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The Last Detail was nominated for the Palme d ' Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival and Nicholson was awarded Best Actor.
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During his time as a student at the school he made the films Nocturne and The Last Detail, both of which won Best Film awards at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools.
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Detail of Last Judgment by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccari.
Towne is the author of many notable film scripts, including Chinatown ( 1974 ), for which he received an Academy Award, plus its sequel, The Two Jakes ( 1990 ), and Oscar-nominated screenplays The Last Detail and Shampoo as well as the first two Mission Impossible films.
* The Last Detail ( 1973 )
** 1974: Nominated, Best Adapted Screenplay, The Last Detail
** 1975: Won, Best Screenplay, The Last Detail and Chinatown
Among his novels two were made into motion pictures ( Cinderella Liberty and The Last Detail ).
The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jack Nicholson, with a screenplay adapted by Robert Towne from a novel of the same name by Daryl Ponicsan.
Ashby was coming off the disappointing commercial and critical failure of Harold and Maude and was in pre-production on Three Cornered Circle at MGM when Jack Nicholson told him about The Last Detail, his upcoming film at Columbia.
However Ashby pulled out of his deal with MGM and Nicholson suggested that they team up on Last Detail.
Nicholson was set to play Buddusky and so the casting of The Last Detail focused mainly on the roles of Mule and Meadows.
Haskell Wexler was supposed to shoot The Last Detail but he could not get a union card for an East Coast production and so Ashby asked Nestor Almendros and Gordon Willis but they were both unavailable.
By August 1973, the final cut of The Last Detail was completed and submitted to the MPAA which gave it an R rating.
The theatrical release of The Last Detail was delayed for six months while Columbia fought over the profanity issue.
Ayres persuaded Columbia to submit The Last Detail to the Cannes Film Festival.
In addition, The Last Detail was nominated for two Golden Globes Awards – Nicholson for Best Motion Picture Actor – Drama and Quaid for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
" I like the idea of winning at Cannes with The Last Detail, but not getting our own Academy Award hurt real bad.
In 2006, filmmaker Richard Linklater expressed an interest in adapting Last Flag Flying, a sequel to The Last Detail, into a film.
* " The Last Detail " by Richard Armstrong, Senses of Cinema, April 2003.
* " The Last Detail: Beyond the call of duty " by John and Judith Hess, Jump Cut, no.
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Last, not least, there are some poems which K. King sent me ( addressed to herself ) when I was preparing a fresh volume, asking me to include them.
Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.
Last year's volume was at the top a couple of inches below the ceiling.
Last week, when Royal was informed that three Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: `` That won't last long ''.
Last week, in the German city of Dusseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause.
Her subject was large -- a copy of the Last Supper -- and her canvas, small -- the head of a tiny screw.
The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.
The Last Day: Jesus compared the kingdom of heaven, over which He rules, to a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.
" In the 1998 film Deep Impact fictional astronaut Spurgeon " Fish " Tanner, portrayed by Robert Duvall, was described at a Presidential Press Conference as the " Last man to walk on the moon " by the President of the United States, portrayed by Morgan Freeman.
Wiles discovered Fermat's Last Theorem on his way home from school when he was 10 years old.
In 2001, his triple concerto was used in the soundtrack of The Last Castle, featuring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini.
The Durrani Empire (, also referred to as the Last Afghan Empire ) was founded in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani with its capital at Kandahar, Afghanistan.
He published them as Last Poems ( 1922 ) because he felt his inspiration was exhausted and that he should not publish more in his lifetime.
Olson was working on her second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House ( published October 2001 ) at the time of her death.
The Cottage was lived in by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii ) and other somewhat notable ( and moneyed ) persons until it was destroyed by fire in May 1888.
Last census was in May 2011.
Director Bryan Singer stated at the 2006 Comic-Con that he favored the three-persona concept, stating that there was Clark Kent on the farm, the bumbling Metropolis Clark, and Superman, the Last Son of Krypton.
Brandon Routh himself stated, in an HBO First Look interview that he was playing three characters ; Clark Kent, the reporter / farm boy ; Superman, the protagonist and savior of Metropolis ; and Kal-El, the Last Son of Krypton.
In 2009, Anderson was the television host of the BBC's Last Night of the Proms.
Later that year, he directed a major portion of The Last of the Mohicans after Tourneur was injured in a fall.
A few concert recordings followed, and The Last Time We Saw Paris ( 1967 ) was the " Classic " Quartet's swan-song.
The defining event of the Stone wing of the movement was the publication of the Last Will and Testament of The Springfield Presbytery, at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1804.
Hopper's last performance was filmed just before his death: The Last Film Festival, slated for a 2011 release.
In common, with another important Monty Python predecessor, At Last the 1948 Show, many episodes were wiped as was common practice at the time due to the lack of any apparent market for them prior to the invention of home video.
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