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Malcolm McDowell
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Malcolm McDowell is an English actor, known for his boisterous and sometimes villainous roles. He trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, throughout a career spanning over fifty years, McDowell has played varied film roles across different genres as a character actor. O Lucky Man. and Britannia Hospital and he is also known for his work in Cat People, Tank Girl, the 2007 remake of Halloween and its 2009 sequel, Halloween II, Easy A and The Artist. McDowell has had recurring roles on television series such as Entourage, Heroes. He narrated the documentary The Compleat Beatles, and in recent years, has become a voice actor in films, television series and video games such as Call of Duty. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012, McDowell was born Malcolm John Taylor in Horsforth in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He is the son of Edna, a hotelier, and Charles Taylor, a publican and his family later moved to Bridlington, since his father was stationed at the nearby RAF Carnaby with the Royal Air Force. He grew up in Liverpool and worked in Planters nut factory in Aintree and in his fathers pub in Burscough, Lancashire. He is a fan of Premier League football team Liverpool. While enrolled in Cannock House School, McDowell began taking acting classes and he made his film debut as school rebel Mick Travis in if. by British director Lindsay Anderson. This was followed by Figures in a Landscape and The Raging Moon, caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick, who cast McDowell as the lead in A Clockwork Orange, adapted from the novel by Anthony Burgess. He won great acclaim as Alex, a young hoodlum brainwashed by the British government in a dystopian future and he worked with Anderson again for O Lucky Man. Which was inspired by McDowells experience working as a coffee salesman and he starred in Aces High and co-starred in Voyage of the Damned, and as Dornford Yates gentleman hero Richard Chandos in She Fell Among Thieves. He made his Hollywood debut as H. G. Wells in Time After Time and he often portrayed antagonists in the late 1970s and 1980s, including the title character in Caligula. He later remarked upon his career playing villains, I suppose Im primarily known for that but in fact. McDowell appeared in the action film Blue Thunder as F. E. Cochrane, in 1983, he starred in Get Crazy as Reggie Wanker, a parody of Mick Jagger. Also in 1983, McDowell starred as the Wolf in Faerie Tale Theatres rendition of Little Red Riding Hood, in 1984, he narrated the documentary The Compleat Beatles. McDowell appeared in computer games, most notably as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn in the Wing Commander series of computer games
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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The Stepford Wives (1975 film)
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The Stepford Wives is a 1975 American science fiction horror thriller film based on the 1972 Ira Levin novel of the same name. It was directed by Bryan Forbes with a screenplay by William Goldman, and stars Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, and Tina Louise. While the film was a success at the time of release. Joanna Eberhart is a wife who moves with her husband Walter. Loneliness quickly sets in as Joanna, a rebellious aspiring photographer, finds the women in town all look great and are obsessed with housework. The men all belong to the clubbish Stepford Mens Association, which Walter joins to Joannas dismay, neighbor Carol Van Sants sexually submissive behavior to her husband Ted, and her odd, repetitive behavior after a car accident also strike Joanna as unusual. Things start to look up when she befriends another newcomer to town, sloppy, Joanna is also unimpressed by the boorish Mens Association members, including intimidating president Dale Diz Coba. Stealthily, the Mens Association collects information on Joanna including her picture, her voice, Bobbie and Joanna start house hunting in other towns. Later, Joanna wins a contract with a photo gallery with some photographs of their respective children. When she tells Bobbie her good news, Joanna is shocked to find her friend has abruptly changed into another clean, conformist housewife. Joanna panics, and, at Walters insistence, visits a psychiatrist to whom she voices her belief that the men in the town are in a conspiracy of somehow changing the women. The psychiatrist recommends she leave town until she feels safe, but when Joanna returns home, Joanna and Walter argue and get into a physical scuffle. In an attempt to find her children, she thinks Bobbie may be caring for them, Joanna, still mystified by Bobbies behavior, becomes increasingly desperate and stabs Bobbie with a kitchen knife. Bobbie doesnt bleed but goes into a loop like a malfunctioning computer, despite sensing she may be the next victim, Joanna sneaks into the mansion which houses the Mens Association to find her children. There, she finds the mastermind of the operation, Diz Coba. Joanna is shocked into paralysis when she witnesses its soulless, black, the Joanna-duplicate brandishes a stocking and approaches Joanna, implying that she will be strangled. At the films end, the Joanna duplicate is seen placidly purchasing groceries at the supermarket, along with the other wives. In the background, a couple argue and its likely the wife is poised to become the conspiracys next victim
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British Film Institute
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The British Film Institute is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI maintains the worlds largest film archive, the BFI National Archive, previously called National Film Library, National Film Archive and National Film, the archive contains more than 50,000 fiction films, over 100,000 non-fiction titles and around 625,000 television programmes. The majority of the collection is British material but it also features internationally significant holdings from around the world, the Archive also collects films which feature key British actors and the work of British directors. The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and London IMAX cinema, both located on the bank of the River Thames in London. The IMAX has the largest cinema screen in the UK, and shows popular recent releases and short films showcasing its technology, BFI Southbank shows films from all over the world particularly critically acclaimed historical & specialised films that may not otherwise get a cinema showing. The BFI also distributes archival and cultural cinema to other venues – each year to more than 800 venues all across the UK, the BFI offers a range of education initiatives, in particular to support the teaching of film and media studies in schools. In late 2012, the BFI received money from the Department For Education to create the BFI Film Academy Network, the BFI runs the annual London Film Festival along with BFI Flare, London LGBT Film Festival and the youth-orientated Future Film Festival. The BFI publishes the monthly Sight & Sound magazine as well as films on Blu-ray, DVD, SIFT has a collection of about 7 million still frames from film and television. The institute was founded in 1933, the institute was restructured following the Radcliffe Report of 1948 which recommended that it should concentrate on developing the appreciation of filmic art, rather than creating film itself. Thus control of film production passed to the National Committee for Visual Aids in Education. From 1952-2000, the BFI provided funding for new and experimental filmmakers via the BFI Production Board, the institute received a Royal Charter in 1983. This was updated in 2000, and in the year the newly established UK Film Council took responsibility for providing the BFIs annual grant-in-aid. As an independent registered charity, the BFI is regulated by the Charity Commission, in 1988, the BFI opened the London Museum of the Moving Image on the South Bank. The Museum was temporarily closed in 1999 when the BFI stated that it would be re-sited and this did not happen, and MOMIs closure became permanent in 2002 when it was decided to redevelop the South Bank site. This redevelopment was itself then further delayed, the BFI is currently managed on a day-to-day basis by its chief executive, Amanda Nevill. Supreme decision-making authority rests with a chair and a board of up to 14 governors, the current chair is Josh Berger, who took up the post in February 2016. He succeeded Greg Dyke, who took office on 1 March 2008, Dyke succeeded the late Anthony Minghella, who was chair from 2003 until 31 December 2007. The chair of the board is appointed by the BFIs own Board of Governors but requires the consent of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media, other Governors are co-opted by existing board members when required
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Michael Flanders
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Michael Henry Flanders OBE was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. He is best known for his partnership with Donald Swann. As a young man Flanders seemed to be heading for an acting career. He contracted polio in 1943 while serving in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, in 1956 they themselves performed some of these songs, along with new songs, in a two-man revue, At the Drop of a Hat. This show, and its successor, At the Drop of Another Hat, ran with occasional short breaks from 1956 to 1967 and played in theatres throughout the British Isles, the US, Australia and elsewhere. During and after the partnership with Swann, Flanders pursued a many-faceted career, performing on stage, screen, radio, concert platforms. He wrote opera librettos, a book, a volume of poetry. Flanders was born in Hampstead, London, the child and only son of Percy Henry Flanders and his wife, Laura Rosa. His father had a variety of occupations, including actor and cinema manager and his mother was a professional violinist. From 1936 to 1940 Flanders was a pupil at Westminster School, in his last term in 1940, he and Swann collaborated on a school revue called Go To It. From Westminster, Flanders went up to Christ Church, Oxford, there he acted and directed for the Oxford University Dramatic Society and the Experimental Theatre Club. His roles included Brabantio in Othello, Pirandellos Henry IV and Shawcross in Auden and he also wrote drama criticisms for the Oxford magazine Cherwell. In October 1941 he made his acting debut at the Oxford Playhouse as Valentine in Shaws You Never Can Tell. In 1942 Flanders applied to join the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, serving at first as an able seaman, and later commissioned as a sub-lieutenant. He survived unharmed a torpedo attack in 1942 on his ship, HMS Marne, in 1946 he was discharged, but remained a wheelchair user for the rest of his life. He was deeply upset when the university authorities refused, because of his disabilities, Flanders returned to the family home in Hampstead Garden Suburb. He directed and produced plays with an amateur theatre group and arranged small musical gatherings with other amateurs of music, including Gerard Hoffnung. A stage acting career being no longer possible, he work as a radio broadcaster
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The L-Shaped Room
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It stars Leslie Caron and Tom Bell. The movie was adapted by Bryan Forbes from the novel by Lynne Reid Banks, Leslie Carons performance won her the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for best actress, and also earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. A 27-year-old French woman, Jane Fosset, arrives alone at a boarding house in Notting Hill, London. Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house, Jane is pregnant and has no desire to marry the father. On her first visit to a doctor, she wants to find out if she really is pregnant, the doctors facile assumption that she must want either marriage or an abortion insults her to the extent that Jane determines to have the child. She and Toby start a romance, which is disrupted when he learns that she is pregnant by a previous suitor and they try to work things out, but he is also unhappy with his lack of income and success as a writer. Jane befriends the other residents and they help her when she goes into labour, Toby visits her in the hospital and gives her a copy of his new book, called The L-Shaped Room. After leaving the hospital, Jane journeys home to her parents in France, peter Katins recording of Johannes Brahmss Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.15 is used as the background music, and excerpts occur frequently throughout the film. The original film score was composed by John Barry
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Arnaldo Putzu
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Arnaldo Putzu was an Italian artist renowned for his film posters for Italian and British films, such as Get Carter and the Carry On films. Born in Rome, the son of an Italian navy officer, while doing illustration work in Milan, he met the poster artist Enrico de Seta in 1948. De Seta took him to Rome to work in the Italian film industry, after four years with De Seta, Putzu set up his own studio. He worked for several artists including Augusto Favalli, who controlled many artists employed by the Cinecittà film studios. In collaboration with Eric Pulford, then head of Ranks Downton Advertising. Putzu began to work for Pulford in the late 1950s and his first British poster was for The Secret Place. He arrived in Britain in 1967 with his first poster in England being for Morecambe and Wises film The Magnificent Two, he had designed their previous That Riviera Touch in Rome. He worked on posters in a variety of genres, such as the Carry On series and Hammer Films including Creatures the World Forgot. Putzu enjoyed the work with the magazine that was not too far away from his offices though eventually the magazine covers were replaced by photos. By the end of the decade, film began to be illustrated with cheaper retouched photographs rather than painting. Putzu returned to Rome in October 1985, suffering from Alzheimers disease in his early 80s, he found for a while that the symptoms could be alleviated by painting. References Sources Branaghan, Sim & Chibnall, Stephen British Film Posters ISBN9781844571482 BFI Publishing, 2/19/2007
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Bryan Forbes
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Bryan Forbes, CBE was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist, described as a Renaissance man and one of the most important figures in the British film industry. Best known as the director of the film The Stepford Wives, he wrote and directed several critically acclaimed films, including Whistle Down the Wind, Séance on a Wet Afternoon. He also scripted several films directed by others, such as The League of Gentlemen, The Angry Silence, Forbes was born John Theobald Clarke on 22 July 1926 in Queen Marys Hospital, Stratford, West Ham, Essex. A schoolfriend at West Ham was artist Albert Herbert, lionel Gamlin of the BBC took him on as the host of Junior Brains Trust, and invented Clarkes pseudonym of Bryan Forbes. Forbes trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from age 17 and he did four years of military service in the Intelligence Corps and Combined Forces Entertainment Unit, during which time he started to write short stories. After completing his service in 1948, following British Equity rules. Forbes began to act, appearing on stage and playing supporting roles in British films, in particular An Inspector Calls. He published a story collection in the early 1950s, which induced producer Cubby Broccoli to offer him screenwriting work on The Black Knight. He received his first credit for Second World War film The Cockleshell Heroes, while other early screenplays include I Was Montys Double, directed by Basil Dearden, Forbes also starred. The film recounted a bank heist carried out by ex-army officers, in 1959, he formed a production company, Beaver Films, with his frequent collaborator Richard Attenborough. Beaver Films made The Angry Silence, a screenplay by Forbes in which Attenborough took the lead role. It starred child actor Hayley Mills and Alan Bates, in one of his earliest film roles, the film was nominated for four BAFTA awards, including Best Film from any Source. It was the basis for a 1996 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the L-Shaped Room, his next film as director, with Leslie Caron in the female lead, led to her gaining a nomination for an Oscar, and winning the BAFTA and Golden Globe awards. Comments Phil Wickham, It feels like half a new wave film – a mid-point between the innovation of the Woodfall Films and the mainstream of the British film industry. Forbes wrote and directed Séance on a Wet Afternoon, and the year he wrote the third screen adaptation of the Somerset Maugham novel Of Human Bondage. In 1965, he went to Hollywood to make King Rat and he followed this with The Wrong Box and The Whisperers, the latter featuring Edith Evans. A caper film, Deadfall, starred Michael Caine, in 1969, Forbes was appointed chief of production and managing director of the film studio Associated British. Under Forbess leadership, the studio produced The Railway Children, The Tales of Beatrix Potter and The Go-Between and his tenure though, was short-lived and marked by financial problems and failed projects
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Nanette Newman
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Nanette Newman is an English actress and author. She was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for another Forbes directed film, Newman was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. She was the daughter of a business family - her father was reputed to be a circus strongman. In the 1940s, she lived in Pullman Court, Streatham Hill and she was educated at Sternhold College, the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts stage school and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Newman made her first screen appearance at age 11 in the 1945 short Here We Come Gathering and her feature film debut as a teenager was in Personal Affairs released in 1953. There followed a number of roles, including the heroine in The Wrong Box, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Raging Moon, as a young woman in a wheelchair. Newman married actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes in 1955, in Goldmans original script, the android replacement wives were meant to be like Playmates come to life, the acme of youth and beauty, dressed in skimpy tennis shorts and T-shirts. Newman is from a variety background, acting on stage and also appearing in television advertisements and she was also a popular regular panellist on a revival of the BBC panel game show Whats My Line. Newman met actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes in February 1954 on location at Marylebone railway shunting yards, Newman, then still at RADA, had been sent along for a job, Bryan was committing suicide under a train. He came up on to the platform and introduced himself, I said, How nice to meet you, Mr Forbes. There’s a chance I might be in your film and he said, Well, I’m afraid this is the last day of shooting. They’ve brought you here under false pretences and he drove me home to make sure I was OK – and that was it. So, at the age of 17, I did the cleverest thing I’ve ever done, I don’t think I’ve topped that. Newman and Forbes married on 27 August 1955, and had two daughters, Emma Forbes and Sarah Standing and they were married for 58 years, until Forbes death in 2013. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the person at the right time
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Georgia Brown (English singer)
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Georgia Brown was an English singer and actress. Georgia Brown was born and raised in Whitechapel and her birth name was Lillian Claire Laizer Getel Klot and she was known as Lily. The daughter of Mark and Annie Klot, Brown grew up in a large extended East European Jewish family and her father worked in a textile factory and as a bookmaker. Brown attended the Central Foundation Grammar School, during the London Blitz, she was evacuated to Wales. Browns career role was that of Nancy in the musical Oliver, a role she created in the original 1960 London production. When she first came in to audition for the author and composer, Lionel Bart, he recognized her as a childhood neighbour. Her subsequent audition caused him to award her the role of Nancy, Bart had conceived that role in hopes of pop singer Alma Cogan playing it, however, it was reported that after he cast Brown as Nancy, he then composed the Oliver. Numbers As Long As He Needs Me and Its a Fine Life specifically with her in mind and she reprised the role of Nancy in the 1963 Broadway production of Oliver. Earning a Tony Award nomination for her performance, and her voice is heard on both the original West End and Broadway cast recordings, on 9 February 1964, Brown appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show with 18-year-old Davy Jones recreating two scenes from the musical then showing on Broadway. This happened to be the evening that the Beatles made their first live US appearance on the show. The role of Nancy in the version went to Browns friend Shani Wallis. After a stint in Barts Maggie May in 1965, Brown concentrated on work for more than a decade. Despite her success in such roles, Brown was unhappy with the paucity of significant parts for women in television drama. She expressed her dissatisfaction to the BBC and was told to identify a series she would like to be in, Brown enlisted the help of producer Verity Lambert, and the three women got approval from the BBC. In the course of realising the project, Brown and her colleagues found they had to remove a number of misconceptions, Brown referred to these as the male point of view. Shoulder to Shoulder was first broadcast in six parts in 1974, Shoulder to Shoulder remains highly regarded as an attempt to convey an important episode both of feminist history and of Britains history of dissent and civil disobedience. Brown returned to Broadway to join the cast of the long-running revue Side by Side by Sondheim in 1977, two years later she created the title role in Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lanes unsuccessful musical Carmelina. She toured Britain in Georgia Brown and Friends, then brought the revue to New York for a run in 1982
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Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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