... won Best Film and Best Actor Academy awards for Hamlet. He won four Academy awards, and was nominated for eleven, including Best Actor for Othello, Henry V, Rebecca, and Wurthering Heights and several other roles he played. Olivier won five Emmy Awards. Olivier won three Golden Globe awards, including Best Motion Picture Actor for Hamlet (1949). He received three New York Film Critics ... of King Lear. Towards the end of Olivier's career (1970's), he was repeatedly stricken by illnesses that impaired his strength and good health. Despite his poor health he continued to act, and made his...

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