Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – DramaFilm award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press AssociationThe Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama is a Golden Globe Award that was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture", but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress – Comedy or Musical. The formal title has varied since its inception.
Academy Award for Best ActressAward presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesThe Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It has been awarded since the 1st Academy Awards to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year. The award was traditionally presented by the previous year's Best Actor winner.
Love Story (1970 film)Love Story is a 1970 American romantic drama film directed by Arthur Hiller, written by Erich Segal (who concurrently adapted his screenplay into a 1970 novel). It stars Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal, and features John Marley, Ray Milland, and Tommy Lee Jones in his film debut.
Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – ActressThe Golden Globe for New Star of the Year – Actress was an award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) at the annual Golden Globes award ceremony. New Star of the Year – Actress was first presented at the 5th Golden Globes held in 1948, alongside the New Star of the Year – Actor category, and awarded to Lois Maxwell for her performance in That Hagen Girl (1947); the award was absent from the following year's ceremony.Goodbye, Columbus (film)Goodbye, Columbus is a 1969 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Larry Peerce from a screenplay by Arnold Schulman, based on the 1959 novella by Philip Roth. The film stars Richard Benjamin, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin, and Ali MacGraw. The story's title alludes to a phonograph record played by the brother of MacGraw's character, nostalgically recalling his athletic career at Ohio State in Columbus.
The Getaway (1972 film)The Getaway is a 1972 American action thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah from a screenplay by Walter Hill, based on the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson. The neo-Western stars Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, and Sally Struthers. The plot follows imprisoned mastermind robber Carter "Doc" McCoy (McQueen), whose wife Carol (MacGraw) conspires for his release on the condition they rob a bank in Texas.The Winds of War (miniseries)The Winds of War is a 1983 American war drama television miniseries, based on the 1971 novel by Herman Wouk. It was produced and directed by Dan Curtis, while Wouk adapted his own novel to screen. Like the novel, the series follows the lives of the fictional Henry and Jastrow families as they intersect with the major global events of the early years of World War II.
Just Tell Me What You WantJust Tell Me What You Want is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Lumet. It stars Ali MacGraw, Peter Weller and Alan King, and was also Myrna Loy's final film. The screenplay by Jay Presson Allen, adapted from her novel, won her the David di Donatello Award for Best Screenplay of a Foreign Film. This is MacGraw's last leading role in a film.
Convoy (1978 film)Convoy is a 1978 American roadaction film directed by Sam Peckinpah from a screenplay by Bill L. Norton, and starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair and Franklyn Ajaye. The film is based on the 1975 country and westernnovelty song "Convoy" by C. W. McCall. The story initially concerns truck drivers being extorted by a sheriff in Arizona. One of them punches the sheriff during a brawl.
Players (1979 film)Players is a 1979 American romancedrama film directed by Anthony Harvey and starring Ali MacGraw and Dean Paul Martin about a young tennis player who has an affair with an older woman. The film became known as a "disaster". PremiseA rising tennis star falls in love with an older woman, a jet-setter who is involved with a millionaire, while playing in the Wimbledon championships.Top Ten Money Making Stars PollThe Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll were polls on determining the bankability of movie stars. They began quite early in movie history. At first, they were popular polls and contests conducted in film magazines, where the readers would vote for their favorite stars, like the poll published in New York Morning Telegraph on 17 December 1911. Magazines appeared and disappeared often and among the most consistent in those early days were the polls in the Motion Picture Magazine.
Grauman's Chinese TheatreGrauman's Chinese Theatre, known as the Chinese colloquially, and officially branded as the TCL Chinese Theatre for sponsorship reasons, is a movie palace on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. The original Chinese Theatre was commissioned following the success of the nearby Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, which opened in 1922. Both were built as Exotic Revival style architecture.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.