Tom Hanks, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty: Governors Awards 2009
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Norman Jewison, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Mirisch and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks present the Thalberg Award to producer John Calley (The Remains of the Day, The Da Vinci Code), who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Norman Jewison, whose socially conscious cop drama In the Heat of the Night won the best picture Oscar in 1968
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Board of Governors posed for a group photo following the 2009 Governors Awards
Front Row (left to right): Sid [...]
by Joan Lister | November 15, 2009
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Tags: 2010 Oscar, Academy Awards, Annette Bening, Dino De Laurentiis, Film Awards, George Lucas, Governors Awards, Honorary Oscar, Norman Jewison, Photos, Saul Zaentz, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Walter Mirisch, Warren Beatty
MOONSTRUCK Screening with Olympia Dukakis
Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis and TCM host Robert Osborne will take part in an onstage discussion following a screening of Moonstruck (1987) on Monday, December 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City. The screening is part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Monday Nights with Oscar" series.
Directed by Norman Jewison from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, the fluffy Moonstruck follows the unlikely blossoming of romance between, of all people, Cher and Nicolas Cage.
Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello, John Mahoney, and Feodor Chaliapin Jr. round out the cast of this romantic comedy that isn’t all that romantic or all that funny.
Moonstruck was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture (Patrick [...]
by Andre Soares | December 15, 2007
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Tags: Cher, John Patrick Shanley, Moonstruck, New York Screenings, Nicolas Cage, Norman Jewison, Olympia Dukakis, Oscar 1987, Oscar Movies, Romantic Comedies
THE HURRICANE – Denzel Washington – d: Norman Jewison
The Hurricane (1999)
Direction: Norman Jewison
Screenplay: Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon; from Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter’s The 16th Round, and Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton’s Lazarus and the Hurricane
Cast: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah, Dan Hedaya, Debbi Morgan, Clancy Brown, Harris Yulin, David Paymer, Rod Steiger
Like Stanley Kramer, Norman Jewison has often been dedicated to commercial filmmaking with a socially conscious edge: labor relations in F.I.S.T.; corruption in the U.S. justice system in . . . And Justice for All; religious fanaticism in Agnes of God; anti-Semitism in Fiddler on the Roof; and racism in both A Soldier’s Story and the Academy Award-winning cop thriller In the Heat of the Night. Though never a [...]
