... "The Philadelphia Story." In 1940, she managed to star in Hollywood's film version of "The Philadelphia Story," when she earned another Oscar nomination. The New York Film Critics Circle named her Best Actress for this film. She received an additional Oscar nomination for "Woman of the Year" in 1942. Kate met a newspaper columnist Spencer Tracy. They starred in nine films during the ... next twenty-five years. With the production of "The Lion in Winter" in 1986, Kate received her third Oscar win and eleventh nomination. Hepburn was asked to star in some made-for-TV films. She accepted a...

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... 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 ... ...

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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 ... ...

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... interiors, plausible special effects, and magnificent costumes. Although some of the sets appear stage bound (note the crash scene with Jessica and Paul - it looks straight out of a stage play), Oscar winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now and The Last Emperor) frames these shots with such precision that almost every scene is a feast for the eyes. Ernest Farino's CGI work is ... Atreides was very stiff. He had almost no emotion, and it looked very unrealistic when he tried to get angry. It is quite hard to believe that William Hurt, an Oscar winner, was so bad at actin...

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... well-known director he is today. Jaws cost $8.5 million and grossed $260 million. Spielberg followed it up two years later with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, earning a Best Director Oscar nomination and proved to the world that he was one of the best directors of the time. However, he followed Close Encounters with the disastrous Movie, 1941, which was his ... , reacting to criticism that he couldn't make an adult picture, he attempted The Color Purple. Criticized for sentimentalizing the material, he was publicly embarrassed when the film pulled down eleven Oscar nominations, but ...

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When The Misfits was released, in 1961, it flopped at the box office. Despite the presence of three Hollywood Stars, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, and an Oscar winning director, the film barely broke even. Why did The Misfits fail to find its audience? In my opinion, this is due to the fact that it was not a typical ... ...

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... 's network premiere did a 4.9 rating in its coverage area during its eight p.m. showing, according to Nielsen Media Research, and a 3.8 rating in its second run that night. The movie earned a number of Oscar nominations such as Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Film, Best Music/Original Score, Best Picture Best Sound, Best Writing, and Screenplay based on Material from Another Medium, but did not ... ...

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... . The movie was actually the number one movie in America for three to four weeks. As a matter of fact, the movie is also nominated for best picture in the upcoming Oscar awards. The director of the film was very successful in depicting World War II and drawing a audience to see it. This allowed people to get a totally different view of history ... ...

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... ), and therefore sentenced to be executed. After escaping from a bus crash/trash collision, he finds himself running from the Chicago police and especially the U.S. Marshall service, led by Lt. Gerard (Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones). At the same time, Kimble attempts to prove his innocence and in turn discover who did kill his wife. What ensues is are a whole bunch of ... ...

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... 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 ... ...

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PULP FICTION The film Pulp Fiction is incredible. The movie impresses me in so many ways. In 1995 it won an Oscar for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. It surely deserved such an honor. Never before has a movie been made with such uniquely twisted displays of plot and story combinations. ... ...

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... established himself as a great young actor doing the movies "Dog Day Afternoon", "Serpico" and "Cruising". One of Pacino's greatest hits in my opinion is the "Godfather", which was denied an Oscar performance. Other great actors which star in Scarface is Michelle Pfeiffer "which plays the addicted wife that is out of control", Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Logan and Steven Bauer. Even ... ...

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... 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 ... ...

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... film editing was perfected, leaving you right in the midst of the fierce horse races. I could do nothing more than give these movie two thumbs up and a recommendation for every Oscar it has been nominated for. Very rarely do we come across movies that have us laughing, crying, and satisfied by the end, but "Seabiscuit" never fails. Unfortunately it will probably ... ...

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... 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 ... ...

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... caste-system. But Bhuvan explains to the people that they shouldn't think this way and demands that he is on the team. Lagaan was nominated for the Best Foreign Film oscar in 2001, and I see why. ...

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... to some supreme person. It seems as if there are limited roles in which Blacks can display their leadership. This is exactly what Hattie McDaniel had discussed. After receiving her Oscar from being a servant in Gone With the Wind, all of her following roles were those of servants. It seems that same mentality is carried into today's time. Despite this I must ... ...

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