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What movies did Matthew McConaughey win an Oscar for?

What movies did Matthew McConaughey win an Oscar for?

The following year, McConaughey played lead role of Ron Woodroof, a real life AIDS patient in the 1980s, in the biopic drama Dallas Buyers Club to critical acclaim. He won the Academy Award, Critics’ Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in the film.

Who won an Oscar for The Descendants?

Academy Awards, USA 2012

Winner Oscar Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Alexander Payne Nat Faxon Jim Rash
Nominee Oscar Best Motion Picture of the Year Jim Burke Alexander Payne Jim Taylor
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role George Clooney
Best Achievement in Directing Alexander Payne

Has any Korean movie won Oscar?

“Minari” depicts a Korean family struggling to build a life as farmers in rural Arkansas in the 1980s, when many poor Koreans headed for the United States for a better life. It is the second film about Koreans to make history at the Academy Awards, after “Parasite,” directed by Bong Joon Ho, won four Oscars last year.

Who was nominated for Best Supporting Actor 2013?

Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Christoph Waltz. Django Unchained.
  • Alan Arkin. Argo.
  • Robert De Niro. Silver Linings Playbook.
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman. The Master.
  • Tommy Lee Jones. Lincoln.

Is Academy Award same as Oscar?

In reality, the Academy Award is the same as the Oscar. The latter is just the more popular and the more frequently used term than Academy Award to refer to one and the same award. The history of the Oscar is very rich. It started in 1927 courtesy of the AMPAS, known as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

What happened to the land in the descendants?

The Trust for Public Land is purchasing the Galbraith Estate from his descendants and protecting it as farmland in perpetuity. The land will be leased to local farmers who will work to bolster food security in the Aloha state.

Where is the land in the descendants?

KAUAI
KIPU RANCH, KAUAI. There’s a scene in the movie in which the King family stands on a cliff looking down to a stretch of beautiful land belonging to their family. The land in real life is the Kipu Kai Ranch, a 3,000-acre private cattle ranch on the south shore of Kauai owned by the missionary-descended Rice family.

Will Minari win any Oscars?

The Arkansas-set film “Minari” won just one Academy Award out of six nominations. Youn Yuh-jung won Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards for her performance as Soon-ja, the grandmother in the film. It’s inspired by the real-life story of its director, Lee Isaac Chung, who lived in Lincoln, Arkansas.