The first man to win the Pulitzer Prize for his film criticism, he's lobbied for a Pulitzer Prize for the movies
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Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe - The Pulitzer Prizes  For his vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation. ... The 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism.
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Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post - The Pulitzer Prizes  For his authoritative film criticism that is both intellectually rewarding and a ... Prize Winners ... (left) presents Stephen Hunter with the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. ..... I thought it was a writer's movie at first, because it was so familiar, and having ... He's onto something here, though I fear some viewers won't quite catch it.
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J! Archive - List Final Jeopardy! clues - Season 16  #3671, aired 2000-07-17, THE MOVIES: 1937 film whose 1954 & 1976 musical ... The first man to win the Pulitzer Prize for his film criticism, he's lobbied for a...
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How Mad helped Roger Ebert win a Pulitzer Prize - The Pulitzer Prizes  On his way to the prize, a movie critic takes on an issue of his time: Women's Lib. ... Sun-Times, he became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. ... who can be counted on at the box office  who are bankable  are male.
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Film Critic Wesley Morris Wins the Pulitzer Prize | IndieWire  Apr 16, 2012 ... The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris has won this year's Pulitzer Prize for criticism, ... force in Hollywood today is the 'Fast and Furious' movies. ... With his victory, Morris joins an elite group of film critics who've won the prestigious prize. ... The Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert was the first, back in 1975, and...
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1975 Pulitzer Prize - Wikipedia  The Pulitzer Prizes for 1975, the 59th annual prizes, were ratified by the Pulitzer Prize advisory ... It was also the first year that the prize for editorial cartooning went to a comic strip artist (Garry Trudeau, writer/artist of Doonesbury), and the first year that a film critic won a Pulitzer (Roger Ebert). Dumas Malone, 83, become the...
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In an upset, 'Spotlight' wins best picture at Academy Awards | The ...  Feb 28, 2016 ... LOS ANGELES  In an underdog win for a movie about an. ... "Spotlight" took best picture at an Academy Awards riven by protest and outrage, and ... four times previously, Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar, for a best actor in "The ... The Sweden-born Alicia Vikander took best supporting actress for the...
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The Life of Emile Zola: 1937 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Jul 21, 2014 ... He was nominated for Best Actor for his role in The Life of Emile Zola. ... AUTHORS $1200: After writing J'accuse, he was convicted of libel
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The Contender (2000) - News - IMDb  Bridges delivers a rich performance as a man not yet fully matured to  ... Some of us have revered Jeff Bridges for decades  since his good-natured young studs ..... In front of a standing ovation from the Kodak Theatre audience, Bridges' ... Now, his first film has earned him nominations for best screenplay from both the...
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Pulitzer Prize for Music - Wikipedia  The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a .... These seven men have determined who wins the big prizes in American music for the...
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The Story Behind the First Pulitzer for Jazz - Nieman Reports  Jun 20, 2016 ... In 1997, for the first time in the history of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, the award went to a genre ... Since the inception of the prize in 1943when composer William Schuman received the award for Secular Cantata No. 2 ... When jazz experimenter Henry Threadgill won a Pulitzer this year for In for a Penny,...
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Peninsula Library System : Pulitzer Prize  ... Father,by John Matteson. 2007, The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate ... 1999, Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg ... 1996, God: A Biography by Jack Miles ... 1993, Truman by David McCullough .... Blizzard of One by Mark Strand.
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Actor | My Favorite Westerns  ... Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. ... 1984 Nominated Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor: The Right Stuff ... 1986 Won New York Drama Critics' Circle for Best Play: A Lie of the Mind ... of Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff(1983), earning him an Academy Award...
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1917: Mine eyes have seen ... - The Pulitzer Prizes  Richards and Elliott were the first women to win a Pulitzer but, until recently, neither ... Why Julia Ward Howe was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize in biography . ... She raised six children with her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, and the ... The sisters struggled with which anecdotes to include and how to refer to their subject.
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Sidney Poitier - Wikipedia  Poitier was the first male actor of African descent to be nominated for a competitive Academy Award (for The Defiant Ones, 1958). He was also the first actor of African descent to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (for Lilies of the Field in 1963).
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Pulitzer Prize - PBS  Jan 24, 2006 ... When he won his first Pulitzer, in 1920 for Beyond the Horizon, O'Neill ... the popular plays A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1948), ... Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof won the award in 1955 despite its sexual...
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1936 Academy Awards Winners and History - Greatest Films  PAUL MUNI in "The Story of Louis Pasteur", Gary Cooper in "Mr. Deeds Goes to ... It combined the elements of the musical and the screen biography about the ... third nomination and first Oscar win) as the pioneering French medical scientist ... his first nomination) as the tuba-playing philanthropist Longfellow Deeds in Mr.
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9 Most Controversial Pulitzer Prize Winners of All Time ...  The Pulitzer Prize is the Academy Award for writers  whether they are from ... for a woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's 1921 win in the Novel...
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Academy Awards Best Pictures - Milestones - Greatest Films  William A. Wellman ... the winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture (titled as Outstanding Picture for the first two ... Picture), Unique and Artistic Production (the category was immediately dropped after its first year) ... the first sound film to win Best Picture; the first musical film to win Best Picture; the first Best Picture...
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Pulitzer Prize for Music - Wikipedia  The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first awarded in 1943. ... George Walker was the first African American composer to win the Prize, which ... it had become a very different kind of award, "by composers for composers" and...
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Controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 wins Palme d'Or - May ...  On this day in 2004, Michael Moore's documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11 beats out ... It became the first documentary to triumph at Cannes since The Silent World, co-directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, won the Palme d'Or in 1956. .... By the time he made Winning, the blue-eyed Newman was already famous for...