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Jack Lemmon was American actor of the stage and screen. Lemmon has received various accolades including two Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 1960, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 1996 he received the Kennedy Center Honors.
Charlie Chaplin (right) receiving an Honorary Academy Award from Lemmon at the 44th Academy Awards in 1972. The much-admired comedy Kotch (1971), the only film Lemmon directed, [12] starred Matthau, who was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. The Out-of-Towners (1970) was another Neil Simon-scripted film in which Lemmon appeared.
Award Category Nominee(s) Result Ref. Academy Awards: Best Actor: Jack Lemmon: Nominated [16] [17] Best Actress: Lee Remick: Nominated Best Art Direction – Black-and-White: Art Direction: Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: George James Hopkins: Nominated Best Costume Design – Black-and-White: Don Feld: Nominated Best Song "Days of Wine and ...
In order of release date, here are seven of two-time Academy Award winner Lemmon's best films. "Mister Roberts" (1955): Restless and in desperate need of shore leave, the dispirited crew of the ...
Jack Lemmon bet his friend Walter Matthau $1,000 to $500 that he would lose the Academy Award for Best Actor; he did not win the bet. [5] William Friedkin announced that he would not attend the ball celebrating the Oscars out of enragement that The Exorcist failed to win Best Picture. [5]
Equally at home in drama and comedy, Lemmon excelled as the ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances, and during the course of his career he was nominated eight times for Academy Awards ...
The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year.
The 28th Academy Awards were held on March 21, 1956, to honor the films of 1955, ... Jack Lemmon – Mister Roberts as Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver‡