List of Judy Garland biographies
Film and video
Table:
Year

Title

Series

Network

Notes

1961

Judy Garland

Hollywood
Hist-o-rama

Syndicated

Syndicated television short covering Garland's career through A Star is Born, glossing over any mention of Garland's problems.

1972

Judy: Impressions of Garland

Omnibus

BBC

1975

Judy/The Ultra Secret

60 Minutes

CBS

The Garland segment was one of two in the episode. "The Ultra Secret" was a segment about World War II code-breaking.

1978

Judy Garland

The Hollywood Greats

BBC

1978

Rainbow

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NBC

Biopic focusing on Garland's early years. Andrea McArdle played Garland.[2]

1985

Judy Garland: The Concert Years

Great Performances

PBS

Nominated for an Emmy award for "Outstanding Informational Special".[3]

1997

Judy Garland: Beyond the Rainbow

Biography

A&E

Expanded two-hour episode.[4]

2001

Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

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ABC

Two-part biopic based on the Luft memoir. Garland as a child was played by Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis played Garland as an adult. The mini-series was nominated for 13 Emmys,[5] and won five, including awards to both Blanchard and Davis.[6]

2001

Last Days of Judy Garland

E! True Hollywood Story

E!

2004

Judy Garland: By Myself

American Masters

PBS

Won two Emmy awards for Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming and Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming;[7] nominated for three more.[8]

2019

Judy

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Theatrical film directed by Rupert Goold starring Renée Zellweger as Garland, who earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

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Omnibus is an arts-based British documentary series , broadcast mainly on BBC 1 in the United Kingdom . The programme was the successor to the arts-based series Monitor . It ran from 1967 until 2003 , usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings . During its 35-year history , the programme won 12 British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) awards . Among the series ' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor ( 1975 ) , a profile of David Bowie during the peak of his cocaine addiction ; Rene Magritte ( 1979 ) , a graduate film by David Wheatley ; Van Gogh ( 1991 ) ; Anna Benson-Gyles Madonna : Behind the American dream ( 1990 ) , a film produced by Nadia Hagger ; a profile of British film director Ridley Scott ( 1992 ) , a two hour career overview of director Jean Renoir ( 1995 ) and a documentary about The K Foundation 's various art projects ( 1995 ) . For one season in 1982 , the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman . In 2001 , the BBC announced that the programme was being switched to BBC Two , prompting accusations that the Corporation was further marginalising its arts programming . BBC controller of arts commissioning Roly Keating defended the move , saying the documentary strand will be able to tackle a wider range of subjects . Regarded as its flagship arts programme , Omnibus was one of only two regular arts platforms broadcast at the time by the BBC . In late 2002 , the BBC announced that Omnibus would be cancelled the following year , to be replaced by the arts series Imagine , hosted by Alan Yentob .
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Life with Judy Garland : Me and My Shadows is a 2001 American two-part , four-hour biographical television miniseries based on the 1998 book Me and My Shadows : A Family Memoir written by Lorna Luft , the daughter of legendary singer-actress Judy Garland . The miniseries was directed by Robert Allan Ackerman and originally broadcast in two parts on ABC on February 25 and 26 , 2001 . The miniseries is notable for its meticulous recreations of Garland 's films and concerts , and verisimilitudinous impressions of her by Tammy Blanchard and Judy Davis . Her original recordings are used to dub Davis ' singing .
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Judith Davis ( born 23 April 1955 ) is an Australian actress known for her work in film , television , and theatre . With a career spanning over 40 years she is commended for her versatility and is regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation with frequent collaborator Woody Allen describing her as one of the most exciting actresses in the world . She is the recipient of eight AACTA Awards , three Emmy Awards , two British Academy Film Awards , two Golden Globe Awards and has received two Academy Award nominations . Davis is a 1977 graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art , where she starred opposite Mel Gibson in Romeo and Juliet . Most of Davis 's stage work has been in Australia , including Piaf ( 1980 ) , Hedda Gabler ( 1986 ) , Victory ( 2004 ) and The Seagull ( 2011 ) , but she also starred in the 1982 London production of Insignificance , for which she was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress , and the 1989 Los Angeles production of Hapgood . She returned to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2017 to direct the play Love and Money . She has won British Academy Film Awards for both Best Actress and Most Promising Newcomer for the film My Brilliant Career ( 1979 ) , two Australian Film Institute Awards as Best Actress for Winter of Our Dreams ( 1981 ) and Supporting Actress for Hoodwink ( 1981 ) , and later received Academy Award nominations for A Passage to India ( 1984 ) and Husbands and Wives ( 1992 ) . This making her the first Australian to receive nominations in both categories and the fourth Australian actress to receive an Academy Award nomination . Her other film roles include High Rolling ( 1977 ) , Who Dares Wins ( 1982 ) , Heatwave ( 1983 ) , High Tide ( 1987 ) , Georgia ( 1988 ) , Alice ( 1990 ) , George Sand in Impromptu ( 1991 ) , Barton Fink ( 1991 ) , Dark Blood ( 1993 ) , Absolute Power ( 1997 ) , Deconstructing Harry ( 1997 ) , Celebrity ( 1998 ) , The Man Who Sued God ( 2001 ) , The Break-up ( 2006 ) , Anne d'Arpajon in Marie Antoinette ( 2006 ) , The Eye of the Storm ( 2011 ) , To Rome with Love ( 2012 ) , The Young and Prodigious T.S . Spivet ( 2013 ) and The Dressmaker ( 2015 ) . For her television work , Davis won Primetime Emmy Awards for Serving in Silence : The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story ( 1995 ) , for playing Judy Garland in Life with Judy Garland : Me and My Shadows ( 2001 ) and The Starter Wife ( 2007 ) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film for Life with Judy Garland : Me and My Shadows and One Against the Wind ( 1991 ) . Other television roles include Water Under the Bridge ( 1980 ) , A Woman Called Golda ( 1982 ) , A Cooler Climate ( 1999 ) , Nancy Reagan in The Reagans ( 2003 ) , Coast to Coast ( 2003 ) , Sante Kimes in A Little Thing Called Murder ( 2006 ) , Page Eight ( 2011 ) , Hedda Hopper in Feud : Bette and Joan ( 2017 ) and Mystery Road ( 2018 ) .
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Judy is a 2019 biographical drama film about American singer and actress Judy Garland . Directed by Rupert Goold , it is an adaptation of the Olivier- and Tony-nominated West End and Broadway play End of the Rainbow by Peter Quilter . The film stars Renée Zellweger as Garland , with Jessie Buckley , Finn Wittrock , Rufus Sewell , and Michael Gambon in supporting roles . The film follows Judy Garland 's career during the last year of her life when she relocated her stage career to Britain . After some initial success for a run of sell-out concerts at the Talk of the Town in London , her efforts eventually stop making progress and even start to worsen due to health issues . Judy premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on 30 August 2019 , and was theatrically released in the United States on 27 September 2019 , and in the United Kingdom on 2 October 2019 . It received positive reviews , and grossed $ 40 million worldwide . The film received positive reviews from critics , with major acclaim drawn towards Zellweger 's performance , considered by many to be the finest of her career . For her performance , Zellweger has won several Best Actress awards , including the Academy Award , Golden Globe Award , Screen Actors Guild Award and British Academy Film Award .
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Renée Kathleen Zellweger ( /rəˈneɪ ˈzɛlwɛɡər/ ; born April 25 , 1969 ) is an American actress and producer . She has received numerous accolades , including two Academy Awards , four Golden Globe Awards , and two BAFTA Awards . Zellweger was one of the world 's highest-paid actresses by 2007 and was named Hasty Pudding Theatricals ' Woman of the Year in 2009 . Born in Texas , Zellweger studied English Literature at UT Austin . Initially aspiring to a career in journalism , she was drawn to acting following her brief work on stage during college . Following her film debut with a minor role in Richard Linklater 's Dazed and Confused ( 1993 ) , Zellweger 's first starring role came with the slasher film Texas Chainsaw Massacre : The Next Generation ( 1994 ) . She rose to prominence with starring roles in Jerry Maguire ( 1996 ) , One True Thing ( 1998 ) , Me , Myself and Irene ( 2000 ) , and Nurse Betty ( 2000 ) , winning her first Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for the lattermost . For her portrayals of Bridget Jones in the romantic comedy Bridget Jones 's Diary ( 2001 ) and Roxie Hart in the musical crime drama Chicago ( 2002 ) , she garnered consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress . She reprised her role as Jones in two equally successful sequels , Bridget Jones : The Edge of Reason ( 2004 ) and Bridget Jones 's Baby ( 2016 ) . Zellweger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a loquacious farmer in the epic drama Cold Mountain ( 2003 ) , and followed this with her portrayals of Mae Fox in Cinderella Man ( 2005 ) and author Beatrix Potter in Miss Potter ( 2006 ) . After starring roles in smaller scale films , such as Appaloosa ( 2008 ) and Case 39 ( 2009 ) , she had a six-year hiatus from the screen . In 2019 , Zellweger starred in the Netflix anthology series What/If and garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the biopic Judy , winning the Academy Award for Best Actress .
The Academy Awards , more popularly known as the Oscars , are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry . Given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , the awards are an international recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy 's voting membership . The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette , officially called the Academy Award of Merit , although more commonly referred to by its nickname , the Oscar . The statuette depicts a knight rendered in the Art Deco style . The award was originally sculpted by George Stanley from a design sketch by Cedric Gibbons . AMPAS first presented it in 1929 at a private dinner hosted by Douglas Fairbanks in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in what would become known as the 1st Academy Awards . The Academy Awards ceremony was first broadcast by radio in 1930 and was televised for the first time in 1953 . It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and is now televised live worldwide . It is also the oldest of the four major annual American entertainment awards ; its other three equivalents - the Emmy Awards for television , the Tony Awards for theater , and the Grammy Awards for music - are modeled after the Academy Awards . The 91st Academy Awards ceremony , honoring the best films of 2018 , was held on February 24 , 2019 , at the Dolby Theatre , in Los Angeles , California . The ceremony was broadcast on ABC . A total of 3,096 Oscar statuettes have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 91st ceremony .
The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) . It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry . The award is traditionally presented by the previous year 's Best Actor winner . The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Janet Gaynor receiving the award for her roles in 7th Heaven , Street Angel , and Sunrise . Currently , nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS ; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy . In the first three years of the awards , actresses were nominated as the best in their categories . At that time , all of their work during the qualifying period ( as many as three films , in some cases ) was listed after the award . However , during the 3rd ceremony held in 1930 , only one of those films was cited in each winner 's final award , even though each of the acting winners had two films following their names on the ballots . The following year , this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actress is nominated for a specific performance in a single film . Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937 , the category was officially limited to five nominations per year . One actress has been nominated posthumously , Jeanne Eagels . Since its inception , the award has been given to 76 actresses .