Claudine received one Oscar Nomination, Best Actress for Diahann Carroll, who lost out to Ellen Burstyn in Scorsese’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.”
Oscar Movies: City Slickers (1991)
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Jack Palance won the Supporting Actor Oscar for this comedy, in which he plays the tough and cyncial boss in a cattle drive taken by three spoiled city boys.
Oscar Movies: Carmen Jones (1954)
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Dorothy Dandridge became the first black actress to be nominated for the lead Oscar. The winner, however, was Grace Kelly for the melodrama "The Country Girl." It would take another 47 years for a black woman to win Best Actress, Halle Berry in "Monster's Ball" (2001).
Oscar Movies: Cardinal, The (1963)
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Otto Preminger intriguing drama received 6 Oscar Nominations, including Best Director, but won no awards.
Oscar Movies: Candidate, The (1972)
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"The Candidate" received two Oscar Nominations, winning one for Original Story and Screenplay by Jeremy Larner.
