''Dylan Thomas'' is a 1962
short documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
directed by
Jack Howells about the Welsh poet and writer,
Dylan Thomas. It won an
Oscar
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People
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at the
35th Academy Awards
The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra.
Ceremony
The Best Actress Oscar occasioned the last act of t ...
in 1963 for
Documentary Short Subject.
The
Academy Film Archive
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preserved ''Dylan Thomas'' in 2000.
Cast
*
Richard Burton
Richard Burton (; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor. Noted for his baritone voice, Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable pe ...
as Himself
See also
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Dylan Thomas
*
Richard Burton filmography
References
External links
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1962 films
1962 documentary films
1962 independent films
1962 short films
1960s short documentary films
British short documentary films
Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
British independent films
British black-and-white films
Documentary films about poets
Cultural depictions of Dylan Thomas
1960s English-language films
1960s British films
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