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American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.The film is loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark ...
with trophies known as Oscars. This list of actors with Academy Award nominations includes all male and female actors with Academy Award nominations for lead and supporting roles in motion pictures, and the total nominations and wins for each actor. Nominations in non-acting categories, such as for producing, directing or writing, are not included.
American Gangster: Nominated [15] 2013: Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture: Flight: Nominated [16] 2017: Fences: Won [17] Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture [a] Nominated 2018: Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture: Roman J. Israel, Esq. Nominated [18] 2022: The Tragedy of Macbeth: Nominated [19]
Additionally, the veteran actor scored a total of 10 Oscar nominations and won two: one for Best Supporting Actor for Glory, and one for Best Actor for playing a corrupt cop in the crime thriller ...
American Gangster, which was directed by Ridley Scott and also stars Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lymari Nadal and Ted Levine, hit theaters in 2007 and was nominated for a whopping 21 awards ...
Second film to feature African-American nominees for both Best Actor and Best Actress. 2001: Halle Berry: Monster's Ball: Leticia Musgrove Won First African-American actress to win Best Actress. First person of color to win Best Actress. First time two African-American performers won Oscars in the same year (Denzel Washington, Training Day). 2009
The Oscar nominee grew up on a ranch in Paso Robles, California, with his younger brother, Jess. ... Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, the George W. Bush biopic W, and Milk, ...
Paul Newman for "Fast Eddie" Felson in The Hustler and The Color of Money ; Al Pacino for Michael Corleone in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II ; Peter O'Toole for King Henry II in Becket and The Lion in Winter ; Bing Crosby for Father O'Malley in Going My Way and The Bells of St. Mary's ; and later, Sylvester Stallone for Rocky and Creed ^ "Academy Award Nominee Hal Holbrook". NBC News ...