Fred Astaire-Awards, Honors, And Tributes

 

• 1938: Invited to place his hand and foot prints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood.
• 1950: Ginger Rogers presented an honorary Academy Award to Astaire "for his unique artistry and his contributions to the technique of musical pictures".
• 1950: Golden Globe for "Best Motion Picture Actor -Music/Comedy" for Three Little Words
• 1958: Emmy Award for "Best Single Performance by an Actor" for An Evening with Fred Astaire
• 1959: Dance Magazine award
• 1960: Nominated for Emmy Award for "Program Achievement" for Another Evening with Fred Astaire
• 1960: Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for "Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures"
• 1961: Emmy Award for "Program Achievement" in 1961 for Astaire Time
• 1961: Voted Champion of Champions—Best Television performer in annual television critics and columnists poll conducted by Television Today and Motion Picture Daily
• 1965: The George Eastman Award from the George Eastman House for "outstanding contributions to motion pictures"
• 1968: Nominated for an Emmy Award for Musical Variety Program for The Fred Astaire Show
• 1972: Named Musical Comedy Star of the Century by Liberty, "The Nostalgia Magazine".
• 1973: Subject of a Gala by the Film Society of Lincoln Center
• 1975: Academy Award nomination for The Towering Inferno
• 1975: Golden Globe for "Best Supporting Actor", BAFTA and David di Donatello awards for The Towering Inferno
• 1978: Emmy Award for "Best Actor—Drama or Comedy Special" for A Family Upside Down
• 1978: Honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
• 1978: First recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors
• 1978: National Artist Award from the American National Theatre Association for "contributing immeasurably to the American Theatre"
• 1981: The Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute
• 1982: The Anglo-American Contemporary Dance Foundation announces the Astaire Awards "to honor Fred Astaire and his sister Adele and to reward the achievement of an outstanding dancer or dancers". The awards have since been renamed The Fred and Adele Astaire Awards
• 1987: The Capezio Dance Shoe Award (co-awarded with Rudolph Nureyev)
• 1987: Inducted into the National Museum of Dance C.V. Whitney Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York
• 1989: Posthumous award of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1989: Posthumous induction into the Television Hall of Fame
• 1991: Posthumous induction into the Ballroom Dancer's Hall of Fame
• 1999: Posthumous award of Grammy Hall of Fame Award for 1952 The Astaire Story album
• 2000: Ava Astaire McKenzie unveils a plaque in honor of her father, erected by the citizens of Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
• 2008: Conference to honor the life and work of Fred Astaire at Oriel College, University of Oxford, June 21–24.

Built in 1905, the Gottlieb Storz Mansion in Astaire's hometown of Omaha includes the "Adele and Fred Astaire Ballroom" on the top floor, which is the only memorial to their Omaha roots.

Astaire is referenced in the 2003 animated feature, The Triplets of Belleville, in which he is eaten by his shoes after a fast-paced dance act.

 

Greta Garbo-Honors, Awards, and Nominations

  

 

Garbo was nominated four times for an Academy Award for Best Actress, including twice in 1930, for “Anna Christie” and “Romance”. She lost out to Irving Thalberg's wife, Norma Shearer, who won for “The Divorcee”.  In 1937, Garbo was nominated for “Camille”, but Luise Rainer won for “The Good Earth”.  In 1939, Garbo was nominated for “Ninotchka”, but again came away empty-handed.  “Gone With the Wind”
swept the major awards, including Best Actress, which went to Vivien Leigh. 

 

Garbo was awarded an Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances" in 1954.  She did not show up at the ceremony, and the statuette was mailed to her home address.

 

Garbo twice received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress for “Anna Karenina”, and “Camille”.

 

Garbo won the National Board of Review for Best Acting Award for “Camille”,  “Ninotchka”, and “Two-Faced Woman”.

 

The Swedish royal medal, Litteris et Artibus, awarded to people who have made important contributions to culture, especially music, dramatic art or literature, was presented to Garbo in January 1937.

 

In a 1950, Daily Variety opinion poll, Garbo was voted Best Actress of the Half Century.

 

In November 1983, Garbo was made a Commander of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star by order of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

 

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of greatest female stars of all time after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman.

 

For her contributions to cinema, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

Garbo was once designated the most beautiful woman who ever lived by the Guinness Book of World Records.

 

In September 2005, the United States Postal Service and Swedish Posten jointly issued two commemorative stamps bearing her image.

 

On 6 April 2011, the Bank of Sweden announced that Garbo's portrait will be featured on the 100 krona banknote, beginning in 2014–15.

Steve McQueen-Films And Awards

 

Films: 

 

Girl on the Run (1953)

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

Never Love a Stranger (1958)

The Blob (1958)

The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)

Never So Few (1959)

Man from the South (1960) (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

The Honeymoon Machine (1961)

Hell Is for Heroes (1962)

The War Lover (1962)

The Great Escape (1963)

Soldier in the Rain (1963)

Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)

Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)

The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

Nevada Smith (1966)

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

Think Twentieth (1967) (short subject)

Bullitt: Steve McQueen's Commitment to Reality (1968) (short)

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Bullitt (1968)

The Reivers (1969)

Le Mans (1971)

On Any Sunday (1971) (documentary)

Junior Bonner (1972)

The Getaway (1972)

The Life and Legend of Bruce Lee (1973) (documentary)

Papillon (1973)

The Towering Inferno (1974)

Dixie Dynamite (1976) (Cameo)

Bruce Lee, the Legend (1977) (documentary)

An Enemy of the People (1978) (also executive producer)

Tom Horn (1980) (also executive producer)

The Hunter (1980)

 

Awards:

• Academy Awards

• (1967) Nominated – Best Actor in a Leading Role / The Sand Pebbles

  Golden Globe Awards

• (1964) Nominated – Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama / Love with the Proper Stranger

• (1967) Nominated – Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama / The Sand Pebbles

• (1970) Nominated – Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy / The Reivers

• (1974) Nominated – Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama / Papillon

• Steve McQueen mural by Kent Twitchell, 1971