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1. 868 relations: A Beautiful Mind (film), A Double Life (1947 film), A Free Soul, A Hatful of Rain, A Man for All Seasons (1966 film), A Place in the Sun (1951 film), A Song to Remember, A Special Day, A Star Is Born (1937 film), A Star Is Born (1954 film), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film), About Schmidt, Abraham Lincoln, Absence of Malice, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Honorary Award, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Adaptation (film), Adolphe Menjou, Adrian Cronauer, Adrien Brody, Affliction (1997 film), Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Alan Bates, Alan Turing, Albert Finney, Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, Alexander Knox, Alfie (1966 film), Alfred Lunt, Algiers (film), Ali (film), Alibi (1929 film), All That Jazz (film), All the King's Men (1949 film), Alvin Straight, Alvin York, Amadeus (film), AMC Networks, American Beauty (1999 film), American History X, Anatomy of a Murder, Anchors Aweigh (film), Andrew Garfield, Angels with Dirty Faces, Anne of the Thousand Days, Annie Hall, Anthony Franciosa, ... Expand index (818 more) » « Shrink index

2. Academy Awards

A Beautiful Mind (film)

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film about the mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, played by Russell Crowe.

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A Double Life (1947 film)

A Double Life is a 1947 American film noir that tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character whom he portrays.

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A Free Soul

A Free Soul is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starringNorma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable.

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A Hatful of Rain

A Hatful of Rain is a 1957 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemannand starring Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan and Henry Silva.

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A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)

A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 British historical drama film directed and produced by Fred Zinnemann, adapted by Robert Bolt from his play of the same name.

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A Place in the Sun (1951 film)

A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled An American Tragedy.

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A Song to Remember

A Song to Remember is a 1945 American biographical film which tells a fictionalised life story of Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin.

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A Special Day

A Special Day (Una giornata particolare) is a 1977 period drama film directed and co-written by Ettore Scola, produced by Carlo Ponti, and starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Set in Rome in 1938, its narrative follows a housewife (Loren) and her neighbor (Mastroianni) who stay home the day Adolf Hitler visits Benito Mussolini.

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A Star Is Born (1937 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor (in her only Technicolor film) as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March (in his Technicolor debut) as a fading movie star who helps launch her career.

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A Star Is Born (1954 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical drama film directed by George Cukor, written by Moss Hart, and starring Judy Garland and James Mason.

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American Southern Gothic drama film adapted from Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

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Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical-drama film that depicts the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as president of the United States.

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About Schmidt

About Schmidt is a 2002 American comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Alexander Payne and starring Jack Nicholson in the title role.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice is a 1981 American drama neo noir thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Paul Newman, Sally Field, Wilford Brimley, Melinda Dillon and Bob Balaban.

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. Academy Award for Best Actor and Academy Award for Best Picture are academy Awards.

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Academy Honorary Award

The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1950 for the 23rd Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), often pronounced; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches. Academy Award for Best Actor and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are academy Awards.

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Adaptation (film)

Adaptation is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman.

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Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor.

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Adrian Cronauer

Adrian Joseph Cronauer (September 8, 1938 – July 18, 2018) was an American radio personality and United States Air Force Sergeant va.gov.

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Adrien Brody

Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Adrien Brody are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Affliction (1997 film)

Affliction is a 1997 American neo-noir crime drama directed and written by Paul Schrader.

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Al Pacino

Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and al Pacino are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Alan Arkin

Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023) was an American actor and filmmaker.

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Alan Bates

Sir Alan Arthur Bates (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving.

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Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.

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Albert Finney

Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was an English actor.

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Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence

Alessandro de' Medici (22 July 1510 – 6 January 1537), nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine Republic (from 1532), was ruler of Florence from 1530 to his death in 1537.

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Alexander Knox

Alexander Knox (16 January 1907 – 25 April 1995) was a Canadian actor and writer.

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Alfie (1966 film)

Alfie is a 1966 British comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Michael Caine.

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Alfred Lunt

Alfred David Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American actor and director, best known for his long stage partnership with his wife, Lynn Fontanne, from the 1920s to 1960, co-starring in Broadway and West End productions.

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Algiers (film)

Algiers is a 1938 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr.

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Ali (film)

Ali is a 2001 American biographical sports drama film co-written, produced and directed by Michael Mann.

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Alibi (1929 film)

Alibi (also known as The Perfect Alibi, Nightstick) is a 1929 American crime film directed by Roland West.

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All That Jazz (film)

All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider.

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All the King's Men (1949 film)

All the King's Men is a 1949 American political drama film written, produced, and directed by Robert Rossen.

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Alvin Straight

Alvin Boone Straight (October 17, 1920 – November 9, 1996) was an American man who travelled on a riding lawn mower from Laurens, Iowa to Blue River, Wisconsin to visit his ailing brother in 1994.

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Alvin York

Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known by his rank as Sergeant York, was an American soldier who was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathering 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers and capturing 132 prisoners.

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Amadeus (film)

Amadeus is a 1984 American period biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman, and adapted by Peter Shaffer from his 1979 stage play of the same name, in turn inspired by the 1830 play Mozart and Salieri by Alexander Pushkin.

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AMC Networks

AMC Networks Inc. is an American entertainment company headquartered in 11 Penn Plaza, New York.

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American Beauty (1999 film)

American Beauty is a 1999 American black comedy-drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his feature directorial debut.

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American History X

American History X is a 1998 American crime drama film directed by Tony Kaye (in his feature directorial debut) and written by David McKenna.

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Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

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Anchors Aweigh (film)

Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American musical comedy film directed by George Sidney, starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, with songs by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn.

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Andrew Garfield

Andrew Russell Garfield (born 20 August 1983) is an English and American actor.

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Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American crime drama film directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Brothers.

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Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 British historical drama film based on the life of Anne Boleyn, directed by Charles Jarrott and produced by Hal B. Wallis.

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Annie Hall

Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe.

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Anthony Franciosa

Anthony George Franciosa (né Papaleo; October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006) was an American actor most often billed as Tony Franciosa at the height of his career.

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Anthony Hopkins are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Anthony Quinn

Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), better known by his stage name Anthony Quinn, was an American actor.

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Antonio Banderas

José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (born 10 August 1960), better known as Antonio Banderas, is a Spanish actor and filmmaker.

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Antonio Salieri

Antonio Salieri (18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period.

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Aron Ralston

Aron Lee Ralston (born October 27, 1975) is an American mountaineer, mechanical engineer, and motivational speaker, known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off part of his own right arm.

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Art Carney

Arthur William Matthew Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an American actor and comedian. Academy Award for Best Actor and Art Carney are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Arthur (1981 film)

Arthur is a 1981 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Steve Gordon.

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Arthur Kennedy

John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914January 5, 1990) was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway.

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As Good as It Gets

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by James L. Brooks from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Andrus.

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Atlantic City (1980 film)

Atlantic City (Atlantic City, USA) is a 1980 romantic crime film directed by Louis Malle from a screenplay by John Guare.

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Awakenings

Awakenings is a 1990 American drama film based on the 1973 non-fiction book of the same name.

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Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (also,; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American film noir neo-Western film directed by John Sturges with screenplay by Millard Kaufman.

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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film. Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role are film awards for lead actor.

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Ballantine Books

Ballantine Books is a major American book publisher that is a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

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Barry Fitzgerald

William Joseph Shields (10 March 1888 – 4 January 1961), known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film and television actor.

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Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American political activist, a prominent leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.

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Before Night Falls (film)

Before Night Falls is a 2000 American biographical drama film directed by Julian Schnabel.

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Being There

Being There is a 1979 American satirical comedy-drama film starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, and Melvyn Douglas.

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Ben Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Ben Kingsley are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Ben-Hur (1959 film)

Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character.

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Berkeley Square (1933 film)

Berkeley Square is a 1933 American pre-Code fantasy drama film produced by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Frank Lloyd, and starring Leslie Howard and Heather Angel.

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Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.

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Bill Murray

William James Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian, known for his deadpan delivery in roles ranging from studio comedies to independent dramas.

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Bill Nighy

William Francis Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor.

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Billy Beane

William Lamar Beane III (born March 29, 1962) is an American former professional baseball player and current front office executive.

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Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American film actor, filmmaker, singer, and songwriter.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, actor, television producer, television and radio personality, and businessman. Academy Award for Best Actor and Bing Crosby are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond is a 2006 American political war thriller film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, and Djimon Hounsou.

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Bob Hoskins

Robert William Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor and film director.

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Body and Soul (1947 film)

Body and Soul is a 1947 American film noir sports drama directed by Robert Rossen and starring John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, and William Conrad.

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Bonnie and Clyde (film)

Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American biographical neo-noir crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the title characters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.

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Born on the Fourth of July (film)

Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American epic biographical anti-war drama film that is based on the 1976 autobiography of Ron Kovic.

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Boys Town (film)

Boys Town is a 1938 American biographical drama film based on Father Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of underprivileged boys in a home/educational complex that he founded and named "Boys Town" in Nebraska.

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Brad Pitt

William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer.

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Bradley Cooper

Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Brendan Fraser

Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is an American-Canadian actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Brendan Fraser are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Bright Victory

Bright Victory is a 1951 American drama romance war film directed by Mark Robson, and starring Arthur Kennedy and Peggy Dow.

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Broadcast News (film)

Broadcast News is a 1987 American romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks.

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Broderick Crawford

William Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Broderick Crawford are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American neo-Western romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus.

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Bruce Dern

Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor.

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Bryan Cranston

Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll.

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Bugsy

Bugsy is a 1991 American biographical crime drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by James Toback.

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Bugsy Siegel

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip.

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Bulldog Drummond

Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is a fictional character, created by H. C. McNeile and published under his pen name "Sapper".

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Bulldog Drummond (1929 film)

Bulldog Drummond is a 1929 American pre-Code crime film in which Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond helps a beautiful young woman in distress.

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Burt Lancaster

Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor and film producer. Academy Award for Best Actor and Burt Lancaster are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Cape Fear (1991 film)

Cape Fear is a 1991 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese.

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Capote (film)

Capote is a 2005 American biographical drama film about American novelist Truman Capote directed by Bennett Miller, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role.

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Captains Courageous (1937 film)

Captains Courageous is a 1937 American adventure drama film starring Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore and Melvyn Douglas.

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Cary Grant

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor.

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Casablanca (film)

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.

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Casey Affleck

Casey Affleck (born Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt; August 12, 1975) is an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Casey Affleck are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Cast Away

Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy.

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Cat Ballou

Cat Ballou is a 1965 American western comedy film starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin, who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his dual role.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with James Poe, based on the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams.

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Chaim Topol

Chaim Topol (חיים טופול; September 9, 1935 – March 8, 2023), mononymously known as Topol, was an Israeli actor.

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Champion (1949 film)

Champion is a 1949 American sports drama film noir directed by Mark Robson with a screenplay written by Carl Foreman based on a short story by Ring Lardner.

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Chaplin (film)

Chaplin is a 1992 biographical comedy-drama film about the life of English comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.

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Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer (28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976.

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Charles Foster Kane

Charles Foster Kane is a fictional character who is the subject of Orson Welles' 1941 film Citizen Kane.

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Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was a British-American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Charles Laughton are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Charlie Kaufman

Charles Stuart Kaufman (born November 19, 1958) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist.

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Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist. Academy Award for Best Actor and Charlton Heston are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Charly (1968 film)

Charly (marketed and stylized as CHAЯLY) is a 1968 American science fiction drama film directed and produced by Ralph Nelson and written by Stirling Silliphant.

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Chester Morris

John Chester Brooks Morris (February 16, 1901 – September 11, 1970) was an American stage, film, television, and radio actor.

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Children of a Lesser God (film)

Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines from a screenplay written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff and based on Medoff's 1979 play of the same name.

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Chinatown (1974 film)

Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Umeadi Ejiofor (born 10 July 1977) is a British actor.

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Christian Bale

Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor.

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Christy Brown

Christy Brown (5 June 1932 – 7 September 1981) was an Irish writer and painter whose cerebral palsy allowed him to write or type only with the toes of one foot.

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Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Cillian Murphy are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Cimarron (1931 film)

Cimarron is a 1931 pre-Code epic Western film starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and directed by Wesley Ruggles.

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles.

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Clark Gable

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Clark Gable are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Claus von Bülow

Claus von Bülow (born Claus Cecil Borberg; 11 August 1926 – 25 May 2019) was a Danish-born British lawyer, consultant and socialite.

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Cleopatra (1963 film)

Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the 1957 book The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, and from histories by Plutarch, Suetonius, and Appian.

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Cliff Robertson

Clifford Parker Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Academy Award for Best Actor and Cliff Robertson are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Clifton Webb

Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966), known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, singer, and dancer.

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Clint Eastwood

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director.

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Cold Mountain (film)

Cold Mountain is a 2003 epic period war drama film written and directed by Anthony Minghella.

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Colin Farrell

Colin James Farrell (born 31 May 1976) is an Irish actor.

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Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. Academy Award for Best Actor and Colin Firth are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Coming Home (1978 film)

Coming Home is a 1978 American romantic war drama film directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay written by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones with story by Nancy Dowd.

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Condemned (1929 film)

Condemned is a 1929 American pre-Code melodrama, directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Dudley Digges, Louis Wolheim, William Elmer, and Wilhelm von Brincken.

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Conquest (1937 film)

Conquest (also called Marie Walewska) is a 1937 American historical-drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen.

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Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance.

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Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde (born Kornél Lajos Weisz; October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989) was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker.

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Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor is an award given out at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. Academy Award for Best Actor and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor are film awards for lead actor.

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist.

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Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 American adventure comedy film based on the 1897 French Alexandrin verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.

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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990 film)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1990 French period comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and based on the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand, adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière and Rappeneau.

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Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus (both 1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944).

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Dan O'Herlihy

Daniel Peter O'Herlihy (1 May 1919 – 17 February 2005) was an Irish actor of film, television and radio.

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Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 American epic Western film starring, directed, and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut.

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English retired actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Daniel Day-Lewis are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Dark Eyes (1987 film)

Dark Eyes (Oci ciornie; Очи чёрные) is a 1987 Italian and Soviet romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.

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David Helfgott

David Helfgott (born 19 May 1947) is an Australian concert pianist whose life inspired the Academy Award-winning film Shine, in which he was portrayed by actors Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor and Alex Rafalowicz.

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David Niven

James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983) was a British actor, soldier, memoirist, and novelist. Academy Award for Best Actor and David Niven are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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David Strathairn

David Russell Strathairn (born January 26, 1949) is an American actor.

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Days of Wine and Roses (film)

Days of Wine and Roses is a 1962 American romantic drama film directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own 1958 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name.

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Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman.

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Demián Bichir

Demián Bichir Nájera (born 1 August 1963) is a Mexican actor.

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Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director. Academy Award for Best Actor and Denzel Washington are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Desi Arnaz

Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986), known as Desi Arnaz, was a Cuban-American actor, musician, producer, and bandleader.

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Desmond Doss

Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006) was a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic with an infantry company in World War II.

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Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

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Dick Cheney

Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is an American retired politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush.

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Disraeli (1929 film)

Disraeli is a 1929 American pre-Code historical film directed by Alfred E. Green, released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., and adapted by Julien Josephson (screenplay) and De Leon Anthony (titles) from the 1911 play Disraeli by Louis N. Parker.

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Divorce Italian Style

Divorce Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana) is a 1961 Italian black comedy film directed by Pietro Germi.

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Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand.

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Don Cheadle

Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. (born November 29, 1964) is an American actor.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)

Dr.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character)

Dr.

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Dr. Strangelove

Dr.

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Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Alfred Uhry, based on his 1987 play of the same name.

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Dual role

A dual role (also known as a double role) refers to one actor playing two roles in a single production.

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Dudley Moore

Dudley Stuart John Moore CBE (19 April 193527 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer.

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Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. Academy Award for Best Actor and Dustin Hoffman are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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East of Eden (film)

East of Eden is a 1955 American epic period drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Paul Osborn, adapted from the fourth and final part of John Steinbeck's epic 1952 novel of the same name.

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Eastern Promises

Eastern Promises is a 2007 British-Canadian gangster film directed by David Cronenberg from a screenplay by Steven Knight.

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Ed Harris

Edward Allen Harris (born November 28, 1950) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Edward J. Flanagan

Right Rev.

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Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an American actor.

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Edward Norton

Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor and producer.

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Edward R. Murrow

Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.

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Elmo Patrick Sonnier

Elmo Patrick "Pat" Sonnier (February 21, 1950 – April 5, 1984) was a convicted American murderer and rapist in Louisiana who was executed by electrocution at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Louisiana on April 5, 1984.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, 23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) was a Swiss-born German actor who was popular in Hollywood in the 1920s. Academy Award for Best Actor and Emil Jannings are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Emiliano Zapata

Emiliano Zapata Salazar (August 8, 1879 – April 10, 1919) was a Mexican revolutionary.

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Ennis Del Mar

Ennis Del Mar is the fictional main character of the short story "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx, the 2005 Academy Award-winning film adaptation of the same name directed by Ang Lee, and a 2023 play by Ashley Robinson also adapted from the short story.

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Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. Academy Award for Best Actor and Ernest Borgnine are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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F. Murray Abraham

F. Academy Award for Best Actor and F. Murray Abraham are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Fanny (1961 film)

Fanny is a 1961 American Technicolor romantic drama film directed by Joshua Logan.

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Father of the Bride (1950 film)

Father of the Bride is a 1950 American romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli from a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on the 1949 novel of the same name by Edward Streeter.

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Film industry

The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post-production, film festivals, distribution, and actors.

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Filmsite

Filmsite is a film-review website established in 1996 by senior editor and film critic-historian Tim Dirks, and continues to be managed and edited by him for over two decades.

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Finding Neverland (film)

Finding Neverland is a 2004 biographical film directed by Marc Forster and written by David Magee, based on the 1998 play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee.

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Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film directed by Bob Rafelson, written by Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce) and Rafelson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach, Lois Smith, and Ralph Waite.

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Fletcher Christian

Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793) was an English sailor who led the mutiny on the ''Bounty'' in 1789, during which he seized command of the Royal Navy vessel from Lieutenant William Bligh.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 American epic war film produced and directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou and Joseph Calleia.

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer and director. Academy Award for Best Actor and Forest Whitaker are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth.

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Franchot Tone

Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television.

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Frank Langella

Frank A. Langella Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American actor known for his roles on stage and screen.

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Frank Morgan

Francis Phillip Wuppermann (June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949), known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor.

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Frank Serpico

Francesco Vincent Serpico (born April 14, 1936) is an American retired New York Police Department detective, best known for whistleblowing on police corruption.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.

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Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen.

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Fredric March

Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Academy Award for Best Actor and Fredric March are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity is a 1953 American romantic war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by James Jones.

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Gandhi (film)

Gandhi is a 1982 epic biographical film based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, a major leader in the Indian independence movement against the British Empire during the 20th century.

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Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, based on Herbert Asbury's 1927 book The Gangs of New York.

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Gary Busey

William Gary Busey (born June 29, 1944) is an American actor.

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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901May 13, 1961) was an American actor known for his strong, quiet screen persona and understated acting style. Academy Award for Best Actor and Gary Cooper are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Gary Oldman

Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker. Academy Award for Best Actor and Gary Oldman are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Gaslight (1944 film)

Gaslight is a 1944 American psychological thriller film directed by George Cukor, and starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Angela Lansbury in her film debut.

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Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, known to be one of the most prolific in film history.

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Gene Hackman

Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American retired actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Gene Hackman are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer.

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Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 American drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson's best-selling 1947 novel of the same title.

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Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Geoffrey Rush are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life)

George Bailey is a fictional character and the protagonist in Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.

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George Bancroft (actor)

George Bancroft (September 30, 1882 – October 2, 1956) was an American film actor, whose career spanned seventeen years from 1925 to 1942.

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George C. Scott

George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American actor, director and producer. Academy Award for Best Actor and George C. Scott are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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George III

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.

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George S. Patton

George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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George Smiley

George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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Gerry Conlon

Gerard Patrick Conlon (1 March 1954 – 21 June 2014) was a Northern Irish man known for being one of the Guildford Four who spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of being a Provisional IRA bomber.

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Giancarlo Giannini

Giancarlo Giannini (born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor and voice actor.

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Giant (1956 film)

Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film directed by George Stevens, from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel.

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Give 'em Hell, Harry!

Give 'em Hell, Harry! is a biographical play and 1975 film, written by playwright Samuel Gallu.

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Gladiator (2000 film)

Gladiator is a 2000 historical epic film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson.

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Gods and Monsters (film)

Gods and Monsters is a 1998 period drama film written and directed by Bill Condon, based on Christopher Bram's 1995 novel Father of Frankenstein.

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Going My Way

Going My Way is a 1944 American musical comedy drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama is a Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama are film awards for lead actor.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is a Golden Globe Award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy are film awards for lead actor.

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Gone with the Wind (film)

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell.

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Good Morning, Vietnam

Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American war comedy film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson.

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Good Night, and Good Luck

Good Night, and Good Luck (stylized as good night, and good luck.) is a 2005 historical drama film about American television news directed by George Clooney, with the movie starring David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey Jr., and Frank Langella as well as Clooney himself.

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Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)

Goodbye, Mr.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)

Goodbye, Mr.

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Gordon Gekko

Gordon Gekko is a composite character in the 1987 film Wall Street and its 2010 sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, both directed by Oliver Stone.

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Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. Academy Award for Best Actor and Gregory Peck are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and written by William Rose.

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Hal Leonard

Hal Leonard LLC (formerly Hal Leonard Corporation) is an American music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker.

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Half Nelson (film)

Half Nelson is a 2006 American drama film directed by Ryan Fleck and written by Fleck and Anna Boden.

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Hamlet (1948 film)

Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, adapted and directed by and starring Laurence Olivier.

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Hannibal Lecter

Dr.

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Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor.

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Harry and Tonto

Harry and Tonto is a 1974 American road comedy-drama directed by Paul Mazursky and written by Mazursky & Josh Greenfeld.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.

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Harvey (1950 film)

Harvey is a 1950 American comedy-drama film based on Mary Chase's 1944 play of the same name, directed by Henry Koster, and starring James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Victoria Horne, Wallace Ford and Peggy Dow.

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Harvey Milk

Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)

Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 American sports fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry about a young man (played by Beatty) being mistakenly taken to heaven by his guardian angel, and the resulting complications of how this mistake can be undone, given that his earthly body has been cremated.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those times.

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Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. Academy Award for Best Actor and Henry Fonda are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Henry V (1944 film)

Henry V is a 1944 British Technicolor epic film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same title.

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Henry V (1989 film)

Henry V is a 1989 British historical drama film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh in his feature directorial debut, based on William Shakespeare's history play of the same name.

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Henry V of England

Henry V (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422), also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie.

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Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Here Comes Mr.

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Herman J. Mankiewicz

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941).

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High Noon

High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper.

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Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 docudrama film co-written and directed by Terry George.

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House of Sand and Fog (film)

House of Sand and Fog is a 2003 drama film directed by Vadim Perelman, with a screenplay written by Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto.

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Howard Beale (Network)

Howard Beale is a fictional character from the film Network (1976) and one of the central characters therein.

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Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist and pilot.

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Hud (1963 film)

Hud is a 1963 American Western film starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Brandon deWilde, and Patricia Neal.

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Hugh Glass

Hugh Glass (1783 – 1833) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer.

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Hugh Jackman

Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor.

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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), colloquially nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Humphrey Bogart are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a 1932 American pre-Code crime tragedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Paul Muni as a wrongfully convicted man on a chain gang who escapes to Chicago.

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I Am Sam

I Am Sam (stylized in all lowercase) is a 2001 American drama film co-written and directed by Jessie Nelson.

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I Never Sang for My Father

I Never Sang for My Father is a 1970 American drama film, based on the 1968 play of the same name.

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Ian McKellen

Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor.

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Idi Amin

Idi Amin Dada Oumee (30 May 192816 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979.

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Ike Turner

Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout.

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Il Postino: The Postman

Il Postino: The Postman ('The Postman'; the title used for the original US release) is a 1994 comedy-drama film co-written by and starring Massimo Troisi and directed by English filmmaker Michael Radford.

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In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona is a 1928 American pre-Code Western film directed by Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

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In the Bedroom

In the Bedroom is a 2001 American drama film directed by Todd Field from a screenplay written by Field and Robert Festinger, based on the 1979 short story "Killings" by Andre Dubus.

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In the Heat of the Night (film)

In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison, produced by Walter Mirisch, and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.

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In the Name of the Father (film)

In the Name of the Father is a 1993 biographical crime drama film co-written and directed by Jim Sheridan.

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It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable).

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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas supernatural drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra.

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

J.

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Jack Johnson (boxer)

John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915).

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Jack Lemmon

John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Jack Lemmon are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Jack Sparrow

Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and franchise.

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Jackie Cooper

John Cooper Jr. (September 15, 1922 – May 3, 2011) was an American actor and director.

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Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter.

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Jaime Escalante

Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez (December 31, 1930 – March 30, 2010) was a Bolivian-American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles.

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Jake LaMotta

Giacobbe "Jake" LaMotta (July 10, 1922 – September 19, 2017) was an Italian-American professional boxer who was world middleweight champion between 1949 and 1951.

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James Cagney

James Francis Cagney Jr. (July 17, 1899March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer. Academy Award for Best Actor and James Cagney are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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James Garner

James Scott Garner (né Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor.

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James Mason

James Neville Mason (15 May 190927 July 1984) was an English actor.

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James Stewart

James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and James Stewart are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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James Whale

James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theatre director and actor, who spent the greater part of his career in Hollywood.

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James Whitmore

James Whitmore (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American actor.

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James Woods

James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor.

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Jamie Foxx

Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), known professionally as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer, and comedian. Academy Award for Best Actor and Jamie Foxx are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Javier Bardem

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor.

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Jean Valjean

Jean Valjean is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.

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Jeff Bridges

Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor and musician. Academy Award for Best Actor and Jeff Bridges are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Jeffrey Wigand

Jeffrey Stephen Wigand (born December 17, 1942) is an American biochemist and whistleblower.

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Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is an American actor.

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Jeremy Renner

Jeremy Lee Renner (born January 7, 1971) is an American actor.

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Jerry Maguire

Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American sports comedy-drama film directed and written by Cameron Crowe.

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Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 5, 1983) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Rafael Phoenix (Bottom; born October 28, 1974) is an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Joaquin Phoenix are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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John du Pont

John Eleuthère du Pont (November 22, 1938 – December 9, 2010) was an American convicted murderer.

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John Forbes Nash Jr.

John Forbes Nash, Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015), known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations.

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John Garfield

John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle; March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters.

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John Hurt

Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades.

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John Reed (journalist)

John Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist.

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John Travolta

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor.

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John Wayne

Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed "the Duke", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies. Academy Award for Best Actor and John Wayne are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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John Wojtowicz

John Stanley Joseph Wojtowicz (March 9, 1945January 2, 2006) was an American bank robber whose story inspired the film Dog Day Afternoon.

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Johnny Belinda (1948 film)

Johnny Belinda is a 1948 American drama film, directed by Jean Negulesco, based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit of the same name by Elmer Blaney Harris.

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Johnny Depp

John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician.

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Joker (character)

The Joker is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Jon Voight

Jonathan Vincent Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Jon Voight are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Jonathan Larson

Jonathan David Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer, lyricist and playwright most famous for writing the musicals Rent and Tick, Tick... Boom!, which explored the social issues of multiculturalism, substance use disorder, and homophobia.

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Jonathan Pryce

Sir Jonathan Pryce (born John Price; 1 June 1947) is a Welsh actor who is known for his performances on stage and in film and television.

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José Ferrer

José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992) was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television. Academy Award for Best Actor and José Ferrer are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Joseph Merrick

Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890), often erroneously called John Merrick, was an English artist known for his severe physical deformities.

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Jude Law

David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor.

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Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann.

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Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.

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Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker.

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Kevin Costner

Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Kevin Spacey are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker.

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Kiss of the Spider Woman (film)

Kiss of the Spider Woman (O Beijo da Mulher Aranha) is a 1985 drama film, based on the 1976 novel of the same title by Argentine writer Manuel Puig.

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Kotch

Kotch is a 1971 American comedy-drama film directed by Jack Lemmon and starring Walter Matthau, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman and Ellen Geer.

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Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs.

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Larry Flynt

Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. (November 1, 1942 – February 10, 2021) was an American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP).

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Larry Parks

Samuel Lawrence Klusman Parks (December 13, 1914 – April 13, 1975) was an American stage and film actor.

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Last Tango in Paris

Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi; Le Dernier Tango à Paris) is a 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

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Laurence Fishburne

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961, usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) is an American actor.

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Laurence Harvey

Laurence Harvey (born Zvi Mosheh Skikne; 1 October 192825 November 1973) was a Lithuanian-born actor and film director.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. Academy Award for Best Actor and Laurence Olivier are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Lawrence of Arabia (film)

Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic biographical adventure drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom (also known as Revolt in the Desert).

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Lawrence Tibbett

Lawrence Mervil Tibbett (November 16, 1896 – July 15, 1960) was an American opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality.

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László Almásy

László Adolf Ede György Mária Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós (zsadányi és törökszentmiklósi Almásy László Adolf Ede György Mária;; 22 August/3 November 1895 – 22 March 1951) was a Hungarian aristocrat, motorist, desert explorer, aviator, Scout-leader, and sportsman who served as the basis for the protagonist in both Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient (1992) and the movie adaptation of the same name (1996).

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Leading actor

A leading actor, leading actress, or leading man or lady or simply lead, plays the role of the protagonist of a film, television show or play.

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Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 American drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the semi-autobiographical 1990 novel of the same name by John O'Brien.

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Lee Marvin

Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924August 29, 1987) was an American film and television actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Lee Marvin are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Lenny (film)

Lenny is a 1974 American biographical drama film about the comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Bob Fosse.

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Lenny Bruce

Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian.

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. Academy Award for Best Actor and Leonardo DiCaprio are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Leslie Howard

Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 18931 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer.

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Lew Ayres

Lewis Frederick Ayres III (December 28, 1908 – December 30, 1996) was an American actor whose film and television career spanned 65 years.

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Lewis Stone

Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American film actor.

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Liam Neeson

William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an actor from Northern Ireland.

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Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami.

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Lili Elbe

Lili Ilse Elvenes (28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931), better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of sex reassignment surgery (gender-affirming surgery).

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Lilies of the Field (1963 film)

Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American comedy-drama film adapted by James Poe from the 1962 novel of the same name by William Edmund Barrett, and stars Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Stanley Adams, and Dan Frazer.

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Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. Academy Award for Best Actor and Lionel Barrymore are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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List of black Academy Award winners and nominees

This list of Black Academy Award winners and nominees is fully current as the 95th Academy Awards, which was held on March 12, 2023.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,861,224 residents estimated in 2022.

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Lost in Translation (film)

Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola.

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Louis Calhern

Carl Henry Vogt (February 19, 1895 – May 12, 1956), known professionally as Louis Calhern, was an American stage and screen actor.

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Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was named after him.

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Love Me or Leave Me (film)

Love Me or Leave Me is a 1955 American romantic musical drama film starring Doris Day, with James Cagney and Cameron Mitchell in support.

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Love Story (1970 film)

Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film written by Erich Segal, who was also the author of the best-selling 1970 novel of the same name.

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Lust for Life (1956 film)

Lust for Life is a 1956 American biographical film about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, based on the 1934 novel of the same title by Irving Stone which was adapted for the screen by Norman Corwin.

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Madame Curie (film)

Madame Curie is a 1943 American biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African-American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.

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Malcolm X (1992 film)

Malcolm X (sometimes stylized as X) is a 1992 American epic biographical drama film about the African-American activist Malcolm X. Directed and co-written by Spike Lee, the film stars Denzel Washington in the title role, as well as Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., and Delroy Lindo.

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Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor and one of the country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century.

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Mark Antony

Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the autocratic Roman Empire.

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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman.

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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist. Academy Award for Best Actor and Marlon Brando are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Massimo Troisi

Massimo Troisi (19 February 1953 – 4 June 1994) was an Italian actor, cabaret performer, comedian, screenwriter and film director.

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Matt Damon

Matthew Paige Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, film producer, and screenwriter.

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Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Auguste Chevalier (12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer.

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Max Cady

Max Cady is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the John D. MacDonald novel The Executioners.

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Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow (born Carl Adolf von Sydow; 10 April 1929 – 8 March 2020) was a Swedish-French actor.

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Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Maximilian Schell are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg, April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981) was an American actor.

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Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor.

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Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton is a 2007 American legal thriller film written and directed by Tony Gilroy in his feature directorial debut and starring George Clooney as lawyer Michael Clayton, who discovers a coverup by one of his firm's clients.

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Michael Corleone

Michael Corleone is a fictional character and the protagonist of Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather.

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Michael Douglas

Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film producer. Academy Award for Best Actor and Michael Douglas are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is an actor.

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Michael Keaton

Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor.

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Michael Redgrave

Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English actor and filmmaker.

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Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor.

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Mickey Rourke

Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (born September 16, 1952) is an American actor and former professional boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films.

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Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy.

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Midshipman

A midshipman is an officer of the lowest rank in the Royal Navy, United States Navy, and many Commonwealth navies.

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Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on stories from the 2000 collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd.

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Missing (1982 film)

Missing (stylized as missing.) is a 1982 American biographical thriller drama film directed by Costa-Gavras from a screenplay written by Gavras and Donald E. Stewart, adapted from the book The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice (1978) by Thomas Hauser (later republished under the title Missing in 1982), based on the disappearance of American journalist Charles Horman, in the aftermath of the United States-backed Chilean coup of 1973, which deposed the democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende.

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Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo that is loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi.

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Mona Lisa (film)

Mona Lisa is a 1986 British neo-noir crime drama film about an ex-convict who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl.

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Mongkut

Mongkut (มงกุฏ; 18 October 18041 October 1868) was the fourth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IV.

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Montgomery Clift

Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor.

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Monty Woolley

Edgar Montilion "Monty" Woolley (August 17, 1888May 6, 1963) was an American film and theater actor.

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Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and narrator.

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Moulin Rouge (1952 film)

Moulin Rouge is a 1952 British historical romantic drama film directed by John Huston from a screenplay he co-wrote with Anthony Veiller, based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Pierre La Mure, and produced by John and James Woolf.

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr.

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Mr. Holland's Opus

Mr.

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Mr.

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Mrs. Miniver

Mrs.

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Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist.

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Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)

Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet, produced by John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin, and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie.

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Murphy's Romance

Murphy's Romance is a 1985 American romantic-comedy film directed by Martin Ritt.

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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 American historical adventure drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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My Fair Lady (film)

My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion.

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My Favorite Year

My Favorite Year is a 1982 American comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Richard Benjamin and written by Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palumbo from a story written by Palumbo.

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My Left Foot

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan (in his director debut) adapted by Sheridan and Shane Connaughton from the 1954 memoir of the same name by Christy Brown.

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My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring William Powell and Carole Lombard, who had been briefly married years before appearing together in the film.

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Mystic River (film)

Mystic River is a 2003 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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Network (1976 film)

Network is a 1976 American satirical black comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky.

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Nick and Nora Charles

Nick and Nora Charles are fictional characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Thin Man.

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Nick Nolte

Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8, 1941) is an American actor.

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Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known by his stage name Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer. Academy Award for Best Actor and Nicolas Cage are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Nigel Hawthorne

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor.

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Nixon (film)

Nixon is a 1995 American epic historical drama film directed by Oliver Stone, produced by Stone, Clayton Townsend, and Andrew G. Vajna, and written by Stone, Christopher Wilkinson, and Stephen J. Rievele, with significant contributions from "project consultants" Christopher Scheer and Robert Scheer.

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Nobody's Fool (1994 film)

Nobody's Fool is a 1994 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Robert Benton, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by Richard Russo.

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None but the Lonely Heart (film)

None but the Lonely Heart is a 1944 American drama romance film which tells the story of a young Cockney drifter who returns home with no ambitions but finds that his family needs him.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932.

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Oliver! (film)

Oliver! is a 1968 British period musical drama film based on Lionel Bart's 1960 stage musical of the same name, itself an adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1838 novel Oliver Twist.

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On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.

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Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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Oskar Werner

Oskar Werner (born Oskar Josef Bschließmayer; 13 November 1922 23 October 1984) was an Austrian stage and cinema actor whose prominent roles include two 1965 films, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and Ship of Fools.

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Othello (1965 British film)

Othello is a 1965 film based on the National Theatre Company's staging of Shakespeare's Othello (1964-1966) staged by John Dexter.

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Patton (film)

Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II.

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Paul Giamatti

Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born June 6, 1967) is an American actor.

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Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas (born Pál Lukács; 26 May 1894 – 15 August 1971) was a Hungarian actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Paul Lukas are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Paul Muni

Paul Muni (born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an American stage and film actor from Chicago. Academy Award for Best Actor and Paul Muni are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. Academy Award for Best Actor and Paul Newman are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Paul Rusesabagina

Paul Rusesabagina ((13 November 2013), by Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times born 15 June 1954) is a Rwandan human rights activist.

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Paul Scofield

David Paul Scofield (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an English actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Paul Scofield are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Paul Winfield

Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 – March 7, 2004) was an American actor.

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Pelle the Conqueror

Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle Erobreren, Pelle Erövraren) is a 1987 epic film co-written and directed by Bille August, based upon the 1910 novel of the same name by Danish writer Martin Andersen Nexø.

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Penny Serenade

Penny Serenade is a 1941 American melodrama film directed by George Stevens starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant as a loving couple who must overcome adversity to keep their marriage and raise a child.

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Peter Finch

Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor of theatre, film and radio. Academy Award for Best Actor and Peter Finch are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Peter Fonda

Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019) was an American actor, who was a prominent figure in the counterculture of the 1960s.

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Peter Heywood

Captain Peter Heywood (6 June 1772 – 10 February 1831) was a British Royal Navy officer who was on board during the mutiny of 28 April 1789.

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Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen

Peter Ludwig Graf von der Pahlen (translit;, Palms Manor, Palms (now Palmse) –, Mitau (now Jelgava)) was a Russian courtier and general of Baltic German stock, who played a pivotal role in the assassination of Emperor Paul of Russia in 1801.

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Peter O'Toole

Peter Seamus O'Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was an English stage and film actor.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian.

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Philadelphia (film)

Philadelphia is a 1993 American legal drama film written by Ron Nyswaner, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Philip Seymour Hoffman are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl  (originally titled Pirates of the Caribbean) is a 2003 American fantasy swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski.

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Plurality (voting)

A plurality vote (in North American English) or relative majority (in British English) describes the circumstance when a party, candidate, or proposition polls more votes than any other but does not receive more than half of all votes cast.

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Pollock (film)

Pollock is a 2000 American independent biographical drama film centered on the life of American painter Jackson Pollock, his struggles with alcoholism, as well as his troubled marriage to his wife Lee Krasner.

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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (Franciscus; Francesco; Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.

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Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor is a 1985 American black comedy crime film directed by John Huston, starring Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner as two highly skilled mob assassins who, after falling in love, are hired to kill each other.

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Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American independent crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino from a story he conceived with Roger Avary.

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Pygmalion (1938 film)

Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen.

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Quills (film)

Quills is a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning 1995 play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay.

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Raging Bull

Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent, and Nicholas Colasanto in his final film role.

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Rain Man

Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass.

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Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director.

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Rami Malek

Rami Said Malek (born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Rami Malek are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Random Harvest (film)

Random Harvest is a 1942 American romantic drama film based on the 1941 James Hilton novel of the same title, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

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Ray (film)

Ray is a 2004 American biographical musical drama film focusing on 30 years in the life of soul musician Ray Charles.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Ray Milland

Ray Milland (born Alfred Reginald Jones; 3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and film director. Academy Award for Best Actor and Ray Milland are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Raymond Massey

Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor, known for his commanding, stage-trained voice.

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Rebecca (1940 film)

Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

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Reds (film)

Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the October Revolution in Russia in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World.

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Reinaldo Arenas

Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government.

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Reuben, Reuben

Reuben, Reuben is a 1983 comedy-drama film directed by Robert Ellis Miller and starring Tom Conti, Kelly McGillis (in her film debut), Roberts Blossom, Cynthia Harris, and Joel Fabiani.

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Reversal of Fortune

Reversal of Fortune is a 1990 American epic biographical true crime trial drama thriller film adapted from the 1985 book Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case, written by law professor Alan Dershowitz.

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Rex Harrison

Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Rex Harrison are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Rhett Butler

Rhett Butler (born 1828) is a fictional character in the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and in the 1939 film adaptation of the same name.

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Richard Barthelmess

Richard Semler Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era.

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Richard Burton

Richard Burton (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.

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Richard Dix

Richard Dix (born Ernst Carlton Brimmer; July 18, 1893 – September 20, 1949) was an American motion picture actor who achieved popularity in both silent and sound film.

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Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (Dreyfus; born October 29, 1947) is an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Richard Dreyfuss are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Richard Farnsworth

Richard William Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman.

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Richard Harris

Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer.

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Richard III (1955 film)

Richard III is a 1955 British Technicolor film adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical play of the same name, also incorporating elements from his Henry VI, Part 3.

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Richard III of England

Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485.

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Richard Jenkins

Richard Dale Jenkins (born May 4, 1947) is an American actor.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Richard Todd

Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd (11 June 19193 December 2009) was an Irish-British actor known for his leading man roles of the 1950s.

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Richard Williams (tennis coach)

Richard Dove Williams Jr. (born February 14, 1942) is a former American tennis coach and the father of tennis players Venus and Serena Williams.

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Rin Tin Tin

Rin Tin Tin or Rin-Tin-Tin (September 1918 – August 10, 1932) was a male German Shepherd born in Flirey, France, who became an international star in motion pictures.

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Riz Ahmed

Rizwan Ahmed (born) is a British actor and rapper.

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Robert Donat

Friedrich Robert Donat (March 18, 1905 – June 9, 1958) was an English actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Robert Donat are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Robert Downey Jr.

Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor.

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Robert Duvall

Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and filmmaker. Academy Award for Best Actor and Robert Duvall are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Robert Montgomery (actor)

Robert Montgomery (born Henry Montgomery Jr.; May 21, 1904 – September 27, 1981) was an American actor, director, and producer.

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Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American retired actor and filmmaker.

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Robert Stroud

Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner and author who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United States.

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Roberto Benigni

Roberto Remigio Benigni (born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. Academy Award for Best Actor and Roberto Benigni are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor.

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Rocky

Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone.

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Rocky Balboa

Robert "Rocky" Balboa (born June 6, 1945) (also known by his ring name the Italian Stallion) is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of the ''Rocky'' film series.

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Rod Steiger

Rodney Stephen Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Academy Award for Best Actor and Rod Steiger are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Ron Kovic

Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist, author, and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War.

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Ron Moody

Ron Moody (born Ronald Moodnick; 8 January 1924 – 11 June 2015) was an English actor, composer, singer and writer.

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Ronald Colman

Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English-born actor, starting his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrating to the United States where he had a highly successful Hollywood film career. Academy Award for Best Actor and Ronald Colman are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Room at the Top (1959 film)

Room at the Top is a 1959 British drama film based on the 1957 novel of the same name by John Braine.

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Round Midnight (film)

Round Midnight is a 1986 American musical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by Tavernier and David Rayfiel.

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Roy Scheider

Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer.

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Rubin Carter

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer, wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for murder, until released following a petition of habeas corpus after almost 20 years in prison.

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Runaway Train (film)

Runaway Train is a 1985 American action thriller film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and starring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay and John P. Ryan.

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Russell Crowe

Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is a New Zealand-born actor, director and musician. Academy Award for Best Actor and Russell Crowe are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Ryan Gosling

Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor.

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Ryan O'Neal

Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal (April 20, 1941 – December 8, 2023) was an American actor.

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Salvador (film)

Salvador is a 1986 American war drama film co-written and directed by Oliver Stone.

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Sam Waterston

Samuel Atkinson Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor.

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San Francisco (1936 film)

San Francisco is a 1936 American musical-drama disaster film directed by W. S. Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

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Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film starring John Wayne that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.

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Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood.

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Save the Tiger

Save the Tiger is a 1973 American drama film about moral conflict in contemporary America directed by John G. Avildsen, and starring Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Thayer David, Lara Parker, and Liv Lindeland.

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Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.

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Sayonara

Sayonara is a 1957 American romantic drama film directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Miiko Taka and Ricardo Montalbán.

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Scent of a Woman (1992 film)

Scent of a Woman is a 1992 American drama film produced and directed by Martin Brest that tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a short-term job near Thanksgiving as a companion/assistant to a retired Army lieutenant colonel who is blind, depressed, and irritable.

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Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian.

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Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture is an award presented annually by the Screen Actors Guild. Academy Award for Best Actor and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role are film awards for lead actor.

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Sean Penn

Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and film director. Academy Award for Best Actor and Sean Penn are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Sergeant York (film)

Sergeant York is a 1941 American biographical film about the life of Alvin C. York, one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War I. Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper in the title role, the film was a critical and commercial success, and became the highest-grossing film of 1941.

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Serpico

Serpico is a 1973 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino in the title role.

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Seven Beauties

Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze, "Pasqualino Sevenbeauties") is a 1975 historical black comedy drama Italian film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, and Shirley Stoler.

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Shine (film)

Shine is a 1996 Australian biographical psychological drama film directed by Scott Hicks from a screenplay by Jan Sardi, based on the life of David Helfgott, a pianist who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions.

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Ship of Fools (film)

Ship of Fools is a 1965 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer, set on board an ocean liner bound for Germany from Mexico in 1933.

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Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian–American actor, film director, and diplomat. Academy Award for Best Actor and Sidney Poitier are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Single transferable vote

The single transferable vote (STV), sometimes mistakenly conflated with proportional ranked choice voting (P-RCV), is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot.

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Sitting Pretty (1948 film)

Sitting Pretty is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang from a screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, adapted from the novel Belvedere by Gwen Davenport.

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Skippy (film)

Skippy is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film based on the popular comic strip and novel Skippy by Percy Crosby.

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Sleuth (1972 film)

Sleuth is a 1972 mystery thriller film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.

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Sling Blade

Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written, directed by and starring Billy Bob Thornton.

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Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup (born July 10,; died) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave.

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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder.

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Spencer Tracy

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Spencer Tracy are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Stalag 17

Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder.

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Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante.

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Stanley Kowalski

Stanley Kowalski is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Starman (film)

Starman is a 1984 American science fiction romance drama film directed by John Carpenter that tells the story of a non-corporeal alien who has come to Earth and cloned a human body (portrayed by Jeff Bridges) in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe.

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Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea (born 31 October 1946) is an Irish actor of stage and screen.

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Steve Carell

Steven John Carell (born August 16, 1962) is an American actor and comedian.

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Steve McQueen

Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor and racing driver.

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Stuart Whitman

Stuart Maxwell Whitman (February 1, 1928 – March 16, 2020) was an American actor, known for his lengthy career in film and television.

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Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)

Sunday Bloody Sunday is a 1971 British drama film directed by John Schlesinger, written by Penelope Gilliatt, and starring Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head and Peggy Ashcroft.

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Sunset Boulevard (film)

Sunset Boulevard (styled in the main title on-screen as SUNSET BLVD.) is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett.

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Susan Orlean

Susan Orlean (born October 31, 1955) is an American journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book.

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Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls (1846–1847).

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 musical slasher film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by John Logan, based on the stage musical of the same name by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, which in turn is based on the 1970 play Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond.

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Sweet and Lowdown

Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 American comedy-drama mockumentary written and directed by Woody Allen.

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Sydney Schanberg

Sydney Hillel Schanberg (January 17, 1934 July 9, 2016) was an American journalist who was best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia.

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Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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T. E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

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Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, and Albert Brooks.

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Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies is a 1983 American drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, featuring Robert Duvall as singer-songwriter Mac Sledge in a performance that won him an Academy Award.

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Terrence Howard

Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American actor.

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Tevye

Tevye the Dairyman, also translated as Tevye the Milkman (טבֿיה דער מילכיקער, Tevye der milkhiker) is the fictional narrator and protagonist of a series of short stories by Sholem Aleichem, and their various adaptations, the most famous being the 1964 stage musical Fiddler on the Roof and its 1971 film adaptation.

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The Affairs of Cellini

The Affairs of Cellini is a 1934 American historical comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Frank Morgan, Constance Bennett, Fredric March, Fay Wray, and Louis Calhern.

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The African Queen (film)

The African Queen is a 1951 adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester.

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The Apartment

The Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond.

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The Apostle

The Apostle is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Robert Duvall, who stars in the title role.

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The Aviator (2004 film)

The Aviator is a 2004 American epic biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan.

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The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful is a 1952 American melodrama that tells the story of a film producer who alienates everyone around him.

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The Bells of St. Mary's

The Bells of St.

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The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives (also known as Glory for Me and Home Again) is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo and Harold Russell.

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The Big House (1930 film)

The Big House is a 1930 American pre-Code prison drama film directed by George Hill, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and starring Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone and Robert Montgomery.

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The Big Pond

The Big Pond is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film based on a 1928 play of the same name by George Middleton and A. E. Thomas.

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The Boys from Brazil (film)

The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle.

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The Buddy Holly Story

The Buddy Holly Story is a 1978 American biographical musical drama film directed by Steve Rash which tells the life and career of rock and roll musician Buddy Holly.

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The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)

The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American military trial film directed by Edward Dmytryk, produced by Stanley Kramer, and starring Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Robert Francis, and Fred MacMurray.

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The Champ (1931 film)

The Champ is a 1931 American pre-Code film starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper and directed by King Vidor from a screenplay by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock.

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The China Syndrome

The China Syndrome is a 1979 American disaster thriller film directed by James Bridges and written by Bridges, Mike Gray, and T.S. Cook.

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The Circus (1928 film)

The Circus is a 1928 silent romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin.

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The Cisco Kid

The Cisco Kid is a fictional character found in numerous film, radio, television and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his 1907 short story "The Caballero's Way", published in Everybody's Magazine, v17, July 1907, as well as in the collection Heart of the West (1907).

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The Citadel (1938 film)

The Citadel is a 1938 British drama film based on the 1937 novel of the same name by A. J. Cronin.

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The Color of Money

The Color of Money is a 1986 American sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese.

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The Crying Game

The Crying Game is a 1992 crime thriller film, written and directed by Neil Jordan, produced by Stephen Woolley and Nik Powell, and starring Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, Ralph Brown, and Forest Whitaker.

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The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after fighting in the Vietnam War.

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The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones is a 1958 American drama film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners, one white and one black, who are shackled together and who must co-operate in order to survive.

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The Dresser (1983 film)

The Dresser is a 1983 British drama film directed by Peter Yates and adapted by Ronald Harwood from his 1980 play The Dresser.

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The Elephant Man (film)

The Elephant Man is a 1980 biographical drama film based on the life of Joseph Merrick (referred to as "John" in the film), a severely deformed man who lived in London in the late 19th century.

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The English Patient (film)

The English Patient is a 1996 epic romantic war drama directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje, and produced by Saul Zaentz.

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The Entertainer (film)

The Entertainer is a 1960 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Tony Richardson, produced by Harry Saltzman and adapted by John Osborne and Nigel Kneale from Osborne’s stage play of the same name.

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The Fisher King

The Fisher King is a 1991 American fantasy comedy-drama film written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam.

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The French Connection (film)

The French Connection is a 1971 American neo-noirSilver & Ward 1992 action thriller film directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey.

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The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same title.

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The Godfather Part II

The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American epic crime film.

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The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross, written by Neil Simon and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings and Paul Benedict.

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The Graduate

The Graduate is a 1967 American independent romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College.

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The Grapes of Wrath (film)

The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford.

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The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator is a 1940 American anti-war, political satire, and black comedy film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films.

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The Great Santini

The Great Santini is a 1979 American drama film written and directed by Lewis John Carlino.

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The Green Goddess (1930 film)

The Green Goddess is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Alfred E. Green.

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The Guardsman

The Guardsman is a 1931 American pre-Code film based on the play Testőr by Ferenc Molnár.

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The Hasty Heart

The Hasty Heart is a 1949 war drama film, an Anglo-American co-production starring Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, and Richard Todd and directed by Vincent Sherman.

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The Hospital

The Hospital is a 1971 American absurdist satirical black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott as Dr.

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The Hurricane (1999 film)

The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison.

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The Informer (1935 film)

The Informer is a 1935 American drama thriller film directed and produced by John Ford, adapted by Dudley Nichols from the 1925 novel of the same title by Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty.

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The Insider (film)

The Insider is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Mann, from a screenplay adapted by Eric Roth and Mann based on Marie Brenner's 1996 Vanity Fair article "The Man Who Knew Too Much".

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The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story is a 1946 American biographical musical film, a fictionalized account of the life of singer Al Jolson.

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The Killing Fields (film)

The Killing Fields is a 1984 British biographical drama film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which is based on the experiences of two journalists: Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg.

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The King and I (1956 film)

The King and I is a 1956 American musical film made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck.

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The Last Angry Man

The Last Angry Man is a 1959 American drama film that tells the story of a television producer who profiles the life of a physician.

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The Last Command (1928 film)

The Last Command is a 1928 silent romantic drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz from a story by Lajos Bíró.

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The Last Detail

The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, from a screenplay by Robert Towne, based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Darryl Ponicsan.

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The Last King of Scotland (film)

The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 historical drama film directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay by Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock.

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The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 British comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T. E. B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass.

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The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 American biographical film about the 19th-century French author Émile Zola starring Paul Muni and directed by William Dieterle.

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The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman.

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The Love Parade

The Love Parade is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, involving the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania (MacDonald) and her consort, Count Alfred Renard (Chevalier).

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The Madness of King George

The Madness of King George is a 1994 British biographical comedy drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own 1991 play The Madness of George III.

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The Magnificent Yankee (1950 film)

The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 American biographical film adapted by Emmet Lavery from his 1946 play of the same title, which was in turn adapted from the 1942 book Mr.

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The Man in the Glass Booth

The Man in the Glass Booth is a 1975 American drama film directed by Arthur Hiller.

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The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American independent drama film noir directed by Otto Preminger, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren.

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The Mark (1961 film)

The Mark is a 1961 British film about a convicted child molester, now out of prison, who is suspected in the sexual assault of another child.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Patent Leather Kid

The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 American silent drama film about a self-centered boxer who performs a heroic act in World War I that severely wounds him.

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The Patriot (1928 film)

The Patriot is a 1928 semi-biographical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The People vs. Larry Flynt

The People vs.

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The Philadelphia Story (film)

The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 American romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart and Ruth Hussey.

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The Pianist (2002 film)

The Pianist is a 2002 biographical film produced and directed by Roman Polanski, with a script by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody.

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The Pied Piper (1942 film)

The Pied Piper is a 1942 American film in which an Englishman on vacation in France is caught up in the German invasion of that country, and finds himself taking an ever-growing group of children to safety.

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The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American sports drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan.

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The Prince of Tides

The Prince of Tides is a 1991 American romantic drama film directed and co-produced by Barbra Streisand, from a screenplay written by Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston, based on Conroy's 1986 novel of the same name.

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The Private Life of Henry VIII

The Private Life of Henry VIII is a 1933 British film directed and co-produced by Alexander Korda and starring Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon and Elsa Lanchester.

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The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of is a 2006 American biographical drama film directed by Gabriele Muccino and starring Will Smith as Chris Gardner, a homeless salesman.

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The Quiet American (2002 film)

The Quiet American is a 2002 political drama film directed by Phillip Noyce, and stars Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen.

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The Remains of the Day (film)

The Remains of the Day is a 1993 drama film adapted from the Booker Prize-winning 1989 novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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The Rogue Song

The Rogue Song is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic and musical film that tells the story of a Russian bandit who falls in love with a princess, but takes his revenge on her when her brother rapes and kills his sister.

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The Royal Family of Broadway

The Royal Family of Broadway is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by George Cukor and Cyril Gardner and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The Ruling Class (film)

The Ruling Class is a 1972 British black comedy film.

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The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is a 1966 American Cold War comedy film directed and produced by Norman Jewison for United Artists.

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The Sand Pebbles (film)

The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American epic war film directed by Robert Wise in Panavision.

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The Search

The Search is a 1948 American film directed by Fred Zinnemann that tells the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-World War II Europe.

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The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.

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The Silence of the Lambs (film)

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name.

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The Sting

The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw).

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The Story of Louis Pasteur

The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 American black-and-white biographical film from Warner Bros., produced by Henry Blanke, directed by William Dieterle, that stars Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise and Donald Woods, and Paul Muni as the renowned scientist who developed major advances in microbiology, which revolutionized agriculture and medicine.

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The Straight Story

The Straight Story is a 1999 biographical road drama film directed by David Lynch.

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The Stunt Man

The Stunt Man is a 1980 American satirical psychological anti-war action comedy film starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback and Barbara Hershey, and directed by Richard Rush.

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The Thin Man (film)

The Thin Man is a 1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett.

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The Tramp

The Tramp (Charlot in several languages), also known as the Little Tramp, was English actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film.

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The Verdict

The Verdict is a 1982 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by David Mamet, adapted from Barry Reed's 1980 novel of the same name.

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The Way of All Flesh (1927 film)

The Way of All Flesh is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Victor Fleming, written by Lajos Bíró, Jules Furthman, and Julian Johnson from a story by Perley Poore Sheehan.

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The Yearling (1946 film)

The Yearling is a 1946 American Family Western film directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

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There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair.

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This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life is a 1963 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson.

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Thomas Becket

Thomas Becket, also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (21 December 1119 or 1120 – 29 December 1170), served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then notably as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his death in 1170.

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Thomas More

Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, amateur theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist.

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Thunderbolt (1929 film)

Thunderbolt (also released as At The Gates of Death) is a 1929 American pre-Code proto-noir film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall and Eugenie Besserer.

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To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American coming-of-age legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham, with Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, James Anderson, and Brock Peters in supporting roles.

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Tom Conti

Tommaso Antonio Conti (born 22 November 1941) is a Scottish actor.

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Tom Courtenay

Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (born 25 February 1937) is an English actor.

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Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer.

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Tom Hanks

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Academy Award for Best Actor and Tom Hanks are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Tom Hulce

Thomas Edward Hulce (born December 6, 1953) is an American actor and theatre producer.

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Tom Jones (1963 film)

Tom Jones is a 1963 British period comedy film, an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic 1749 novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.

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Tom Wilkinson

Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson (5 February 1948 – 30 December 2023) was an English actor.

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Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor.

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Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality leading roles in a Broadway play.

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Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925September 29, 2010) was an American actor with a career that spanned six decades, achieving the height of his popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Tootsie

Tootsie is a 1982 American satirical romantic comedy film directed by Sydney Pollack from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal and a story by Gelbart and Don McGuire.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Training Day

Training Day is a 2001 American crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer.

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Trevor Howard

Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) was an English stage, film, and television actor.

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True Grit (1969 film)

True Grit is a 1969 American Western film directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, Glen Campbell as La Boeuf and Kim Darby as Mattie Ross.

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Truman Capote

Truman Garcia Capote (born Truman Streckfus Persons; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.

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Twelve O'Clock High

Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 American war film directed by Henry King and based on the novel of the same name by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, Jr. It stars Gregory Peck as Brig.

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Ulee's Gold

Ulee's Gold is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Victor Nuñez and starring Peter Fonda in the title role.

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Unforgiven

Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Toronto Press

The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press.

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Victor McLaglen

Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British-American actor and boxer. Academy Award for Best Actor and Victor McLaglen are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Peter Mortensen Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is an American actor, musician, and filmmaker.

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Vito Corleone

Vito Corleone (born Vito Andolini) is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and in the first two of Francis Ford Coppola's film trilogy.

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Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata! is a 1952 American Western film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando.

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Wag the Dog

Wag the Dog is a 1997 American political satire black comedy film produced and directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro.

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Walk the Line

Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by James Mangold.

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Wall Street (1987 film)

Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film, directed and co-written by Oliver Stone, which stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and Martin Sheen.

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Wallace Beery

Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American film and stage actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Wallace Beery are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Walter Huston

Walter Thomas Huston (April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian actor and singer.

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Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow; October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American screen and stage actor, known for his "hangdog face" and for playing world-weary characters.

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Walter Pidgeon

Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian-American actor.

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Warner Baxter

Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Academy Award for Best Actor and Warner Baxter are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Warren Beatty

Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Watch on the Rhine

Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 American drama film directed by Herman Shumlin and starring Bette Davis and Paul Lukas.

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Władysław Szpilman

Władysław Szpilman (5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) was a Polish Jewish pianist, classical composer and Holocaust survivor.

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What's Love Got to Do with It (1993 film)

What's Love Got to Do with It is a 1993 American biographical film based on the life of American singer-songwriter Tina Turner.

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Wild Is the Wind (1957 film)

Wild is the Wind is a 1957 American drama film directed by George Cukor and starring Anna Magnani, Anthony Quinn, and Anthony Franciosa.

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Will Kane

William "Will" Kane is the protagonist of the film High Noon (1952).

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Will Smith

Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, rapper and film producer. Academy Award for Best Actor and Will Smith are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Willem Dafoe

William James "Willem" Dafoe (Archived at and the: born July 22, 1955) is an American actor.

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William Bligh

Vice-Admiral William Bligh (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was a British officer in the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

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William Holden

William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. Academy Award for Best Actor and William Holden are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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William Hurt

William McChord Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022) was an American actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and William Hurt are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar (billed on-screen as William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar) is a 1953 American film adaptation of the Shakespearean play, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by John Houseman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Willy Loman

William "Willy" Loman is a fictional character and the protagonist of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, which debuted on Broadway with Lee J. Cobb playing Loman at the Morosco Theatre on February 10, 1949.

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Wilson (1944 film)

Wilson is a 1944 biographical film about Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955.

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Witness (1985 film)

Witness is a 1985 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Peter Weir.

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Witness for the Prosecution (1957 film)

Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, and Elsa Lanchester.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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Woody Allen

Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades.

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Woody Harrelson

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor.

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Wuthering Heights (1939 film)

Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American romantic period drama film directed by William Wyler, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier and David Niven, and based on the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

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Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway".

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Yul Brynner

Yuliy Borisovich Briner (Юлий Борисович Бринер; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985), known professionally as Yul Brynner, was a Russian-born actor. Academy Award for Best Actor and Yul Brynner are best Actor Academy Award winners.

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Zorba the Greek (film)

Zorba the Greek (Αλέξης Ζορμπάς, Alexis Zorbas) is a 1964 drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Greek Cypriot filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis.

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...And Justice for All (film)

...And Justice for All is a 1979 American legal drama film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Al Pacino, Jack Warden and John Forsythe.

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10th Academy Awards

The 10th Academy Awards were held on March 10, 1938 to honor films released in 1937, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California and hosted by Bob Burns.

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11th Academy Awards

The 11th Academy Awards were held on February 23, 1939, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and hosted by Frank Capra.

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12th Academy Awards

The 12th Academy Awards ceremony, held on February 29, 1940 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best in film for 1939 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

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13th Academy Awards

The 13th Academy Awards were held on February 27, 1941, to honor films released in 1940.

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1927 in film

The following is an overview of 1927 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1928 in film

The following is an overview of 1928 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1929 in film

This is an overview of 1929 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1930 in film

The following is an overview of 1930 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1931 in film

The following is an overview of 1931 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1932 in film

The following is an overview of 1932 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1933 in film

The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.

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1934 in film

The following is an overview of 1934 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1935 in film

The following is an overview of 1935 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1936 in film

The following is an overview of 1936 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1937 in film

The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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1938 in film

The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.

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1939 in film

The year 1939 in film is widely considered the greatest year in film history.

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1940 in film

The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia.

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1941 in film

The year 1941 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Citizen Kane.

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1942 in film

The year of 1942 in film involved some significant events, in particular the release of a film consistently rated as one of the greatest of all time, Casablanca.

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1943 in film

The year 1943 in film featured various significant events for the film industry.

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1944 in film

The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.

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1945 in film

The year 1945 in film involved some significant events.

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1946 in film

The year 1946 in film involved some significant events, including the release of the decade's highest-grossing film, The Best Years of Our Lives, which won seven Academy Awards.

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1947 in film

The year 1947 in film involved some significant events.

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1948 in film

The year 1948 in film involved some significant events.

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1949 in film

The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.

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1950 in film

The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.

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1951 in film

The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.

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1952 in film

The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.

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1953 in film

The year 1953 in film involved some significant events.

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1954 in film

The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.

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1955 in film

The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.

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1956 in film

The following is an overview of 1956 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1957 in film

The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.

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1958 in film

The year 1958 in film in the US involved some significant events, including the hit musicals South Pacific and Gigi, the latter of which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

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1959 in film

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.

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1960 in film

The year 1960 in film involved some significant events.

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1961 in film

The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.

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1962 in film

The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with Lawrence of Arabia winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

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1963 in film

The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

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1964 in film

The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, including three highly successful musical films, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

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1965 in film

The year 1965 in film involved several significant events, with The Sound of Music topping the U.S. box office and winning five Academy Awards.

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1966 in film

The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.

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1967 in film

The year 1967 in film involved some significant events.

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1968 in film

The year 1968 in film involved some significant events, with the release of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as two highly successful musical films, Funny Girl and Oliver!, the former earning Barbra Streisand the Academy Award for Best Actress (an honour she shared with Katharine Hepburn for her role in The Lion in Winter) and the latter winning both the Best Picture and Best Director awards.

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1969 in film

The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and Midnight Cowboy, a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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1970 in film

The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.

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1971 in film

The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.

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1972 in film

The year 1972 in film involved several significant events.

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1973 in film

The significant events of the year 1973 in film are covered in this page.

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1974 in film

The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.

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1975 in film

The year 1975 in film involved some significant events.

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1976 in film

The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.

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1977 in film

The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.

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1978 in film

The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.

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1979 in film

The year 1979 in film involved many significant events.

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1980 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1980 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1981 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1981 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1982 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1982 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1983 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1983 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1984 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1985 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1985 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

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1986 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1986 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1987 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1987 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1988 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1988 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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1989 in film

The year 1989 involved many significant films.

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1990 in film

The year 1990 in film involved many significant events as shown below.

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1991 in film

The year 1991 in film involved numerous significant events.

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1992 in film

The year 1992 in film involved many significant film releases.

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1993 in film

The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive, and The Firm.

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1994 in film

This is a list of films released in 1994.

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1995 in film

This is a list of films released in 1995.

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1996 in film

The year 1996 involved many significant films.

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1997 in film

The year 1997 in film involved many significant films, including Titanic, The Full Monty, Gattaca, Donnie Brasco, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential, The Fifth Element, Nil by Mouth, The Spanish Prisoner, and the beginning of the film studio DreamWorks.

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1998 in film

In 1998 there were many significant films which were released, including Shakespeare in Love, Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, American History X, The Truman Show, Primary Colors, ''Rushmore'', Rush Hour, There's Something About Mary, The Big Lebowski, and Terrence Malick's directorial return in The Thin Red Line.

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1999 in film

The year 1999 in film included Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, the science-fiction film The Matrix, the animated works The Iron Giant, Toy Story 2, Tarzan, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the Best Picture-winner American Beauty, and the well-received The Green Mile.

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1st Academy Awards

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from 1 August 1927 to 31 July 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

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2000 in film

The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.

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2001 in film

The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first installments of the Harry Potter, Fast & Furious, Spy Kids, Monsters, Inc. and Shrek franchises, and The Lord of the Rings and Ocean's trilogies.

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2002 in film

2002 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre- specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts.

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2003 in film

2003 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre- specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts.

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2004 in film

2004 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts.

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2005 in film

2005 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, notable deaths and film debuts.

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2006 in film

The following is an overview of events in 2006, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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2007 in film

The following is an overview of events in 2007 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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2008 in film

The year 2008 involved many major film events.

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22nd Academy Awards

The 22nd Academy Awards were held on March 23, 1950, at the RKO Pantages Theatre, honoring the films in 1949.

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23rd Academy Awards

The 23rd Academy Awards were held on March 29, 1951, honoring the films of 1950.

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24th Academy Awards

The 24th Academy Awards were held on March 20, 1952, honoring the films of 1951.

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25th Academy Awards

The 25th Academy Awards were held on March 19, 1953 at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, and the NBC International Theatre in New York City, to honor the films of 1952.

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26th Academy Awards

The 26th Academy Awards were held on March 25, 1954, simultaneously at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood (hosted by Donald O'Connor), and the NBC Center Theatre in New York City (hosted by Fredric March).

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27th Academy Awards

The 27th Academy Awards were held on March 30, 1955 to honor the best films of 1954, hosted by Bob Hope at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood with Thelma Ritter hosting from the NBC Century Theatre in New York City.

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28th Academy Awards

The 28th Academy Awards were held on March 21, 1956 to honor the films of 1955, at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

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2nd Academy Awards

The 2nd Academy Awards, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) on April 3, 1930, at an awards banquet in the Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, honored the best films released between August 1, 1928, and July 31, 1929.

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32nd Academy Awards

The 32nd Academy Awards ceremony was held on April 4, 1960, at the RKO Pantages Theatre, to honor the films of 1959.

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33rd Academy Awards

The 33rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1960, were held on April 17, 1961, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.

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34th Academy Awards

The 34th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1961, were held on April 9, 1962, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.

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35th Academy Awards

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.

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36th Academy Awards

The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were held on April 13, 1964, hosted by Jack Lemmon at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.

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37th Academy Awards

The 37th Academy Awards were held on April 5, 1965, to honor film achievements of 1964.

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38th Academy Awards

The 38th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1965, were held on April 18, 1966, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.

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39th Academy Awards

The 39th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1966, were held on April 10, 1967, hosted by Bob Hope at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.

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3rd Academy Awards

The 3rd Academy Awards were held on November 5, 1930 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), awarding films released between August 1, 1929 and July 31, 1930.

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40th Academy Awards

The 40th Academy Awards were held on April 10, 1968, to honor film achievements of 1967.

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41st Academy Awards

The 41st Academy Awards were presented on April 14, 1969, to honor the films of 1968.

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42nd Academy Awards

The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California.

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43rd Academy Awards

The 43rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was held on April 15, 1971, and took place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to honor the best films of 1970.

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44th Academy Awards

The 44th Academy Awards were presented April 10, 1972, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.

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45th Academy Awards

The 45th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday, March 27, 1973, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, honoring the best films of 1972.

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46th Academy Awards

The 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday, April 2, 1974, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California.

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47th Academy Awards

The 47th Academy Awards were presented Tuesday, April 8, 1975, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, honoring the best films of 1974.

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48th Academy Awards

The 48th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 29, 1976, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California.

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49th Academy Awards

The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California.

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4th Academy Awards

The 4th Academy Awards were held on November 10, 1931 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, awarding films released between August 1, 1930, and July 31, 1931.

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50th Academy Awards

The 50th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1977 and took place on April 3, 1978, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.

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51st Academy Awards

The 51st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1978 and took place on April 9, 1979, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 7:00 p.m. PST / 10:00 p.m. EST.

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52nd Academy Awards

The 52nd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1979 and took place on April 14, 1980, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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53rd Academy Awards

The 53rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1980 and took place on March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 7:00 p.m. PST / 10:00 p.m. EST.

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54th Academy Awards

The 54th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1981 and took place on March 29, 1982, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.

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55th Academy Awards

The 55th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1983, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

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56th Academy Awards

The 56th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1983 and took place on April 9, 1984, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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57th Academy Awards

The 57th Academy Awards were presented on March 25, 1985, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, and were hosted by Jack Lemmon.

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58th Academy Awards

The 58th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 24, 1986, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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59th Academy Awards

The 59th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 30, 1987, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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5th Academy Awards

The 5th Academy Awards were held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, hosted by Conrad Nagel.

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60th Academy Awards

The 60th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on April 11, 1988, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PDT.

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61st Academy Awards

The 61st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1988 and took place on Wednesday, March 29, 1989, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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62nd Academy Awards

The 62nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1989 and took place on March 26, 1990, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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63rd Academy Awards

The 63rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 25, 1991, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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64th Academy Awards

The 64th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1991 in the United States and took place on March 30, 1992, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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65th Academy Awards

The 65th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1992 in the United States and took place on March 29, 1993, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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66th Academy Awards

The 66th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1993 and took place on March 21, 1994, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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67th Academy Awards

The 67th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place on March 27, 1995, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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68th Academy Awards

The 68th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1995 in the United States and took place on March 25, 1996, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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69th Academy Awards

The 69th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place on March 24, 1997, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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6th Academy Awards

The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934, to honor films released between August 1, 1932 and December 31, 1933, at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

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70th Academy Awards

The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 23, 1998, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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71st Academy Awards

The 71st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best of 1998 in film and took place on March 21, 1999, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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72nd Academy Awards

The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1999 and took place on March 26, 2000, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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73rd Academy Awards

The 73rd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best of 2000 in film and took place on March 25, 2001, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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74th Academy Awards

The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

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75th Academy Awards

The 75th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

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76th Academy Awards

The 76th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2003 and took place on February 29, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

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77th Academy Awards

The 77th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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78th Academy Awards

The 78th Academy Awards, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST.

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79th Academy Awards

The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2006 and took place February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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7th Academy Awards

The 7th Academy Awards, honoring the best films for 1934, was held on February 27, 1935, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

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8th Academy Awards

The 8th Academy Awards to honour films released during 1935 were held on March 5, 1936, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California and hosted by AMPAS president Frank Capra.

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9th Academy Awards

The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California to honor films released in 1936.

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See also

Academy Awards

• Academy Award for Best Actor
• Academy Award for Best Actress
• Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
• Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
• Academy Award for Best Cinematography
• Academy Award for Best Costume Design
• Academy Award for Best Director
• Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
• Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film
• Academy Award for Best Film Editing
• Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
• Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
• Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
• Academy Award for Best Original Score
• Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
• Academy Award for Best Original Song
• Academy Award for Best Picture
• Academy Award for Best Production Design
• Academy Award for Best Sound
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
• Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
• Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film
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References

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