eve is a 1950 movie drama written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, from the story The Wisdom of Eve, by Mary Orr. Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, a highly regarded, aging Broadway actress, with Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, a young fan who insinuates herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships. Gary Merrill, George Sanders, Hugh Marlowe, Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter also appear, and the film provided one of Marilyn Monroe's ...

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• All About Eve - Awards

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Brenda Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Italian American stage, motion picture, and television actress. Vaccaro was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe for her performance in the 1975 film Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough. An accomplished performer in live theatre, Brenda Vaccaro has been nominated for three "Best Actress" Tony Awards for her work on Broadway. She also guest-starred in several television shows ...

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Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American film and television actress who starred as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993). She received Golden Globe Award nominations for the part in both movies. Anjelica Huston - Biography. Huston was born in Los Angeles California, the daughter of film director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston; her mother is of Italian descent. She grew up mainly in Ireland and England. Two of the first movi ...

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Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American actress and singer of Armenian descent on her biological father's side and 1/16th Cherokee on her mother's side. With one of the most recognizable faces in the world, she rose to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the duo Sonny and Cher and sold over 80 million records worldwide, then as a solo artist when the duo ended in 1974. She has sold solo over 100 million records worldwide since the start of her career. Cher - Biography. Cher f ...

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• Cher - Fans keep believing
• Cher - The future
• Cher - As gay icon
• Cher - Political interests
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• Cher - Albums
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• Cher - Singles
• Cher - US other charts
• Cher - Filmography
• Cher - TV work
• Cher - Awards
• Cher - Surveys & polls

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West Side Story is a musical written by Arthur Laurents (book), Leonard Bernstein (music), and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and was originally produced, choreographed, and directed by Jerome Robbins. West Side Story debuted on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater on September 26, 1957 and played 732 performances before going on tour - a very successful run for the time. The plot borrows from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in that the brother of a gang leader f ...

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• West Side Story - Academy Award wins and nominations for the movie
• West Side Story - Dramatis Personae

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Good Will Hunting is a 1997 film directed by Gus Van Sant set in greater Boston, Massachusetts, which tells the story of Will Hunting, a troubled young prodigy who works as a janitor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology even though his knowledge of and facility with mathematics is superior to that of all of the school's faculty. Will must come to the realization that his abusive past is not his fault so that he can let go of the past and move on with his life. Good Will Hunting shows the story of a young man as he struggles to love his inner-self so that he can love o ...

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• Good Will Hunting - Award wins
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Chloë Sevigny (born November 18, 1974) is an American actress and model of Polish [1] and French descent. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Boys Don't Cry (1999). Chloë attended Thorp High School in Boston, Mass., in addition to summer schooling in a boarding school near Glion, Switzerland. Chloë has been romantically involved with independent filmmaker Harmony Korine since they were both teenagers. She has also starred in all of his directe ...

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Airport is a 1970 film which tells the story of an airport manager trying to keep his fictional Chicago airport open during a snowstorm, whilst a bomber plots to blow up an airplane (a Boeing 707 in this movie). Although it had a complex plot, Airport paved the way for the disaster movie genre and established many of the conventions for that genre. The movie was adapted by George Seaton from the novel of the same name by Arthur Hailey. It was directed by Seaton and Henry Hathaway. It would be th ...

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• Airport film - Further Comment and Plot Outline Airport 1970
• Airport film - Trivia
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• Airport film - Airport 1975
• Airport film - Airport '77
• Airport film - The Concorde...Airport '79
• Airport film - Other airplane disaster movies

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Bullets Over Broadway is a 1994 film directed by Woody Allen. It starred John Cusack as an idealistic young playwright newly arrived on Broadway. In order to gain financing for his play, God of Our Fathers, his character, David Shayne, agrees to hire Olive Neal, played by Jennifer Tilly, the actress/girlfriend of a gangster. She is demanding and talentless, but her gangster escort turns out ot be a genius, who constantly comes up with excellent ideas for revising the play. The film follows the various adaptations of the play and co-stars performa ...

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Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970) is an American model and Academy Award nominated film actor. Thurman began modeling professionally in the late 1980s before moving to acting in 1988, and is best known for her films released in the 1990s and 2000s, specifically those with director Quentin Tarantino. Uma Thurman - Early life and education. Thurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her half-Swedish, half-German mother Nena von Schlebrugg (b. 8 January 1941) was briefly married to Timothy Leary after t ...

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This is a list of film-related events in 2003. 2002 in film 2003 in film 2004 in film 2002 in home video 2003 in home video 2004 in home video 2002 in television 2003 in television 2004 in television 2003 in film - Events. February 24 - The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski, wins 7 Cesar Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Sound ...

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• 2003 in film - Deaths
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An actor is a person who acts, or plays a role, in an artistic production. The term commonly refers to someone working in movies, television, live theatre, or radio, and can occasionally denote a street entertainer. Besides playing dramatic roles, actors may also sing or dance or work only on radio or as a voice artist. A female actor may be known as an actress, although some prefer the term ...

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Uma Thurman - Early works. Thurman began her career as a model at the age of fifteen. Standing six feet tall (183 cm), the natually lanky framed Thurman was a successful model, and would later be featured in a layout in Glamour magazine. Thurman's mother was also a former model. Thurman made her film debut in the 1988 with three films. Her first was the high school comedy Johnny Be Good at the age of seventeen. Thurman's next role would be a small part in the film The Adventures of Baron Munchaus ...

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Uma Thurman, Uma Thurman - Early life and education, Uma Thurman - Career, Uma Thurman - Early works, Uma Thurman - Major roles, Uma Thurman - Personal life, Uma Thurman - Selected filmography, Uma Thurman - Notes

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De Havilland's career began co-starring with Joe E. Brown in Alibi Ike in 1935. She appeared as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, her first stage production, at the Hollywood Bowl. The stage production was later turned into a 1935 movie with the same cast. De Havilland played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as Captain Blood and The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). She played Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939) and received an Academy Award for Best Supp ...

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Jack Lucas, a talk radio host (Bridges), becomes suicidally despondent after his on-air comments inadvertently prompt a psychotic caller to commit multiple murders. Three years later he is attacked and almost set on fire, but is rescued by Parry (Williams), a crazy street person. Parry is on a mission to find the Holy Grail, and tries to convince Lucas to help him; Lucas is initially reluctant, but comes to feel responsible for Parry when he learns that the man's condition is a result of witnessing his wife's de ...

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The Fisher King film, The Fisher King film - Plot, The Fisher King film - Trivia, The Fisher King film - Awards, The Fisher King film - External link

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Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's stage adaptation of the bestselling diary of Anne Frank, on which this film was based, premiered in October 1955 to salutary reviews and stunned audiences. Kenneth Tynan, who attended the 1956 Berlin premiere described it in his review as 'the most drastic emotional experience the theater has ever given me. It had little to do with art, as the play is not a great one, yet in its effect, in Berlin, at that moment of history, transcended anything that art has learned yet to achieve. It invaded the privacy ...

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The Diary of Anne Frank film, The Diary of Anne Frank film - Brief synopsis, The Diary of Anne Frank film - From stage to screen, The Diary of Anne Frank film - Cast, The Diary of Anne Frank film - Awards and nominations

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Please note that these are the top grossing films that were first released in 2003; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year 2003. Movies reaching blockbuster motion picture status were led by New Line's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which topped $1 billion in box office receipts worldwide. Other major films included Disney's Finding Nemo. These are the worldwide top ...

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2003 in film, 2003 in film - Events, 2003 in film - Top grossing films, 2003 in film - Academy Awards, 2003 in film - Deaths, 2003 in film - Wide-release movies, 2003 in film - Other movies released

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