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Director Delbert Mann’s simple, kind-hearted and affecting 1955 drama triumphed at the 1956 Academy Awards, winning four of the most important Oscars, including Best Picture for producer Harold Hecht and Best Actor for Ernest Borgnine. Borgnine […]
Director Elia Kazan’s first film concerned with personal and social issues was his 1947 triple Oscar-winning film dealing with anti-Semitism in America. It won the Best Picture and Best Director awards and was as successful as […]
ALL TALKING! ALL SINGING! ALL DANCING! Director Harry Beaumont’s 1929 movie is the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the first musical to win Best Picture Oscar. It is also the first MGM musical […]
Writer-director Robert Rossen’s 1949 drama stars Broderick Crawford, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as decent but ambitious Southern politician Willie Stark. But he loses his scruples climbing up the ladder to political success as […]
Co-writer/director Bernardo Bertolucci’s magnificent 1987 movie The Last Emperor about the last imperial ruler of China was a much-deserved world-wide triumph for him and his brave and ambitious British producer, Jeremy Thomas. The Last Emperor won nine […]
Director Norman Jewison’s stupendous 1967 detective thriller In the Heat of the Night showcases Rod Steiger’s storming Oscar-winning performance as racist bigot Southern sheriff Police Chief Bill Gillespie and Sidney Poitier’s distinguished, graceful performance as […]
Director Wesley Ruggles’s creaky but still rewarding 1931 Western film Cimarron is a triple Oscar-winner for Best Picture, as well as Best Adapted Screenplay (Howard Estabrook) and Art Direction (Max Rée). It is remarkable as […]