Barbra Streisand stars in "Little Fockers" as Roz Focker.
Actor/singer/director/writer/composer/producer/designer/author/activist Streisand is the only artist ever to receive Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody awards, and France's Légion d'Honneur as well as the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center Honors.
She won Oscars for both
She is an eight-time Grammy Award winner who is the only performer to have number-one albums in five consecutive decades. She has earned 51 gold albums, 30 platinum albums and 18 multiplatinum albums, each of which achievements, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), exceeds all other female singers. Only Elvis Presley has earned more gold albums than she. The RIAA also notes that her 71 million album sales tops the RIAA list of album sales by a female singer. With the
recent debut at number one of her "Love is the Answer" album, her ninth record to reach that top spot, the time span between her first and most recent number-one albums, exceeding that of any other performer or act, is now 46 years.
As a film director, producer, writer, actor, singer and composer, Streisand has paved her career with bold creative achievements, highlighted by a series of firsts. "The Prince of Tides" was the first motion picture directed by its female star to ever receive a Best Director nomination from the Directors Guild of America, as well as seven Academy Award nominations. Her directorial debut film, "Yentl," earned her a Golden Globe Award for best Best Director and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture—Comedy/Musical.
She earned the New York Drama Critics Award and a Tony Award nomination for her first Broadway appearance ("I Can Get it For You Wholesale") and the Album of the Year Grammy (one of two) for her very first album ("The Barbra Streisand Album"). She became the youngest artist ever to have won that at the time. Her first motion picture performance ("Funny Girl"), following her performance in the hit Broadway musical production, brought her the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress, the first of two Oscars. With "Yentl," Streisand became the first woman ever to produce, direct and star in a major motion picture. At the same time, Steven Spielberg called it the best directing debut since "Citizen Kane."
Her first television special ("My Name Is Barbra") earned her the Emmy Award (one of five for the show) and the distinguished Peabody Award, and she duplicated this with her most recent television specials, "Barbra Streisand: The Concert" and "Barbra Streisand: Timeless," winning three more personal Emmys and another Peabody in the process. The two shows earned nine Emmys combined.
She is the first female composer ever to win an Academy Award for her song "Evergreen," the love theme song for her hit film, "A Star is Born." Her 1994 concert tour was similarly record-setting, registering five million calls in the first hour of ticket sales. Her millennium New Year's Eve concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas established the highest one-day single event sale in the history of Ticketmaster and became the highest-grossing concert of all time.
A recipient in 1995 of an Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Humanities from Brandeis University, Streisand has been honored by France as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. She also received a number of major honors saluting her social and political activism and her dedicated philanthropy. Her total of 10 Golden Globe Awards, prior to being voted the year 2000's Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement, is the most accorded any artist.
Streisand's Barwood Films, through which she has created such films as "Yentl," "The Prince of Tides," "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (all of which she directed and starred in), "A Star is Born," "Nuts and Up the Sandbox," has helped to bring significant and largely ignored subject matters to both the big and small screens. On television, these include the multiple Emmy and Peabody Award-winning "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story," which dealt with the civil rights of gays, and other shows exploring
the imperatives of gun control ("The Long Island Incident") and the celebration of women film pioneers in the Emmy Award-winning documentary, "Reel Women."
Like the true renaissance woman Streisand is, she has supported environmental preservation, women's health issues, education and civil rights through The Streisand Foundation.
Actor/singer/director/writer/composer/producer/designer/author/activist Streisand is the only artist ever to receive Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody awards, and France's Légion d'Honneur as well as the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center Honors.
She won Oscars for both
Best Actress ("Funny Girl") and Best Original Song (for her composition of "Evergreen," which has since become a standard). She was also nominated for Best Actress for "The Way We Were." The three films she directed received 14 Oscar nominations. A leading film star in dramas, comedies and musicals, her film, "Meet the Fockers," became the first live-action comedy to earn more than half a billion dollars and remains the highest-grossing comedy of all time.
She is an eight-time Grammy Award winner who is the only performer to have number-one albums in five consecutive decades. She has earned 51 gold albums, 30 platinum albums and 18 multiplatinum albums, each of which achievements, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), exceeds all other female singers. Only Elvis Presley has earned more gold albums than she. The RIAA also notes that her 71 million album sales tops the RIAA list of album sales by a female singer. With the
recent debut at number one of her "Love is the Answer" album, her ninth record to reach that top spot, the time span between her first and most recent number-one albums, exceeding that of any other performer or act, is now 46 years.
As a film director, producer, writer, actor, singer and composer, Streisand has paved her career with bold creative achievements, highlighted by a series of firsts. "The Prince of Tides" was the first motion picture directed by its female star to ever receive a Best Director nomination from the Directors Guild of America, as well as seven Academy Award nominations. Her directorial debut film, "Yentl," earned her a Golden Globe Award for best Best Director and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture—Comedy/Musical.
She earned the New York Drama Critics Award and a Tony Award nomination for her first Broadway appearance ("I Can Get it For You Wholesale") and the Album of the Year Grammy (one of two) for her very first album ("The Barbra Streisand Album"). She became the youngest artist ever to have won that at the time. Her first motion picture performance ("Funny Girl"), following her performance in the hit Broadway musical production, brought her the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress, the first of two Oscars. With "Yentl," Streisand became the first woman ever to produce, direct and star in a major motion picture. At the same time, Steven Spielberg called it the best directing debut since "Citizen Kane."
Her first television special ("My Name Is Barbra") earned her the Emmy Award (one of five for the show) and the distinguished Peabody Award, and she duplicated this with her most recent television specials, "Barbra Streisand: The Concert" and "Barbra Streisand: Timeless," winning three more personal Emmys and another Peabody in the process. The two shows earned nine Emmys combined.
She is the first female composer ever to win an Academy Award for her song "Evergreen," the love theme song for her hit film, "A Star is Born." Her 1994 concert tour was similarly record-setting, registering five million calls in the first hour of ticket sales. Her millennium New Year's Eve concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas established the highest one-day single event sale in the history of Ticketmaster and became the highest-grossing concert of all time.
A recipient in 1995 of an Honorary Doctorate in Arts and Humanities from Brandeis University, Streisand has been honored by France as a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. She also received a number of major honors saluting her social and political activism and her dedicated philanthropy. Her total of 10 Golden Globe Awards, prior to being voted the year 2000's Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement, is the most accorded any artist.
Streisand's Barwood Films, through which she has created such films as "Yentl," "The Prince of Tides," "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (all of which she directed and starred in), "A Star is Born," "Nuts and Up the Sandbox," has helped to bring significant and largely ignored subject matters to both the big and small screens. On television, these include the multiple Emmy and Peabody Award-winning "Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story," which dealt with the civil rights of gays, and other shows exploring
the imperatives of gun control ("The Long Island Incident") and the celebration of women film pioneers in the Emmy Award-winning documentary, "Reel Women."
Like the true renaissance woman Streisand is, she has supported environmental preservation, women's health issues, education and civil rights through The Streisand Foundation.
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