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Saturday, June 12, 2010

BEST ACTRESS (oscar) 1928-2009)

BEST ACTRESS



1928 Janet Gaynor (7th Heaven; Street Angel; Sunrise)

1929 Mary Pickford (Coquette)
1930 Norma Shearer (The Divorcee)
1931 Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)
1932 Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)
1933 Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory)
1934 Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night)
1935 Bette Davis (Dangerous)
1936 Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld)
1937 Luise Rainer (The Good Earth)
1938 Bette Davis (Jezebel)
1939 Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind)
1940 Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle)
1941 Joan Fontaine (Suspicion)
1942 Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver)
1943 Jennifer Jones (The Song of Bernadette)
1944 Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight)
1945 Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce)
1946 Olivia de Havilland (To Each His Own)
1947 Loretta Young (The Farmer’s Daughter)
1948 Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda)
1949 Olivia de Havilland (The Heiress)
1950 Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)
1951 Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1952 Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba)
1953 Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)
1954 Grace Kelly (The Country Girl)
1955 Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo)
1956 Ingrid Bergman (Anastasia)
1957 Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve)
1958 Susan Hayward (I Want to Live!)
1959 Simone Signoret (Room at the Top)
1960 Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8)
1961 Sophia Loren (Two Women)
1962 Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker)
1963 Patricia Neal (Hud)
1964 Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins)
1965 Julie Christie (Darling)
1966 Elizabeth Taylor (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
1967 Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner)
1968 Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter);
Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) (tied)

1969 Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1970 Glenda Jackson (Women in Love)
1971 Jane Fonda (Klute)
1972 Liza Minnelli (Cabaret)
1973 Glenda Jackson (A Touch of Class)
1974 Ellen Burstyn (Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore)
1975 Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
1976 Faye Dunaway (Network)
1977 Diane Keaton (Annie Hall)
1978 Jane Fonda (Coming Home)
1979 Sally Field (Norma Rae)
1980 Sissy Spacek (Coal Miner’s Daughter)
1981 Katharine Hepburn (On Golden Pond)
1982 Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice)
1983 Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment)
1984 Sally Field (Places in the Heart)
1985 Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful)
1986 Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God)
1987 Cher (Moonstruck)
1988 Jodie Foster (The Accused)
1989 Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy)
1990 Kathy Bates (Misery)
1991 Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)
1992 Emma Thompson (Howards End)
1993 Holly Hunter (The Piano)
1994 Jessica Lange (Blue Sky)
1995 Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking)
1996 Frances McDormand (Fargo)
1997 Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets)
1998 Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)
1999 Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry)
2000 Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich)
2001 Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball)
2002 Nicole Kidman (The Hours)
2003 Charlize Theron (Monster)
2004 Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby)
2005 Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
2006 Helen Mirren (The Queen)
2007 Marion Cotillard (La Vie en rose)
2008 Kate Winslet (The Reader)
2009 Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)

BEST ACTORS (OSCAR)1928-2008




BEST ACTOR

1928 Emil Jannings (The Last Command; The Way of All Flesh)
1929 Warner Baxter (In Old Arizona)
1930 George Arliss (Disraeli)
1931 Lionel Barrymore (A Free Soul)
1932 Wallace Beery (The Champ); Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) (tied)
1933 Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII)

1934 Clark Gable (It Happened One Night)
1935 Victor McLaglen (The Informer)
1936 Paul Muni (The Story of Louis Pasteur)
1937 Spencer Tracy (Captains Courageous)
1938 Spencer Tracy (Boys Town)
1939 Robert Donat (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
1940 James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)
1941 Gary Cooper (Sergeant York)

1942 James Cagney (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1943 Paul Lukas (Watch on the Rhine)
1944 Bing Crosby (Going My Way)
1945 Ray Milland (The Lost Weekend)
1946 Fredric March (The Best Years of Our Lives)
1947 Ronald Colman (A Double Life)
1948 Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)
1949 Broderick Crawford (All the King’s Men)
1950 José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac)
1951 Humphrey Bogart (The African Queen)
1952 Gary Cooper (High Noon)
1953 William Holden (Stalag 17)
1954 Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront)
1955 Ernest Borgnine (Marty)
1956 Yul Brynner (The King and I)
1957 Alec Guinness (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
1958 David Niven (Separate Tables)
1959 Charlton Heston (Ben-Hur)
1960 Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)
1961 Maximilian Schell (Judgment at Nuremberg)
1962 Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1963 Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field)
1964 Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady)
1965 Lee Marvin (Cat Ballou)

1966 Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)
1967 Rod Steiger (In the Heat of the Night)
1968 Cliff Robertson (Charly)
1969 John Wayne (True Grit)
1970 George C. Scott (Patton) (declined)
1971 Gene Hackman (The French Connection)
1972 Marlon Brando (The Godfather) (declined)
1973 Jack Lemmon (Save the Tiger)
1974 Art Carney (Harry and Tonto)
1975 Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
1976 Peter Finch (Network)1
1977 Richard Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl)
1978 Jon Voight (Coming Home)
1979 Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer)
1980 Robert De Niro (Raging Bull)
1981 Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond)

1982 Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
1983 Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)
1984 F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus)
1985 William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)

1986 Paul Newman (The Color of Money)
1987 Michael Douglas (Wall Street)

1988 Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man)
1989 Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot)
1990 Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune)
1991 Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
1992 Al Pacino (Scent of a Woman)
1993 Tom Hanks (Philadelphia)
1994 Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)
1995 Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)

1996 Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
1997 Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets)
1998 Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful)
1999 Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)
2000 Russell Crowe (Gladiator)

2001 Denzel Washington (Training Day)
2002 Adrien Brody (The Pianist)
2003 Sean Penn (Mystic River)
2004 Jamie Foxx (Ray)

2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
2006 Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
2007 Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
2008 Sean Penn (Milk)
2009 Jeff Bridges(crazy heart)

Best picture (Oscars), 1928–2008


Academy Awards (Oscars),


The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was formed in 1927 and first awarded the Academy Awards of Merit in May 1929. The honored categories have varied over the years, but best picture, actor, actress, and director have been awarded since the beginning. Awards for supporting actor and actress were added for the films of 1936 and best foreignlanguage film for 1947. The ceremony is generally held in the early part of the year following the release of films under consideration; the latest Oscars were awarded 22 Feb 2009 in Los Angeles. Award: goldplated statuette of a man with a sword. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Web


Academy Awards (Oscars), 1928–2008


BEST PICTURE
1928 Wings
1929 The Broadway Melody
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 Cimarron
1932 Grand Hotel
1933 Cavalcade
1934 It Happened One Night
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty
1936 The Great Ziegfeld
1937 The Life of Emile Zola
1938 You Can’t Take It with You
1939 Gone with the Wind
1940 Rebecca
1941 How Green Was My Valley
1942 Mrs. Miniver
1943 Casablanca
1944 Going My Way
1945 The Lost Weekend
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 Gentleman’s Agreement
1948 Hamlet
1949 All the King’s Men
1950 All About Eve
1951 An American in Paris
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
1953 From Here to Eternity
1954 On the Waterfront
1955 Marty
1956 Around the World in 80 Days
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958 Gigi
1959 Ben-Hur
1960 The Apartment
1961 West Side Story
1962 Lawrence of Arabia
1963 Tom Jones
1964 My Fair Lady
1965 The Sound of Music
1966 A Man for All Seasons
1967 In the Heat of the Night
1968 Oliver!
1969 Midnight Cowboy
1970 Patton
1971 The French Connection
1972 The Godfather
1973 The Sting
1974 The Godfather Part II
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976 Rocky
1977 Annie Hall
1978 The Deer Hunter
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 Ordinary People
1981 Chariots of Fire
1982 Gandhi
1983 Terms of Endearment
1984 Amadeus
1985 Out of Africa
1986 Platoon
1987 The Last Emperor
1988 Rain Man
1989 Driving Miss Daisy
1990 Dances with Wolves
1991 The Silence of the Lambs
1992 Unforgiven
1993 Schindler’s List
1994 Forrest Gump
1995 Braveheart
1996 The English Patient
1997 Titanic
1998 Shakespeare in Love
1999 American Beauty
2000 Gladiator
2001 A Beautiful Mind
2002 Chicago
2003 The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King
2004 Million Dollar Baby
2005 Crash
2006 The Departed
2007 No Country for Old Men
2008 Slum dog Millionaire
2009 hurt-locker