Michael Cacoyannis’ adaptation of the famous tragedy by Euripides garnered him his first international success and an award at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, two years before he dirceted what became his most popular picture, the Oscar-nominated Zorba the Greek.”
Oscar: White Prize?–Black Nominees and Winners
February 1, 2012 by
Read tomorrow about black actresses at the Oscar.
In the Academy’s history, only nine performances have won the Oscar, three in the lead and five in the supporting category. Denzel Washington is the only black actor to have won two Oscars.
Oscar Movies: El Norte (1984)
January 31, 2012 by
With the somber gentleness of a fairytale like “Hansel and Gretel,” transplanted to 1980s Central America, El Norte is a bitter-sweet fable about two Guatemalan Indians, brother and sister, forced to flee their village due to politics and endure the ordeal of illegal immigrants.
Oscar Actors: Oldman, Gary–The Darkest Hour
January 31, 2012 by
Gary Oldman won the 2018 Best Actor Oscar for playing Churchill in the British biopic, The Darkest Hour.
Oscar Movies: El Cid (1961)
January 31, 2012 by
Anthony Mann’s impressive, Oscar-nominated historical epic, “El Cid,” is a grand, romanticized tale of the Christian Castilian Knight Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, called El Cid (played by Charlton Heston), who in the 11th century fought the North African Almoravides and helped to unify Spain as a nation.
