James Coburn presenting Angelina Jolie with the Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for her performance in “Girl Interrupted” at the 72nd Annual Academy Awards® in 2000.
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PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
2008 Penelope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
2007 Tilda Swinton in “Michael Clayton”
2006 Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls”
2005 Rachel Weisz in “The Constant Gardener”
2004 Cate Blanchett in “The Aviator”
2003 Renee Zellweger in “Cold Mountain”
2002 Catherine Zeta-Jones in “Chicago”
2001 Jennifer Connelly in “A Beautiful Mind”
2000 Marcia Gay Harden in “Pollock”
1999 Angelina Jolie in “Girl, Interrupted”
1998 Judi Dench in “Shakespeare in Love”
1997 Kim Basinger in “L.A. Confidential”
1996 Juliette Binoche in “The English Patient”
1995 Mira Sorvino in “Mighty Aphrodite”
1994 Dianne Wiest in “Bullets over Broadway”
1993 Anna Paquin in “The Piano”
1992 Marisa Tomei in “My Cousin Vinny”
1991 Mercedes Ruehl in “The Fisher King”
1990 Whoopi Goldberg in “Ghost”
1989 Brenda Fricker in “My Left Foot”
1988 Geena Davis in “The Accidental Tourist”
1987 Olympia Dukakis in “Moonstruck”
1986 Dianne Wiest in “Hannah and Her Sisters”
1985 Anjelica Huston in “Prizzi’s Honor”
1984 Peggy Ashcroft in “A Passage to India”
1983 Linda Hunt in “The Year of Living Dangerously”
1982 Jessica Lange in “Tootsie”
1981 Maureen Stapleton in “Reds”
1980 Mary Steenburgen in “Melvin and Howard”
1979 Meryl Streep in “Kramer vs. Kramer”
1978 Maggie Smith in “California Suite”
1977 Vanessa Redgrave in “Julia”
1976 Beatrice Straight in “Network”
1975 Lee Grant in “Shampoo”
1974 Ingrid Bergman in “Murder on the Orient Express”
1973 Tatum O’Neal in “Paper Moon”
1972 Eileen Heckart in “Butterflies Are Free”
1971 Cloris Leachman in “The Last Picture Show”
1970 Helen Hayes in “Airport”
1969 Goldie Hawn in “Catcus Flower”
1968 Ruth Gordon in “Rosemary’s Baby”
1967 Estelle Parsons in “Bonnie and Clyde”
1966 Sandy Dennis in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
1965 Shelley Winters in “A Patch of Blue”
1964 Lila Kedrova in “Zorba the Greek”
1963 Margaret Rutherford in “The V.I.P.s”
1962 Patty Duke in “The Miracle Worker”
1961 Rita Moreno in “West Side Story”
1960 Shirley Jones in “Elmer Gantry”
1959 Shelley Winters in “The Diary of Anne Frank”
1958 Wendy Hiller in “Separate Tables”
1957 Miyoshi Umeki in “Sayonara”
1956 Dorothy Malone in “Written on the Wind”
1955 Jo Van Fleet in “East of Eden”
1954 Eva Marie Saint in “On the Waterfront”
1953 Donna Reed in “From Here to Eternity”
1952 Gloria Grahame in “The Bad and the Beautiful”
1951 Kim Hunter in “A Streetcar Named Desire”
1950 Josephine Hull in “Harvey”
1949 Mercedes McCambridge in “All the King’s Men”
1948 Claire Trevor in “Key Largo”
1947 Celeste Holm in “Gentleman’s Agreement”
1946 Anne Baxter in “The Razor’s Edge”
1945 Anne Revere in “National Velvet”
1944 Ethel Barrymore in “None but the Lonely Heart”
1943 Katina Paxinou in “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
1942 Teresa Wright in “Mrs. Miniver”
1941 Mary Astor in “The Great Lie”
1940 Jane Darwell in “The Grapes of Wrath”
1939 Hattie McDaniel in “Gone with the Wind”
1938 Fay Bainter in “Jezebel”
1937 Alice Brady in “In Old Chicago”
1936 Gale Sondergaard in “Anthony Adverse”
Music from “A Beautiful Mind” and “Shakespeare in Love”
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Jennifer Ehle wins the 1996 BAFTA award for Best Actress in a TV show for her performance as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, beating Helen Mirren, Geraldine James and Juliet Stevenson.
Jennifer Ehle, then 24, starred alongside Colin Firth in what is regarded by many as the definitive version of Pride & Prejudice.
The BAFTA ceremony took place on 23 April 1996 in London’s Palladium Theatre. Jennifer Ehle’s award is presented by Stephen Fry.
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Emma Thompson wins Best Film Actress BAFTA in 1996 for her role as Elinor Dashwood in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, which also won the award for Best Film.
Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay for Sense & Sensibility, for which she won both a BAFTA and a US Academy Award that year.
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YouTube dance montage to ballet choreography by the award winning, internationally renown choreographers of New York’s Configuration Dance Theatre, voted 2008 and 2009 people’s choice for Artvoice Best Dance Company Award, set to the song, “Circles,” by the Grammy bound, cello rock group, “Break of Reality,” with pas de deux, trio, solo, duet, variation, pointe and ensemble choreography: “What’s the Pointe,” “Tchaicotic,” “Transfiguration” and “Awakenings” by Michael Shannon; “Fascia La Spina” by Sasha Janes; “Cumbling” by Edgar Zendejas; “Levitation” by Yuri Zhukov; and “En Redondo Sombras” by Harrison McEldowney; commissioned by Founder Artistic Director, Joseph Cipolla, and co-Founder, Catherine Batcheller.
ARTVOICE described Configuration Dance Theatre in “Balanchine and Beyond” (9/20/2009): “As their name implies, their emphasis widens the scope of dance and dramatic, a certain noir-ness, they lay bare emotions, startle senses, and make one think,” qualities Dance Magazine experts recognized early, and gave the company its descriptive moniker, “A LIVING ART GALLERY.”
CONFIGURATION choreographers and dancers were featured in “DANCE SPECTACULAR” (9/22/09) by its producer, New York City Ballet star, Daniel Ulbricht, with Boston Ballet and New York City Ballet stars in “Apollo,” “Who Cares, “Diamond,” “Tarantella” authorized by the Balanchine Foundation, and presenting “What’s the Pointe” by Michael Shannon, “Royenne” by Susan Jaffe, “Breathless” by Joseph Cipolla, “whose acclaimed company,” said Ulbricht, “is known for its cutting-edge contemporary choreography.”
CDT premiered 15 new ballets from 2005 to 2009, and The Buffalo News (1/02/09) named Joseph Cipolla, and Michael Shannon, THE DREAM TEAM, both principal stars with illustrious international careers in legendary dance institutions, i.e., BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET under the patronage of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Prince of Wales, Lady Sarah Chatto, and Artistic Director, David Bintley.
Artistic Director Joseph Cipolla was a principal star for Dance Theatre of Harlem co-founders, Arthur Mitchell (New York City Ballet) and Karel Shook (Dutch National Ballet), Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet for Artistic Directors Sir Peter Wright and David Bintley (Royal Ballet of Covent Garden). He was a 1993 Laurence Olivier Award Nominee; 2006 St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute Wall of Honor Awardee; co-founded Configuration School of Dance in 2009. He retired in 2002 but returned to BRB in 2007 to dance Nimrod in “Enigma Variations” and De Guiche in “Cyrano.”
Companies have premiered 40 Michael Shannon dance works, ballets, plays, films, and opera productions since 1995, and 12 works for CDT since 2005, i.e., “Yumeji” and “Madame Bovary” for Catherine Batcheller, principal star for Stuttgart Ballet, Birmingham Royal, and San Francisco Ballet, with Momchil Mladenov, principal star for Suzanne Farrell Ballet, National Ballet of Bulgaria, in their portrayals of Shannon’s Emma Bovary and Léon Dupuis, literature’s most famous illicit lovers.
In 2007, Susan Jaffe, principal star for American Ballet Theatre, and guest artist for the Kirov, Vienna State Opera Ballet, Royal Swedish Opera Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Ballet of Covent Garden, English National Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Munich State Opera Ballet, La Scala Ballet in Milan, Dance Magazine Awardee, published author, television host, actress, educator, Advisor to ABT Board of Governing Trustees Chairman 2002-2007; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School faculty since 2002; and Duke Corporate Education Lecturer on Excellence, and since 2007, CDT Advisory Board member and Principal Guest Choreographer. (Jaffe and Shannon were SAB Alumni under George Balanchine)
Michael Shannon danced (1979-2002) his last roles for Birmingham Royal Ballet as Lancelot in David Bintley’s “Arthur” and Prince Siegfried in Sir Peter Wright’s “Swan Lake. He was a principal star and competition judge for Bolshoi legend, Artistic Director Yuri Grigorovich; Stars of the Bolshoi for Maya Pliesetskaya, Madame Sophia Golovkina, Natalia Bessmertnova, Ekatrina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev; Vienna State Opera Ballet for Artistic Director Elena Tchernichova (ABT, Kirov); Kremlin Palace Ballet for Director Andrei Petrov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Ekatrina Maximova (Bolshoi); and others, i.e., the Royal Ballet of Covent Garden 1979; Los Angeles Ballet 1980, American Ballet Theatre 1981; Boston Ballet 1983; National Ballet of Canada 1984-86; the Royal Swedish Opera Ballet 1986; Hungarian State Opera Ballet 1987 and in the 1990s; Awarded Silver Medals in Paris France 1992 and Budapest Hungary 1993 International Ballet Competitions; honored by Town Hall of California 1986, 1990; President George H. W. Bush 1990, President William J. Clinton 1993; Awarded Best Play of 1995 for “Monday After the Miracle” televised at Moscow Art Theatre; Awarded Professor of Choreography in 1999, Ukrainian State Academy of Ballet.
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American contemporary dance montage presenting ballet photos of live performances by award winning, nationally recognized, CONFIGURATION DANCE THEATRE, voted the people’s choice for the ARTVOICE BEST DANCE COMPANY AWARD in 2008 and 2009, and features the song “Circles” by New York, Grammy bound, cello rock group “Break of Reality.” You can see videos of these dancers performing live on Configuration Dance Theatre Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/maiklusha
ARTVOICE described Configuration Dance Theatre and its choreographers in “Balanchine and Beyond” (9/20/2009): “As their name implies, their emphasis widens the scope of dance and dramatic, a certain noir-ness, they lay bare emotions, startle senses, and make one think,” qualities DANCE MAGAZINE experts saw early, and gave CDT its descriptive moniker, “A LIVING ART GALLERY.”
CDT was featured in “DANCE SPECTACULAR” (9/22/09) by its producer, New York City Ballet star, Daniel Ulbricht, with Boston Ballet and New York City Ballet stars in “Apollo,” “Who Cares, “Diamond,” “Tarantella” authorized by the George Balanchine Foundation, with Michael Shannon’s WHAT’S THE POINTE, Susan Jaffe’s ROYENNE, Joseph Cipolla’s BREATHLESS, “whose acclaimed company,” said Ulbricht, “is known for its cutting-edge contemporary choreography.”
After Configuration premiered over 15 new ballets from 2005 to 2009, THE BUFFALO NEWS (1/02/09) named co-Founder, Artistic Director Joseph Cipolla, and Resident Choreographer Michael Shannon, THE DREAM TEAM, both American stars of ballet with illustrious international careers with legendary dance institutions, both principal stars for England’s BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET under the patronage of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Prince of Wales, Lady Sarah Chatto, and Artistic Director, David Bintley.
JOSEPH CIPOLLA was a principal star for Dance Theatre of Harlem co-founders, Arthur Mitchell (New York City Ballet) and Karel Shook (Dutch National Ballet), Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet for Artistic Directors Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley. He was a 1993 Lawrence Olivier Award Nominee; 2006 St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute Wall of Honor Awardee; 2008 and 2009 Artvoice Best Dance Company Awardee; co-founded the Configuration School of Ballet in 2009. Cipolla retired from BRB in 2002 but returned in 2007 to dance the roles Nimrod in “Enigma Variations” and De Guiche in “Cyrano.”
Forty MICHAEL SHANNON contemporary ballets have been premiered by companies since 1995, in addition to his plays, films and opera in Europe and USA. He has created 11 new works for CDT since 2005, and revised “Yumeji” (2007) and “Madame Bovary” (1996) for CDT co-Founder, Catherine Batcheller, principal star for the Birmingham Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and Stuttgart Ballet, who portrayed Emma Bovary with Momchil Mladenov, principal star for Suzanne Farrell Ballet, and National Ballet of Bulgaria, as Léon Dupuis, literature’s most famous illicit lovers.
In 2007, SUSAN JAFFE, principal star for American Ballet Theatre, and guest artist for the Kirov, Vienna State Opera Ballet, Royal Swedish Opera Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Royal Ballet of Covent Garden, English National Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Munich State Opera Ballet, La Scala Ballet in Milan, is a Dance Magazine Awardee, author, actress, television host, educator, Advisor to ABT’s Board of Governing Trustees Chairman from 2002-2007, member of the faculty at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School from 2002 to present, Duke Corporate Education Lecturer on Excellence, member of CDT’s National Advisory Board, and Principal Guest Choreographer.
Michael Shannon danced (1979-2002) his last roles for Birmingham Royal Ballet as Lancelot in David Bintley’s “Arthur” and Prince Siegfried in Sir Peter Wright’s “Swan Lake. He was a principal star, and ballet competition judge for Bolshoi Ballet legends, Artistic Director Yuri Grigorovich; Stars of the Bolshoi for Maya Pliesetskaya, Madame Sophia Golovkina, Natalia Bessmertnova, Ekatrina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev; star of Vienna State Opera Ballet for Artistic Director Elena Tchernichova (ABT, Kirov); Kremlin Palace Ballet for Director Andrei Petrov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Ekatrina Maximova; and others, i.e., Royal Ballet 1979; Los Angeles Ballet 1980, American Ballet Theatre 1981; Boston Ballet 1983; National Ballet of Canada 1984; Royal Swedish Opera Ballet 1986; Hungarian State Opera Ballet; Awarded Silver Medals in Paris France 1992 and Budapest Hungary 1993 International Ballet Competitions; Honored by Town Hall of California 1986, 1990; President George H. W. Bush 1990, President William J. Clinton 1993; Best Play of 1995, “Monday After the Miracle” televised at the Moscow Art Theatre of Anton Chekhov; Awarded Professor of Choreography, Ukrainian State Academy of Ballet 1999; YAGP Outstanding Choreographers Award 2008; Artvoice Best Dance Company Awardee 2008 and 2009.
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Sandra Bullock wins the Oscar award Best Actress in a leading Role for The Blind Side
Oscars 2010
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