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American Cinema Editors Awards 1964
The 14th American Cinema Editors Awards, which were presented on Saturday, March 21, 1964, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, honored the best editors in films and television. The award was hosted by actress and comedian Irene Ryan while the principal speaker was NBC president Pat Weaver. Nominees References: References External linksACE Award 1964at the Internet Movie Database IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biograp ... {{ACE Awards Chron 1964 film awards 1964 in American cinema 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Cinema Editors
Founded in 1950, American Cinema Editors (ACE) is an honorary society of film editing, film editors who are voted in based on the qualities of professional achievements, their education of others, and their dedication to editing. Members use the post-nominal letters "ACE". The organization's "Eddie Awards" are routinely covered in trade magazines such as ''The Hollywood Reporter'' and ''Variety (magazine), Variety''. The society is not an trade union, industry union, such as the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, I.A.T.S.E. (specifically the Motion Picture Editors Guild or MPEG), to which an editor might also belong. The current president of ACE is Kevin Tent, who was elected in 2020. Membership Eligibility for active membership is based on the following: * Nomination or win of an ACE Eddie award and/or * Desire to be a member * Sponsorship by at least two active members * Minimum of 72 months' (6 years) editing experience on features and/or television * Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Knudtson
Frederic Knudtson (April 9, 1906 – February 15, 1964) was an American film editor with 79 credits over his career, which spanned 1932 to 1964. He received six nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, including five in the six years preceding his death. Biography His first credit was as an assistant editor on the 1932 film ''What Price Hollywood?''. He then edited a string of B-movies throughout the 1930s and 1940s, picking up his first Oscar nomination in 1949 for the dark thriller '' The Window'' (directed by Ted Tetzlaff). His professional relationship with director Stanley Kramer began in 1955, which yielded his most prolific work and garnered him five more Academy Awards nominations: ''The Defiant Ones'' (1958), '' On the Beach'' (1959), '' Inherit the Wind'' (1960), ''Judgment at Nuremberg'' (1961), and ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' is a 1963 American Technicolor epic comedy film in Ultra Panavision 70 produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Film Awards
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motors, Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day (Panama), Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 22 – Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the first Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cartwright (film Editor)
William T. "Bill" Cartwright Sr. (born August 25, 1920 St. Louis, Missouri; died June 1, 2013 North Hills, California) was an American television and film director, producer and editor responsible for a number of documentaries. He was nominated for 5 Emmys Emmy Awards in 1978 and 1997 and won three. He edited "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision" which won an Oscar. He also has many credits for direction and producing. His son William T. Cartwright Jr. is also an editor and is credited with some of the titles listed below. Cartwright was also known for helping save the Watts Towers in association with Nicholas King. Cartwright died in hospice care on June 1, 2013. He was 92. Filmography * '' Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant Garde'' (1997) (TV) * '' Don't Pave Main Street: Carmel's Heritage'' (1994) * '' Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision'' (1994) * '' Oscar Presents: The War Movies and John Wayne'' (1977) (TV) * '' It Was a Very Good Year'' (1971) TV Series * ''The Bridge at Remag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Making Of The President 1960
''The Making of the President 1960'', written by journalist Theodore H. White and published by Atheneum Publishers in 1961, is a book that recounts and analyzes the 1960 election in which John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States. The book won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and was the first in a series of books by White about American presidential elections. (The others are ''The Making of the President 1964'' (1965), ''The Making of the President 1968'' (1969), and ''The Making of the President 1972'' (1973).) The book traces the 1960 campaign from the primaries (in which Kennedy faced Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey and Missouri Senator Stuart Symington) to the conclusion of the general election contest against Richard Nixon. Much of the narrative is written in an almost novelistic style, describing politicians' looks, voices and personalities; but it also contains thought-provoking discussions of various trends in American life and polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Richard Boone Show
''The Richard Boone Show'' is an anthology television series. It aired on NBC from September 24, 1963 until September 15, 1964. It was broadcast on Tuesdays from 9 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time. Synopsis Richard Boone hosted the series and starred in about half of the episodes, garnering an Emmy nomination for himself and a Golden Globe award for the show. His repertory company of 15 actors included up-and-comers such as Guy Stockwell and Robert Blake as well as such established performers as Bethel Leslie, Jeanette Nolan (both of whom likewise received 1964 Emmy nominations), Warren Stevens and Harry Morgan. They rotated parts freely; each appeared in most episodes, and each starred in at least one. A Goodson- Todman production, the series boasted Clifford Odets among its regular writers, and Buck Houghton produced. Programmed against the CBS sitcom, ''Petticoat Junction'', Boone's anthology show was unable to find or keep an audience. It was cancelled after only one season, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking Point (1963 TV Series)
''Breaking Point'' is an American medical drama that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 16, 1963, to April 27, 1964, with reruns continuing until September 7, 1964. The series, which was a Spin-off (media), spin-off of ''Ben Casey'', starred Paul Richards (actor), Paul Richards and Eduard Franz. The series was created by Meta Rosenberg. Background The NBC drama ''The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series), The Eleventh Hour'' was the inspiration for creation of ''Breaking Point'', the characters of which were first seen on the September 9, 1963, episode of ''Ben Casey''. Following that development, ''Ben Casey'' moved to Wednesday nights, and ''Breaking Point'' took its Monday night slot. Producer George Lefferts was partially inspired to create ''Breaking Point'' on the back of the success of an earlier show that also dealt with mental health issues, ''Special for Women''. Synopsis Richards starred as Dr. McKinley Thompson (known as "Dr. Mac" to most of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonanza
''Bonanza'' is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, ''Bonanza'' is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on American network television (behind CBS's '' Gunsmoke''), and one of the longest-running, live-action American series. The show continues to air in syndication. The show is set in the 1860s and centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series initially starred Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon and later featured (at various times) Guy Williams, David Canary, Mitch Vogel and Tim Matheson. The show is known for presenting pressing moral dilemmas. The title "Bonanza" is a term used by miners in regard to a large vein or deposit of silver ore, from Spanish ''bonanza'' (rich ore body) and commonly refers to the 1859 revelation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV Series)
''The Eleventh Hour'' is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging and Ralph Bellamy, which aired on NBC from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964. Plot ''The Eleventh Hour'' was about psychiatry, both as it helped individuals deal with their problems and as it helped law enforcement agencies. The first season focused on psychiatrists Theodore Bassett and Paul Graham as they worked with people. The show's title related to "patients who came to them 'in the eleventh hour' — on the verge of breakdown". In addition to Bassett's clinical practice, he advised the police department and the state's department of correction. Many episodes had him evaluating people charged with crimes with regard to their mental competency. In the second season, Bassett was replaced by L. Richard Starke, and he and Graham became more directly involved in cases. Cast * Wendell Corey as Dr. Theodore Bassett (season 1) *Ralph Bellamy as Dr. L. Richard Starke (seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Gibbs
Antony Gibbs (sometimes credited as Tony Gibbs; 17 October 1925 – 26 February 2016) was an English film and television editor with more than 40 feature film credits. He was a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Career Gibbs' editing career began in the mid-1950s as an assistant to Ralph Kemplen and to Alan Osbiston, and through them he became involved with the brief " New Wave" of British filmmaking at its beginnings. In particular Osbiston (and Gibbs) edited '' The Entertainer'' (1960), which was directed by Tony Richardson; Richardson was one of the most prominent of the British New Wave directors. Gibbs was then principal editor for several of the subsequent "New Wave" films, including Richardson's '' A Taste of Honey'' (1961), '' The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'' (1962), and '' Tom Jones'' (1963), and also '' The Knack ...and How to Get It'' (1965), which was directed by Richard Lester. In his 1995 book, ''Film and Video Editing'', Roger Crittenden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Jones (1963 Film)
''Tom Jones'' is a 1963 British period comedy film, an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic 1749 novel ''The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling''. It is directed by Tony Richardson from a screenplay written by John Osborne, and stars Albert Finney as the titular character. The cast also features Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Diane Cilento, and David Warner in his film debut. The film was a success both critically and at the box office, and was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time. At the 36th Academy Awards, it was nominated for ten Oscars, winning four: Best Picture, Best Director for Richardson, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score. It also won two Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and three BAFTA Awards, including Best Film and Best British Film. In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it as the 51st greatest British film of the 20th century. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
