"airwaves on an annual basis, the remake slipped into obscurity. The reviews were mixed. After its initial airing a ""New York Times"" follow-up article revealed that Frank Capra, the director of the 1946 film ""It's A Wonderful Life"", had denounced the remake as ""plagiaristic."" The ratings, however, were good enough that it was rebroadcast on ABC twice, in 1978 and 1979. But by that time the original ""It's A Wonderful Life"" had begun its resurgence on television and eventually eclipsed the remake. ""It Happened One Christmas"" is rarely shown today, and has not, as of 2017, been issued on DVD."
"Cohn sent someone to ""drag her off"" the train, which had not yet left the station, and take her to the ceremony. Colbert arrived wearing a two-piece traveling suit which she had the Paramount Pictures costume designer, Travis Banton, make for her trip. The film won all five of the Academy Awards for which it was nominated at the 7th Academy Awards for 1934: ""It Happened One Night"" was the first film to win the ""Big Five"" Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Writing). , only two other films have achieved this feat: ""One"
"""It Happened One Night"" (1934), and was looking for the right actor to suit his needs—other recent actors in Capra's films such as Clark Gable, Ronald Colman, and Gary Cooper did not quite fit. Not only was Stewart just what he was looking for, but Capra also found Stewart understood that archetype intuitively and required very little directing. Later Capra commented, ""I think he's probably the best actor who's ever hit the screen."" ""You Can't Take It With You"", starring Capra's ""favorite actress"", comedian Jean Arthur, won the 1938 Best Picture Academy Award. The following year saw Stewart work with"
"and ""It Happened One Night"" (1934)—receiving an Academy Award for the latter film. As an owner of race horses and a regular at tracks, Riskin was able to effectively capture the atmosphere and dynamics of horse racing and the types of characters common to that environment, such as jockeys, stable hands, and gamblers. While filming at Tanforan Race Track, Capra became dissatisfied with the happy ending of the original script, wanting instead a more bittersweet and ambivalent ending comment on the American success ethic. With Riskin on vacation in Europe and unavailable, Capra invited former Paramount screenwriter Sidney Buchman to"
"1930 Motion Picture Production Code in July 1934. ""It Happened One Night"" was released just four months prior to that enforcement. ""It Happened One Night"" is the first of only three films (the other two being ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" and ""The Silence of the Lambs"") to win all five major Academy Awards : Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1993, ""It Happened One Night"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". In 2013, the"
"the shame Capra admitted feeling toward his own family as he rose in social status."" During his years at Columbia, Capra worked often with screenwriter Robert Riskin (husband of Fay Wray), and cameraman Joseph Walker. In many of Capra's films, the wise-cracking and sharp dialogue was often written by Riskin, and he and Capra went on to become Hollywood's ""most admired writer-director team."" Capra's films in the 1930s enjoyed immense success at the Academy Awards. ""It Happened One Night"" (1934) became the first film to win all five top Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best"
"Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" in 1975 and ""The Silence of the Lambs"" in 1991. ""It Happened One Night"" was also the last film to win both lead acting Academy Awards until ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" in 1975. On December 15, 1996, Gable's Oscar was auctioned off to Steven Spielberg for $607,500; Spielberg promptly donated the statuette to the Motion Picture Academy. On June 9 of the following year, Colbert's Oscar was offered for auction by Christie's, but no bids were made for it. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: ""It Happened One"
"failure of ""Taking Off"", producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz hired him to direct the adaptation of Ken Kesey's cult novel ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"". Forman later said they hired him because he was in their price range. Starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, the adaptation was a critical and commercial success. The film won Oscars in the five most important categories: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. One of only three films in history to do so (alongside ""It Happened One Night"" and ""The Silence of the Lambs""), it firmly established"
"One Night"" and ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest""), to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is also the first (and so far only) Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film, and only the third such film to be nominated in the category, after ""The Exorcist"" (1973) and ""Jaws"" (1975). It is regularly cited by critics, film directors, and audiences alike as one of the greatest and most influential films of all time. In 2018, ""Empire"" ranked it 48th, on their"
"7th Academy Awards The 7th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1934, was held on February 27, 1935, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Irvin S. Cobb. Frank Capra's influential romantic comedy ""It Happened One Night"" became the first film to perform a ""clean sweep"" of the top five award categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. This feat would later be duplicated by ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" in 1976 and ""The Silence of the Lambs"" in 1992. It also was the first romantic comedy"
"Claudette Colbert Claudette Colbert (pronounced ""Coal-BEAR""; born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American stage and film actress and a leading lady in Hollywood for over two decades, and has been called ""The mixture of inimitable beauty, sophistication, wit, and vivacity"". Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to motion pictures with the advent of sound film. Initially associated with Paramount Pictures, she gradually shifted to working as a freelance actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in ""It Happened One Night"" (1934), and received two"
"It Happened One Christmas It Happened One Christmas is a 1977 American made-for-television Christmas fantasy-comedy film starring Marlo Thomas, Wayne Rogers, Orson Welles and Cloris Leachman. It originally premiered as ""The ABC Sunday Night Movie"" on December 11, 1977. The film, a gender-reversed version of the film ""It's a Wonderful Life"", centers on Mary Bailey Hatch, a young woman who dreams of seeing the world but is forced by circumstances to remain in her small hometown as head of the family's Building & Loan business. On a Christmas Eve, in a moment of financial crisis, a severely depressed Mary contemplates"
"Hoosiers had won the NCAA title that night in Philadelphia. The following year, the two events were again on the same night.) Miloš Forman's ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" made a ""clean sweep"" of the major categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Adapted). It was the second of three films to date to accomplish the sweep, following ""It Happened One Night"" in 1934 and preceding ""The Silence of the Lambs"" in 1991. French actress Isabelle Adjani received her first nomination for Best Actress this year, making Adjani, 20 at the time, the youngest"
"It can be viewed at the Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) in New York City and Beverly Hills, California. Emmy Award nominations (1978): It Happened One Christmas It Happened One Christmas is a 1977 American made-for-television Christmas fantasy-comedy film starring Marlo Thomas, Wayne Rogers, Orson Welles and Cloris Leachman. It originally premiered as ""The ABC Sunday Night Movie"" on December 11, 1977. The film, a gender-reversed version of the film ""It's a Wonderful Life"", centers on Mary Bailey Hatch, a young woman who dreams of seeing the world but is forced by circumstances to"
"on the March 20, 1939 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater, with Colbert and Gable reprising their roles. The screenplay was also adapted as a radio play for the January 28, 1940, broadcast of ""The Campbell Playhouse"", starring Orson Welles (Mr. Andrews), William Powell (Peter Grant) and Miriam Hopkins (Ellie Andrews). ""It Happened One Night"" has been adapted into numerous Indian films. These include three Hindi adaptations: ""Chori Chori"" (1956), ""Nau Do Gyarah"" (1957) and ""Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin"" (1991), one Bengali adaptation starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen, ""Chaoa Paoa"" (1959), one Tamil adaptation ""Chandhrodhayam"" (1966), and one Kannada"
"Roscoe Karns Roscoe Karns (September 7, 1891 – February 6, 1970) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964. He specialized in cynical, wise-cracking (and often tipsy) characters, and his rapid-fire delivery enlivened many comedies and crime thrillers in the 1930s and 1940s. Though he appeared in numerous silent films, such as ""Wings"" and ""Beggars of Life"", his career didn't really take off until sound arrived. Arguably his best-known film role was the annoying bus passenger Oscar Shapeley, who tries to pick up Claudette Colbert in the Oscar-winning comedy ""It Happened One Night"" (1934),"
"February 15, 1989, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Richard Kahn, president of the Academy, and the actress Anne Archer. ""Rain Man"" led all nominees, with eight nominations; ""Dangerous Liaisons"" and ""Mississippi Burning"" tied for second with seven each. The winners were announced at the award ceremony on March 29, 1989. Best Actress winner Jodie Foster became the third person in history to win the aforementioned category for a film with a single nomination. The last person to achieve this feat was Sophia Loren when she won for ""Two Women"""
"at The Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, California held on February 12, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Scarlett Johansson. ""The Aviator"" won the most awards of the night with five. ""Million Dollar Baby"" won four awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included ""The Incredibles"", and ""Ray"" with two awards, and ""Born into Brothels"", ""Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"", ""Finding Neverland"", ""Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"", """", ""The Motorcycle Diaries"", ""Ryan"", ""The Sea Inside"", ""Sideways"", ""Spider-Man 2"" and ""Wasp"" each with one. The telecast garnered over 42 million viewers in the"
"director in history to receive this award, at the age of 32 for his work on ""La La Land"". Two directing teams have shared the award; Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for ""West Side Story"" in 1961 and Joel and Ethan Coen for ""No Country for Old Men"" in 2007. The Coen brothers are the only siblings to have won the award. Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to have won the award, for 2009's ""The Hurt Locker"". As of the 2018 ceremony, Guillermo del Toro is the most recent winner in this category for his work on ""The Shape"
"1934 in film The following is an overview of 1934 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The 7th Academy Awards was held on February 27, 1935, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Irvin S. Cobb. For the first time, the Academy standardized the practice – still in effect – that the award eligibility period for a film would be the preceding calendar year. Most nominations: ""One Night of Love"" (Columbia Pictures) - 6 Major Awards Most Awards: ""It Happened One Night"" - 5 ""It Happened"
"Clark Gable William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor and military officer, often referred to as ""The King of Hollywood"". He began his career appearing as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926, and progressed to supporting roles with a few films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1930. The next year, he landed his first leading Hollywood role, and over the next three decades, he was a leading man in more than 60 motion pictures. Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for ""It Happened One Night"" (1934), and was nominated"
"Jon Stewart hosted the show for the first time. Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California held on February 18, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Rachel McAdams. ""Crash"" won three awards including Academy Award for Best Picture. Other winners included ""Brokeback Mountain"", ""King Kong"" and ""Memoirs of a Geisha"" also with three awards apiece, and ""Capote"", """", ""The Constant Gardener"", ""Hustle & Flow"", ""March of the Penguins"", """", """", ""Six Shooter"", ""Syriana"", ""Tsotsi"", ""Walk the Line"" and """" with one each. The telecast garnered nearly 39 million viewers"
"The Happening (2008 film) The Happening is a 2008 American post-apocalyptic psychological thriller film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo and Betty Buckley. The film follows a man, his wife, his best friend and his friend's daughter as they try to escape from an inexplicable natural disaster. The film was advertised as being Shyamalan's first R-rated film; it held its premiere in New York City on June 10, 2008, and was later released on June 13, 2008 in the United States. It received generally unfavorable reviews from critics and grossed"
"was created on Oscar night when Johnny Carson and Buddy Hackett announced in a sketch on the evening's ""Tonight Show"", which was recorded three hours before the awards ceremony, that ""Oliver!"" would be the winner for Best Picture and that Jack Albertson would win for Best Supporting Actor. Columnist Frances Drake claimed that most observers believed Carson and Hackett ""were playing a huge practical joke or happened to make a lucky guess."" As Carson recalled it on the air years later, it created a huge controversy and people at Price Waterhouse were fired. Referring to it as ""The Great Carson"
"an Oscar, with Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis winning. Burton later said, ""I didn't think I could learn anything about comedy - I'd done all of Shakespeare's. But from him I learned,"" adding, ""He conspires with you to get your best."" However, it was Taylor who chose Nichols to be their director, because, writes biographer David Bret, ""she particularly admired him because he had done a number of ad-hoc jobs to pay for his education after arriving in America as a seven-year-old Jewish refugee."" Producer Ernest Lehman agreed with her choice: ""He was the only one who could handle them,"""
"the Night"" or ""Chattanooga Choo Choo"" would win, so that when ""The Last Time I Saw Paris"" actually won, neither its composer, Jerome Kern, nor lyricist, Oscar Hammerstein II, was present at the ceremony. Kern was so upset at winning with a song that had not been specifically written for a motion picture and that had been published and recorded before the film came out that he petitioned the Motion Picture Academy to change the rules. Since then, a nominated song has to have been written specifically for the motion picture in which it is performed. Composer Alec Wilder said"
"It Happened Tomorrow It Happened Tomorrow is a 1944 American fantasy film directed by René Clair, starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jack Oakie, and featuring Edgar Kennedy and John Philliber. In the 1890s, Lawrence Stevens (Dick Powell) is an obituary writer unhappy in his job, who is given, by a ghostly deceased newspaper man named Pop Benson (John Philliber), a newspaper that has tomorrow's news. He uses the paper to write stories and get the scoop on other reporters; but this also brings him under suspicion by Police Inspector Mulrooney (Edgar Kennedy), who wants to know how Stevens always"
"21st Academy Awards The 21st Academy Awards features numerous firsts. It was the first time a non-Hollywood production won Best Picture, ""Hamlet"" and the first time an individual (Laurence Olivier) directed himself in an Oscar-winning performance. It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be giving awards for Best Costume Design. John Huston directed two films in this awards year for which his actors won Oscars: his father, Walter Huston, in ""The Treasure of the Sierra Madre""; and Claire Trevor for ""Key Largo"". The Huston family won three Oscars that evening. The ceremony was moved from the Shrine Auditorium to"
"the winner and signaled that all was well, before Olivier then presented the award to producer Saul Zaentz. Olivier (in his 78th year) had been ill for many years, and it was because of mild dementia that he forgot to read the nominees. Zaentz then thanked Olivier, saying it was an honour to receive the award from him, before mentioning the other nominees in his acceptance speech: ""The Killing Fields"", ""A Passage to India"", ""Places in the Heart"" and ""A Soldier's Story"". Maurice Jarre won the Oscar for Best Original Music Score for his scoring of ""A Passage to India""."
"an outraged Colbert told the director, ""Get her out of here. I'll do it. That's not my leg!"" Through the filming, Capra claimed, Colbert ""had many little tantrums, motivated by her antipathy toward me"", however, ""she was wonderful in the part."" It was partially filmed at Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks, California. In 2013 ""It Happened One Night"" underwent digital restoration. A new wet-gate master was produced by Sony Colorworks for scanning at 4K. The images were digitally treated at Prasad Corporation to remove dirt, tears, scratches, and other artefacts. Care was taken to preserve the original look of"
"was the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Lead Role, Actress in Lead Role, Director and Screenplay) following ""It Happened One Night"" in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 with ""The Silence of the Lambs"". It also won numerous Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. In 1993, the film was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 1963 Oregon, recidivist criminal Randle McMurphy is moved to a mental institution after serving a short sentence on a prison farm"
"during a ceremony held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 6, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Sharon Stone. ""Unforgiven"" won four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Clint Eastwood, and Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman. Al Pacino and Emma Thompson won lead acting honors for ""Scent of a Woman"" and ""Howards End"", respectively. Marisa Tomei won Best Supporting Actress for ""My Cousin Vinny"". The telecast garnered 45.7 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 65th Academy Awards were announced on February 17, 1993, at the Samuel"
"""A Greek Tragedy"", ""The Mission"", ""Precious Images"", ""Round Midnight"", ""Top Gun"", and ""Women – for America, for the World"" with one. The nominees for the 59th Academy Awards were announced on February 11, 1987, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Wise, president of the Academy, actor Don Ameche, and actress Anjelica Huston. ""Platoon"" and ""A Room with a View"" led all nominees with eight each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 30, 1987. Marlee Matlin was the first deaf performer to win an Oscar and the youngest winner in the Best"