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Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante. For portraying Escalante, Edward James Olmos was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards. [3]
Stand and Deliver. Hairspray; Patti Rocks; The Thin Blue Line; Torch Song Trilogy; Ramón Menéndez – Stand and Deliver. David Burton Morris – Patti Rocks; Errol Morris – The Thin Blue Line; Oliver Stone – Talk Radio; John Waters – Hairspray; Best Male Lead Best Female Lead; Edward James Olmos – Stand and Deliver. Eric Bogosian ...
The 60th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on April 11, 1988, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PDT. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 22 categories honoring films released in 1987.
Music director Dimitri Tiomkin took home two Oscars that evening for his work on High Noon, but kept the word count at just 15 for both speeches. For his first win, he offered: “Thank you very much.
Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo in Miami Vice (1984–1989), American Me (1992) (which he also directed), William Adama in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), Detective Gaff in Blade Runner (1982) and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and the voice of Mito in the 2005 English ...
Gwyneth Paltrow’s weepy Best Actress acceptance speech for 1998’s Shakespeare in Love is often held up as the epitome of awards season schmaltz. ... You can read the full list of Oscar 2022 ...
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Musca's best known work was as the writer and producer of Stand and Deliver in 1988. [3] The film was nominated for seven Independent Spirit Awards and won six, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay honors for Musca. [4] Additionally, Edward James Olmos, was nominated for an Oscar and an Academy Award for his role in the film. [5]