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2010 Academy Awards
Nominee - Best Documentary
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a top military strategist working for the RAND Corporation, leaked a 7,000 page document known as the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. Disenchanted with the nation's conduct in Vietnam, Ellsberg believed the release of the top secret paper -- which outlined the "secret&hellip…
2009 Academy Awards
Nominee - Best Documentary Feature
As Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans, it changes the lives of aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her street-smart husband forever. Edited together from video footage shot by the couple during and after the storm's devastation, this documentary offers a visceral, personal view&hellip…
2008 Academy Awards
Oscar(Best Documentary, Features (Nominated))
America's most incendiary filmmaker, Michael Moore, returned in 2007 with this health-care-industry exposé SICKO tackles material as controversial as the topics explored in Moore's other films, yet does so in a way that places the focus on ordinary Americans affected by the&hellip…
2007 Academy Awards
Nominated - Best Documentary feature
Remarkable, gritty, and unforgettable, this documentary--the winner of three major awards at Sundance--examines the realities of daily life in modern war-torn Iraq in three acts, spanning religious and ethnic differences. The first segment follows an orphaned 11-year-old apprenticed to a tough&hellip…
Best Documentary Feature
From the director of "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," Alex Gibney's TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE is a gripping investigation into the reckless abuse of power by the Bush Administration. By probing the homocide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, the film exposes a worldwide&hellip…
2006 Academy Awards
DIVIDED WE STAND - A ROAD TRIP THROUGH AN AMERICAN ELECTION Divided We Stand is a video journey during the waning days of the 2004 Presidential Election. The director, Tom Drew, weaves his way across the Southwest through a line of 'swing states', from his home in Los Angeles to his parent's farm in Arkansas. The colorful assortment&hellip…
2005 Academy Awards
Tim Roth's directorial debut, based on the novel by Alexander Stuart (who adapted the screenplay), is not for the faint of heart. When a seemingly normal family moves from London to rural Devon, 15-year-old Tom (Freddie Cunliffe) stumbles into a shocking secret concerning his father (Ray Winstone) and 17-year-old sister, Jessie (Lara&hellip&hellip…
Acclaimed filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (RUSSIAN ARK) brings us this sensual study of the bond between a strapping Russian father (Andrey Schetinin) and his soldier son (Aleksey Neymsyshev). In a dreamy rooftop apartment overlooking the sea, the pair wrestle, lift weights, bond, pore over old photos of lost loved ones, and stare longingly&hellip&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
Effortlessly blending drama, nature documentary, and ethnographic film, THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL weaves a magical tale about a nomadic Mongolian family who reunite a rejected baby camel with its mother. When a mother camel refuses to sustain her child, the keepers of the camels often&hellip…
Oscar, Best Adapted Screenplay(Nominee)
In 1952, a young medical student and a biochemist from Argentina set off on a road trip across South America. As they straddled their beaten up motorcycle, the men talked in awed tones of the sights they were about to experience. The record of their trip may have disappeared into the ether&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
In this hilarious yet informative documentary, debut director Morgan Spurlock makes himself the victim of a cruel experiment: he puts himself on a 30-day diet of nothing but McDonald's food. Eating three meals a day exclusively from McDonald's, Spurlock's health quickly deteriorates. The&hellip…
Oscar, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role(Nominee)
As she enters her early 40s, London theater actress Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) starts having a nervous breakdown. She still rules the West End, but is growing too old for ingenue parts. When Tom Fennell (Shaun Evans), an adoring lad half her age, comes into her&hellip…
Best Achievement in Cinematography(Nominee)
Following up his award-winning martial-arts drama HERO, director Zhang Yimou (JU DOU, RAISE THE RED LANTERN) tells an intricately detailed love story in the swordfighting epic HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, set during the final days of the Tang Dynasty. A mysterious group called the Flying&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film of the Year(Nominee)
Julia Jentsch (THE EDUKATORS) stars as Sophie Scholl in this retelling of the last six days in the life of the famous activist. Scholl was a gutsy German college student with vehement anti-Nazi leanings. Setting up an underground resistance movement in Munich called the White&hellip…
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2004 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
Fast-motion footage of clouds passing and daylight shifting over architect Louis I. Kahn's most famous buildings shows the true beauty of his monumental work. Designer of the Salk Institute, the Exeter Library, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the Capital Complex of Bangladesh, Kahn dedicated&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature
Documentarian Errol Morris directs THE FOG OF WAR, a captivating look at Robert S. McNamara, who served as the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The movie does not exclusively focus on this part of McNamara's career, however, and instead gives a broad overview&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Actress
Charlize Theron delivers a knockout, cast-against-type performance in this gritty drama, based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a down and out prostitute who was sentenced to death after killing six men between 1989 and 1990. Christina Ricci costars as Selby Wall, a lesbian runaway who forms a romantic&hellip…
Oscar, Best Actress in a Supporting Role(Nominee)
Katie Holmes is outstanding as the title character in Peter Hedges's PIECES OF APRIL. Holmes stars as April Burns, the black sheep of her family who has left suburbia for a Lower East Side tenement. To reconnect with her mother, Joy (Patricia Clarkson), and father, Jim (Oliver&hellip…
Best Documentary, Features(Nominee)
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island&hellip…
2003 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
Fleeing Nazi Germany, many Jewish families found that a new life was as difficult as any hardship they had previously known. This German drama, based on a book by Stephanie Zweig, tells of one family's struggle as Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze), his wife Jettel (Juliane Kohler), and their young&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
Jeff Blitz's Academy Award-nominated documentary is an affecting, inspiring look at eight American children as they make their way to compete in the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. Defying all stereotypes and categorizations, the spellers that Blitz chooses to focus on run&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Zhang Yimou, the director of such Chinese epics as RED SORGHUM, RAISE THE RED LANTERN, JU DOU, and SHANGHAI TRIAD, takes his first stab at a period martial arts film and succeeds wildly, making an intelligent, carefully crafted drama that pays tribute to the genre while taking it to another&hellip…
2002 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Original Screenplay(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Actress
Set in modern Mississippi, MONSTER'S BALL subtly examines the impact of personal loss and the transforming power of human connection. The movie begins in the state penitentiary's death row, where father-and-son prison guards Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) and Sonny Grotowski&hellip…
Oscar, Best Feature Documentary(Nominee)
The Oscar-nominated documentary film WAR PHOTOGRAPHER is a harrowing journey into the world of renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey. Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei fearlessly trails Nachtwey into the front lines of violence and human suffering in areas including Kosovo, Indonesia, and&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary Short(Nominee)
The documentary, it seems, has always been fated for second fiddle. With Michael Moore as today's shining exception, documentaries have generally screened for select audiences at select theaters. Lately however, most scripts have grown as tiresome as a T&A cliché, sequels have become a&hellip…
2001 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Actress(Nominee)
For his follow-up to his darkly brilliant debut, PI, director Darren Aronofsky chose to adapt a tough and meaty piece of work: Hubert Selby's 1968 novel REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, a dark spiral into the abyss of barren fantasies doomed to extinction. However, in Aronofsky's frenetic, visionary, unique, and&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Actor(Nominee)
The life of Reinaldo Arenas, an exiled Cuban homosexual writer, is chronicled in an adaptation of his memoir BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, directed by Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT). Javier Bardem (in an Oscar-nominated performance) portrays Arenas as he journeys from poverty to university to the sexual revolution&hellip…
Oscar, Best Feature Documentary
INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS, the stunning, heartrending documentary feature directed by Mark Jonathan Harris and narrated by Judi Dench, details the rescue of 10,000 German, Austrian, and Czechoslovakian Jewish children just prior to the outbreak of WWII. A labor of love for producer Deborah Oppenheimer&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
SOUND & FURY is a documentary that examines the issues surrounding the controversial cochlear implant, the medical technology that allows deaf people to hear. The film follows the Artinian family: adult brothers Chris (hearing) and Peter (deaf), their wives and their children. Over a two-year&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu makes an electrifying directorial debut with AMORES PERROS, an energetic, assured motion picture that jumps off the screen with a seemingly boundless energy. Told in three separate chapters--OCTAVIO AND SUSANA, DANIEL AND VALERIA, and EL CHIVO AND MARU--the&hellip…
Oscar, Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Oscar, Best Director
Oscar, Best Editing
Oscar, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Oscar, Best Picture(Nominee)
Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration&hellip…
2000 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
Spanish director Pedro Almodvar's tender, intelligent drama follows the emotional journey of Manuela, an organ transplant coordinator who scours the back alleys and gutters of Barcelona in search of her errant ex-husband (a half-transsexual prostitute named Lola), saddled with the devastating&hellip…
Oscar, Best Actress(Nominee)
Mary Jo Walker (Janet McTeer) is a Southern mother who hides her self-consciousness by overcompensating. She drinks, wears revealing outfits, and says things that other people would never even consider. Fleeing her latest abusive relationship, she and her daughter, twelve-year-old Ava (Kimberly Brown)&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
This acclaimed documentary tracks the tumultuous life and career of powerhouse classical violinist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Eccentric, wild, and unorthodox are just a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe this "bad girl" performer. Though audiences seem divided over Salerno-Sonnenberg's&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
It is caravan time in Dolpo, high in the Himalayas of Nepal. The villagers must trek for days across the mountains with laden yaks to trade their salt for grain. But when Karma (Gurgon Kyap) returns to the village with the body of Lhakpa, leader of the caravan and son of the old chief&hellip…
1999 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
In Carlos Saura's TANGO, a well-known theater director, Mario (Miguel Angel Solá) attempts to produce a tango extravaganza in Argentina. He wants to show the breadth and depth of tango--both the music and the dance--not just in isolated music and dance numbers, but with a story that&hellip…
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1998 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
Set in the precarious surrounding of South Central, Los Angeles, COLORS STRAIGHT UP is a documentary that explores the lives of children who have managed to escape slipping into a life of crime via their commitments to various artistic endeavors. An organization called Colors United helps&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Javi is a nine year old living in a small town in the early 1960s. He becomes fascinated by the idea that he can hear ghosts, especially in the room where his father died. Javi begins to investigate his family life and learns a great deal about his mother, uncle, and aunts. A delicate&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary-Feature
A grave documentary account of the struggles of European Jews liberated from Nazi encampment to survive the isolationist aftermath of World War II. While the Allied nations strengthened their immigration laws and the survivors' formerly occupied homelands still bore the taint of anti-Semitism, the&hellip…
Nominated - Best Cinematography
Nominated - Best Costume Design
Nominated - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Nominated - Best Music, Original Dramatic Score
Documentary about Chinese occupied Tibet using interviews and some never-before-seen footage of life in Tibet under Chinese rule. Ten years in the making, this&hellip…
1997 Academy Awards
Best Music, Original Dramatic Score(Nominee)
Best Picture(Nominee)
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen(Nominee)
Best Film Editing(Nominee)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role(Nominee)
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Director(Nominee)
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of&hellip…
1996 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Cinematography(Nominee)
A visually dazzling gangster film from director Zhang Yimou. Nightclub singer Xiao Jingbao lives a pampered life as the mistress of Shanghai godfather Mr. Tang. However, she gets in over her head after she begins an affair with Song, Mr. Tang's number two man, who wants to wrench control of&hellip…
1995 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu (Sihung Lung) prepares an elaborate dinner for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu's exotic dishes, the family barely nibbles at the food. The listless mealtime ritual mirrors the foursome's general lack of appetite for life: Chu has lost his sense&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature
This Oscar-winning documentary explores the life and work of architect Maya Lin, who, at the age of 21, designed the controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Her story reads something like a fairy tale for the aspiring architect and has become the stuff of legends ever since. In&hellip…
Oscar, Best Film Editing(Nominee)
A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale, Spike Lee and Bobby&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary, Features(Nominee)
The story behind a photograph conceived by Esquire Magazine art director Art Kane. He gathered all the greats in the Jazz world for a group shot on a sultry summer day on 125th Street in Harlem, 1958. With a "cast" that includes Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Blakey, this documentary&hellip…
1993 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Screenplay(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Actress(Nominee)
Mary McDonnell stars as May-Alice Culhane, a New York-based soap opera star who is paralyzed in a road accident. She returns to the Louisiana bayou where she grew up and becomes the patient from hell, discharging one caretaker after another. Then along comes Chantelle&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Cinematography(Nominee)
Indochina, 1929. On a ferry a 27-year-old Chinese man spots an alluring but poor French teenager. They soon begin a forbidden but fiercely passionate romance. While the man truly loves the girl, she remains aloof, for her involvement with him is more out of rebellion towards her family -- and&hellip…
1992 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Costume Design(Nominee)
Claude Chabrol's lifelong interest in the psychological lives of women finds a perfect vehicle in Gustave Flaubert's 1856 novel, MADAME BOVARY. Isabelle Hupert, Chabrol's frequent collaborator and muse, brings a detached and icy intensity to her portrayal of Emma, an ambitious farmer's daughter&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary-Feature
Go behind the curtain at the San Francisco Opera Company with this profile of the struggling chorus singers who support the divas while nursing their own dreams of stage stardom&hellip&hellip…
1991 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen(Nominee)
A chronicle of the social scene of a group of young Park Avenue socialites and their vanishing debutante scene. Into thier midst comes an outsider, a radical from the socially alien west side. But, because of an escort shortage he is welcomed into their&hellip…
1990 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
Pulled from several million feet of archival film and eighty hours of interviews, FOR ALL MANKIND is the official story of the Apollo odyssey, which took place between 1968 and 1972. Capturing the beauty of the technology, the enthusiasm of the astronauts and the pride of the nation that&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
When attendance at a church's annual Passion Play flags, a troupe of young actors is hired to stage a newer interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. While their newer, more modern version brings the house down, it also brings down the condemnation of church hierarchy, creating a strange&hellip…
Best Film Editing(Nominee)
The story of a bear cub's first year of life, told from the animal's point of view. After its mother is killed, a young cub latches onto an adult male grizzly. The reluctant stepfather educates and protects his young ward through its first summer of wide-eyed growth, including its initial encounter&hellip…
1989 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Mira Nair's first feature was an acclaimed drama depicting the desperate lives of homeless children in one of India's poorest cities. Krishna is a 10-year-old country boy forced to live on his own in the streets of Bombay after his family tosses him out. While he hopes to earn 500 rupees&hellip…
1988 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Cinematography(Nominee)
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The year is 1920, the setting Matewan, West Virginia, where the town's coal miners labor under miserable, unhealthy conditions. Enter Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper), a rebellious union leader who wants to organize the West Virginian miners&hellip…
Oscar, Best Costume Design(Nominee)
E.M. Forster's provocative 1914 novel, published posthumously in 1971, is brought to the screen by director James Ivory in this beautifully photographed film. Set in pre-World War I England, the film concerns the coming of age of two young men who meet at Cambridge University and fall in love&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Actress in a Supporting Role(Nominee)
In a major change of genres, Lindsay Anderson (IF. . ., O LUCKY MAN!) directs two legendary American actors in this charming, simple story of two elderly women looking back on their lives, and still planning for the future, as they wait to see the migrating whales pass their summer&hellip…
1987 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Director(Nominee)
A deeply shocking and insidiously funny film, David Lynch's offbeat vision uncovers the nasty underside of small-town America. When a young man finds a human ear in a field, he embarks on an investigation into the dark world of a dangerous psychopath, which leads him to a beautiful nightclub singer&hellip…
Oscar, Best Actor(Nominee)
Ex-con George, expecting to be repaid after taking a fall for his crime boss, is reduced to driving classy call girl Simone to her jobs at London's finer hotels. Despite their differences (he's a poorly-educated, unattractive, and unsophisticated bigot; she's a beautiful, elegant, and intelligent black&hellip…
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Acclaimed Canadian director Denys Arcand's witty comedy focuses on the marriages and affairs of eight intellectual friends. The group has plans to gather at a secluded house for dinner. While the four men prepare the food and reflect on their promiscuity, the four women discuss their own affairs&hellip…
1986 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature
Winner of the 1984 Academy Award for best documentary, this is the moving and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the first openly gay man elected to political office in California. Milk's tremendous courage and humanity, as he fought for the civil rights of all people, soars above the prejudices&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
A delightful comedy about three confirmed bachelors whose lives become topsy-turvy when they find an abandoned baby girl on their doorstep. Winner of three French awards and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Remade in the United States as "Three Men and a Baby."&hellip&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
At an Austrian military academy, Alfred Redl (Klaus Maria Brandauer), a Catholic with Jewish roots, forms a friendship with aristocrat Kristof von Kubinyi (Jan Niklas) and his sister, Katalin (Gudrun Landgrebe). She falls in love with him but cannot marry below her station. Still, they&hellip…
Best Director(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Costume Design
Oscar, Best Cinematography(Nominee)
For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as "chaos" or "turmoil," is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide&hellip…
Best Documentary, Features(Nominee)
Gorden Hirabayashi, Fred Korematsu, and Minoru Yasui form the focus for this documentary, which follows their remarkable refusal to leave their homes in Japan during 1942--an order passed down to all Japanese citizens with American ancestry. Sadly, those that did leave were mercilessly executed&hellip…
Oscar, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
An Argentine teacher lives in blissful ignorance of the evils perpetrated by her country's government. Over time, however, her students' rejection of the "official" versions of their history leads her to question things&hellip…
Oscar, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen(Nominee)
3 Disc Set. BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When&hellip…
1985 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
The Camila (1984) DVD deals with a wealthy young socialite and a young Jesuit priest fall in love and run away together to a small Argentinean village where they conceal their true identities. When they are discovered, a terrible tragedy ensues. One of the most controversial stories&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
Two very different men compete in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew and chess master for the past 12-years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier. Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film&hellip&hellip…
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Best Documentary Feature
BROKEN RAINBOW is an Oscar-winning documentary about the U.S. government's forced relocation of 12,000 Navajo Indians. The film draws on a variety of sources to help illustrate how current abuses reflect a much longer history of callous disregard. Interviews, archival footage and photographs all work to&hellip…
1984 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
It's an open secret that father has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with the voluptuous object of desire of a communist party official. That's the way things were in 1950's Yugoslavia. Six-year-old Malik, however, thinks Papa is away on business. As seen through his eyes&hellip…
1983 Academy Awards
Best Make-Up
During the Ice Age, the fire used by a clan of cavemen is extinguished during a battle. Subsequently, three members leave in search of new embers to renew their flame. This journey proves to be more event-filled than expected, however; for example, they rescue a young cavewoman from cannibalistic savages and she leads&hellip…
1982 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
In MEPHISTO, an ambitious and talented actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) on the verge of success marries the daughter of an important official in pre-World War II Germany in order to further his career. As the Nazi influence grows, he discards his wife and uses his new connections to become the head&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary-Feature
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In 1981 this film became the first Holocaust documentary to receive an Academy Award, and it remains today a chilling, heartbreaking testament to the strength and suffering of the Jewish people and the courage and heroism of those who came&hellip…
1981 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
Haunting examination of the dawn of the nuclear age focuses on the dramatic events surrounding the development of the first atomic bomb. Featuring interviews with scientists and soldiers, and rare, archival footage, it provides a gripping profile of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the bomb's principal&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Costume Design(Nominee)
The oldest child of a poor Australian ranch family has aspirations of artistic greatness. However, she finds that she must choose between her dream and her less-than-perfect love affair. Based on the autobiographical novel by Miles Franklin. Academy Award Nominations: Best Costume Design&hellip&hellip…
1980 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Sound(Nominee)
As a five-mile-wide asteroid hurtles towards Earth, scientist Paul Bradley -- inventor of Hercules, a revolutionary satellite missile launching system -- tries to warn the U.S. government of the impending danger. But because of his fanatical anti-Soviet sentiment, General Adlon refuses to heed Bradley's&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
A man returns to the place where he spent happy holidays in his youth only to find that the past is gone. Five women who once loved him still remain, but the man's one true love has passed. Set in the 1920s, this Polish drama is one of many collaborations between director Andrzej Wajda&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
Novelist Günter Grass assisted in this brilliant film adaptation of his groundbreaking novel, which depicts the significant events in German history since the turn of the century as seen through the eyes of a bizarre child. In this allegorical film, a three-year-old boy observes the hypocrisy&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary-Feature(Nominee)
This riveting documentary vividly chronicles the antiwar protest movement of the 1960s and '70s, which grew into a genuine people's revolt as the Vietnam War escalated. The film features stirring songs by artists such as Dylan and Jefferson Airplane. Centered around the University of Wisconsin&hellip…
Oscar, Best Costume Design(Nominee)
Based on the novel by Henry James, THE EUROPEANS takes place in 1840s New England where a cultured but nearly destitute sister and brother, raised in Europe, arrive at the doorstep of their rich but innocently isolated American cousins. Hoping to exchange her sophistication for financial stability&hellip…
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Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist (The Emperor Jones / Body and Soul / Borderline / Sanders of the River / Jericho / The Proud Valley / Native Land / Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist) Criterion DVD Set
This excellent Criterion Collection DVD set provides a definitive portrait of the trailblazing&hellip…
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1978 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Adapted Screenplay(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Luis Buñuel's last film is a celebration of the vigor of sexual obsession and the sovereignty of the subconscious. From the instant Mathieu (Fernando Rey) lays eyes on Conchita (played by both Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina), he cannot&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature
The kind hearted Bob and Dorothy DeBolt are the subjects of this documentary from 1977, which takes a look at their lives as they attempt to raise 19 kids. Six of the children come from Bob and Dorothy's previous marriages, but the rest are all handicapped children that the DeBolt's have adopted&hellip…
1977 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
Winner of the Emmy for Best Documentary Film, HOMAGE TO CHAGALL is an enthralling portrait of the legendary artist. Combining images of his magnificent his magnificent art and interviews with Chagall and his wife, Vava, the film brings to life Chagall's devotion to his Jewish heritage&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews, Jacob overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. Eventually, he decides to pass on the news of hope to his fellow prisoners. However, in order to be believed, he feigns access to a radio and becomes a bulwark against&hellip…
Oscar, Best Documentary, Features
Harlan County, USA Strike DVD is a Barbara Kopple had made no other film than this documentary account of the 1974 strike of Kentucky mine workers, arguably one of the finest documentaries ever made in the U.S. and possibly the best on the problems of organized labor, her place in film history&hellip…
Oscar Nomination - Animated Shorts
This award-winning animation film spares no feelings and minces no words. A poignant interpretation of a short story by Montreal author Mordecai Richler, it makes what is sometimes an embarrassingly frank statement about how many families respond to their old and infirm members. In soft simple&hellip…
1976 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of novelist Vladimir Arsenyev's novel about survival, set against the stark wilderness of Siberia. When Mongol guide, Dersu, is hired by a Russian crew of mapping surveyors, they soon realize their original negative opinion of him as an inexperienced&hellip…
Oscar, Best Actress(Nominee)
The desire to shed or suppress all traces of one's original culture has been a primal experience of nearly all immigrants; Joan Micklin Silver's adaptation of Abraham Cahan's story makes clear that it's a process edged with pathos. Carol Kane stars as Gitl, an Eastern European Jew who arrives with&hellip…
Oscar, Best Actor in a Leading Role(Nominee)
This adaptation of Robert Shaw's A DELICATE BALANCE was part of the American Film Theater series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau, and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Arthur Goldman stars as an eccentric Jewish tycoon who&hellip…
1975 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Director(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Actress(Nominee)
Considered by many to be the father of independent film, John Cassavetes left behind a body of work which has become essential viewing for anyone interested in the art of narrative filmmaking. Peopled with average people, down-and-out types, and low-level criminals&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
Nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1974, this follow-up to WITH FIRE AND SWORD is yet another romantic, action-packed drama woven around a stormy love affair set against the Polish-Swedish War in the 1600s. Based on the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jerzy Hoffman's lavish production captures&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
This unflinching film by legendary director Louis Malle was one of the first of its time to openly discuss the troublesome issue of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. It follows an innocent young man (the very talented Pierre Blaise, who was killed in a car accident&hellip…
1974 Academy Awards
George C. Scott stars as a scientist who, along with his wife, trains dolphins to speak. During his experiments, the dolphins are kidnapped by the military, an organization that has other plans for them. Buck Henry wrote the script and even performed some of the dolphin voices&hellip&hellip…
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Best Short Subject, Live Action Films
The Academy Award-winning short subject BOLERO offers a behind-the-scenes look at a performance of Ravel's orchestral masterpiece by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta. Following the renowned orchestra from rehearsal to performance, this documentary captures the complicated&hellip…
1973 Academy Awards
Best Documentary, Features
This classic Academy Award winner is a remarkable behind-the-scenes expose of Marjoe Gortner, an evangelist child prodigy who grew up to expose himself as a fraud. 2-disc set includes the Oscar-winning film THOTH.
The Academy-Award®-winning MARJOE is the ferocious and extraordinary chronicle of a&hellip…
Oscar, Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced(Nominee)
While convalescing at a health retreat, a sensitive and sexually curious teenage boy explores his identity, with a little help from his doting mother. The tender direction belies the film's provocative&hellip…
1972 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
Best Adapted Screenplay(Nominee)
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Vittorio De Sica's beautifully photographed masterpiece, THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, is a return to the fine dramas (SHOESHINE, THE BICYCLE THIEF) of his early days as a director. Based on the&hellip…
Oscar, Best Supporting Actress(Nominee)
Charting the shift in America's sexual mores over the course of three decades, Mike Nichols's thoroughly provocative drama focuses on the bitter experiences of two middle-class American males. Jonathan (Jack Nicholson), a cruel but charismatic misogynist, and Sandy (Art Garfunkel), a bland&hellip…
1971 Academy Awards
Best Art Direction - Set Direction(Nominee)
Best Music, Original Song Score(Nominee)
Best Costume Design(Nominee)
Best Music, Original Song(Nominee)
Albert Finney shines as the title character in this musical version of Charles Dickens' timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, a lonely miser who is visited on Christmas Eve&hellip…
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1969 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Milos Forman directs this story of a birthday party for an elderly fireman&hellip&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Screenplay(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Supporting Actress(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Supporting Actor(Nominee)
Considered by many to be the father of independent film, John Cassavetes left behind a body of work which has become essential viewing for anyone interested in the art of narrative filmmaking. Peopled with average&hellip…
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1968 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Screenplay(Nominee)
For an aging friend of the revolution, it seems time to hang up the combat boots and let the new generation have their turn. When he meets a student involved in terrorist activities, it re-ignites the flame of fight until he meets catastrophe. This film is an exciting example of the French New Wave&hellip…
Best Documentary, Features(Nominee)
This award-winning documentary explores the white, middle-class Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska, which in 1966 struggled to reach out to the black community in their city. The congregation was divided between those who wanted to accept social change and those who thought the time&hellip…
1967 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Czech émigré Milos Forman directs this endearing mood-pleasing story of broken promises, shattered hearts, and the universality of love. Andula, a young girl, follows a piano player named Milda to his parents' home in Prague. After having had a one-night stand with him when he came&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Score(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Costume Design(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Art Direction(Nominee)
Christ's life is presented with respect for the traditional religious doctrine of the Church, but Pasolini's trademark naturalism "humanizes" his subject and makes him his own. The documentary-style camera captures Christ's&hellip…
Oscar, Best Costume Design(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Art Direction(Nominee)
A delightful, visually inventive fantasy, Federico Fellini's JULIET OF THE SPIRITS is about a bored Italian housewife (Giulietta Masina, Fellini's real-life wife) who finds relief from the mundane--and her philandering husband (Mario Pisu)--through sensual&hellip…
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1966 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
Oscar, Best Actress(Nominee)
In World War II Slovakia, an easygoing carpenter, Tono (Jozef Króner) is pressured to move up in the world by his ostentatious wife and fascist brother-in-law. He takes the job of "Aryan comptroller" in a button shop owned by an aging Jewess, Rosalie (Ida Kaminska)&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Screenplay(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Music(Nominee)
In the innovative film THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, Jacques Demy pays loving homage to the Hollywood musical as well as the French melodrama. The film is shot in Cherbourg, France, using inventive cinematography and blazing colors and textures. Local life is rendered&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Director Masaki Kobayashi invested five years of preparation before shooting this anthological adaptation of four tales of the supernatural by Lafcadio Hearn. The first, "Black Hair," stars Rentaro Mikuni as a poverty-stricken samurai who leaves his kind wife (Michiyo Aratama) to marry&hellip…
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1965 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
In the innovative film THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, Jacques Demy pays loving homage to the Hollywood musical as well as the French melodrama. The film is shot in Cherbourg, France, using inventive cinematography and blazing colors and textures. Local life is rendered in pink, orange, green&hellip…
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
YESTERDAY, TODAY, and TOMORROW from director Vittorio De Sica features the most popular male and female leads of the Italian 20th century cinema, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Directed by Vittorio De Sica (THE BICYCLE THIEF, THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS), and costumed by Christian&hellip…
Oscar, Best Actor(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Director(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Adapted Screenplay(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Picture(Nominee)
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is Stanley Kubrick's Cold War masterpiece. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George, the film is set at the height of&hellip…
1964 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
Roman Polanski's first feature-length film is a suspenseful three-person chamber drama reminiscent of the work of Ingmar Bergman. KNIFE IN THE WATER was filmed in the director's native Poland and financed through government subsidies. Although denounced by local authorities as devoid&hellip…
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1963 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Director(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Actor(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Original Screenplay
Director Pietro Germi's hilarious and pointed satire of Italian marital conventions is the prototypical Italian sex comedy. Ferdinando Cefalu, a handsome Sicilian nobleman, longs to marry his beautiful nubile cousin Angela. There's&hellip…
Nominated for Best Director(Nominee) – Frank Perry
Nominated for Best Screenplay(Nominee) – Eleanor Perry
Now available in a brand-new digital transfer, this touching '60s classic about two emotionally disturbed teenagers drawn to each other in a mental&hellip…
1962 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White(Nominee)
The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning and darkly comic YOJIMBO. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. Remade twice, by Sergio Leone&hellip…
Oscar, Best Actress
Sophia Loren stars as Cesira, a devoted mother and a successful small business owner, in this Vittorio De Sica's TWO WOMEN, a dramatic adaptation of Alberto Moravia's touching novel, CESIRA. When the Allies begin bombing Mussolini's Rome, Cesira and her 12-year-old daughter, Rosetta (Eleonara Brown), travel&hellip…
1961 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Screenplay(Nominee)
When cold, upper-crust Basil Barrow takes command of an army regiment, replacing a warm "up-from-the-ranks" colonel, the stage is set for a clash of the titans. The rank-and-file resent his straight-laced tactics and the officers dislike his snobbish manner -- and soon everybody's up in arms&hellip&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film
Oscar, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White(Nominee)
Derived from a medieval ballad, THE VIRGIN SPRING was director Ingmar Bergman's first film to win an Academy Award. The movie represents a return to simpler themes for Bergman after the philosophical complexity of THE SEVENTH SEAL and WILD&hellip…
1960 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen(Nominee)
Director François Truffaut's first feature film, THE 400 BLOWS, is a landmark in French cinema. Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a 13-year-old boy who can't seem to do anything right. His parents yell at him and then bribe him&hellip…
1958 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Screenplay(Nominee)
Five adolescent loafers in the Adriatic city of Romini postpone adulthood by idling in their home town. Fellini's elegy to the passage of youth reveals true insights through the characters of the likeable boys, one of whom depends on his sister while another is a careless Lothario&hellip&hellip…
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Best Foreign Film
Federico Fellini's classic drama, NIGHTS OF CABIRIA, is about a childlike prostitute who remains curiously unsullied by the brutal world she inhabits, even as the love and respectability she seeks elude her. Guilietta Masina plays Cabiria, a wide-eyed waif, a streetwalker living in a poor section of Rome where&hellip…
1957 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Screenplay(Nominee)
The Italian classic UMBERTO D., from director Vittorio De Sica, offers a realistic character sketch of an elderly man, Umberto D. (Carlo Battisti), who is determined to retain his dignity in spite of a meager pension. As with many of De Sica's Neo-realist films, the central struggle is existence--Umberto&hellip…
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Best Actor in a Leading Role(Nominee)
Amid the Wars of the Roses in England, ruling monarch Edward IV's lame, misshapen brother Richard schemes to ascend the throne. Richard turns the king against their other brother, the Duke of Clarence, who is imprisoned for treason, then arranges for Clarence's murder. He then woos the Lady&hellip…
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White(Nominee) – So Matsuyama
Best Costume Design, Black-and-White(Nominee) – Kôhei Ezaki
Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's epic SEVEN SAMURAI follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that&hellip…
1956 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Costume Design, Black and White(Nominee)
Often cited by critics as one of the greatest films ever made, Kenji Mizoguchi's UGETSU includes the director's signature theme of the women oppressed while adopting a broader philosophical perspective on human affairs. Set against the backdrop of the feudal wars of 16th-century&hellip…
1955 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Writing, Motion Picture Story(Nominee)
A young orphaned French girl is taken in by a peasant family during WWII. Becoming fast friends with the young son, the two children begin playing games imitating the tragedies of war around them. Academy Award Nominations: Best Motion Picture Story&hellip&hellip…
1954 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Writing(Nominee)
When a seven-year-old Brooklyn boy's older brother tricks him into thinking the tyke has killed him, the youngster takes what money he can find and hightails it to Coney Island. While his brother searches for him, the scared runaway encounters all manner of adventures among the summer throngs. A pioneering&hellip…
1952 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Costume Design, Color(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color(Nominee)
This classic film version of Jacques Offenbach's 1881 work is conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. The story of Hoffman and his love for three women. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Color) Cinematography, Best (Color) Costume Design.
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Best Music, Original Song: "Too Late Now"(Nominee)
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1951 Academy Awards
Best Editor(Nominee) – Oswald Hafenrichter
Best Cinematography, Black-and-White – Robert Krasker
Best Director(Nominee) – Carol Reed
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself&hellip…
Best Foreign Language Film
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the&hellip…
Best Actor in a Leading Role – José Ferrer
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1950 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Screenplay(Nominee)
Honorary Award
The recipient of international acclaim, Vittorio de Sica's Italian Neorealist masterwork, THE BICYCLE THIEF, is a treasure of world cinema. After nearly two years of unemployment, Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) finally finds work posting bills. But he needs a bicycle to do the&hellip…
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Oscar, Best Writing, Screenplay(Nominee)
Oscar, Honorary Award
The recipient of international acclaim, Vittorio de Sica's Italian Neorealist masterwork, BICYCLE THIEVES, is a treasure of world cinema. After nearly two years of unemployment, Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) finally finds work posting bills. But he needs a bicycle&hellip…
1949 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Motion Picture(Nominee)
A Cajun boy living in the Marshlands of Petit Anse Bayou observes the growing industrialization of his state as he watches oil drillers at work in this production filmed entirely in Louisiana. Academy Award Nominations: Best Motion Picture Story&hellip&hellip…
Oscar, Best Art Direction - Set Decoration
Oscar, Best Music
Oscar, Best Film Editing(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Picture(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Writing(Nominee)
Powell and Pressburger, who called their unique creative partnership The Archers, were no strangers to controversy. Each film they made together aimed it's barb&hellip…
Oscar, Best Special Effects
Oscar, Best Cinematography - Black & White(Nominee)
This beautifully made fantasy stars Joseph Cotten as struggling painter Eben Adams. One day while painting in Central Park he meets a charming little girl named Jennie, who talks only of the distant past. She continues to appear, by chance, every&hellip…
Best Cinematography, Black and White – William H. Daniels
Best Film Editing – Paul Weatherwax
Best Writing, Motion Picture Story(Nominee) – Malvin Wald
Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer&hellip…
1948 Academy Awards
Oscar - Best Art Directon-Set Decoration, Color(Nominee)
Oscar - Best Cinematography, Color(Nominee)
Oscar - Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture(Nominee)
Oscar - Best Actor in a Leading Role(Nominee)
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1947 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Actress(Nominee)
Oscar, Best Supporting Actress(Nominee)
In this classic Western, two brothers become bitter rivals after a beautiful half-Indian woman comes to live on their sprawling ranch and disturbs their dynasty&hellip…
Best Actor in a Leading Role(Nominee)
Best Picture(Nominee)
Honorary Award, Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier brings to vivid life Shakespeare's King Henry V, the epitome of the ideal Christian king. After a youth misspent in frivolity and common diversions, Prince Hal ascends the throne only to find himself on the brink&hellip…
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1943 Academy Awards
Best Writing, Original Story
Best Picture(Nominee)
Best Writing, Screenplay(Nominee) – Emeric Pressburger Rodney Ackland
A taut, suspenseful World War II drama about Nazi servicemen trying to make their way across Canada to reach neutral American land after their U-boat is sunk in the&hellip…
1940 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Writing, Original Story(Nominee)
Few historical figures are as revered as Abraham Lincoln, and few director-star pairings embody classic American cinema as perfectly as that of John Ford and Henry Fonda. In Young Mr. Lincoln, their first collaboration, Fonda gives one of the finest performances of his career, as the&hellip…
1939 Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Picture(Nominee)
Calling on his own experiences as an aviator in WWI as well as those of his comrades, Jean Renoir's antiwar masterpiece bids farewell to the class constrictions of European society and calls for the unity of humankind across class and national boundaries. Set in the German prison camps of WWI, the&hellip…
1937 Academy Awards
Best Actor in a Leading Role(Nominee)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role(Nominee)
Best Director(Nominee) – Gregory La Cava
Best Actress in a Supporting Role(Nominee)
Best Writing, Screenplay(Nominee)
Best Actress in a Leading Role(Nominee)
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1931 Academy Awards
Oscar - Best Art Direction(Nominee)
Oscar - Best Cinematography(Nominee)
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Oscar - Best Actor in a Leading Role(Nominee) – Adolphe Menjou
Oscar - Best Picture(Nominee)
Oscar - Best Director(Nominee) – Lewis Milestone
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