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x American Sublime sublime.JPG 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Elizabeth Alexander
American Sublime is a book by Elizabeth Alexander.
x Face to Face 1976 Academy Award for Best Director Ingmar Bergman
Face to Face (Swedish: Ansikte mot ansikte) is a 1976 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness. It stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson. The film was screened...
1976 Academy Award for Best Actress Liv Ullmann
x Cries and Whispers 1973 Academy Award for Best Director Ingmar Bergman
Cries and Whispers (Swedish: Viskningar och rop, literally "Whispers and Cries") is a 1973 Swedish film about two sisters who watch over their third sister on her deathbed, torn between fearing she might die and hoping that she will. The film was...
1973 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay Ingmar Bergman
1973 Academy Award for Best Picture Ingmar Bergman
x Fanny and Alexander 1984 Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture Ingmar Bergman
Fanny and Alexander (Swedish: Fanny och Alexander) is a 1982 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally conceived as a four part TV movie which spanned 312 minutes. A version lasting 188 minutes was created later for...
1984 BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Film Ingmar Bergman
1983 Academy Award for Best Director Ingmar Bergman
1983 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay Ingmar Bergman
x Saraband 2005 César Award for Best European Film Ingmar Bergman
Saraband (2003) is a Swedish telemovie by film director Ingmar Bergman and his last theatrically released work. The film is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), bringing back to the screen the characters of Johan and Marianne, played...
x Autumn Sonata 1979 César Award for Best Foreign Film Ingmar Bergman
Autumn Sonata (Swedish: Höstsonaten) is a 1978 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann and Lena Nyman. It tells the story of a famous pianist who is confronted by her neglected daughter....
1978 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay Ingmar Bergman
1978 Academy Award for Best Actress Ingrid Bergman
x The Magic Flute 1976 César Award for Best Foreign Film Ingmar Bergman
The Magic Flute (Swedish: Trollflöjten) is Ingmar Bergman's 1975 highly acclaimed film version of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte. It was intended as a TV-production and was first shown on Swedish television but was followed by a cinema release later...
x The Magician Magicianfilm 1960 BAFTA Award for Best Film Ingmar Bergman
The Magician is a 1958 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Its original Swedish title is Ansiktet, which means "face", and it was released theatrically as The Face in the UK, although video releases have used the U.S. title. The film stars...
x Through a Glass Darkly Såsom i en spegel 1962 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay Ingmar Bergman
Through a Glass Darkly (Swedish: Såsom i en spegel) is a 1961 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and produced by Allan Ekelund. The film is a three-act “chamber film,” in which four family members act as mirrors for each other. It...
x Wild Strawberries 1960    
Wild Strawberries is a 1957 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, about an old man recalling his past. The original Swedish title is Smultronstället, which literally means "the wild strawberry patch", but idiomatically means an underrated gem...
1959 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay Ingmar Bergman
x The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Academy Award for Best Cinematography Sven Nykvist
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Milan Kundera. It is directed by Philip Kaufman and written by Kaufman and Jean-Claude Carrière. Like the novel, it is set in Prague in 1968 and details the...
1988 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Jean-Claude Carrière
x The Ox   1991 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Sven Nykvist  
x It's just the night   2004   Del McCoury Band  
x Why Should the Fire Die? Cover Of Why Should The Fire Die? 2005 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album Nickel Creek
Why Should The Fire Die? is the third major album release and fifth album overall by progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek. The album was released on August 9, 2005 in the United States, and on August 8 in the United Kingdom. Why Should the Fire...
x The Death of Doctor Island   1974 Hugo Award for Best Novella Gene Wolfe  
1973 Nebula Award for Best Novella Gene Wolfe
x Lisey's Story Lisey's Story 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Stephen King
Lisey's Story is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King. It was released on October 24, 2006. Lisey (pronounced Lee-See) Landon is the widow of an award winning novelist, Scott Landon. In the middle of cleaning out Scott's study, Lisey...
x The Lies of Locke Lamora Cover to the US hardback edition of "The Lies of Locke Lamora" 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora is a fantasy novel by Scott Lynch. It follows the adventures of a group of con artists known as the Gentlemen Bastards. They live in a city called Camorr, heavily based on late medieval Venice. The book is divided into two...
x Soldier of Sidon 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Gene Wolfe  
x Gravity's Rainbow 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the...
1973 Nebula Award for Best Novel Thomas Pynchon
x The Echo Maker First edition (2006) 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Richard Powers
The Echo Maker is a 2006 novel by American writer Richard Powers which won the National Book Award for fiction. It was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark...
x The Fledgling   1981 Newbery Medal Jane Langton  
x Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968 Nebula Award for Best Novel Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick first published in 1968. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter of androids, while the secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal...
x The Diamond Age 1996 Nebula Award for Best Novel Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is a bildungsroman focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. Some main motifs...
x Parable of the Sower 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novel Octavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower is the first in a two-book series of science fiction novels written by Octavia E. Butler and published in 1993. Set in a dystopian future, Parable of the Sower centers on a young woman who possesses what Butler dubbed as...
x Diplomatic Immunity 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novel Lois McMaster Bujold
Diplomatic Immunity is a 2002 science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2003. The novel follows Miles Vorkosigan as he is heading home from his honeymoon and is directed to Graf Station in...
x Dragoncharm 1995   Graham Edwards
Dragoncharm is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. The novel was first published in 1995 by Voyager Books (UK) and HarperPrism (US). It is the first book in the Ultimate Dragon Saga trilogy, and its sequels are Dragonstorm and Dragonflame....
x Dragonstorm 1996   Graham Edwards
Dragonstorm is a fantasy novel written by Graham Edwards. The novel was first published in 1996 by Voyager Books (UK) and HarperPrism (US). It is the second book in the Ultimate Dragon Saga trilogy. This book introduces the dragon Archan, who...
x East Lynne   1931 Academy Award for Best Picture Winfield R. Sheehan
East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood. East Lynne was a Victorian bestseller. It is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centering on infidelity and double identities. There have have been numerous...
1931 Academy Award for Best Picture 20th Century Fox
Fox Film
Winfield R. Sheehan
x Test Pilot 1938 Academy Award for Best Picture Louis D. Lighton
Test Pilot Is a 1938 film directed by Victor Fleming and featuring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Lionel Barrymore. It tells the story of a daredevil test pilot, his wife and his best friend. Test Pilot was written by Howard Hawks,...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
x Breaking Away 1979 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Barbara Barrie
Breaking Away is a 1979 coming of age film that tells the story of four teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana who have graduated from high school and are not sure what they want to do with their lives, other than hang out and go swimming in an abandoned...
1979 Academy Award for Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score  
1979 Academy Award for Best Director Peter Yates
1979 Academy Award for Best Picture Peter Yates
1979 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay Steve Tesich
x Lost in Translation 2003 Academy Award for Best Picture Sofia Coppola
Lost in Translation is a 2003 comedy-drama film starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. It was the second feature film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, after The Virgin Suicides. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best...
2004   Ross Katz
2003 Academy Award for Best Director Bill Murray
2003 Academy Award for Best Actor Sofia Coppola
2003 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay Bill Murray
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x Sunset Boulevard 1950 Academy Award for Best Director Billy Wilder
Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder. It was named after the boulevard that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, California. It stars William Holden as down-on-his-luck screenwriter Joe Gillis,...
1950 Academy Award for Best Picture Charles Brackett
1950 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay Paramount Pictures
1950 Academy Award for Best Actress D. M. Marshman, Jr.
1950 Academy Award for Best Actor Billy Wilder
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x Scent of a Woman 1993 Academy Award for Best Director Martin Brest
Scent of a Woman is a 1992 film which tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an irascible, blind, medically retired Army officer. It stars Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar, and...
1993 Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Bo Goldman
1993 Eddie, Best Edited Feature Film Michael Tronick
1993 Eddie, Best Edited Feature Film William Steinkamp
1993 Eddie, Best Edited Feature Film Harvey Rosenstock
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x Good Will Hunting 1997 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Robin Williams
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, both of whom star in the film. Set in Boston, Massachusetts, it tells the story of Will Hunting (Damon), a troubled Irish-Catholic young man...
1997 Academy Award for Best Song  
1997 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Minnie Driver
1997 Academy Award for Original Music Score  
1997 Academy Award for Film Editing  
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x Elizabeth Elizabeth Poster 1998 Academy Award for Makeup Jenny Shircore
Elizabeth is a 1998 film loosely based on the early reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The film was written by Michael Hirst and directed by Shekhar Kapur. It stars Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Christopher Eccleston, and...
1998 Academy Award for Best Cinematography Remi Adefarasin
1998 Academy Award for Costume Design Alexandra Byrne
1998 Academy Award for Best Art Direction John Myhre
1998 Academy Award for Best Actress Cate Blanchett
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x Julius Caesar 1953 Academy Award for Best Actor Marlon Brando
Two films have been made of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar:
1953 Academy Award for Best Picture John Houseman
x Blood Diamond Blooddiamondposter 2006 Academy Award for Best Actor Leonardo DiCaprio
Blood Diamond is a 2006 action/adventure drama film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick, director of Glory and The Last Samurai, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood diamonds, which are...
2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Djimon Hounsou
x Half Nelson 2006 Academy Award for Best Actor Ryan Gosling
Half Nelson is a 2006 American film that premiered in competition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and was released theatrically on August 11, 2006. It is written by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, stars Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps and Anthony Mackie...
x Venus Venus ver2 2006 Academy Award for Best Actor Peter O'Toole
Venus is a 2006 film starring Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips, Vanessa Redgrave and Jodie Whittaker. It is directed by Roger Michell and written by Hanif Kureishi. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was put on limited release in...
x The Pursuit of Happyness 2006 Academy Award for Best Actor Will Smith
The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American biographical drama film, directed by Gabriele Muccino and based on the true story of Chris Gardner. The film stars Will Smith as Gardner, an on-and-off-homeless salesman-turned stockbroker. The screenplay...
2007 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Will Smith
x Brokeback Mountain 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor Heath Ledger
Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American romantic-drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1981. The film was directed by Taiwanese director Ang Lee from a screenplay by...
2005 Academy Award for Best Director Ang Lee
2005 Academy Award for Best Picture James Schamus
2005 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Diana Ossana
2005 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Jake Gyllenhaal
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x Walk the Line 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix
Walk the Line is a 2005 American biographical drama film, directed by James Mangold and based on the life of country singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Robert Patrick. The film...
2005 Academy Award for Best Actress Reese Witherspoon
x Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor David Strathairn
Good Night, and Good Luck is a 2005 film directed by George Clooney. The film was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Junior Senator Joseph McCarthy...
2005 Academy Award for Best Director George Clooney
2005 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay George Clooney
2005 Academy Award for Best Picture Grant Heslov
Grant Heslov
x Adaptation 2002 Academy Award for Best Actor Nicolas Cage
Adaptation. is a 2002 comedy-drama satire film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The film is based on Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief through self-referential events. Adaptation. stars Nicolas Cage (as both Charlie and...
2002 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Meryl Streep
2002 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Charlie Kaufman
2002 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Donald Kaufman
Chris Cooper
x Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Academy Award for Best Actor Franchot Tone
Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the "Bounty". The film was one of the biggest hits of its time and remains a classic today and,...
1935 Academy Award for Best Actor Charles Laughton
1935 Academy Award for Best Actor Clark Gable
1935 Academy Award for Best Director Frank Lloyd
1962 Academy Award for Best Picture Aaron Rosenberg
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x The Affairs of Cellini 1934 Academy Award for Best Actor Frank Morgan
The Affairs of Cellini is a 1934 comedy film which tells the story of the amorous Benvenuto Cellini and his various love affairs. He purportedly hyponotizes young women, and cuckolds the Duke of Florence, played by Frank Morgan. The somewhat...
x The Thin Man 1934 Academy Award for Best Actor William Powell
The Thin Man (1934) was the first of six comic detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they solve crimes with ease. Nick is a hard drinking retired detective...
1934 Academy Award for Best Director Woody Van Dyke
1934 Academy Award for Best Picture Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1934 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Hunt Stromberg
Albert Hackett
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x Hustle & Flow 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor Terrence Howard
Hustle & Flow is a 2005 independent film written and directed by Craig Brewer about a Memphis hustler called DJay, played by Terrence Howard, who experiences a midlife crisis and is compelled to face his aspiration to become a rapper. DJay, a petty...
x Pollock Pollock imp 2000 Academy Award for Best Actor Ed Harris
Pollock is a 2000 biographical drama film which tells the life story of painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan, Marcia Gay Harden and Sada Thompson. The movie was adapted by Barbara Turner...
2000 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Marcia Gay Harden
x Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Academy Award for Best Actor Johnny Depp
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 adventure film, based on the the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney theme parks. The story follows pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando...
2004 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Johnny Depp
2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Johnny Depp
x House of Sand and Fog 2003 Academy Award for Best Actor Ben Kingsley
House of Sand and Fog is a 2003 American drama film directed by Vadim Perelman. The screenplay by Perelman and Shawn Lawrence Otto is based on the novel of the same name by Andre Dubus III. The story concerns the battle between a young woman and an...
2003 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo
x Cold Mountain 2003 Academy Award for Best Actor Jude Law
Cold Mountain is a 2003 film written and directed by Anthony Minghella. The film is based on the novel by Charles Frazier. The movie opens depicting the events leading up to the American Civil War, and proceeds to a vivid recreation of the Battle of...
2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Nicole Kidman
2003 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Renée Zellweger
x Hotel Rwanda 2004 Academy Award for Best Actor Don Cheadle
Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 historical drama film about the hotelier Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle) during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The film, which has been called an African Schindler's List, documents Rusesabagina's acts to save the...
2004 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay Keir Pearson
2004 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Terry George
Sophie Okonedo
x Finding Neverland 2004 Academy Award for Best Actor Johnny Depp
Finding Neverland is a 2004 British/American semi-biographical film directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee. The story focuses on Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, his platonic...
2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Johnny Depp
2005 Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture Johnny Depp
2005 Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Johnny Depp
2005 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Johnny Depp
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x The Aviator 2004 Academy Award for Best Actor Leonardo DiCaprio
The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama film, directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the life of Howard Hughes, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. The film draws largely upon a biography by Charles Higham. The film centers on Hughes' life from...
2004 Academy Award for Best Director Martin Scorsese
2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Cate Blanchett
2004 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay John Logan
2004 Academy Award for Best Picture Graham King
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x Million Dollar Baby 2004 Academy Award for Best Actor Clint Eastwood
Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. It is the story of an under-appreciated boxing trainer, his elusive past, and his quest for atonement by...
2004 Academy Award for Best Director Clint Eastwood
2004 Academy Award for Best Picture Tom Rosenberg
2004 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Albert Ruddy
2004 Academy Award for Best Actress Clint Eastwood
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x Cast Away Cast away 2000 Academy Award for Best Actor Tom Hanks
Cast Away is a 2000 film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. Hanks portrays a FedEx employee who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes on a flight over the South Pacific. The film depicts his attempts to...
x Before Night Falls 2000 Academy Award for Best Actor Javier Bardem
Before Night Falls is a 2000 movie directed by Julian Schnabel. The screenplay is based on the autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas, which was published in English in 1993. The screenplay was written by Schnabel, Cunningham O'Keefe and Lázaro Gómez...
x Quills 2000 Academy Award for Best Actor Geoffrey Rush
Quills is a 2000 period drama directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, Quills re-imagines the last years of...
x In the Bedroom 2001 Academy Award for Best Actor Tom Wilkinson
In the Bedroom is a 2001 American film directed by Todd Field, and dedicated to Andre Dubus whose short story Killings is the source material from which the screenplay, by Field and Robert Festinger, is based. The film stars Tom Wilkinson, Sissy...
2001 Academy Award for Best Actress Sissy Spacek
2001 Academy Award for Best Picture Todd Field
2001 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Ross Katz
2001 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Graham Leader
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