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Julian Krainin
Julian Krainin (born January 24, 1941) is an American film producer, director, cinematographer, and scriptwriter. Notable films during his fifty-year career include '' Quiz Show'', '' George Wallace,'' and '' Princeton: A Search for Answers'', for which he has won an Academy Award, four Academy Award nominations, a Golden Globe, and two Emmy Awards. Life and career Krainin was born in New York City, the son of David and Anne Krainin. After graduating from Forest Hills High School, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College. Inspired by ''Lawrence of Arabia'', he dropped out of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons to pursue a career in film. At Columbia film school, he produced ''The March'', a chronicle of Martin Luther King’s Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march for civil rights. “We marched from that little town, Selma, at first with 500 to a thousand people. The next day it doubled and soon there were tens of thousands getting on planes, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quiz Show (film)
''Quiz Show'' is a 1994 American historical mystery-drama film directed and produced by Robert Redford. Dramatizing the '' Twenty-One'' quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the screenplay by Paul Attanasio adapts the memoirs of Richard N. Goodwin, a U.S. Congressional lawyer who investigated the accusations of game-fixing by show producers. The film chronicles the rise and fall of popular contestant Charles Van Doren after the fixed loss of Herb Stempel and Goodwin's subsequent probe. The film stars John Turturro as Stempel, Rob Morrow as Goodwin, and Ralph Fiennes as Charles Van Doren. Paul Scofield, David Paymer, Hank Azaria, Martin Scorsese, Mira Sorvino, and Christopher McDonald play supporting roles. The real Goodwin and Stempel served as technical advisors to the production. The film received generally positive reviews and was nominated for several awards, including a Best Picture Oscar nomination and several Golden Globe Awards. Plot In 1958, the questions and answers to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Search For Answers
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Documentary (Short Subject)
This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short film. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year. Copies of every winning film (along with copies of most nominees) are held by the Academy Film Archive. Ten films are shortlisted before nominations are announced. Rules and eligibility Per the recent rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a Short Subject Documentary is defined as a nonfiction motion picture "dealing creatively with cultural, artistic, historical, social, scientific, economic or other subjects". It may be photographed in actual occurrence, or may employ partial reenactment, stock footage, stills, animation, stop-motion or other techniques, as long as the emphasis is on fact, and not on fiction. It must have a run time of no more than 40 minutes and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wallace (film)
''George Wallace'' is a 1997 biographical two-part mini-series produced and directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Gary Sinise as the titular former Governor of Alabama. The mini-series's teleplay, written by Marshall Frady and Paul Monash, is based on the 1996 biography ''Wallace: The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace'' by Frady. Mare Winningham, Clarence Williams III, Joe Don Baker, Angelina Jolie, Terry Kinney, William Sanderson, Mark Rolston, Tracy Fraim, Skipp Sudduth, Ron Perkins, and Mark Valley also star. ''George Wallace'' was highly praised by critics and received various accolades: including Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing (Frankenheimer), Outstanding Lead Actor (Sinise), and Outstanding Supporting Actress (Winningham), and Golden Globes for Best Television Film and Best Supporting Actress (Jolie). Plot ''George Wallace'' portrays the political life of a complex man. Initially an ordinary Southern judge, Wallace transforms himself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allegheny College
he, תגל ערבה ותפרח כחבצלת , mottoeng = "Add to your faith, virtue and to your faith, knowledge" (2 Peter 1:5)"The desert shall rejoice and the blossom as the rose" (Isaiah 35:1) , faculty = 193 (2018) , campus = Small town, total , endowment = $289 million (2021) , sports_nickname = Gators , athletics_affiliations = NCAA Division III – PAC , colors = Blue & gold , academic_affiliations = GLCAAnnapolis Group , accreditation = MSCHE , website = , logo = Alleghenycollegelogo.png , embedded = Allegheny College is a private liberal arts college in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1815, Allegheny is the oldest college in continuous existence under the same name west of the Allegheny Mountains. It is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Presidents' Athletic Conference, and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Jacobs (producer)
Michael Jacobs (born June 28, 1955) is an American television creator, writer and producer whose work has appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway, television and film. He is the creator/producer or has written and developed several television series including '' Boy Meets World'', ''Dinosaurs'', ''Charles in Charge'', '' My Two Dads'', ''The Torkelsons'', and ''Girl Meets World''. His television shows have won the Emmy, People's Choice, Parent's Choice, Environmental Media Awards, and more. Early life Jacobs was born June 28, 1955, in Highland Park, New Jersey. He attended Highland Park High School (New Jersey). Jacobs grew up in New York City, New York; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and Los Angeles, California. Career Jacobs began his career as a writer and an actor. As an actor, he toured with the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, appeared in a Los Angeles production of Godspell, and made an appearance on the soap-opera ''Days of Our Lives''. His play, ''Cheaters'', had its premiere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Nozik
Michael Nozik is an American film producer. He won a BAFTA award for '' The Motorcycle Diaries'' in the category of 'Best Film Not in the English Language' in 2004. His credits also include ''Love in the Time of Cholera'', ''Syriana'', '' Quiz Show'', and ''The Legend of Bagger Vance ''The Legend of Bagger Vance'' is a 2000 American sports film directed by Robert Redford, and starring Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron. The screenplay by Jeremy Leven is based on Steven Pressfield's 1995 book '' The Legend of Bagger V ...''. Filmography He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted. Film ;Production manager ;Location management ;Second unit director or assistant director ;Thanks Television ;Production manager References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nozik, Michael Year of birth missing (living people) Film producers from Massachusetts Filmmakers who won the Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA Award People from Holyoke, Massachuset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the List of awards and nominations received by Robert Redford, recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Awards, Academy Award from four nominations, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2014, ''Time (magazine), Time'' named him one of the Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world. Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on ''The Twilight Zone'' in 1962. He earned an Emmy Awards, Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''The Voice of Charlie Pont'' (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's ''Barefoot in the Park'' (1963). Redford made his film debut in ''War Hunt'' (1962). H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Experience
''American Experience'' is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history. The series premiered on October 4, 1988 and was originally titled ''The American Experience'', but the article "The" was dropped during a later rebrand and image update. The show has had a presence on the Internet since 1995, and more than 100 ''American Experience'' programs are accompanied by their own internet websites, which have more background information on the subjects covered as well as teachers' guides and educational companion materials. The show is produced primarily by WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, though occasionally in the early seasons of the show, it was co-produced by other PBS stations such as WNET (Channel 13) in New York City. Some programs now considered part of the ''American Experience'' collection were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disaster At Silo 7
''Disaster at Silo 7'' is a 1988 American made-for-television thriller-drama film directed by Larry Elikann. It is loosely based on the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion. Plot During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel tank is penetrated by a falling socket. The film traces the efforts of the maintenance crew and associated military and civilian personnel to recover the potentially disastrous situation before the fuel tank is sufficiently depressurised that the stack collapses and explodes. Retrieved January 6, 2017. Cast * as Sgt. Mike Fitzgerald * |
Art Is
''Art Is...'' is a 1971 American short documentary film directed by Julian Krainin. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. See also * List of American films of 1971 A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References External links * * 1971 films 1971 documentary films 1971 short films American short documentary films American independent films 1970s short documentary films 1971 independent films 1970s English-language films 1970s American films {{short-documentary-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Americans (film)
''The Other Americans'' is a mystery novel written by Moroccan American novelist Laila Lalami. The novel was published in 2019 by Pantheon Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Plot The book begins with the suspicious death of Moroccan immigrant, Driss Guerraoui, in a hit-and-run accident in a small town in California, and is told from the perspectives of nine different characters who are connected to him. Reception The novel was positively received by critics. In 2019, ''The Other Americans'' was a finalist for National Book Award for Fiction and the Kirkus Prize. It won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and in 2020, it won the Arab American Book Award for Fiction. The novel also made the longlist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize The Aspen Words Literary Prize, established in 2018, is an annual literary award presented by Aspen Words, a literary center in Aspen, Colorado Aspen is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
