Oscar: Posthumous Wins–Sidney Howard, Gone with the Wind

In 1939, Sidney Howard won a posthumous Screenplay Oscar for Gone With the Wind, to which other writers contributed but remained uncredited.

Oscar: Cinematography–Academy’s Most Diverse and International Category?

Of all the Oscar categories, the one that has benefited the most from movies being a truly international medium is cinematography.

Caravan (2017): Nepal’s First Foreign Language Film Oscar Nominee

The film, shot exclusively on the rough mountain terrains of Dolpa, the biggest district of Nepal, appealed to Nepalese and other filmgoers.

Solomon & Gaenor: UK Best Foreign Language Film Nominee?

In a subtle statement about the state of the film industry and its growing globalization, each and every one of the 1998 Best Picture nominees did all or most of its shooting overseas. In 1999, “American Beauty became” the first Best Picture in twenty-three years–since Rocky in 1976–to be lensed entirely in Hollywood.

Oscar Speeches: Mann, Abby–Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961

I believe a writer worth his salt at all has an obligation not only to entertain, but to comment on the world in which he lives