actressBorn: 2/22/1950Birthplace: Birmingham, England Walters left nursing to pursue an acting career. She got her start singing, dancing, and acting in several British stage productions. She won a…
Oscar Boetticher Jr.film directorBorn: 7/29/1916Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois director who helmed several low-budget but highly regarded Westerns in the 1950s and '60s. Randolph Scott starred in…
actor, directorBorn: 1/18/1955Birthplace: Los Angeles Academy Award-winning actor and director who often plays stoic but vulnerable heroes. His films include Bull Durham (1988), JFK (1991), Dances…
directorBorn: 2/16/1926Birthplace: London, England Academy Award-winning film and television director whose Midnight Cowboy (1970) is the only X-rated film to win a best-picture Oscar. His other…
actorBorn: 3/19/1955Birthplace: Idar-Oberstein, Germany Emmy Award-winning film and television actor who gained fame as David Addison on Moonlighting (1985–89). His films include the Die Hard…
actorBorn: 4/18/1956Birthplace: Biloxi, Mississippi Older brother of actress Julia Roberts, Eric Roberts appeared on the stage as a child and starred in the 1989 Broadway production of Burn This.…
The 85th Academy Award Best Actress Nominees Check out the bios on the nominees, from nine year-old Quvenzhane Wallis to eighty-five year-old Emmanuelle Riva.
The 85th Academy Award Best Picture Nominees Below are the nominees for best film. This year nine films were nominated instead of ten, which had been the number in recent years.
Elia Kazan—Genius or Informant? Half a century after McCarthyism, the Academy Award-winning director is again under fire for naming names by Rachael Stark Fifty years after the blacklisting of…
actor, producerBorn: 2/24/1947Birthplace: Los Angeles After a short stint as a rock singer, Olmos gained critical attention for his role in the musical Zoot Suit (1978–80). For his performance as…
