cher won an academy award for best actress.
cher won an academy award for best actress.
what did cher win an academy award for?
best actress
when the film was released in the spring of 1955, and was paired with a major promotional plan, it became another top-grosser. the film won numerous awards including the academy award for best picture (harold hecht), the academy award for best director (delbert mann), the academy award for best actor in a leading role (ernest borgnine), the academy award for best writing, adapted screenplay (paddy chayefsky), the golden globe award for best actor – motion picture drama, the bafta award for best foreign actor, the bafta award for best foreign actress, the bodil award for best american film, the palme d'or award at the cannes film festival (the first film to technically win the palme d'or, as the top prize had recently changed title, and also the first film to win by unanimous votes), the cannes film festival ocic award, the directors guild of america award for outstanding directorial achievement in motion pictures, the national board of review award for best film, the national board of review award for best actor, the national board of review award for top ten films, the new york film critics circle award for best film, the new york film critics circle award for best actor, the writers guild of america award for best written american drama. it was also nominated for the academy award for best actor in a supporting role, the academy award for best actress in a supporting role, the academy award for best cinematography, black-and-white, the academy award for best art direction-set decoration, black-and-white and the bafta award for best film from any source.
harold hecht
as a solo artist, cher has sold 100 million records worldwide (in addition to 40 million as sonny & cher), making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. she is one of the few artists to win three of the four major american entertainment awards (egot—emmy, grammy, oscar, and tony), and one of five actor-singers to have had a u.s. number-one single and won an acting academy award. her breakthrough single, sonny & cher's "i got you babe", is a grammy hall of fame inductee and was featured on "rolling stone"'s "500 greatest songs of all time" list compiled in 2003. her 1971 single "gypsys, tramps & thieves" was called "one of the 20th century's greatest songs" by "billboard" magazine. her 1998 song "believe" was voted the world's eighth favorite song in a poll conducted by bbc in 2003—the only american song to be named on the list. in 1988, she became the first performer to receive an academy award for acting and a riaa-certified gold album in the same year since the inception of gold awards in 1958.
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