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Thom Noble
Thom Noble is a British film editor who won an Academy Award and an ACE Eddie Award for the film ''Witness'' (1985). He was nominated for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the film '' Thelma & Louise'' (1991). In 2018, he was on jury for the Mumbai International Film Festival The Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films (MIFF) is a festival organized in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) by the Films Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Infor .... Selected filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Noble, Thom Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British film editors Best Film Editing Academy Award winners Place of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Film Editing
The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. In 1980, '' Ordinary People'' won as Best Picture, but its editor Jeff Kanew was not nominated for Best Editing. Only the principal, " above the line" editor(s) as listed in the film's credits are named on the award; additional editors, supervising editors, etc. are not currently eligible. The nominations for this Academy Award are determined by a ballot of the voting members of the Editing Branch of the academy; there were 220 members of the Editing Branch in 2012. The members may vote for up to five of the eligible films in the order of their preference; the five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Starrett
Claude Ennis "Jack" Starrett Jr. (November 2, 1936 – March 27, 1989) was an American actor and film director.Staff report (March 29, 1989). Jack Starrett, 52; Adventure Film Actor, Director. ''Los Angeles Times'' Starrett is perhaps best known for his role as ''Gabby Johnson'', a parody of George "Gabby" Hayes, in the 1974 film ''Blazing Saddles'' and is also known for his role as the brutal policeman Art Galt in the 1982 action film ''First Blood''. He also played the cruel foreman Swick in '' The River'' (1984). Starrett acted in the biker films '' The Born Losers'', '' Hells Angels on Wheels'' (both from 1967), ''Angels from Hell'' (1968) and '' Hell's Bloody Devils'' (1970), and directed two more: ''Run, Angel, Run'' in 1969 and '' Nam's Angels'' (1970) as well as the horror film '' Race with the Devil'' (1975) - that was filmed in his home state of Texas - in which he also played a gas station attendant. Life and career Starrett was raised in Refugio, Texas and worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Richardson
Cecil Antonio Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director, producer and screenwriter, whose career spanned five decades. He was identified with the "angry young men" group of British directors and playwrights during the 1950s, and was later a key figure in the British New Wave filmmaking movement. His films ''Look Back in Anger (1959 film), Look Back in Anger'' (1959), ''The Entertainer (1960 film), The Entertainer'' (1960), ''A Taste of Honey (film), A Taste of Honey'' (1961), and ''The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'' (1962) are considered classics of kitchen sink realism. He won the 1964 Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture for the film ''Tom Jones (1963 film), Tom Jones''. He was also a two-time BAFTA Award winner, and was twice nominated for the Palme d'Or. With his wife Vanessa Redgrave, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Andrews (film)
''Joseph Andrews'' is a 1977 British period comedy film directed by Tony Richardson. It is based on the 1742 novel ''Joseph Andrews'' by Henry Fielding. With its rollicking comic plot, period costume and setting, ribald adventures and a dashing young hero, the film was an obvious attempt to follow in the line of such films as ''Tom Jones'' (1963), which was also directed by Tony Richardson. Ann-Margret was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1978 for her performance in the film. Vincent Canby of ''The New York Times'' explains the pretext of Henry Fielding's novel ''Joseph Andrews'': The book "originated as Fielding's answer to what he saw as the hypocritical pieties of ritish novelistSamuel Richardson's ''Pamela''. In ''Pamela'', which was published in 1740, Richardson told the inspiring tale of Pamela Andrews, a serving girl who tenaciously held onto her virginity until her employer, the rich Mr. Booby, came across with a marriage license. Several years later, Mr. Fieldin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Till
Eric Till (born 24 November 1929) is an English people, English film and television film director, director working in Canada, the United States, and Europe since the 1960s. His 1977 film ''It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet'' was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. He is also directed ''Hot Millions'' (1968) and ''To Catch a Killer (1992 film), To Catch A Killer'' (1992), as well as some Jim Henson productions, including episodes of ''Fraggle Rock'' (1984-1987) and A Christmas Toy (1986). Career After directing for the ''Armchair Theatre'' and ''The Wednesday Play, Wednesday Play'' series' in the UK, Till emigrated to Canada in Toronto. He has directed numerous Canadian and American Television, TV films from the 1960s onwards, including ''An American Christmas Carol'', ''A Nest of Singing Birds'', ''Getting Married in Buffalo Jump'', and ''To Catch a Killer (1992 film), To Catch a Killer'', starring Brian Dennehy as psychopathic serial killer John Wayne Gacy. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Shouldn't Happen To A Vet
''It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet'' (in the United States also known as ''All Things Bright and Beautiful''), is a 1976 sequel to the 1975 film '' All Creatures Great and Small''. Although having the same title as James Herriot's second novel, the film is actually based on his third and fourth novels, ''Let Sleeping Vets Lie'' and ''Vet in Harness'', which in the United States were released as a compilation volume titled ''All Things Bright and Beautiful''. It is part of a series of movies and television series based on Herriot's novels. In this film, John Alderton has taken over the role of James and Colin Blakely that of Siegfried (portrayed in the first film by Simon Ward and Anthony Hopkins, respectively), while Lisa Harrow returns as Helen. It also features Richard Griffiths in his debut film appearance as Sam. The film was directed by Eric Till, and the screenplay is by Alan Plater. The film, which has a British-American joint venture, was entered into the 10th Moscow I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Duffell
Peter Duffell (10 July 1922 − 12 December 2017) was an English film and television film director, director and screenwriter. Early life Duffell was born in Canterbury, Kent, in 1922. He was the only son of a broken marriage, which resulted in his attending a variety of schools in Kent and London, as his mother moved away to work and he was raised by his grandmother. With a strong academic bent and great enthusiasm for the arts, he studied at University of London, London University and then at Keble College, Oxford, Keble College, Oxford, where he took an honours degree in English language and literature. Career Duffell began his career as a director with installments of the film series ''Scotland Yard (film series), Scotland Yard'' and the ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' second features for Anglo-Amalgamated, both originally made for cinema release in the UK, as well as making documentaries and television commercials. Based on his television work, Milton Subotsky of Amicus Produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside Out (1975 Film)
''Inside Out'' is a 1975 British action thriller film, produced and directed by Peter Duffell, and starring James Mason, Robert Culp, and Telly Savalas. The film, shot in West Berlin and the Netherlands, aired on television in the United States on NBC on 1 January 1978 under the alternate title ''Hitler's Gold''. It was also titled ''The Golden Heist'', and ''Ein genialer Bluff'' (in West Germany). Plot In 1975, Harry Morgan and Sylvester "Sly" Wells come up with a plan to recover six million dollars of Nazi gold, lost since the end of World War II. The story begins during the Third Reich. A crew of Wehrmacht soldiers is driving a cargo truck through the Black Forest when they are stopped by a road block of SS commandos. The SS hijack the truck and its cargo killing its passengers. Thirty-four years later, Harry Morgan is driving his Rolls-Royce home in London, where a repossession agent is waiting to confiscate the car. Harry gives the agent the keys, as Harry boasts t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger ( ; ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian Americans, Austrian-American film and theatre director, film producer, and actor. He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre, and was one of the most influential directors in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, twice for Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director and once for Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture, among many other accolades. After achieving theatrical prominence in Vienna, Preminger emigrated to the United States in the mid-1930s, working as a director for 20th Century Fox. He first gained attention for film noir mysteries such as ''Laura (1944 film), Laura'' (1944) and ''Fallen Angel (1945 film), Fallen Angel'' (1945), while in the 1950s and 1960s, he directed high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these later films pushed the boundaries of censorship b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosebud (1975 Film)
''Rosebud'' is a 1975 American action thriller film directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, and Peter Lawford. The script was by Otto's son, Erik Lee Preminger, based on the 1974 novel of the same title by Joan Hemingway and . Plot Larry Martin is a ''Newsweek'' reporter, secretly working for the CIA as he travels around the globe tasked, along with Israeli intelligence, to work for the release of five wealthy girls kidnapped by the anti-Israel terrorist Palestinian Liberation Army from the yacht ''Rosebud''. Martin must contend with the girls' fathers, all of whom are wealthy, connected and concerned. Sloat, the extremist head of Black September, is connected with the kidnappings, and is subsequently hunted down after his plans for a centralized global terrorist network are uncovered. Cast *Peter O'Toole as Larry Martin *Richard Attenborough as Edward Sloat *Cliff Gorman as Yafet Hemlekh * Claude Dauphin as Charles-André Fargea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz (film)
''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' is a 1974 Canadian comedy drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, and adapted by Mordechai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd from Richler’s 1959 novel. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as the title character, a brash young Jewish Montrealer who embarks on a string of get-rich-quick schemes in a bid to gain respect. The cast also features Micheline Lanctôt, Randy Quaid, Joseph Wiseman, Denholm Elliott, Joe Silver and Jack Warden. Winner of the Golden Bear at the 24th Berlin International Film Festival, ''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' has been described as a 'coming of age' for Canadian cinema, as both a widespread critical and commercial success internationally. It won the Canadian Film Award for Film of the Year, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film. The film has been designated as a "masterwork" by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. Plot Duddy Kravitz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Kotcheff
William Theodore Kotcheff (; April 7, 1931 – April 10, 2025) was a CanadianUS Director Ted Kotcheff Granted Bulgarian Citizenship. Bulgarian Justice Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva on Friday granted citizenship to Ted Kotcheff, a US director born to Bulgarian parents.March 19, 2016, Novinite.com./ref> director and producer of film, television, and theatre. He worked at various times in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He was known for having directed such films as the seminal Australian New Wave picture ''Wake in Fright'' (1971), the Mordecai Richler adaptations The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (film), ''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' (1974) and Joshua Then and Now (film), ''Joshua Then and Now'' (1985), the original ''Rambo (franchise), Rambo'' film ''First Blood'' (1982), and the comedies ''Fun with Dick and Jane (1977 film), Fun with Dick and Jane'' (1977), ''North Dallas Forty'' (1979), and ''Weekend at Bernie's'' (1989). Kotcheff was nominated for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
