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Awards Hollywood Walk of Fame: The Circus

Charlie Chaplin received many awards and honors for his contributions to film over his career: - He received an honorary Academy Award in 1972 for his incalculable impact on making film an art form of the 20th century. - Chaplin also won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his film Limelight in 1973. - Some of his other awards and honors include a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, special awards from film festivals in Venice and New York, and six of his films being selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for their cultural significance.

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Awards Hollywood Walk of Fame: The Circus

Charlie Chaplin received many awards and honors for his contributions to film over his career: - He received an honorary Academy Award in 1972 for his incalculable impact on making film an art form of the 20th century. - Chaplin also won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for his film Limelight in 1973. - Some of his other awards and honors include a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, special awards from film festivals in Venice and New York, and six of his films being selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for their cultural significance.

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AWARDS Hollywood walk of fame Chaplin also received several special film awards.

s. He was given a special Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1972. When he briefly returned to the United States in 1972, the Lincoln Center Film
Society honoured him with a gala and awarded him a lifetime achievement award 1st Academy Awards (1929): Special Award "for versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus". Chaplin had originally been nominated for Best Production, Best Director in a Comedy Picture, Best Actor and Best Writing (Original Story) for The Circus. However, the Academy decided to withdraw his name from all the competitive categories and instead give him a special award.[467] 13th Academy Awards (1941): Best Actor and Best Writing, nominations, for The Great Dictator. The film was also nominated for further three awards.[468] 20th Academy Awards (1948): Best Screenplay, nomination, for Monsieur Verdoux. 44th Academy Awards (1972): Honorary Award for "the incalculable effect he [Chaplin] has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century". 45th Academy Awards (1973): Best Original Score, win, for Limelight. Although the film had originally been released in 1952, due to Chaplin's political difficulties at the time, it did not play for one week in Los Angeles, and thus did not meet the criterion for nomination until it was re-released in 1972.[469] Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry: The Immigrant (1917), The Kid(1921), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), and The Great Dictator (1940).

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