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Seven Samurai (1954) topped the BBC poll of best foreign-language films as well as several Japanese polls.. Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951. [3]
Opening Night: Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev, USSR); Closing Night: The Big City (Satyajit Ray, India); Alone Across the Pacific (Kon Ichikawa, Japan); Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
On 24 September 2012, the film A Cube of Sugar was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards. [ citation needed ] However, on the same day the head of Iran's government controlled cinema agency called for a boycott of the Oscars due to the Innocence of Muslims video on YouTube that originated ...
Alejandro González Iñárritu awards Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2013 Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 4 7 BAFTA Awards 3 7 AACTA Awards 3 3 Ariel Awards 6 8 Golden Globes 4 7 DGA Awards 3 4 PGA Awards 1 3 Saturn Award 0 3 Independent Spirit Awards 2 4 The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Mexican film director, producer, and screenwriter Alejandro González ...
In 2008, Majidi's acclaimed film The Song of Sparrows was the opening film of the Visakhapatnam International Film Festival in India. [ 2 ] Majidi was one of five international film directors invited by the Beijing government to create a documentary short film to introduce the city of Beijing , in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics which ...
Awards have been divided into four major categories: critics' awards, voted on (usually annually) by a group of critics; festival awards, awards presented to the best film shown in a particular film festival; industry awards, which are selected by professionals working in some branch of the movie industry; and audience awards, which are voted ...
November 22 – Walt Disney Pictures releases Beauty and the Beast, based on the original fairy tale and Jean Cocteau's 1946 film. The film became one of the most prestigious and greatest animated and romantic films in cinema history. It went on to become the first animated film ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
This is a list of existing major film festivals, sorted by continent.. The world's oldest film festival is the Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica (Venice Film Festival), while the most prestigious film festivals in the world, known as the "Big Three", are (listed chronologically according to the date of foundation): Venice, Cannes and Berlin. [1]