Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, was an English actor and director who lived from 22 May 1907 to 11 July 1989. He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-twentieth century. He also worked in films throughout his six-decade career, playing more than fifty cinema roles, and he directed the 1948 film Hamlet, which is listed here as a work.
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AwardAcademy Award for Best Picture 1 Laurence Olivier
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Hamlet became the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, while Olivier won Best Actor.
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Olivier was awarded two non-competitive Academy Honorary Awards in 1947 and 1979, the Golden Globe Cecil B.
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He also made an adaptation of The Moon and Sixpence in 1960, winning an Emmy Award.
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one of the masterpieces of the stage has been made into one of the greatest of films." He won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama.
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