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In 1959, Wyler directed Ben-Hur, which won 11 Oscars ( a feat equalled only by Titanic in 1997 and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003 ).
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William Wyler also matched this record upon winning his third Oscar in 1959.
Notable works included Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), and Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, as well as Best Picture in their respective years.
He was also one of the writers of the classic 1959 film, Ben-Hur, directed by William Wyler.
Despite this, he was hired first by Robert Wise for The Day the Earth Stood Still and then by director William Wyler for his role in the 1959 Academy Award winning version of Ben-Hur.
Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic historical drama film set in ancient Rome, directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Griffith and Haya Harareet.
Vidal also wrote in March 1959 ( decades before the dispute occurred ) that he had been on the set and that he personally watched Wyler film everything from the reunion scene to the quarrel ( pages 12 to 31 in the script ).
1959 and directed
A ' live ' version for American TV was transmitted in 1959 which was directed by George Schaefer.
John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ) and I'm All Right, Jack ( 1959 ).
For certain periods between the 17th century and 1959, the Dalai Lamas sometimes directed the Tibetan government, which administered portions of Tibet from Lhasa.
Kon Ichikawa directed two anti-war dramas: The Burmese Harp ( 1956 ), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and Fires On The Plain ( 1959 ), along with Enjo ( 1958 ), which was adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel Temple Of The Golden Pavilion.
Yasujirō Ozu directed Good Morning ( 1959 ) and Floating Weeds ( 1958 ), which was adapted from his earlier silent A Story of Floating Weeds ( 1934 ), and was shot by Rashomon / Sansho the Bailiff cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.
It was eight years before he directed another theatrical film, A Hole in the Head ( 1959 ) with Frank Sinatra, which was his first feature film in color.
When The Second City opened its doors on December 16, 1959, directed by Paul Sill, his mother Viola Spolin began training new improvisers through a series of classes and exercises which became the cornerstone of modern improv training.
In 1959, he directed a live action feature film, Ugler i Mosen, which also contained stop motion sequences.
* 1959: Mon pote le gitan, directed by François Gir
* 1959: Messieurs les ronds de cuir, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger
* 1959: Vous n ' avez rien à déclarer ?, directed by Clément Duhour
* 1959: Arrêtez le massacre, directed by André Hunebelle
* 1959: Certains l ' aiment froide, directed by Jean Bastia and Guy Lionel
* 1959: Le Gendarme de Champignol, directed by Jean Bastia
Peckinpah wrote and directed a pilot called Trouble at Tres Cruzes, which was aired in March 1959 before the actual series was made in 1960.
* Solomon and Sheba ( 1959 )-Epic film directed by King Vidor, starring Yul Brynner and Gina Lollobrigida
* Gypsy ( 1959 ) ( music by Jule Styne ; book by Arthur Laurents ; directed by Jerome Robbins )
Russian fantasy director Aleksandr Ptushko's mythological epics Sadko, Ilya Muromets, and Sampo were internationally acclaimed as was Ballad of a Soldier, a 1959 Soviet film directed by Grigori Chukhrai
Edwards also created, wrote and directed the 1959 TV series Peter Gunn, with music by Henry Mancini.
Detroit Free Press music critic Mark Stryker concludes that the work of Billy Strayhorn and Ellington in Anatomy of a Murder, the trial court drama film directed by Otto Preminger in 1959, is " indispensable,.
In 1959, Richardson co-founded Woodfall Film Productions with John Osborne and producer Harry Saltzman, and, as Woodfall's debut, directed the film version of Look Back in Anger, his first feature film.
The Big Fisherman is a 1959 American film directed by Frank Borzage about the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
Her last films made abroad were Beyond All Limits ( Mexican-American production, 1957 ) with Jack Palance, Faustina ( Spain, 1957 ), Sonatas ( Spain, 1957 ) directed by Juan Antonio Bardem and La Fievre Monte a El Pao ( French-Mexican production, 1959 ) directed by Luis Buñuel.
1959 and Ben-Hur
Some of the most successful examples of these Biblical and historical spectaculars include The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), The Vikings ( 1958 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ) and El Cid ( 1961 ).
Also the 1959 film " Ben-Hur ", which starred Charlton Heston.
Another example, as Martin Scorsese has noted on television, is in the 1959 Ben-Hur.
To the present day, the 1959 Ben-Hur remains the last MGM film to win a Best Picture Oscar, though Doctor Zhivago, another MGM film, was nominated in 1965.
He also worked as an assistant director on several large-scale international productions shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome, notably Quo Vadis ( 1951 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), financially backed by the American studios.
** Ben-Hur ( 1959 film ), an MGM sound film starring Charlton Heston that won 11 Academy Awards
This was used in the 1959 film Ben-Hur, which was filmed with the MGM Camera 65 process at an aspect ratio of 2. 76: 1, one of the widest prints ever made.
However, dissatisfied with the quality of the films he was offered, calling the studios " a Tiffany, which had forgotten how to make silver ", Nielsen left MGM, but not before auditioning for the role of Messala in the 1959 historical piece Ben-Hur.
Charlton Heston won his only nomination and Best Actor Oscar for his work in Wyler's 1959 Ben-Hur.
* Frank Thring portrayed a somewhat jaded though shrewd Pilate in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ).
Although Sleeping Beauty was the second-highest grossing film of 1959 ( just behind Ben-Hur ), the film went over budget costing 6 million dollars and the film failed to make back its expenditure ..
In Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) he has an uncredited role as a doctor.
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.
* Ben-Hur ( 1959 )
* Stephen Boyd ( 1931 – 1977 ) — starred in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), Fantastic Voyage ( 1966 ) and many other films, was born in nearby Whitehouse and lived in Glengormley.
The film was nominated for, and won a total of eleven Academy Awards, a record for the number of Oscars won by a single film, and a record that only two other films — Titanic ( 1997 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 )— have matched.
* Ben-Hur – 1959 – uncredited
* Ben-Hur ( 1959 )
* Ben-Hur U. S. 1959
His role as Messala in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) propelled him to international fame.
Gore Vidal, who helped write the screenplay for Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), claimed in his 1995 book " Palimpsest " that Boyd was gay.
* Ben-Hur ( 1959 )
In the 1959 Ben-Hur, the opening credits were seen against the background of the " Creation of Man " in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.
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