As Eddie Redmayne brings home an Academy Award for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the film Theory of Everything we've started to check the shelves for other Oscars won by Cambridge Alumni.
As Eddie Redmayne brings home an Academy Award for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the film Theory of Everything we've started to check the shelves for other Oscars won by Cambridge Alumni.
Help us complete the list by tweeting winners' names using #CantabOscars"
With over 90 Nobel Prizes already occupying our shelves, space is at a premium but how many Oscars in total have Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Alumni won?Ìý
Turning to Twitter we asked our followers to help us bring together a list of known recipients.ÌýHelp us complete the list by tweeting winners' names using #CantabOscars
If you're interested in meeting potential winners of the future you could do worse than to come along toÌýWatersprite 2015 - the Cambridge International Student Film Festival. ̽»¨Ö±²¥student-run festival has been growing from strength to strength since 2010 when it began. As well as meeting the filmmakers - and perhaps Academy Award winners of the future, it's also a chance to hear from industry heavyweights. 2013 saw Ìý³ó¾±³¾²õ±ð±ô´Ú.
And the winner is...
Congratulations to Eddie Redmayne for his win. Which of our other alumni have won in the past?
— Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ (@Cambridge_Uni)
Rachel Weisz won Best Supporting Actress for ̽»¨Ö±²¥Constant Gardener if I remember correctly
— Devansh (@LucaRiolu493)
Emma Thompson won two Oscars, as an actress for her work in Howard's End and as a screenwriter for Sense and Sensibility
— Gabriel Irwin (@GLIrwin) Indeed, - several times! Further back in history, we think Cecil Beaton ( ) won a couple for design.
— Cambridge Alumni (@camalumni) Steven Price of for score for Gravity -
— Paul Mylrea (@MylreaPR) Sam Mendes, best director in 1999 (American Beauty)
— Peterhouse Outreach (@Peterhouse_SLO) (TH 1988) - yes, best supporting actress in 2006 for ̽»¨Ö±²¥Constant Gardener
— Trinity Hall (@TrinityHallCamb) Johnian Cecil Beaton won two Oscars for costume design, for My Fair Lady and Gigi
— St John's Library (@StJohns_Library) ̽»¨Ö±²¥text in this work is licensed under a . If you use this content on your site please link back to this page. For image rights, please see the credits associated with each individual image.
