Playing a charismatic biblical con-man in Elmer Gantry in 1960 won him the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Actor. He played a Nazi war criminal in 1961 in the all-star, war-crime-trial film, Judgment at Nuremberg.

What movie did Burt Lancaster win an Oscar for?

Lancaster won an Academy Award for one of his most powerful and charismatic performances, that of a charlatan evangelist in Elmer Gantry (1960).

How many Oscars did Elmer Gantry win?

Elmer Gantry was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1961, including Best Picture and Best Score. It won Best Actor for Lancaster, Best Supporting Actress for Jones, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Jean Simmons was nominated for the Golden Globe award in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama category.

Why was Elmer Gantry banned?

Elmer Gantry was considered sexually provocative for its time, and, although no ratings system was then in place, the studio made it clear that the movie should be avoided by anyone under age 16.

How many movies did Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster make together?

Kirk Douglas starred in seven films across the decades with Burt Lancaster: I Walk Alone (1948), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Devil's Disciple (1959), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), Seven Days in May (1964), Victory at Entebbe (1976) and Tough Guys (1986), which fixed the notion of the pair as ...

Burt Lancaster winning Best Actor

Was Burt Lancaster liberal?

An unabashed political liberal, chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California and an active campaigner for George McGovern in the 1972 Presidential election, Lancaster was one of the 575 people named on President Richard Nixon's 1973 "Enemies List," along with fellow actors.

What did Burt Lancaster pass away from?

On October 20, 1994, Burt Lancaster, a former circus performer who rose to fame as a Hollywood leading man with some 70 movies to his credit, including From Here to Eternity and Atlantic City, in a career that spanned more than four decades, dies of a heart attack at the age of 80 in Century City, California.

Did Clint Eastwood ever win a Best Actor Award?

Clint Eastwood won four Academy Awards for his work on the 1992 film "Unforgiven." He won the awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Film Editing.

Who is the most awarded actor of all time?

As of 2024, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time.

Has Harrison Ford ever won Best Actor?

Harrison Ford is synonymous with the popcorn thriller; but no Academy Award. The reasons for Oscar slights are often as simple as a popular actor being in a particularly competitive field. Other times, an upstart rushes in on the heels of a popular film and steals the night.

Did Harrison Ford win Best Actor?

For the aforementioned portrayals, he has received several wins and nominations at the Saturn Awards, winning Best Actor for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).

Did Burt Lancaster play an Indian?

Burt Lancaster essays the second of his American Indian roles in Apache, the first being in Jim Thorpe - All American. As Jim Thorpe Lancaster plays a man who is living in the world the white man made for him. As Masai, the last Apache warrior, Lancaster is going to live on his terms.

Did Burt Lancaster have any daughters?

Was the actor Burt Lancaster ever married?

How many times did Burt Lancaster get married?

Lancaster's final performance was in the TV mini-series, Separate but Equal, with co-star Sydney Poitier, which aired in 1991. Burt Lancaster was married three times. His first marriage was to June Ernst, an accomplished acrobat. They were married from 1935 until 1946.

What ethnicity is Burt Lancaster?

Lancaster was the son of Elizabeth and James Henry Lancaster, who was a postman. Both of his parents were Protestants of working-class Irish origin, with Lancaster's grandparents having been immigrants to the U.S. from Belfast and descendants of English immigrants to Ireland.

Did Burt Lancaster play golf?

Albert Rémy also got into the act by performing the stunt of uncoupling the engine from the paintings train on a real moving train. Burt Lancaster took a day off during shooting to play golf when the production was about half completed. On the golf course, he stepped in a hole and re-aggravated an old knee injury.

Did Burt Lancaster have grandchildren?

Did Burt Lancaster have any brothers?

Burt Lancaster, had 2 brothers James Lancaster & William Lancaster, he also had 2 sisters Jenny Lancaster and Florence Lancaster. As far as I can tell none went into acting. However, he did have a son who went into acting called William Henry Lancaster (Bill Lancaster), who was an American screenwriter and actor.

How tall was Charlton Heston?

There was, from the start, something monumental, something reminiscent of Mount Rushmore, about Heston with his 6ft 3in height and chiselled features. He could be angry, threatening and cruel, but he couldn't be commonplace, diffident or funny.

Did Burt Lancaster do his own stunts?

Burt Lancaster, who was 52 at the time, did most of his own stunts, including being hung upside down in Coyote Pass and running across the top of the moving train car. The studio balked, however, at Lancaster climbing the side of the cliff in the pass to plant the dynamite and a stuntman was substituted.

What white actor played Native American?

“Winchester '73,” 1950: Rock Hudson, a white actor of German, Swiss, English and Irish descent, played a Native American character named Young Bull, who delivered the memorable line, “All white men are thieves.” Of movie parts as well as land, apparently.

What Westerns was Burt Lancaster in?

Did Robert Redford ever win Best Actor?

Redford's history with the Academy Awards is spotty. While he never won an acting Oscar and only received a lone nomination for The Sting, he was crowned Best Director for his directorial debut, Ordinary People, which also won Best Picture.

Who is the Best Actor to never win an Oscar?

Cary Grant may be the greatest actor to have never won an Oscar. And, unfortunately, he didn't get many chances to win one before his death in 1986 at the age of 82. He was only nominated for Best Actor twice (twice?!) in his career; first for 1941's Penny Serenade and later for 1944's None but the Lonely Heart.