Search Results for: Academy Award Best Director Midnight Cowboy (1969)

[…] if non-actors can suddenly appear and be nominated for an Academy Award, there is something in that system of film […]

[…] if non-actors can suddenly appear and be nominated for an Academy Award, there is something in that system of film […]

[…] house films, initially in conjunction with George Hoellering at the Academy Cinema. In the 1960s he opened the Paris Pullman […]

[…] he was doing, all the generals were being given Russian awards which entitled them to free rides on the trams […]

[…]7  Yeah the first year was quite fun. made friends. On the first day a very sweet kid came up to me her name was Penny Smyth. Can I be your best friend? And I said, Absolutely. I'd love to be your best friend. So I enjoyed the first year. But I was already very, I was very naughty. I was v[…]

[…]on ran. It was for theatre directors actually but I was an unsuccessful applicant. I was on the shortlist but I didn't get one of the bursaries. They awarded six bursaries each year but through that very strange tangential contact, suddenly ABC Television offered me a job! I'd never really been thin[…]

[…]me stuff with the band at their home and some sort of stuff, it was a documentary, basically, about them but with their concert. I: It won a few awards, didn't it, that programme? R: It did, yeah, it won a BAFTA. I: How did you, you must be quite...? R: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely![…]

[…]to happen could be ameliorated by them doing this. I mean, in the end it didn't happen. Mrs Thatcher kind of had her way in the way the licenses were awarded in 1990. But it would never have happened had Gus not been part of that big Seven as opposed to the big Five and it was great for the Company![…]

[…] do that continually. You can do it as a one off as a generous act, but I actually don't know where we're gonna go. And we've spelled this out to BBC Academy. We've spelled that the Institute of Professional sound has built it out to them to the Director General. Do you know the one person who's got[…]

[…]  Q:  Was bingo a license to print money?00:21:30        JIM WHITTELL:  Yes, no question.  The best example I can think of would be a provincial Odeon in Birmingham which used to make – and bear in mind this is middle 60’s money – used to make £[…]