1997Winner
Best Performance
Good Will Hunting
Allen Ginsberg
Actor · Director · Writer
Newark, New Jersey, USA
June 3, 1926
Biography
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Ginsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1968Nominee
Best Performance
Underground New York
1997Winner
Best Performance
A Poet from the Lower East Side
Career Highlights
1999Highlight
Best Performance
The Source
2000Highlight
Best Performance
Condo Painting
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Good Will Hunting
Underground New York
The Source