The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone.

British cinema's growing international reputation was enhanced by the success of The Red Shoes, the most commercially successful film of its year in the U. S., and by Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Because of its controversial themes, the film was released with an X rating and would make history by being the only X-rated feature to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Leftover funds from her work selling Liberty Bonds were put toward its creation, and in 1921, the Motion Picture Relief Fund ( MPRF ) was officially incorporated, with Joseph Schenck voted its first president and Mary Pickford as its vice president.

* Paramount has retained the rights to some of its silent films, including 1927's Wings, the first Academy Award winner for Best Picture, and Josef von Sternberg films Underworld, The Last Command, and The Docks of New York.

Hooper reportedly hoped that the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ) would give the complete, uncut release print a " PG " rating due to its minimal amount of visible gore.

The Picture of Dorian Gray was chosen as the book of 2010 for Dublin City's " One City, One Book " Festival in its fifth year.

The film, a highly fictionalized account of Wallace's life, was a commercial success and won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, but has been widely criticized by historians for its inaccuracies.

The film won ten Academy Awards in its eleven nominated categories, including Best Picture, as well as a special award for Robbins.

The studio's 1937 film The Life of Emile Zola gave the studio its first Best Picture Oscar.

Warners cut its film production in half during the war, eliminating its B Picture unit in 1941.

Praised by critics at the time of its release, All About Eve was nominated for 14 Academy Awards ( a feat unmatched until the 1997 film Titanic ) and won six, including Best Picture.

Opening to rave reviews, From Here to Eternity proved to be an instant hit with critics and the public alike, the Southern California Motion Picture Council extolling: " A motion picture so great in its starkly realistic and appealing drama that mere words cannot justly describe it.

The film was popular with audiences, especially in its initial big-city engagements, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

The Motion Picture Herald placed Crawford on its list of the top-ten moneymaking stars from 1932, the first year of the poll, through 1936 and Life magazine proclaimed her " First Queen of the Movies " in 1937.

* 1926 – Kodak introduces its 35 mm Motion Picture Duplicating Film for duplicate negatives.

The film was also nominated for Best Picture and won Best Actress for its star Norma Shearer.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first recognized the technical contributions of special effects to movies at its inaugural dinner in 1928, presenting a plaque for " Best Engineering Effects " to the first Best Picture Oscar winner, the World War I flying drama Wings.

Both films were big hits, with the latter winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the phenomenon of " Garbomania " reached its zenith.

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.

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.

Raimi ran into further troubles with the Motion Picture Association of America over the film's rating.

Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface and Body Double, they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and the viewing public.

They had been there six months when Chaplin's manager received a telegram, asking " Is there a man named Chaffin in your company or something like that " with the request that that this comedian contact the New York Motion Picture Company.

Occasional large gigs are staged at Murrayfield and Meadowbank, with mid-sized events at venues such as the Corn Exchange, HMV Picture House, the Liquid Rooms, and the Bongo Club.

But she was also a hit with the critics ; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.

It won three Academy Awards, including his second for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) ( with Puzo ), Best Picture and Best Actor ( for Brando ) and a nomination for Best Director and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.

Coppola followed it with a critically successful sequel, The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ), which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

In 2010, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to honor him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the 2nd Governor's Awards in November.

The George Eastman company, the only manufacturer of film stock in the United States, was also part of the combine, which was called the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ), and Eastman Kodak agreed to only supply the members with film stock.

Hitchcock primarily made thrillers, which, according to the Cahiers du cinema crowd, were popular with the public but were dismissed by the critics and the award ceremonies, although Hitchcock's Rebecca won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards.

Edison's organization of the Motion Picture Patents Trust agreed in 1909 to what would become the standard: 35 mm gauge, with Edison perforations and a 1. 33 aspect ratio.

The film was an unexpected success, becoming the highest-grossing British film in cinema history at the time, with worldwide box office in excess of $ 245. 7 million, and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

In 1938 he won his third Director Oscar in five years for You Can't Take It with You, which also won Best Picture.

An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and, in the same year, Kelly was presented with an honorary Academy Award for his contribution to film musicals and the art of choreography.

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" In the imperial palace in Lahore, over one of the doors, according to William Finch, a merchant, was " the Picture of our Saviour ," with an image of the Virgin Mary facing it.

In 1979, he entered the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California for several weeks before moving with his last wife, Maria, to Acapulco, Mexico, the location of his last Tarzan movie.

The language's basic sound, along with a few words, was first devised by actor James Doohan (" Scotty ") for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

( Merzpicture 29a, Picture with Turning Wheel, 1920 for instance, combines a series of wheels that only turn clockwise, alluding to the general drift Rightwards across Germany after the Spartacist Uprising in January that year, whilst Mai 191 ( 9 ), alludes to the strikes organized by the Bavarian Workers ' and Soldiers ' Council.

After a slow start, his country-flavored hit " Picture " with Sheryl Crow resurrected the album and it went gold as a single and pushed the album's sales over 5 million.

Rock had problems with the release of " Picture ", a country-influenced duet with Sheryl Crow: his label felt it was wrong for his image, and was not keen to spend more money promoting a flagging album ; then, when they agreed to release it, Sheryl Crow's label initially refused to give permission.