Adrien Brody has won the Academy Award for Best Actor
twice for his portrayal of Holocaust survivors: Polish pianist
Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski‘s war drama The
Pianist (2002) and Hungarian brutalist architect László Tóth
in Brady Corbet‘s period epic The Brutalist (2024).

The former made him the category’s youngest winner, at age
29. He has received several other accolades, including a
Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award with nominations
for three Primetime Emmy Awards.

2004

   
A new version of the 1939 film ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is set to premiere at Las Vegas Sphere in August.
    
    
 

(FOX NEW S) – The use of artificial intelligence to reimagine
the classic film "The Wizard of Oz" will likely see mixed
reactions from fans, experts told Fox News Digital.

While "film purists" may resist the idea of using generative
AI to give classic films an entire makeover, the technology
could "breathe new life" into hit movies — including "The
Wizard of Oz."

Warner Bros. Discovery, Google Cloud and Magnopus have
set out to do just that by creating an immersive experience
for fans of the 1939 classic.

The new "Wizard of Oz" experience is set to premiere at the
Las Vegas Sphere on Aug. 28.

On April 7, 1970, the legendary actor John Wayne won his
first—and only—acting Academy Award, for his star turn
in the director Henry Hathaway’s Western True Grit.

Wayne appeared in some 150 movies over the course of
his long and storied career. He established his tough,
rugged, uniquely American screen persona most vividly
in the many acclaimed films he made for the directors
John Ford and Howard Hawks from the late 1940s into the
early 1960s.

He earned his first Oscar nomination, in the Best Actor
category, for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949). The Alamo (1960),
which Wayne produced, directed and starred in, earned a
Best Picture nomination.

Wayne’s Oscar for True Grit at the 42nd annual Academy
Awards in 1970 was generally considered to be a largely
sentimental win, and a long-overdue reward for one of
Hollywood’s most enduring performers.

The Academy had failed to even nominate Wayne for any
of his most celebrated performances, in films such as
Stagecoach (1939), Red River (1948), The Quiet Man (1952),
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and especially
Ford’s The Searchers (1956), considered by many to be
the greatest Western ever made.

A true story about an Englishman working as a game
warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing
destruction of African wildlife, and decides to create
a national park to protect them. He acquires more than
1000 square miles of land, but he finds himself up
against ivory poachers and local tribesmen in their
employ.

Douglas James Rain (May 9, 1928 – November 11, 2018)

Douglas Rain was a Canadian actor. Although primarily a stage
actor, he is best-known for voicing HAL 9000, the supercomputer
in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its sequel 2010:
The Year We Make Contact (1984).

He co-founded the Stratford Festival, and was nominated for a
Tony Award for the Broadway play Vivat! Vivat Regina!.