7 random things to celebrate on this day in showbiz history...
And the winner is... Faye Dunaway in Network
1920 Silent superstars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford marry. Their marriage last only 16 years but their only child together is still going strong: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences! We kid sort of. They were the two most famous of the 36 founding members of the Academy, originally the brainchild of producer Louis B Mayer though the Oscars were not initially the main idea of the group...
1948 Two time Oscar winner Dianne Weist born in Kansas City
1977 Network and All the President's Men win the most trophies at the 1976 Oscars, four each (which was full of great lineups in multiple categories) but Rocky takes home Best Picture.
the very first shot of Winona Ryder on movie screens
1986 Stefani Germanotta born in New York City. Later reborn as Lady Gaga. And then A Star is Born as "Ally" just last year for her Oscar win.
On this very same day in 1986 a star is born in movie theaters as Winona Ryder walks toward the camera for the very first time and captures little Nathaniel's heart (and then the hearts of millions two years later in Beetlejuice)
1996 Angelina Jolie marries Johnny Lee Miller. Remember them as a couple? Scorching hot in Angie's initially volatile celebrity years
2019... and right about now this morning Nathaniel is off to a screening of something called Charlie Says (directed by American Psycho's Mary Harron!) which is playing at Tribeca soon and then hits movie theaters in May. It's about the Manson murders so that's apparently going around on movie screens this year. See also: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, just teased.