Academy Award for Best Director

Moviegoers and film industry professionals as one of the greatest awards to receive praise the Academy Awards. Every year the Academy has to make a hard decision and choose the best of the best of that year. One of the most sought after awards is Best Picture. In 2014 the movie Birdman won, but should it have? One of the films that was also in the Best Picture category was Whiplash. This paper will compare and contrast the two films and look at why Birdman won and Whiplash did not. First lets…

appeals to one’s emotions very well is a backwards video of a child sliding down a slide. They use this child to significant effect. He has a massive smile as he goes down and up this slide and the powerful narration over it adds to the effect. The best part of this advertisement in relation to pathos would be the ending. In the last ten second of the ad, it quickly shuffles through different clips. A man running on a roof, a ledge, and the side of a building, to a man flying in the sky after…

through a great mathematician’s experience with fantasy world and real world. Although the movie A Beautiful Mind focuses on the symptoms of schizophrenia and glosses over a schizophrenic mathematician’s life, it is an excellent movie because of the awards it received, the powerful deep dialogues, and the portrayal of a person’s internal struggle for happiness. John Nash, mathematician who was considered the brightest mind of the future, starts his complicated yet determined life when he…

The Piano (1993) by Jane Campion How vulnerable can a woman be when indulging in her passions? In life, as in nature, it is not possible to see beyond the horizon. When, followed by her young daughter Flora, Ada McGrath, a strong-willed and self-sufficient Scottish widow, mute for having willed herself not to speak, arrives in New Zealand as an imported bride for an arranged marriage to a land-grabber named Alisdair Stewart; she certainly could never have imagined what the final outcome would be…

Even though the film is two decades old, the quality and the camera works of it is something comparable to today’s film industry. In fact, it was awarded for “best picture” for the 67th Academic Awards hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The cinematography of the film was very well programmed. A great example of this is at the beginning of the movie when Forrest first appeared on screen; the cinematographers used of the technique of zoom shot to shoot from high above and…

The movie Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, tells the story of general Maximus (played by Russell Crowe) that stands against crazy Emperor (played by Joaquiem Phoenix) is considered to be one of the best historical movies in modern history. However, as it goes in historic movies, Gladiator is showing the audience the popular recitation period and masks the real perception and the real course of government. It is true that most of the changes made in the movie could only strengthen the…

to the Academy Awards, A.K.A. the Oscars, in 2007. After early screenings with journalists and one at the Cannes festival, DreamGirls was widely deemed an Oscar frontrunner. It went on to be ranked 4th on the American Film Institute 's Best of 2006 list and won 3 out of 5 Golden Globes, including Best Picture-Comedy or Musical, Best Supporting Actor (Murphy) and Best Supporting Actress (Hudson). It also received nods and trophies from the Screen Actors Guild, the Producers and Directors Guild…

Jennifer Vo Thelma and Louise is a story about two women who decide to go on a trip, but it does not go as planned. The premise is a classic adventure story about friends who plan a great adventure; however, they hit bumps in the road, but the problems they endure help them define themselves. In the three act breakdown, act I is the planning of the trip to taking off on the trip, act II is the runaway from all their troubles, which leads to act III Thelma and Louise tries to escape and their…

As much as a happy ending may seem desirable and promising to a person, a happy ending cannot always be plausible. Ironically, however, a somewhat unhappy ending in a novel is what can oftentimes create truly great and memorable literature. In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a happy ending gets further and further out of reach as the novel progresses. Many of the conflicts that arise reach a point where they can never truly be resolved. Yes, fortunately, the boys who were stranded on…

As times change, values and ideas often change as they are invariably shaped by their context. However, some remain constant throughout time and are universal. The 1592 Shakespearean drama Richard III and Al Pacino 's 1995 docu-drama Looking for Richard [LFR] were written four hundred years apart yet both texts address perpetual values and ideas that are common to both eras. Through a simultaneous study of both texts, the responder is able to understand the influence of context on aspects of the…