“Glory,” the Civil War movie, directed by Edward Zwick, was nominated for five Oscar awards and won three: sound, cinematography, and suppportng actor to Denzel Washington. Matthew Broderick plays the young and callow Union officer Robert Gould Shaw, who takes charge of the 54thMassachusetts Regiment, a volunteer infantry unit composed of black soldiers. Denzel Washington […]

Warner This part-talkie, part silent feature tells the romantic story between Napoleon’s brother (Conrad Nagel) and an American woman (Dolores Costello.   Oscar Nominations: 1 Adaptation: Anthony Coldeway   Oscar Awards: None   Oscar Context The winner was Benjamin Glazer for Seventh Heaven     Share this:

This thriller, based on Patricia High Smith’s novel, concerns an architecht who is sent to prison when a school he designs collapses.  But he is not really responsible for the accident, and an interesting relationship between him and the culprit evolves upon his release. Oscar Nominations: 1 Foreign Language Film (Federal Rpublic of German)   […]

Columbia Set in a boarding school for rich girls, Girls School, directed by John Brahm, tells the story of a student’s pursuit of a man who elopes with one of the teachers. The cast includes Ralph Bellam, Anne Shirley, Marjorie Main. Oscar Nominations: 1 Score: Morris Stoloff and Gregory Stone     Oscar Context The […]

Italy Mario Monicelli’s comedy stars Monica Vitti as a Sicilian woman in London, seeking the man who had abducted her but fled when he realized her sexual appetite.  She then meets and falls for another Londoner, played by Stanley Baker.   Oscar Nominations: 1 Foreign Language Film   Oscar Awards: None   Oscar Context   […]