[…]e remember we slot slots in but that's how I came in contact with him. And then I did a picture for Charlie in Italy which was I think probably Ray's best and that was Jason and the Argonauts yes. With the skeleton fight which was a brilliant piece of special effects work with Ray right. Yes absolut[…]
[…]he floor mixer and the dubbing mixer but this was a rare occasion when I did both of those jobs and I must have done something right because I got an Academy nomination for Anne of a Thousand Days but due to the competition that particular year I don't think I got very far in the voting. At any rate[…]
[…]nd rewind the plates and reload again with negative. So used to go on all night. Yes,Unknown Speaker 42:33 at that time, it was all shock Academy. Wasn't it all Academy? Yes, yes,Unknown Speaker 42:39 if I remember in your earlier days at Lion Grove, you and I met up with a w[…]
[…]tarted over so I was paid a pound a week that was the sort of standard starting wage. But of course the top wage for a fully qualified labour that is best an experienced farm worker was only I think it was two pounds. 15 a week Australian money and I achieved that but I was 18 at the matrons, […]
[…]ditor, that's something you never know.Wyn Ryder: I know with David Lean who is responsible in his case, is the director. What do you feel about awards?Reggie Beck: They don't mean anything to me.Wyn Ryder: Have you views about the hype that goes on about the Oscars and around the cor[…]
[…]he lows I can’t really think of any lows in the film industry. Highs – get onto pictures, to get your first BAFTA nomination, to get your first Academy nomination.AL Which was that?GH The first BAFTA one was Sunday Bloody Sunday, John Slessinger’s. Oh What a Lovely War was a BAFTA nomination a[…]
[…]nd we were leaving on Monday morning. So we did what we had to do on the Sabath day and then we got into the bar on the Sabath evening and we did our best to satisfy the barman.SC : 14 of them I think.CC: I don't know, we did pretty well. The next year I was fishing across the strait between Harris […]
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[…] Rizzo and Jon Voight as Joe Buck. The film won three Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best […]
