"also became the most-nominated in the Academy's history, surpassing the ""Godfather"" series' 28 (with the release of ""The Hobbit"", the series currently has 36 nominations total). Its 11 Oscars at the 2004 Academy Awards tied it for most awards won for one film with ""Titanic"" six years earlier and the 1959 version of ""Ben-Hur."" It also broke the previous ""sweep"" record, beating ""Gigi"" and ""The Last Emperor"" (which each took 9 out of 9). ""The Return of the King"" also made movie history as the highest-grossing film opening on a Wednesday and was the second film after ""Titanic"" to earn"
"the second highest-grossing film in history at the time after ""Gone with the Wind"". It won a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Wyler), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Heston), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Griffith), and Best Cinematography – Color (Surtees). ""Ben-Hur"" also won three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Stephen Boyd. Today, ""Ben-Hur"" is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, and in 1998 the American Film Institute ranked it the 72nd best American film"
"1998. With eleven awards, ""Titanic"" tied with ""Ben-Hur"" for the most Academy Awards in Oscar history. It also became the first film to win Best Picture without a screenwriting nomination since 1965's ""The Sound of Music"". Best Actress winner Helen Hunt became the first performer to win an Oscar while concurrently starring in a television series; Jack Nicholson became the fourth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. Both won for their roles in ""As Good as It Gets"", making it the seventh film to win both lead acting awards. Nominated for their performances as Rose DeWitt Bukater in"
"It would be short-lived, however, as ""Ben-Hur"" broke the record with eleven Oscars the following year. ""Gigi"" was the last film until ""The Last Emperor"" (1987) to win Best Picture without any acting nominations. It also had the biggest clean sweep at the time, winning all nine of its nominations, a record that would be tied by ""The Last Emperor"". This record was broken in 2003 when """" won all 11 of its nominations. The ceremony was hosted by an ensemble of actors: Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven, and Laurence Olivier. Niven won Best Actor"
"film from 1998 until 2010, when Cameron's 2009 film ""Avatar"" surpassed its gross. The CG visuals surrounding the sinking and destruction of the ship were considered spectacular. Despite criticism during production of the film, it received a record-tying 14 Oscar nominations (tied with ""All About Eve"") at the 1998 Academy Awards. It won 11 Oscars (also tying the record for most Oscar wins with ""Ben-Hur"" and later """"), including: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Song."
"Sound (Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano), Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Song. Kate Winslet, Gloria Stuart and the make-up artists were the three nominees that did not win. James Cameron's original screenplay and Leonardo DiCaprio were not nominees. It was the second film to receive eleven Academy Awards, after ""Ben-Hur"". """" would also match this record in 2004. ""Titanic"" won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as three Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture"
"Ben Hur (2003 film) Ben Hur is a 2003 animated drama film based on the novel """", by Lew Wallace. It is the fourth film adaptation of the novel. Charlton Heston's production company, Agamemnon Films (in association with GoodTimes Entertainment), produced this direct-to-video animated version of the story, with Heston himself giving voice to the title character. Heston had won an Academy Award for playing the same role in the 1959 version. This version was Heston's last film. The animated version tells the same story as the 1959 film, with some differences. The story begins with Balthazar waiting in the"
"1997. It has since been re-released in a 2-disc special edition that was concurrently released across North America and much of Europe. To coincide the film's 50th anniversary, Warner Archive Collection released a manufacture-on-demand Blu-ray on May 3, 2016 that’s sold exclusively to online retailers. The film is one of only two films (the other being ""Cimarron"") to be nominated in every eligible category at the Academy Awards. Each of the four actors was nominated for an Oscar but only Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis won, for Best Actress and Supporting Actress, respectively. The film also won the Black and"
"held in 1990 and had last hosted the 72nd ceremony held in 2000. Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at The Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, California held on February 14, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Jennifer Garner. """" won all eleven awards it was nominated for, tying the Academy Awards record for most awards won (alongside ""Ben-Hur"" and ""Titanic""), including Best Director for Peter Jackson and Best Picture. Other winners included """" and ""Mystic River"" with two awards and ""The Barbarian Invasions"", ""Chernobyl Heart"", ""Cold Mountain"", ""Finding Nemo"", ""The Fog of War:"
"eleven Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Story. Considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1989, deeming it ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". The governor of an unnamed western state, Hubert ""Happy"" Hopper (Guy Kibbee), has to pick a replacement for recently deceased U.S. Senator Sam Foley. His corrupt political boss, Jim Taylor (Edward Arnold), pressures Hopper to choose his handpicked stooge, while popular committees want a reformer, Henry Hill. The governor's children want him to select"
"of ""Ben-Hur"" is considered one of the greatest films ever made and was seen by tens of millions, going on to win a record 11 Academy Awards in 1960, after which the book's sales increased and it surpassed ""Gone with the Wind"". It was blessed by Pope Leo XIII, the first novel ever to receive such praise. The success of the novel and its stage and film adaptations also helped it to become a popular cultural icon that was used to promote numerous commercial products. The story recounts the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is"
"left the studio in 1953, leaving Hanna and Barbera to focus on the popular ""Tom and Jerry"" and ""Droopy"" series. After 1955, all cartoons were filmed in CinemaScope until MGM closed its cartoon division in 1957. In 1959, MGM enjoyed what is quite probably its greatest financial success of later years, with the release of its nearly four-hour Technicolor epic ""Ben–Hur"", a remake of its 1925 silent film hit, loosely based on the novel by General Lew Wallace. Starring Charlton Heston in the title role, the film was critically acclaimed, and won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, a record"
"with credits for ""An American Tail"" (1986); ""The Land Before Time"" (1988); ""The Rocketeer"" and """" (1991); ""Once Upon a Forest"" and ""We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story"" (1993); ""The Pagemaster"" (1994); ""Casper"", ""Jumanji"" and ""Balto"" (1995); ""Mighty Joe Young"" (1998); and ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas"" (2000). Horner scored six films in 1995, including his commercially successful and critically acclaimed works for ""Braveheart"" and ""Apollo 13"", both of which received Academy Award nominations. Horner's biggest critical and financial success came in 1997 with his score for James Cameron's ""Titanic"". At the 70th Academy Awards, Horner received the Oscar for Best"
"a major studio. The film was re-released in 1931 with an added musical score, by the original composers William Axt and David Mendoza, and sound effects. As the decades passed, the original two-color Technicolor segments were replaced by alternative black-and-white takes. ""Ben-Hur"" earned $1,352,000 during its re-release, including $1,153,000 of foreign earnings, and made a profit of $779,000 meaning it had an overall profit of $81,000. It remains one of the few films at Rotten Tomatoes to maintain a 100% freshness rating. The film became notorious after its release for the egregious animal abuse involved in filming. A reported one"
"Pearl Harbor (film) Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic period war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin. The film is based on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the Doolittle Raid. Despite receiving generally negative reviews from critics, the film was a major box office success, earning $59 million in its opening weekend and, in the end, nearly $450 million worldwide. It was"
"Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1997 The 18th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best films of 1997. The awards were given on 14 December 1997. 1. L.A. Confidential<br> 2. ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. ""Donnie Brasco"" 1. Helena Bonham Carter – ""The Wings of the Dove""<br> 2. Katrin Cartlidge – ""Career Girls""<br> 3. Tilda Swinton – ""Female Perversions"" 1. Kevin Spacey – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 2. Burt Reynolds – ""Boogie Nights""<br> 3. Robert Downey Jr. – ""One Night Stand"" 1. Sarah Polley – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 2. Joan Cusack – ""In & Out""<br> 3. Alison Elliott – ""The"
"November 1911. This ruling established the precedent that all motion picture production companies must first secure the film rights of any previously published work still under copyright before commissioning a screenplay based on that work. Ben Hur (1907 film) Ben Hur is a 15-minute-long 1907 silent drama film, the first film version of Lew Wallace's novel """", one of the best-selling books at that time. The film was directed by Canadian director Sidney Olcott and Frank Oakes Rose. At fifteen minutes long, only a small portion of the story was put on screen. The focus of the piece was the"
"dansu?"") • Japan<br> 3. ""Irma Vep"" • France Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1997 The 18th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best films of 1997. The awards were given on 14 December 1997. 1. L.A. Confidential<br> 2. ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. ""Donnie Brasco"" 1. Helena Bonham Carter – ""The Wings of the Dove""<br> 2. Katrin Cartlidge – ""Career Girls""<br> 3. Tilda Swinton – ""Female Perversions"" 1. Kevin Spacey – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 2. Burt Reynolds – ""Boogie Nights""<br> 3. Robert Downey Jr. – ""One Night Stand"" 1. Sarah Polley – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 2. Joan Cusack –"
"and a total of 36.5 million through the first weekend. The production budget, $140 million, was one of the highest of the summer of 1998. ""Armageddon"" went on to gross over $553 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of that year. In 2001, Bay directed ""Pearl Harbor"". It starred Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale and Cuba Gooding, Jr. The film was released on Memorial Day weekend in 2001. Again, Bay produced the film with Jerry Bruckheimer. The film received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing and Best Song. Again, Kevin O'Connell received"
"the picture through amber-colored sunglasses."" Channel 4 noted, ""That it stands as an entertaining spectacle and the director's best musical is secondary in interest to the Hollywood politics surrounding it."" André Previn and Ken Darby won the Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. Leon Shamroy was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Color) but lost to Robert Surtees for ""Ben-Hur"". Irene Sharaff was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design (Color) but lost to Elizabeth Haffenden for ""Ben-Hur"". Gordon E. Sawyer and Fred Hynes were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound"
"Orleans received the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and a Meritorious Unit Commendation for Somalia related operations from 18 October 1993 to 1 February 1994.[3] ""New Orleans"" next sailed onto the movie screen in November 1994 when astronaut Captain Jim Lovell, USN, director Ron Howard, and actors Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton came aboard to film several portions of the Oscar-winning film ""Apollo 13"". She portrayed the then-decommissioned USS ""Iwo Jima"", one of her sister ships. June 1995 saw ""New Orleans"" underway again for WESTPAC operations. She was present to support the Marine raid on the Al Hamra Facility"
"him instead the role of Messala, which Douglas rejected. Douglas then went on to star in ""Spartacus"" (1960). ""Ben-Hur"" cost $15 million to produce but earned $47 million by the end of 1961 and $90 million worldwide. Audiences mobbed movie theaters in the months after it opened. Critic Pauline Kael praised Wyler's achievement: In 1968 he directed Barbra Streisand in her debut film, ""Funny Girl"", costarring Omar Sharif, which became a huge financial success. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and like Audrey Hepburn in her first starring role, Streisand won as Best Actress, becoming the thirteenth actor to"
"14 films on the list. Only ""Toy Story"" (2nd), ""Apollo 13"" (3rd), ""Braveheart"" (23rd), ""Babe"" (29th), ""12 Monkeys"" (31st), ""Casino"" (38th) and ""Mr. Holland's Opus"" (39th) were nominated for directing, acting, screenwriting, or Best Picture. The other box office hits that earned nominations were ""Batman Forever"" (1st), ""Pocahontas"" (4th), ""Seven"" (9th), ""Crimson Tide"" (10th), ""Waterworld"" (12th), ""The Bridges of Madison County"" (21st), ""The American President"" (27th) and ""Sabrina"" (34th). Several days before the ceremony, activist group Rainbow Coalition, led by Reverend Jesse Jackson, planned a protest regarding African Americans and other racial minorities in the film industry. The group was"
"several ""best of"" lists generated by the American Film Institute, an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1967. The ""AFI 100 Years... series"" were created by juries consisting of over 1,500 artists, scholars, critics, and historians, with movies selected based on the film's popularity over time, historical significance, and cultural impact. ""Ben-Hur"" appeared at #72 on the 100 Movies, #49 on the 100 Thrills, #21 on the Film Scores, #56 on the 100 Cheers and #2 on the AFI's 10 Top 10 Epic film lists. In 2004, the National Film Preservation Board selected ""Ben-Hur"""
"of the most important directors in her career. ""Friendly Persuasion"" (1956) was awarded the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival. And in 1959, Wyler directed ""Ben-Hur"", which won 11 Oscars, a feat unequaled until ""Titanic"" in 1997. He had also assisted in the production of the . Wyler and its star, Charlton Heston, both knew what the film meant for MGM, which had massive investments in its final outcome, with the film's budget having gone from $7 million to $15 million, and the fact that MGM was already in dire financial straits. They were aware that if"
"credits are ""My Gal Sal"" (1942), ""Standing Room Only"" (1944), ""Kitty"" (1945) both with Paulette Goddard, ""Because You're Mine"" (1952), ""Valley of the Kings"" (1954), ""Beau Brummell"" (1954), ""The Seventh Sin"" (1957), ""Count Your Blessings"" (1958), ""Libel"" (1959). He is perhaps best known for ""Ben Hur"" (1959). As noted in many contemporary sources, in addition to Tunberg, who had written the first script for the project more than five years before the start of principal photography, Christopher Fry and Gore Vidal contributed to the screenplay during filming. Maxwell Anderson and S.N. Behrman are also mentioned as contributing writers in the"
"Ben-Hur (2016 film) Ben-Hur is a 2016 American epic historical period drama film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Keith Clarke and John Ridley. It is the fifth film adaptation of the 1880 novel """" by Lew Wallace following the 1907 silent short film, the , the Academy Award-winning 1959 film and the 2003 animated film of the same name. It has been termed a ""re-adaptation"", ""reimagining"", and ""new interpretation"" of the novel. The film stars Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, Toby Kebbell, Nazanin Boniadi, Haluk Bilginer, and Rodrigo Santoro. Principal photography began on February 2, 2015 in Matera, Italy"
"Commandments"" had overtaken ""Gone with the Wind"" at the box office in the North American territory, and mounted a serious challenge in the global market—the worldwide takings for ""Gone with the Wind"" were reported to stand at $59 million at the time. ""Gone with the Wind"" would be re-released the following year as part of the American Civil War Centennial, and reasserted its supremacy at the box office by reclaiming the US record. Also at this time, ""Ben-Hur""—another biblical epic starring Charlton Heston released at the end of 1959—would go on to eclipse ""The Ten Commandments"" at the box office."
"1997 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 32nd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1998, honored the best filmmaking of 1997. 1. L.A. Confidential<br> 2. ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. ""Boogie Nights"" 1. Curtis Hanson – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 2. Atom Egoyan – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. Paul Thomas Anderson – ""Boogie Nights"" 1. Robert Duvall – ""The Apostle""<br> 2. Peter Fonda – ""Ulee's Gold""<br> 3. Dustin Hoffman – ""Wag the Dog""<br> 3. Ian Holm – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. Al Pacino – ""Donnie Brasco"" 1. Julie Christie – ""Afterglow""<br> 2. Helena Bonham Carter – ""The Wings"
"Control<br> 2. ""4 Little Girls""<br> 3. """" 1997 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 32nd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1998, honored the best filmmaking of 1997. 1. L.A. Confidential<br> 2. ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. ""Boogie Nights"" 1. Curtis Hanson – ""L.A. Confidential""<br> 2. Atom Egoyan – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. Paul Thomas Anderson – ""Boogie Nights"" 1. Robert Duvall – ""The Apostle""<br> 2. Peter Fonda – ""Ulee's Gold""<br> 3. Dustin Hoffman – ""Wag the Dog""<br> 3. Ian Holm – ""The Sweet Hereafter""<br> 3. Al Pacino – ""Donnie Brasco"" 1. Julie Christie – ""Afterglow""<br>"
"hit Hollywood films, particularly ""Foul Play"" (1978), ""10"" (1979) and ""Arthur"" (1981). For ""Arthur"", Moore was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award. He received a second Golden Globe for his performance in ""Micki & Maude"" (1984). Moore was born at the original Charing Cross Hospital in central London, the son of Ada Francis (née Hughes), a secretary, and John Moore, a railway electrician. His father was Scottish, from Glasgow. Moore was brought up in Dagenham, Essex. He was notably short at and was born with club feet that required extensive hospital treatment"
"award the Silver Frog Award at Camerimage, Poland’s International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography and an Oscar nomination also in 1994. In the following year, he won the Golden Frog award for ""The Seventh Room"" and, in 1997, received a Golden Frog nomination for ""Marvin’s Room"". His career hit a peak in the mid-1990s when he was asked by Ron Howard to work on the film ""Ransom"" starring Mel Gibson and Rene Russo. However, while filming ""Trapped"" (aka ""24 Hours"") in 2001, he suffered a massive heart attack and died in his sleep in Vancouver, British Columbia, and"
"overtaken by ""Contact"". Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes retrospectively reports that 96% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 45 reviews, with an average score of 7.6/10, ""The Full Monty"" won the BAFTA Award for Best Film in 1997, beating presumed frontrunners ""Titanic"" and ""L.A. Confidential"" and Carlyle won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. It was nominated for a total of four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score and Best Original Screenplay. In 1997, the Academy Award for Best Original Score was split up into two categories: Dramatic and"