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Academy Award For Best Documentary
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to ''Kukan'' and ''Target for Tonight''. They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. Copies of every winning film (along with copies of most nominees) are held by the Academy Film Archive. Winners and nominees Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year (that is, the year they were released under the Academy's rules for eligibility). In practice, due to the limited nature of documentary distribution, a film may be released in different years in different venues, sometimes years after production is complete. 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Shortlisted finalists Finalists for Best Documentary Feature are selected by the Documentary Branch based on a preliminary ballot. A sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS, often pronounced ; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches. As of April 2020, the organization was estimated to consist of around 9,921 motion picture professionals. The Academy is an international organization and membership is open to qualified filmmakers around the world. The Academy is known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, now officially and popularly known as "The Oscars". In addition, the Academy holds the Governors Awards annually for lifetime achievement in film; presents Scientific and Technical Awards annually; gives Student Academy Awards annually to filmmakers at the undergraduate and graduate level; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kokoda Front Line!
''Kokoda Front Line!'' was a full-length edition of the Australian newsreel, Cinesound Review, produced by the Australian News & Information Bureau and Cinesound Productions Limited in 1942, about the Kokoda Track campaign. It was one of four winners of the 15th Academy Awards for best documentary, and the first Australian film to win an Oscar. It was filmed by the Australian war photographer Damien Parer and directed by Ken G. Hall. Damien Parer is often cited as one of Australia's early Academy Award winners, however the award was made to the director, Ken G. Hall. Much of Parer's footage was used in a documentary made by a rival company, Movietone, '' The Road to Kokoda''. See also *List of Allied propaganda films of World War II During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grain That Built A Hemisphere
''The Grain That Built a Hemisphere'' is a 1943 short animated propaganda film about corn produced by Walt Disney for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.Shale, Richard. (1982). Donald Duck joins up: The Walt Disney Studio during World War II (Studies in cinema). Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1943.https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/1943 Awards for 1943 Bibliography * See also * List of Allied propaganda films of World War II * World War II and American animation World War II changed the possibilities for animation. Prior to the war, animation was mostly seen as a form of family entertainment. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a turning point in its utility. On December 8, 1941, the United States Army began ... References External links * * * 1943 films 1943 animated films 1940s war films American World War II propaganda shorts 1940s Disney animated short films Documentary film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conquer By The Clock
''Conquer by the Clock'' was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by the RKO Pathé in 1942 to encourage wartime industrial production. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1943.https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/1943 Awards for 1943 See also * List of Allied propaganda films of World War II During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreig ... * United States home front during World War II References External links * * 1942 films 1940s war films American World War II propaganda shorts American black-and-white films American documentary films 1942 documentary films 1940s American films {{WWII-documentary-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal Corps (United States Army)
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Combat Report
''Combat Report'' was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1942, and shows the anti-submarine efforts of a bombing crew. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1942.https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/1943 Awards for 1943 See also * List of Allied propaganda films of World War II During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreig ... References External links * * 1942 films 1940s war films American World War II propaganda shorts American black-and-white films 1940s American films {{WWII-documentary-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The March Of Time
''The March of Time'' is an American newsreel series sponsored by Time Inc. and shown in movie theaters from 1935 to 1951. It was based on a radio news series broadcast from 1931 to 1945. The "voice" of both series was Westbrook Van Voorhis. Produced and written by Louis de Rochemont and his brother Richard de Rochemont, ''The March of Time'' was recognized with an Academy Honorary Award in 1937. ''The March of Time'' organization also produced four feature films for theatrical release, and created documentary series for early television. Its first TV series, ''Crusade in Europe'' (1949), received a Peabody Award and one of the first Emmy Awards. Production ''The March of Time'' was based on a news documentary and dramatization series, also called ''The March of Time'', that was first broadcast on CBS Radio in 1931. Usually called a newsreel series, ''The March of Time'' was actually a monthly series of short feature films twice the length of standard newsreels. The films wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa, Prelude To Victory
''Africa, Prelude to Victory'' is a short dramatic propaganda film produced as part of the newsreel ''The March of Time''. It shows the African campaigns of World War II. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1943.Awards for 1943 in IMDB See also *List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
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Office Of War Information
The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II. The OWI operated from June 1942 until September 1945. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, the OWI was the connection between the battlefront and civilian communities. The office also established several overseas branches, which launched a large-scale information and propaganda campaign abroad. From 1942 to 1945, the OWI revised or discarded any film scripts reviewed by them that portrayed the United States in a negative light, including anti-war material. History Origins President Franklin D. Roosevelt promulgated the OWI on June 13, 1942, by Executive Order 9182. The Executive Order consolidated the functions of the Office of Facts and Figures (OFF, OWI's direct predecessor), the Office of Government Reports, and the Division of Information of the Office for Emergency Management. The Foreign Information Servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-born American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five, his rags-to-riches story has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the " American Dream personified".Freer 2009, pp. 40–41. Capra became one of America's most influential directors during the 1930s, winning three Academy Awards for Best Director from six nominations, along with three other Oscar wins from nine nominations in other categories. Among his leading films were ''It Happened One Night'' (1934), ''Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'' (1936), '' You Can't Take It with You'' (1938), and '' Mr. Smith Goes to Washington'' (1939). During World War II, Capra served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and produced propaganda films, such as the ''Why We Fight'' seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prelude To War
''Prelude to War'' is the first film of Frank Capra's ''Why We Fight'' film series commissioned by the Office of War Information (OWI) and George C. Marshall. It was made to educate American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis powers during World War II based on the idea that those in the service would fight more willingly and ably if they knew the background and the reason for their participation in the war. The film was later released to the general American public as a rallying cry for support of the war. Summary In an edit added to the film before public release, a comment by US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, is quoted to create trust with the audience: "the purpose of these films is to give factual information as to the causes, the events leading up to our entry into the war and the principles for which we are fighting." The purpose of the OWI was to use mass communication to appeal to both serving soldiers and later, the American population on the reasons for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artkino
Nicola Napoli, was the President of Artkino Pictures, Inc., the primary distributor of Soviet films in the United States, Canada, Central America and South America from 1940 to 1982. Napoli was a double agent Soviet Spy for the United States. In 1941, he became an informant for the secret information concerning formulas and products manufactured by Dupont Corporation of America. As part of his role he was a member of Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and is known to have passed classified Soviet intelligence information (NKVDUS) to US intelligence during World War II. He was the secretary for the Anti-Fascists movement in, New York. Early life Napoli was born 16 November 1905 in New York of Italian parentage and was taken to Italy at an early age by his parents. He returned to the United States in 1924. Career Up to 1928, Napoli edited ''Il Lavoratore'', an Italian Communist publication in New York. Amkino Corp. Amkino Corporation, founded in 1927, and headed by ,'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
