Essays Tagged: "best picture"

Black Boy vs Grapes of Wrath

f starvation, the fishing story, the California police officer and the history of Californians. The best picture to describe was on the way to California, the Joad's encountered some people who have b ...

(2 pages) 33 0 3.7 Jun/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

"The Sound of Music".

ed and produced by Robert Wise, although he was not the first choice, he did indeed prove to be the best. Richard Rodgers wrote the music with the lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The music was arrange ... here it stayed on the circuit for more than four years. The film won five academy awards, including Best picture in 1966.The setting for the movie was to represent the late 1930's in Salzburg, Austria ...

(4 pages) 127 2 4.7 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Run Forest, Run.... Forest Gump

y Eric Roth, based on the Winston Groom novel. The picture won six Academy Awards in 1994 including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Tom Hanks who held the lead role. But still in which ... hey are just following the wind. And here is a good expression of Forest's mum: "You have to do the best with what God gave you." If you have something that is called a great desire in your heart than ...

(4 pages) 94 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Review of The Graduate

The Graduate is directed by Mike Nichols in 1967. The Graduate is one of the best looking films I've ever seen. It is also a film that won the Oscar for best director, was nomin ... the Oscar for best director, was nominated for best picture, and made the top tem list of A.F.I.'s best American films ever made.Regarding the film in late-60s political ideology, The Graduate is a d ...

(3 pages) 76 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Footy project

e camera will also need a motor drive so the photographers can take lots of pictures and choose the best picture. The photographer may need special film in case he is photographing a night game or a d ... e used a motor drive because if he wanted a great photo he may have took lots of them and chose the best one.-3-Most of the good photos are sold to the Herald Sun or another popular newspaper company ...

(3 pages) 27 0 2.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

How accurate is the film Gladiator. How much fiction is incorporated within the facts.

Gladiator is a wonderful story and won Best Picture in 2000. Even though the movie is so well done it does not mean that the story is histo ...

(2 pages) 37 1 4.7 Sep/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

The Godfather: A Summary and Review

in the case of The Godfather (1972). The film acquired ten Academy Award nominations and was named Best Picture. Since it's release, gangster movies have been judged by the standards of this one, unf ...

(4 pages) 117 1 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

All the Kings Men: Film review

g on the platform of reformations and the removal of corrupt political officials. This film won the best picture award in 1949. This movie was lightly based on the real life Louisiana governor, Huey L ... m to the same curse that Willie suffers, growing increasingly worst at the end of the movie, and is best summed up when Willie says "Conceived of man, Born of corruption". The curse of power th ...

(2 pages) 17 0 3.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"Braveheart" Movie Review

ntrol. Mel Gibson directs and stars in this movie. The film also won five academy awards; including best picture, director, cinematography, makeup as well as sound effects. The major theme through out ...

(2 pages) 36 1 4.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"Sense of humor" and the art of characterization are the two things that shine the prose quality of Addison and Steele, do I agree? Comment

eir manner but this desire loose their morality and they became fashionable .Their essays shows the best picture of the new social life of England.Sense of humor......they both are the social reformer ... a symbol of goodness and mercy, who is his imaginary friend Sir Roger, the church man who does his best to teach people to be regular and attracts them to their religion by his well behaviors with th ...

(6 pages) 21 1 3.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Rain Man, Autistic Savant

d A. Treffert, MD Raymond Babbitt, the main character in the movie RAIN MAN, has become the world's best known savant due to Dustin Hoffman's remarkably accurate and sensitive portrayal of Savant Synd ... s disorder. It is a memorable movie about a memorable savant. It won four academy awards, including Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman and Best Picture for 1988. I was pleased to have been a consultant to ...

(15 pages) 37 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Film Analysis Of Braveheart

ed by Mel Gibson, was released in 1995 and since then has won a total of 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture 1995 and Best Director Mel Gibson. Based on true history, Braveheart takes place in the ...

(4 pages) 32 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Warm Cinema

t oldie movies I can think of is The Sting. This is a brilliant movie, which won the 1973 Oscar for Best Picture. It stars Robert Redford and Paul Newman as a couple of con men from 1930's Chicago who ... ell. Hooker is a brash, impatient character who is just learning the ropes of the trick. One of his best scenes is when Hooker first meets Henry Gondorff. Henry is passed out from a drinking binge the ...

(7 pages) 1618 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Gladiator Critique

heme of Gladiator. The cliché, ?love conquers all,? is evident throughout this Oscar-winning Best Picture. Throughout the movie, there are flash forwards to Maximus? afterlife in Elysium. A reo ... the death of his son and Maximus. I feel the plot of this film was amazing and definitely deserved Best Picture last year. My three favorite scenes where major contributors to the overall storyline. ...

(5 pages) 28 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The 1992 best picture of the year, Unforgiven, is a

The 1992 best picture of the year, Unforgiven, is a tribute to the ever-popular western, it shows aspects of ... 1992. Unforgiven was a highly acclaimed movie. It was nominated for 9 Academy Awards and won 4 for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, and Best Film Editing. It showed a negligible am ...

(9 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Graduate

The Graduate is directed by Mike Nichols in 1967. The Graduate is one of the best looking films I've ever seen. It is also a film that won the Oscar for best director, was nomin ... the Oscar for best director, was nominated for best picture, and made the top ten lists of A.F.I.'s best American films ever made.Regarding the film in late-60s political ideology, The Graduate is a d ...

(7 pages) 23 0 1.7 Apr/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers