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9 November 2009 7:35 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Today's Birthdays 11/09

1869 Marie Dressler is awesome. She gave one of the most aggressive Best Actress winning performances evah. If you haven't seen Min & Bill (1933), you must. You must, you must, you must.

1883 Edna May Oliver feisty character actress

1886 Ed Wynn Uncle Albert from Mary Poppins. He loves to laugh... long and loud and clear. Audiences were always ready to laugh along with him

1922 Dorothy Dandridge first black woman to be nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars (Carmen Jones) and what a neat coincidence that she was portrayed by the first black actress to eventually win the Best Actress Oscar (Halle Berry) in the bio Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1948 Bille August Danish director of The Best Intentions and Pelle the Conqueror fame

1955 Fernando Meirelles director of declining films: City of God, The Constant Gardner, Blindness. I'm not trying to be mean. But... um... do you have faith he'll pull out of it? »

- NATHANIEL R

27 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- You'd have to go way back until 1988's Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror to find the last picture to win both the Cannes Palme d'or and the Oscar for Best Foreign film in the same year. Germany stands a good chance at achieving this rare double feat with a film that is oddly set around the same point in time as August's turn of the 19th century Danish film. The best World War-related film out of Cannes this year, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon was helped along by the more outspoken jury member this year for the Palme D'or won. While clearly not Haneke's career's best, on the flip-side, it my be the most accessible film he'll ever make - good for the set in their ways voting Academy.  For Das weiße Band to win, Sony Pictures Classics who own the U.S domestic rights and plan »

2 articles from 2009