Academy Award for Film Editing - Academy Award for Film Editing The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. 1934 Eskimo - Conrad A. Nervig Cleopatra - Anne Bauchens One Night of Love - Gene Milford 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Ralph Dawson David Copperfield - Robert J. Kern The Informer - George Hively Les Misérables - Barbara McLean Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Ellsworth Hoagland Mutiny on the Bounty - Margaret Booth 1936 Anthony Adverse - Ralph Dawson Come and Get It - Edward Curtiss The Great Ziegfeld - William S. Gray Lloyds of London - Barbara McLean A Tale of Two Cities - Conrad A. Nervig Theodora Goes Wild - Otto Meyer 1937 Lost Horizon - Gene Havlick, Gene Milford The Awful.
Academy Award - Academy Award The Academy Awards are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5816, with actors, with a membership of 1311, making up the largest voting block. Academy Awards are nicknamed "Oscars", which is also the nickname of the statuette (the name is said to have been born when Academy librarian Margaret Herrick saw the statuette on a table and said: "It looks just like my uncle Oscar!"). The awards were first given at a banquet in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929 but there was little suspense since the winners of.
Academy Special Achievement Award - Academy Special Achievement Award The Special Achievement Award is given for an achievement which makes an exceptional contribution to the motion picture for which it was created, but for which there is no annual award category. Such award shall only be conferred, however, for achievements in productions which also qualify as an eligible release for distinguished achievements and meet the Academy's eligibility year and deadlines requirements. 1972 The Poseidon Adventure - L. B. Abbott, A. D. Flowers (Visual Effects) 1974 Earthquake - Frank Brendel, Glen Robinson, Albert Whitlock (Visual Effects) 1975 The Hindenburg - Peter Berkos (Sound Effects) 1975 The Hindenburg - Albert Whitlock, Glen Robinson (Visual Effects) 1976 King Kong - Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, Frank Van der Veer Visual Effects) 1976 Logan's Run -.
List of prizes, medals, and awards - Logic and Philosophy 7 General achievement 8 National honours, military, and patriotic medals 8.14 Australia 8.15 Canada 8.16 France 8.17 Germany 8.18 Iceland 8.19 India 8.20 New Zealand 8.21 United Kingdom and Commonwealth 8.22 United States 9 Entertainment 9.23 Beauty 9.24 Film 9.25 Humor 9.26 Internet 9.27 Music 9.28 Stage 9.29 Television 10 Sports and Games 10.30 Olympic medalists 10.31 Baseball 10.32 Boxing 10.33 Other sports 10.34 Quizbowl 11 Miscellaneous 12 Mock Prizes 13 See also Science, Mathematics, Technology Nobel Prize: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Economics Vannevar Bush Award Lomonosov Gold Medal Longitude prize Fritz Pregl Prize - Austrian Science Marcel Benoist Prize - Swiss Science Kyoto Prize: Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, Arts and Philosophy. Prince of Asturias Awards - Achievement in the sciences, public affairs, humanities Wolf Prize National Academy of.
Jerry Maguire - Jerry Maguire Jerry Maguire is a 1996 film which tells the story of a sports agent whose morals overcome his financial worries, and he leaves his job to try to become an independent agent. It stars Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr, Renee Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jerry O'Connell, Jay Mohr, Bonnie Hunt, Regina King and Jonathan Lipnicki. Reagan Gomez-Preston had a minor role in the movie. The movie was written and directed by Cameron Crowe. It won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Cuba Gooding Jr.), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Tom Cruise), Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Famous Quotations Jerry Maguire: What can I do for YOU, Rod? Rod Tidwell: It's a very personal, very important.
Johnny Belinda - Johnny Belinda Johnny Belinda is a 1948 film which tells the story of a deaf mute woman who is raped, becomes pregnant, and then is ruled "unfit" to care for the child. When the local townspeople come to take the baby to give it to the rapist to raise, the woman shoots and kills him and goes on trial for murder. It stars Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, Agnes Moorehead, Stephen McNally and Jan Sterling. The movie was adapted by Allen Vincent and Irma von Cube from the play by Elmer Harris. It was directed by Jean Negulesco. It won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Jane Wyman), and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Lew Ayres), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Charles Bickford), Best Actress.
Judgment at Nuremberg - Judgment at Nuremberg Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 film which gives a fictionalized account of the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials. It stars Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Werner Klemperer and William Shatner. The movie was written by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer. It won the Academy Award for Best Actor (Maximilan Schell) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Spencer Tracy), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Montgomery Clift), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Judy Garland), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture..
Julia (movie) - Julia (movie) Julia is a 1977 film based on playwright Lillian Hellman's Pentimento, which tells the story of her relationship with her friend Julia, who worked as an anti-fascist in the years prior to World War II. It stars Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Meryl Streep, John Glover and Lisa Pelikan. The movie was adapted by Alvin Sargent from the Hellman novel. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann. It won Academy Awards for: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jason Robards); Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Vanessa Redgrave); Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. It was nominated for an Academy Award for: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Maximilian Schell); Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jane Fonda); Best.
I Want to Live! - I Want to Live! I Want to Live! is a 1958 film which tells the true story of a woman falsely accused of murder, who faces execution. It stars Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent and Theodore Bikel. The movie was adapted by Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz from articles written by Ed Montgomery based on the letters written by the real prisoner, Barbara Graham. It was directed by Robert Wise. It won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Susan Hayward) and was nominated for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Sound and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. I Want to Live! was remade for television in 1983. It was adapted by Gordon Cotler from the original screenplay, and directed by David Lowell Rich..
Hal Ashby - 2, 1929 - December 27, 1988) was an American film director and Academy Award winner. Ashby grew up in a Mormon household and had a tumultuous childhood which included the divorce of his parents, his father's suicide and dropping out of high school. In his late teens, Ashby married but soon after divorced. As Ashby was entering adult life, he moved from Utah to California where he quickly became a film editor. His big break occurred in 1967 when he won the Academy Award for Film Editing for In the Heat of the Night. At the urging of its director, Norman Jewison, Ashby directed his first film, The Landlord, in 1970. Over the next 16 years, Ashby would direct several acclaimed and popular films, including the off-beat romance Harold and Maude.
Hello, Dolly! - Dolly! Hello, Dolly! is a 1969 musical film which tells the story of a turn-of-the-century matchmaker who finds her own match. It stars Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, E.J. Peaker, Tommy Tune, and Fritz Feld. The movie was directed by Gene Kelly and won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Best Music, Score of a Musical Picture (Original or Adaptation), and Best Sound. It was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, and Best Picture. The subject for Hello, Dolly! originally comes from the play Einen Jux will er sich machen (1842) by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy. This was adapted by Thornton Wilder in his non-musical play The Matchmaker, was produced on Broadway by David Merrick and then made into a 1958 film of.
How Green Was My Valley - Bronwen, with whom he is secretly in love. Later, his father is also killed in the mine. Meanwhile, Huw's only sister, Angharad, catches the eye of a wealthy coal-owner, but the marriage is an unhappy one and she enters into a clandestine relationship with the local minister. The death of Huw's father, coupled with the realisation that Bronwen has no romantic interest in him, causes him to leave the valley. In the sequels to the novel, Huw emigrates and makes a new life in Patagonia. The immensely successful 1941 film of the book had a cast which included Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall (as Huw), and Barry Fitzgerald. None of the leading players were Welsh. The film won five Oscars: Academy Award for Best Picture - Darryl F..
How the West Was Won (movie) - Was Won (movie) How the West Was Won is an epic 1962 western film which follows several generations of a family as they move ever Westwards, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean. It was displayed in Cinerama. It stars Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, Carolyn Jones, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Robert Preston, Debbie Reynolds, James Stewart, Eli Wallach, John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Brigid Bazlen, Walter Brennan, David Brian, Andy Devine, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Morgan, Thelma Ritter, Mickey Shaughnessy, Russ Tamblyn and Spencer Tracy. The movie was written by John Gay (uncredited) and James R. Webb and directed by John Ford (segment "The Civil War"), Henry Hathaway (segments "The Rivers", "The Plains" and "The Outlaws"), George Marshall (segment "The Railroad") and Richard Thorpe.
Hoop Dreams - Dreams Hoop Dreams is a 1994 documentary film directed by Steve James. It follows the story of two Chicago, Illinois high school students and their dream of becoming professional basketball players. Originally intended to be a 30-minute short produced for the Public Broadcasting Service, it eventually led to 5 years of filming and 250 hours of footage. It premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. Despite its length (171 minutes) and unlikely commercial genre, it received high critical and popular acclaim. The film follows William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American kids who are recruited to a predominantly white high school with an outstanding basketball program. Taking 90-minute commutes to school, enduring long and difficult workouts and practices, and acclimating to a.
Gentleman's Agreement - Gentleman's Agreement Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 film about a journalist who disguises himself as a Jew to research anti-semitism in the community. The movie was controversial in its time. It was based on a novel by Laura Z. Hobson. The film won three Oscars Academy Award for Best Picture - Darryl F. Zanuck, producer Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Celeste Holm Academy Award for Directing - Elia Kazan It was nominated for another five Oscars Academy Award for Best Actor - Gregory Peck Academy Award for Best Actress - Dorothy McGuire Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress - Anne Reveres Best Film Editing - Harmon Jones Best Writing, Screenplay - Moss Hart see also Gentlemen's Agreement..
Gigi - Gigi Gigi is a 1958 musical film, a remake of a 1948 French non-musical, about a wealthy cultured man who discovers he is in love with a young Parisian girl, and eventually marries her. The Broadway version pf the play opened on November 24, 1951 staring little known actress Audrey Hepburn playing the lead character (the play ran for six months and lead to Hepburn's film debut in Roman Holiday). The movie was based on a novel by the French sentimental romance writer Colette, and starred Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier with support from Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold and Eva Gabor. The film was nominated for an Oscar in nine categories, and won all nine. None of them, however, was for any of the acting awards. Academy Award for Best.
Giant (movie) - Giant (movie) Giant is a 1956 film which tells the story of rival ranchers in Texas in the middle years of the 20th century. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor and Earl Holliman. The movie was adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. It was directed by George Stevens. It won the Academy Award for Directing and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (James Dean), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Rock Hudson), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Mercedes McCambridge), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color, Best Costume Design, Color, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Picture and.
Gone With the Wind - Wind Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Book 2 The Film 2.1 Credits 3 ISBN numbers 4 External Links The Book Gone with the Wind is a novel by Margaret Mitchell. Published in 1936, the book was an international hit almost immediately. A story detailing the trials of southern belle Scarlett O'Hara during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction, Gone With the Wind is an enormously long historical romance which has spawned an Academy Award-winning film and several authorized sequels. A devoted fan base exists as well. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Critics and historians regard the book as having a strong ideological commitment to the cause of the Confederacy. This is apparent from the book's opening pages in which a description of the way in which.
Going My Way - Going My Way This 1944 film is a light-hearted comedy about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran. The cast included Rise Stevens and Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer. The film won seven Oscars: Academy Award for Best Picture - Leo McCarey, producer Academy Award for Best Actor - Bing Crosby Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Barry Fitzgerald Academy Award for Directing - Leo McCarey Academy Award for Best Song - Swinging on a Star - Music by James Van Heusen; words by Johnny Burke Academy Award for Writing, Original Story - Leo McCarey Best Writing, Screenplay - Frank Butler and Frank Cavett The film also received a further three Oscar nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor - Barry Fitzgerald--Fitzgerald was nominated for both.
For Whom the Bell Tolls - and Maria, a woman who needs to feel like a person again. The novel was made into a movie in 1943. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff and Katina Paxinou. The movie was adapted by Dudley Nichols, and directed by Sam Wood. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Katina Paxinou) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gary Cooper), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Akim Tamiroff), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Ingrid Bergman), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color, Best Cinematography, Color, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture. On the Novel Some experiences from the time of World War One have been worked into "For Whom the Bell Tolls". According to Anthony.
