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... , she has more chances than other Asian actresses. She was success in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In the year of 2001 Oscar award the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won four Oscar awards. Why did Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon win an Oscar award? What is the real appeal of the film for American viewers? How did this film make it big in Hollywood ... ...
... Cry Baby Killer. Nicholson drew serious attention, and his first Academy Award nomination, with his portrayal of a burned out lawyer in 1969's Easy Rider. The very next year brought another Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a psychologically disaffected pianist in Five Easy Pieces. It was his appearance as an offbeat Los Angeles detective in 1974's Chinatown, with Hollywood legend John Houston ... , that made Jack one of America's best-known actors. It also brought him his third Oscar nomination. For many observers, the highpoint of Jack Nicholson's career came the following year wit...
... polled chose Universal as their least favorite production studio, "A Beautiful Mind," Universal's prize picture of 2002, was awarded the coveted best picture Oscar at last year's ceremony. Along with last year's award, Universal has produced 18 Oscar winning and 39 Oscar nominated movies. On the contrary, the students of Avonworth were on the mark with their choice of Warner Brothers as the best ... ...
The article on Barbershop is the perfect example to describe what Oscar Wilde meant in The Preface to The picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde writes, "criticism is a mode of autobiography"(11), this means that the view and interpretation of art comes from ... a slice of urban black life"(1E) as she has ever seen, while she does admit that she "cringed at the offensive lines"(1E). Somewhere in the middle of this is Oscar Wilde and his view that "criticism is a mode of autobiography"(11). According to Wilde both sides of this argument can be faulted due to the simple fact that each delves ... ...
... who finally landed the role which every actress in Hollywood wanted. This casting choice is thought of to be one of Selznick's greatest moves, Leigh became Scarlett and received an Oscar for her amazing performance as the beautiful southern belle. The character of Scarlett breaks the conventions of movies at the time, instead of being virginal and homely, Scarlett is flirtatious ... Cooper and Errol Flyn respectively, but the role eventually went to Clark Gable who gives a career best, discernible performance as the worldly entrepreneur. Gable lost out on the Best actor Oscar to Robert ...
... away from America. He returned to America in 1974 to film Chinatown, staring Jack Nicholson. This film brought hope back into Polanski's life, and as a result the film earned an Oscar nomination, and a British Academy Award. Polanski's next film "Le Locataire*," again brought the director more grief in his life. During the filming Polanski was convicted of statutory rape of a 13 ... most expensive film ever made in France at the time. Despite to risks involved during the filming of "Tess" the film turned out to be a huge success. Polanski gained an Oscar nomination and a Cesar award for...
... 1967 for several categories including Best Actor (Hoffman), Best Actress (Bancroft), Best Adapted Screenplay (Henry, Willingham), Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Ross), Best Cinematography (Robert Sutees), and only won the Oscar for the Best Director (Mike Nichols). The movie also won several awards in the British Academy Awards (1968) such as Best Direction, Best Film, Best Promising Actor, Best Screenplay, and ... given for Gene Hackman who will be fired in the course of the shooting. However, very little after he gets a role in Bonny and Clyde and gets nominated for an Oscar. ...
... as nothing. Francis Ford Coppola's motifs and visualizations for Apocalypse Now are all expressed and illustrated through the breath taking cinematography of Vittorio Storaro. Storaro did in fact win an Oscar for his work in Coppola's masterpiece, and it is well deserved and easy to see why. As his technical skills such as his lo-key lighting will forever remain a marvel ... ...
... of having educated and/or professional people in society as light-skinned, while poor people are represented as dark-skinned and with more aggressive behavior. The two major themes of Oscar Micheaux's film "Within Our Gates" are the issues of racism and the class distinction among African Americans at the time. In its own way Micheaux's film seems to call for ... ...
... Picture Arts and Sciences presented him with the Irving G. Thalberg Award for a consistent high level of achievement by an individual producer. He had also been nominated four times for a directorial Oscar, but, as he frequently put it, he "had always been the bridesmaid." The Directors Guild of America also honored Hitchcock that spring with the prestigious D.W.Griffith Award for his directorial ... ...
... Picture Arts and Sciences presented him with the Irving G. Thalberg Award for a consistent high level of achievement by an individual producer. He had also been nominated four times for a directorial Oscar, but, as he frequently put it, he "had always been the bridesmaid." The Directors Guild of America also honored Hitchcock that spring with the prestigious D.W.Griffith Award for his directorial ... ...
... undaunted. Like any good John Wayne film, his career had a gratifying ending. In 1970s a new era of critics began to recognize the unique quality of his acting. He received an Oscar for best actor in the film "True Grit." In his first bout with cancer he lost a lung. The studio agents tried to conceal the nature of his illness. When John ... ...
... a mentally ill recluse, and only appears at the end of the film. Watch out for Hollywood star Robert Duvall in his first big screen appearance as Boo. The film won 3 Oscar's, including one for Gregory Peck as best actor. The film itself is fantastic, the story is true to the book, and the performances by the cast are excellent. The camera ... ...
... top grossing films of 1970 bringing in seven digit box office numbers and giving birth to an entire film genre-the disaster movie. Airport also went on to win six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Helen Hayes, Ada Quonsett, went on to win a supporting award. Airport spawned almost a decade's worth of big-budget disaster films, including three sequels. Then in 1980 ... ...
... as a prelude to further discussion on the topic. As a piece of cinema, the film is average and could have easily been a made-for-cable informating film. Though it won een oscar for the best documentary, it is not the best, in the correct sense of the word documentary, I have seen. But if you're looking for entertainement, the film is fun ... ...
... also earned three Oscars on four nominations for sound. Plagued with production problems and a budget that went from four million to ten million dollars, Steven Spielberg did not receive an Oscar nomination as best director but he should have for making a film work in the final cut that many predicted would fail miserably. Screenwriters Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb wrote a truly ... ...
... program that glorifies celebrities. It brings the viewers inside celebrity houses, lifestyles etc. It makes the viewers feel like they are actually in a five million dollar mansion, or at the Oscar's, or that we are actually marrying Jennifer Lopez. This program shapes the American dream for us. By constantly showing us how celebrities live, it makes society want to live like ... ...
... movie has been very negatively perceived by the critics who preferred it Rocky (from John Avildsen, with Sylvester Stallone) - which defends so well this American ideal - for the best film's Oscar in Hollywood. It is interesting to notice that the same year Taxi Driver obtained the "Palme d' Or" in Cannes! As a specialist of the "film noir" genre - he wrote the "essential ... ...
... such as the horror film and film noir. A more recent example of Impressionist influences in mainstream cinema is the film American Beauty (2000). Directed by Sam Mendes and starring the Oscar award winning Kevin Spacey, American Beauty is a wry observation of suburban American dysfunction. Spacey is Lester Burnham, a self-absorbed 40-something middle class American man. Despite an affluent lifestyle, he ... ...
... . As his scoring assignments began to change, so too did his style. By 1990, Horner's thematically dramatic orchestral efforts, teamed with his growing song-writing ability, had earned him two Oscar nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, and three Grammy Awards. After using the early?90s to build up his resume with countless smaller films, Horner burst back into the international spotlight ... ...
... years. When he did return to New York in 1973 Mayor John Lindsay presented him with the city's highest cultural award, the Handel Medallion. In 1972 Charlie Chaplin received an Oscar, for "incalculable effect in making motion pictures the art form of the century". The same country that had tarnished his reputation 20 years before had finally come to recognize Charlie ... ...
