Film, Theatre, and Media

Denzel Washington won the Best Actor award at the 74th Academy Awards (2002) for his performance in 'Training Day.' This was his second Oscar and first for Best Actor. Russell Crowe was a strong contender for 'A Beautiful Mind' but lost to Washington. Jim Broadbent won Best Supporting Actor that year for 'Iris.' Jim Carrey, while a prominent actor, has never won an Oscar. The 74th Oscars were notable for Washington's historic win as only the second African American to win Best Actor.

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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is one of only two people to have won both a Nobel Prize (Literature, 1925) and an Academy Award (Oscar for Adapted Screenplay, 1938 for 'Pygmalion'). The other is Bob Dylan. Shaw won his Oscar for adapting his own play 'Pygmalion' for the screen.

Daniel Radcliffe (not 'RadKliff' - this is a spelling error) was the child actor who played Harry Potter in the Harry Potter film series. He was cast at age 11 and starred in all eight films.

Alam Ara (1931) was India's first talking film, directed by Ardeshir Irani. Raja Harishchandra was India's first silent film (1913), not a talkie. Devdas and Neel-Kamal were later films in Indian cinema history.

Daniel Day-Lewis won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2008 for his performance in 'There Will Be Blood.' The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored films from 2007, and Day-Lewis won for his portrayal of Daniel Plainview. The other actors listed did not win in that category that year.

Christian Colson, British producer of 'Slumdog Millionaire', received the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award at the 2009 Producers Guild of America Awards. The film won multiple Oscars including Best Picture, making Colson the first British producer to win this prestigious PGA award for that film.

A.R. Rahman won three oscar nominations for best original score.

'Alam Ara' (1931), directed by Ardeshir Irani, was India's first talkie film. This landmark movie ended the silent film era in Indian cinema. The title means 'The Ornament of the World' in Arabic.

'Raja Harishchandra' (1913), directed by Dadasaheb Phalke, was a silent film - India's first full-length feature film. Since 'talkie' refers to films with synchronized sound, and sound technology arrived in India only in 1931 with Alam Ara, Raja Harishchandra was a non-talkie (silent) film.

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (D.G. Phalke), known as the father of Indian cinema, produced and directed 'Raja Harishchandra' in 1913. It was India's first full-length feature film, pioneering the Indian film industry. Ardeshir Irani made 'Alam Ara' (India's first talkie) much later in 1931.

Rang De Basanti won Best Film at the 2007 Filmfare Awards (honoring 2006 films). The film was directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and dealt with themes of patriotism and youth activism.

Hrithik Roshan won Best Actor at the 2007 Filmfare Awards for his performance in Dhoom 2. The name in the option has a minor spelling error but refers to the correct person.

Kajol won Best Actress at the 2007 Filmfare Awards for her performance in Fanaa. This was her fifth Filmfare Award. The other options contain spelling errors but refer to other actresses.