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4 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a ...
4 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story .
4 days ago · At the 3rd Academy Awards, prior to the introduction of a documentary category, With Byrd at the South Pole won the award for Best Cinematography, becoming the first documentary both to be nominated for and win an Oscar.
5 days ago · Kurosawa Akira (born March 23, 1910, Tokyo, Japan—died September 6, 1998, Tokyo) was the first Japanese film director to win international acclaim, with such films as Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), Kagemusha (1980), and Ran (1985).
1 day ago · Monday, July 8, 2024 at 10:30PM. by Cláudio Alves. Years ago, as part of the dearly departed Hit Me With Your Best Shot series, the Film Experience hosted a celebration whose theme was the 1977 Best Cinematography Oscar nominees. Much was written about the contenders' beauty, their visual storytelling, and aesthetic vices.
5 days ago · Pawel Pawlikowski, who became known as a British director, also helmed the Polish movies Ida (2013), which won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, and Zimna wojna (2018; Cold War). In Russia a significant figure to emerge was Aleksandr Sokurov, whose early films had been “shelved,” or prohibited from public ...
2 days ago · The first primarily silent film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards since 1929, The Artist was a critical sensation, receiving nominations for 10 Academy Awards, 6 Golden Globes, and 12 BAFTAs.
