Movie-lore: Popular Cinema & its Evolution since 1895. Based on World Movies in general & Hollywood in particular . NS.
Movie Trivia-6
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| Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
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| Laurence Olivier |
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| Tracy & Hepburn |
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| Marilyn Monroe |
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| Driving Miss Daisy(89) |
- The oldest actress to win an Oscar for Best Actress is Jessica Tandy for her role in Driving Miss Daisy 1989 aged 80 yrs & 292 days, on the day of her win.
- Kate Winslett holds the record for being the youngest performer to receive 5 **AAN.
- The only Director to win the *AA for Best-Dir in his debut film is John Huston for 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' in 1948. His father Walter Huston won the best-supporting actor category for his role in the same movie.
- Emma Thompson is the only actress to win AA's for both Best Actress 'Howards End'(92) & for Best Screenplay for 'Sense & Sensibility' (95).
- The great George Bernard Shaw is the only person to have won both the AA for Pygmalion's best adapted screenplay in 1938 & had earlier won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
- On the day Marilyn was voted as the World Film favorite at the Golden Globe Awards in 1962, the same day she was found dead at her Residence.
- Laurence is the only Actor to b nominated twice for a Shakespearean role winning his only competitive Oscar for 'Hamlet' (48), earlier he had received an AA honorary along-with Ernst Lubitsch & Harold Russell for 'Henry V' in (1944) becoming the 1st British film to win the AA (Oscar) for Best-Pic.
- Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn were the most f He won 2 AA from 11 AAN.
- The most famous on-screen pair, both appearing in 9 movies together, & all the films did good business at the Box-Office.
- * AA-Academy Award. ** AAN-Academy Award Nomination.
