And the Oscar Goes To...

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

Anjelica Huston

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Annette Bening

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Ellen Burstyn

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Cher

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Billy Crystal

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Jane Fonda

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Jennifer Hudson

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Ben Kingsley

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Liza Minnelli

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Helen Mirren

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Jon Voight

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Phil Alden Robinson

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Jason Reitman

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Steven Spielberg

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Kathleen Kennedy

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Michael Moore

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Janusz Kamiński

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Ben Burtt

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Ve Neill

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Jeannine Oppewall

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Bruce Vilanch

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George Clooney

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Robert Osborne

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Craig Barron

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Kirk Baxter

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Jeffrey Kurland

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F. Murray Abraham

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Isabelle Adjani

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Buddy Adler

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Robert Altman

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Julie Andrews

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George Arliss

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Fred Astaire

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Richard Attenborough

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Lauren Bacall

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John Bailey

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Fay Bainter

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Alan Ball

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Anne Bancroft

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Ethel Barrymore

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Lionel Barrymore

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Kathy Bates

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Ned Beatty

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Warren Beatty

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Roberto Benigni

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Candice Bergen

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Ingrid Bergman

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Halle Berry

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Kathryn Bigelow

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Cate Blanchett

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Humphrey Bogart

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Lorraine Bracco

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Charles Brackett

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Marlon Brando

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Nicoletta Braschi

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Walter Brennan

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Adrien Brody

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Geneviève Bujold

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James Caan

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James Cagney

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Jane Campion

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Dyan Cannon

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Frank Capra

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Steve Carell

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Diahann Carroll

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Johnny Carson

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George Chakiris

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Carol Channing

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Charlie Chaplin

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Oona O'Neill Chaplin

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Gary Cooper

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Francis Ford Coppola

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Marion Cotillard

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Joan Crawford

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Bing Crosby

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Jon Cryer

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Tony Curtis

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Bette Davis

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Doris Day

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Daniel Day-Lewis

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Rebecca De Mornay

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Cecil B. DeMille

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Judi Dench

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Kirk Douglas

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Michael Douglas

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Richard Dreyfuss

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Faye Dunaway

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Jimmy Durante

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Robert Duvall

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Blake Edwards

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Vince Edwards

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Edith Evans

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Peter Falk

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Federico Fellini

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Will Ferrell

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Laurence Fishburne

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Calista Flockhart

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Michael J. Fox

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Clark Gable

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Judy Garland

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Teri Garr

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Greer Garson

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Janet Gaynor

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Hermione Gingold

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Lillian Gish

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Louis Gossett Jr.

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Elliott Gould

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Cary Grant

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Lee Grant

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Gene Hackman

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Rex Harrison

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Howard Hawks

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Goldie Hawn

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Edith Head

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Lillian Hellman

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Justin Henry

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Audrey Hepburn

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Charlton Heston

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Dustin Hoffman

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Bob Hope

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Ron Howard

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Hugh Hudson

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Rock Hudson

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Linda Hunt

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Holly Hunter

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John Huston

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Amy Irving

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James Ivory

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Ben Johnson

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Danny Kaye

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Buster Keaton

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Gene Kelly

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Grace Kelly

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Deborah Kerr

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Sally Kirkland

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Akira Kurosawa

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Diane Ladd

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Burt Lancaster

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Diane Lane

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Ang Lee

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Janet Leigh

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Jack Lemmon

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Jerry Lewis

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Sacheen Littlefeather

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Harold Lloyd

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Sophia Loren

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George Lucas

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Sidney Lumet

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Ali MacGraw

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Henry Mancini

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Dean Martin

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Steve Martin

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Lee Marvin

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Groucho Marx

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Marsha Mason

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Walter Matthau

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Louis B. Mayer

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Joseph McCarthy

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Hattie McDaniel

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Mary McDonnell

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Steve McQueen

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Bette Midler

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Sarah Miles

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Freida Lee Mock

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Roger Moore

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Rita Moreno

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Paul Newman

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Jack Nicholson

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Nick Nolte

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Donald O'Connor

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Peter O'Toole

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Laurence Olivier

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Gregory Peck

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Valerie Perrine

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Wolfgang Petersen

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Sidney Poitier

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Sydney Pollack

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Cole Porter

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Richard Pryor

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Martha Raye

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Ronald Reagan

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Vanessa Redgrave

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Donna Reed

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Debbie Reynolds

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Tom Hanks

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Trent Reznor

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Hal Roach

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Jason Robards

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Edward G. Robinson

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Chris Rock

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Ginger Rogers

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Cesar Romero

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Atticus Ross

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Diana Ross

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Herbert Ross

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Gena Rowlands

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Mark Rydell

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Eva Marie Saint

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Bert Schneider

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Martin Scorsese

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George Segal

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David Seidler

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Tom Selleck

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Jim Sheridan

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Frank Sinatra

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Steven Soderbergh

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Sissy Spacek

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Barbara Stanwyck

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Rod Steiger

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James Stewart

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Vittorio Storaro

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Meryl Streep

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Barbra Streisand

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Elizabeth Taylor

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Emma Thompson

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Gene Tierney

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Dimitri Tiomkin

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Spencer Tracy

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Twiggy

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Cicely Tyson

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Liv Ullmann

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King Vidor

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Jack L. Warner

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John Wayne

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Raquel Welch

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Billy Wilder

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Robin Williams

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Tennessee Williams

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Kate Winslet

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Shelley Winters

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Robert Wise

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Alfre Woodard

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Joanne Woodward

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Loretta Young

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Renée Zellweger

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Fred Zinnemann

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Sylvester Stallone

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John Travolta

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Denzel Washington

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