Oscar Levant wrote that Newman initially was hesitant to leave New York for Hollywood: " Too close to the cake ," he reported him saying, " Also, no place to study.

Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman both received Oscar nominations for their performances.

** Oscar Award – Best Music: Alfred Newman

Newman received his 45th Oscar nomination posthumously for this film, the most received by a composer.

Similarly, a 1972 ground-breaking study by Oscar Newman on a Defensible Space Theory described ways to improve the social environment and security of neighbourhoods and streets.

Set amidst Chicago's swing music revival of the late 1990s, Oscar Novak ( Perry ), an aspiring architect and his business partner, Peter Steinberg ( Platt ), have just landed a career-making opportunity with a Chicago tycoon Charles Newman ( McDermott ) who has chosen them to compete for the design of a multimillion dollar cultural center.

In a ploy for publicity, Newman has pitched Oscar and Peter in a neck-and-neck competition with their archrivals and former colleagues, the hugely successful ( and equally ruthless ) Decker and Strauss.

In a comic twist Oscar is mistaken for a gay man when meeting with Charles Newman ( made even more humorous by the fact that Peter is genuinely gay, with Oscar's comments leading Newman to think that Peter's the straight one ).

At the final presentation for the cultural center, Oscar and Peter receive the commission, but Oscar is simultaneously told that he has won the award for Gay Professional Man of the Year, with Newman deciding that he will reveal his decision after the ceremony.

After an awkward meeting between Amy and Newman's wife at the party, she and Oscar go to a bar, but Amy leaves in frustration after she nearly kisses him, prompting a brief argument between her and Oscar where Oscar states that her relationship with Newman has no future, with the only reason they haven't argued after over a year being that Newman doesn't care enough to fight with her, while Amy counters that Oscar is hardly in a position to give her advice on romance, having simply been playing it safe by spending time with her as he hasn't been on a date since she met him.

Newman had the dubious distinction of receiving the most Oscar nominations ( 15 ) without a single win.

In total, Newman has received 20 Oscar nominations with two wins, both for Best Original Song.

The list of nominations include: An Oscar for Best Music ; Original Song for Randy Newman's " When She Loved Me ", A Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film and Randy Newman for Best Music.

The main score was composed by Randy Newman ; he received an Oscar nomination in the original music category.

Newman won nine Academy Awards, more than any other composer in Oscar history, and second only to Walt Disney for the most wins by an individual.

Later important examples of the poetic form included Rudyard Kipling ’ s ‘ Barrack Room Ballads ’ ( 1892-6 ) and Oscar Wilde ’ s ‘ Ballad of Reading Gaol ’ ( 1897 ).

The most important jazz guitar soloists of this period included the Manouche virtuoso Django Reinhardt, Oscar Moore who was featured with Nat “ King ” Cole ’ s trio, and Charlie Christian of Benny Goodman's band and sextet, who was a major influence despite his early death at 25.

He was particularly drawn to Socialist writings, he studied socialist philosopher Hajime Kawakami, and at age 23 translated and published Oscar Wilde ’ s The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

In the unique experience in Hollywood, Zavattini written for the screen The Children of Sanchez ( 1978 ) based on Oscar Lewis ’ s book of the same title, a classic study of a Mexican family.

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Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde ’ s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).

If Oscar didn ’ t fight me, he would not have been anything in boxing.

" Venezuelan salsa star Oscar D ’ León ’ s 1983 tour of Cuba is mentioned prominently by every Cuban I ’ ve ever interviewed on the subject.

::“ For all those people who have lost or misplaced something that was dear to them, as I have, never give up the dream of searching – never let go of the hope that you ’ ll find it because after all these many years, at last, my Oscar has been returned to me .”

The prevailing public attitude was that homosexuality was a moral failing that should be punished, as exemplified by Oscar Wilde ’ s 1895 trial and imprisonment for " gross indecency ".

* In 2006, in response to a candidate ( Ottón Solís ) who challenged him to a debate, Oscar Arias said: “ Eagles live on high and see from on high, and don ’ t bother to watch what the snails are doing ”, referring himself as an eagle and other the candidates as “ snails ”.

While sardines have always been King Oscar ’ s flagship product, the company produces a variety of award-winning seafood products including brisling and Baltic sardines, herring, mackerel, salmon, tuna, cod, and specialty items, as well as fish salads and fish pâtés.

2008 While King Oscar fish catches are still made in various waters throughout the world, King Oscar ’ s central production efforts are moved to a first-class facility in Gniewino, Poland.

The drama concerned Beardsley's life from the time of Oscar Wilde ’ s arrest in April 1895, which resulted in Beardsley losing his position at The Yellow Book, to his death from tuberculosis in 1898.

Shinen ( 1958 ), who recorded a word list from Mary Charlie and Oscar Isaac in Tanacross village, refers to the language as the “ Nabesna dialect ”, and Shinen ’ s term was repeated in Hoijer ( 1963 ).

Favorites were Mark Twain's " Tom Sawyer ," Charles Dickens ’ s “ A Christmas Carol ,” and Oscar Wilde ’ s “ The Canterville Ghost .” For the Artin children, these readings replaced radio entertainment, which was strictly banned from the house.

In Oz: the Great and Powerful, when Oscar Diggs ( James Franco ), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he ’ s hit the jackpot — fame and fortune are his for the taking — that is until he meets three witches, Theodora ( Mila Kunis ), Evanora ( Rachel Weisz ), and Glinda ( Michelle Williams ), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone ’ s been expecting.

Eugène's son Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg married into the Russian Imperial family, was granted the style of Imperial Highness and founded the Russian line of the Beauharnais family, while Eugene ` s daughter Joséphine, married King Oscar I of Sweden, the son of Napoléon's one-time fiancée, Désirée Clary.

* The coda of " My Sunday Feeling " incorporates quotes from two well-known jazz tunes, Henry Mancini's " Pink Panther Theme " ( specifically the song's bass line, played as a short solo by Glenn Cornick ) and Nat Adderley's and Oscar Brown, Jr .' s " Work Song.

He worked as the co-director and cameraman to Jacques Cousteau on the Oscar and Palme d ' Or-winning ( at the 1956 Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival respectively ) documentary The Silent World ( 1956 ) and assisted Robert Bresson on A Man Escaped ( French title: Un condamné à mort s ' est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut, 1956 ) before making his first feature, Ascenseur pour l ' échafaud ( released in the U. K. as Lift to the Scaffold and in the U. S. originally as Frantic, later as Elevator to the Gallows ) in 1957.

Immediately following Willard Scott's three-year-run as WRC-TV Washington, D. C .' s Bozo, the show's sponsors, McDonald's drive-in restaurant franchisees John Gibson and Oscar Goldstein ( Gee Gee Distributing Corporation ), hired Scott to portray " Ronald McDonald, the Hamburger-Happy Clown " for their local commercials on the character's first three television ' spots.

* A ballet by Friedrich Voss, a German composer and pianist ( b. Halberstadt, 1930 ) Die Nachtigall und die Rose ( G. Furtwängler, after Oscar Wilde ), 1961 ; Oberhausen, 5 January 1962 ; see the Breitkopf ’ s page

In the USA Oscar Zariski inspired many Ph. D. s.

From Vyvyan ’ s accounts in his autobiography, Son of Oscar Wilde, Oscar was a devoted and loving father to his two sons and their childhood was a relatively happy one.

A more limited approach, termed defensible space, was developed concurrently by architect Oscar Newman.

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol was founded in 1894 by Oscar Méténier, who planned it as a space for naturalist performance.

In 1944 Oscar Zariski defined an abstract Zariski – Riemann space from the function field of an algebraic variety, for the needs of birational geometry: this is like a direct limit of ordinary varieties ( under ' blowing up '), and the construction, reminiscent of locale theory, used valuation rings as points.

The remaining voids between the buildings create space for both a formal plaza to the north, later named Oscar Peterson Square in 2004, containing Al McWilliam's Bronze Arc, and an expanse of lawn to the south, featuring Joe Fafard's sculpture The Pasture ; these were the first examples of large-scale public outdoor spaces within the urban core of Toronto.

In a twist of fate, " Oscar " was the name given to an obsolete space suit by its young owner in the book Have Space Suit, Will Travel, by Robert A Heinlein.

The Academy Awards Oscar is a trophy with a stylized human ; the Hugo Award for science fiction is a space ship ; and the Wimbledon awards for its singles champions are a large loving cup for men and a large silver plate for women.

An F100-L was carried into space on the amateur radio satellite UoSAT-1 ( Oscar 9 ).

The three-story pavilion was designed by a team led by architects Oscar Niemeyer and Hélio Uchôa, and provides an exhibition space of 30, 000 m².

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award was presented to George Lucas by the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis during the STS-45 mission, which also included an actual Oscar statuette aboard the spacecraft.