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Remember the Titans is a 2000 American biographical sports drama film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin.The screenplay by Gregory Allen Howard is loosely based on the true story of coach Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, and his attempt to integrate the T. C. Williams High School (now Alexandria City High School) football team in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971.
Sophia Loren received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Two Women and a Best Actress nomination for Marriage Italian Style. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has given Academy Awards to actors and actresses for non-English performances in films, with the first award given in 1961.
AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
Matewan (/ ˈ m eɪ t w ɒ n /) is a 1987 American independent [2] [3] drama film written and directed by John Sayles, and starring Chris Cooper (in his film debut), James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell and Will Oldham, with David Strathairn, Kevin Tighe and Gordon Clapp in supporting roles. [4]
It has been presented since the 1st Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1995 to a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The award has been presented 30 times, and 28 actors have won the award. Tom Hanks was the award's first winner for Forrest Gump (1994).
The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony. The award has existed, under numerous names, since 1957. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, Best Short Subject, One-reel and Best Short Subject, Two-reel, referring to the running time of eligible short films: a standard reel of 35 mm film is 1000 feet, or about 11 ...
Gosford Park has the largest winning cast (20 credited actors). Bobby has the largest nominated cast (24 credited actors). Sideways has the smallest winning cast (4 credited actors). Million Dollar Baby and Beasts of No Nation have the smallest nominated cast (3 credited actors). Parasite is the first non-English language film to win the award.
Seawards the Great Ships is a 1961 British short documentary film directed by Hilary Harris. [1] It won an Oscar in 1962 for Best Short Live Action Subject, [2] [3] the first Scottish film to win an Academy Award.