The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944 film)
1944
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Academy Award Art Direction 1930 · Winner
Dec 22, 2004 · The Bridge of San Luis Rey: Directed by Mary McGuckian. With F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Geraldine Chaplin. In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.
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- Drama, History, Romance
- Mary McGuckian
- 2004-12-22
The Bridge of San Luis Rey won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, [9] [10] and remains widely acclaimed as Wilder's most famous novel. [11] In 1998, the book was rated number 37 by the editorial board of the American Modern Library on the list of the 100 best 20th-century novels. [12]
- Thornton Wilder
- 1927
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 2004 French-Spanish-British drama film directed by Mary McGuckian and featuring an ensemble cast, including Robert De Niro, Pilar López de Ayala, F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Émilie Dequenne, and Harvey Keitel.
The prizes, originally endowed with a gift of $500,000 from the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917. The awards are made by Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, composed of judges appointed by the university.
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He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.
Award: Pulitzer Prize. “On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.” With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.
