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Actor in a Supporting Role
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Golden Globe
Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
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- Academy Award, Nomination, Actor in a Supporting Role, Little Big Man, (1970) Golden Globe Award, Nomination, Best Supporting Actor, Little Big Man, (1970) New York Film Critics Circle Award, Best Supporting Actor, Little Big Man, (1970) Golden Laurel, Best Male Supporting Performance, Little Big Man, (1970) National Society of Film Critics Award, Supporting Actor, Little Big Man, (1970) Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, Human Relations Award (1971) Officer of the Order of Canada (1971)
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As an actor, he is best remembered for portraying Old Lodge Skins opposite Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man (1970), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and for his role in The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), as Lone Watie, opposite Clint Eastwood . Early years.
This role led to an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1970. He continued to appear in films and became an accomplished stage actor. He died in 1981 on the same Indian reserve where he was born in North Vancouver at age 82.
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Check all the awards won and nominated for by Chief Dan George - National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor (1970) and more awards. Chief Dan George, OC was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, a Coast Salish band located on...
Memorable Moments. Edmund H. North. Writing (Story and Screenplay) winner for Patton. Frank McCarthy. Appearing for Best Actor George C. Scott, with presenter Goldie Hawn. Glenda Jackson. Hal Wallis presents Best Actress winner Glenda Jackson her statuette for Women in Love. View More Memorable Moments.
Aug 12, 2007 · Starring alongside Dustin Hoffman, George earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. This was the first time an Indigenous actor was nominated for an Oscar. George won other awards for this role, including from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle.
One of twelve children of the tribal chief, Dan George served as chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation from 1951 to 1963. He was also an Academy Award -nominated actor, a successful poet, a philosopher, champion of First Nations peoples, and the loving patriarch of a large family.
While he did not win the Oscar, George won awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle. The same year he was nominated for an Oscar, George was awarded the Order of Canada. The year was not without heartache though, as George’s wife, Amy, died after 51 years together.
