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Winners often acknowledge their fellow nominees with a few obligatory words. But accepting best supporting actor for “The Cider House Rules,” Michael Caine graciously spent his whole speech ...
When Marlon Brando won the Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather in 1973, he chose to boycott the ceremony, sending Apache and Yaqui actor and activist Sacheen Littlefeather in his place.The then-26 ...
7 unforgettable Oscars speeches in recent history. Marianne Garvey, CNN. March 6, 2024 at 5:29 PM.
[59] [60] [4] Producer Howard W. Koch, she later said, told her "you can't read all that" in reference to the 739-word speech written by Brando, [61] so she condensed it all into 60 seconds. [62] In other retellings of that night, Littlefeather said Koch told her that she had 60 seconds to deliver the speech or else she would be removed from ...
Oscar winners such as Halle Berry don’t make history for simply saying “I’d like to thank the Academy.” We'll always remember these touching speeches.
Only actor to win an Oscar for portraying a fictional Oscar nominee. Maggie Smith won Best Supporting Actress for playing an Oscar loser in California Suite (1978). Only actor to appear in multiple films with the most Oscar wins. Bernard Hill has supporting roles in Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), with ...
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.
In 1943, English actor Greer Garson won the Academy Award for Best Actress and spoke for an undefeated four minutes. Clémence Michallon revisits this page in Oscars history