Real Men Many Best Actor nominations have come from playing real-life characters. Kirk Douglas was nominated as Best Actor for playing whi...

While not as well known as some other actors of his generation, we here at the Monkey nevertheless pause to note the birthday of Ronald Rea...

An All-Knighter Several Brits have been both knighted and nominated as actors by the Academy (some prior to their knighting, some afterward...

[To read part one of this essay, click here .] Documentaries and Animation ● In the years between The Great Train Robbery (1903) and D.W. G...

Kerr Trouble Deborah Kerr holds the record for most Best Actress nominations (six) without ever winning. Her first came for what 1949 dram...

Stolen from TCM's Now Playing magazine: Four In One Thirteen times a single film has been nominated in all four acting categories. Fo...

I cannot tell a lie: The questions are ripped off straight from TCM's Now Playing magazine. As was the case yesterday, no prizes for be...

... straight from TCM's Now Playing : The Right Direction W.S. Van Dyke II set a record by having four of his films nominated for Oscar...

Clark Gable, who be 110 today ... ... and John Ford, who would be 117. If I live long enough, I'll write a full biography of each of the...

Turner Classic Movies' annual "31 Days Of Oscar" marathon starts tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. Here's the schedule: All Time...