"scandals in the early 1960s (the most notorious being the Profumo affair), engulfed the Conservative government by 1963. The Labour party returned to government with a wafer-thin 4 seat majority under Wilson in the 1964 election, and increased their majority to 96 in 1966 election remaining in power until the 1970 election which, contrary to expectations during the campaign, they lost. The 1960s Labour government had a different emphasis from its 1940s predecessor. Harold Wilson put faith in economic planning as a way to solve Britain's economic problems. Wilson famously referred to the ""white heat of technology"", referring to the"
"Lawrence of Arabia (film) Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. Starring Peter O'Toole in the title role, the film depicts Lawrence's experiences in the Arabian Peninsula during World War I, in particular his attacks on Aqaba and Damascus and his involvement in the Arab National Council. Its themes include Lawrence's emotional struggles with the personal violence inherent in war, his own identity,"
"and then push on for independence. After some hesitation, Alec Guinness once again appeared, in his fourth David Lean film, as the Arab leader, Prince Faisal, despite his misgivings from their conflicts on ""Bridge on the River Kwai"". French composer Maurice Jarre, on his first Lean film, created a soaring film score with a famous theme and won his first Oscar for Best Original Score. The film turned actor Peter O'Toole, playing Lawrence, into an international star, was nominated for ten Oscars and won seven, including Best Picture and Lean's second win for Best Director. He remains the only British"
"competition in 24 categories. Among Thomas's books are: Lowell Thomas Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicising T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). He was also involved in promoting the Cinerama widescreen system. Thomas was born in Woodington, Darke County, Ohio, to Harry and Harriet (née Wagoner) Thomas. His father was a doctor, his mother a teacher. In 1900, the family moved to the mining town of Victor, Colorado. Thomas worked there as a gold miner, a cook, and a reporter on the newspaper. In"
"Coates died on 8 May 2018, at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. Anne V. Coates Anne Voase Coates (12 December 1925 – 8 May 2018) was a British film editor with a more than 60-year-long career. She was perhaps best known as the editor of David Lean's epic film ""Lawrence of Arabia"" in 1962, for which she won an Oscar. Coates was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the films ""Lawrence of Arabia"", ""Becket"" (1963), ""The Elephant Man"" (1980), ""In the Line of Fire"" (1993) and"
"Best Picture for ""Lambs"", in which he also made a cameo appearance. Utt died on January 19, 1994 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan at the age of 72. The cause was bone cancer.<ref name=""https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E5DB1330F931A15752C0A962958260""></ref> He is survived by his wife Angie and son Tim Utt and Daughter Robin Utt Fajardo Kenneth Utt Kenneth Utt (July 13, 1921 – January 19, 1994), was an American film producer and unit production manager, notable for producing ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991), for which he won an Oscar for Best Picture. Utt was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on July 13, 1921."
"film ""A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia"" was aired. It depicts events in the lives of Lawrence and Faisal subsequent to ""Lawrence of Arabia"" and featured Ralph Fiennes as Lawrence and Alexander Siddig as Prince Faisal. Lawrence of Arabia (film) Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. Starring Peter O'Toole in the title role, the film depicts Lawrence's experiences in the Arabian Peninsula"
"Academy Board of Directors with an Academy Award nomination as a co-writer of ""Lawrence of Arabia"" and credited as the winner of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best British Dramatic Screenplay. Wilson also completed an unproduced screenplay on December 16, 1976, ""The Raid On Harper's Ferry"", which was an adaptation of Truman J. Nelson's book ""The Old Man: John Brown at Harper's Ferry"" (1973). He also apparently wrote unproduced scripts for a movie about the Industrial Workers of the World titled ""The Wobblies"" and a movie about the infiltration of the Black Liberation Movement titled ""Quiet Darkness""."
"However, the film is believed lost. The epic film ""Lawrence of Arabia"" depicts the Arab Revolt during World War I. Allenby is given a major part in it and is portrayed by Jack Hawkins in one of his best-known roles. Screenwriter Bolt called Allenby a ""very considerable man"" and hoped to depict him sympathetically. Nonetheless, many view Allenby's portrayal as negative. The efforts of T. E. Lawrence (""""Lawrence of Arabia"""") were greatly aided by Allenby in the Arab Revolt, and he thought highly of Allenby: ""(He was) physically large and confident, and morally so great that the comprehension of our"
"and Laurence Olivier (1930s–1970s) have been nominated for an acting (lead or supporting) Academy Award in five different decades. With three Oscar wins, he also ties with Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ingrid Bergman, and Meryl Streep for the second-most Oscar wins in acting categories. Only Katharine Hepburn, with four Oscars, won more. In 2012, Nicholson co-presented the Academy Award for Best Picture with First Lady Michelle Obama. This ceremony marked the eighth time he has presented the Academy Award for Best Picture (1972, 1977, 1978, 1990, 1993, 2006, 2007, and 2012). Nicholson is an active and voting member of the"
"Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence is a book by Jeremy Wilson about the noted historic figure T. E. Lawrence (""Lawrence of Arabia""), who helped lead the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It was published in 1989, first by William Heinemann Ltd., London, then in the United States by Atheneum, New York. Michael Coren in the ""Toronto Star"" described this as ""an unremarkable book"", but it was named as one of the 14 best books of 1990 by ""The New York"
"Anne V. Coates Anne Voase Coates (12 December 1925 – 8 May 2018) was a British film editor with a more than 60-year-long career. She was perhaps best known as the editor of David Lean's epic film ""Lawrence of Arabia"" in 1962, for which she won an Oscar. Coates was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the films ""Lawrence of Arabia"", ""Becket"" (1963), ""The Elephant Man"" (1980), ""In the Line of Fire"" (1993) and ""Out of Sight"" (1998). In an industry where women accounted for only 16 percent of all editors working on the"
"comments: ""The New York Times"" film critic Bosley Crowther dismissed ""Lawrence of Arabia"" as ""a huge, thundering camel-opera that tends to run down rather badly as it rolls on into its third hour and gets involved with sullen disillusion and political deceit"". Writing about the same film in ""The Village Voice"", Andrew Sarris remarked that ""Lawrence"" was ""...simply another expensive mirage, dull, overlong, and coldly impersonal... on the whole I find it hatefully calculating and condescending..."" In 1974, Lean was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship. David Lean Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer,"
"Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Japanese: ), also known in many European editions as Furyo (俘虜, Japanese for ""prisoner of war""), is a 1983 British-Japanese wartime drama film directed by Nagisa Oshima, produced by Jeremy Thomas and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano and Jack Thompson. The screenplay by Oshima with Paul Mayersberg was based on Sir Laurens van der Post's experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II as depicted in his works ""The Seed and the Sower"" (1963) and ""The Night of the New Moon"" (1970). Sakamoto also wrote"
"films topping the American Film Institute's AFI 100 list include Orson Welles's ""Citizen Kane"" (1941), which is frequently cited as the greatest film of all time, ""Casablanca"" (1942), ""The Godfather"" (1972), ""Gone with the Wind"" (1939), ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939), ""The Graduate"" (1967), ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), ""Schindler's List"" (1993), ""Singin' in the Rain"" (1952), ""It's a Wonderful Life"" (1946) and ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1950). The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, have been held annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1929, and the Golden Globe Awards have been held"
"Jackson Bentley Jackson Bentley was a fictional American journalist who appeared in the film ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962); he is portrayed by Arthur Kennedy. He is based on famed American journalist Lowell Thomas. Bentley first appears at the funeral of T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) in 1935. Asked for his opinion about Lawrence by a reporter, he remarks: Then, after the reporter exits, he says to a friend: He is then accosted by a British Medical Officer (Howard Marion-Crawford) who protests angrily that Lawrence was ""a very great man."" Bentley does not appear in the story proper until the beginning"
"one of the greatest and most influential films in the history of cinema. The dramatic score by Maurice Jarre and the Super Panavision 70 cinematography by Freddie Young are also highly acclaimed. In 1991, ""Lawrence of Arabia"" was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" and selected for preservation in the US Library of Congress National Film Registry. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed it 5th on their 100 Years...100 Movies list, and 7th on their 2007 updated list. In 1999, the British Film Institute named the film the third-greatest British film of all time. The film is presented in"
"Times"". Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence is a book by Jeremy Wilson about the noted historic figure T. E. Lawrence (""Lawrence of Arabia""), who helped lead the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It was published in 1989, first by William Heinemann Ltd., London, then in the United States by Atheneum, New York. Michael Coren in the ""Toronto Star"" described this as ""an unremarkable book"", but it was named as one of the 14 best books of 1990 by ""The New"
"are in the top 10 inflation-adjusted commercially successful films ever made, and both would appear 33 years later on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the twentieth century. ""The Sound of Music"" was the first Best Picture winner without a screenwriting nomination since ""Hamlet""; it would be the last until ""Titanic"" at the 70th Academy Awards. ""Othello"" became the third film (of four to date) to receive four acting nominations without one for Best Picture. Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, attended the Academy Awards presentation and was escorted by actor George"
"with a British sensibility such as the ""Angry Young Men"" genre, ""What's New Pussycat?"" and ""Alfie"" styled London Theatre. A new wave of British actors such as Peter O'Toole and Michael Caine intrigued US audiences. Four of the decade's Academy Award winners for best picture were British productions, with the epic ""Lawrence of Arabia"", starring O'Toole as British army officer T. E. Lawrence, winning seven Oscars in 1963. British television series such as ""Danger Man"" (renamed ""Secret Agent"" in its U.S. airings), ""The Saint"" and ""The Avengers"" began appearing on American screens, inspiring a series of American-produced espionage programs such"
"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"
"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"
"The British military officer became famous during World War One, but only became truly world-famous with the general public thanks to the 1962 movie ""Lawrence of Arabia."" Celebrities like Charlie Chaplin, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Michael Jackson, The Beatles on the other hand, have never remained out of publicity and are nowadays famous for simply being who they are. Some people became famous due to their association with other celebrities. Examples are Yoko Ono (the wife of Beatle John Lennon), Lady Diana (who married Prince Charles in 1981) and Wallis Simpson (whose affair with King Edward VIII"
"– John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley – Rosamund Marriott Watson – Theodore Watts-Dunton – Oscar Wilde – Margaret L. Woods – Theodore Wratislaw – W. B. Yeats Richard Aldington Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet. Aldington was known best for his First World War poetry, the 1929 novel, ""Death of a Hero"", and the controversy resulting from his 1955 ""Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry"". His 1946 biography, ""Wellington"", was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Aldington was born in Portsmouth, the son of a"
"opposed codes of honour. The final segment is Lawrence’s reminiscence of a brief affair with a woman whose name he never learned, shortly before his capture by the Japanese. The Seed and the Sower The Seed and the Sower is a book by South African writer Laurens van der Post, consisting of three interrelated stories blended into a novel, first published in 1963. The novel was filmed in 1983 as ""Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence"", directed by Nagisa Oshima and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Takeshi Kitano. The first story is set in a Japanese Prisoner of War"
"salmon really were as big as those in the Tay. He died suddenly from a ruptured cerebral aneurysm on 14 May 1936 in London, aged 75. He was cremated and his ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey. Allenby supposedly once said that people would have to visit a war museum to learn of him, but that T. E. Lawrence would be remembered and become a household name. This was quoted by Robert Bolt in his screenplay for the 1962 film ""Lawrence of Arabia"", directed by David Lean. A blue plaque unveiled in 1960 commemorates Allenby at 24 Wetherby Gardens, South"
"(1959) directed by Carol Reed, starring Sir Alec Guinness and Noël Coward. But perhaps her most memorable work may well be from her collaboration with Sir David Lean on two of his most critically acclaimed films: ""Lawrence of Arabia"" in 1962, starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif; and again three years later on ""Dr. Zhivago"" starring Sharif and Julie Christie, for which she won her first Academy Award. For this particular film, Dalton and her team ended up making 3,000 individual costumes and putting together 35,000 individual items of clothing for the extras. The characters of Zhivago (Sharif) and Lara"
"by some 20 million people in Britain in its six weeks of exhibition, making it what the critic Francine Stock called ""one of the most successful films of all time"". William A. Wellman's ""Wings"" (1927), about the First World War, was the first film (in any genre), and the only silent film, to win an Oscar for best picture. Later films of varied genres that deal with the First World War include David Lean's ""colossal epic"", both war film and biopic ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), shot in the then unfamiliar and exciting 70mm Technicolor, and described by Steven Spielberg as"
"Lowell Thomas Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicising T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). He was also involved in promoting the Cinerama widescreen system. Thomas was born in Woodington, Darke County, Ohio, to Harry and Harriet (née Wagoner) Thomas. His father was a doctor, his mother a teacher. In 1900, the family moved to the mining town of Victor, Colorado. Thomas worked there as a gold miner, a cook, and a reporter on the newspaper. In 1911, Thomas graduated from Victor High School where"
"acclaim; the film as a whole is widely considered a masterpiece of world cinema and one of the greatest films ever made. Additionally, its visual style has influenced many directors, including George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone, and Steven Spielberg, who called the film a ""miracle"". The American Film Institute ranked ""Lawrence of Arabia"" 5th in its original and 7th in its updated 100 Years...100 Movies lists and first in its list of the greatest American films of the ""epic"" genre. In 1991, the film was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically"
"""Premiere"". T. E. Lawrence, portrayed by O'Toole, was selected as the tenth-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute. In addition, ""Lawrence of Arabia"" is currently one of the highest-rated films on Metacritic; it holds a perfect 100/100 rating, indicating ""universal acclaim"", based on seven reviews. It has a 98% ""Certified fresh"" approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 80 reviews with an average rating of 9.1/10 from critics with the consensus stating, ""The epic of all epics, ""Lawrence of Arabia"" cements director David Lean's status in the filmmaking pantheon with nearly four hours of grand scope, brilliant"
"19th Academy Awards The 19th Academy Awards continued a trend through the late-1940s of the Oscar voters honoring films about contemporary social issues. ""The Best Years of Our Lives"" concerns the lives of three returning veterans from three branches of military service as they adjust to life on the home front after World War II. The Academy awarded Harold Russell—a World War II veteran who had lost both hands in the war and who, despite not being an actor, portrayed Homer Parrish in ""The Best Years of Our Lives""—an Honorary Academy Award for ""bringing hope and courage to his fellow"
"in 1889 ""for the building of a Working Men's Institute, 'to provide rational amusement and instruction for working men of any creed, sect, or opinions, who may thus be kept out of public houses'"". The Anchor Inn, featured in Inspector Morse, ""Death Is Now My Neighbour"", is located at the corner of Hayfield and Polstead Roads. The most famous resident was T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935), who was later to become known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'. The son of Thomas Chapman (who became, in 1914, Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Bt.), an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, he was brought up in a house (No."