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unusual facts about Oscar


Open Cluster Framework

Original supporters included several computing companies and groups, including Compaq, Conectiva, IBM, Linux-HA, MSC Software, the Open Source Development Lab, OSCAR, Red Hat, SGI and SUSE.


American Express Gold card dress of Lizzy Gardiner

Costume designer Lizzy Gardiner wore a dress made of 254 American Express Gold cards to the 67th Academy Awards on March 27, 1995, where she won an Oscar for Best Costume Design.

Arun Manilal Gandhi

Arun Gandhi is featured in “THE CALLING: Heal Ourselves Heal our Planet” a Documentary Film in Production created by Barbara Altemus, directed by Oscar-nominated William Gazecki.

Betty Blue

The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986, as well as winning a César Award for Best Poster.

Binda Group

Breil Milano’s two brand ambassadors are Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron and movie star Edward Norton.

Brown Bag Films

In 2008, the studio begins working on Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, directed by Nicky Phelan, landing a second Oscar nomination.

Cal Pritner

Students from the Illinois State University Department of Theatre, which Pritner served as founding department chair, include: a majority of the founding members of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble; Tony winners Judith Ivey and Rondi Reed; Oscar nominee John Malkovich; former Steppenwolf Theatre artistic directors Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry, and Randy Arney; and film and television stars Gary Cole and Jane Lynch.

Camille Thoman

In 2006, she directed Falling Objects, starring Tony nominee Mireille Enos, Oscar winner Timothy Hutton and Oscar nominee Melissa Leo.

Carol Lynley

Lynley may be best known for her film roles in Return to Peyton Place, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Bunny Lake is Missing, The Cardinal, Harlow, and the original The Poseidon Adventure, in which she performed the Oscar-winning song "The Morning After" (but her singing voice actually was that of studio singer, Renee Armand).

Chu-Chin-Chow

Chu Chin Chow, a 1916 play by Frederick Norton and Oscar Asche

Cirsdig

Participants included Michel Maffesoli, Eric Landowski, Oscar Correas, and Roque Carrion-Wam, among others.

Dean DeBlois

He co-wrote and co-directed the Oscar-nominated animated films Lilo & Stitch for Walt Disney Feature Animation and How to Train Your Dragon for DreamWorks Animation, and directed the Sigur Rós documentary/music film Heima.

F.C. De Kampioenen

Later on, it seems Oscar converted to Hare Krishna and now lives in Kathmandu.

Gianni Garko

His first prominent film role was a small but important part in the Oscar nominated Kapò (1959).

Go Stewie Go

The new characters include parodies of the Sesame Street characters Big Bird, who describes himself as a "big bird," and a self-described "grouch" named "Moody Green Garbage Creature", who resembles Oscar the Grouch, and butch and femme versions of Bert and Ernie, who try to protect Karina and Julie from Oscar.

Gross indecency

It also titles a play by Moisés Kaufman about Oscar Wilde's conviction for the former offence: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.

Harold Jack Bloom

Harold Jack Bloom (April 26, 1924 – August 27, 1999) was a television producer and screenwriter who scored a notable hit with his first major screenplay to the classic Anthony Mann Western The Naked Spur in 1953, earning an Oscar nomination in the process.

Hertfordshire Yeomanry

The men at this camp built the Bridge on the River Kwai which was described in a book by Pierre Boulle and later in an Oscar-winning film in which Alec Guinness played the senior British officer.

Holly Weber

Since then she began pursuing acting as a full-time profession and has had uncredited background roles in Ron Howard's Oscar nominated Frost/Nixon, Fast & Furious and The Devil's Tomb, directed by Jason Connery.

Impire

Within the fictional universe of Impire, the player assumes the persona of Baʿal-Abaddon, a primordial evil summoned from Tartarus and imprisoned in the physical form of a demonic imp, initially forced to serve the incompetent sorcerer Oscar van Fairweather.

Jo Eisinger

Among them are Oscar Wilde (1960), starring Sir Ralph Richardson and Robert Morley, The Rover (L'Avventuriero), (1967), from a novel by Joseph Conrad and starring Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and The Jigsaw Man (1984), starring Laurence Olivier and directed by Terence Young.

John Michael Hayes

Hayes collaborated with director Alfred Hitchcock on four films: Rear Window (for which he won an Edgar Award and an Oscar nomination), To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much.

John Paul Oulu

Oulu was shot and killed while sitting in rush hour traffic in Nairobi on March 5, 2009 along with lawyer and founder of the Oscar Foundation, Oscar Kamau Kingara.

Josh Greenfeld

Josh Greenfeld (born 1928) is an author and screenwriter mostly known for his screenplay for the 1974 film Harry and Tonto along with Paul Mazursky, which earned them an Academy Award nomination and its star, Art Carney, the Oscar itself for Best Actor.

Jurassic Park: The Game

The team consists of Billy Yoder (voiced by Jason Marsden), Oscar Morales (voiced by Carlos Carrasco) and Danny "D-Caf" Cafaro (voiced by Ari Ruben) .

Kent Riley

Riley went to Montreal, Canada to star opposite the Oscar-winning American actress Patty Duke where he starred as her son, "Liam McAllister".

Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light

It was written and directed by Tom Neff, and produced by Neff and Madeline Bell, who previously collaborated on the Oscar nominated short-documentary Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse (1986).

Nigel Bruce

He uncharacteristically played a detestable figure in The Rains Came (1939) which became the first film to win an Oscar for special effects.

Novar House

Assynt House was later the home of the artist Lady Isobel Blunt-Mackenzie (b. 1922 – d. 1962), sister of the 4th Earl of Cromartie, and her husband Captain Oscar Linda, son of General Maximilian Linda of Zakopane, Poland.

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

In 1979, she was awarded the Sixth Annual Oscar at the Micheaux Awards Ceremony, hosted by the US Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and in the same year received the International Acting Award for the film Shadow Sisters.

Oscar Fraley

Oscar Fraley died on Thursday, January 6, 1994 in Fort Lauderdale’s in Broward General Hospital.

Óscar García Junyent

On 26 June 2013, Óscar was unveiled as the new head coach of Football League Championship club Brighton & Hove Albion.

Oscar Hirsh Davis

Oscar Hirsh Davis (February 27, 1914 – June 19, 1988) was a federal judge on the United States Court of Claims and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Oscar Peterson and Jon Faddis

Oscar Peterson and Jon Faddis is a 1975 (see 1975 in music) studio album by Oscar Peterson, featuring Jon Faddis.

Oscar Rabin Band

Ex-band member Roy Bull has recalled: "My memories of the Oscar Rabin days are all very pleasant ones, as Oscar himself was one of the most kind people I have ever met, and certainly the best band leader for whom I ever worked."

Óscar Ulloa

Óscar Alejandro Ulloa Alonzo (born August 19, 1986 in Metapán, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football forward who currently plays for FAS in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Pumper Nic

Nic the hippo, is featured among the animals that escape from the Los Angeles Zoo during an earthquake that hits Los Angeles in the short animated Oscar winning film, Logorama (2009).

Rob Simonsen

In 2004 he teamed up with Mychael Danna and has provided additional music and arrangements on Surf's Up, Fracture, Moneyball and the Oscar-winning, Life of Pi.

Robert Serber

Robert Serber is interviewed in the Oscar-nominated documentary, The Day After Trinity (1980).

Rubina Ali

Rubina Ali (born January 21, 1999), also known as Rubina Qureshi, is an Indian child actress who played the child version of Latika in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Soko 522

Some of its prominent movie roles were in the Yugoslav Oscar candidate Battle of Neretva and Kelly's Heroes, starring Clint Eastwood.

Sue Rubin

Sue Rubin is a functionally non-verbal published autistic author who was the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary Autism Is A World in which she communicated via the controversial communication technique of facilitated communication.

Sullavan

Margaret Sullavan (1909–1960), an Oscar-nominated American actress and wife of Henry Fonda, William Wyler, and Leland Hayward

The Lady from Dubuque

The cast starred Celia Weston (Lucinda), Tony Musante (Sam), Frances Conroy (Jo), Baxter Harris (Fred), David Leary (Edgar), Maureen Anderman (Carol), Earle Hyman (Oscar), and Irene Worth (Elizabeth).

The Liberties, Dublin

In its long 78-minute form 'The Liberties' includes 15 short films featuring local butchers, green grocers, boxing clubs, stonemasons, street traders, evangelists, animators, tailors and local residents, including Oscar-winning actor, Brenda Fricker.

The Three Faces of Eve

Joanne Woodward won the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first actress to win an Oscar for portraying three different personalities (Eve White, Eve Black and Jane).

The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

Critical reception for The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom has been positive, with Bruce Barcott calling the movie's Oscar nomination "a well-deserved nod" and stating that the movie "captures the Japanese experience of the March 11, 2011, tsunami with a quiet beauty, power, and dignity".

Tom the Dancing Bug

The cult of celebrity is also a frequent target, with subversive trivia such as Nicole Kidman had to work as a waitress before she became famous, and not a single person asked her for her autograph and claiming that the Universe has never been nominated for an Oscar.

William O. Wallace

He was Oscar-nominated in 1948 for Jean Negulesco’s Johnny Belinda, and also worked on Young Man with a Horn (1950), Battle Cry (1955) and Nicholas Ray’s seminal Rebel Without a Cause in 1956.

World Ship Society

Notable amongst its early members were the then editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, Francis McMurtrie, and former editor and noted naval historian Oscar Parkes.


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