"the first African-American to win a Best Actor award and the second African-American to win any Oscar (the first was Hattie McDaniel who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ""Gone with the Wind""). Poitier also won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was also nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lilia Skala), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The film was also nominated in 1965 for the United Nations Award at the BAFTA Awards. Also, the film"
"black-and-white cinematography. Since then, the only black-and-white film to win is ""Schindler's List"" (1993). Floyd Crosby won the award for """" in 1931, which was the last silent film to win in this category. Hal Mohr won the only write-in Academy Award ever, in 1935 for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". Mohr was also the first person to win for both black-and-white and color cinematography. No winners are lost, although some of the earliest nominees (and of the unofficial nominees of 1928–29) are lost, including ""The Devil Dancer"" (1927), ""The Magic Flame"" (1927), and ""Four Devils"" (1928). ""The Right to Love"""
"Pictures in 1937. 1939, a major year for American cinema, brought such films as ""The Wizard of Oz"" and ""Gone with The Wind"". Previously, it was believed that color films were first projected in 1909 at the Palace Theatre in London (the main problem with the color being that the technique, created by George Smith, (Kinemacolor) only used two colors: green and red, which were mixed additively). But in fact, it was in 1901 when the first color film in history was created. This untitled film was directed by photographer Edward Raymond Turner and his patron Frederick Marshall Lee. The"
"the years. In 1932, Walt Disney released the first three-color Technicolor film, ""Flowers and Trees"". 1939, which is considered by many film buffs as Hollywood's greatest year, had hits in color, such as ""The Wizard of Oz"", ""The Women"", ""Dodge City"" and the most successful of them all, ""Gone with the Wind"". Natural color Natural color was a term used in the beginning of film and later on in the 1920s, and early 1930s as a color film process that actually filmed color images, rather than a color tinted or colorized movie. The first natural color processes were in the"
"the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 38th awards ceremony. Spielberg received his first Directors Guild of America Award at the 38th awards ceremony for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. He became the first director to win the award without even being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The Color Purple (film) The Color Purple is a 1985 American coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg with a screenplay by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film"
"of the first movies to use subtractive color was a silent film titled ""Cupid Angling"" (1918). In 1932, Walt Disney made the first film to use a red, green and blue color process (Technicolor), ""Flowers and Trees"". Three years later, the first feature length movie to be filmed entirely in 3-color Technicolor was ""Becky Sharp"". The first color features were made in the 1910s. The very first was ""With Our King and Queen Through India"" (1912). In 1917, Technicolor made their first film, a two-color additive film entitled ""The Gulf Between"" (1917), ""The Gulf Between"" was also the first color"
"apiece. ""La La Land""s Best Picture loss to ""Moonlight"" meant it set a record for most nominations and wins without winning Best Picture since ""Cabaret"" in 1972. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 26, 2017. ""Moonlight"" became the first film with an all-black cast and the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture. In an event unprecedented in the history of the Oscars, ""La La Land"" was incorrectly announced as the Best Picture, and, a few minutes later, the error was corrected and ""Moonlight"" was declared the winner. """", at 467 minutes, became the longest film"
"only colour in the film). She is frequently pictured in a wide shot format as a way to display both her and the horrific surroundings to build a disturbing contrast. In the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"", a very wide shot is used that keeps all the protagonists on screen with the Wizard's palace in clear view. ""The Wizard of Oz"" was also one of the first mainstream motion pictures to include colour. The 1962 ""Lawrence of Arabia"" contains an enormous number of extreme wide shots which successfully induced the feeling of scale of the lead in his surrounding"
"color"" was used only for 1936 and 1937. From the initiation of short subject awards for 1932 until 1935 the terms were ""Best Short Subject, comedy"" and ""Best Short Subject, novelty"". Below is a list of Oscar-winning short films. The winning film is listed first, with the other nominated films for that year/category below there for 5 times 5 is 3 For this Academy Award category, the following superlatives emerge: Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was"
"is also included in the 18-disc release ""Best Picture Oscar Collection"", also released by Warner Bros. The Broadway Melody The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is an American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. Today the Technicolor sequence is lost; only a black and white copy survives in available versions. The film was"
"The Color Purple (film) The Color Purple is a 1985 American coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg with a screenplay by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous. The film was also the first feature-length film directed by Spielberg for which John Williams did not compose the music. The film stars Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Desreta Jackson, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey (in her film debut), Rae Dawn"
"both Black and white and color film. Eight years later, the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, along with two other awards, were each combined into their own single category recognizing achievement in film. From 1949 to 1966, most Academy Awards for Best Costume Design in Black and White were given to a contemporary movie. On the other hand, epics, fantasies, and musicals dominated the color category. Since the merger into one singular category for color films in 1967, films set in modern times have won only three times. The three contemporary-set winners have been ""Travels with My Aunt"", ""All"
"Technicolor Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades. It was the second major color process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952. Technicolor became known and celebrated for its highly saturated color, and was initially most commonly used for filming musicals such as ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939) and ""Down Argentine Way"" (1940), costume pictures such as ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938) and ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939), and animated films such as ""Snow"
"Color. It was the first Ealing Studios film shot in color. Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) seeks solace from dashing Count Philip Konigsmark (Stewart Granger) when her husband Prince George Louis (Peter Bull), later to become King George I of Great Britain, wants nothing to do with her. The lovers are brought down by a jealous Countess Platen (Flora Robson). The novel, by Australian author Helen Simpson, was first published in 1935. It was the ""book of the month"" for the ""Evening Standard"". Simpson adapted the novel into a play but died in 1940 before any production took place. Film rights"
"a leading role Oscar. ""An American in Paris"" became the second color film to win Best Picture, after 1939's ""Gone with the Wind"". Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. These films had multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards. 24th Academy Awards The 24th Academy Awards honored the best in film in 1951, as recognized by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Best Picture was awarded to ""An American in Paris"", which, like ""A Place in the Sun"", received six Academy Awards. ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" won four Oscars, including three of the acting"
"it was found by the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford after lying forgotten in an old tin for 110 years. The previous title for earliest colour film, using Urban's inferior Kinemacolor process, was thought to date from 1909. The re-discovered films were made by pioneer Edward Raymond Turner from London who patented his process on 22 March 1899. In 1903 Urban formed the Charles Urban Trading Company, which produced early colour films using his patented Kinemacolor process. This was later challenged in court by Greene, causing the company to go out of business in 1915. In 1903 Frank"
"the second biographical film to win Best Picture. Luise Rainer received the Academy Award for Best Actress for ""The Good Earth"", earning her the distinctions of being the first actor to win two Academy Awards and the first to win consecutive acting awards. ""A Star Is Born"" was the first color film to receive a Best Picture nomination. Walt Disney's ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", the world's first full-length Technicolor animated feature film with sound and widely seen as one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, received only one nomination (Best Score). In the following year, the"
"The Color of Money The Color of Money is a 1986 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Richard Price, based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis. The film stars Paul Newman and Tom Cruise, with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, and John Turturro in supporting roles. It features an original score by Robbie Robertson. Newman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, his first Oscar win after eight nominations, seven of them for Best Actor. The film continues the story of pool hustler and Edward ""Fast Eddie"""
"documentary films ""With Our King and Queen Through India"" (also known as ""The Durbar at Delhi"", 1912), and the notable recovery of £750,000 worth of gold and silver bullion from the wreck of P&O's SS ""Oceana"" in the Strait of Dover (1912). ""With Our King and Queen Through India"" and the dramas ""The World, the Flesh and the Devil"" (1914), and ""Little Lord Fauntleroy"" (1914) were the first three feature films made in colour. These latter two features were also among the last films released by Kinemacolor. Kinemacolor enjoyed the most commercial success in the UK where, between 1909 and"
"It was on this project that Spielberg also met his future wife, actress Kate Capshaw. In 1985, Spielberg released ""The Color Purple,"" an adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, about a generation of empowered African-American women during depression-era America. Starring Whoopi Goldberg and future talk-show superstar Oprah Winfrey, the film was a box office smash and critics hailed Spielberg's successful foray into the dramatic genre. Roger Ebert proclaimed it the best film of the year and later entered it into his Great Films archive. The film received eleven Academy Award nominations, including two for Goldberg"
"first color feature made in Hollywood, and the first Technicolor color feature anywhere that did not require a special projector to be shown. The film premiered on 26 November 1922 at the Rialto Theatre in New York City, and went into general release on 22 January 1923. When young Chinese woman Lotus Flower sees an unconscious man floating in the water at the seashore, she quickly gets help for him. The man is Allen Carver, an American. Soon the two have fallen in love, and they get married ""Chinese fashion"". Carver promises to take her with him when he returns"
"a backdrop for their plots. In 1937 Ardeshir Irani, of ""Alam Ara"" fame, made the first colour film in Hindi, ""Kisan Kanya"". The next year, he made another colour film, a version of ""Mother India"". However, colour did not become a popular feature until the late 1950s. At this time, lavish romantic musicals and melodramas were the staple fare at the cinema. Following India's independence, the period from the late 1940s to the early 1960s is regarded by film historians as the ""Golden Age"" of Hindi cinema. Defining key figures during this time included Raj Kapoor, Guru Dutt, Mehboob Khan,"
"was inspired by the moving shots in the Italian movie, ""Cabiria,"" and developed a camera with special tracking abilities for his 1914 film, ""Pan's Mountain"". Notably, Mohr is the only person to have won a competitive Academy Award without being nominated for it. In 1936, a write-in campaign won him the Best Cinematography Oscar for his work on ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" (1935). The Academy later changed the Oscar rules, making write-in voting impossible. In 1944, Mohr became the first person to win an Oscar for both Black-and-White and Color cinematography when he won his second Academy Award, this time"
"Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Most Nominations: ""Cimarron"" (RKO Pictures) - 7 Major Awards Most Awards: ""Cimarron"" - 3 (Best Picture; Best Adaptation and Best Art Direction) ""Cimarron"" was the first Western to win Best Picture, and would remain the only one to do so for 59 years (until ""Dances with Wolves"" won in 1991). It received a then-record seven nominations, and was the first film to win more than two awards. The 5th Academy Awards were conducted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on November 18, 1932, at a ceremony held at The Ambassador"
"Color motion picture film Color motion picture film refers both to unexposed color photographic film in a format suitable for use in a motion picture camera, and to finished motion picture film, ready for use in a projector, which bears images in color. The first color cinematography was by additive color systems such as the one patented by Edward Raymond Turner in 1899 and tested in 1902. A simplified additive system was successfully commercialised in 1909 as Kinemacolor. These early systems used black-and-white film to photograph and project two or more component images through different color filters. Around 1920, the"
"Best Picture nominees were in color. It was also the first Oscar telecast to be videotaped for later broadcast, especially for those network affiliates that didn't want to broadcast the event live. All of the major awards winners were large-scale epics – Mike Todd's ""Around the World in 80 Days"", ""The King and I"", ""Anastasia"", George Stevens' ""Giant"", Cecil B. DeMille's ""The Ten Commandments"" (the highest-grossing film of the year), King Vidor's ""War and Peace"" and William Wyler's ""Friendly Persuasion"". And the trend toward blockbusters and colorful spectaculars was established for years to come, with ""The Bridge on the River"
"consultant for ""American Graffiti"" (1973). Wexler was cinematographer of Mike Nichols' screen version of ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" (1966), for which he won the last Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Black & White) handed out. The following year had Wexler as the cinematographer for the Oscar-winning detective drama, ""In the Heat of the Night"" (1967), starring Sidney Poitier. His work was notable for being the first major film in Hollywood history to be shot in color with proper consideration for a person of African descent. Wexler recognized that standard lighting tended to produce too much glare on that kind"
"of the song ""Le Chant du départ"", a French military song. It won the 1976 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; it was submitted to the Académie de Côte d'Ivoire, resulting in that country's first and only Oscar. Black and White in Color Black and White in Color (, then Noirs et Blancs en couleur for the 1977 re-issue) is an Ivorian 1976 war film and black comedy directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in his directorial debut. It depicts French colonists at war with the Germans in Central Africa during World War I, and is set in the then German"
"is a British Film Institute poll which ranks what they consider to be the 100 greatest British films of the 20th century. Two of the biggest actors in the silent era were Chaplin and Stan Laurel. The UK was the location of the oldest surviving motion picture film, ""Roundhay Garden Scene"" (1888), which was shot in Roundhay, Leeds in the north of England by French inventor Louis Le Prince. The world's first colour motion picture was shot by Edward Raymond Turner in 1902. Eadweard Muybridge was another notable English pioneer of motion picture, while pioneering Scottish documentary maker John Grierson"
"Best Picture without a Best Director nomination until ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), and the third of seven to win without a screenwriting nomination. This was the first of three Oscars in which ""two"" films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner (""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" and ""The Guardsman""). This happened again at the 25th and 79th Academy Awards. This year also introduced short films to the Oscars, with ""Flowers and Trees"" being the first color winner and first animated short winner. This was the first and, to date, only ceremony in which there was a"
"order to continue working. As a result, Boulle, who did not speak English, was credited and received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; many years later, Foreman and Wilson posthumously received the Academy Award. The film was widely praised, winning seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture) at the 30th Academy Awards. It used lush colour to bring out the British stiff upper lip of the colonel, played by Alec Guinness in an Oscar-winning performance. In 1997, the film was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library"
"first color film and the first Japanese color movie to be released outside Japan, receiving an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for Best Costume Design by Sanzo Wada and an Honorary Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It also won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the first Japanese film to achieve that honour. The year 1954 saw two of Japan's most influential films released. The first was the Kurosawa epic ""Seven Samurai"", about a band of hired samurai who protect a helpless village from a rapacious gang of thieves. The same year, Ishirō Honda directed the anti-nuclear"
"2012. While many confuse ""The Artist"" as a silent feature, it is actually a sound picture with an accompanying soundtrack. The 1927 film ""Wings"" is still the only silent film to win Best Picture, an honor received at the inaugural awards ceremony in 1929. Moreover, it was also the first black-and-white feature to win Best Picture since 1993's ""Schindler's List"". Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin became the first French actor to win an Oscar. With her latest win for Best Actress, Meryl Streep became the fifth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. At age 82, Best Supporting Actor"