Following the financial breakout of Pi, he was capable of hiring established stars, including Ellen Burstyn and Jared Leto, and received a budget of $ 3, 500, 000 to produce the film.

Although her performance had already been acclaimed in the first film, Aliens gave worldwide recognition to Weaver: she was the second horror actress in history ( after Ellen Burstyn for The Exorcist ) to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and four nominations for acting: Ben Johnson and Jeff Bridges for Best Supporting Actor, and Ellen Burstyn and Cloris Leachman for Best Supporting Actress.

Ellen Burstyn was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress for her role in the latter film.

Ellen Burstyn was nominated for numerous awards, including for an Academy Award for Best Actress, and ultimately won the Independent Spirit Award.

Burstyn has worked consistently in film, television and theatre since, receiving multiple awards and nominations along the way, including seven additional Golden Globe Award nominations, five Emmy Award nominations ( one win ), and two more Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in the films Resurrection ( 1980 ) and Requiem for a Dream ( 2000 ).

Ellen Burstyn won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance, and the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Film.

Ellen Burstyn won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

It was nominated for two Academy Awards ; one for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Ellen Burstyn ) and another for Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Eva Le Gallienne ).

The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and BAFTA Awards went to Burstyn for Best Actress in a Leading Role, to Diane Ladd for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and to Getchell for Best Screenplay.

Getchell was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, Burstyn and Ladd were nominated for Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama and Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, respectively, and Scorsese was nominated for the Palme D ' Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.

Ellen Burstyn won both the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.

In 1980, Greaves was honored alongside Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Marlon Brando, Arthur Penn, Sally Field, Rod Steiger, Al Pacino, Shelley Winters, Dustin Hoffman, Estelle Parsons, and Ellen Burstyn with the The Actors Studio in New York ’ s first ever Dusa Award.

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

Burstyn was asked to read for the part of Genevieve, but she liked the part of Lois Farrow and asked if she could read for that and ended up reading for all three parts, including Coach Popper's wife.

It was also nominated in the categories for Best Supporting Actor ( Jeff Bridges ), Best Supporting Actress ( Ellen Burstyn ), Best Cinematography ( Robert L. Surtees ), Best Director ( Peter Bogdanovich ), Best Picture ( Stephen J. Friedman ), and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich ).

The cast includes Cybill Shepherd in her film debut, Ben Johnson, Eileen Brennan, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Clu Gulager, Randy Quaid in his film debut and John Hillerman.

* Ellen Burstyn as Lois Farrow, Jacy's mother, who romped with Sam in her younger days and has an off-and-on affair with Abilene.

In a 1998 movie Playing by Heart, Ellen Burstyn is reciting it to her son dying of AIDS, played by Jay Mohr.

It stars Ellen Burstyn as a widow who travels with her preteen son across the American Southwest in search of a better life, along with Alfred Lutter as her son and Kris Kristofferson as a man they meet along the way.

Ellen Burstyn was still in the midst of filming The Exorcist when Warner Bros. executives expressed interest in working with her on another project.

Burstyn described her collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, making his first Hollywood studio production, as " one of the best experiences I ’ ve ever had.

* Ellen Burstyn as Alice Hyatt, a woman in her thirties who once worked as a singer

Her sister Tracy Wilson, is also an actress ( as a child, Tracy made her debut in the movie Resurrection, which co-starred Ellen Burstyn ).

Palcy has chosen “ Teaching Toots ,” ( with Ellen Burstyn and Sam Shepard ) a comedy drama on illiteracy, a project close to her heart, to be her next film to co-produce and direct in New Mexico.

She is later arrested for breaking and entering and robbery, at which time doctors and her family realize that she suffers from bipolar disorder, which she inherited from her paternal grandmother, Bernadette Stabler ( Ellen Burstyn ).

After recently parting ways with her boyfriend when she caught him cheating, Hilary finds herself living with her eccentric mother ( Ellen Burstyn ).

'" Today, Ellen Burstyn, Al Pacino, and Harvey Keitel lead this nonprofit studio dedicated to the development of actors, playwrights, and directors.

Ellen Burstyn, Al Pacino, and Harvey Keitel lead this nonprofit studio dedicated to the development of actors, playwrights, and directors.

Winn signed on to reprise the role of Sharon Spencer for Exorcist II after Ellen Burstyn flatly refused to return as Chris MacNeil.

* Harold L. Burstyn " Buys Ballot, Christoph Hendrik Diederik " Dictionary of Scientific Biography volume 1, p. 628, New York: Scribners 1973.

* Burstyn ( disambiguation ), a Polish and Ukrainian version of the same word

During his episodic journey, he befriends a Bible-quoting hitchhiker ( Michael Butler ), travels with underage runaway Ginger ( Melanie Mayron ), visits his daughter ( Ellen Burstyn ), a bookstore owner in Chicago, and drops in on an early sweetheart in a retirement home who suffers from dementia.

In 1952, in the case of Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously overruled its 1915 decision and held that motion pictures were entitled to First Amendment protection, so that the New York State Board of Regents could not ban The Miracle, a short film that was one half of L ' Amore ( 1948 ), an anthology film directed by Roberto Rossellini.

Leo is eager to find a job to support his mother ( Ellen Burstyn ), who has a heart condition.

The actresses that played Dobie's love interests include Cheryl Holdridge, Michele Lee, Susan Watson, Marlo Thomas, Sally Kellerman, Ellen Burstyn ( billed as Ellen McRae ), Barbara Babcock, Sherry Jackson, Diana Millay and Barbara Bain.

Among the characters are a mature couple about to renew their vows ( Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands ); a woman ( Gillian Anderson ) who accepts a date offer from a stranger ( Jon Stewart ); a gay man dying of AIDS ( Jay Mohr ) and his mother ( Ellen Burstyn ) who has struggled to accept him ; two clubbers who meet in a nightclub ( Ryan Phillippe and Angelina Jolie ); a couple having an affair ( Anthony Edwards and Madeleine Stowe ) and a man ( Dennis Quaid ) who tells his tragic life story to a woman he meets in a bar ( Patricia Clarkson ), but seems to have a strange connection to another mysterious woman.

After completing Dressed to Kill, De Palma was considering several projects, including Acts of Vengeance ( later produced for HBO starring Charles Bronson and Ellen Burstyn ), Flashdance, and a script of his own titled Personal Effects.

Mulligan rounded out the 1970s with three films dominated by performances from A-list Hollywood actors: Jason Miller as a Los Angeles locksmith threatened by hitmen in The Nickel Ride ( 1974 ); Richard Gere as an Italian-American youth trying to break from his working-class family in Bloodbrothers ( 1978 ); and Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn portraying George and Doris, a pair of long-term adulterers, in Same Time Next Year ( 1978 ), based on the play by Bernard Slade.

Actress Ellen Burstyn recalled that evening: Late in the evening, I wandered into the greenroom and saw Lee sitting next to Anna, watching the taping on the monitor.

Delloreese entered Detroit's popular Cass Technical High School ( where she attended the same year as Edna Rae Gillooly, later known as Ellen Burstyn ).

A year later, Angus acted in the comedy film " Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood " ( 2002 ) alongside a number of famous names as Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Smith, and Ashley Judd.