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Borgnine won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Marty Piletti in the film Marty. [16] At the time of his death, he was the oldest living recipient of the Best Actor Oscar. [32] For his contributions to the film industry, Borgnine received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
The film stars Ernest Borgnine, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and Betsy Blair. In addition to also winning the Oscar for Best Picture , the film enjoyed international success, becoming the first film to win the Palme d'Or .
Earl LeafMichael Ochs Archives/Getty Ernest Borgnine poses backstage with his Best Actor Oscar for 'Marty' during the 28th annual Academy Awards at the RKO Pantages Theatre in L.A. on March 21, 1956.
The 28th Academy Awards were held on March 21, 1956, to honor the films of 1955, at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. In this year, Jerry Lewis became the host, replacing Bob Hope .
The Oscar features several real Oscar winners in its cast and crew: along with Edith Head (who would also be nominated, but not win, for The Oscar), the film features Best Actor winners Borgnine and Broderick Crawford; Best Supporting Actor winners Ed Begley, Walter Brennan, Frank Sinatra, and James Dunn; and cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg.
In "The Poseidon Adventure," one of a slew of '70s blockbuster disaster films, Hackman played a reverend who led fellow passengers/co-stars including Shelley Winters, Ernest Borgnine, Stella ...
The supporting cast includes Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, Jack Warden, Mickey Shaughnessy, Claude Akins, and George Reeves. It won 8 Academy Awards out of 13 nominations, including Best Picture , Best Director (Fred Zinnemann), Adapted Screenplay , Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra), and Supporting Actress (Donna Reed). [ 3 ]
These included films in which Lancaster did not act. Their first was Marty in 1955, based on Paddy Chayefsky's TV play starring Ernest Borgnine and directed by Delbert Mann. It won both the Best Picture Oscar and the Palme d'Or award at Cannes and Borgnine an Best Actor Oscar. It also earned $2 million on a budget of $350,000. [24]