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At this time, Davis had more acting Oscar nominations than anyone else. This streak continued with All About Eve (1950). [ 13 ] She also received several other nominations and wins for this performance, including: Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress , New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress , and her first Golden Globe ...
Bette Davis and Donald Meek in Broken Dishes (1929). "I was now a bona fide Broadway actress—in a hit," Davis wrote. [2]Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known from early childhood as "Betty", was born on April 5, 1908, [3] in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Harlow Morrell Davis (1885–1938), a law student from Augusta, Maine, and subsequently a patent attorney, and Ruth Augusta (née Favór ...
Nominations resulted in 3 awards Note : Walt Disney is the highest-earning individual with wins and nominations in any category in the Academy Awards, with fifty-nine nominations and twenty-two Oscar wins (as well as four Honorary Awards), including a record four in one year.
The nominations seem to be a win for diverse actors and filmmakers following last year's #OscarsSoWhite controversy, as six black actors were nominated in the acting categories: Viola Davis ...
The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra. The year's most successful film was David Lean 's Lawrence of Arabia , with 10 nominations and 7 wins, including Best Picture and Lean's second win for Best Director .
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Bette Midler is known as the "Divine Miss M," but she was named for another Hollywood legend. Midler says she was named after Bette Davis — but the two-time Oscar winner didn’t approve.
This is a complete filmography of Bette Davis. She began acting in films in 1931, incipiently as a contract player with Universal Studios , where she made her film debut in Bad Sister . She was initially seen as unappealing by studio executives, and was assigned to a string of B-movies early in her career.