Lee Grant, the Oscar-winning actress (“Shampoo”) says she decided after her win to try to direct since good roles for older women were limited. It turns out that was about the halfway point of her 98 year (so far) life. What followed was a narrative feature (“Tell Me a Riddle”) and several documentaries, including “Down and Out in America,” which won an Oscar.
When we last ran our list of the oldest living feature film directors in late 2022, where Grant stood was a mystery. Since her breakout in William Wyler’s “The Detective Story” (1951), her first nomination, her year of birth was unclear. But recently she has clarified that that she was born in 1925. That makes her, to the best of our knowledge, older than any of her peers.
Below are listed the 25 oldest. Since our most recent list, Norman Lear, Robert M. Young (both of who briefly were the oldest...
When we last ran our list of the oldest living feature film directors in late 2022, where Grant stood was a mystery. Since her breakout in William Wyler’s “The Detective Story” (1951), her first nomination, her year of birth was unclear. But recently she has clarified that that she was born in 1925. That makes her, to the best of our knowledge, older than any of her peers.
Below are listed the 25 oldest. Since our most recent list, Norman Lear, Robert M. Young (both of who briefly were the oldest...
- 2/16/2024
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
This piece by Milton Justice, a member of the Academy's documentary branch who is best known for the Oscar-winning doc Down and Out in America, is part of an ongoing series of guest columns by Academy members about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy and the Academy's response to it. Having won an Oscar, I’m safe. Otherwise, I suppose I would have had to get my agent at CAA to write a letter assuring the Academy that even though I haven’t produced a film in the past 10 years, there are three scripts on his desk he has not yet been able to
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- 1/24/2016
- by Milton Justice
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The surprise tie in this year's Best Sound Editing category officially makes this year's Oscars one for the record books: It's only the sixth time a tie has happened in Oscar history and the first in a technical category.
"Zero Dark Thirty" and "Skyfall" shared this year's Sound Editing award -- beating out "Argo," "Django Unchained" and "Life of Pi." (In an odd coincidence, both Kathryn Bigelow's acclaimed "Zero" and the blockbuster James Bond film "Skyfall" were both distributed by Sony Pictures.)
Perhaps the most famous tie happened in 1968, when Barbara Steisand's "Funny Girl" breakout performance tied with legendary Katherine Hepburn's turn in "The Lion in Winter" for Best Actress. We know from the record books that that was an exact tie, each actress received the same number of votes.
However, historically, Oscar will declare a tie if two nominees come within a few votes of each other.
"Zero Dark Thirty" and "Skyfall" shared this year's Sound Editing award -- beating out "Argo," "Django Unchained" and "Life of Pi." (In an odd coincidence, both Kathryn Bigelow's acclaimed "Zero" and the blockbuster James Bond film "Skyfall" were both distributed by Sony Pictures.)
Perhaps the most famous tie happened in 1968, when Barbara Steisand's "Funny Girl" breakout performance tied with legendary Katherine Hepburn's turn in "The Lion in Winter" for Best Actress. We know from the record books that that was an exact tie, each actress received the same number of votes.
However, historically, Oscar will declare a tie if two nominees come within a few votes of each other.
- 2/25/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
When Mark Wahlberg announced a tie for the Best Sound Editing Oscar — the editors from Zero Dark Thirty and Skyfall took home the award — it became the sixth occurrence in the Academy’s history.
According to the AMPAs database, the first happened in 1931-32, when Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde’s Frederic March and The Champ’s Wallace Beery each won the Best Actor award. However, the vote count wasn’t an actual tie — Beery received one more than March, but the rules at the time stated two winners would be honored if the count was within three votes. The rule subsequently changed.
According to the AMPAs database, the first happened in 1931-32, when Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde’s Frederic March and The Champ’s Wallace Beery each won the Best Actor award. However, the vote count wasn’t an actual tie — Beery received one more than March, but the rules at the time stated two winners would be honored if the count was within three votes. The rule subsequently changed.
- 2/25/2013
- by Denise Warner
- EW - Inside Movies
At this year's Academy Awards, there was a tie (gasp!). It was in the Best Sound Editing category, with the award going to Paul N.J. Ottosson for his work in "Zero Dark Thirty," and Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers for their work in "Skyfall." However, this wasn't the first time a tie happened at the Oscars. Back in 1969, both Katherine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand won in a much more publicized category -- Best Actress -- with Hepburn winning for her performance as Queen Eleanor in "The Lion in Winter," and Streisand as Fanny Brice in "Funny Girl." It also happened in 1932, with both Wallace Beery ("The Champ") and Frederic March ("Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde") winning Best Actor; in 1949, when "A Chance to Live" and "So Much for So Little" won the Best Documentary Short award; in 1986, with "Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got" and "Down and Out in America...
- 2/25/2013
- by Alex Suskind
- Moviefone
2016 movie still trailing Michael Moore, Al Gore 2016 Obama's America, Dinesh D'Souza and John Sullivan's anti-Obama documentary, has surpassed the concert movie Katy Perry: Part of Me to become the second highest-grossing non-fiction film released in North America in 2012. By Sunday evening, D'Souza and Sullivan's right-wing doc -- current cume according to the web site Box Office Mojo stands at an estimated $27.66 million (as of Wed., September 13) -- should have also surpassed the nature doc Chimpanzee ($28.97 million) to become the year's top documentary in the United States and Canada. Worldwide, 2016 -- a 100% domestic sleeper hit like, say, the Tyler Perry movies (which have no audience overseas) -- remains behind both Chimpanzee (another domestic-only release) and Katy Perry: Part of Me. (Please scroll down for more details about the box-office performances of non-fiction films worldwide both in 2012 and "all-time.") As per numerous box-office reports, as the sixth biggest non-fiction film ever (or rather,...
- 9/13/2012
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Tom Hurwitz, Asc, is one of America’s most honored documentary cameramen. A guy who loves to court chance, Hurwitz started out in documentaries, moved into feature and commercial work, then returned to documentary cinematography nearly 25 years ago. During that time, he has put himself in hundreds of situations that have relied on both his willingness to take chances and his ability to have a camera pointed at the right place at just the right time to capture the powerful and the unexpected. Hurwitz’s work extends from “Frontline,” “Nova,” “American Experience” and “American Masters” to “Cathouse: The Series,” from “Paul Taylor: Dancemaker” and ‘Valentino: The Last Emperor” to “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib,” “Killing in the Name” and the Oscar-winning “Down and Out in America.” His latest project, “The Queen of Versailles,” had its world...
- 7/19/2012
- by Tom Hurwitz, ASC
- Indiewire
Filed under: Documentaries, Columns, Cinematical
Doc Talk is a bi-weekly column dedicated to non-fiction cinema.
Which film is more likely to become a documentary classic, 'Inside Job' or 'Exit Through the Gift Shop'? Regardless of our preference, we can all agree Banksy's Oscar-losing fan favorite is a more timeless story and will likely be more enjoyable with repeat viewings. Charles Ferguson's Academy Award-winning look at the financial crisis will certainly remain a great piece of historical document but probably won't be revisited often for entertainment or artistic value. And sadly, like many timely docs, it could even one day be forgotten, like Lee Grant's 1986 Oscar-winning Reagonomics critique 'Down and Out in America,' which is pretty obscure only 25 years later.
Before announcing the Best Picture winner Sunday night, Steven Spielberg made a comment clearly meant to appease Team 'The Social Network...
Doc Talk is a bi-weekly column dedicated to non-fiction cinema.
Which film is more likely to become a documentary classic, 'Inside Job' or 'Exit Through the Gift Shop'? Regardless of our preference, we can all agree Banksy's Oscar-losing fan favorite is a more timeless story and will likely be more enjoyable with repeat viewings. Charles Ferguson's Academy Award-winning look at the financial crisis will certainly remain a great piece of historical document but probably won't be revisited often for entertainment or artistic value. And sadly, like many timely docs, it could even one day be forgotten, like Lee Grant's 1986 Oscar-winning Reagonomics critique 'Down and Out in America,' which is pretty obscure only 25 years later.
Before announcing the Best Picture winner Sunday night, Steven Spielberg made a comment clearly meant to appease Team 'The Social Network...
- 3/2/2011
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
Filed under: Documentaries, Columns, Cinematical
Doc Talk is a bi-weekly column dedicated to non-fiction cinema.
Which film is more likely to become a documentary classic, 'Inside Job' or 'Exit Through the Gift Shop'? Regardless of our preference, we can all agree Banksy's Oscar-losing fan favorite is a more timeless story and will likely be more enjoyable with repeat viewings. Charles Ferguson's Academy Award-winning look at the financial crisis will certainly remain a great piece of historical document but probably won't be revisited often for entertainment or artistic value. And sadly, like many timely docs, it could even one day be forgotten, like Lee Grant's 1986 Oscar-winning Reagonomics critique 'Down and Out in America,' which is pretty obscure only 25 years later.
Before announcing the Best Picture winner Sunday night, Steven Spielberg made a comment clearly meant to appease Team 'The Social Network...
Doc Talk is a bi-weekly column dedicated to non-fiction cinema.
Which film is more likely to become a documentary classic, 'Inside Job' or 'Exit Through the Gift Shop'? Regardless of our preference, we can all agree Banksy's Oscar-losing fan favorite is a more timeless story and will likely be more enjoyable with repeat viewings. Charles Ferguson's Academy Award-winning look at the financial crisis will certainly remain a great piece of historical document but probably won't be revisited often for entertainment or artistic value. And sadly, like many timely docs, it could even one day be forgotten, like Lee Grant's 1986 Oscar-winning Reagonomics critique 'Down and Out in America,' which is pretty obscure only 25 years later.
Before announcing the Best Picture winner Sunday night, Steven Spielberg made a comment clearly meant to appease Team 'The Social Network...
- 3/2/2011
- by Christopher Campbell
- Moviefone
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