Melina Mercouri Articles
Jules Dassin for the Honorary Oscar?
Within certain Hollywood circles, there is a movement to pick Jules Dassin, whose film career spans nearly 40 years, as the next recipient of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Honorary Academy Award. Having begun his career at the MGM short-film unit in 1941, Dassin went on to direct several important films noirs of the late 1940s — among them The Naked City [...]