At the 1993 British Academy Awards ( BAFTA ) the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film was introduced.

She continued with the play ; but, when Korda moved it to a larger theatre, Leigh was found to be unable to project her voice adequately or to hold the attention of so large an audience, and the play closed soon after.

While the film is neither " the full story of Lawrence's life or a completely accurate account of the two years he spent fighting with the Arabs ," Korda argues that criticizing its inaccuracy " misses the point ": " The object was to produce, not a faithful docudrama that would educate the audience, but a hit picture.

In the 1940s, Alexander Korda was interested in filming The Seven Pillars of Wisdom with Laurence Olivier as Lawrence, but had to pull out due to financial difficulties.

It was written by Lajos Biró and Arthur Wimperis, and directed by Sir Alexander Korda.

It was hugely successful as a commercial film and it advanced Alexander Korda and Charles Laughton's careers.

In 1937, also for Korda, he starred in an ill-fated film version of the classic novel, I, Claudius, by Robert Graves, which was abandoned during filming owing to the injuries suffered by co-star Merle Oberon in a car crash.

The British Film Academy was founded in 1947 by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Laurence Olivier, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Roger Manvell and other leading figures in the British film industry.

One of Anderson's first producers at EMI was songwriter Paul Korda.

In the United Kingdom, the British arm of the company ( including Infectious and Perfecto Records ) was reorganised as A & E Records and sold on to the Warner Music Group when Korda Marshall took a position within that company.

The first was his mentor and collaborator, Sir Alexander Korda in 1942, who had also been closely involved in the production of some of Reed's most admired films.

The producer was Alexander Korda then married to Merle Oberon who was cast as Claudius ' wife Messalina.

Sir Alexander Korda ( 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956 ) was a Hungarian-born British film producer and director.

The elder brother of filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent Korda, Korda was born as Sándor László Kellner to a Jewish family in Pusztatúrpásztó ( Hungary, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok area, N 47. 08333 E 20. 6333 GeoNameId: 716249, 4 miles from Túrkeve ) in what is now Hungary ( it was then a city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire ), where he worked as a journalist.

When the First World War broke out, Korda was excused military service in the Austrian Army because of his bad eyesight.

Korda was arrested in October 1919 during the White Terror that followed the overthrow of the Communist government.

The film was a major international success and inspired Korda with the idea of making " international films " with global box office appeal.

Korda was able to raise finance for the melodrama The Unknown Tomorrow ( 1923 ).

Once they reached Hollywood both struggled to adapt to the studio system, and there was a considerable pause before Korda was handed his initial directorial assignment.

He won the tournament ( the first of the year ) in Auckland, New Zealand, against Richard Fromberg, then reached the final of the Australian Open, losing to Petr Korda.

1992 saw Courier defeat Edberg to win the Australian Open ; he then followed this result by defeating future Grand Slam champions Thomas Muster, Goran Ivanišević, Agassi and Petr Korda to successfully defend his French Open title.

Sagan briefly worked on films with Alexander Korda in England, but then moved to South Africa and founded the National Theatre of Johannesburg.

Scott then chases after Korda in Scott's truck, and after a lengthy battle over control of the truck, Scott leaps out of the way as Korda rams into a stack of explosive barrels and is killed in a massive explosion.

While he was visiting London for the film's British première, he met Alexander Korda who offered him a contract to work in England.

In 1959 the newly established newspaper offered the largest space for photographers to display their photographs, and Korda became part of the revolutionary cause.

Alexander Korda offered to send him to RADA, but Gilbert chose to study direction instead, notably as an assistant on Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn ( 1939 ).

By the fourth series, the segment had become a parody of Omnibus, with Korda fronting overly serious profiles of minor TV celebrities including Pat Sharp and Handy Andy.

Korda took many pictures for the newspaper and called the series “ Fidel Returns to the Sierra .” Fidel always liked Korda ’ s photos and never stopped him when he attempted to take his picture.

Korda had cast his wife Maria Corda as the female lead in all his German-language films and to a large degree his productions depended on her star power.

Castro ’ s travels took Korda all around Cuba, overseas, and the Soviet Union.

Emily Richard was producer Philip Hinchcliffe's first choice, but when she proved unavailable, Celia Foxe, Colette Gleason, Elaine Donnelly, Gail Grainger, Belinda Sinclair, Ann Pennington, Sally Geeson, Pamela Salem, Carol Leader, Heather Tobias, Marilyn Galsworthy, Katherine Fahey, Deborah Fairfax, Irene Gorst, Kay Korda, Lois Hantz, Belinda Low, Gail Harrison, Michelle Newell, Philippa Vazey, Sue Jones-Davies, Lydia Lisel, Janet Edis, Susan Wooldridge and Carol Drinkwater were all seen for the part.

The others usually begin with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realise a better way of living: whether by mysterious gases from a comet causing people to behave rationally and abandoning a European war ( In the Days of the Comet ( 1906 )), or a world council of scientists taking over, as in The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933, which he later adapted for the 1936 Alexander Korda film, Things to Come ).

His association with director Alexander Korda began in 1933 with The Private Life of Henry VIII ( loosely based on the life of King Henry VIII ), for which Laughton won an Academy Award.

He won accolades in the same year for his part in Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears, which brought him to the attention of Alexander Korda and Darryl F. Zanuck.

BBC executive Cecil Madden later recalled filming a production of The Scarlet Pimpernel in this way, only for film director Alexander Korda to order the burning of the negative as he owned the film rights to the book, which he felt had been infringed.

Korda cast her again in A Modern Dubarry ( 1927 ), which adapted the life story of Madame Du Barry based on an original screenplay by Lajos Biro.

Korda made two more sound films at First National: Her Private Life ( 1929 ) and Lilies of the Field ( 1930 ), both of which were remakes of earlier silent films.

The company's releases included The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 ), nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Rembrandt ( 1936 ), both of which starred Charles Laughton and were directed by Korda.

Oberon's career went on to greater heights, partly as a result of her relationship with and later marriage to Alexander Korda, who had persuaded her to take the name under which she became famous.

Dyer quit his teaching job and began a publicity tour of the United States of America, doggedly pursuing bookstore appearances and media interviews (" out of the back of his station wagon ", according to Michael Korda, making the best-seller lists " before book publishers even noticed what was happening "), which eventually led to national television talk show appearances including Merv Griffin, The Tonight Show, and Phil Donahue.

Contraband was intended as a followup to Powell and Pressburger's The Spy in Black, which was filmed at the end of 1938, but was not released by Alexander Korda for almost a year.

Goldwyn forced numerous additions and changes to the film but when Powell delivered the final cut, Goldwyn refused to make the final payment, which caused Korda to sue him.

Alexander Korda, who was often sympathetic to the duo's earlier movies, was skeptical about this film and went as far as to slash nine minutes of the original cut ( which were subsequently restored ).

Her peak of success came with the landmark fantasy film The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ), which she made for Alexander Korda.

Korda was also a part of the Czech Republic's team which won the Hopman Cup in 1994, and upset defending champion Pete Sampras in five sets in the fourth round of the 1997 US Open.

Korda was also known for the " Scissors Kick " which he would do at midcourt after winning matches.

The band had a selection of up tempo, punk pop songs, which together with their young average age of eighteen, bought them to the attention of Korda Marshall who signed them to Infectious Records in 1996.

In 1942 the orchestra adopted the name of the former Louisville Philharmonic Society ( originally founded in 1866 ), which it kept until 1977 before reverting to its original name ( Korda 2001 ).

An angry Scott visits Korda in jail and warns him to stay away from Ronnie, showing him an autopsy picture of Teal, which enrages Korda.