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  Mercedes Ruehl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in "The Fisher King".
Won the 1992 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for her performance in "The Fisher King".
Won the 1989 National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Married to the Mob".
www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mercedes_Ruehl   (394 words)

  
 London theatre awards The Olivier Awards for 1982 to 1986
Best Actress in a Revival: Margaret Tyzack in WHO’S AFRIAD OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Best Actress in a Revival: Cheryl Campbell in THE DOLL’S HOUSE
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Anna Massey in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
www.albemarle-london.com /awards/oliv8286.html   (661 words)

  
 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actor Oscars are traditionally given to actors who stand out in small roles.
See the Best Supporting Actress section for seven actresses who have duplicated the feat.) In 1944, Barry Fitzgerald received simultaneous nominations in lead and supporting categories - for the same role (something that the Academy would prevent in future years by not allowing a double nomination for the same performance).
A win for Sofia Coppola for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation (2003) made her part of the second family of three-generation Oscar winners (her father is a five-time winner and her grandfather, Carmine Coppola, won for musical score on The Godfather Part II (1974)).
www.filmsite.org /bestsuppactor.html   (3054 words)

  
 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress
Teresa Wright (Best Actress for The Pride of the Yankees (1942) and Best Supporting Actress for Mrs.
Susan Kohner (daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar) was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her role as a light-skinned fl girl in Imitation of Life (1959).
Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in House of Sand and Fog (2003).
www.filmsite.org /bestsuppactress.html   (2598 words)

  
 Lee's Movie Info - Oscar Favorites - Actress in a Supporting Role
She starred in such independent type movies as Requiem for a Dream, but I never figured that she would be the frontrunner for actress in a supporting role someday, but here she is, co-starring in the movie that I figure to be the winner this year.
She most recently (1999) won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Passion of Ayn Rand, so it should be no surprise that she is nominated for her role in the ensemble cast dream that is Gosford Park.
An actress since the 50's, she will most likely be known to the majority of people as Professor McGonagall in the smash hit, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
www.leesmovieinfo.com /special/FavsSupActressEugene.html   (679 words)

  
 awards
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama for: "Bangkok Hilton"
Best Actress in a Supporting Role for: Emerald City
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for: Billy Bathgate
www.angelfire.com /celeb2/nkidman01/award.htm   (92 words)

  
 The Daily University Star | ENTERTAINMENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Actor in a Leading Role: Jack Nicholson's role in "About Schmidt" proves that he still has what it takes to be an Oscar winner.
Actress in a Leading Role: Salma Hayek definitely needs to win this award for her exquisite portrayal in "Frida." Maybe she'll be a bit more refined than Halle Berry was last year.
Actress in a Supporting Role: I had a hard time making this decision, but either way I went, the award still goes to someone from the cast of "Chicago." Catherine Zeta-Jones did a great job in her role as a killer singer, pun intended, and should get the Oscar.
www.universitystar.com /03/03/20/ent2.html   (502 words)

  
 Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a 2002 Film Nominees (2002 CMA Awards)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a 2002 Film Nominees (2002 CMA Awards)
Awarded to the actress deemed by Cosmo voters to have achieved the best performance in a supporting role an eligible 2002 film.
It is theoretically possible for an actress to be nominated in both leading and supporting categories for the same performance.
www.cosmomovieawards.com /2002awards/a13.html   (124 words)

  
 Pinky 1949 Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Although Lena Horne and other fl actresses were considered for the role, Darryl F. Zanuck chose to cast a white actress for box-office reasons.
Because of its subject matter, Pinky was a controversial movie, and was even banned by the city of Marshall, Texas because it portrayed an interracial couple, a violation of the city's censorship code.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jeanne Crain), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Ethel Barrymore) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Ethel Waters).
www.wikiverse.org /pinky-1949-movie   (225 words)

  
 Academy Award for Best Actress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses.
Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.
The youngest ever nominee is Keisha Castle-Hughes, who was 13 when nominated for her role in Whale Rider in 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress   (573 words)

  
 Best Actress in a Supporting Role   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The casting director quizzed everyone she knew to name the best actress in the Iranian industry.
Of her character, Clarkson told Tribute, "I loved her beautiful sense of humor and ferociousness, and the fact that she let everything hang out, warts and all." Also outstanding as the lost soul in the touching film The Station Agent, this could be Clarkson’s lucky year.
Though it was a very low budget film, Hunter says her involvement as a producer gave her some control over the shooting schedule and to request minor rewrites of the raw script before she agreed to accept the part.
www.tributetv.com /tribute/0204/supporting_actress.htm   (494 words)

  
 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses.
Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Supporting Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.
For a list sorted by actress, please see List of Best Supporting Actress nominees.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actress   (677 words)

  
 Birth Parent Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ruehl won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Fisher King (1991).
Kate Mulgrew is an American actress, most famous for her role in Star Trek: Voyager.
She was born in Dubuque, Iowa on April 29, 1955 and is the second oldest of 8 siblings.
celebrities.adoption.com /famous/birth-parent-bios.html   (298 words)

  
 :: Oscar Race :: Best Supporting Actress ::
But, she's a good actress so if the role is any good, she's in.
The role here seems to be sort of villainish/ scene stealing type of thing so I'm guessing she gets the "best in show" honors.
Romance and Cigarettes could be a super role, if she really does sing well, and if the film is well received.
www.oscarrace.com /sactress.htm   (496 words)

  
 Best Supporting Actress in a 2003 Film - Cosmique Movie Awards
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a 2003 Film
Awarded to the actress deemed by Cosmo voters to have achieved the best performance in a supporting role an eligible 2003 film.
It is theoretically possible for an actress to be nominated in both leading and supporting categories for the same performance if the Academy voters seem divided about their interpretation of the role (as they did with Richard Gere in Chicago).
www.cosmomovieawards.com /2003awards/a16.htm   (152 words)

  
 Why Is Jennifer Connelly a Supporting Actress? By Chris Suellentrop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The 1,315 voting members in the Academy's actor's branch determine the nominees for best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, and best supporting actress.
If an actress gets enough votes to qualify in both the supporting and leading categories, she is nominated in the category for which she got more votes.
Classifying what are actually lead performances into the supporting categories clears the way for best actor and best actress awards to be awarded based on sentiment to people such as Julia Roberts, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and Paul Newman.
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 daily: Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hattie McDaniel, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Gone With the Wind (1939).
Denzel Washington, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Glory (1989).
Whoopi Goldberg, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Ghost (1990).
kevinrscott.typepad.com /daily/film   (300 words)

  
 Winona Ryder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nominated : Mermaids (Best Actress in a Supporting Role, 1991).
Won : The Age of Innocence (Best Actress in a Supporting Role, 1994).
Nominated : The Age of Innocence (Best Actress in a Supporting Role, 1994).
www.paralumun.com /movieryder.htm   (56 words)

  
 Helen Mirren @ Filmbug
On television, she is best known for her performance as Jane Tennison in the gritty detective series Prime Suspect, for which she has won BAFTA Best Television Actress awards several years running as well as a Best Actress Emmy.
More recently she was nominated for a Best Actress Tony in 2002 for Dance of Death.
On television, she is perhaps best known for her collaborations with Victoria Wood, including Dinner Ladies, Pat and Margaret and Victoria Wood as Seen on TV.
www.filmbug.com /db/3983   (339 words)

  
 Biography for Ellen Burstyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For this performance, she won the Oscar as Best Actress as well as the British award for the same category.
Said in the book "On Women Turning 50" that she did not attend the 1975 Academy Awards, where she won the Best Actress award for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), because she was certain she would win and could not handle the pressure and attention.
She earned additional Oscar nominations for her role as an adulterous wife in Same Time, Next Year (1978, recreating her Tony Award-winning stage performance) and as a faith healer in the underrated Resurrection (1980).
www.imdb.com /name/nm0000995/bio   (1252 words)

  
 Maria Grazia Cucinotta - Best of Sicily Magazine
It was that supporting role that introduced Cucinotta to an audience far beyond Italian shores.
In her first American film, she co-starred, with Vincent Spano and a distinguished supporting cast, in A Brooklyn State of Mind, which enjoyed a modest success in 1998.
Cucinotta has emerged, with the equally talented Monica Bellucci, another dark beauty, as one of the Italian actresses who is best known outside Italy --the kind of duo that hasn't been seen since Loren and Lollobrigida were discovered by foreign fans in the 1960s.
www.bestofsicily.com /mag/art28.htm   (1280 words)

  
 IMDb: Golden Satellite Awards: 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Drama
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television
us.imdb.com /Sections/Awards/Golden_Satellite_Awards/2004   (1387 words)

  
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Her stunning performance in the psychological thriller Lantana introduced her to international cinema audiences and gained her a 2001 AFI award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
She is well known for her leading role in the popular television series Wildside, for which she won an Australian Film Institute (AFI) award for Best Actress.
Her stunning performance in the psychological thriller Lantana introduced her to international cinema audiences and gained her a 2001 AFI award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and an IF Magazine Best Actress award.
www.ibiblio.org /samneill/films/ps-blake.txt   (210 words)

  
 RUTH HUSSEY | Directory
Ruth Hussey played the classic role of the cynical photographer in "The Philadelphia Story" (1940), directed by George Cukor, for which she was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress, with Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart and Cary Grant.
Her first film role was in "The Big City" (1937), a Spencer Tracy vehicle in which Hussey had a bit part.
But that same year, she was assigned the role of the adult abandoned daughter in the remake of "Madame X." Hussey was put into "Judge Hardy's Children" (1938), in a small role, but no rival to Andy's lady-love Polly Benedict.
www.ruthhussey.com /RuthHussey-Directory.html   (792 words)

  
 Best Picture Winners of the 1950's
After taking pity on a plain schooltecher at a dance, he falls in love with her, but his mother starts to feel removed from him, and he worries what his friends will think of him.
At three hours it is clearly too long, and the best parts are the prologue describing the significance of Verne's work and the animated credit sequence, which includes Verne coming from heaven to punish Anderson for the adaptation.
This is one of the best anti-war films and probably Lean's greatest.
academyawards.20m.com /sums/bpwin50s.htm   (1353 words)

  
 Epinions.com - Locks, Taking Stock, And Categories That Have Me Over The Barrel: 2003 Oscar Predictions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Hollywood has been dying to give this statuesque and vapid actress an award since she burned up the screen in "To Die For".
Most thought last year was her best chance (not I), but, proving that timing means squat in Hollywood, she'll have to settle for getting her due a year late.
Just like the Best Editing category is dominated by the films with the most cuts, the Best Sound category is usually dominated by the loudest films.
www.epinions.com /content_3128008836   (3027 words)

  
 News Release 2/2004: Renée Zellweger, College of Liberal Arts graduate, wins Oscar for Best Supporting Actress
AUSTIN, Texas—Renée Zellweger, a native Texan and a 1992 graduate of the Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts, was awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for her role as Ruby Thewes in “Cold Mountain.”
Zellweger had previously been nominated for ‘Best Actress in a Leading Role’ for “Bridget Jones’ Diary” in 2001 and for “Chicago” in 2002.
In 2001, Marcia Gay Harden, a 1980 graduate of the College of Fine Arts, won an Oscar for her performance in “Pollock.” This year, Harden was competing with Zellweger for the Best Supporting Actress Award.
www.utexas.edu /opa/news/04newsreleases/nr_200402/nr_oscars040229.html   (216 words)

  
 Rachel Griffiths @ Filmbug
Griffiths followed this success with a very different role as Arabella in Michael Winterbottom's 1996 release, Jude, before returning to Australia to star in Cosi (again with Muriel's Wedding co-star Collette) and Children of the Revolution.
The two actresses complemented one another so perfectly that they both earned Oscar nominations: Watson for Best Actress and Griffiths for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Her portrayal of Brenda in the critically acclaimed HBO/Alan Ball drama Six Feet Under in 2002 garnered a Best Achievement in Drama nomination from the TV Critics Association and the Golden Globe gong for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series.
www.filmbug.com /db/133508   (436 words)

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