Academy Award for Best Cinematography When 17-year-old Paul joins the Western Front in World War I, his initial excitement is soon shattered by the grim reality of life in the trenches. Released: 2022 Directed by: Edward Berger Also ranks #3 on 16 Anti-War Movies That Have Us Mar...
Although it's technically The Academy Awards, many also just refer to it as The Oscars, named after the award that's given. How did the idea for the Academy Awards start?By the end of the 1920's, the motion picture industry was the 4th largest in the U.S. And, by 1928 it's ...
Black Base:The base of the Oscar is made from black metal, which adds contrast and stability to the award's design. Interestingly, duringWorld War II,Oscars were made of painted plaster due to metal shortages. After the war, recipients were allowed to exchange their plaster statuettes for th...
3. (without capital) any annual award for excellence 4. (Telecommunications) communications a code word for the letter o [C20: sense 1 said to have been named after a remark made by an official on first seeing the statuette, that it reminded her of her uncle Oscar] Collins English Diction...
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2014: Live Action: Collective screening of the Academy Award nominated short films from the Live Action category for 2014.
An Oscar statuette is a crowning achievement for anyone involved in the production of film, and those who garner one or more of the gold figurines win the right to label themselves "Academy Award–winning" for the rest of history. Plus, there's the career boost that comes with it. ...
aMGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the design on scroll. In need of a model for his statuette Gibbons was introduced by his then wife Dolores del Río to Mexican actor Emilio "El Indio" Fernández....
World Heritage List and World Heritage in Danger List, onJanuary 25th, 2023, the 70-hectare site is located between the historic center of Tripoli and the port. In 2022, the renovation of one of the structures on the site, theNiemeyer Guest House, byEast Architecturewon theAga Khan Award....
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan won his first Academy Award on Sunday, clinching best director for his historical drama "Oppenheimer" about the man behind the development of the atomic bomb during World War Two. Nolan had been favored to win the Oscar a...
Award-Worthy Plot: King George VI (Colin Firth) is afflicted with a speech impediment. He receives help from an unconventional language therapist named Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), and the two form a close friendship. When his brother Edward abdicates the throne, George must make a stammer-fr...