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Oscar: Foreign Language Film Oscar–Sundays and Cybele (1962)

January 7, 2010 by EmanuelLevy

In the charming French film, "Sundays and Cybele," directed and co-written by Serge Bourguignon, a German soldier (played by Hardy Kruger), who gad suffered emotional and mental damages from a plane crash during WWII, is mistaken to be the father of a young girl in a French boarding school.

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Through a Glass Darkly (1961): Ingmar Bergman’s Oscar-Winning Masterpiece, Starring Harriet Andersson and Max Von Sydow

January 6, 2010 by EmanuelLevy

In this gloomy, intense drama, set mostly in an isolated island, Harriet Andersson plays a schizohrenic woman married to a doctor (Max Von Sydow), who is frustrated because he loves her and sees her suffering, but can’t help her much, The movie was a second cosecuive Foreign Language Oscar for Bergman, after “The Virgin Spring,” the year before.

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Oscar 2009: Producers Guild Awards Nomination

January 5, 2010 by EmanuelLevy

Following the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America revealed 10 films, instead of the usual five, when it announced its nominees for its top movie award on Tuesday. "Avatar" led the group for the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, followed by….

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Oscar Movies: Cry Freedom (1987)

January 4, 2010 by EmanuelLevy

The film was nominated for three Oscars: Supporting Actor for Denzel Washington, Song: "Cry Freedom," music and lyrics by George Fenton and Jonas Gwangwa, and Original Score by George Fenton and Jonas Gwangwa.

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