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This paper first explains that first Academy Awards 'Best Picture' film "Wings", directed by William A. Wellman, and the 2006 winner "Crash", directed by Paul Haggis, use the same basic elements of human existence to tell their stories about the society of their times. Next, the author relates that, in both films, their main characters are paired up and bonded while a third or several other parties intervene through the course of the film to break that bond. Each film ends with the theme of redemption. The paper underscores that both films were deemed to be unique.

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"Fast forward 50 years and Paul Haggis is biting into the theater scene of Ontario, Canada. The future mega-director would leave home at 22 years old to write television scripts in Hollywood. He didn't truly come into his own until the turn of the century with such blockbuster films as "Million Dollar Baby", which he wrote. "Crash" was his second movie to direct and Haggis seemed to follow the theme of "Million Dollar Baby" with social stigmas, outwardly racist characters and human redemption through tragedy."

Tags:characters, unique, redemption, bond, society

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This paper provides a comparative analysis of the Academy Awards and MTV-MA as award-giving bodies. The paper posits that both award-giving bodies have similarities and differences that arise from the culture, audience, commercial value and socio-political relevance of the movies and processes that each award-giving body undergoes. The paper in general attributes specific segments of American culture as the primary driver that distinguishes the Oscars from the MTV-MA.

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"These award-giving programs have their own niche and place at the spectrum of American entertainment. The Academy Awards' image differs radically from the MTV Movie Awards, though both programs enjoy popularity and renown not only in the entertainment business, but more specifically because of their influence in American culture. The Academy Awards' (referred to from now on as the Oscars) and MTV-MA's (MTV Movie Awards) importance is based, then, on their relevance to the entertainment business and the general public (as the audience and patrons of the entertainment business)."

Tags:entertainment, votes, programs, winners

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This paper explains that film editor Verna Fields, who won the Academy Award for film editing for "Jaws" and was a Universal Studios' Feature Productions Vice President, is one of the few women during her lifetime ever to reach a position of power in the American film industry. Next, the author follows Fields' climb to power in television and in Hollywood, while being a single mother that gave her the nickname "mother cutter". The paper includes a review of Fields' editing wisdom especially the use the old method of cutting called "cut and log".

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"Born Verna Hellman, on March 21, 1918, in St. Louis, Missouri, while still a minor, she moved to Hollywood with her family to further her father's screen writing career. How Fields got into the film industry is an unusual story. It was in the mid 1940s. She was just hanging out on a studio lot with a girl friend whose boyfriend worked there. That's how she met an assistant editor who she liked and wanted to meet again. So she just kept on hanging around. When Fritz Lang needed an assistant sound editor, he remembered that young "girl always hanging around"."

Tags:sound, invisible, technician, establishment, anticipation

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This paper shall look at the film Crash, the 2005 Academy Award winner for Best Picture through the lens of social and psychological principles. It will examine the way in which these principles are expressed in an everyday setting through the actions and reactions of the film's principal characters. The choices that they all make, whether for good or ill provides the modern day psychologist with a wealth of examples that illustrate the impact of racial and social conflict on the populace at large.

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Tags:schema, cognitive dissonance, self, fulfilling prophecy

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Examines the social realities of class distinctions under emerging Fascism. Discusses the movie as a neo-realist film, how the characters develop through tragic circumstances, and the film as a study of Jews in Italy.

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"The nature of film as a cultural medium allows the audience to feel a sense of control over the images being projected. The audience, as spectators, feels a sense of privilege within their position in the screening room and thus they feel a sense of ..."

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An examination of the wealth of symbolism in the movie "American Beauty." The writer shows that one of the main motifs of film is the exposure of the American dream for what it truly is--a pursuit of happiness through material objects. It examines the various characters and how they represent and symbolize this false dream, as exposed through the life and transformation of the main character, Lester Burnham.

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"Winner of 5 Academy Awards, American Beauty captivated audiences with its stunning screenplay and cinematography and its stellar acting. Sam Mendes executed Alan Ball's script with flair, and the film is accompanied by an indispensable score that accentuates its darkly humorous mood. The title of Sam Mendes' 1999 film American Beauty seems slightly ambiguous, as it refers to a multitude of meanings and symbols in the picture. However, the theme of beauty, and specifically American beauty, emerges through all of the main characters in the movie. The American Beauty could be the sultry teen Angela, the epitome of blond American sex appeal. Carolyn's obsessive tending her rose garden is a pervasive and double-sided symbol of beauty, as her flowers are a thin cover for the ugliness in her life. Perhaps the greatest messenger of beauty in the film is Ricky Fitts, the eccentric pot-smoking teenager who through his camera lens perceives beauty everywhere he looks, so much beauty that he feels his "heart is going to cave in." Regardless, beauty is found everywhere in this film and is portrayed by various characters, symbols, and scenes."

Tags:lester, burnham, dream, materialism

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Traditionally, the Oscars have been seen as an awards show not to be missed. Receiving an Oscar used to mean that the actor or director was at the top of his or her form and that there was no one better. However, there have been concerns of late that some of what the Oscars provide is simply a show - Hollywood glitz and glamour, but no actual test of talent and work that has gone into a project. Some of this undoubtedly comes from four different areas of the Oscars - the host, the clothes, the freebies and what happens behind the scenes. All four of them are discussed in this paper in an effort to show that the Oscars have strayed far away from what they used to be, which was a wholesome if somewhat glamorous show and into the realm of 'reality TV.'

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"Previous hosts such as Billy Crystal were very family-oriented in most of the material that they presented, and many of the jokes that they used were somewhat tired, not on the cutting edge of what is appropriate or not, such as the jokes that Rock uses in most of the stand-up material he works with (Harwood, 2005). The idea of getting Chris Rock to host the Oscars came from the idea that most people were getting tired of seeing the same old thing and that the ratings for the show were beginning to slip. It was hoped that something fresh and new, such as Rock, would allow for a boost to the ratings and therefore put the Oscar show back on its feet once again."

Tags:presenter, media, designer, red, carpet

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This paper discusses how looking at the recipients for the major film and television awards for 2006 reveals distinct trends. It looks at how history has clarified many of the trends that help determine which actors and which films win awards and how nominated movies are almost always big budget, large scale productions. It also examines how critics and motion picture academies tend to like films about overcoming obstacles: including war, racism, and physical or mental disabilities and how audiences and critics alike are fascinated with unique and exceptional individuals, whether disabled or celebrity.

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"Film awards may serve as cultural barometers and as reflections of current consciousness and cultural ideals. Helen Mirren's portrayal of Queen Elizabeth humanizes one of the most emotionally distant public leaders. Audiences want to see their heroes and nemeses humanized. Superhero movies are fun but their impact on human consciousness is minimal. We want to watch strong characters grapple with tough decisions and survive against the odds. Films depicting legal battles against major corporations denote the victory of the little man: a favorite American theme. We want to see intense suffering turned into personal triumph, which is integral to the mythos of our culture."

Tags:productions, motion, picture, oscar, academy

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This paper discusses the reaction when Al Gore won an Academy Award for his documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth," directed by Davis Guggenheim. The paper contends that Al Gore's theories on global warming have led people astray and that Gore has employed rhetoric and bad science and has even deliberately misled the public in his claims. The paper attempts to understand what could be the underlying impetus for Gore's presenting global warming as an impending doomsday event that is just around the corner.

Table of Contents:
The Inconvenient Truth of Rhetoric
The Science
The Kyoto Protocol
Summary and Conclusion

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"The argument is made by both sides that they are not popular, and that powerful organizations and people back the opposition, such that their coming forward - both sides - in support of their moral conscience on global warming has earned them no amount of respect from the other side. One scientist in The Great Global Warming Swindle, a professor in Ottawa, claims that taking a stand against Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, has brought death threats to his door. This scientist and others who appear in The Great Global Warming Swindle, again, do not disagree with Al Gore. They agree that the surface of the planet is warming. They do not agree that it is necessarily man-made emitted CO2 emissions that are producing the CO2 levels in the atmosphere, or that it is even CO2 as the cause of the warming. What they are suggesting is that if we embrace Gore's theories on global warming, then we will be ignoring the potentially real reason behind global warming. If anything can be done about global warming, it should at least be done in the direction of the real problem, the surface warming."

Tags:Kyoto, academy award, imagery

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The paper contends that although Paul Haggis' film "Crash" won the Academy Award, it is a heavy handed, unoriginal, unrealistic film that won the award by default. The paper notes that there are individual scenes that evoke real emotional twists and show real cleverness, but as the film goes along, the twists become more predictable and the heavy-handed character development becomes tiresome.

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"This year, Paul Haggis' film Crash won the Academy Award for best picture. This win was seen as somewhat of an upset since the conventional wisdom said that Brokeback Mountain was a lock for the award. It seems, however, that the Academy was not ready to hand its top award over to a film about two gay men cheating on their wives. Instead, at a time when Hollywood is being accused of being out of touch with the rest of the country, the Academy seemed to be looking around for a more uplifting picture to award. With the absence of an obvious fit, such as a Forrest Gump (1994) or Shakespeare in Love (1998) the Academy was left with Crash. However, this heavy handed, unoriginal, unrealistic film will almost certainly go down in history as having won the award by default because the Academy was uncomfortable with its own image."

Tags:character, development, dialogue, imagery