Another French effort, Jacques Demy's homage to the MGM musical: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort ( 1967 ) in which Kelly appeared, was popular in France and nominated for Academy Awards for Best Music and Score of a Musical Picture ( Original or Adaptation ) but performed poorly, elsewhere.

Advertised by MGM as the first " All-Talking, All-Singing, All-Dancing " feature film, it was a hit and won the Academy Award for Best Picture for 1929.

This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.

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.

MGM took notice and commissioned them to write the film musical Gigi ( 1958 ), which won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

The movie was artfully directed by famed still photographer Gjon Mili, edited by former MGM film editor Norman Granz, with lighting and photography directed by Robert Burks ( his first credit in this field ), and released by Warner Bros. Producer Gordon Hollingshead was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Short Subject, One-reel.

Puss Gets the Boot did not win the 1940 Academy Award for Best Cartoon, but another MGM cartoon, Rudolf Ising's The Milky Way did, making MGM cartoon studio the first studio to wrestle the Cartoon Academy Award away from Walt Disney.

His Hollywood sojourn proved brief, although he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his first film, The Rogue Song, a 1930 MGM production with Laurel & Hardy, shot in two-color Technicolor.

The 1943 Woody cartoon The Dizzy Acrobat was nominated for the 1944 Academy Award for Best Short Subject ( Cartoons ), which it lost to the MGM Tom and Jerry cartoon The Yankee Doodle Mouse.

Although Tammy Grimes had originated the title role and had won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance, MGM executives wanted Shirley MacLaine for the film.

In 1936, MGM filmed a sanitized biopic of Florenz Ziegfeld ( The Great Ziegfeld ), a film that won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actress ( Luise Rainer as Ziegfeld's common-law wife, Anna Held ).

The film was nominated for three Academy Awards ; at the 24th Academy Awards ceremony, Douglas Shearer and the MGM Studio Sound Department won for Best Sound.

In 1949, he formed the first ' George Shearing Quintet ', a band with Margie Hyams ( vibraphone ), Chuck Wayne ( guitar ), later replaced by Toots Thielemans ( listed as John Tillman ), John Levy ( bass ) and Denzil Best ( drums ) and recorded for Discovery, Savoy and MGM, including the immensely popular single " September in the Rain " ( MGM ), which sold over 900, 000 copies ; " my other hit " to accompany " Lullaby of Birdland ".

She had a major part in the MGM 1959 film, The Mating Game as Paul Douglas's wife and Debbie Reynolds's mother, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Summer and Smoke ( 1961 ).

* The Three B's-June Allyson / Gloria DeHeaven / MGM Studio and Orchestra Chorus from ( Best Foot Forward ) 1943

His performances at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, produced by Fred Vail, beginning in 1963 helped fuel a revival of " The Wonder of You ," as well as launching his new relationship with MGM Records, an alliance that produced two albums: The Very Best of Ray Peterson which featured most of the Dunes singles, and The Other Side of Ray Peterson, which included many of his nightclub songs.

The Best of The Velvet Underground: The Millennium Collection is a straight, chronologically-sequenced trawl through the studio and live albums that the band recorded for Verve Records, MGM Records and Mercury Records ( now all under the Universal Music Group umbrella ).

At MGM, Ruttenberg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography ten times, winning four.

** won the Golden Palm at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Lancaster won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the New York Film Critics Award for his performance in Elmer Gantry.

Category: Best Drama Actress Golden Globe ( film ) winners

The film also won four BAFTAs and two Golden Globe Awards, one for Best Foreign Film.

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 ".

The film won the Golden Bear for Best Documentary at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival.

He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

In 2010, she was awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for her portrayal of Little Edie in Grey Gardens.

She received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences, in which she starred as a young girl divorcing her parents.

Lynch has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival.

* Golden Horse for Best Foreign Film at the Taiwan International Film Festival for The Thin Blue Line ( 1988 )

For his performance as Silva Vacarro in Baby Doll, he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination.

Dealing with outdated material at a time when the popularity of film musicals was already on the downslide, Coppola's result was only semi-successful, but his work with Clark no doubt contributed to her Golden Globe Best Actress nomination.

The near 3-hour-long epic, which chronicled the saga of the Corleone family, received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics, and fetched Coppola the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, which he shared with Mario Puzo, and two Golden Globe Awards-for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

The film was nominated for several awards, including Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture ( Drama ) and the Oscar for Best Film Editing.

In addition, Martin Landau won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, while Dean Tavoularis won the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design.

It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and for years it remained the most successful foreign film to be released in the United States.

The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage.

His book, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks, debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2010, and his second book Not Taco Bell Material also reached New York Times bestseller status and received widespread acclaim for its cutting social commentary and humor.

* Harold Russell, Academy Award winning actor for his portrayal of Homer Parrish, in the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives.

* 1982 Best Country Instrumental Performance – Country After All These Years

Soldiers returning from the war would provide the inspiration for films like The Best Years of Our Lives, and many of those in the film industry had served in some capacity during the war.

Total Film ranked Mann # 28 on their 100 The Greatest Directors Ever and Sight and Sound ranked him # 5 on their list of the 10 Best Directors of the Last 25 Years, Entertainment Weekly ranked Mann # 8 on their 25 Greatest Active Film Directors list.

* Will Friedwald, Album liner notes The Best of Peggy Lee, The Capitol Years

In March 2010, Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God's version of the John Williamson song " Winter Green " was included on a new compilation album The Absolute Best of John Williamson: 40 Years True Blue, commemorating the singer-songwriter's milestone of 40 years in the Australian music industry.

Cristin O ' Keefe Aptowicz, slam poet and author of Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, was quoted in an interview on the Best American Poetry blog as saying:

* The Best of The Wizard of Id: 40 Years of Mirth, Merriment and Mayhem ( 2009 ) Titan Books, ISBN 1-84856-363-9

This theme had occasionally been explored in the context of World War Two in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ) and The Men ( 1950 ).

The immediate aftermath of the war in Hollywood avoided the action film and delved into problems experienced by the returning veterans, turning out a number of high quality films that included The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Battleground ( 1949 ), Home of the Brave ( 1949 ), Command Decision ( 1948 ), and Twelve O ' Clock High ( 1949 ).

The periodical also ranked it 7th on their 25 Best Romantic Movies of the Past 25 Years list and # 3 on their Top 25 Modern Romances list.

* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).

Eight years after the release of " Angels ", in February 2005 the British public voted it as the " Best Single of the Past Twenty-Five Years " at the 2005 BRIT Awards.

For The Best Years of Our Lives, he asked the principal actors to purchase their own clothes, in order to connect with daily life and produce an authentic feeling.

The Best Years of Our Lives is notable for cinematographer Gregg Toland's use of deep focus photography, in which objects both close to and distant from the camera are in sharp focus.

David Thomson offers tempered praise: " I would concede that Best Years is decent and humane ... acutely observed, despite being so meticulous a package.

Five Hundred Years After was nominated for the 1995 Locus Poll Award ( Best Fantasy Novel ).

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.

After leaving Universal he began a long collaboration with Samuel Goldwyn for whom he directed such classics as Dodsworth ( 1936 ), These Three ( 1936 ), Dead End ( 1937 ), Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), The Westerner ( 1940 ), The Little Foxes ( 1941 ) and The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ).

Wyler also directed a film which captured the mood of the nation as it turned to peace after the war, The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ).

Arguably his most personal film, Best Years drew on Wyler's own experience returning home to his family after three years on the front.

The Best Years of Our Lives won the Academy Award for Best Director ( Wyler's second ) and Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as seven other Academy Awards.