Japanese Academy Awards - Japanese Academy Awards The Japanese Academy Awards have been held since 1977 to reward excellence in Japanese film. Award categories are similar to the American Academy Awards. The most prestigious award is the best picture award. Past winners are: Year Film (English) Film (Japanese) Director 2002 Twilight Samurai たそがれ清兵衛 Yoji Yamada 2001 Spirited Away 千と千尋の神隠し Hayao Miyazaki 2000 After the Rain 雨あがる Takashi Koizumi 1999 Poppoya ぽっぽや Yasuo Furuhata 1998 Begging for Love 愛を乞う人 Hideyuki Hirayama 1997 Princess Mononoke もののけ姫 Hayao Miyazaki 1996 Shall we Dance Shall we ダンス？ Masayuki Suo 1995 A Last Note 午後の遺言状 Kaneto Shindo 1994 Crest of Betrayal 忠臣蔵外伝四谷怪談 Kinji Fukasaku 1993 A Class to Remember 学校 Yoji Yamada 1992 Sumo Do, Sumo Don't シコふんじゃった。 Masayuki Suo 1991 My Sons 息子 Yoji Yamada.
Juno Award - Juno Award The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS). The Junos originated in 1970 with the Gold Leaf awards, presented by RPM magazine. CARAS was established in 1975 to undertake the Juno program. Since then, the Juno Awards has been one of Canada's premier annual telecast events. The Junos acknowledge artistic and technical achievement in all aspects of Canada's music industry. Members of the Juno Hall of Fame represent many of the world's great talents, ranging from Guy Lombardo, Oscar Peterson, Lenny Breau and Maynard Ferguson to Paul Anka, Gordon Lightfoot, The Band, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Bruce Cockburn. Other musicians recognized with Juno Awards include Leonard Cohen, k.d. lang, Celine Dion, Shania.
Kander and Ebb - for Minnelli and for Chita Rivera, and have produced special material for their appearances live and on television. Their greatest acclaim came from the musical and film Cabaret. The musical was a major success, with a Broadway run of over 1100 performances. It won a Tony Award as the season's best musical, and its original cast recording won a Grammy. The film won eight Academy Awards. The 2002 film Chicago, based on their poorly-received musical of the same name, was also a great success, including an Oscar nomination for the two of them. One of their best-known songs is the theme song from Scorsese's New York, New York, recorded by both Liza Minelli and Frank Sinatra. They were recognized for their contributions to theatre and music with Kennedy Center Honors in.
Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan - student federation as well as communist party. In 1992 he became the vice president of Purogamana Sahitya Sangham (Vangaurd of Progressive Literature) In 1996, he was elected to Kerala state legislative assembly from Aranmula constituency in Pathanamthitta district. He was awarded Kerala Sahithya Academy award in 1982. His main works include: Kadammanittayude Kavithakal Kadinjool Pottan Mazha Peyyunnu Maddalam Kottunnu.
Kate Hudson - breakthrough role was as Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is married to Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson. Filmography Le Divorce (2003) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) The Four Feathers (2002) The Cutting Room (2001) Dr. T & the Women (2000) Almost Famous (2000) Gossip (2000) About Adam (2000) 200 Cigarettes (1999) Ricochet River (1998) Desert Blue (1998).
Karl Malden - He had parts in On the Waterfront, the movie version of A Streetcar Named Desire, Birdman of Alcatraz and Patton, and played wheelchair-bound senior citizen Leon Klinghoffer in the 1989 TV movie, The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro. Karl Malden is a past president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In October of 2003, Malden was named the 40th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild's Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment..
Kevin Kline - won two Tony Awards. When a film version was made of a production of The Pirates of Penzance for which he had won a Tony Award, he was invited to reprise his role as the Pirate King. This film launched his career forward. He has won an Academy Award for A Fish Called Wanda, a Gotham Actor Award, a Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year Award, and a St. Louis International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award. He is married to actress Phoebe Cates, who is 16 years his junior. Filmography Picasso at the Lapin Agile .... Sagot The Emperor's Club .... William Hundert Life as a House .... George Monroe The Anniversary Party .... Cal Gold Speak Truth to Power .... Various The Road to El Dorado .... Tulio Wild.
Kitty Foyle - Ernest Cossart and Gladys Cooper. The film was adapted by Dalton Trumbo and Donald Ogden Stewart, from the novel by Christopher Morley. It was directed by Sam Wood. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Rogers won for Best Actress..
King: a Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis - Poitier, Marlon Brando and Paul Winfield. The movie was directed by Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary, Features. In 1999 the film was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry..
King Solomon's Mines - the position of the third-person omniscient perspective favoured by influential writers such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Anthony Trollope. The "King Solomon" of the book's title was of course the biblical king renowned both for his wisdom and for his wealth. A number of sites have been identified as being the location of the mines of Solomon, including the workings at Timna near Eilat, Israel. A film was made of the book in 1950 which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and an article about it may be found here. There was a remake in 1985 starring Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone. The character Allan Quatermain from this (and other) novels by Haggard was placed by science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the "Wold Newton.
Kiss of the Spider Woman - learn to respect each other. It stars William Hurt, Raúl Juliá and Sonia Braga. The movie was adapted by Leonard Schrader from the novel by Manuel Puig. It was directed by Hector Babenco. It won the Academy Award for Best Actor (William Hurt), and was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. A musical with the same title, also based on Puig's novel, was written by John Kander and Fred Ebb..
Kim Hunter - September 11, 2002) was an American actress, winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). She also appeared in the classic Micheal Powell/Emeric Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death (1945), playing the role of David Niven's fiance, and some of the "Planet of the Apes" movies and in television soap operas..
Kim Basinger - notable apprearances include Nine 1/2 Weeks and L.A. Confidential for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1998..
Kim Stanley - Sisters made her vow never to perform on the stage again, and she kept that vow for the rest of her life. Her first film was The Goddess in 1958. In 1964 she starred in Seance on a Wet Afternoon, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Other films include Frances, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and The Right Stuff..
Klaus Barbie - He lived in La Paz under the alias Klaus Altmann. He was identified in Bolivia in 1971 by the Klarsfelds (Nazi hunters), but it was only on January 18, 1983 that a new moderate government arrested and deported him to France. He was defended by Jacques Verges and his trial started on May 11, 1987 in Lyon. On July 4 of that year, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity and later died in prison of cancer. A documentary film on Barbie's life during and after World War II is available under the title Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie. The film was directed by Marcel Ophuls and amounts to four and a half hours of investigative journalism; it won the Academy Award for Documentary.
Klute - Sutherland, Charles Cioffi and Roy Scheider. The movie was written by Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis. It was directed by Alan J. Pakula. It won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jane Fonda), and was nominated for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced..
Kon-Tiki - this was an interesting experiment, which demonstrated the seaworthiness of Heyerdahl's raft, most anthropologists continue to believe, based on physical, cultural and genetic evidence, that Polynesia was settled from west to east, migration having begun from the Asian mainland, not South America. The Kon-Tiki adventure is often cited as a classic of pseudoarchaeology. The book Kon-Tiki was a best-seller, and a documentary motion picture of the expedition won an Academy Award in 1952..
Krakatoa - of 535-536. Additionally, in recent times, it has been argued that it was this eruption which created the islands of Verlaten and Lang (remnants of the original) and the beginnings of Rakata - all indicators of that early Krakatoa's caldera size, and not the long-believed eruption of approx 416 CE, for which conclusive evidence does not exist. Indeed, it has been argued by Winchester (see Sources below), that the book which chronicles this possible event, the Javanese 'Book Of Kings', completed in the 1680's, may have been embellishing the truth, or even a complete fiction. Since the 1883 eruption, a new island volcano, called Anak Krakatau ("Child of Krakatoa"), has formed in the caldera. Of considerable interest to volcanologists, this has been the subject of extensive study since 1960. Krakatoa was.
Kristen Nygaard - (1973-1975, working with Erik Holbaek-Hanssen and Petter Haandlykken). Nygaard was a professor in Aarhus, Denmark (1975-1976) and then became professor emeritus in Oslo (part-time from 1977, full time 1984-1996). His work in Aarhus and Oslo included research and education in system development and the social impact of computer technology, and became the foundation of the Scandinavian School in System Development, which is closely linked to the field of Participatory Design. In June 1990 he received an honorary doctorate from Lund University, Sweden, and in June 1991 he became the first person to be given an honorary doctorate by Aalborg University, Denmark. He became a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science. In October 1990 Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility awarded him its Norbert Wiener Prize for responsibility in social and professional.
Krzysztof Kieslowski - in both France and Poland, the trilogy was titled Trois Couleurs (Three Colors), each based on a different color of the French flag and representing its social slogan evolving from the Revolution. Written by Kieslowski with his friend and civil-rights lawyer, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, accompanied by a superb musical score from Zbigniew Preisner, all three films brilliantly illustrate the profound nature of, and possibilities for, human beings. Bleu (Blue) - 1993, representing liberty. Starring Juliette Binoche and Benoit Regent, the film was awarded the prize for the Best Picture at the Venice Film Festival; Blanc (White) - 1994, representing equality. Starring Zbigniew Zamachowski and Julie Delpy, the film won the award for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival; Rouge (Red) - 1994, representing fraternity. Starring Irene Jacob and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
