Academy Award for Best Director

Levitt Sunset Boulevard The movie Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder was very well shot and edited. There was a lot of great shots in the movie, a couple of the great shots was at the New Year's Ball scene and Norma got mad and went up the stairs but it showed through the mirror where she was going it was a really neat shot. Then when they were driving to Paramount and max looked through the rearview mirror to tell Norma what was wrong with her make up. What was neat with that shot was…

All of us have opinions from whether we like our coffee hot or iced to who we want to be president. We often try to persuade others that our opinions are superior to theirs. But how far would you go to convince someone that your opinion is the right one to have? Would you burn someone’s opinion in a furnace? That is what Charles McCarthy did to a book that he did not want students in his school district to be reading. In response, the author, Kurt Vonnegut, wrote a letter titled, I Am Very Real…

When you see a piece of art, what do you see? Do you see a person or a thing, or is there a flashback of a memory; does it bring a certain emotion to the surface? Art can be shown in various ways, paintings, sculptures, portraits, etc. The piece of artwork that I choose from the class textbook is Elizabeth Taylor by Vik Muniz. The first time I saw Vik Muniz’s artwork of Elizabeth Taylor, it surfaced an emotion. Admiring a person’s beauty, having the emotion of that person being pulchritudinous,…

In Sherwood Anderson’s, Winesburg, Ohio, the author intends for the reader to sympathize more with Wing Biddlebaum, a once-proud schoolteacher, over Doctor Reefy, a social recluse. The style with which Anderson wrote each character played a significant role as to how the readers will interpret them. Readers can sympathize with the type of isolation that was forced upon Wing Biddlebaum more than the self-imposed isolation of Doctor Reefy. The accusations made against Wing which forced him out of…

Jane Austen is known for her words. During her time period it was unheard of for the daughter of a gentle to have any sort of career ( to work for money in any way). It was viewed as improper, and indecent and was compared to prostitution. So Austen always hid her work, and what was published during her time was under a pseudo name, “The Author”. A lot of her work was also published post humus by her brother. The words that she wrote have become classics and are taught as great pieces of…

Vanessa Hudgens Wiki, Height, Parents, Net Worth, Age and Bio Bio Hudgens is an American actress and singer. She rose to prominence when she played the role of Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical; the series brought her noteworthy mainstream success. She has tackled music, movies, and the stage with noteworthy success. She has acted in a number of good movies, Bandslam, Beastly, Sucker Punch, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Spring Breakers, and Machete Kill. Vanessa Hudgens was born…

G. At the time this article was written, the perception and expectations related to women were changing. The vision that was the docile, static, Victorian woman was evolving into the free-thinking and freely drinking “modern woman”. This was a woman who could work, flirt, go out on the town without a male chaperone, and indulge in their sexual desires. Manners and McDonald seems to admire the modern woman but for different reasons. Manners does not state her support outright, but she shows her…

Rashaun Richardson February 17, 2016 In the story, “Shooting an Elephant”, the narrator is contradictory in his feelings, by supporting one set of people, the Burmans, but serving another, the British. The reader infers that he can’t decide who to fight for because in the text the narrator explains the treatment of the Burmans by the English, but then tells the treatment of himself by the Burmans. For example, the narrator states that the treatment of the Burman prisoners were…

The Oscar sentiments of Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood have been on a high post the positive vibes sent across by the trailers of ‘Sully.’ Several fans and critics, after watching the recently launched trailers of Sully, acknowledge and agree to the fact that the performance and prowess portrayed by Tom Hanks in the movie directed by Clint Eastwood would at least win an Oscar nomination. Tom Hanks has excelled in the real life characterization of Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger – not only did he…

the favorite and best film related to this topic. We see the godfather - Vito Corleone. He is the head of the family and the head of one large mafia family. We see his life, his family, his black work and the dramatic story that the director showed us so spectacularly and realistically ... Oscar-denied Marlon Brando is a very talented actor and an interesting…