George Bernard Shaw

Honors and Awards

Year	Award	Work
1938	Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay	Pygmalion
1938	Nominated - Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay	Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw's Birthplace, Dublin.	Shaw writing in a notebook at the time of first production of his play Pygmalion.
A statue of Shaw in Niagara-on-the-Lake	Shaw in 1925, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
The front of Shaw's Corner as it stands today	The movable hut in the garden of Shaw's Corner, where Shaw wrote most of his works after 1906, inclu...

Eliza Doolittle

Professor Henry Higgins

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
- George Bernard Shaw
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
- George Bernard Shaw
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
- George Bernard Shaw

Title	Released	Genre
Pretty Woman	1990	Romantic comedy
She's All That	1999	Romance Film
Caesar and Cleopatra	1945	Costume drama
Saint Joan	1957	Drama
Major Barbara	1941	Black-and-white
Pygmalion	1938	Romantic comedy
Androcles and the Lion	1953	Costume drama
Arms and the Man	1958	Romance Film
Sainte Jeanne	1956	Historical drama
Pygmalion	1935	Comedy film

Marker	Location	Date Arrived	Date Left	Population
A	Shaw's Corner	1906	November 2, 1950
B	County Dublin			1,185,821

Q:
What is George Bernard Shaw quoted as saying?
A:
Noteworthy quotations include: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
Q:
What musical instruments are used by George Bernard Shaw?
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George Bernard Shaw plays the recorder.
Q:
Who had a notable influence on George Bernard Shaw?
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Arthur Schopenhauer, Richard Wagner, Henrik Ibsen, Friedrich Nietzsche and Henry George influenced George Bernard Shaw.
Q:
Where was George Bernard Shaw born?
A:
George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin.
Q:
What was the cause of George Bernard Shaw's death?
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His death was caused by renal failure.
Q:
In what type of work did George Bernard Shaw specialize?
A:
George Bernard Shaw was an accomplished playwright.
Q:
What awards has George Bernard Shaw been nominated for?
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Award nominations include:
- Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for "Pygmalion"

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