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Dead Man's Seat (novel)
''Dead Man's Seat'' () is a 1984 Portuguese drama film directed by António-Pedro Vasconcelos. The film was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Ana Zanatti as Ana Mónica * Pedro Oliveira as Álvaro Serpa * Teresa Madruga as Marta * Luís Lima Barreto as Álvaro Allen * Carlos Coelho as Inspector Moreira * Isabel Mota as Dulce * Ruy Furtado as Neves * Diogo Vasconcelos as João * Natalina José as Janitor See also * List of submissions to the 57th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Portuguese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Since 1980, Portugal has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film every year but one (1981). The award is given annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António-Pedro Vasconcelos
António-Pedro Saraiva de Barros e Vasconcelos Order of Infante D. Henrique, GCIH (10 March 1939 – 5 March 2024) was a Portuguese film director. Personal life Vasconcelos was the middle of three sons of Guilherme de Barros e Vasconcelos (Celorico de Basto, Britelo, 28 December 1902 – 1984), a lawyer and a nobleman of the Royal Household, and Palmira Henriqueta de Carvalho Saraiva (b. Portalegre, Portugal, Portalegre, 28 August 1907). In 1961, Vasconcelos married Maria Helena Marques (born 26 July 1939), whom he later divorced. His second wife, Maria Teresa de Carvalho de Albuquerque Schmidt, and had four children: Pedro Jaime Marque, Guilherme Infante de Lacerda, Patrícia Marques and Diogo Schmidt. Vasconcelos was a known supporter of S.L. Benfica. Vasconcelos died on 5 March 2024, at the age of 84. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruy Furtado
Ruy or RUY may refer to: Arts and Entertainment *Ruy, the Little Cid, Spanish animated television series *Ruy Blas, a character in the eponymous tragic drama by Victor Hugo People *another form of Rui, a Portuguese male given name *another form of the Spanish male given name Rodrigo *Ruy Finch, geologist active in the 1930's *Ruy López de Segura (1530-1580), Spanish chess player *Ruy Ramos (born 1957), Japanese footballer *Ruy (footballer) (born 1989), Brazilian footballer Places *Ruy, Isère, a commune in France *Ruy, Iran, a city in Iran *Ruy Special Town, a village in Iran *Ruy Mountain, a mountain on the border of Bulgaria and Serbia Transport * Copán Ruinas Airport (IATA: RUY), an airport serving the town of Copán Ruinas in Honduras Other uses *Ruy Lopez The Ruy Lopez (; ), also called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game, is a chess opening characterised by the moves: :1. e4 e5 :2. Nf3 Nc6 :3. Bb5 The Ruy Lopez remains one of the most popular chess openings, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Portuguese-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai, Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. 249) Deaths * Li Jue, Chinese warlord and regent * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Drama Films
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine animal ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province encompassing most of modern-day Portugal (south of the Douro River) and a large portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and Province of Salamanca). Romans named the region after th ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Drama Films
Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 9 – Van Halen releases their sixth studio album ''1984 (Van Halen album), 1984'' (''MCMLXXXIV''), which debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and will go to sell over 10 million copies in the United States. * January 10 ** The United States and the Vatican City, Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. ** The Victoria, Seychelles, Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. *January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh 128K, Macintosh personal computer in the United States. *January 27 – American singer Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire during the making of the Pepsi commercial. February * February 3 ** John Buster and the research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The year's highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada was '' Beverly Hills Cop''. '' Ghostbusters'' overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year. It was the first time in five years that the top-grossing film did not involve George Lucas or Steven Spielberg although Spielberg directed and Lucas executive produced/co-wrote the third placed '' Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom''; Spielberg also executive produced the fourth placed '' Gremlins''. U.S. box office grosses reached $4 billion for the first time and it was the first year that two films had returned over $100 million to their distributors with both ''Ghostbusters'' and ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' achieving this. ''Beverly Hills Cop'' made it three for films released in 1984 after its performance during 1985 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Portuguese Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Since 1980, Portugal has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film every year but one (1981). The award is given annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non- English dialogue. Forty Portuguese films have been submitted to the Academy for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. As of the 96th Academy Awards, none has been nominated; Portugal holds the record of the most submissions without a nomination in the category. One fifth of Portugal's submissions (8 out of 40) were directed by the prolific Manoel de Oliveira. The Portuguese animated short film ''Ice Merchants'', by João Gonzalez, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 95th Academy Awards, becoming the first Portuguese film to receive an Oscar nomination. Submissions The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Submissions To The 57th Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 57th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country. For the 57th Academy Awards, thirty-two films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Thailand submitted a film for the first time. The five nominated films came from Argentina, Israel, Spain, Soviet Union and Switzerland. Switzerland won for the first time with ''Dangerous Moves ''Dangerous Moves'' (, "The Fool's Diagonal", referring to the chess piece c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalina José
''Natalina'' is a genus of medium-sized predatory air-breathing land snails, carnivorous terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod Mollusca, molluscs in the family Rhytididae. Species Species within the genus ''Natalina'' include: * ''Natalina beyrichi'' (Eduard von Martens, E. von Martens, 1890) (Pondoland cannibal snail) * ''Natalina cafra'' (André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac, A. Férussac, 1821) (Common cannibal snail) * ''Natalina quekettiana'' (James Cosmo Melvill (naturalist), Melvill & John Ponsonby-Fane, Ponsonby, 1893) (Mistbelt Forest, Mistbelt cannibal snail) * ''Natalina reenenensis'' Matthew William Kemble Connolly, Connolly, 1939 * ''Natalina wesseliana'' (Wilhelm Kobelt, Kobelt, 1876) (Maputaland, Maputo cannibal snail) References Nomenclator Zoologicus info* Herbert, D.G. & Moussalli A. 2010. Revision of the larger cannibal snails (''Natalina'' s. l.) of southern Africa - ''Natalina'' s. s., ''Afrorhytida'' and ''Capitina'' (Mollusca: Gastropoda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diogo Vasconcelos (actor)
Diogo Vasconcelos (16 May 1968 – 8 July 2011) was a Portuguese politician, who focused his work on innovation and on the fundamental role of ICT and next generation broadband for fostering innovation and supporting new decentralized models to address some of the major global societal challenges of the 21st century. Diogo addressed such issues as climate change, urbanization, globalization, ageing population, sustainable prosperity, democracy and citizen’s participation, etc. During his career, he worked with different governments in Europe and the Middle East, with the European Commission, with the United Nations, UN’s High Commissioner for the Alliance of Civilizations and the European Investment Bank, OECD, among others. Early career Born in Porto, Vasconcelos had a Law degree and post-graduate degrees in Communications Law, Management and Political Science. Still as a student, Diogo was co-founder of CAIS (homeless magazine) and co-organizer of the 1995 East Timor Pea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Mota
Isabel is a female name of Iberian origin. Isabelle is a name that is similar, but it is of French origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of '' Elisabeth'' (ultimately Hebrew ''Elisheba''). Arising in the 12th century, it became popular in England in the 13th century following the marriage of Isabella of Angoulême to the king of England. Today it is sometimes abbreviated to Isa. Etymology This set of names is a Spanish variant of the Hebrew name Elisheba through Latin and Greek represented in English and other European languages as Elisabeth.Albert Dauzat, ''Noms et prénoms de France'', Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet, p. 337a.Chantal Tanet et Tristan Hordé, ''Dictionnaire des prénoms'', Larousse, Paris, 2009, p. 38 These names are derived from the Latin and Greek renderings of the Hebrew name based on both etymological and contextual evidence (the use of Isabel as a translation of the name of the mother of John th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Saboga
Carlos may refer to: Places ;Canada * Carlos, Alberta, a locality ;United States * Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County * Carlos, Minnesota, a small city * Carlos, West Virginia ;Elsewhere * Carlos (crater), Montes Apenninus, LQ12, Moon; a lunar crater near Mons Hadley People * Carlos (given name), including a list of name holders * Carlos (surname), including a list of name holders Sportspeople * Carlos (Timorese footballer) (Carlos Mateus Ximenes, born 1986) * Carlos (footballer, born 1995) (Carlos Alberto Carvalho da Silva Júnior), Brazilian footballer * Carlos (footballer, born 1985) (Carlos Santos de Jesus), Brazilian footballer Others * Carlos (Calusa) (died 1567), king or paramount chief of the Calusa people of Southwest Florida * Carlos (singer) (1943—2008), French entertainer * Carlos the Jackal, a Venezuelan terrorist Arts and entertainment * ''Carlos'' (miniseries), 2010 biopic about the terrorist Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
