In February 2000, American Beauty was nominated for eight Academy Awards ; its closest rivals, The Cider House Rules and The Insider, received seven nominations each.

American Beautys closest rival for Best Picture was still The Cider House Rules, from Miramax.

He received his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules ( 1999 ).

Better parts followed, including The Cider House Rules ( 1999 ), for which he won his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Caine has been Oscar-nominated six times, winning his first Academy Award for the 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters, and his second in 1999 for The Cider House Rules, in both cases as a supporting actor.

John Irving wrote of the book many times in his novel " The Cider House Rules " in which the main character, Homer Wells, reads " David Copperfield " to the other orphans every night before bed.

The film has been called " the pro-life answer to The Cider House Rules.

* Poquetanuck Village Historic District — Roughly along Main Street between Route 117 and Middle Road and along School House and Cider Mill Road ( added September 22, 1996 )

In John Irving's 1985 novel The Cider House Rules, Dr. Larch orders his apprentice gynecologist Homer Welles to read Gray's Anatomy.

Hulce shepherded two major projects to fruition: the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's plays which won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Critics Circle Award, and a New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for Best Play.

2000 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Play Thomas Hulce ( for " The Cider House Rules, Part One " )

The nickname of " gentle shepherd " was given him because he bored the House by asking over and over again, during the debate on the Cider Bill of 1763, that somebody should tell him " where " to lay the new tax if it was not to be put on cider.

* John Irving – The Cider House Rules

* The Cider House Rules ( 1994 ) — In this John Irving novel and its 1999 film adaptation, a Bowdoin-educated doctor forges a Bowdoin diploma for a young protégé.

Alexander's additional screen credits include All the President's Men ( 1976 ), Kramer vs. Kramer ( 1979 ), and Testament ( 1983 ), all of which earned her Oscar nods, Brubaker ( 1980 ), The Cider House Rules ( 1999 ), and Fur ( 2006 ), in which she played Gertrude Nemerov, mother of Diane Arbus, played in the film by Nicole Kidman.

Lee was a filming location for Before and After ( 1996 ) and The Cider House Rules ( 1999 ).

Cloud's orphanage in John Irving's classic novel The Cider House Rules that was adapted into a film

It was a filming location for Before and After ( 1996 ) and The Cider House Rules ( 1999 ), which was shot at Ventfort Hall.

** The Cider House Rules – Rachel Portman

* Homer Wells, protagonist of John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules

Following the film's international success, Hallström has worked on American films – What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Cider House Rules, Chocolat and Casanova, among others.

He has primarily appeared in comedies, and is known for his roles in the films Clueless, The Cider House Rules, Wet Hot American Summer, Anchorman, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Dinner for Schmucks, The Object of My Affection, Role Models, I Love You, Man, and Our Idiot Brother.

Additional early-career credits include Wet Hot American Summer, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, The Cider House Rules, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, and The Object of My Affection.

Sullivan also played the only child in the 2002 film Unfaithful and played the orphaned child Fuzzy Stone, who suffered from weak lungs in The Cider House Rules.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for My Life as a Dog ( Mitt liv som hund ) ( 1985 ) and later for The Cider House Rules ( 1999 ).

He reached his greatest level of prominence when he was nominated for an Academy Award for best director for the critically acclaimed movie The Cider House Rules ( 1999 ) and then later directed the well-received film Chocolat ( 2000 ), both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Cider is the most popular beverage of the middle and lower economic classes at Christmas and New Year ( the upper classes proverbially preferring to celebrate with locally produced champagne, although real old-line " creole " aristocrats will still drink cider, which is much more traditional ).

Vermont-based Woodchuck Draft Cider is a popular alcoholic cider.

The beer is also available in British-themed pubs as a draught beer in Australia and New Zealand ; brewed in the UK and imported by The Beer and Cider Company.

The Hereford Cider Museum is located in the City, with a shop and a fully interactive guide to how to produce the drink.

Cider brandy is also made in the UK, and appears in records going back to 1678.

The bridge is also called Martin's Mill Bridge, Eberly's Cider Mill Covered Bridge, and Fiand's / Fiantz's Covered Bridge.

A left onto Cider Mill Road leads straight to the bridge, which is visible from the intersection.

As ' Pear cider ', the drink is popular in Sweden with brands such as Briska, Kopparberg, Herrljunga Cider, Rekorderlig Cider, and Gravendals being present.

New Zealand is seeing a surge in the popularity of Pear Cider with Old Mout Cidery, Macs and Monteiths Brewery each producing a pear cider.

The center of North Granby is today marked principally by the Cossitt Branch Library and the Allen Cider Mill.

Louisburg is well known for the Louisburg Cider Cider Mill & Country Store which was constructed of wood saved from an old barn on 26945 Metcalf.

* Apple Cider Century is an annual one-day, 25, 50, 62, 75 or 100 mile bicycle tour of the orchards, forests and wine country in and around Three Oaks, Michigan.

Franklin is known for the Franklin Cider Mill, which actually lies just north of Franklin's borders, in neighboring Bloomfield Township, although it does have a Franklin mailing address.

The European Green Woodpecker is associated with Woodpecker Cider, an image of the bird is used on the merchandise.

The Burrville Cider Mill is one of Jefferson County's oldest establishments.

Cider with Rosie continues to be one of the UK's most popular books, and is sometimes used as a set English literature text for schoolchildren.

The most popular drink is the strong Exhibition Cider, served in half pints.

In September 2012, it was stated by Off the Leash Pet News on MSN Living online that two of them, Monty ( who had appeared in the James Bond scenes in the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games ) and Cider ( who is half Dachshund ) had passed away, leaving only two Corgis, Willow and Holly, left.

Bulmers Cider is one of a number of brands owned by H. P. Bulmer of Hereford.