Who was the first black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor?
Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field (1963), was the first black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor.
Ivan Triesault says to Claude Rains at the end of Notorious (1946), “Alex, will you come in please? I wish to talk to you”.
Sean Young was originally cast as Vicki Vale in Batman (1989). She fractured her shoulder in a riding accident two weeks before the start of principal filming. Kim Basinger took over.
Best Picture—Wings (1927) (Best “Production”) Best Actor—Emil Jannings in The Last Command (1927) and The Way of All Flesh (1927) Best Actress—Janet Gaynor in Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1927), and Sunrise (1927) Best Director—Frank Borzage for Seventh Heaven (1927)
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker directed Airplane! (1980). David and Jerry are brothers.
John Ford played a Ku Klux Klan member in The Birth of a Nation.
The Last House on the Left (1972), was advertised with the line, “To avoid fainting, keep repeating: “It’s only a movie, It’s only a movie”.