British producer-director Alexander Korda was not hampered by the strictures of the Production Code and, using Lajos Biro and Arthur Wimperis' scenario, which took liberties with historical facts, dared showing King Henry VIII as a lusty man, eating like a slob, sleeping with women and using politics as fun games.
Oscar Actors: Laughton, Charles–First and Only Oscar, The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
July 8, 2018 by
Oscar Movies: Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)–James Woods, Supporting Actor
July 5, 2018 by
James Woods was nominated for a second Oscar, this time in the Supporting Actor category for his role of Byron De La Beckwith. The first nomination was as Best Actor in the 1986 Oliver Stone film, Salvador.
Muller, Robby: Distinguished Dutch Cinematographer (Paris, Texas, Dancer in the Dark) Dies at 78
July 4, 2018 by
Robby Muller, the distinguished Dutch director of photography of such major 1980s and 1990s art films as Dancer in the Dark, Down by Law, Repo Man and Paris, Texas, died July 4 in his native Amsterdam.
Oscar Speeches: Spacek, Sissy–Carrie (1976)
June 30, 2018 by
When I first went to the Oscars, I felt like an impostor, and I didn’t know anybody. You feel like a little church mouse–Sissy Spacek
Oscar Artists: Shamroy, Leon (Cinematographer)
June 30, 2018 by
Ace cinematographer Leon Shamroy had won four Oscars, all of which for color films.
