It won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, for the film's star Russell Crowe.

For the role, Crowe won an Australian Film Institute ( AFI ) award for Best Actor, following up from his Best Supporting Actor award for Proof in 1991.

* Ray Crowe ( brother of George ), coached the Crispus Attucks High School basketball team that won state championships in 1955 and 1956, becoming the first African-American team in the nation to claim a state title.

Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ( Russell Crowe ).

Crowe was the true project manager of the undertaking ; he drafted the bid, costed the projected, won the project selection process, and hired each of the men who were employed during the course of the project.

In 1990, a revival at London's Aldwych Theatre, starring Keith Baxter and Joan Collins, directed by Tim Luscombe, was not well received, although Sara Crowe won an Olivier Award, Actress in a Supporting Role, as Sybil.

Sara Crowe won an Olivier Award for her performance as Sybil in 1991.

Bohemians won the league in Keegan's first season as he developed a great relationship with league leading scorer, Glen Crowe.

The first wedding is that of Angus ( Timothy Walker ) and Laura ( Sara Crowe ), at which Charles is the best man.

Crowe appeared as the tobacco firm whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand in the 1999 film The Insider, for which he received five awards as best actor and seven nominations in the same category.

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

In 1963, the poet / critic and former Ransom student Randall Jarrell published an essay in which he highly praised Ransom's poetry: In John Crowe Ransom's best poems every part is subordinated to the whole, and the whole is accomplished with astonishing exactness and thoroughness.

During the 1980s NZ also had the services of one of its best ever batsman, Martin Crowe and a number of good players such as John Wright, Bruce Edgar, John F. Reid, Andrew Jones, Geoff Howarth, Jeremy Coney, Ian Smith, John Bracewell, Lance Cairns, Stephen Boock, and Ewen Chatfield, who were capable of playing the occasional match winning performance and consistently making a valuable contribution to a Test match.

Martin Crowe, arguably the greatest batsman to have ever emerged from New Zealand, rates Viv Richards as the best batsman he played against along with Greg Chappell.

In 2006, a statue of Richard Harris was unveiled in Kilkee by actor Russell Crowe who spoke very highly of the town saying it had some of the best public walks in the world.

During his 21-year tenure as head of the magazine, John Crowe Ransom made it, according to the magazine's Web site, " perhaps the best known and most influential literary magazine in the English-speaking world during the 1940s and ' 50s.

Prior to making Germon captain Turner assessed Germon's wicket keeping abilities consulting with former New Zealand wicketkeepers Barry Milburn and Ian Smith who both considered Germon to be the best the wicketkeeper in New Zealand at that time, former New Zealand captain and then senior squad member Martin Crowe also stated to Turner that he thought Germon as better with the gloves than incumbent wicket keeper Adam Parore.

Matthews had taken his then best Test bowling of 4 / 61, dismissing Bruce Edgar ( 24 ), Ken Rutherford ( 0 ) and Martin Crowe ( 0 ) with the score on 73.

Stuart goes on to become a member of the squadron, and its best pilot excluding Crowe.

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Russell Ira Crowe ( born 7 April 1964 ) is a New Zealand-born Australian actor, film producer, and musician.

** Russell Crowe, New Zealand-born actor

Crowe demonstrated his versatility as an actor in this early period of his career by starring soon after as a street gang Melbourne skinhead in 1992's Romper Stomper and then as an inner-Sydney working class gay man in 1994's The Sum of Us before transferring to the USA to commence his Hollywood career.

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Confidential, Mann flew Crowe down from Canada where he was in the middle of filming Mystery, Alaska on the actor ’ s one day off and had him read scenes from The Insider screenplay for two to three hours.

When Crowe read the scene where Wigand finds out that the 60 Minutes interview he did will not be aired, he captured the essence of Wigand so well that Mann knew he had found the perfect actor for the role.

In Gladiator, actor Russell Crowe rides a horse in front of the Alabamas, with Mount Whitney in the background, for a scene presumably set in Spain.

* April 7 – Russell Crowe, New Zealander actor

** 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, the band fronted by actor Russell Crowe

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Crowe's brother, Jeff, also represented New Zealand at international level, and both are cousins of actor Russell Crowe.

During the Ashes Test in 2009 at Lords Patel also attracted the Australian actor Russell Crowe into the TMS box, while his cousin the former Kiwi test cricketer Jeff Crowe was serving as the Match Referee.

In a highly-publicised event, Australian actor Russell Crowe visited the College in 2011 to give a Master Class in acting.

* Russel Crowe, a New Zealand born Australian actor.

Russell Crowe originally auditioned for a different role in the film before Sharon Stone asked that the actor try for the lead male role.

Sony Pictures was dubious over Stone's choice of Crowe because he was not a famous actor in the mid-1990s.

Notable residents include actor Russell Crowe, who lives in a $ 14 million penthouse which as a result has become famous in Australia and abroad and one of the most expensive and sought after places in the country.

They are cousins of Oscar winning actor, Russell Crowe.

Murdoch is considered to be a friend of Australian actress Nicole Kidman, actor Russell Crowe and director Baz Luhrmann.

Crowe was guarded by United States Secret Service agents for the next few months, both while shooting films and at award ceremonies.

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe VC ( 12 January 1826 – 12 April 1876 ) was the second South African-born recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

John James Crowe VC ( 28 December 1876 – 27 February 1965 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.