* Oscar winners: Ordinary People ( 1980 ), Chariots of Fire ( 1981 ), Gandhi ( 1982 ), Terms of Endearment ( 1983 ), Amadeus ( 1984 ), Out of Africa ( 1985 ), Platoon ( 1986 ), The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), Rain Man ( 1988 ), Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 )

* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).

The American film magazine Premiere placed the movie on its list of the 10 worst Oscar winners and the British film magazine Empire rated it # 3 on their list of the 10 worst Oscar winners.

She appeared on a TV talk show to predict the 2011 Oscar winners, similar to the World Cup predictions made previously by Paul the Octopus, also in Germany.

Matthau was visibly banged up during the Oscar telecast, having been involved in a bicycle accident, nonetheless he scolded actors who had not bothered to come to the ceremony, especially the other major award winners that night: Elizabeth Taylor, Sandy Dennis and Paul Scofield.

Since 1981, every film selected as Best Picture has also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing.

Zaentz also used his wealth to produce a number of successful films including Best Picture Oscar winners One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, and The English Patient.

He was the only posthumous winner of an Oscar in an acting category until Heath Ledger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009 ( there were many earlier posthumous Oscar winners in non-acting categories ; Ledger was also an Australian ).

In winning the Best Actor Oscar, Day-Lewis joined Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson as the only Best Actor winners awarded an Oscar in two non-consecutive decades.

Unless otherwise specified, Honorary Award recipients receive the same gold Oscar statuettes received by winners of the competitive Academy Awards.

Notable winners have included Robert Stephen Hawker, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Laurence Binyon, Oscar Wilde, John Buchan, John Addington Symonds, James Fenton and Alan Hollinghurst.

The Hollywood Stock Exchange, a virtual market game established in 1996 and now a division of Cantor Fitzgerald, LP, in which players buy and sell prediction shares of movies, actors, directors, and film-related options, correctly predicted 32 of 2006's 39 big-category Oscar nominees and 7 out of 8 top category winners.

The Union has a long and distinguished history of hosting leading state and international political and other figures in its chamber, from Presidents to Prime Ministers and Oscar winners to Olympic legends.

In 2007, players in the Hollywood Stock Exchange correctly predicted 32 of the 39 major-category Oscar nominees and seven out of eight top-category winners.

Among his last three features, another top-dollar production, Fantastic Voyage, not only had a much bigger budget than his previous sci-fi assignment, 4D Man, but also proved to be a major moneymaker, ultimately going on to become one of the year's highest grossing films with Oscar nominations in five technical categories, two of which, Best Art Direction — Color and Best Visual Effects, were selected as winners.

Particularly famous examples of such works are those of James Joyce, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde and Ireland's four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature ; William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney.

The Mirisch Corporation ’ s impressive list of pictures include two more Best Picture Oscar winners: Billy Wilder ’ s The Apartment in 1960, and Robert Wise ’ s West Side Story in 1961.

11 of the 16 winners of the PGA's Darryl F. Zanuck Award have gone on to win the Oscar for best feature.

This was only the second, and most recent, time in Oscar history where 3 of the 4 acting winners were repeats ; the other time was during the 1938 Oscars.

He went on to become a three-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award as Best Actor in 2001 for Gladiator.

Crowe received three consecutive best actor Oscar nominations, for The Insider, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind.

Brother Pat is a director of The Mill which won an Oscar for Gladiator.

He received his second Oscar for the epic movie Gladiator about a struggle for power in Imperial Rome, in 2001.

As the studio ’ s president, Parkes, in partnership with Laurie MacDonald, oversaw development and production of all DreamWorks ’ film projects, including, for only the second time in the history of the Motion Picture Academy, three consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners: American Beauty, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind -- the latter two in partnership with Universal Studios.

2000 turned out to be Nicholson's most impressive year to date, with acclaim for the " Best Picture " Oscar winner Gladiator.

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

* 2000 – The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.

In 2000, Wajda was awarded an honorary Oscar for his overall contributions to the cinematography.

Prince Oscar I, then Sweden's Chancellor of Education, donated 2000 Kronor to help found the society.

For example, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.

Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by the years of their Los Angeles qualifying run, which is usually ( but not always ) in the year of release ; for example, the Oscar for Best Director of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.

Walter Matthau ( October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000 ) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears.

The film won the documentary award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for an Oscar in 2000.

In 2000, he released a Grammy-nominated CD, entitled Oscar De La Hoya.

Kramnik's performance won him the Chess Oscar for 2000 ; this was the first time he had received the award.

These are Maureen Borland's Wilde's Devoted Friend: A Life of Robert Ross 1869 – 1918 ( 1990 ), Jonathan Fryer's Robbie Ross ( 2000 ) and Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde ( 2003 ) which looked in detail at Ross ' sexuality.

In 2000, he returned after a year on inactivity, defeating Antonio Oscar Salas and Russell Mosley before losing to Juan Lazcano in a contest for the vacant NABF lightweight championship.

Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, KCMG, OM, PC, JP ( 22 March 193026 August 2000 ), is regarded as the " Father of the Nation " of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 July 1973.

In 2000, Oscar De La Hoya recorded his first music album.

* September 13 – Shane Mosley conquers the WBA and WBC world Jr. Middleweight titles with a 12 round unanimous decision over Oscar de la Hoya in rematch of their 2000 bout

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

He is also known for his work as Musical Supervisor and Musical Arranger on the Singapore Repertory Theatre production of They're Playing Our Song, starring Lea Salonga both in Singapore and Manila in 1999 and 2000, and having radically reworked the musical arrangements of the 1999 London version of Oscar winner Stephen Schwartz's Pippin at the Bridewell Theatre.

Gaze also excelled at the international arena, and in 2000 became ( jointly with American Teresa Edwards ) the third basketball player to compete at five Olympics, after Puerto Rican Teófilo Cruz and Brazilian Oscar Schmidt.

The current FMLN mayor of Santa Tecla is Oscar Ortiz, who has served in that position since 2000.

( Pärnu, Estonia, 3 November 1904-Fredericton 30 November 2000 ) Lakstigala un roze Nightingale and the Rose, ( after Oscar Wilde ), Riga, 1938.

* Kruta, Venceslas & Manfredi, Valerio M .: " I celti d ' Italia ", Mondadori, 2000 ( Collana: Oscar storia ), ISBN 88-04-47710-5, ISBN 978-88-04-47710-5

* Kenton Allen, Multi-award winning programme maker with programmes such as the BAFTA award winning The Royle Family ( 2000 ) and the Oscar award winning film Six Shooter ( 2006 ).

* Commodore Ruben Oscar Moro La Guerra Inaudita, 2000 ISBN 987-96007-3-8

* Big Mama, a 2000 Oscar winning American film about grandparents raising their grandchildren