Essays on Academy Awards

Ang Lee is a Taiwanese-born film director who has made America his base. He grew up in Taiwan and studied in the tertiary level at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he finished a degree in theater in 1980. Thereafter he studied at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University where he received a master’s degree in film production. In 1982, he finished the film Shades of the Lake, which won Best Short Film the same year in Taiwan. Another film made in 1984, Fine Line, bagged the NYU Wasserman’s award for Outstanding ...

In 2009, a movie was released that was based on a Japanese manga (comic book) that originated in Japan. The premises of the movie was that a teenage inherited a mystical item that imbued him with immense powers. With these powers, he fought off evil alien forces that threatened all life on planet Earth. The name of that movie is Dragonball Evolution. Due to the source material containing Asian people as the main characters, it would only be safe to assume that the actor casted for the main role would be Asian as well. However, Hollywood directors went with ...

the Promotion of Mixed Income Neighborhoods in Hollywood, California

Overview

In California, the Los Angeles Metro, government, public organization and communites have worked hard to develop TOD projects in several locations in California. Los Angeles County (LAC) in Southern California is bordered by the Pacific Ocean; and near enough to the southern border of the U.S. that many people have migrated north to LA. Hollywood acts like a magnet for people looking for work in the movie industry and for tourists. years. In fact, the congestion of people and their cars in LAC has made it one of the most crowded ...

Movie Review: The Twilight Samurai

The twilight samurai was produced in 2002 by Yoji Yama. The setting of the film is sometime before Meiji Restoration. The film follows the life of a poor samurai Seibei Iguchi, working as an accountant. Despite his poverty, he is able to live a happy and content life with his two young daughters and aging mother. However, through the thing do not go his way, and life turns unbearable for him and his family. The film has won many Academy Awards including the Best Director, Best Picture, Best Screen Play, and Best Actress. This film produced a very interesting film that would ...

Management

Thesis statement Brokeback Mountain qualifies among the most controversial movies produced in 2005. Its analysis has been done from a political, social and moral point of view and has been a subject of criticism by political experts, the audience who have branded it as unacceptable because it will corrupt the morals of the society, since its initial release due its theme which is homosexuality.

Background

The title of the film is called Brokeback Mountain which was released initially on September 3, 2005 in USA (United States of America). The DVD was later released on April 4, 2006.The movie was directed by ...

The Academy Awards are the set of awards designed to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements. These Awards were established by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the first presentation of them occurred in 1929. Everybody knows the unofficial name of the Academy Award of Merit, which is Oscar. The question of where the name “Oscar” came remains unanswered up till now, though there are several suggestions. From the time the Awards were established, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences never ceased to carry out the ceremony, even during the World War II. Still, ...