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1 day ago · Mendes is the first British director and the sixth director overall, to win an Academy Award for Best Director for a debut film. 2000 Stephen Daldry: Billy Elliot: Nominated Ridley Scott Gladiator: Nominated 2001 Black Hawk Down: Nominated 2002 Stephen Daldry The Hours: Nominated 2004 Mike Leigh Vera Drake: Nominated 2006 Stephen Frears The ...
2 days ago · Rebecca won two Academy Awards: Best Picture and Best Cinematography; and was nominated for nine more: It is the only film since 1936 (when awards for actors in supporting roles were first introduced) that, despite winning Best Picture, received no Academy Award for acting, directing or writing.
3 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 .
Jul 2, 2024 · Frank Capra (born May 18, 1897, near Palermo, Sicily, Italy—died September 3, 1991, La Quinta, California, U.S.) was an American motion-picture director who was the most prominent filmmaker of the 1930s, during which he won three Academy Awards as best director.
4 days ago · The film won the Academy Award for best picture, and Capra—who received his third award as best director and who by this point was being paid $100,000 per film—landed on the cover of the August 8, 1938, issue of Time magazine, which hailed him as “the top director of his industry.”
Jul 3, 2024 · 5 reranks. Picking the very best decade in Hollywood filmmaking is no easy task. But many film buffs will agree that the 1940s marked an era of unparalleled excellence on the silver screen. The winners and nominees of the Academy Award for Best Picture during this time reflect the decade's finest films.
4 days ago · Cedric Gibbons (born March 23, 1890, New York City, New York, U.S.—died July 26, 1960, Westwood, California) was an Irish American art director for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) motion-picture studio; his name appears on nearly 1,500 films produced by that studio during the 32 years (1924–56) that he worked there.
