In the entire history of the Oscars, only two African-American writers have won the Writing Award. In 2013, John Ridley’s script for 12 Years a Slave won the Oscar Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Ridley became the second black to win the award after Geoffrey S. Fletcher, who won in 2009 for Precious: Based on the Novel […]

Still Alice got a big lift from Julianne Moore’s best actress Oscar win, with earnings climbing more than 20% from the previous weekend. The drama about a woman struggling with Alzheimer’s disease picked up $2.7 million, after nearly doubling its screen count to 1,318, bringing its total to almost $12 millio

This British war drama was the second collaboration of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who will become one of the most successful teams in film history. Six British bomber crewmen bail out over Holland, and to escape detection from the Nazis, the crewmen accept the hospitality of their hosts, dedicated to the freedom-fighting of the […]

UA Hal Roach Oscar Nominations: 2 Original Score: Werner Heymann Special Effects: Roy Seawright, visual; Elmer Raguse, sound Oscar Awards: None Oscar Context: The Scoring Oscar went to Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, and Ned Washington for Pinocchio. Jack Whitney won he Sound Effects and Lawrence Butler the Visual Effects for The Thief of Bagdad. […]

In her big screen debut, Sonja Henie makes her father (Jean Hersholt) proud by winning a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Henie, as is well known, was a three-time gold medalist, who was brought to Hollywood to make a series of popular ice-skating pictures, which were perfectly escapist fare during the Depression era. Directed […]