Oscar nominations: 2
Best Actress: Ava Gardner
Supporting Actress: Grace Kelly
King’s Speech: First Best Picture Oscar about Royalty?
February 22, 2011 by
If “The King’s Speech” wins the top Oscar this Sunday, as most of us have predicted, it will become the first Best Picture centering on a monarch to accomplish that.
Several movies dealing with British monarchs have been nominated, such as “The Lion in Winter” in 1968 and “The Queen,” in 2006, which garnered Best Actress Oscar on their leading ladies, Katharine Hepburn and Helen Mirren, respectively.
But no film about royalty has ever won the top award, Best Picture.
Oscar Movies: Open Doors (1990)
February 21, 2011 by
Oscar Nominations: 1
Best Foreign Language Picture
Oscar: Best Actress–Bullock, Sandra in The Blind Side
February 21, 2011 by
Sandra Bullock received the Best Actress Oscar at her first nomination for “The Blind Side,” in a competitive race that included the incomparable Meryl Streep.
Oscar: Losers (I mean Non-Winners)
February 20, 2011 by
Here’s the list of directors who have received multiple Oscar nominations but have never received a legit or competitive award. Most of the losers, or non-winners (to use the Academy’s jargon) have been compensated with an Honorary Oscar.
