Ronald L. Schwary Dies: Oscar-Winning ‘Ordinary People’ Producer & Sydney Pollack Collaborator Was 76

PARIS -- Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of “Gone With the Wind,” but also a two-time Oscar winner and an off-screen fighter who challenged and unchained Hollywood’s contract system, died Sunday at her home in Paris. She was 104.

Olivia de Havilland was an Oscar-winning actress who played Melanie Hamilton in “Gone With the Wind” and won two Academy Awards for Best Actress.Olivia de Havilland’s legacyDe Havilland was one of the last living memories of Hollywood’s golden age and, until her death, the oldest living Oscar winner. She was the sister of actress Joan Fontaine (1917 – 2013), and they were the only sibling pair in Academy history to win Oscars for leading roles.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerOlivia de Havilland, a two -time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, has died.

Dave McNary Film ReporterRonald L. Schwary, who won the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Robert Redford’s “Ordinary People,” died on July 2 in West Hollywood, Calif.

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Also Read: Bettina Gilois, 'McFarland USA' and 'Bessie' Screenwriter, Dies at 58The following year, Redford hired Schwary as the sole producer for his directorial debut of “Ordinary People.” That film went on to win four Academy Awards, including Best Picture for Schwary and Best Director for Redford, as well as the New York Film Critics Award, National Board of Review Best Picture Award and a Golden Globe Award.He again teamed with Pollack on “Absence of Malice,” the newspaper drama starring

Ronald Schwary, the Oscar-winning producer ofOrdinary Peoplewho guided other acclaimed films includingA Soldier's Story,Absence of Malice,Scent of a WomanandTootsie, has died. He was 76.

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HBO Max is breathing new life in an acclaimed short film with a sweetly powerful message.

Hair Love, the Oscar-winning short film from Matthew A. Cherry about a father's quest to do his daughter's hair, is now being developed into a 12-episode series at HBO Max.

South Korean actress Song Hye Kyo joined the world to mourn the loss of Ennio Morricone. The week began on a heartbreaking note as the Italian media confirmed Morricone passed away recently.

Ennio Morricone was a uniquely famous film composer, one of the very few whose work is recognisable enough to be parodied. Yet the subject of those parodies – his scores for Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns – formed a tiny part of an immense output.

Ennio Morricone was an Oscar-winning composer of movie soundtracks whose iconic music was the backdrop to films including “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”The Italian-born Morricone was known best by many for the soundtracks he composed for Sergio Leon’s spaghetti Westerns: “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964), “For a Few Dollars More” (1965), “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (1966), and the director’s later films.