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Meryl Streep & Jean Dujardin | 84th Annual Academy Awards - Press Room
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It’s a very long way from the heart of the Belgian Congo to the stage of the Pantages Theater and I’m very glad to say that it’s a little nicer here than it was there. I just want to pay a slight— as a matter of fact— a very big tribute to Mr. John Huston and Ms. Katharine Hepburn because they helped me to be where I am now. Thank you very much.
Humphrey Bogart winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for The African Queen at the 24th Academy Awards | March 20, 1952
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Jack Nicholson’s Oscar acceptance speech for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1976)
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What did Sissy win for? Coal Miners Daughter?
Yep. In 1980, Robert won that year for Raging Bull.
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What did Ginger win hers for? Kitty Foyle?
Yeah, she won in 1940 for Kitty Foyle. She beat out Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine and Katharine Hepburn
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward at their home in California, admiring the Oscar for Best Actress that Joanne had just won for role in The Three Faces of Eve, and the imitation Oscar that friends of Paul’s offered him as consolation.
Hattie McDaniel, (1895 –1952) was an African American actress who became the first black person ever to win an Oscar for her role as “Mammy” in Gone With the Wind.
In 1958, Sidney Poitier became the first black actor to be nominated for Best Actor for his role as Noah Cullen in the film “The Defiant Ones.” Five years later, Poitier won in the same category for his role as Homer Smith in “Lilies of the Field.” He also received an honorary award from the academy in 2002.
The glamorous Lauren Bacall was honored this weekend with an honorary Oscar during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2009 Governors Awards.
The hometown heroine of stage and screen had a storied love affair with the equally-elegant Humphrey Bogart, but the upper East Sider said bringing home the 13½-inch, 8½ pound statue was still a thrill.
“The thought when I get home that I’m going to have a two-legged man in my room is so exciting,” 85-year-old Bacall quipped Saturday night during the awards showcase - the first time it’s been held in a ceremony separate from the Oscars.
It’s the first Oscar for Bacall, who has starred in more than 30 films, including “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” which earned her a best supporting actress nomination in 1996. She was favored to win, but the Oscar went to Juliette Binoche for “The English Patient.”
Her other center-stage credits include “To Have and Have Not” and “Key Largo.”
Bacall shooed away an escort who tried to help her to the podium during Saturday’s gala. She then spoke of Bogart - “my great love” - and some of her dashing leading men: Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck and Henry Fonda. Bacall and Bogart were married from 1945 until his death from cancer in 1957.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/11/15/2009-11-15_lauren_bacall_presented_with_honorary_oscar_during_the_2009_governors_awards.html#ixzz0WyjnoKSb
I’m so happy for her. It sucks that they presented separate from the Oscars though. How unlucky for her.
