Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

the Robert Award for Best Foreign Film. Pakula also produced Sophie’s Choice along with Keith Barish, William C. Gerrity, and Martin Starger. Leading cast members included Meryl Streep as Sophie, Kevin Kline as Nathan and Peter MacNicol as narrator Stingo. Most notable, Meryl Streep was acclaimed for her captivating performance in Sophie’s Choice, winning both an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. The film was also recognized through nominations in aspects such as Best…

Unforgiven- The real protagonist, the suppression of feminine and the dominant individual. “Western heroes are normally masculine persons of integrity and principle- courageous, moral, tough, solid and self sufficient, maverick characters, possessing an independent and honorable attitude.”- Bill Nichols Westerns are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a nostalgic eulogy to the early days of the expansive, untamed American frontier (the borderline between…

Although a flop during commercial release in the US in its day, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West is now generally acknowledged as a masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made, regardless of genre. What made me select it for this assignment is the haunting sound of the harmonica in one of its key scenes, sheer brilliance in blending the visual and the auditory into one of the most poignant moments in movie history. Once Upon a Time in the West is a 1968 spaghetti western film.…

It is an inherent element in the world of organized crime. When you owe money to a legitimate company and you don’t pay, they send you notices and reminders with due dates and eventually it could go to collections. Organized crime sees violence as a way to avoid all of this. If you owe them money and you don’t pay, when they catch you they will beat you up or worse, make an example out of you and kill you. Basically violence is used as a means to an end for these people. The main problem of…

I wrote my paper on the 2016 film Moonlight that won best picture at the 2017 Golden Globes as well as the Academy Award for best picture, and best-supporting actor as well as best adapted screen play. Moonlight is a coming of age story about Chiron who is a child figuring out who he is. He is from the ghettos of Miami called Liberty City. In Act 1, You find out Chiron is alone in the world and his mom is crack addict who buys crack from a man named Juan who is the neighborhood drug boss and…

When you hear adjectives such as multimedia mogul, multi-talented, transcending, illuminating, generous, abused, self-hating, and beloved, who comes to mind? Ms. Oprah Gail Winfrey embodies all of these adjectives and much more. Oprah was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi to single parent, Vernita Lee. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001856/bio. Many people will be surprised to know that Oprah Gail Winfrey was originally supposed to have the name, “Or-pah” from “Ruth” in the Bible;…

The reason for this thesis was that the movie industry seems to have no space for women socializing with each other on screen. Sweden is the first country drawing attention to this fact with the help of the Bechdel test, which points out if a movie has (1) at least two named women in it, (2) who talk to each other, (3) about something besides men. Germany has not introduced the Bechdel test to its cinemas. That is why this paper deals with the problem statement: To what extent can the Bechdel…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…