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AMERICA at the MOVIES Oscar® Savvy February 2005 A Monthly Publication of the USA Mission to Poland. Warsaw • Krakow • Poznan Volume II. Issue 12. AMERICA AT THE MOVIES Oscar® Savvy ® 1. The three Poles Watch Oscars night in Poland on Monday, nominated for an Oscar® in February 28, from early morning on Canal+. 2005 are: ® What are Oscars exactly? Also called A. Magdalena Piekorz Academy Awards®, they are handed B. Jan A.P. Kaczmarek out annually by the Academy of Motion C. Hanna Polak Picture Arts and Sciences® (AMPAS), D. Andrzej Celinski a professional organization comprised of over 6,000 artists and craftsmen from the movie industry. 2. Which country has had the most Foreign Language The first ceremony took place Film awards? on May 16, 1929, and the winners were A. Japan known prior to it. The following year B. Argentina the organizers introduced sealed C. Italy envelopes, and since then winners are D. Germany not known until the envelopes are opened publicly. 3. Who was the youngest The famous Oscar® statuette dates from person ever to receive an the 1920s. It is a figure of a knight Oscar® statuette? standing on a reel of film, hands gripping a sword. Initially Oscar® was made of gold- A. Haley Joel Osment plated bronze; today it is gold-plated B. Shirley Temple britannium. The origins of the nickname are C. Tatum O'Neal not clear. A popular story says that D. Elijah Wood an AMPAS employee thought the statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar. Although 4. Who has won the most the Academy itself did not use the nickname Oscars®? officially until 1939, staff members and media did so much earlier. A. Walt Disney ® B. Peter Jackson Oscar winners are C. Clint Eastwood determined by members D. Alfred Hitchcock of AMPAS. Starting in AMPAS December, nominees are voted © upon. In the next stage, which this year started in 5. Which movie received the February, members vote for Image: most nominations in 2005? the winners. A. Finding Neverland Check with the quiz B. Ray on the left if you are C. Sideways Oscar® savvy. Correct D. The Aviator answers are on page 4. In This Issue: Movies and Modern America, African American Faces, Win a Prize! ZOOM in on America Movies and Modern America Big Bucks Over American movies are the past of course not only 15 years, for about art but also every high-tech, about money. stunt-filled Mission Impossible, there are The U.S. motion serious and thought- picture industry provoking American films produces much of such as American Beauty and the world’s feature The Hours, as well as complex films and is and sophisticated movies such dominated by several as Traffic, Shakespeare in Love, large studios, based Magnolia, and About Schmidt. What mostly in Hollywood, is therefore remarkable about California. contemporary American movies is their diversity, their effort to explore the social Although thousands and psychological dimensions of life, of movies are and their ability to combine entertainment produced each year, with artistry. only a small number of them account for Films of the past 15 years also introduced most box office to their audiences a fresh generation receipts. Most films of actors. Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, do not make a full Brad Pitt, John Cusack, Matt Damon, return on their Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Image: melanie k. (stock.xchng) investment from Gwyneth Paltrow, and Julianne Moore do not domestic box office conform to the classic notion of a Hollywood revenues, so star, but they have given performances filmmakers rely on as vivid and as distinctive as their profits from predecessors. Unlike the stars television and DVD of Hollywood's classic era, who always sales and rentals. seemed to be playing themselves Major film companies (Cary Grant, John Wayne, Elizabeth are also receiving a Taylor), contemporary American growing portion of actors disappear into their roles, their revenue from playing parts that differ from one abroad. movie to the next. American movies have Still, all of the top-ten focused on human all-time worldwide relationships and private box office successes feelings, not just on were produced in problems of a particular America. According time and place. They tell to Internet Movie tales about romance Database (www. (High Fidelity), intrigue imdb.com) Titanic (L.A. Confidential), sets the record with success and failure $1.8 billion worth of (Chicago), and moral receipts, followed by conflicts (The Insider). The Lord of the This approach to Rings: The Return of filmmaking reflects, the King with $1.1 in part, the traditional billion and Harry American faith Potter and the in the importance of the individual. Sorcerer's Stone ($968 million). Text adapted from: Film: Movies and Modern America by Text based in part on Richard Pells available at: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/ Bureau of Labor Statistics itsv/0403/ijse/ijse0403.htm information ZOOM Page 2 African-American Faces of Oscars® February Is African-American History Month 2005 is a record year for the number of Academy best supporting actor (Morgan Freeman for "Million Award® nominations for African American actors. The Dollar Baby" and Jamie Foxx again for "Collateral") nominations include two for best actor (Don Cheadle and one for best supporting actress (Sophie Okonedo "Hotel Rwanda" and Jamie Foxx for "Ray"), two for for "Hotel Rwanda"). AMPAS AMPAS AMPAS AMPAS AMPAS © © © Jamie Foxx Foxx Jamie Don Cheadle Sophie Okonedo Members of the Academy appreciated Jamie Foxx in two very In “Million Dollar Baby” different roles. In "Collateral" Foxx plays a taxi driver who one Morgan Freeman plays night has to deal with an assassin. "Foxx fires up the screen one of the characters with the power and subtlety of a born star," said a critic for and the narrator of Clint Rolling Stone magazine. Eastwood’s story about a boxing trainer who AMPAS AMPAS In "Ray" Foxx portrays the legendary soul singer, Ray Charles. works with a © According to The New York Times newspaper, "Ray succeeds, determined young to an unusual extent for a movie of this kind, in presenting a woman in her attempt to vivid, convincing portrait of an artist.” The newspaper critic adds establish herself as a that “what makes Ray such a satisfying picture, in spite of some champion boxer. shortcomings and compromises, is Mr. Foxx's inventive, intuitive, and supremely intelligent performance." Morgan Freeman In "Hotel Rwanda", a true-life story, Don Cheadle plays a resort manager, Paul AMPAS AMPAS Rusesabagina, who houses over a thousand © refugees during the 1995 genocide in Rwanda. Sophie Okonedo received an Oscar® nomination for playing Rusesabagina's wife. ashington ashington According to a San Francisco Chronicle critic, "Paul's brief, sudden breakdown, played by Cheadle (...), crystallizes the character and is the stuff of movie legend. Remarkably, Okonedo, as Paul's wife, is Cheadle's equal. The scene in which her terror and anger overtake her is unforgettable." Halle Berry and Denzel W Denzel and Berry Halle Sidney Poitier (AP Photo/Doug Mills) In 2002 for the first time in the 74-year history of the faceless woman of color who now has a chance Academy Awards® ceremonies, a pair of African because this door has been opened." Americans captured the Best Actor and Best Actress awards. Denzel Washington, who previously had won Best Supporting Actor in 1989 for his role in the movie Halle Berry won for her performance in "Monster's "Glory," won Best Actor for his role as a rogue cop in Ball" and is the first African American to win the the movie "Training Day." Washington was the Oscar® for Best Actress. "Oh, my God," Berry sobbed second African American to win the top award. ® between words when her name was announced. Sidney Poitier won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1963 "This moment is so much bigger than me. This for his role in the movie "Lilies of the Field." He was moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, given an Honorary Award in 2002. Diahann Carroll. ... This is for every nameless, From Washington File ZOOM Page 3 Activity Page ® Win a Prize! Oscars Quiz Answers To take part in a 1. Jan A.P. Kaczmarek (Original Score), Hanna Polak (Documentary Short), Andrzej drawing for one of three Celiński (Documentary Short) prizes find the answer ® to the following 2. Italy has had 10 Oscars in the Foreign Language Film category. question: 3. Shirley Temple received a juvenile Academy Award® at 6 years. 4. Walt Disney has received 26 Academy Awards®. What material is the Oscar® statuette 5. The Aviator has 11 nominations. made of? Send your answer to: Word Formation [email protected] In the text below use the word given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line. See the 2 examples at the beginning. Give your name and address. The deadline is Academy Awards® are presented for outstanding individual STAND OUT February 28. COLLECT or collective efforts in the movie industry in up to 25 regular Good Luck! categories. In __________ to the regular annual awards ADD conferred by vote of the __________, the AMPAS Board of MEMBER The winners from the previous issue will soon __________ can vote for a number of other awards including GOVERN receive their prizes __________ Awards. Those particular Awards may be given HONOR by mail. for outstanding __________ not otherwise recognized by the ACHIEVE regular awards. They may be given for __________ distinction EXCEPT in lifetime achievement or exceptional __________ to the state CONTRIBUTE of __________ picture arts and sciences. They have been MOVE __________, for instance, to Blake Edwards for his AWARD About ZOOM extraordinary body of film work, to __________ Jack Cardiff CINEMATOGRAPHY for his distinguished __________ of light and color and to MASTER Zoom is online at www.usinfo.pl/zoom/ Chuck Jones for the __________ of his classic cartoons.
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