He became the first person to win both an Olympic medal & an Academy Award thanks to a short film he made about his sport
In the 50-year history of "Saturday Night Live", he's the only cast member to have won an Oscar--& it wasn't for a comedy
Burt Lancaster & Joanne Woodward were among the first 8 honored at a 1958 ceremony held on this street
In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar, 36 years after a Student Academy Award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop
These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel "The Sword in the Stone" & "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast
France's national theater award, it's named for a man who died in Paris in 1673
First awarded in 1731 to electricity pioneer Stephen Gray, the Copley Medal is awarded annually by this organization
He used his 1983 Pritzker Prize money on a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study their profession in the United States
La Maison Chopard crafts this annual award’s crystal base & 118-gram, 18-carat frond
He holds the record for time between acting nominations for the same role, 39 years between 1976 & 2015 films
She won a Comedy Grammy in the 1980s, a Supporting Actress Oscar in the 1990s & a Daytime Emmy in the 2000s
With 3 each, "On the Waterfront" is tied with this film & its sequel for most Best Supporting Actor nominations
Winner of Best Play in 1949, it's the only play to win the Best Revival Tony 3 different times
For 2012, the front of these awards shows Nike stepping out of the Parthenon & the reverse depicts the Thames
Designed by Norwegian Gustav Vigeland, it depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders
There has never been a Tony Award winner for Best Musical set on either of these 2 continents
A trophy named for this author is awarded to anyone who breaks the record for sailing a yacht around the world
He was nominated for 8 Best Actor Oscars, including one for a 1961 film; his only win came for its 1986 sequel
2nd only to Walt Disney's 59, this composer's 45 nominations include the "The Towering Inferno" & "Saving Private Ryan"
Her 48-year span between her first & last Oscars, 1933 & 1981, is the longest for a performer in Academy history
Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations
His "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" from 1744 was one of the 1st books published specifically for children
In 1981 he received an honorary Oscar for his body of work; a year later, he won an acting Oscar for his final film
In 1954 he won a record 4 Oscars, including one for "Best Documentary Feature" for a film set in the American desert
On March 5, 1936 screenwriter Dudley Nichols did this; it didn't happen again until an actor did it April 15, 1971
As of 2006, 1 of only 3 women to be nominated for best director, for 1976, 1993 & 2003
When this man won, Richard Dreyfuss said goodbye to being the youngest ever to win the Best Actor Oscar
Of the 3 men honored August 13, 1969, the one who spent part of July 20th miles from the other 2
He was nominated for Best Actor 5 times in the 1950s, the most for any man in one decade
Last names of the 2 famous families in which 3 generations have won Oscars
Created as a Pulitzer Prize for broadcasting, it was named for a Georgia philanthropist
The organization that sponsored the Stage Door Canteens during WWII is now known for these annual awards
She won many Oscars, including those for 1949's "The Heiress", 1951's "A Place in the Sun" & 1973's "The Sting"
Nominees in 2002 for these awards included Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Ann-Margret, George Carlin & Jimmy Carter
This food company sponsors the "Very Best in Youth" award
In 2001 the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious, was presented at this historic home in the U.S.
He was nominated for Best Director twice in the same year, the first so honored since Michael Curtiz for 1938
The only person named Oscar to win an Oscar, he won twice
(Hi, I'm Brian Dennehy.) This man won a Tony for writing the Best Play of 1949 & I had the honor of presenting him with a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 1999
To remain "Free to blast and bollock Blairite Britain" Tony Harrison declined this post in 1999
In 1998 she became the only woman to win an Oscar & an Emmy for Lead Actress in the same year
In 1927 Cedric Gibbons designed this award that he went on to win 11 times
The Maggie Awards given by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America are named for her
The London Theatre's equivalent of Broadway's Tony Awards are named for him
Charles Laughton, Robert Shaw & Richard Burton were all nominated for playing this role
The National Arbor Day Foundation presents an annual award named for this poet
The first ballet company founder honored by the Kennedy Center, he was born in St. Petersburg in 1904
Since 1952 he's hosted a weekday talk & interview show on Chicago's fine arts radio station WFMT
He won his first of 9 Tonys for the first Broadway musical he choreographed, "The Pajama Game"
The Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal features an engraving of this 18th century American