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| | |  Academy Award for Directing: Encyclopedia II - Roman Polanski - Biography
Roman Polanski - Early life.
Raymond Roman Polański was born in Paris, France as Rajmund Liebling to Ryszard Polański (aka Ryszard Liebling), a Polish Jew, and Bula Polanska (née Katz), who was born in Russia to a Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother. In 1937 his family moved back to Poland, where they were eventually captured and imprisoned by the Nazis, along with millions of other Polish Jews. His mother died in an Auschwitz concentration camp, but Polański avoided incarceration there, esc ...
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| | | | Academy Award for Directing: Encyclopedia II - Stagecoach film - Awards and honors
Stagecoach film - Winner.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Thomas Mitchell)
Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring (Richard Hageman, W. Franke Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Director (John Ford)
Stagecoach film - Nominated.
Academy Award for Best Picture
Academy Award for Directing (John Ford)
Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Alexander Toluboff)
Academy A ...
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| | | | Academy Award for Directing: Encyclopedia II - All Quiet on the Western Front - Themes There are many central themes in the book. Among them is that war is total nonsense. For example, none of the characters have ever seen a Frenchman before the war, much less have reason to kill them, but that is now what they are doing. Some of the soldiers ponder how the war was started, what is it for, and who it benefits. Nobody has any answers.
All Quiet on the Western Front - The horror of war.
The main theme in All Quiet on the Western Front is the brutality of war. The archetypical war novel ...
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| | | | Academy Award for Directing: Encyclopedia II - American Beauty 1999 film - Themes Though the movie is about an American family, it has a universal appeal and is just as applicable to anyone in any country as much as it does to an American. People like Lester or people leading to his state can be seen all around and within us, at least in parts. When Lester says "I want a job with the least amount of responsibility", while applying for a counter job at a Burger joint, he epitomises a person who is thoroughly frustrated and not grown up enough to take advice regarding assuming ...
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| | | | Academy Award for Directing: Encyclopedia II - Bob Fosse - Career He was born in Chicago, Illinois as Robert Louis Fosse, which he shortened to Bob Fosse for his professional work. His career in dance began early. At age 13 he toured with his own dance act, The Riff Brothers, and was already choreographing by the time he was 15. He first appeared in film dancing in Give A Girl A Break and Kiss Me, Kate, both released in 1953.
Fosse developed a jazz dance style that was immediately recognizable, exuding a stylised, cynical sexuality. Bowler hats, fishnet stockings, canes a ...
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| | | | Academy Award for Directing: Encyclopedia II - Apocalypse Now - Synopsis U.S. Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard is stationed in Saigon; a seasoned veteran, he is deeply troubled and apparently no longer fit for civilian life. A group of intelligence officers approach him with a special mission up-river into the remote Cambodian jungle to find Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, a former member of the United States Army Special Forces.
They state that Kurtz, once considered a model officer and future general, has apparently gone insane and is commanding a legion of his own Montagnard troops deep in neutral Cambodia. Th ...
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| | | | Academy Award for Directing: Encyclopedia II - The Sound of Music - 1961 London production The London production opened at the Palace Theatre on May 18, 1961 and ran for 2385 performances. Jean Bayless played Maria , Roger Dann played Captain Von Trapp and Constance Shacklock was the Mother Abbess.
The Sound of Music - 1965 film.
The film, which was released in 1965, was named Best Picture of the Year. Robert Wise won an Academy Award for Directing for the film, which stars Julie Andrews as Maria and Christopher Plummer (who dismissed the movie as "Sound of Mucus" [1]) as Captain von Trap ...
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| | | | Academy Award for Directing: Encyclopedia II - Apocalypse Now - Synopsis U.S. Army Captain Benjamin L. Willard is stationed in Saigon; a seasoned veteran, he is deeply troubled and apparently no longer fit for civilian life. A group of intelligence officers approach him with a special mission up-river into the remote Cambodian jungle to find Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, a former member of the United States Army Special Forces.
They state that Kurtz, once considered a model officer and future general, has apparently gone insane and is commanding a legion of his own Montagnard troops deep in neutral Cambodia. Th ...
See also:Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Now - Background, Apocalypse Now - Synopsis, Apocalypse Now - Redux, Apocalypse Now - Alternate Endings, Apocalypse Now - Literary Differences, Apocalypse Now - Cultural Influences, Apocalypse Now - Film:, Apocalypse Now - Television:, Apocalypse Now - Music:, Apocalypse Now - Video Games:, Apocalypse Now - Literature:, Apocalypse Now - Primary cast, Apocalypse Now - Quotes Read more here: » Apocalypse Now: Encyclopedia II - Apocalypse Now - Synopsis |
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