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The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999. Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1920s. This award was originally for Interior Decoration 1928 William Cameron Menzies - The Dove and Tempest Harry Oliver - Se ...

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• Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1920s
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1930s
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1940s
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1950s
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1960s
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1970s
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1980s
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1990s
• Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 2000s

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The film was re-released in 1967, 23 minutes shorter than the original release, and again in 1991, with those 23 minutes restored, plus an additional 14 minutes that had been cut from the film before its original release. That addition included several violent battle sequences as well as a bath scene in which the Roman patrician and general Crassus (played by Olivier), attempting to seduce his slave Antoninus (played by Curtis), uses the analogy of "eating oysters" and "eating snails" to express his opinion that sexual preference ...

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Spartacus film, Spartacus film - Versions, Spartacus film - Music, Spartacus film - I am Spartacus!, Spartacus film - Historical inaccuracies, Spartacus film - Awards and nominations

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Jem Finch is Scout's older brother. Jem undergoes crucial transformations in the work as he becomes a man. The trial of Tom Robinson is Jem's first real encounter with true evil, and the realization of its existence drives him into a sullen state. Prior to this, he had viewed the world innocently, thinking of people as one-sided. He viewed Boo Radley, for example, as a frightening figure. Jem was able to overcome his sullenness due to the strong presence of Atticus in his life, and became a bigger person as he achieved a greate ...

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To Kill a Mockingbird, To Kill a Mockingbird - Primary cast of the movie, To Kill a Mockingbird - Awards for the movie, To Kill a Mockingbird - Award nominations for the movie, To Kill a Mockingbird - Analysis of important characters, To Kill a Mockingbird - Trivia

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For 1957 films this award became a single award. 1957 Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley - Sayonara Hal Pereira, George W. Davis, Samuel M. Comer, Ray Moyer - Funny Face William A. Horning, Gene Allen, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle - Les Girls Walter Holscher, William Kiernan, Louis Diage - Pal Joey William A. Horning, Urie McCleary, Edwin B. Willis, Hugh Hunt - Raintree County 1958 William A. Horning, Preston Ames, Henry Grace, F. Keogh G ...

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Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1920s, Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1930s, Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1940s, Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1950s, Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1960s, Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1970s, Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1980s, Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 1990s, Academy Award for Best Art Direction - 2000s

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One famous scene of the movie has the recaptured slaves being asked to point out which one of them is Spartacus in exchange for leniency. Instead, they each proclaim themselves to be Spartacus and thus share his fate. A similar scene or event is sometimes called a Spartacus moment in reference to this particular scene. This has sometimes been misidentified as historical fact, notably by George Galloway, who identifies Spartacus as his hero. The line has spread to popular culure. This scene was featured in a Pepsi commerical. On Bash.org, #328 ...

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Spartacus film, Spartacus film - Versions, Spartacus film - Music, Spartacus film - I am Spartacus!, Spartacus film - Historical inaccuracies, Spartacus film - Awards and nominations

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The original score from Spartacus was composed and conducted by Alex North. It is considered one of his best works, and a textbook example of how modernistic compositional styles can be adapted to the Hollywood leitmotif technique. North's score is large and epic, as befits the scale of the film. Much of the music is written without a tonal center, or flirting with tonality in ways that most film composers wouldn't. North has one theme that he uses for both slavery and freedom, but they are given different values and therefore sound l ...

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Spartacus film, Spartacus film - Versions, Spartacus film - Music, Spartacus film - I am Spartacus!, Spartacus film - Historical inaccuracies, Spartacus film - Awards and nominations

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