Released in mid-December, Oliver Stone's Platoon, a Vietnam war movie that was rejected by every studio in town, stole the spotlight from Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters, which was considered a frontrunner in the Oscar race, after winning several critics awards. Nominated for 8 Oscars, Platoon won four: Picture, Director, Sound, and Editing.
Oscar Actors: Lemmon, Jack–Appreciation (Two-Time Oscar Winner and Multiple Nominee)
May 11, 2006 by
In a career spanning five decades, Jack Lemmon was nominated for eight Oscars, winning two: A Supporting Oscar for playing Ensign Pulver in the comedy Mister Roberts (1955), and Best Actor Oscar for Save the Tiger (1973), in which he embodied a garment manufacturer, forced by his partner to consider arson as a way out of financial trouble. In one of Oscar's shameful chapters, Lemmon was denied Best Actor for his greatest performances, both in a Billy Wilder picture: Some Like It Hot and The Apartment.
Cinema 1950: Oscar Winners in All Categories, Best Picture (All About Eve)
April 20, 2006 by
Nominated for an all-tgime record in 14 categories, All About Eve won Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, and Supporting Actor. But Bette Davis was denied the Oscar for the best perfromance of her career.
Oscar 2006: Dates for the 79th Awards Ceremony
April 18, 2006 by
Beverly Hills, CA, April 17, 2006: The 79th Annual Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, February 25, 2007, Academy President Sid Ganis announced today. The telecast will again take place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, and will be televised live by ABC TV Network.
Oscar Movies: In the Heat of the Night
April 8, 2006 by
Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night (1967), is the only problem film about racial discrimination against blacks to have won Best Picture, though later pictures with similar issues, like Martin Ritt's Sounder in l972, and A Soldier's Story in l984, also directed by Norman Jewison, were also nominated.
