Academy Award for Best Picture

The two brothers have worked together on creating an award winning sense of humor through the stories of their characters, most of whom are trapped in worlds that are often tinged, unforgiving, and daunting universes. Since 1984, the Coen brothers have directed more than 15 films of diverse genres ranging from adventure, romance, drama, gangster, thriller, horror, crime, apocalyptic, as well as comedy. They have been honored with 13 Academy Award nominations for directing, producing, writing,…

said about Welles involvement in the making of the film, citing on the fact that he was well-known as a director, producer, writer, and actor in his own right. And the fact that he won an Academy Award eight years before for writing and Original Screenplay for Citizen Kane, and nominated for Best Director and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Citizen Kane. The versatile Welles often narrated numerous films like The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) and Duel in the Sun (1946), but he can also be seen…

film received five Academy Award nominations and Natalie Portman won the Best Actress award for the film, as well as many other Best Actress awards in several guilds and festivals. In addition, Darren Aronofsky was nominated for Best Director and the film itself received a nomination for Best Picture. Thirty-one awards is the number that this film received. Natalie Portman won Best Actress for being Nina Sayers on Academy Award in 2011, Golden Globe Award in 2011, BAFTE Award in a Leading Role…

In William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Award Speech, Faulkner reflected on how a young writer needs to learn the true concept of the universal truths. Faulkner believed that if a story does not include the use of these truths, it is essentially doomed (Faulkner 872). They have been around since the beginning of the existence of humans, and they will continue to endure until the end. Writers have created stories throughout history, and these evident universal truths have and will stay the same from…

All of us have opinions from whether we like our coffee hot or iced to who we want to be president. We often try to persuade others that our opinions are superior to theirs. But how far would you go to convince someone that your opinion is the right one to have? Would you burn someone’s opinion in a furnace? That is what Charles McCarthy did to a book that he did not want students in his school district to be reading. In response, the author, Kurt Vonnegut, wrote a letter titled, I Am Very Real…

Universal Pictures is One of the biggest movie producers out there,and they have made and remade many of their most iconic movies since their beginning in 1912. One of those movies is the 1932 Horror Film “The Mummy” starring one of the greatest actors of all time, Boris Karloff. It even won an academy award for best film in science fiction, horror, and suspense. Due to its success, a remake was bound to happen. In 1999 universal studios did not disappoint when it released “The Mummy” starring…

The Academy Awards or most commonly known as the Oscars, is considered to be the most prestigious award giving body in the world of movies. It was first presented in 1929, making it the oldest entertainment awards ceremony and last February 26th of 2017, the 89th Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Dolby Theater and it is hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. It was televised not just throughout the US, but to more than 200 countries all over the world. The twenty-four artistic and technical awards are…

Million Dollar Baby is an inspirational film. Directed and filmed by Clint Eastwood in 2004, Million Dollar Baby is a motivational film featuring a young women living in the lower class who follows her passion for boxing. Part of the reason I believe it was a good film was since it was a comeback movie. It started with a thirty-one year old waitress named Maggie Fitzgerald who comes from a lower class family in which they do not all get along well. Maggie Fitzgerald has a passion to one day…

Saving Private Ryan is an award winning 1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg that documented D-Day on June 6, 1944 and the atrocities the men in battle went through. The film received 5 Oscars, 74 other rewards, and was nominated for another 74 awards. The film has also been appraised by Royal Marines that played as extras in the film and after the release of the film in 1998 the number of people that visited the American cemetery at St. Laurent increased due to the graphic content that was…

The Screwball Comedy The man Godfrey is a comedy film made in 1936, directed by La Cava, starring William Powell and Carole Lombard. The movie won Six Academy Awards nominations including Gregory La Ca as the best director. As a memorable and valuable film, it was selected by the united state's library of Congress for preservation in the US national registry. The film utilizes the genre -screwball- to build on its plot. Keywords; screwball, the man Godfrey Screwball comedy Screwball appeared in…