Oscar-winning actor Jack Palance (“City Slickers”) died Friday of natural causes at his home in Montecito, California. He was 87.
Oscar Directors: Hytner, Nicholas–Madness of King George
November 11, 2006 by
Nicholas Hytner, the director of “The History Boys,” is the Director of the National Theatre. His films include the Oscar-nominated THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE, THE CRUCIBLE, and the comedy THE OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION.
Oscar Actors: Swank, Hilary in Boys Don't Cry
November 9, 2006 by
Coming out of “nowhere,” Hilary Swank also gave an atypical Oscar performance, as Brandon Teena in “Boys Don't Cry.”
Oscar Roles: Bates, Kathy–Obsessed, Cruel Fan in “Misery”–Sledgehammer Jokes
November 9, 2006 by
Changes in the women's Oscar roles became more evident in the last decade. Kathy Bates won the 1990 Best Actress for playing an obsessed fan in Rob Reiner's horror film, Misery, a genre that has not done much for women.
Oscar Actors: Sullavan, Margaret in Three Comrades
November 9, 2006 by
During the studio system, most actresses “specialized” in roles that called for a good dealing of suffering and often even death.
Though a versatile and subtle actress, who excelled in every film genre (including comedy), Margaret Sullavan was most typically used by Hollywood in tearful, soggy melodramas, such as her only Oscar-nominated role, as Robert Taylor's tubercular wife in Three Comrades, for which she had earlier won the New York Film Critics Circle Award.
