DreamWorks launched a major campaign to increase American Beautys chances of Academy Award success ; at the 72nd Academy Awards the following year, the film won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor ( for Spacey ), Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

On March 26, 2000, American Beauty won five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor ( Spacey ), Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

Spacey thanked the drama department of his alma mater when he won his first Oscar.

One such commercial, " Richard Spacey Saves the Day ," won Neverthought Films two Telly Awards in 2007.

Writer McQuarrie won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, composer / editor Ottman won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and the Saturn Award for Best Music and actor Kevin Spacey won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Critically acclaimed, American Beauty was widely considered the best film of 1999 by the American press ; it received overwhelming praise, chiefly for Spacey, Mendes and Ball.

Later in the year, Spacey starred in Eugene O ' Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten, along with Colm Meaney and Eve Best.

The play received excellent reviews for Spacey and Best, and was transferred to Broadway in 2007.

Spacey was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor — Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, but the award went to Jamie Foxx for his portrayal of Darin's musical contemporary Ray Charles.

The Canadian network Space awarded it the 2005 Spacey Award for Best Science Fiction / Fantasy Film.

* 1991 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Play ( Kevin Spacey )

The film starred Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey and Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson, and earned Gray both Best Film and Best Director awards at the 1998 Acapulco Film Festival.

Sprecher's credits include, as producer, John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer in American Buffalo, Kevin Spacey and Eve Best in A Moon for the Misbegotten, Legends starring Joan Collins and Linda Evans, the 2005 revival of The Odd Couple, Mark Twain Tonight !, Sly Fox, Tony Award-nominee Fortune's Fool and Voices in the Dark.

Actor Kevin Spacey recalled that Lemmon is remembered as always making time for other people.

Many references to it can be found in the media of the period, including the Laurel and Hardy 1933 film Sons of the Desert, and Arthur Train's 1930 Wall Street Crash novel Paper Profits. Actor Kevin Spacey delivers the line in the film Beyond the Sea, in the song The Curtain Falls, when portraying the singer, Bobby Darin, concluding his stage act.

Actor and artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre, Kevin Spacey, has argued the economic case for the arts in terms of providing jobs and being of greater importance in exports than manufacturing ( as well as an educational role ) in a guest column he wrote for The Times.

In 2001, Kevin Spacey purchased this Oscar statuette at a Butterfield & Butterfield estate auction and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Spacey's father was unconvinced that Spacey could make a career for himself as an actor, and did not change his mind until Spacey became well-known.

Spacey also earned another Tony nomination the same year, for his work in a Broadway production of The Iceman Cometh.

In 2001, Spacey co-hosted, with Judi Dench, the Unite for the Future Gala, a UK fundraiser for the British Victims of 9 / 11 and Médecins Sans Frontières at London's Old Vic Theatre, produced by Harvey Goldsmith and Dominic Madden.

Beyond The Sea was a lifelong dream project for Spacey, who took on co-writing, directing, co-producing and starring duties in the biography / musical about Darin's life, career, and relationship with actress Sandra Dee.

Facing little interest for backing in the States, Spacey went to the UK and Germany for funding.

Spacey is well known in Hollywood for his impressions as when he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio he imitated, at host James Lipton's request: James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

Spacey undertook to remain in the post for a full ten years.

Based on a true story of a teacher arrested for teaching his students evolution also known as the " Scopes Monkey Trial ," Spacey played defense lawyer Henry Drummond, a role that was made famous by actor Spencer Tracy in the 1960 film of the same name.

In September 2006, Spacey announced his intention to stay on at the Old Vic for at least another nine years, and that due to his continuing UK residency he intends to take up British citizenship when it becomes available to him.

" Spacey said to Gotham Magazine, " I ’ ve just never believed in pimping my personal life out for publicity.

Spacey stated: "... they will never be able to ban the Belarus people's right to fight for their freedom and their voices to be heard, and that's what this protest is about.

* 8 p. m. EDT: Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music, a tribute to John Lennon that became a concert of prayer and healing for New York City to benefit the relief efforts, hosted by Kevin Spacey and featuring Dave Matthews, Moby, Stone Temple Pilots, Nelly Furtado, Shelby Lynne, Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, The Isley Brothers, Lou Reed, Marc Anthony, Natalie Merchant, Yolanda Adams, Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, is held at Radio City Music Hall and simultaneously broadcast live on the TNT and WB networks.

Spacey was Mendes ' first choice for the role of Lester, even though DreamWorks had urged the director to consider better-known actors ; similarly, the studio suggested several actors for the role of Carolyn until Mendes offered the part to Bening without DreamWorks ' knowledge.

Mendes had Spacey and Bening in mind for the leads from the beginning, but DreamWorks executives were unenthusiastic.

Spacey and Bening worked to create a sense of the love that Lester and Carolyn once had for one another ; for example, the scene in which Lester almost seduces Carolyn after the pair argue over Lester's buying a car was originally " strictly contentious ".

In the 2005 season, Spacey made his UK Shakespearean debut, to good notices, in the title role of Richard II directed by Trevor Nunn.

Dunst was offered the role of Angela in the 1999 drama film American Beauty, but turned it down because she did not want to appear in the film's suggestive sexual scenes or kiss co-star Kevin Spacey.

Hoffman played the lead role in Outbreak ( 1995 ), alongside Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Donald Sutherland.

" Mendes offered Bening the role of Carolyn without the studio's consent ; although executives were upset at Mendes, by September 1998, DreamWorks had entered negotiations with Spacey and Bening.

More recently, the play was staged by Trevor Nunn in modern costume at the Old Vic in 2005, with Kevin Spacey in the title role, and by Michael Grandage at the Donmar Warehouse in 2011-12 with Eddie Redmayne in the title role.

Spacey had played the role of Richard's henchman, the Duke of Buckingham, in the Pacino film.

In Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, he played the role of the ill-fated hustler murdered by an art dealer, played by Kevin Spacey.

Kevin Spacey, who stars in the lead role and used his own singing voice for the musical numbers, co-wrote, directed, and co-produced the film, which takes its title from the Darin song of the same name.

Shortly afterwards, Spacey was in discussions with Dodd Darin to star in the lead role.

The deal fell apart when Paramount told Spacey was that he was too old for the role and instead wanted Leonardo DiCaprio.

Other noteworthy actors to play the role of Hickey include Lee Marvin, in a 1973 film adaptation directed by John Frankenheimer ; James Earl Jones, in a 1973 revival at the Circle in the Square Theatre that was edited for length and criticized for the weakness of its supporting cast ; and Kevin Spacey, who was lauded for his 1998 – 1999 stage rendition of the part in London's West End and then on Broadway.

Her most notable role is as a villainess on the TV series Wiseguy, where she played half of a brother / sister crime team ( the other half was played by Kevin Spacey ) to great acclaim.