Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved ... his head as God miraculously parts the Red Sea. Heston won the Academy Award for best actor in another religious blockbuster in 1959 ...

Charlton Heston kept his two Academy Awards — the best actor Oscar for the 1959 film “Ben-Hur” and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award he won in 1978 — in a side table in his study where ...

Each of those films received 11 Academy Awards. "Ben-Hur," which received 12 nominations, has been adapted several times. The 1959 film, starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins and ...

From the Hollywood heavyweight that director Steven Spielberg turned down to the actor who said no so he could go fishing for ...

The Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston appeared in countless genres across his vast and varied career, although he’s particularly noted for his achievements in sci-fi. As a star who ...

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar ... and successful films of the midcentury. "Ben-Hur" won 11 Academy Awards, tying it for the record with the more recent "Titanic" (1997 ...

But Charlton Heston, who died Saturday ... Grasp that, and you understand why he deserved his Academy Award for "Ben-Hur," and you apprehend the nature of his lasting contribution to cinema.

Charlton Heston, whose chiseled-granite looks ... Heston was awarded the Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1978. He served on the National Council of the Arts from 1966-1971 and ...

The 96th Academy Awards, commonly referred to as ... The film, which stars James Stewart, Charlton Heston, and Betty Hutton, follows the lives of various performers from the Ringling Bros.

Before 2023 recedes too far in the past, conservatives should mark the centennial of the late Charlton Heston ... rightly won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Our four thousand extras found ...

As we approach the 96th Academy Awards, Deadline takes a photo-heavy look back at every Best Actor winner since 1927. Scroll through the images below to see them all. RELATED: Oscars: Every Best ...

“Charlton had made an announcement of ... “He had been at home most of the past years.” Heston won the Academy Award for best actor in 1959’s Ben-Hur. He also played Moses in The Ten ...