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Boetticher got his first big break when he was asked to direct Bullfighter and the Lady for John Wayne's production company, Batjac, based loosely on Boetticher's own adventures studying to be a matador in Mexico. It was the first film he signed as Budd Boetticher, rather than his given name, and it earned him an Oscar nomination for Best ...
Shrek was the first feature film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Spirited Away was the first anime to win an Academy Award (Academy Award for Best Animated Feature). [121] It is also the first hand drawn and foreign film to win in the category. Vidocq: first film shot in digital progressive HDTV at standard 24 fps cinematic ...
Sophia Loren and Marion Cotillard are the only actresses to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for non-English language performances, Italian and French, respectively. Cotillard is the only actor to receive two Oscar nominations for foreign films without having her films nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . [ 10 ]
The first nominees shot primarily on digital video were The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire in 2009, with Slumdog Millionaire being the first winner. [1] The following year, Avatar was the first nominee and winner to be shot entirely on digital video. [2] In 2018, Rachel Morrison became the first woman to receive a ...
Films like Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Tree of Life, Moonlight, and Parasite were frequently listed in critics' polls for the best films of the 2010s. In 2010, the first woman to win the Best Director Award in Oscar history appeared. Katherine Bigelow's The Hurt Locker won six awards. [135]
Birdman was the first film to win Best Picture without an editing nomination since Ordinary People (1980). [19] Alejandro G. Iñárritu became the second consecutive Mexican to win for Best Director after Cuarón who won for helming Gravity. [20] At age 84, Robert Duvall was the oldest male acting nominee in Oscar history. [21]
The Artist (2011) was the first essentially silent (with the exception of a single scene of dialogue, and a dream sequence with sound effects) film since Wings to win Best Picture. It was the first silent nominee since 1928's The Patriot. It was the first Best Picture winner to be produced entirely in black-and-white since 1960's The Apartment.
Michael John Gambon was born in the Cabra suburb of Dublin [2] on 19 October 1940. [3] His mother, Mary (née Hoare), was a seamstress, while his father, Edward Gambon, was an engineering operative during World War II. [4]