52nd British Academy Film Awards

He was born in Syracuse, New York, and spent a majority of his childhood moving across the country. By the age of nineteen, he received his first acting job for the movie Endless Love. From there, his celebrity fame shot forward to win thirty-nine awards and over seventy nominations. Later in his acting career, Tom Cruise began showing odd behaviors that the paparazzi indulged into papers. His symptoms began with delusions, paranoia, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors. Through these…

suggestive style stems from his time dancing in clubs during his younger years. He frequently dressed his dancers in black with white gloves and hats. Fosse received his first Tony for this show. His second musical, “Damn Yankees,” earned him many more awards and was his first musical with his third wife, Gwen Verdon, a big broadway star, and the mother to his daughter, Nicole. After having several instances when he disagreed with directors because his style was not very proper, he began…

Roy Horner (1953 – 2015) was an Academy and Golden Globe award-winning American composer; conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was mostly known for the vocal and electronic elements in many of his film scores. Horner was also a respected composer of concert music before he started writing film scores. His first major film score was for the film "The Lady in Red," but he did not establish himself as a well known film composer until he worked on the 1982 film "Star Trek II: The Wrath of…

He reads the note while he grabs his uneaten turkey off his plate and feeds it to Grace. At the sight of food Grace sits up. MORRIS I can’t believe you taught Grace new tricks. Sandy looks at Morris. SANDY I wanted to surprise you when you came home from flying for the first time, but your surprise was much bigger. Morris smiles. He grabs a large chunk of turkey off his plate and feeds it to Grace. INT. HALLWAY - DAY Later. Morris walks down the hallway towards the front door. He holds…

An Emmy Award recognizes excellence in the television industry. It corresponds to the Grammy Award for music, the Academy Award, or the Oscar for film and the Tony Award for theatre. Winning all four is referred to as the grand slam or “EGOT” coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas who said his acronym originally stood for energy, growth, opportunity and talent. Only 12 people have achieved this. Directly off the Emmy website, The Emmy Awards were conceived in 1948 and its founding fathers…

From the Ku Klux Klan, to racially segregated schools, to the film industry, African Americans have always faced racism and prejudice. In early American film, black people were hardly treated as actors. Their roles were small, simple, and very insignificant. It wasn’t until the 1960s when African Americans began to have major roles in film and television. In these early years, African American actors were treated unjustly and hardly ever had the honor…

At first glance, Oskar's disloyalty to his wife Emilie and the fact that he has a wife, a mistress, and a girlfriend might seem like a relatively unimportant part of Schindler's List. Schindler’s disloyalty is very easily interpreted as a background context for the book, and for the purpose of giving Oskar personality traits. Disloyalty is obviously a bad characteristic, but it’s possible we could empathise with Schindler now, because he is a flawed person, which is realistic and gives him a…

Sex has been used to sell products in American culture for decades. The alluring promiscuity of sexuality often involves exploiting women for their appearance. The first section of this analysis examines sexuality in the media. The notion that sex sells is typified in the Ralph Lauren perfume advertisement. A beautiful and blond woman is seen being kissed by a handsome young, male. The romantic ad catches the readers’ eyes, yet something is missing entirely from the advertisement: a…

some people were ecstatic for it while others not so much. Since talkies came out it no longer needed music throughout the showing.Which around that time wasn’t very good because America was about to go into The Great Depression. As stated, “Talking films also hurt the careers of the many orchestra musicians who provided the live score to many of the original silent movies.The speech and voices of certain actors also proved to be a difficult hurdle for many studios to overcome”(Talking Motion…

Writing about this topic was very difficult for me, I can recall as if it was yesterday my fourth grade teacher Ms. Williams requesting a meeting with my parents to discuss my poor academic performance in her class. I remember her saying that I was one of those students who have fallen through the cracks of a failed system. She informed my parents that she had been teaching for over 25 years, and from her experience, she believes that I was dyslexic, both of my parents had no idea what the word…