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Liberty Films The Razor's Edge: 20th Century-Fox The Yearling: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1947; Gentleman's Agreement: 20th Century-Fox (Darryl F. Zanuck, producer) The Bishop's Wife: Samuel Goldwyn Productions (Samuel Goldwyn, producer) Crossfire: RKO Radio Great Expectations: J. Arthur Rank-Cineguild Miracle on 34th Street: 20th Century-Fox 1948; Hamlet
The cinema of the United States, centered around major film studios collectively referred to as Hollywood, has significantly influenced the global film industry since the early 20th century. Classical Hollywood cinema, a filmmaking style developed in the 1910s, continues to shape many American films today.
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture , its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non ...
Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, published in Time magazine across five issues in 1998 and 1999. The idea for such a list started on February 1, 1998, with a debate at a symposium in Hanoi , Vietnam .
Part of the New Hollywood era of cinema, [1] [2] Kubrick's films are considered by film historian Michel Ciment to be "among the most important contributions to world cinema in the twentieth century", [3] and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of cinema.
20th Century-Fox (now 20th Century Studios) Twentieth Century Pictures, Inc. was an American independent Hollywood motion picture production company created in 1933 by Joseph Schenck (the former president of United Artists ) and Darryl F. Zanuck from Warner Bros. Pictures (and co-founded by William Goetz from Fox Studios , and Raymond Griffith ).
Since the first narrative films in the mid-late 1890s, filmmakers have sought to capture the power of live theatre on the cinema screen. Most of these filmmakers started as directors on the late 19th-century stage, and likewise, most film actors had roots in vaudeville (e.g. The Marx Brothers [4]) or theatrical melodramas. Visually, early ...
Films on the list span a period of 80 years, starting with Sherlock Jr. (1924) directed by Buster Keaton, and finishing with Finding Nemo (2003) directed by Andrew Stanton. Of the 33 films in the list that were released before 1950, only 6 were produced outside Hollywood, and 13 of those 27 American films were directed by men born abroad: [4]