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MOVIE WON EIGHT OSCARS ON THIS DAY

Gone With the Wind Vintage Movie Poster

It received generally positive reviews upon its release on
December 15, 1939. While the casting was widely praised,
the long running time received criticism.

At the 12th Academy Awards, Gone with the Wind received
ten
Academy Awards (eight competitive, two honorary) from
thirteen nominations, including wins for
Best Picture, Best
Director
(Fleming), Best Adapted Screenplay (posthumously
awarded to Sidney Howard),
Best Actress (Leigh), and Best
Supporting Actress
(Hattie McDaniel, becoming the first
African American to win an Academy Award). It set records
for the total number of wins and nominations at the time.

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Pin on Gone With the Wind
Hattie McDaniel
(June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952

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THIS ACTOR IS 69 TODAY

A young Denzel Washington staring down the camera in this 1960 school photo.

 Denzel Washington | Discography | Discogs  
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is 69 years old today.    
    

    
 With a career spanning over four decades, actor Washington
has received
numerous accolades, including a Tony Award,
two
Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and two
Silver Bears.

He was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement
Award
in 2016, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2019, and in
2020 The New York Times named him the greatest actor of

the 21st century. In 2022, Washington received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom
.

Glory (1989) - Rotten Tomatoes
1989

Crimson Tide (1995) - Posters — The Movie Database (TMDB)
1995


2002

Flight : bande annonce du film, séances, streaming, sortie, avis
2012

US actor Denzel Washington holds his Oscar after w Pictures | Getty Images
Denzel Washington holds his Oscar after winning
the award for best actor in a leading role for his
portrayal of Alonzo, a narcotics officer who has
crossed the dangerous line between cop and
criminal, in the movie "Training Day" (2001).

Movie Posters.2038.net | Posters for movieid-108: Training Day (2001) by Antoine Fuqua

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THE LAST PAIRING OF TRACY AND HEPBURN

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 22x28 Movie Poster (1967)

On December 12, 1967, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,
a groundbreaking movie about an interracial romantic
relationship starring Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy,
Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton, opened in theaters.

The film was the final role for Spencer Tracy. He was very
ill during production but insisted on continuing. Filming
of his role was completed just 17 days before his death
from a heart attack in June 1967. He was 67.

Hepburn never saw the completed film, saying it would be
too painful for her.
    
    
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner was nominated for 10 Academy
Awards, including Best Picture, and collected two Oscars,
including Best Actress for Hepburn, the second of her career.
  

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RETIRED ACTOR IS 86 YEARS OLD TODAY

Unknown/George Rinhart - (3x) James Dean/Robert Redford/Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward, 1955/1971 ...

Robert Redford - Wikiquote
Robert Redford (Charles Robert Redford, Jr.)

One of Hollywood‘s biggest superstars, Redford officially
announced his retirement from acting in August of 2018.

Redford is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival which
helps hundreds of young filmmakers find a market for their
movies.

Robert Redford Movies | 12 Best Films You Must See - The Cinemaholic
Redford with Dustin Hoffman in All the President’s Men      
(1976).

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Posters — The Movie Database (TMDB)
1969

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NOSTALGIC FILM OPENED ON THIS DAY

Photos from American Graffiti | American graffiti, Movie posters, Good movies

On August 11, 1973, the nostalgic teenage coming-of-age
movie American Graffiti, directed and co-written by George
Lucas, opened in theaters across the United States. Set in
California in the summer of 1962, the film was nominated 
for five Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best
Picture, and helped launch the big-screen careers of Richard 
Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford, as well as the former child actor
and future Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard.

The film’s success enabled Lucas (below) to get his next
movie made, the mega-hit Star Wars (1977).

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Chroniques du Cinéphile Stakhanoviste: American Graffiti - George Lucas (1973)
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Harrison Ford

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American Graffiti, George Lucas’s last film before Star Wars, is the perfect end of summer movie ...

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