"a radio address (on Singapore radio) on 6 July 1944 by Subhash Chandra Bose where Bose addressed Gandhi as ""The Father of the Nation"". On 28 April 1947, Sarojini Naidu during a conference also referred Gandhi as ""Father of the Nation"". A 5 hours, 9 minutes long biographical documentary film, """", made by Vithalbhai Jhaveri in 1968, quoting Gandhi's words and using black & white archival footage and photographs, captures the history of those times. Ben Kingsley portrayed him in Richard Attenborough's 1982 film ""Gandhi"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The 1996 film ""The Making of the"
"54th Academy Awards The 54th Academy Awards were presented March 29, 1982, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson. ""Chariots of Fire"" was the surprise winner (with a leading 12 nominations, ""Reds"" had been expected to win) of the Best Picture Oscar. It was the first time in 13 years that a British film won the Academy's top honor. The next year's winner, ""Gandhi"", was also a British production. Henry Fonda won his only competitive Oscar this year, as Best Actor for ""On Golden Pond"". At 76 years of age, Fonda"
"Pani"" and ""Guide"", the latter being India's official entry to the Oscars. Winner Winner Dev Anand Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand (26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011), known as Dev Anand, was a noted Indian film actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Indian cinema. He is considered as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the Indian film industry. Dev was born Dharam Dev Anand on 26 September 1923 in the Shakargarh tehsil of the Gurdaspur district in Punjab (British India). His father Pishori Lal Anand was a well-to-do advocate in Gurdaspur District Court. Dev"
"Ben Kingsley Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor with a career spanning over 50 years. He has won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He is known for his starring role as Mohandas Gandhi in the 1982 film ""Gandhi"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has appeared in ""Schindler's List"" (1993), ""Twelfth Night"" (1996), ""Sexy Beast"" (2000), ""House of Sand and Fog"" (2003), ""Lucky Number Slevin"" (2006), ""Shutter Island"" (2010), """" (2010), ""Hugo"" (2011), ""Iron Man 3"" (2013), ""The Boxtrolls"""
"a Lovely War"" (1969), after which his acting appearances became sporadic as he concentrated more on directing and producing. He later directed two epic period films: ""Young Winston"" (1972), based on the early life of Winston Churchill, and ""A Bridge Too Far"" (1977), an all-star account of Operation ""Market Garden"" in World War II. He won the 1982 Academy Award for Best Director for his historical epic ""Gandhi"", and as the film's producer, the Academy Award for Best Picture; the same film garnered two Golden Globes, this time for Best Director and Best Foreign Film, in 1983. He had been"
"an Oscars ceremony. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 55th Academy Awards The 55th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1983, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau. The awards were dominated by the Best Picture winner ""Gandhi"", which won eight awards out of its eleven nominations. Jessica Lange became the first"
"55th Academy Awards The 55th Academy Awards were presented April 11, 1983, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, and Walter Matthau. The awards were dominated by the Best Picture winner ""Gandhi"", which won eight awards out of its eleven nominations. Jessica Lange became the first performer in four decades to receive nominations in both acting categories in the same year, ultimately winning Best Supporting Actress for Tootsie. Meryl Streep won her first Best Actress award. She had been nominated the year before for ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"""
"Gandhi (film) Gandhi is a 1982 epic historical drama film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the leader of India's non-violent, non-cooperative independence movement against the United Kingdom's rule of the country during the 20th century. The film, a British-Indian co-production, was written by John Briley and produced and directed by Richard Attenborough. It stars Ben Kingsley in the title role. The film covers Gandhi's life from a defining moment in 1893, as he is thrown off a South African train for being in a whites-only compartment, and concludes with his assassination and funeral in 1948. Although a"
"practising Hindu, Gandhi's embracing of other faiths, particularly Christianity and Islam, is also depicted. ""Gandhi"" was released in India on 30 November 1982, in the United Kingdom on 3 December, and in the United States on 10 December. It was nominated for Academy Awards in eleven categories, winning eight, including Best Picture and Best Director for Attenborough, Best Actor for Ben Kingsley, and Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Briley. The film was screened retrospectively on 12 August 2016 as the ""Opening Film"" at the ""Independence Day Film Festival"" jointly presented by the Indian Directorate of Film Festivals"
"For ""Gandhi"", Tomblin supervised the reconstruction of Gandhi's funeral in Delhi, to which the general public were invited, involving the direction of 250,000 extras. With Sydney Pollack, Tomblin worked on ""Out of Africa"" and ""Havana"". Tomblin was awarded OBE in the 1994 Birthday Honours. He was presented with BAFTA's Michael Balcon Award (now known as The Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award) in 2003. With Richard Attenborough, he was named as a winner of the 1982 DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for ""Gandhi"". Tomblin had four children, including Lisa Tomblin, a film make-up department chief hairdresser,"
"Tiwari won the award for ""Dangal"" in 2017 and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari won the award for ""Bareilly Ki Barfi"" in 2018. Only once have two siblings been nominated in the same year; Zoya Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar in 2012. The following Directors have received multiple Best Director nominations. The list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses). In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. The films are listed by the years when the award was presented. The"
"Adhuri Kahani"", ""Chorus"", and ""Mrigayaa"". His biggest international role was that of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in Richard Attenborough's biographical epic ""Gandhi"". Casting director Dolly Thakore recommended Chatterjee for the role after seeing him onstage in Calcutta and noting that he shared Suhrawardy's large stature. In 1983, Chatterjee directed the film ""Vasundhara"", which was awarded as best Bengali film at the 31st National Film Awards. The Directorate of Film Festivals cited it for ""its sincere attempt to depict the struggle against social injustice"". Shekhar Chatterjee Shekhar Chatterjee (1924 — 6 April 1994) is an Indian actor and film director. Chatterjee was"
"John Briley John Richard Briley (born June 25, 1925) is an American writer best known for screenplays of biographical films. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 1982 Oscars for ""Gandhi"". As well as film scripts, he has written for television and theatre, and published several novels. Briley was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and served in the United States Army Air Forces, 1943–46, reaching the rank of captain. At the University of Michigan, he gained a BA in 1950 and an MA in English 1951. He married Dorothy Louise Reichart in 1950, and they had four"
"From 1976 to 1979, the award was called Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture – Male. From 1980 to 1983, the award was called New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male. A male actor did not receive the Award in 1982. The final recipient of the award was actor Ben Kingsley for his performance as the title character in the 1982 film ""Gandhi"". The category was discontinued following the 1983 ceremony. Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor The Golden Globe for New Star of the Year – Actor was an"
"(1981). Her characters in these films were minor. Her next film was Richard Attenborough's biographical film ""Gandhi"" (1982), based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi. She played Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Mahatma, played by Ben Kingsley. The film was a major critical success, and among other awards won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Hattangadi's performance garnered her international recognition and she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1983, the only Asian to do that so far. Despite the success she received for her role in ""Gandhi"", the film was also credited with"
"have produced and distributed such Best Picture Oscar winners as ""Gandhi"" (1982); ""Amadeus"" (1984); ""Platoon"" (1986); ""The Last Emperor"" (1987); ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989); ""Dances with Wolves"" (1990); ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991); ""Braveheart"" (1995); ""The English Patient"" (1996); ""Shakespeare in Love"" (1998); ""Chicago"" (2002); """" (2003); ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004); ""Crash"" (2004); ""The Departed"" (2006); ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007) ""Slumdog Millionaire"" (2008), ""The Hurt Locker"", (2009); ""The King's Speech"" (2010); and ""The Artist"" (2011). Most recently, some of the world's most prominent films were produced, distributed and financed by IFTA Members: ""Milk"" (2008); ""The Reader"" (2008);"
"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:"
"Revenant"", respectively. The Directors Guild of America Award for Feature Film has traditionally been a near perfect barometer for both Best Director and Best Picture Academy Awards. Only seven times since the DGA Award's inception has the DGA Award winner not won the Academy Award; in 1968 (Carol Reed won the Oscar for directing ""Oliver!""); 1972 (Bob Fosse won the Oscar for directing ""Cabaret""); 1985 (Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for directing ""Out of Africa"", as Steven Spielberg was not nominated for directing ""The Color Purple""); 1995 (Mel Gibson won for directing ""Braveheart"", as Ron Howard was not nominated for"
"32nd Golden Globe Awards The 32nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1974, were held on January 25, 1975. The winners are first and in bold followed by the rest of the nominees. ""' Jack Nicholson – ""Chinatown"" ""' Art Carney – ""Harry and Tonto"" ""' Gena Rowlands – ""A Woman Under the Influence"" ""' Raquel Welch – ""The Three Musketeers"" ""' Roman Polanski – ""Chinatown"" ""' ""Animals Are Beautiful People"" ""' ""Chinatown"" ""' ""The Longest Yard"" ""' ""Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap)"" • Sweden ""The Little Prince"" – Alan Jay Lerner"
"of the Academy, and Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates. ""Gladiator"" received the most nominations with twelve. ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" came in second with ten. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 25, 2001. ""Gladiator"" became the first film to win Best Picture without a directing or screenwriting win since 1949's ""All the King's Men"". Best Director winner Steven Soderbergh, who received nominations for both ""Erin Brockovich"" and ""Traffic"" (for which he won the award), was the third person to receive double directing nominations in the same year. ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"" became the third film nominated"
"""Mahayagya"", ""Thoda Hai Thode Ki Zaroorat Hai"", ""Teache"", ""Maayke Se Bandhi Dor"" and more. She played a special appearance in ""Chhal — Sheh Aur Maat"", which aired in the TV channel Colors. Rohini Hattangadi Rohini Hattangadi () (born 11 April 1955) is an Indian actress. She has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film Award, and is the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Kasturba Gandhi in ""Gandhi"" (1982). An alumna of the National School of Drama of New Delhi, Hattangadi had worked mainly in theatre when"
"53rd Academy Awards The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, were originally scheduled for the previous day but were postponed due to the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. David Lynch's ""The Elephant Man"" and Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"", with eight nominations each, had the most nominations of this year's films. Their nominations included Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. Michael Apted's ""Coal Miner's Daughter"" received seven nominations while ""Ordinary People"" and ""Tess"""
"to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Spielberg was also the first to win Best Director from both the Saturn Awards and the Academy Awards at the same year, but for different movies (Saturn Award for ""Jurassic Park"", and Academy Award for ""Schindler's List"", both in 1993); Peter Jackson was the first to win both for the same film ("""", in 2003) while Alfonso Cuarón was the second (for ""Gravity"" in 2013). Notes: ""†"" indicates an Academy Award-winning movie on the same category. ""‡"" indicates an Academy Award-nominated movie on the same category. Saturn Award for Best Director 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"
"the Bible intensively, and he himself wrote Liddell's stirring post-race address to the workingmen's crowd. This film and role made him an international celebrity. Charleson had a similar success the following year, playing Mahatma Gandhi's closest friend and collaborator, the Anglican priest Charlie Andrews, in ""Gandhi"" (1982), opposite Ben Kingsley. Like ""Chariots of Fire"", the film ""Gandhi"" won numerous Academy Awards, including Best Picture. After these two major successes in these two Best Picture Oscar–winning films, Charleson's film career did not, however, follow the same progressive arc that his stage career did. Good feature Hollywood scripts did not pour in"
"top honors: Best Picture, Best Director (Barry Jenkins), Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), and the Russell Smith Award. ""La La Land"" and ""Manchester by the Sea"" both won two awards. ""Manchester by the Sea"" won Best Actor (Casey Affleck) and Best Screenplay (Kenneth Lonergan), while ""La La Land"" won Best Cinematography (Linus Sandgren) and Best Musical Score (Justin Hurwitz). Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Other films ranked by the annual poll are listed in order. While most categories saw 5 honorees named, categories ranged from as many as 10 (Best Film) to as few as 2 (Best"
"Rohini Hattangadi Rohini Hattangadi () (born 11 April 1955) is an Indian actress. She has won two Filmfare Awards, one National Film Award, and is the only Indian actress to win the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Kasturba Gandhi in ""Gandhi"" (1982). An alumna of the National School of Drama of New Delhi, Hattangadi had worked mainly in theatre when she made her movie debut with ""Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan"" in 1978. Some of her noted cinematic roles were in such art films as ""Arth"" (1982), ""Party"" and ""Saaransh"" (1984). Hattangadi"
"1992, with actor Tom Hanks as the Master of Ceremonies and Ray Bradbury, a friend from when they were both just out of high school, presenting the award. After the presentation to Harryhausen, actor Tom Hanks told the audience, ""Some people say ""Casablanca"" or ""Citizen Kane""...I say ""Jason and the Argonauts"" is the greatest film ever made!"" A long series of appearances at film festivals, colleges, and film seminars around the world soon followed as Harryhausen met many of the millions of people who had grown up enjoying his work. The Academy Film Archive has preserved a number of Ray"
"Film Awards, a Tamil film, ""Kanchivaram"" won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film; whereas a Hindi film, ""Gandhi, My Father"" won the maximum number of awards (3). Following were the awards given in each category: A committee headed by Sai Paranjpye was appointed to evaluate the feature films awards. Following were the jury members: Following were the awards given: Official Name: Swarna Kamal All the awardees are awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize. Official Name: Rajat Kamal All the awardees are awarded with 'Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal)', a certificate and cash"
"Zoya Akhtar won it for ""Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara"" in 2012.Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari won it for ""Bareilly Ki Barfi"" in 2018. Other women Directors to have been nominated are Mira Nair for ""Salaam Bombay!"" in 1990, Farah Khan for ""Main Hoon Na"" in 2005 and for ""Om Shanti Om"" in 2008, Gauri Shinde for ""English Vinglish"" in 2013 and Meghna Gulzar for ""Talvar in 2016 Rajkumar Santoshi remains the only Director to have won the Award for his first two films, Ghayal and Damini Nitesh Tiwari and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari are the only married couple to win the award. Nitesh"
"52nd Academy Awards The 52nd Academy Awards were presented April 14, 1980, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Johnny Carson who, in noting the long duration of the production, joked that President Jimmy Carter was working hard for their ""release"" from the ceremonies, a clear reference to the Iranian hostage crisis. Among the nominees for Best Supporting Actor were 8 year-old Justin Henry—the youngest Best Supporting Actor nominee ever—and 79-year-old Melvyn Douglas. This was the largest age difference between two competing actors in Oscar history until 2013. Their age difference was partially"
"would be involved. … More than involved, that he would pretty much design it. Because I love the look of the films; they really mirror what’s been in my imagination for all these years"". He has been nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and has won three: in 1982 for ""Gandhi"", in 1988 for ""Dangerous Liaisons"", and in 1996 for ""The English Patient"". He has been nominated for a BAFTA award fifteen times, including for the first six and last ""Potter"" films, and has won three times: in 1980 for ""The Elephant Man"", in 2005 for ""Harry Potter and the Goblet"
"12th Golden Globe Awards The 12th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1954, were held on February 24, 1955, in the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. ""On The Waterfront"" directed by Elia Kazan ""Carmen Jones"" directed by Otto Preminger Marlon Brando - ""On The Waterfront"" James Mason - ""A Star Is Born"" Judy Garland - ""A Star Is Born"" Grace Kelly - ""The Country Girl"" Jan Sterling - ""The High and the Mighty"" Edmund O'Brien - ""The Barefoot Contessa"" Elia Kazan - ""On The Waterfront"" ""Sabrina"" - Ernest Lehman Gregory Peck and"