Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The crowd fell silent as the winner was announced for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. “What is this film that just won?” many might have asked themselves while others wondered, “Really, how can this be?” The votes were split; at least this is the idea of John P. McCarthy. The film Departures received many different reactions. Most seem to believe that the film was deserving of the Academy Award while some have contrasting opinions. While both Philip Kennicott and John McCarthy agree that Departures

Moment Lenses Invitational Short Film Festival is over and there's an official winner. Selecting eleven mobile filmmakers to compete in a film festival style competition, viewers voted for their favorite and the winner was quite unexpected .... even for Moment. After months of filmmaking, 1 epic premiere night, and 2 weeks of voting, we have a winner! 74,000 votes were cast for The People’s Choice... that could fill a large stadium. It was a close race, but one film came out on top and we happened

new information that is why decide to pick a culture with which my background is scarce. I selected to watch a foreign movie called Fearless, also known as Jet Li’s Fearless in the United States. My decision to watch a movie is I enjoy the proficiency to learn from films. I have never watched a foreign film so I was intrigued to experience one. I was not sure what to expect with a foreign movie, except I would have to read subtitles. I imagined the movie would have issues and situation that I could

The Academy Awards (or the Oscars) represent the biggest back-slapping event in the movie-making calendar. It’s where the great and the good turn up in the hope of getting their hands on a 13½ inches tall and 8½ pounds figurine. For the chosen they’re worth more than their weight in gold plating. Ever since the first ceremony back in 1929, the awards have come to symbolize the very best of the industry. And yet they don’t actually do that. Here are 10 reasons why the Oscars are silly and pointless

The first film to have obtained 14 Academy Award nominations, a record at the Academy, was “All About Eve” (1950), a movie that is about actors and Hollywood loves rewarding itself. Then, that record was only tied when the blockbuster “Titanic” (1997) came along. But with the recent annunciation of the 2016 Oscar nominations this past Tuesday, 01/24, “La La Land” (2016) has joined the selective group. “La La Land” the jazz-infused musical itself does have merits to be a grand spectacle that not

At the 89th Academy Awards, the Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi, won his second Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. His first win for A Separation (2012) was a monumental moment as he became the first Iranian to win an Oscar. But his second award for The Salesman (2016) positioned Farhadi next to the names of Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman in a shortlist of double-winning foreign filmmakers. Farhadi wasn't present at the ceremony to accept his career-defining award. But his absence

In 1993, Schindler’s List won Best Picture from the Academy Awards. Steven Spielberg not only directed the movie, but helped produce it as well. Spielberg won his first Oscar for Best Director for Schindler’s List, an award that had eluded him in the past. He managed to acquire the rights to direct the film from Martin Scorsese in exchange for the rights to direct Cape Fear (1991), (New York Times, 1991). Branko Lustig, a producer for Schindler’s List, tracked down Spielberg and pleaded to him to

Zeffirelli. The film studio or distributor was Paramount Pictures. The film was released in 1968. The main characters were Romeo who was played by Leonard Whiting and Juliet who was played by Olivia Hussey. Other characters where Juliet's Nurse who was played by Pat Heywood and Mercutio who was played by John McEnery and also Tybalt who was played by Michael York. William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and an Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The 1968 film Romeo and Juliet showed some of the best cinematography of its day winning up to nine awards for its greatness. The film is based of the play Romeo and Juliet published in 1597 by the great Renaissance writer William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, the two main characters Romeo and Juliet are played by Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey who were both new actors when the movie was first directed. The two new actors and the movie would be a complete success

La Strada (The Road) is a 1954 Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini from his own screenplay co-written with Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. The film portrays a naïve young woman (Giulietta Masina) bought from her mother by a brutish strongman (Anthony Quinn) who takes her with him on the road, encounters with his rival the Fool (Richard Basehart) and ends with their destruction. It stars Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina, Anthony Quinn as Zampanò, and Richard Basehart as Il Matto,