''Background'' is a 1973 American
self-portrait
Self-portraits are Portrait painting, portraits artists make of themselves. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, the practice of self-portraiture only gaining momentum in the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century ...
short documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
directed by
Carmen D'Avino. It was nominated for an
Academy Award
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for
Best Documentary Short.
The film was preserved by the
Academy Film Archive
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in 2012.
See also
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List of American films of 1973
This is a list of American films released in 1973 in film, 1973.
Box office
The highest-grossing American films released in 1973, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by ''The Numbers (website), The Numbers'', are as follows:
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References
External links
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''Background''at the Academy Collections
1973 films
1973 short documentary films
1970s English-language films
American short documentary films
1970s American films
English-language short documentary films
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