Academy Award for Best Picture

talented actors/actresses have yet to win an Academy Award (also referred to as an Oscar). I honestly hope Glenn Close wins an Oscar before it's too late, otherwise the legendary actress will have to settle for the Academy Honorary Award. The award recognizes exceptional people in film who never received an Oscar. Number One: Tom Cruise. The actor has been nominated for three Academy Awards, but he has yet to win the award. Cruise has been nominated twice for Best Actor for Born on the Fourth of July (1990)

The first film to have obtained 14 Academy Award nominations, a record at the Academy, was “All About Eve” (1950), a movie that is about actors and Hollywood loves rewarding itself. Then, that record was only tied when the blockbuster “Titanic” (1997) came along. But with the recent annunciation of the 2016 Oscar nominations this past Tuesday, 01/24, “La La Land” (2016) has joined the selective group. “La La Land” the jazz-infused musical itself does have merits to be a grand spectacle that not

John Wayne (1907 - 1979), an iconic American actor, director, and producer, known for playing heroes in westerns on the big screen for fifty years. He won an Academy Award for True Grit (1969) and is consider one of the top leading actors during Hollywood’s classic period. In Red River, Wayne stars in the unusual role of Thomas Dunson, who borders on good and bad tendencies throughout the film. “Wayne, often typecast, is given a tortured, conflicted character to play” (Ebert 392), and does remarkably

etc. Some of the biggest hit movies in the U.S. Jurassic Park is one of Spielberg's best creations, bringing dinosaurs back to life, this movie led to multiple grammys under Spielberg's belt. Another great film, Jaws, was a box office hit and one of the highest grossing movies released. Jaws launched Spielberg's career into a very good path, it launched a new era in Hollywood. Steven won two academy awards for best director for “Schindler's List” and “Saving Private Ryan”, two of Spielberg's major

years later, viewers, like myself, still cannot resist it. I had never seen the film, which was directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, before, but I had always wondered why people loved this multi award-winning movie so much. After viewing the film, I think that it deserved the ten Academy Awards that it won because it has withstood the test of time and it truly is a remarkable film. It still has the same flair and ability to lure the viewer into the plot as it did when it was first shown in

it is probable that it would receive a PG or lower advisory rating. Finally, since it is not controversial, it should not interfere with current or planned operations. The probability of an animated children's movie winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards is very low. However, it would introduce new animated characters that could possibly star in a cartoon series. There is also a possibility of generating merchandise from such a production. The proposal is unlikely to raise public

Trying to fix a diversity problem doesn’t have an instant solution. The Academy is facing this and dealing with the racial representation in the Oscar Awards as it has become a huge problem in Hollywood. Ira Deutchman, a member of the Academy, has stated “Like many Academy members, I was embarrassed and disappointed when this year’s Oscar nominees were announced, but I wasn't shocked. After all, no season passes without several scathing articles about the lack of diversity in Hollywood, both on the

In Germany, death camps were set up after 1933 to keep Jews. Amid World War II annihilation, or demise, camps were built up for the sole reason for murdering men, ladies, and kids. In the most infamous camps, Auschwitz, Treblinka in Poland, Buchenwald and Dachau in Germany, more than 6 million individuals, generally Jews and Poles, were executed in gas chambers. A huge number of others were likewise interned amid the war, and a vast extent kicked the bucket because of gross abuse, lack of healthy

Released in 1975, Jaws was probably one of the best adventure, action, and suspense films of that era. Directed by Steven Spielberg with the following staring main cast members Roy Scheider as "Martin Bordy" (chief police officer), Richard Dreyfuss as "Matt Hooper" (marine biologist), Robert Shaw as "Quint" (local fisherman), Murray Hamilton as "Larry Vaughan" (town mayor). "Jaws" the movie, is not like any other any other fish story. The film is about a gigantic 26 foot shark that has an appetite

What movie won the “Best Picture” in the year 1939 at the Academy Awards? “Gone with the Wind” took the trophy that year. Many things had happened in the 1930s. That decade had many different society changes along with many household situations mostly bad ones. Those problems came from the Great Depression starting in the late 1920s and continuing throughout the entire next decade (Feinstein 7). The two presidents during the 30s were more worried about getting reelected and serving longer in office