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Sep 15, 2023 · The film’s amusing, reflective examination of the film industry’s transition from the silent era to the age of the “talkies” earned it the Academy Award for Best Picture, a prize that...
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Mar 27, 2022 · The most recent black-and-white films to win Best Picture are Schindler's List and The Artist. United Artists Oscars: Every single film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards
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Mar 10, 2024 · He has been nominated a total of 13 times, winning once thanks to "Schindler's List." Below is a list of every best picture Oscar winner ever. 1st Academy Awards: "Wings". Charles "Buddy" Rogers ...
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Color always existed in the cinema. But it wasn’t until Technicolor in the early 1930s that all the colors seen before the camera could be captured. Because the processwas so difficult and expensive, color became the realm of fantasy, while the real world of the screen existed in shades of gray. The Academy saw this divide, refusing to consider col...
Monochrome became seen as the absence of color, where previously color had been seen as an addition. The next time a black-and-white film was nominated for a cinematography Oscar, it was a nostalgia piece, 1971’s “The Last Picture Show.” Likewise, “Lenny” (1974), “Raging Bull” (1980), and “Zelig” (1983) (the only monochrome films nominated for 25 y...
The rise of independent cinema in the mid-1980s made for more shades of gray at film festivals across the globe. From Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It” to Jim Jarmusch’s “Stranger Than Paradise,” these films had little to do with nostalgia. Rather, it was just what they could afford. Even if film stock was the same price, it was (and is) a lot more...
By the 1990s, the previous association of color with fantasy and black-and-white with realism had completely reversed. Its rarity brought out monochrome’s inherent aesthetic. It renders faces beautiful, violence palatable (see “Kill Bill Vol. 1”), and atrocities more digestible. Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” (1993) was the first black-and-w...
The glut of films this year begs us to look beyond the beauty of monochrome and contemplate how the technique is being used. The five films currently in awards contention (though there are many more) are using it in different ways to express their directors’ desired aesthetic. While that aesthetic tends to the historical for most, Bruno Delbonnel’s...
Mar 13, 2022 · The black and white Shakespeare adaptation, from U.K.’s J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities, was the first non-Hollywood film to take the top award. And Laurence Olivier became the first person to direct ...
At the 38th Academy Awards, held on April 18, 1966, the Best Picture winner ( The Sound of Music) and one other nominee ( Doctor Zhivago) were in color, but the remaining three nominees ( Darling, Ship of Fools and A Thousand Clowns) were in black-and-white.
Harriet Tubman. Nominated. First Black British actress to be nominated. Second Black woman to receive multiple Oscar nominations in the same year. Third person nominated for an acting award and a music award (Best Original Song) in the same year. First Nigerian to receive an Academy Award nomination.
