Best Actor Award

The movie got a Best Picture nomination. The next year Capra worked with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert on the comedy “It Happened One Night”. The movie received five Oscars – Best Director, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress. Capra went on to win a second Oscar for Best Director for the movie “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” starring Gary Cooper in 1936. In 1938 he got a third Best Director Oscar for “You Can’t Take It With You” starring…

Film award ceremonies are a commonplace in New York City. Winter Film Awards, WFA, is among many of the film festivals that New York hosts. WFA is a nonprofit, volunteer-run organization that was created with a special purpose in mind back in 2011. This organization highlights the beauty in diversity as well as women. WFA wanted to be a different kind of awards festival with their unique social and cultural origins. WFA strives to create a social setting where people from all different…

Hollywood is such a competitive place, actors’ jobs are simply to make movies and such, however, this is not exactly a stable job. The Hollywood limelight is such a competitive place, unfortunately, some people who actually have what it takes to make it big, don't get their chance simply because, there are some who are really just more famous, but just because they're famous, doesn't mean they're exceptionally talented. When people talk about great actors, they would immediately think of Tom…

Over a hundred people were involved in the production of this film. The entire cast and crew are not given equal credit in most films. The majority of the camera crew and other production workers are not given as much credit for their work as the actors and director/producers, even though they play a huge role in the development and production of the movie. The making of a huge blockbuster like ‘The Departed’ involves the use of an immense crew. There is a large-scale division of labor as there…

Essay Title Top Gun: One of the Best Naval Aviation Movies Ever Made “I feel the need, the need for speed”, a great movie line from the movie Top Gun uttered by Tom Cruise (Cash & Epps, 1986). Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986) is an example of one of the best movies ever made that depicts Navy aviation at its finest. The film was directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures (Cash & Epps, 1986). The screenplay was written by Jim…

forty-eight hours on a road trip to Vegas with our best friends in the back of a car without AC on the hottest weekend of the year. Had we known fully what to expect, we probably wouldn’t have done it. But it became a learning curve. And it created a community of filmmakers that regardless of obstacles, went for it and relied on each other. It’s become a festival darling winning it’s fourteenth award and getting twenty nominations. Is it the best film ever made? Absolutely not, but it was a…

entertains an audience.” (source3) With this, anyone could be a performer, however when defining what makes a performer one of the best performers there is, the criteria becomes far more complex. Being considered one of the best performers goes beyond being able to merely entertain an audience. The only performer presently that meets and exceeds the standards for being one of the best performers is artist Beyoncé. Beyoncé not only “entertains an audience”, she puts on a grand spectacular show at…

On the evening of October 1, 2015, I attended the play One Man 2 Guvnors, written by Richard Bean and directed by David Smith-English. The standout actors were Jayson Shanafelt, playing Francis Henshall, and Alex Fox, playing Stanley Stubbers. One Man 2 Guvnors takes place in 1963, Europe. In the play Francis Henshall is first employed by Annie Rimmer, but because he is starving and in desperate need of more money he is unable to refuse Stanley Subbers job offer with up front pay. From this…

culturally represented turns them into a “monster” (goodreads.com). So, how does that apply to the media, specifically, Hollywood film? Recently there has been a growing outcry over the lack of complex minority experiences in award-winning films. As a result, more Black actors and actresses have been nominated in their respective categories. However, the same cannot be said for South Asians and Hispanics, who struggle to find movies where they are being accurately portrayed on-screen. The…

Imperfect movies: example Dogma 95 – The Idiots and other perfect imperfections. Are planned imperfect movies still imperfect? Rankings and Top 100's of the best movies of all time are very popular. Many sites on the internet offer statistics and numbers about box office takings and cinema attendance. But not only numbers are important. Besides questions of taste, there are a few characteristics for a successful movie. Costumes, camera handling, scenery and acting are just a few of this…