The studio once known as 20th Century Fox is a younger entity than the other major Hollywood Studios. It was founded in 1935 out of the ashes of Fox Film, compared to Warner Bros (1923), Universal Pictures (1912), Paramount Pictures (1912), Columbia Pictures (1923), and Disney (1923) — the latter being the new parent company of 20th Century Studios.
Still, Fox waited only seven years to take home the top prize at the Oscars. At the 14th Academy Awards, held in 1942, Fox's film "How Green Was My Valley" won Best Picture, presented to Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck. That wasn't the only prize "Valley" won that night: it also got Best Director (John Ford), Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Arthur Miller), and finally Best Art Direction -- Interior Decoration, Black-and-White.
One of the films that "Valley" beat that night was "Citizen Kane" (which got only Best Original Screenplay for director Orson Welles and his co-writer Herman J.
Still, Fox waited only seven years to take home the top prize at the Oscars. At the 14th Academy Awards, held in 1942, Fox's film "How Green Was My Valley" won Best Picture, presented to Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck. That wasn't the only prize "Valley" won that night: it also got Best Director (John Ford), Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Arthur Miller), and finally Best Art Direction -- Interior Decoration, Black-and-White.
One of the films that "Valley" beat that night was "Citizen Kane" (which got only Best Original Screenplay for director Orson Welles and his co-writer Herman J.
- 5/7/2024
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Until recently, the literary pedigree of a motion picture could clear a path to an Oscar nomination and often a win. Best Picture champs such as “No Country for Old Men” (2007), “Million Dollar Baby” (2004) and “The English Patient” (1996) all began their lives on the page in works by Cormac McCarthy, F.X. Toole and Michael Ondaatje, respectively. This year, “White Noise,” Noah Baumbach‘s Netflix film based on Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, is angling for such a Best Picture nomination.
The tradition dates back to the earliest days of the Academy Awards when classic novels were regularly adapted for the screen. The 1930s saw “All Quiet on the Western Front” (by Erich Maria Remarque), “Mutiny on the Bounty” (by Charles Nordoff and James Norman Hall) and “Gone With the Wind” (by Margaret Mitchell) walk off with the top prize. The subsequent decade was also fortunate for novelists, as adaptations of “Rebecca...
The tradition dates back to the earliest days of the Academy Awards when classic novels were regularly adapted for the screen. The 1930s saw “All Quiet on the Western Front” (by Erich Maria Remarque), “Mutiny on the Bounty” (by Charles Nordoff and James Norman Hall) and “Gone With the Wind” (by Margaret Mitchell) walk off with the top prize. The subsequent decade was also fortunate for novelists, as adaptations of “Rebecca...
- 11/30/2022
- by Robert Rorke
- Gold Derby
“This is quite a day and quite a time,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at the beginning of his news conference on Wednesday.
Earlier in the afternoon, the L.A. City Council voted to declare a fiscal emergency and approved plans to furlough more than 15,000 city employees. It also voted to carry out early retirement buyouts for another 1,280 employees to try to recoup as much anticipated lost revenue as possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Each pay period’s furloughs of city employees represents a savings of $5.79 million, or $104.2 million in fiscal year 2020-2021, according to city documents. The council may still have to find additional savings.
The furloughs, which equate to about 10% of an employee’s annual salary, are set to begin Oct. 11.
City Council members said without implementing the furloughs, they would have to consider laying off employees.
Asked if he would be furloughed Garcetti said, “The...
Earlier in the afternoon, the L.A. City Council voted to declare a fiscal emergency and approved plans to furlough more than 15,000 city employees. It also voted to carry out early retirement buyouts for another 1,280 employees to try to recoup as much anticipated lost revenue as possible due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Each pay period’s furloughs of city employees represents a savings of $5.79 million, or $104.2 million in fiscal year 2020-2021, according to city documents. The council may still have to find additional savings.
The furloughs, which equate to about 10% of an employee’s annual salary, are set to begin Oct. 11.
City Council members said without implementing the furloughs, they would have to consider laying off employees.
Asked if he would be furloughed Garcetti said, “The...
- 9/3/2020
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Viacom’s UK network Channel 5 is plotting an adaptation of classic Welsh novel How Green Is My Valley and a new version of Oliver Twist and as it doubles down on its drama drive.
The broadcaster held a lavish event at London’s Renaissance Hotel in Kings Cross last night to showcase its latest slate and its recent talent drive.
C5’s Director of Programmes Ben Frow also revealed a number of new dramas, building on shows such as Cold Call, which is currently on air, Clink and The Decieved from Catherine The Great producer New Pictures.
How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn. It tells the story of a respectable mining family from South Wales through the eyes of son Huw Morgan. While Huw’s five brothers and father are coalminers, Huw’s academic ability set his apart and allows him to consider a future away from the mines.
The broadcaster held a lavish event at London’s Renaissance Hotel in Kings Cross last night to showcase its latest slate and its recent talent drive.
C5’s Director of Programmes Ben Frow also revealed a number of new dramas, building on shows such as Cold Call, which is currently on air, Clink and The Decieved from Catherine The Great producer New Pictures.
How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn. It tells the story of a respectable mining family from South Wales through the eyes of son Huw Morgan. While Huw’s five brothers and father are coalminers, Huw’s academic ability set his apart and allows him to consider a future away from the mines.
- 11/20/2019
- by Peter White and Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
"The Furniture" our weekly series on Production Design. Here's Daniel Walber
Filmmaking is often an art borne of flexibility. Tim Burton built Sleepy Hollow from scratch when he couldn’t find just the right town in the real world. Vincente Minnelli was forced to make Brigadoon indoors in Hollywood, because the studio wouldn’t pay for an expensive production in Scotland. Both films are likely better for it, too.
The same is perhaps true for How Green Was My Valley, which premiered 75 years ago this week. John Ford wanted to make shoot it on location in Wales, but World War II intervened. Instead, the production team built an entire mining town in the Santa Monica Mountains. This condensed and idealized version of the setting of Richard Llewellyn’s 1939 novel is among the most emotionally resonant sets of its era.
The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Art Direction.
Filmmaking is often an art borne of flexibility. Tim Burton built Sleepy Hollow from scratch when he couldn’t find just the right town in the real world. Vincente Minnelli was forced to make Brigadoon indoors in Hollywood, because the studio wouldn’t pay for an expensive production in Scotland. Both films are likely better for it, too.
The same is perhaps true for How Green Was My Valley, which premiered 75 years ago this week. John Ford wanted to make shoot it on location in Wales, but World War II intervened. Instead, the production team built an entire mining town in the Santa Monica Mountains. This condensed and idealized version of the setting of Richard Llewellyn’s 1939 novel is among the most emotionally resonant sets of its era.
The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Art Direction.
- 10/24/2016
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmExperience
Night and the City, adapted from Gerald Kersh's novel, is the supreme example of London noir
It's the title that gets you first – so elemental and sinewy. In four short words it yokes together two key 20th-century fetishes: the black swamp of the night (with the moral terrors it summons up) and the concretised urban jungle that has taken on a brutal life of its own. As a pairing, it is definitively modern and anti-pastoral. And with the careful positioning of a definite article, it becomes a phrase of pure, hard poetry of authentically modernist intent. Would The Night and the City have worked so well? Or The Night and City? Or even City and the Night? No chance.
The writer who came up with it, Gerald Kersh, attached it to his third novel. Published in 1938, Night and the City is a high-minded pulp thriller containing a fantastically vivid...
It's the title that gets you first – so elemental and sinewy. In four short words it yokes together two key 20th-century fetishes: the black swamp of the night (with the moral terrors it summons up) and the concretised urban jungle that has taken on a brutal life of its own. As a pairing, it is definitively modern and anti-pastoral. And with the careful positioning of a definite article, it becomes a phrase of pure, hard poetry of authentically modernist intent. Would The Night and the City have worked so well? Or The Night and City? Or even City and the Night? No chance.
The writer who came up with it, Gerald Kersh, attached it to his third novel. Published in 1938, Night and the City is a high-minded pulp thriller containing a fantastically vivid...
- 12/11/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
None but the Lonely Heart finds Cary Grant in a role that many will find surprising, not only because his famous smile makes only rare appearances, but because, legend or not, his roles are not known for their complexity of range. While you may find him in varied roles, each is somewhat straight-forward. Not so with Ernie Mott, a kind of likable, mostly harmless ne’er-do-well who surprisingly aims at rethinking his life when he must help his ailing mother (Ethel Barrymore) run her modest shop.
From aimless and disinterested slacker, to semi-repentant son and world-weary everyman, Grant here plays a multi-faceted character with a full plate of situations requiring his reaction. The difficult, and somewhat “lost,” era of pre-war, poor London offers a multitude of barriers and opportunities, and Ernie’s personal life is a trying mix of complication and simplicity. He has too many women in his life,...
From aimless and disinterested slacker, to semi-repentant son and world-weary everyman, Grant here plays a multi-faceted character with a full plate of situations requiring his reaction. The difficult, and somewhat “lost,” era of pre-war, poor London offers a multitude of barriers and opportunities, and Ernie’s personal life is a trying mix of complication and simplicity. He has too many women in his life,...
- 9/9/2010
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Made in Welsh, English and Spanish, this meandering documentary follows the likeable Welsh musician Gruff Rhys as he goes in search of relatives who emigrated to Patagonia from north Wales in the 19th century. He's also looking for the Welsh-Argentinian singer René Griffiths, briefly a star of Welsh TV when Rhys was a teenager. The story of the Welsh diaspora in Latin America has been told in fiction (by Richard Llewellyn in sequels to How Green Was My Valley) and several broadcast documentaries. So the material is not particularly new. But Rhys is an entertaining guide and he meets some interesting people along the way, albeit less quirky than Patagonians encountered in recent Argentinian cinema.
DocumentarySuper Furry AnimalsPhilip French
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- 7/31/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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