The DGA vs. the Academy: 1970s
Martin Balsam, Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express (top); Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence (bottom)
The DGA vs. the Academy: 1960s
1970
DGA: David Lean for Ryan’s Daughter and Bob Rafelson for Five Easy Pieces
AMPAS: Federico Fellini for Satyricon and Ken Russell for Women in Love
1971
DGA: Robert Mulligan for Summer of ‘42
AMPAS: Norman Jewison for Fiddler on the Roof
1972
DGA: George Roy Hill for Slaughterhouse-Five and Martin Ritt for Sounder
AMPAS: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Sleuth and Jan Troell for The Emigrants
1973
DGA: Sidney Lumet for Serpico
AMPAS: Ingmar Bergman for Cries and Whispers
1974
DGA: Sidney Lumet for Murder on the Orient Express and Francis Ford Coppola for The Conversation
AMPAS: John Cassavetes for A [...]
by Andre Soares | December 30, 2006
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Tags: A Woman Under the Influence, Academy Awards, Classic Movies, DGA Awards, Film Awards, John Cassavetes, Murder on the Orient Express, Sidney Lumet
Oscar 2005: Sidney Lumet to Receive Honorary Award
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Board of Governors has chosen director Sidney Lumet, 80, as the next recipient of the Honorary Oscar. The award, in honor of Lumet’s "brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture," will be presented at the 77th Academy Awards ceremony on February 27, 2005.
Lumet, who made his feature-film début in 1957, has been nominated four times for a best directing Academy Award: 12 Angry Men (1957), starring Henry Fonda; Dog Day Afternoon (top photo, 1975), starring Al Pacino; Network (1976), starring William Holden, Peter Finch, and Faye Dunaway; and The Verdict (1982), starring Paul Newman.
Lumet (along with Jay Presson Allen) was [...]
by Andre Soares | December 25, 2004
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Tags: 2005 Oscar, Academy Awards, Al Pacino, Classic Movies, Dog Day Afternoon, Film Awards, Honorary Oscar, Murder on the Orient Express, Sidney Lumet
