In the Name of the Father (film)
1994
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Academy Award Actor in a Leading Role 1990 · Winner
Academy Award Actress in a Supporting Role 1990 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actor in a Leading Role 1989 · Winner
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Actor in a Supporting Role 1989 · Winner
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 1990 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 1990 · Nominated
Academy Award Directing 1990 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium) 1990 · Nominated
Academy Award Best Picture 1990 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Make-Up Artist 1989 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Adapted Screenplay 1989 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Film 1989 · Nominated
At the 62nd Academy Awards, the film received five nominations, including for the Best Picture, with Day-Lewis and Fricker winning Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. In 2018, the British Film Institute ranked it as the 53rd greatest British film of the 20th century. [9]
Mar 30, 1990 · My Left Foot: Directed by Jim Sheridan. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan. Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Academy Awards, USA. 1990 Nominee Oscar. Best Picture. Noel Pearson. 1990 Winner Oscar. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Daniel Day-Lewis. 1990 Winner Oscar. Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Feb 10, 2018 · Watch our Oscars flashback as Daniel Day-Lewis ('My Left Foot') receives his 1st Best Actor award from a swooning Jodie Foster.
Apr 8, 2019 · My Left Foot, the Oscar winning Irish film on the life writer and painter Christy Brown, turns 30. Shane Connaughton, later Oscar-nominated with Jim Sheridan for adapting Brown's memoir, regards...
Dec 8, 2008 · My Left Foot (1989) - Turner Classic Movies. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A man with cerebral palsy learns to paint with his foot. Cast & Crew. Read More. Jim Sheridan. Director. Daniel Day-lewis. Brenda Fricker. Alison Whelan. Emily H Barker. Owen O'sullivan.
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role of Day-Lewis. …cerebral palsy, in the film My Left Foot (1989) won him numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor. In the course of making the film, Day-Lewis spent the entire time in a wheelchair and learned to paint with his left foot.
MY LEFT FOOT won Academy Awards® in 1989 for Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Best Supporting Actress (Brenda Fricker) and earned Oscar® nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay (1989). Gritty yet uplifting tale of artist with cerebral palsy.
Christy Brown (5 June 1932 – 7 September 1981) was an Irish writer and painter whose cerebral palsy allowed him to write or type only with the toes of one foot. His most recognized work is his autobiography, titled My Left Foot (1954). It was later made into a 1989 Academy Award-winning film of the same name, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown.
