Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

called A.M. Chicago were she gained over 100,000 more viewers than Phil Donahue with her warm hearted personal style. Her success led her to nationwide fame and a role in the film The Color Purple in which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting Actress. Winfrey launched the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986 as a nationally syndicated program. With its placement on 120 channels and an audience of 10 million people, the show grossed $125 million by the end of its first year, of which…

contribute largely to the film (). A film review Janet Maslin of the New York Times said, “Miss Spacek is luminous and lovely, easily outshining her previous work, good as it has been” (). Spacek did outshine her previous work by winning the academy award for Best Actress in “Coal Miners Daughter”. Spacek performance is genuine and…

to dare to dream big. Oprah philanthropy contributions are attributes she has become well known for. In Johannesburg, South Africa she established the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls that educates over 450 pupils in a state-of-the-art facility. Through the Oprah Angel Network, the “Use Your Life Award” of $100,000 is presented to people who are improving the lives of others. Another contribution that no one can forget is the celebration episode for the 20th season of The Oprah…

released in 1975 is an iconic film because it won a plethora of awards, the most notable being four different Academy Awards, the Best Picture, Best Actor, Jack Nicholson, Best Actress, Louise Fletcher and Best Director. This movie withstands the test of time and belongs in the AFL Top 100 Films list because of the many driving themes throughout the movie and because of the outstanding performances of actor Jack Nicholson and actress Louise Fletcher. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest elicits an…

“My Heart Will Go On” by Céline Dion was one of the best-selling singles in history and was easily her biggest hit. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and in 1999 it won Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Song Written for Motion Picture (“My Heart Will Go On”). “You’re Still the One” by Shania Twain was another big hit in 1998. Producers of the…

from last to first place in rating”(Biography.com/people). Oprah became so successful that it led to her nationwide fame and a role in Steven Spielberg’s film: The Color Purple. Starring in this movie led to Oprah being nominated for an Academy Award for “Best Supporting…

Oprah Winfrey is one of the most significant people in the world. She is recognized as the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest African American Philanthropist, and the most influential woman in the world. Winfrey was born to an unmarried teen mother named Vernita Lee in Kosciusko, Mississippi. After Winfrey's birth, her and mother moved to a poverty stricken rural area to live with her maternal grandmother, in which they lived for Winfrey's first six years of life. Her…

On May 4, 1929, philanthropist and style heroine Audrey Hepburn was born near Brussels, Belgium. Unlike many other Hollywood film stars, she was not born into her success. She had an arduous childhood, some of her younger years being spent hiding from the Nazis. Despite the suffering Audrey and her mother endured, she quickly blossomed into a beautiful young woman with a life overflowing with success. All across the world, people strive to follow in her chic and polished footsteps. Hepburn was,…

one race and that race is,more often than not ,white. The previous assumption has been lately confirmed with the 2015 Emmy’s and the 2016 Oscars. In last years Emmy’s, Viola Davis became the first African American woman to win the the award for ‘Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series’ maybe due to the fact that “[b]lacks., especially black women, are not being given roles like their white counterparts. There is a mindset that says movies with Blacks in leading roles won 't sell”(Sandra…

Several key events occurred during Queen Latifah's lifetime. Her life span started in the late 1960’s, following us to this present day. During this time period, the world has experienced some unforgettable historical events that have shaped most of the world we live in today. One of these historical events was the Cold War. The Cold War was an incredibly long war that lasted 45 years. It began on March 12, 1947 and ended on December 25, 1991. The Cold War according to The National WWII Museum…