Papicha: Algeria’s Official Entry for the Best International Film Oscar
Algeria has selected Mounia Meddour’s Papicha as its official contender for the best international film category.
Oscar Movies: Moonlight
The film’s editor, Joi McMillon, became the first black woman to be nominated for an editing Oscar, alongside co-editor Nat Sanders.
Oscar Artists: Loring, Hope–Co-Writer of Wings (1937), First Best Picture Oscar
Loring, alongside with husband Lighton, was nominated for the Best Screenplay of Wings, the first winner of the Best Picture Oscar, in 1929.
Oscar: Best Picture–Literary Origins–Good Movies Come From……
Best Picture Oscar–Literary Origins, or Good Movies Come From……
MTV Movie & TV Awards 2019: Telecast Has Smallest Audience
The 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards telecast on Monday night saw its smallest audience in at four years, falling sharply from the 2018 kudocast.
Oscar Movies (2010): 127 Hours–Six Nominations, including Best Picture
Danny Boyle’s fact-based survival adventure, 127 Hours, starring James Franco, was nominated for six Oscar, including Best Picture (but not Best Director).
Reds (1981): Warren Beatty’s Lavish Epic, Starring Diane Keaton, Himself, Jack Nicholson
In 1981, the British sports melodrama “Chariots of Fire,” was the surprise winner of the Best Picture Oscar, with seven nominations and four awards. Warren Beatty's semi-successful epic “Reds,” which received the largest number of nominations (12), won two Oscars: Best Director for Beatty and Supporting Actress for Maureen Stapleton.
Oscar Directors: Arcand, Denys (Decline of the American Empire, The Barbarian Invasions
His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2003.
Oscar Artists: Ryskind, Morrie–Nominated Screenwriter (Stage Door,
Morrie Ryskind (October 20, 1895 – August 24, 1985) Ryskind was born in New York City, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Ida (Edelson) and Abraham Ryskind. He attended Columbia University but was suspended shortly before he was due to graduate after he called university president Nicholas Murray Butler “Czar Nicholas” in the pages of […]
Oscar Actors: Dunne, Irene–Five-Time Oscar Nominee
Irene Dunne was nominated five times for the Best Actress Oscar, but had never won.
