told through the interactions between silent film superstars Charlie Chaplin (David Scott) and Buster Keaton (David Boyll) on the set of one of Chaplin’s last movies, “Limelight,” in 1951.
Neither Stanley Kubrick nor Alfred Hitchcock ever won a competitive Oscar, and Charlie Chaplin won just once, for writing the score to “Limelight,” a movie that came out two decades earlier.
Charlie Chaplin was a very famous figure in the entertainment ... two of which were honorary and the latter for Best Score ...
Charlie Chaplin was, in his time ... He left the United States in 1952 to premier his movie “Limelight.” He was denied re-entry. Chaplin did not return to the United States until 1972.