Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

An Academy Award is an award bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors and writers.

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The film adaptation, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is based on the American edition of the book ( which Burgess considered to be " badly flawed ").

Category: American film directors

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The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work.

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, started in 1968, is an online database that preserves the history of American film in encyclopedic detail.

Citizen Kane was voted the greatest American film twice.

" American shot " is a translation of a phrase from French film criticism, " plan américain " and refers to a medium-long (" knee ") film shot of a group of characters, who are arranged so that all are visible to the camera.

* ASA is a film speed rating system defined by the former American Standards Association

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

* Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story, a 2005 American documentary film

* Adrian Pasdar ( born 1965 ), American actor and film director

* Adrian Zmed ( born 1954 ), American television personality and film actor

* 1946 – Dawn Steel, American film producer ( d. 1997 )

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Category: American film producers

* A film speed rating system defined by the former American Standards Association

This continued with the influx of American military personnel in World War II as well as film ; seen in the enduring persistence of okay, you guys and gee.

One of the most famous involved star second baseman Napoleon Lajoie, who in 1901 went across town in Philadelphia from the National League Phillies to the American League Athletics.

Set on an oceanliner, it was to star Marlon Brando as an American ambassador, and Sophia Loren as a beautiful stowaway found in his cabin.

* 1987 – Linda Wong, American porn star ( b. 1951 )

* 1981 – Haley Paige, American porn star ( d. 2007 )

In 1935, American radio commentator Walter Winchell coined the term " disc jockey " ( the combination of disc, referring to the disc records, and jockey, which is an operator of a machine ) as a description of radio announcer Martin Block, the first announcer to become a star.

American Pies success made McLean an international star and piqued interest in his first album, which charted more than two years after its initial release.

This development was contemporary with the growth of the studio system and its greatest publicity method, the star system, which characterized American film for decades to come and provided models for other film industries.

* 1972 – Sunset Thomas, American porn star

* 1986 – Stephen Colletti, American TV star

Julius Henry " Groucho " Marx ( October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977 ) was an American comedian and film and television star.

Hollywood dramas used horror themes, including versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ) and The Monster ( 1925 ) both starring Lon Chaney, the first American horror movie star.

The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.

* Mickey Rooney, American actor, former child star

* 1972 – Kobe Tai, American porn star

* 2012 – Leslie Carter, American reality star, sister of Nick and Aaron Carter ( b. 1986 )

* 1978 – Jake Pavelka, American reality TV star

* Jewel De ' Nyle ( born Stephany Schwarz ), American pornographic movie star, sometimes credited as " Jewel "

Spacey won universal praise and a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's American Beauty ; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Present-day translations have " morning star " ( New International Version, New Century Version, New American Standard Bible, Good News Translation, Holman Christian Standard Bible, Contemporary English Version, Common English Bible, Complete Jewish Bible ), " daystar " ( New Jerusalem Bible, English Standard Version, The Message ), " shining one " ( New Life Version ) or " shining star " ( New Living Translation ).

* 1959 – Nina Hartley, American porn star, author and feminist

In the book Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, James Delmont wrote: " Marlon Brando was arguably the finest screen actor of the twentieth century, winning worldwide acceptance as both a movie star of the first rank and as a performer of uncommon skill.

Brando was named the fourth greatest male star in the history of American cinema by the American Film Institute, and part of Time magazine's Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century.