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Academy Award for Best Actor
The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. With two early exceptions, each year's prize is for an actor's performance in a single film. In 1928 and 1930, actors were able to be nominated for their work in more... More »
It Happened One Night
''It Happened One Night'' is a 1934 romantic comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter . The plot was based on the story ''Night Bus'' by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. One oddity is the title: the movie takes place over several nights and none is particularly key to the plot. More »
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)
''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' is a 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman. The film is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Ken Kesey. The movie was the first to win all five major Academy Awards since ''It Happened One Night'' in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991, by ''The Silence of the Lambs''. The movie was filmed at Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon. More »
The Silence of the Lambs (film)
''The Silence of the Lambs'' is a 1991 Academy Award-winning film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. It is based on the novel by Thomas Harris, his second to feature Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. In the film, Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, is sent to see the imprisoned Lecter in order to ask his expert advice on catching a serial killer given the name Buffalo Bill, who is abducting women and... More »
Sergeant York
:''For the unsuccessful U.S. weapon system, see M247 Sergeant York.'' ''Sergeant York'' is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Sergeant Alvin York, the most decorated American soldier of World War I. It stars Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly, Ward Bond, Noah Beery, Jr., June Lockhart and Dickie Moore. It was directed by Howard Hawks, and was the highest-grossing film of the year. More »
Raging Bull
''Raging Bull'' is a 1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from the memoir ''Raging Bull: My Story''. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, a temperamental and paranoid but tenacious boxer who alienates himself from his friends and family. Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci as Joey, La Motta's brother and manager, and Cathy Moriarty as his abused wife. The film features strong supporting roles from Nicholas Colasanto , Theresa Saldana... More »
Life Is Beautiful
''Life Is Beautiful'' is a 1997 Italian language film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who lives in his own romantic fairy tale world, but must learn how to use his fertile imagination to help his son survive their internment in a Nazi concentration camp. More »
On the Waterfront
''On the Waterfront'' is an Oscar-winning American 1954 film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen, and it has become a standard of its kind. The film was written by Budd Schulberg and directed by Elia Kazan; it stars Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film deals with social issues, such as poverty and homelessness, which paralleled the emerging organization of labour. More »
Ben-Hur (1959 film)
''Ben-Hur'' is a 1959 epic film directed by William Wyler, and is the most popular live-action version of Lew Wallace's novel, ''Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ'' . It stars Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur and Stephen Boyd as Messala. It premiered at Loews Theater in New York City on November 18, 1959. The film went on to win eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, a feat equaled only by ''Titanic'' and ''The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King'' . More »
The Bridge on the River Kwai
''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' is an Academy Award-winning 1957 World War II war film based on the novel ''Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï'' by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is fictive, but uses the historical construction of the Burma Railway in 1942-43 as its setting. It was directed by David Lean and stars Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins and William Holden. More »
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