Who has won an Oscar for acting and directing?

We already know the answer to one of those questions. Only two in all of history have won Best Actor directing themselves. That would be Lawrence Olivier for Hamlet and Roberto Benigni for Life is Beautiful.

What was nominated for Best Picture in 1999?

Best Picture

• Shakespeare in Love. David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick and Marc Norman, Producers.
• Elizabeth. Alison Owen, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, Producers.
• Life Is Beautiful. Elda Ferri and Gianluigi Braschi, Producers.
• Saving Private Ryan.
• The Thin Red Line.

Who has won the most Oscars for screenwriting?

Woody Allen
Woody Allen earned three Original Screenplay Oscars, for Annie Hall (along with Marshall Brickman), Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris. He has received sixteen nominations total, the most of any writer.

Who was nominated for 2 Oscars for Best Director in the same year?

Only three directors have received two Best Director nominations in the same year: Clarence Brown for Romance (1929/30) and Anna Christie (1929/30) Michael Curtiz, for Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and Four Daughters (1938)

Which directors have won two Oscars?

Multiple Best Director Oscar winners

• (2) Lewis Milestone 1928 and 1930.
• (2) Frank Borzag 1928 and 1932.
• (2) Frank Lloyd 1929 and 1933.
• (2) Leo McCarey 1937 and 1944.
• (2) Billy Wilder 1945 and 1960.
• (2) Elia Kazan 1947 and 1954.
• (2) Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1949 and 1950.
• (2) George Stevens 1951 and 1956.

Which of these films won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1999?

Shakespeare in Love
It was March 21, 1999, the night Shakespeare in Love won the Academy Award for best picture, an honor many thought rightfully belonged to its stiffest competitor, Steven Spielberg’s $70 million World War II drama, Saving Private Ryan.

Who was the first woman to win Oscars for both directing and screenwriting?

Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion DNZM
Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion DNZM (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand director, screenwriter, and producer. She has received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards for her critically acclaimed films, The Piano (1993), and The Power of the Dog (2021).

Who is the best screenplay writer?

Top 10 best screenwriters

• Walter Hill. Though he went uncredited for his extensive writing work on Alien, Hill’s script has gone down as a bit of a folk legend among screenwriters.
• Akira Kurosawa.
• Nora Ephron.
• Spike Lee.
• The Coen Brothers.
• Aaron Sorkin.
• William Goldman.
• Shonda Rhimes.

Who is the most Oscar winning director?

Poll: Directors Whose Films Won Most Oscars

• Steven Spielberg. 32 Oscars:
• David Lean. 27 Oscars:
• Fred Zinnemann. 24 Oscars:
• Vincente Minnelli. 23 Oscars:
• James Cameron. 21 Oscars:
• Elia Kazan. 21 Oscars:
• Peter Jackson. 20 Oscars:
• Martin Scorsese. 20 Oscars:

Has a female director won an Oscar?

Jane Campion has won this year’s best director Oscar for helming the Western drama The Power of the Dog. She is now the third director who is a woman to win an Oscar, following Kathryn Bigelow (in 2010 for The Hurt Locker) and Chloé Zhao (in 2021 for Nomadland).

Who hosted the Oscars 1999?

Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the seventh time. He first presided over the 62nd ceremony held in 1990 and had last hosted the 70th ceremony held in 1998.

Who is the only person to win an Oscar for both acting and writing?

Emma Thompson (UK) (b. 15 April 1959) won best actress in 1993 for her role in Howards End (UK 1991) and was awarded Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Sense and Sensibility (USA/UK 1995) in 1996, making her the first person ever to win Oscars for both acting and writing.

Which director and for what movie was the first woman to be nominated for an Oscar for her directorial debut?

Prior to Bigelow, only three women had been nominated for a best director Oscar: Lina Wertmueller for 1975’s “Seven Beauties,” Jane Campion for 1993’s “The Piano” and Sofia Coppola for 2003’s “Lost in Translation.”