555 of the 592 film critics polled by American magazine Film Daily named it the best film of 1942.

Five Star Final was nominated for an Outstanding Production Academy Award in 1931 / 1932 at the 5th Annual Academy Awards ( Outstanding Production is known today as ' Best Picture '), and was named by Film Daily as one of the Ten Best Films of 1931.

The film was named one of the National Board of Review's Top Ten pictures of the year and ranked eighth in the Film Daily critics ' poll.

Film Daily named The Awful Truth as one of the 10 Best Films of 1937.

* Named Fourth Best Film of 1960 by the New York Daily News

* The Film Daily: " Clara Bow gets a real chance and carries it off with honors ...( and )... she is really the whole show ".

His portrayal of the newspaper reporter in Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ) gained him a Film Daily Award and a Limelight Award.

The film was named one of the year's Ten Best by Film Daily.

Kelly began her career as a child actress, whose image had appeared in so many different advertisements by the time she was nine years old that Film Daily called her " the most photographed child in America due to commercial posing.

On 16 October 1929, an advertisement appeared in Film Daily with Felix announcing, Jolson-like, " You ain't heard nothin ' yet!

Though the film was not released nationwide, Lisa's first endeavor as producer earned strong accolades and various awards, including, The Austin Film Festival Audience Award for Best Family Film, The Heartland Film Festival Family Movie Event Selection, The International Family Film Festival Best Film, The Parents Television Council Seal of Approval, The Dove Foundation Seal of Approval and a rave review from The Daily Variety.

Tallulah Bankhead won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for " Best Actress ", and the film was named one of the 10 Best Films of 1944 by Film Daily and was nominated for Best Picture of 1944 by the National Board of Review.

Preston Sturges won the 1940 Academy Award for " Best Original Screenplay " for The Great McGinty, which was named as one of the " 10 Best Films of 1940 " by both the New York Times and Film Daily.

In the years following its cinema release, Elf has been chosen as one of the of the best Christmas films by media outlets such as British film magazine Empire, Film 4 and New York Daily News.

In 1946 Lockwood gained the Daily Mail National Film Awards First Prize for most popular British film actress.

On January 3, 1967, The Film Daily declared that 50 % of movie ticket sales were influenced by fan magazines such as Modern Screen and Photoplay.

In this first instance, a 1958 issue of Film Daily claims that Samuel Roxy Rothafel of the Family Theatre in Forest City, Pennsylvania, placed a wad of cotton wool that had been soaked in rose oil in front of an electric fan during a newsreel about the Rose Bowl Game.

* 25 Great Long Takes at Daily Film Dose

The Film Daily called the seven minute short " good fun ", and gave the following synopsis:

* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

Film critic David Thomson has stated: " Marker told me himself that Mongolia is correct.

" Film critic Matthew Hays notes that " no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, calling it " delightful and sly ", and directed with " light-hearted enchantment " by Newell.

Film critic John Raeburn discusses an early Capra film, American Madness ( 1932 ), as an example of how he had mastered the movie medium and expressed a unique style:

Film critic John Belton called the film Hawks's " most organic comedy.

Film critic Robin Wood has said if he " were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of Hollywood ... it would be Rio Bravo.

Film critic David Thomson wrote of Hawks in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film " Far from the the meek purveyor of Hollywood forms, he always chose to turn them upside down, To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, ostensibly an adventure and a thriller, are really love stories.

" Indeed, his relationship with the hermit has been interpreted as a same-sex marriage that heterosexual society will not tolerate: " No mistake — this is a marriage, and a viable one ", writes cultural critic Gary Morris for Bright Lights Film Journal.

Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 – 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.

" Film critic Raja Sen describes Dixit as " the industry's numero uno in every sense.

Her performance was well received by critics, with BBC film critic Brandon Graydon saying that Cruz " is an enchanting screen presence ," and Ethan Alter of the Film Journal International noting that Cruz and her co-star Cruise were " able to generate some actual chemistry.

Film critic Roger Ebert speculates in his review that the sequence introducing the leader Kambei ( in which the samurai shaves off his topknot, a sign of honor among samurai, in order to pose as a monk to rescue a boy from a kidnapper ) could be the origin of the practice, now common in action movies, of introducing the main hero with an undertaking unrelated to the main plot.

Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, calling it " an amazingly entertaining thriller " and " one of the best films so far this year ", with a " wonderful " ending.

Film critic Roger Ebert lauded the film, stating that Brando and Kazan changed acting in American movies forever and then adding it to his " Great Movies " list.

" Film critic David Richard Jones adds that Kazan, during the 1940s and 1950s, was one of America's foremost Stanislavskians, and " influenced thousands of contemporaries " in the theatre, film, and the Actors Studio that he helped found.

Film critic Marie Brenner writes that " for De Niro, it is a role that surpasses even his brilliant and daring portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather, part II, ... performance deserves to be compared with the very finest.

Film critic David Shipman called Muni " an actor of great integrity " and he prepared for his roles meticulously.

Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that the book was " banal ," and that " The Little Engine That Could is, by comparison, a work of some depth and ambition.

Film critic Paul Rotha said that it " definitely established the film as an independent medium of expression ... Everything that had to be said ... was said entirely through the camera ... The Last Laugh was cine-fiction in its purest form ; exemplary of the rhythmic composition proper to the film.

Film critic Bosley Crowther wrote, " Mr. Tracy and Miss Hepburn are the stellar performers in this show and their perfect compatibility in comic capers is delightful to see.

* Michael Winner, Film director and producer, restaurant critic