Of all movies to win the Best Foreign-Language Oscar, this 1969 Costa-Gavras thriller has the shortest title
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2007 Archive of Screened Films: Mary Pickford Theater (Moving ...  View an archive of screened films from January-December 2007 in the ... translate into box-office or critical success, and the film has won few admirers over the years. ...... Pauline Kael wrote of this film: "Costa-Gavras's extraordinary thriller--one of ..... Ju Dou was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language...
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List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign ...  The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is handed out annually by the U.S.-based ... When sorted chronologically, the table always lists the winning film first and ... When a film's original title is in a language that uses a non-Latin script, it is first ...... All about Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards.
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Z (1969) - IMDb  Crime ... Directed by Costa-Gavras. ... Favorite non-European film to win the Foreign Language Film Oscar? poll image ... Certificate: GP Drama | Thriller ... See full summary  ..... I think the best way to watch "Z" is in total silence, with your eyes glued to the screen and your mind ... 'Has the record for shortest movie title ever.
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Film History Milestones - 1969 - Greatest Films  Director Costa-Gavras' French-Algerian co-produced thriller Z (1969) ... It was also the first nominee in the Best Foreign Language Film category to be ... It also had the shortest title of a film nominated for an Oscar. ... wanted to be associated with a film and disowned it (others who have done so include .... All rights reserved.
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Z (1969 film) - Wikipedia  Z is a 1969 Algerian-French political thriller film directed by Costa-Gavras, with a screenplay by ... The film's title refers to a popular Greek protest slogan (Greek: , IPA: [zi]) meaning "he lives," in reference to Lambrakis. ... fewto be nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Picture.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai: 1957 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 10, 2014 ... The winner of the Best Picture Oscar at the 30th Academy Awards was The Bridge ... THE BFI'S TOP 100 BRITISH FILMS $400: 7 David Lean-directed films made the list, including this 1957 P.O.W. movie that won 7 Oscars.
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IMDb: What is your favorite one-word titled Best Picture winner? - a ...  Oct 10, 2013 ... ... 25% of Best Picture Oscar winners have only one word in the title. ... of these films stood the test of time and became undeniable classics. Their status called for a poll ... so which of these 22 on-word titled .... bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife. ... Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
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Oscars Trivia: 19 Surprising Academy Awards Facts And 'Firsts' To ...  Feb 28, 2014 ... 1. What was the first color film to win best picture? The very first moving color images were made by British inventor and cinematographer Edward Raymond Turner in 1902. They featured segments of a girl on a swing, marching solders a macaw and a goldfish.
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Day for Night (1973) More at IMDbPro La nuit amricaine  Day for Night (1973) More at IMDbPro La nuit amricaine (original title) ... Day for Night -- FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT's sly, humorous Oscar-winning Best Foreign ... Also Known As: ... "The American Night" - International (English title) (literal title)
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Powerful 1982 thriller 'Missing' becomes part of the Criterion ...  Oct 21, 2008 ... Director: Costa-Gavras Distributor: Criterion Collection Rated PG ... by making Missing, the acclaimed 1982 film about the disappearance and...
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Cannes: Why 'Toni Erdmann' could win the Palme d'Or and other ...  May 22, 2016 ... Cannes 2016: Ken Loach's 'I, Daniel Blake' wins Palme d'Or; Xavier Dolan ... only be richly deserved, but also make her the first female director to win the ... cinema for the first time since Jane Campion's The Piano tied with...
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15 Academy Award Firsts | Mental Floss  Feb 15, 2016 ... 4. FIRST COLOR MOVIE TO WIN A BEST PICTURE OSCAR: GONE WITH THE WIND. In 1938, A Star Is Born became the first all-color movie to receive a Best Picture nomination. Two years later, Gone with the Wind became the first color movie to win the award.
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Kramer vs. Kramer: 1979 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 1, 2014 ... More 1979 Oscars: The Tin Drum (Best Foreign Film), Breaking Away ... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $200: This star had a heart attack & was even given last rites while making the 1979 Coppola film Apocalypse Now
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Ben-Hur: 1959 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 12, 2014 ... FILM FACTS $600: Titanic tied this 1959 film's record of 11 Oscars but didn't overtake it ... FOREIGN CINEMA $1600: Truffaut provided the story for this 1959 Godard film in which Belmondo plays a hood who kills a cop
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2003 Academy Awards Winners - Greatest Films  The big winner this year was a predictable favorite - New Zealander director ... It was also the third sequel in Oscar history to be nominated for Best Picture, ... for a third Oscar for her film - Best Original Screenplay - and this was her only win this year. Sofia Coppola's win made her part of the second family of three-generation...
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All 87 Best Picture Oscar Winners Ranked - BuzzFeed  Feb 27, 2014 ... The other Oscars it won: Haggis and Moresco (Best Original ... It was almost two years after Wings was released. ... (It cost more than $1.4 million to make, which indie films can still make work today.) ... to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, the first modern movie musical, ...... Gone With the Wind (1939).
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Thriller and Suspense Films  Director George Cukor's classic psychological thriller Gaslight (1944) (first .... into the 1940s in a number of brilliant black-and-white films, Hitchcock continued to...
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War and Peace in English or with English subtitles online  Deservingly, the epic won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. A Russian Prince experiences battle against Napoleon and...
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Kramer vs. Kramer: 1979 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Sep 1, 2014 ... More 1979 Oscars: The Tin Drum (Best Foreign Film), Breaking Away ... Title of a 1979 Allen film, or where he set his 1993 Murder Mystery
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The Third Man (1949) - Rotten Tomatoes  Critic Consensus: This atmospheric thriller is one of the undisputed masterpieces of cinema, ... Nominated for several Academy Awards, The Third Man won Best Cinematography for Robert Krasker. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi. Rating: NR. Genre:.
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Around the World in Eighty Days: 1956 Best Picture  Fikkle Fame  Aug 9, 2014 ... WEAK END $2000: The New York Times said this 1956 film about a grade ... budget of this 1956 film with Charlton Heston ran into DeMilliones