Oscar Directors: Sautet, Claude, French Filmmaker and Oscar Nominee (Cesar and Rosalie, A Simple Story, both Starring Romy Schneider)
Claude Sautet (February 23, 1924–July 22, 2000) was an Oscar nominated French film director and screenwriter. Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a TV producer. His first movie, Hello Smile! (Bonjour Sourire) was released in 1956. […]
Beinex, Jean-Jacques: French Director of Diva and Betty Blue, Dies at 75
French director, who achieved international fame with the arthouse classics Diva and Betty Blue, Dies at 75. Beineix was born October 8, 1946; he died January 13, 2022. Jean-Jacques Beineix in 2006. Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images French director Jean-Jacques Beineix, who burst upon the international scene with the 1981 chic thriller Diva, has died after […]
Oscar Directors: Stone, Oliver–Background, Career, Awards–Draft
Platoon won rave reviews, large audiences, and Oscar Awards for Best Picture and Best Director
Directors: Richard Oswald’s Filmography (Different from the Others (1919), First Pro-Gay Film Ever Made (Gal Identity, Paragraph 175)
Partially funded the production through his Institute for Sexual Science, the film was intended as polemic against the then-current laws under Germany’s “Paragraph 175,” which made homosexuality a criminal offense.
Oscar Actors: Shearer, Norma–Background, Career, Awards
Norma Shearer was the first person to be nominated five times for the Best Actress Oscar, winning the award for her performance in The Divorcee (1930).
Movie Stars: Lanza, Mario–Singer, Actor, Star
At the height of his career, Lanza was voted by exhibitors as being among the most popular stars in the country:
Cukor, George: Hollywood Best Actor Director–Constance Bennett, Our Betters (1933)
Our Betters, a farce about a free-spirited American social climber, is the only Somerset Maugham play Cukor directed, despite close friendship.
Hollywood 2022: Directors to Watch–Mariama Diallo, Master
Raiff: Cooper Raiff; Diallo: Nechama Leitner; Gyllenhaal: Gareth Cattermole Since 1997, Variety has been selecting an annual list of 10 helmers who stand out from the crowd, breakthrough storytellers we expect to go far. Past honorees have won major studio productions (Denis Villeneuve, Christopher Nolan), Oscars (Barry Jenkins, Steve McQueen) and even the Cannes Fest […]
Hollywood 2022: Directors to Watch–Aitch Alberto, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Raiff: Cooper Raiff; Diallo: Nechama Leitner; Gyllenhaal: Gareth Cattermole Since 1997, Variety has been selecting an annual list of 10 helmers who stand out from the crowd, breakthrough storytellers we expect to go far. Past honorees have won major studio productions (Denis Villeneuve, Christopher Nolan), Oscars (Barry Jenkins, Steve McQueen) and even the Cannes Fest […]
Connery, Sean: Memorable Performances–Photos and Trailers
Sean Connery: Memorable Roles The star played Agent 007 in seven James Bond films and earned the 1987 Best Supporting Actor Oscar. MGM-UA/Photofest Fans around the world are mourning the death of Sean Connery. Connery died peacefully in his sleep overnight in the Bahamas where he lived. The actor was born as Thomas Sean Connery on […]
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