72nd Academy Awards

landscapes and backboards for us, the ultimate image also known as the mise-en-scene. My favorite film of all time is Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump will go down in history as one of the greatest films ever made. This film was nominated for thirteen Academy Awards,

had several award nominations including a Golden Globe. In 2010 she received her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born on August 12, 1990. She has two older brothers, Blaine and Ben. Growing up Jennifer lived on a farm outside Louisville, Kentucky. She lived with her mom Karen, her dad, Gary, and her two older brothers. Jennifer was an athletic child. She was involved in cheerleading, field hockey, softball. She also acted in

24 June 2009 Paper I: Marlee Matlin - Deaf Actress, Cultural Icon Marlee Beth Matlin was born on August 24, 1965 in Morton Grove, Illinois to Libby and Donald Matlin. She is the youngest and the only female of three children. She is an Academy Award winning actress and a world renowned spokesperson for various organizations. Marlee lives in the greater Los Angeles area with her husband, law enforcement officer Kevin Grandalski, and their four children, Sarah, Brandon, Tyler and Isabelle. These

At the 90th Academy Awards, or simply the Oscars, the typical fanfares were underway as many celebrities graced the red carpet and prepared themselves for an evening filled with cinema’s best films of the year. From Call Me By Your Name’s heartrending reminder of love and loss to Lady Bird’s all too familiar coming-of-age, there were many amazing movies this year. Yet of all the great contestants for Best Picture, none surpass Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, a film about a mother angered

of the most legendary and esteemed composer and music conductor in present time. The Lord of the Rings is his most well known compositions and has been the best of his achievements in his entire career. This trilogy alone has earned him three academy awards. This three-part trilogy cost a whopping $300 million dollars. The setting for his music was placed in Middle Earth, and Shore had to write music for Hobbits, Dwarfs, Elves and all the other creatures belonging to Tolkien’s fantasy world. At

man stranded alone on an island. In the 90-year history of the academy awards he is one of five performers to win consecutive academy awards (Oscars Firsts and Other Trivia). Mr. Hanks won his first academy award for best actor in 1993, for his portrayal of a man with HIV who is fired because of his condition, Philadelphia was the first major motion picture to bring attention to the AIDS epidemic. Next Mr. Hanks followed up his award-winning role in Philadelphia with his role in Forrest Gump in 1994

hear, with the use of special effects all are components that are edited and added to the film in a unique way to create a good story. The movie to be analysis is the film Forrest Gump with editor, Arthur Schmidt, he won an Oscar at the 67th academy awards for best film editing. Arthur Schmidt had three responsibilities as an editor in the film, which are spatial relationship, temporal relationship, and rhythm. However, there is a particular scene in the movie that stood out with a good example

TRUDY CHACON Trudy Chacon, portray by Michelle Rodrigues, was a confident SecOps pilot for the RDA. Her primary task was to pilot a Samson that was used for transportation and for battle. She lived in Pandora when she first appeared in the movie and had already been serving for the RDA two years when she met Jake Sulley. Shortly after she met Jake she was thrust into leadership role in the take down of the RDA. Trudy also flew the trio to a temporary science station in the Hallelujah Mountains

In the film The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont the purpose of the beginning sequence is to introduce us to Andy Dufresne and his situation; being accused of the murder of his wife and her lover. This sequence uses lighting, music, sound and camera work to show us Andy’s struggle. A production aspect that shows us this idea is lighting. Low Key Lighting is used in the scene when we see Andy in his car drinking bourbon and loading his hand gun. Low Key Lighting is when the lighting

Shawshank Redemption Essay Question 8: Analyse how specific techniques were used to portray inspiring ideas in a visual; or oral text. Directed by Frank Darabont, The Shawshank Redemption tells the Story of Andy Dufrane, a man who has been wrongly convicted of murder and must endure life inside the harsh and corrupt Shawshank prison, but despite this he never loses hope of finding freedom. Hope is an important inspiring idea in this film, as it is what sustains him during the long and difficult