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Olivia Gets Oscar Habit

Date released

3 Apr 1950

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1992

NoS ID

042283

Story no

4 / 5

For second time Olivia de Havilland receives Motion Picture Academy Award as year’s best actress.

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Love, Cecil (2017)

aka: The Life of Legendary Photographer Cecil Beaton

Director

Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Subject

Design; Film studies

Documentary about Academy Award-winning costume designer Cecil Beaton. A respected photographer, artist and set designer, Beaton was best known for designing on award winning films such as ‘GIGI’ (1958)...

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Shakespeare in Love (2009 Radio)

Series

And the Academy Award Goes to ...

Producer

Paul Kobrak

In this episode of the radio series that traces the history of the Oscars, presenter Paul Gambaccini tells the story behind John Madden’s award-winning film SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, the last comedy to win an...

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Bass on Titles (1977)

Producer

Saul Bass

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 32 minutes), $39.00 ($89.00 institutional use)

The work of Academy Award-winner Saul Bass covers the full range of the design spectrum. In this film he combines his favourite subjects with his interest in the cinema, by presenting a selection of the...

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Boheme, La (2009)

Director

Robert Dornheim

Subject

Drama; French studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 100 minutes), £29.99

Giacomo Puccini’s celebrated opera is brought to life in a lavish feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Dornhelm and starring the soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Rolando Villazón....

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Tabloid (2012)

Director

Errol Morris

Producer

Julie Bilson Ahlberg

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £14.99

Academy Award-winner Errol Morris’ Tabloid follows the stranger-than-fiction adventures of Joyce McKinney, a former "beauty queen" whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her across the...

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Blind Pianist

Date released

1971

Series name

London Line

Issue no

367

NoS ID

350457

Story no

4 / 4

COI synopsis: Michael Nedd, from Guyana, though blind has won an award at The Royal Academy of Music. He shows how the blind learn music from a special musical braille which can allow them to reach their...

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World Without Sun (1964)

Director

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Subject

Biology; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 89 minutes), £12.99

Jacques Cousteau won Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for his 1964 film WORLD WITHOUT SUN, which documents an experiment in which a team of divers, scientists and engineers attempt to live for a month...

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Minding the Gap (2019)

Director

Liu Bing

Subject

Social Studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £9.99

This Academy Award-nominated documentary-study is a coming-of-age saga drawing on over 12 years of footage in Rockford, Illinois, hit hard by decades of recession. A quest to understand why so many of the...

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Private Romeo (2011 Film)

aka: Shakespeare Project, The

Director

Alan Brown (3)

Producer

Agathe David-Weill; Kevin Ginty

Low budget, independent feature film. "Set in a high school military academy, PRIVATE ROMEO is a cinematic mash-up of the text of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, lip-synched YouTube videos of the music...

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