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6 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about ...
4 days ago · David Lean holds the record for the director with the most films that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the Oscars with five wins out of six nominations for Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and Ryan's Daughter.
Sep 21, 2024 · The movie, which presents a portrait of the complicated soldier and author T.E. Lawrence, won seven Academy Awards, including those for best picture and best director, and made lead actor Peter O’Toole a star. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)
Sep 20, 2024 · Matthau won a best supporting actor Academy Award, and the screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award. Last films. After being absent from the screen for the next four years, Wilder returned in 1970 with The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (coscripted with Diamond), a generally underrated revisionist take on the fictional detective.
2 days ago · From performers playing towering real-life figures to those depicting the struggles of the heroic everyman, the Oscars have honored some of the best actors of all time for films both big and...
Sep 26, 2024 · The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry.
5 days ago · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: Sep 27, 2024 • Article History. In full: Academy Award of Merit. Byname: Oscar. Related Topics: Academy Award for best adapted screenplay. Academy Award for best cinematography. Academy Award for best director. Academy Award for best actress. Who’s won the most Oscars? (Show more)
