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Volpi Cup For Best Actress
The Volpi Cup for Best Actress is an award presented by the Venice Film Festival. It is given by the festival jury in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance from the films in the competition slate. It is named in honor of Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, the founder of the festival. The 1st ceremony was held in 1932, when Helen Hayes received the Volpi Cup for the title role in ''The Sin of Madelon Claudet'' (1931)—this was the only time that the award was chosen by public voting. From 1942 to 1945, the festival was suspended because of World War II. The student protests in May 1968 opened a period of institutional changes, with no prizes were awarded from 1969 to 1979. The official name of the award has changed several times. In 1934, Katharine Hepburn was honored with the Great Gold Medal of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment for the Best Actress for her role in '' Little Women''. It was renamed the Volpi Cup for Best Actress the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Six" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada the Sundance Film Festival in the United States and the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia. The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival. Founded by the National Fascist Party in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893. The ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
49th Venice International Film Festival
The 49th annual Venice Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival was held on 1 to 12 September 1992. Jury The following people comprised the 1992 jury: *Dennis Hopper (head of jury) *Jirí Menzel (head of jury) *Gianni Amelio *Anne Brochet *Neil Jordan *Hanif Kureishi *Ennio Morricone *Michael Ritchie (film director), Michael Ritchie *Jacques Siclier *Fernando E. Solanas *Sheila Whitaker Official selection In competition Autonomous sections Venice International Film Critics' Week The following feature films were selected to be screened as ''In Competition'' for this section: * ''Galaxies Are Colliding'' by John Ryman (film director), John Ryman (United States) * ''Oxygen Starvation'' (''Kisneviy golod'') by Andrey Donchik (Canada, Ukraine) * ''Klamek ji bo Beko'' by Nizamettin Ariç (Germany, Turkey) * ''The Seven Deadly Sins'' (''Les sept péchés capitaux'') by Beatriz Flores Silva, Frédéric Fonteyne, Yvan Le Moine, Geneviève Mersch, Pier-Paul Renders, Pasca Zabus, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Voice (British Newspaper)
''The Voice'', founded in 1982, is a British national African-Caribbean newspaper operating in the United Kingdom. The paper is based in London and was published every Thursday until 2019 when it became monthly. It is available in a paper version by subscription and also online. History ''The Voice'' was founded in 1982 by Val McCalla, who was working on a London local paper called the ''East End News'' in 1981. He and a group of businesspeople and journalists created a weekly newspaper to cater for the interests of British-born African-Caribbean people. Until then, relevant publications had mastheads such as the '' West Indian Gazette'', ''West Indian World'', ''The Caribbean Times'' and ''West Africa''. This was in order to address the interests of a generation of immigrants, by passing on news from their countries of origin in the Caribbean and Africa, rather than addressing the concerns of generations born in the UK. According to Beulah Ainley, who worked with McCalla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugar Cane Alley
''Sugar Cane Alley'' ( French title: ''La Rue Cases-Nègres'') is a 1983 film directed by Euzhan Palcy. It is set in Martinique in the 1930s, when Africans working sugarcane fields were still treated harshly by their white employers. It is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Joseph Zobel of the same title (alternatively translated as ''Black Shack Alley''; literally "Street of the Houses of Negroes"). Synopsis José, the protagonist, is a young boy living in a rural part of Martinique in the 1930s. Many of the people around him, including his grandmother, Ma'Tine, with whom he lives, work in the sugar cane fields where they are browbeaten and badly paid by the white boss. Ma'Tine is chronically ill, suffering several heart episodes, but continues to recover from them and continue her work to support José. José, an orphan, has a father figure in an elderly man named Medouze who likes to tell him stories about Africa. José attends school at the insistence of his grandmother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darling Légitimus
Mathilda Marie Berthilde Paruta (21 November 1907 – 7 December 1999), better known as Darling Légitimus, was a French actress. In 1983, she received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in the film '' Sugar Cane Alley''. Biography Born on 21 November 1907 at Le Carbet in Martinique, she spent her early years in Caracas, Venezuela. Mathilda Paruta arrived in Paris, France, at age of 16, wanting to become a dancer. She met Victor-Etienne Légitimus, son of the government deputy, Hegesippe Jean Légitimus, and went on to become his lifelong companion and bear him five children. Known for a long time as Miss Darling, she later chose to go by the name of Darling Legitimus. She performed as a dancer in '' La Revue Nègre'' (1925) with Josephine Baker, and posed for Picasso as well as for sculptor Paul Belmondo, father of Jean-Paul Belmondo, the actor. During the 1930s, Darling wrote, composed and sang numerous Caribbean songs such as Biguine and Mazurka. She ofte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
40th Venice International Film Festival
The 40th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 31 August to 11 September 1983. Jury The following people comprised the 1983 jury: * Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy) (head of jury) * Jack Clayton (UK) * Peter Handke (Austria) * Leon Hirszman (Brazil) * Márta Mészáros (Hungary) * Nagisa Oshima (Japan) * Gleb Panfilov (Soviet Union) * Bob Rafelson (USA) * Ousmane Sembene (Senegal) * Mrinal Sen (India) * Alain Tanner (Switzerland) * Agnès Varda (Belgium) Films in competition Awards *Golden Lion: **'' First Name: Carmen'' by Jean-Luc Godard * Grand Special Jury Prize: **'' Biquefarre'' by Georges Rouquier *Silver Lion: **''Sugar Cane Alley'' by Euzhan Palcy *Volpi Cup: ** Best Actor - Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, David Alan Grier, Guy Boyd, and George Dzundza ('' Streamers'') ** Best Actress - Darling Légitimus (''Sugar Cane Alley'') *Career Golden Lion: **Michelangelo Antonioni *FIPRESCI Prize **''Fanny and Alexander'' by Ing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Venice International Film Festival
The 10th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 11 August to 1 September 1949. The Venice Film Festival came back permanently to the Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido di Venezia. The award for the Best film is first called " The Lion of St. Marcus" (instead of Great International Prize of Venice) will maintain this name until 1954, when it became known as Golden Lion permanently. Jury * Mario Gromo * Ermanno Contini * Emilio Lavagnino * Giannino Marescalchi * Aldo Palazzeschi * Piero Regnoli * Gian Luigi Rondi * Gino Visentini * Cesare Zavattini In Competition Awards * Golden Lion of Saint Mark ** ''Manon'' (Henri-Georges Clouzot) * Best Italian Film ** '' Cielo sulla palude'' (Augusto Genina) * Volpi Cup ** Best Actor - Joseph Cotten (''Portrait of Jennie'') ** Best Actress - Olivia de Havilland (''The Snake Pit'') ** Best Director - Augusto Genina ('' Cielo sulla palude'') ** Best Original Screenplay - Jacques Tati ('' Jour de fête'') ** Best Cinematogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Venice International Film Festival
The 8th Venice International Film Festival was held from 23 August to 15 September 1947. Screenwriter Vinicio Marinucci was appointed as the President of the Jury. Formally, it still was not the Golden Lion to designate the highest honor of the event. The prize was known as the Grand International Prize of Venice, which was awarded to ''The Strike'', directed by Karel Steklý. Jury Main Competition (Venezia 8) *Vinicio Marinucci, Italian screenwriter and journalist (Jury President) *Hugo Mauerhofer, Swiss film scholar *Antonín Martin Brousil, Czechoslovak film critic and historian *Jacques Ibert, French composer *Fabrizio Malipiero, Danish entrepreneur *Cirly Ray, British journalist *William Karol, Mexican film producer *Dimitri Jeriomin, Soviet writer *Jeanne Contini, American journalist Official selection In Competition The following films were selected for the main international competition: : indicates Grand International Prize winner. Awards Official selection The followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of its kind. The main exhibition held in Castello, in the halls of the Arsenale and Biennale Gardens, alternates between art and architecture (hence the name ''biennale''; ''biennial''). The other events hosted by the Foundationspanning theatre, music, and danceare held annually in various parts of Venice, whereas the Venice Film Festival takes place at the Lido. Organization Art Biennale The Art Biennale (La Biennale d'Arte di Venezia), is one of the largest and most important contemporary visual art exhibitions in the world. So-called because it is held biannually (in odd-numbered years), it is the original biennale on which others in the world have been modeled. The exhibition space spans over 7,000 square meters, and artists from ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3rd Venice International Film Festival
The 3rd annual Venice International Film Festival was held between 10 August and 1 September 1935. This festival saw the introduction of the Coppa Volpi for the acting awards. Jury * Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata (president) (Italy) * Charles Delac (France) * Ryszard Ordynski (Poland) * Fritz Scheuermann (Germany) * Luis Villani (Hungary) * Luigi Freddi (Italy) * Antonio Maraini (Italy) * Filippo Sacchi (Italy) * Ottavio Croze (Italy) * Raffaele Calzini (Italy) * Gino Damerini (Italy) * Giovanni Dettori (Italy) * Eugenio Giovannetti (Italy) * Mario Gromo (Italy) * Giacomo Paolucci de Calboli (Italy) * Elio Zorzi (Italy) In-Competition films * ''Anna Karenina'' by Clarence Brown * ''Becky Sharp'' by Rouben Mamoulian * '' Casta diva'' by Carmine Gallone * '' Crime et châtiment'' by Pierre Chenal * '' Die ewige Maske'' by Werner Hochbaum * ''Episode'' by Walter Reisch * ''La dame aux camélias'' by Abel Gance, Fernand Rivers * ''Sanders of the River'' by Zoltán Korda * '' The Info ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slate (magazine)
''Slate'' is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States. It was created in 1996 by former '' New Republic'' editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. In 2004, it was purchased by The Washington Post Company (later renamed the Graham Holdings Company), and since 2008 has been managed by The Slate Group, an online publishing entity created by Graham Holdings. ''Slate'' is based in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. ''Slate'', which is updated throughout the day, covers politics, arts and culture, sports, and news. According to its former editor-in-chief Julia Turner, the magazine is "not fundamentally a breaking news source", but rather aimed at helping readers to "analyze and understand and interpret the world" with witty and entertaining writing. As of mid-2015, it publishes about 1,500 stories per month. A French version, ''slate.fr'', was launched in February 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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