While winning two Honorary Oscars must have felt great, it had to have stung Charlie Chaplin that he only won a single competitive Oscar in his entire career. He was a notorious perfectionist who took ...

Charlie Chaplin's Limelight opened on October 23, 1952, launching what would become one of the strangest Oscar stories in Academy history. The film eventually became the only one for which Chaplin won ...

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With the 1952 film “Limelight” (which I discuss in this clip), Charlie Chaplin was both telling a counterfactual version of his life story and attempting a comeback. He had never lost his fame, but he ...