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3 days ago · The Godfather trilogy included some of the most acclaimed movies of all time, went on to take home nine Academy Awards, and received an astounding 28 nominations. As one of the crowning achievements in director Francis Ford Coppola's vast and varied career, more than 50 years since the first film was released, The Godfather series has remained an important touchstone in popular culture.
5 days ago · Director Francis Ford Coppola, whose massively popular The Godfather (1972) had won the Academy Award for best picture, was so impressed by De Niro in Mean Streets that he offered the actor the part of young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II (1974), forgoing even a screen test.
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4 days ago · Each year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honours the man who delivered the most outstanding performance in a supporting role in a movie of a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. The winning actor is given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar at the annual
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4 days ago · Of the 89 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 68 won the award. Since its inception, the award has been given to 75 directors or directing teams. As of the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan is the most recent winner in this category for his work on Oppenheimer.
3 days ago · oscars .org. The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor ...
2 days ago · A compilation of several Eugene O’Neill plays, this World War II shipboard drama reteamed Ford with John Wayne. “How Green Was My Valley” (1941): Ford earned another Oscar for directing this drama, deemed its year’s best picture at the Academy Awards, about a Welsh mining family. Co-star Donald Crisp also emerged an Oscar winner.
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5 days ago · Answer: In the Bedroom. "In the Bedroom" starring Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson was nominated in the year 2001. The fifth nominee in 2000 was "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". "Gladiator" won a total of five Academy Awards. 3. From 1989-1991 Kevin Costner appeared in at least one Best Picture nominated film each year.
