The DoP makes decisions on lighting and framing of scenes in conjunction with the film's director.

His grandson, Frank Capra III, is a Hollywood director and worked as an assistant director in the 1995 film The American President, which referred to Frank Capra in the film's dialogue.

This time there was no soundtrack album in spite of the importance of music in the film as the film's writer, director and star Tim Robbins was concerned that the politically right wing content would be taken seriously and used by right wing politicians.

Anne Brebner, the film's casting director, was almost cast as Harold's mother when Vivian Pickles was briefly unable to do the role.

Hal Ashby, the film's director, shared certain ideals with the era ’ s youth culture, and in this film he contrasts the doomed outlook of the alienated youth of the time with the hard-won optimism of those who endured the horrors of the early 20th century, contrasting nihilism with purpose.

Their feature film for Paramount Pictures, Easy Come, Easy Go, was canceled when Berry, as well as the film's director and other crew members, were seriously injured in a railroad accident while shooting the movie in Chatsworth, California in August 1965.

She went to the Alps to meet the film's director, Arnold Fanck, hoping to secure the lead in his next project.

The creative use of music videos within their 1964 debut film A Hard Day's Night, particularly the performance of " Can't Buy Me Love ", led MTV decades later to honor the film's director, Richard Lester, with an award for " basically inventing " the music video.

Eric Harrison of the Houston Chronicle noted that Cruz " goes all out " with her appearance and Patrick Peters of Empire magazine commented that the film's director, who also appears in the film, was able to draw a " sensitive performance " from Cruz.

Just as today, a film's success depended upon the setting, the mood, the script, the skills of the director, and the overall talent of the cast.

It also led a film critic to paraphrase the film's title in an attack on the director, saying, " Bring me the head of Sam Peckinpah ".

The band started drifting back together in 1998. and officially re-formed to record a song for the soundtrack of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, at the behest of the film's director ( and Hoffs ' husband ) Jay Roach.

Doug Scott and Ellen Anthony, who played the younger Dahlberg children, were found in Lawrence ( Anthony was the daughter of the film's Kansas casting director Jack Wright ).

Goldwyn and the film's director, William Wyler, offered Leigh the secondary role of Isabella ; but she refused, preferring the role of Cathy, which went to Merle Oberon.

The director also employed Peter Handke, who wrote much of the dialogue, the poetic narrations, and the film's recurring poem " Song of Childhood.

Jinks and Cohen involved Ball throughout the film's development, including casting and director selection.

In 1967, she reunited with director Demy for the musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort with her sister Dorléac — who was killed in a car accident shortly before the film's release.

At the 1999 ceremony Benigni received the award for Best Actor ( the first for a male performer in a non-English-speaking role, and only the third overall acting Oscar for non-English-speaking roles ), the score by Nicola Piovani won Best Original Dramatic Score, and the film was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which Benigni accepted as the film's director.

The film's German director Roland Emmerich said " these were characters I could relate to, and they were engaged in a conflict that had a significant outcome – the creation of the first modern democratic government.

The lead in The Wanters seemed hers, until the film's director objected, finding her " unphotogenic ".

Finally, the film's director complained to Mayer that he could get nothing out of the young actress, and when summoned to Mayer's office, she fully expected the axe to fall: " But to my surprise, Mr. Mayer's manner was paternal.

In 1985, the director claimed Cohn, whom he described as the " Jewish producer ," trimmed the film simply so theaters could have more daily showings and increase the film's chance of turning a profit.

It is accepted by the winning film's director, but is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole.

The rules currently governing the Foreign Language Film category state that " the Academy statuette ( Oscar ) will be awarded to the picture and accepted by the director on behalf of the film's creative talents " ( emphasis added ).

Take an ounce of narcissism, a pound of exhibitionism, a pint of sadism, a gallon of blood-lust and a sprinkle of other aberrations and stir well .” Lowell Thomas was also critical of the portrayal of Lawrence and most of the film's characters, believing that the train attack scenes were the only reasonably accurate aspect of the film.

The film's screenwriter, Robert Rodat, said of Mel Gibson's character: " Benjamin Martin is a composite character made up of Thomas Sumter, Daniel Morgan, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion, and a few bits and pieces from a number of other characters ".

In his discussion of the film's relation to modernism, Thomas Schatz finds the film an unresolved " examination of the process of human interaction and interpersonal communication " and “ immediately establishes self-referential stance ” that invites the spectator “ to read the narrative as something other than a sequential development toward some transcendent truth ”.

Historical accounts indicate that Thomas Ince and C. Gardner Sullivan had originally titled their project Dago, but agreed to change the title at the request of the film's star, George Beban.

The film's crew included background artists James Gurney and Thomas Kinkade, layout artist Peter Chung, and established Bakshi Productions artists Sparey, Steve Gordon, Bell and Banks.

The film's title sequence story ( based on the original story by Dan O ' Bannon and art by Thomas Warkentin ) opens with a space shuttle flying in orbit over Earth.

* Lillias White, Cheryl Freeman, LaChanze, Roz Ryan and Vanéese Y. Thomas as the Muses ( Calliope, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Thalia and Clio respectively ), the narrators of the film's story.

Russell also credited the realism of the firefights to the film's cinematographer, Newton Thomas Sigel, who had shot several documentaries on South American civil wars, saying " he knew what it was like to be in that kind of world.

There are also more subtle references, such as an apartment hidden within the game with blood on the bathroom walls and a chainsaw ( in a nod to the film's " chainsaw torture " scene ), or the pair of detectives which come chasing Vercetti in a car resembling the Ferrari Testarossa after a three-star wanted level is attained, which look like characters portrayed by Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas in Miami Vice.

It included seven major new featurettes: three cast interviews, a behind-the scenes look at the score, two short documentaries about George Stevens ' memories from the war and the history of the diary, and a perspective piece on the film's legacy by Thomas Rothman.

Thomas F. Madden, Director of Saint Louis University's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, criticized the film's presentation of the Crusades:

Since the film's release, various specials based on Thomas and Friends have been released, although they are not directly related to this film.

" was featured over the closing credits of the film The Adjustment Bureau in March 2011, along with the new song " Future's Bright ", written and performed specifically for the film's opening by Richard and ten-time Oscar-nominated composer Thomas Newman.

It was written by a Malibu waitress named Diane Thomas in what would end up being her only screenplay ; she died in a car crash shortly after the film's release.

Though Thomas received solo writing credit, several uncredited script doctors helped to refine the film's screenplay.

* In the 2002 black comedy-drama film " The Good Girl ," the film's protagonist, Thomas " Holden " Worther ( portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal ), constantly has his nose in “ The Catcher in the Rye ” and claims that his own life parallels that of Holden Caulfield.

Unlike the book, he is a friend of Thomas Hutter ( the film's version of Jonathan Harker ) before he meets Count Orlok ( a renamed Count Dracula ) and never meets the vampire face to face.

As with the previous film Magnolia, Brion and director Paul Thomas Anderson collaborated heavily for the production of the film's score.

The film's all star cast includes Dennis Christopher, Annette O ' Toole, John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Michael Cole, and Tim Curry as the evil Pennywise.

The Aristocats features Harris as alley cat Abraham de Lacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O ' Malley, who joins in the film's showstopper, " Ev ' rybody Wants to Be a Cat ," with Scatman Crothers.

Kenneth Karman and Thomas Drescher edited the film's music.

Initially, Thomas told De Jarnatt that he wanted to base the film's story around Hamlet but he ended up being too faithful to the play and was told be more creative with the parallels to it.

While the film's adult themes were branded " vulgar " and " lurid " by some who still thought of North as the pint-sized " menace " he'd played ten years prior, Los Angeles Times critic, Kevin Thomas expressed appreciation for North's work in the film, writing-" The plot of " The Teacher " isn't worth outlining, yet it develops a relationship between a 28-year-old woman and an 18-year-old high school boy with sensitivity and credibility unusual for an exploitation film.

" Theater writer Thomas Hischak said that " in one of the film's few pleasing moments, Harve Presnell gave full voice to They Call the Wind Maria and it was lovely to hear ".