Alec Guinness

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, Alec Guinness - Awards and Honours, Alec Guinness - Filmography

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1914 (MCMXIV) is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar) 1914 - Events. January 4 - 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador. January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor. January 9 - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. January 10 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa's troops take Ojinaga in the Mexican state of ChihuahuaIncluding:

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Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Barsetshire Chronicles, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire, but he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and inter-gender issues and conflicts of his day. Trollope's popularity continues into the present day (some famous fans being Sir Alec Guinness, who never travelled without a Trollope novel, ex-Pri ...

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• Anthony Trollope - Palliser series
• Anthony Trollope - Other
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2 April is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. April 2 - Events. 69 - Galba, governor of Spain, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Roman emperors begun with Caesar and Augustus. 1453 - Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (İstanbul), which would fall on May 29 1513 - Juan Ponce de Leon sets foot on Florida becoming the first known European to ...

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The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel or play). See also the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are not adapted from elsewhere. Following is a listing of people who have won the award. This award started with the name Best Writing, Adaptation. Academy Awar ...

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• Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - 1920s
• Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - 1930s
• Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - 1940s
• Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - 1950s
• Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - 1960s
• Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - 1970s
• Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - 1980s
• Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - 1990s
• Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - 2000s

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This article is about the year 2000. For other uses of 2000, see 2000 (number) or 2000 (breakdancing move). 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium. By strict interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar, however, this distinction falls to the year 2001. This is due to the fact that the first century began with the year 1, and there does not exist a year zero. The first century ...

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• 2000 - Unknown Date
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• 2000 - May
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• 2000 - July
• 2000 - August
• 2000 - September
• 2000 - October
• 2000 - November
• 2000 - December
• 2000 - Nobel Prizes
• 2000 - Templeton Prize

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August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. August 5 - Events. 642 - Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia 1100 - Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey 1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution. 1583 - Sir Humphrey G ...

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The Academy Honorary Award is given irregularly by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards. In the early years of the academy, it was often used to reward significant achievements of the year that did not fit in existing categories. This subsequently led to several new categories. In recent years the academy has awarded ...

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• Academy Honorary Award - 1970s
• Academy Honorary Award - 1980s
• Academy Honorary Award - 1990s
• Academy Honorary Award - 2000s

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Joseph Frank Keaton Jr. (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), always known as Buster Keaton, was a popular and influential American silent-film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname The Great Stone Face. His innovative work as a director made great contributions to the development of the art of cinema. A 2002 world-wide poll by Sight and Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time. ...

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• Buster Keaton - Death
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• Buster Keaton - Filmography
• Buster Keaton - Books
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The Citroën DS (also known as Déesse, or Goddess, after the punning initials in French) was an automobile produced by the French manufacturer Citroën between 1955 and 1975. The DS is well-known for its futuristic, aerodynamic body design, and for its innovative technology (including its hydropneumatic suspension system). Citroën DS - Model History. After 10 years of development in secret as the successor to the venerable Traction Avant, the DS 19 was introduced on October 5, ...

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A comedy film is a film laced with humor or that may seek to provoke laughter from the audience. Along with drama, horror and science fiction, comedy is one of the largest genres of the medium. A comedy of manners film satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters. The plot of the comedy is often concerned with an illicit love affair or some other scandal, but is generally less important than its witty and sometimes bawdy dialogue. This form of comedy has a long ancestry, dating back to ...

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• Comedy film - 1950s
• Comedy film - 1960s
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• Comedy film - 1980s
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Carrie Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. Carrie Fisher - Early Life. She was born Carrie Frances Fisher in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of Eddie Fisher (a well known singer) and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her younger brother is Todd Fisher. Her half-sisters are actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, whose mother is actress Connie Stevens. She was married to singer Paul Simon but divorced after 11 months. She is currently dating documen ...

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See also: 1964 in film 1965 1966 in film 1960s in film years in film film 1965 in film - Events. 1965 in film - Top grossing films. North America Mary Poppins The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews Goldfinger My Fair Lady What's New Pussycat? Shenandoah The Sandpiper Fathe ...

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The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. It is widely considered one of the world's most elite universities. Early records indicate that the university grew out of an association of scholars in the city of Cambridge, England, probably formed in 1209 by scholars escaping fr ...

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The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister – the first and thus far only person of Jewish descent to do so, although Disraeli was baptized in the Anglican Church at an early age. Disraeli's most lasting achievement was ...

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An anagram (Greek ana- = "back" or "again", and graphein = "to write") is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once. Anagrams are often expressed in the form of an equation, with the equals symbol (=) separating the original subject and the resulting anagram. ‘Earth = heart’ is an example of a simple anagram expressed so. In a more advanced, sophisticated form of anagramming, the aim is to ‘discover’ a result ...

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• Anagram - Definitional
• Anagram - Situational
• Anagram - Controversial
• Anagram - Literary

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This is a list of film-related events in 2000. 1999 in film 2000 in film 2001 in film 1999 in home video 2000 in home video 2001 in home video 1999 in television 2000 in television 2001 in television 2000 in film - Events. February 9 — The Million Dollar Hotel, a film co-written by U2 lead singer Bono, premieres at the 50th Berlinale (Berlin F ...

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A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens' "little Christmas Book" first published on December 17, 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. The story met with instant success, selling six thousand copies within a week. Originally written as a potboiler to enable Dickens to pay off a debt, the tale has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time. In fact, some historians have suggested that the very popularity of this story played a critical role in redefining the modern importance of Christmas and the ...

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• A Christmas Carol - Characters
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HM The King HM The Queen HRH Prince Hussein HRH Prince Iman HRH Princess Salma HRH Prince Hashem HRH Prince Faisal HRH Princess Aisha HRH Princess Zein HRH Princess Haya HRH Prince Ali HRH Princess Rym HRH Princess Jalilah HM Queen Noor HRH Prince Hamzah HRH Prince Hashim HRH Prince Iman HRH Princess ...

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Oliver is a boy born in a workhouse in the year 1797, who has no idea of his parents' identity. His mother Agnes died in childbirth. By pure chance he is chosen as a scapegoat by the other starving boys, and is made to go and ask for an extra helping at a mealtime ("Please, sir, I want some more."). As a result of this breach of etiquette, he is "sold" by the workhouse as an undertaker's apprentice. The cruelty he suffers at the hands of an older apprentice named Noah Claypole causes him to run away, and he finds his way to London, where he is taken under the w ...

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Oliver Twist, Oliver Twist - Synopsis, Oliver Twist - Themes, Oliver Twist - Characters, Oliver Twist - Theatrical Film and TV adaptations

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