On the Waterfront
1954
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Jan 16, 2020 · Numerous actors and writers saw their lives and livelihoods destroyed; those who refused to “name names” were blacklisted, denied work. What makes Kazan an especially controversial figure was ...
- michael.hiltzik@latimes.com
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Mar 22, 1999 · In an appearance that was considerably less dramatic than the controversy leading up to Sunday’s Academy Awards, the 89-year film titan received a mixed reaction as he took the stage to receive...
He won the Venice Film Festival International Award as director, and the film also won two Academy Awards. Kazan had requested that Zero Mostel also act in the film, despite Mostel being "blacklisted" as a result of HCUA testimony a few years earlier.
- 1934–1976
- 5, including Nicholas
As we’ve previously noted here on Open Culture, Orson Welles was not given to mincing words about his colleagues. And the older he got, the fewer words he minced, as evidenced by the clip above from a talk he gave at a Paris film school in 1982.
Mar 22, 2024 · But when Kazan appeared, large swathes of the audience remained conspicuously seated, their hands by their laps and refusing to applaud.
- Geoffrey Macnab
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Sep 3, 2003 · Elia Kazan, one of America's great directors, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999, but faced fierce opposition for naming names before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952. The film explores the blacklist, the McCarthy era, and the friendship and estrangement of Kazan and Arthur Miller.
Mar 22, 1999 · Elia Kazan said ''thank you'' tonight at the Academy Awards, and then walked off stage slowly to sustained applause. It was, in some ways, a bittersweet finale to the controversy over the...
