Is it Claudette Colbert - in 1935 won best actress for It Happened One Night also in best pic nominees Imitation of Life & Cleopatra. I have to dash to Drag me to Hell, if someone else can throw out a question.
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Thanks Shugah! I'll come up with something tomorrow if that's ok, if someone doesn't before then. Off to bed after a rather unabridged evening of tippling!
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Donald Crisp is correct. 50 of those films were features. He was a prominent director in the 1920s, more so than an actor, but he stopped directing fairly early in the sound era and returned to acting as his main profession.
He became a director as a protege (one of many) of D.W. Griffith's, initially making two reelers. His features include Don Q, Son of the Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks, and The Navigator, which he co-directed with Buster Keaton.
This director directed five actors to Academy Award nominations, directed a handful of films that received multiple Oscar nominations and was president of the Directors Guild of America though he never received an Oscar nomination for best director and none of his films were best picture nominees. He has receieved nominations for best director from the DGA and his films have received major awards at the Berlin and Venice Film Festivals. To his credit are at least one film considered a camp classic (maybe two films though the second film is not as well known anymore) and a film considered a film noir masterpiece. Name the director and the five actors who received Academy Award nominations under his direction and the films for which theyr received the nominations.
Bonus points for naming the camp classic referenced in the question and the film noir masterpiece (though I am not a fan of it and neither was anyone in my Film Noir class at UCLA besides the professor).
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The great Robert Aldrich, who not only was a master filmmaker but also one of the strongest and most revered presidents of the DGA.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane and Kiss Me Deadly are the two masterpieces you are referring to.
Nominated performances for his films include Bette Davis and Victor Buono in Baby Jane, John Cassavetes in The Dirty Dozen, Agnes Moorehead in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte and Ian Bannen in Flight of the Phoenix.
Had Aldrich on the mind because I recently watched "Flight of the Phoenix" (which I liked despite a lot of flaws) and "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (which I did not like at all) on Netflix. Both were available to be streamed. Watched them in my quest to at least see major Oscar nominees in best picture, directing and acting categories so I was able to cross off two more acting nominees from my list.
Though neither of those film did much for me I still have a child-like affection for "The Dirty Dozen" which is one of the most fun action films ever made.
Do have "Attack!" in my Netflix queue mostly based on your recommendation seanflynn. Anyways, you got it right and can ask another question.
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This director is one of Oscar's most surprising non-winners, and likely his name is unfamiliar to most here because of that.
-- He was a major, big-league director for over four decades, one of the longest, most sustained successful careers ever, with big hits in four different decades
== Seven of his films were nominated for best picture - and I believe that is more than any other director who never received an Oscar, whether competitive in any category or honorary
-- Two of these films, in successive years, entered Oscar night at the favorite for best picture, though both lost (in each case to a more popular/contemporary set film; one of these is among the favorite best picture winners ever)
-- Two women won Oscars under his direction, one for best actress in the first of the two films referred to just above
-- For just about his entire sound career, he stayed with one studio, being the most reliable director for successive production heads, and rarely made less than a quality film that was commercially successful.
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-State Fair (1933) -In Old Chicago (1937) -Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) -The Song of Bernadette (1943) -Wilson (1944) -Twelve O'Clock High (1949) -Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Daryl F. Zanuck, head of production of Fox, was shocked and angry that Song of Bernadette lost to Casablanca, and apoplectic that Wilson lost to Going My Way. He was expecting both to win; they likely both lost because for a short period extras got to vote (at least in some categories), and Fox had not set up special screenings for them for these end-of-the-year not-yet-in-general-release films.
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Including tonight's winning of Heath Ledger for Best Villain, only in 5 times, an Oscar-winning performance is awarded with the MTV Movie Award (whether Best Male/Female Performance, Breakthrough Performance, Villain or Comedic Performance)
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Denzel Washington, Training Day Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love Tom Hanks - Philadelphia Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
I hope The Office wins as Best Comedy Series for this year's Emmy Awards.
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Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Denzel Washington, Training Day Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakespeare in Love Tom Hanks - Philadelphia Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny
You're correct, with the exception of Gwyneth Paltrow, she lost the MTV Movie Award to Cameron Diaz.
