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Academy Awards

Date released

18 Apr 1968

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2028A

NoS ID

027343

Story no

1 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Academy Awards. DESCRIPTION: The Annual presentation of Oscars at the Hollywood Academy Awards, featuring the Stars and Personalities who’ve been acclaimed with the highest honour the...

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1995 Oscars ceremony (1995)

Genre

News report; Speech

Dominic Waghorn reports on the 1995 Oscars ceremony in Hollywood with Forrest Gump taking 6 awards and British hopefuls Four Weddings and a Funeral and The Madness of King George not faring well. Includes...

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Henry V (1989 Film)

Director

Kenneth Branagh

Producer

Bruce Sharman

Feature film version of Shakespeare’s play. Kenneth Branagh’s directorial debut which is widely regarded as heralding a ‘renaissance’ in filmed Shakespeare in the 1990s.

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Jesus de Montreal (1989 Film)

aka: Jesus of Montreal

Director

Denys Arcand

Producer

Robert Frappier; Pierre Gendron; Monique Letourneau

Feature film. A group of actors puts on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors’ lives begin to mirror the Passion itself. René...

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Hamlet (1948 Film, Video)

Director

Laurence Olivier

Producer

Laurence Olivier

Oscar-winning feature film adaptation of the play directed by and starring Laurence Olivier.

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Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945 Film)

Director

Elia Kazan

Producer

Louis D. Lighton

Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...

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Julius Caesar (1953 Film, Video)

Director

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Producer

John Houseman

Mankiewicz’s version of the tragedy that ‘some Americans regard as their own has stood the test of time’ (The Guardian 2019). With an impressive cast, including Louis Calhern as Caesar, Marlon Brando...

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Shakespeare in Love (1998 Film, Video)

Director

John Madden

Producer

David Parfitt; Harvey Weinstein; Marc Norman; Edward Zwick; Donna Gigliotti

Feature film. A comic drama in which William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young writer who is struggling financially and, envious of a rival, meets an aspiring actress who dresses as a boy to work in...

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Harry and Tonto (1974 Film)

Director

Paul Mazursky

Producer

Paul Mazursky

Feature film. A version of the Lear story displaced to modern America. When Harry, a retired English teacher, is evicted from his apartment he cries out a tirade from King Lear. Like Lear, Harry has three...

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Henry V (1944 Film, Video)

Director

Laurence Olivier

Producer

Laurence Olivier

Feature film and Olivier’s directorial debut. The film opens with a typical performance at the Globe Theatre in 1600, moves gradually into reality for the battle and then returns to the Globe. Intended as...

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