Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Academy Award Theater, gulped when they heard the announcement. To Britain, target of many a ripe tomato for its quotas on U.S. films, went the choicest plum of U.S. filmdom: the Oscar for the year's best picture. The winner: J. Arthur Rank's Hamlet (TIME, June...
...only did Hamlet become the first foreign movie ever to capture the big prize, but its title-role performance by Sir Laurence Olivier was judged the best by an actor in 1948. Olivier's Hamlet also cinched the distinction of being the year's most laureled picture by winning three other Oscars: black & white art direction, set decoration and costume design. Another Rank film, The Red Shoes, took three more technical honors, for its sets and art direction in color, and musical score...
Stealing a one-week march on the Academy Awards, Hollywood's Foreign Correspondents' Association named 1948's best screen performers: Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda) and Sir Laurence Olivier (Hamlet...
Garrick was thought especially successful as Hamlet; his start of terror at seeing the ghost was considered one of the 18th Century stage's great moments. Only the more critical Johnson refused to 'be impressed. Asked Boswell once: "Would not you, sir, start as Mr. Garrick does if you saw a ghost?" "I hope not," Johnson replied. "If I did, I should frighten the ghost...
Shaw's "Pygmalion," in its motion picture attire, ranks with "Hamlet" and "Henry V" as convincing proof that great plays can be made into great movies without sacrificing anything to film technique. By itself "Pygmalion" is an excellent picture, yet at the same time an accurate and faithful reproduction of the play as Shaw wrote it. True, many scenes implied in the play are acted out in the movie, but no one can seriously criticize such amplification when it is done with the care and respect so characteristic of British films...