6 Directors Who Won The Academy Award for Their Debut Film !!

In the History of Academy Awards aka Oscars, till now only 6 directors have managed to win the Academy Award in their Directional Debut.
Here is the list of that 6 Directors with a little details.

1. Delbert Mann – Delbert won The Academy Award for his debut movie Marty (1955). The movie won 4 Oscars that year including Best Actor, Best Picture, And Best Screenplay. Delbert was the 1st person in the history of Oscars to receive a Award in debut movie.

2. Jerome Robbins – He won the Best Director Academy Award for his Debut movie West Side Story (1961). This movie won 10 Oscars that year including Best Picture and Best supporting Actor. Jerome shared the Best Director Oscar with Robert Wise. It happened first time in Oscar History that a Best Director award was being shared.

3. Robert Redford – Robert won the Best Director Oscar for his debut movie Ordinary People (1980). He was a famous actor before jumping into directing. His debut movie won 4 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Screenplay.

4. James L. Brooks – James won the Best Director Oscar for his debut movie Terms Of Endearment (1983). This movie starred the famous actor Jack Nicholson. Jack won the best supporting actor Oscar. This movie won a total of 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress.

5. Kevin Costner – Kevin won the Gold for his directional debut Dances With Wolves (1990). He also starred in this movie. Dances With Wolves Won 7 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Kevin was also nominated for Best Actor Oscar but he didn’t won that year.

6. Sam Mendes – Sam won The Academy award for his directional debut American Beauty (1999). It starred Kevin Spacey. Kevin also won the Best Actor Oscar. American Beauty won a total of 5 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Sam Mendes further Directed Blockbusters Like Skyfall and Road To Perdition.

So, have you fellas seen any of above movies ?? 

AVJ

87th Oscars Nominations under 8 categories ( part-1)

The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), is scheduled to take place on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood,Los Angeles.

Oscars are always so much fun. This ceremony manages to thrill and Surprise us. It always prove our guessings wrong and make us happy anyway.(right..??)

Actor Neil Patrick Harris is scheduled to host the ceremony for the first time. It is going to be awesome. To keep the list short, i have parted it in two lists. Here  is the 1st list of 87th Oscars Nominations in 8 different categories.

1.Best Motion Picture of the Year Nominees:

American Sniper (2014):  Clint Eastwood,  Robert Lorenz,  Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, 

Peter Morgan Birdman (2014):  Alejandro González Iñárritu,  John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole.

Boyhood (2014/I):  Richard Linklater,  Cathleen Sutherland

The Imitation Game (2014):  Nora Grossman,  Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014):  Wes Anderson,  Scott Rudin, Steven M. Rales, Jeremy Dawson

Selma (2014):  Christian Colson,  Oprah Winfrey,  Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner

The Theory of Everything (2014):  Tim Bevan,  Eric Fellner,  Lisa Bruce,  Anthony McCarten

Whiplash (2014):  Jason Blum,  Helen Estabrook,  David Lancaster

2. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nominees:

Steve Carell for Foxcatcher (2014)

Benedict Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game (2014)

Bradley Cooper for American Sniper (2014)

Michael Keaton for Birdman (2014)

Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything (2014)

3. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Nominees:

Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night (2014)

Felicity Jones for The Theory of Everything (2014)

Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl (2014)

Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014)

Reese Witherspoon for Wild (2014)

4. Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Nominees:

Robert Duvall for The Judge (2014)

Ethan Hawke for Boyhood (2014/I)

Edward Norton for Birdman (2014)

Mark Ruffalo for Foxcatcher (2014)

J.K. Simmons for Whiplash (2014)

5. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Nominees:

Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014/I)

Laura Dern for Wild (2014)

Keira Knightley for The Imitation Game (2014)

Emma Stone for Birdman (2014)

Meryl Streep for Into the Woods (2014)

6. Best Achievement in Directing Nominees:

Richard Linklater for Boyhood (2014/I)

Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman (2014)

Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher (2014)

Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game (2014)

7. Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Nominees:

Boyhood (2014/I): Richard Linklater

Birdman (2014): Alejandro GonzálezIñárritu,  Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris,  Armando Bo

Foxcatcher (2014):  E. Max Frye,  Dan Futterman

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014):  Wes Anderson,  Hugo Guinness

Nightcrawler (2014):  Dan Gilroy

8. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Nominees:

American Sniper (2014):  Jason Hall

Inherent Vice (2014):  Paul Thomas Anderson

The Imitation Game (2014):  Graham Moore

The Theory of Everything (2014):  Anthony McCarten

Whiplash (2014): Damien Chazelle

So, Who do you think is gonna take Oscar home this Year ?

Make a guess. Well, here are my guessing..I know Oscars are gonna prove me wrong..but anyway guessing doesn’t hurt.

So Here we go..

87th Oscars Nominations

Best Picture – Birdman

Best Actor – Bradley Cooper

Best Actress- Rosamond Pike

Best Supporting Actor – Mark Ruffalo

Best supporting Actress – Emma Stone

Best Director – Bennett Miller

Best Writing for Screen – Nightcrawler

Best writing Adapted screenplay – The Imitation Game

So, fellas what are your guessing ?? guess guess.. 🙂

AVJ

Christopher Nolan : 8 things you Didn’t Notice ( but you did see ) in His Every Movie!!

Best known for his cerebral, often non-linear story-telling, acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan was born on July 30, 1970 in London, England. In 17 years of film-direction, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the biggest blockbusters ever made.  

Nolan began making short movies  at the early age of 7 years, using his fathers super-8 camera. Later he attended university to study English Literature at London. There he started shooting shot 16-mm films with U.C.L.’s film society and  learned guerrilla techniques, Which he later used in his 1st movie Following (1998) on a very low  budget of around 6000$ only (in black and white). And as of Today 7 out of nine movies  that He directed are in the IMDB’s top 250 Movies list.
[The Dark Knight (2008), Batman Begins (2005), Memento (2000), The Prestige (2006),  Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012),  and Interstellar(2014).]
He has directed 9 movies till now.
1. Following (1998)
2. Memento (2000)
3. Insomnia (2002)
4. Batman Begins (2005)
5. The Prestige (2006)
6. The Dark Knight (2008)
7. Inception (2010)
8. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
9. Interstellar (2014)

So, I have put together a list of 8 things ( with help of IMDB ) that you have seen in almost every movie of Christopher Nolan but you didn’t notice ( Even, i didn’t till now ).

Christopher Nolan

8. Christopher Nolan Often casts non-American actors in American roles. Such as Michael caine, Guy Pearce, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Heath Ledger, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Tom Wilkinson. Michael caine has worked with Nolan for 6 consecutive movies.    ( what an actor 🙂 )

Michael Caine

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7. Opening scenes always in his movies are a flashback or a piece of a scene from the middle or end of the movie and his movies almost every time end with a sudden  ( yet very effective) smash cut to black. (Interstellar, Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and especially Inception are prime examples.). His movies almost  always end with character’s fate open to interpretation ( You  remember, right ?? ).

Christopher Nolan movies

 

6. Christopher Nolan’s movies often take place with scenes out of chronological order with multiple flashbacks.                Such as in Following, Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige and the latest Interstellar.

It is like he flip’s the act of a movie to tell the story in an interesting fashion ( and that require us a lot of thinking ).

Christopher Nolan movies

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5. His films usually revolve around characters that are afflicted with some kind of psychological disorder. (Examples: Guy Pearce’s short-term memory “condition” inMemento (2000), Al Pacino’s titular sleeping disorder in Insomnia (2002), Christian Bale’s phobia of bats in Batman Begins (2005) and Aaron Eckhart’s dual personality in The Dark Knight (2008) and Leonardo DiCaprio not being able to grasp onto reality in Inception (2010)).

 

4. The storyline in Christopher Nolan’s films usually involves a determined character seeking vengeance over the death of a loved one. (Guy Pearce in Memento (2000), Christian Bale inBatman Begins (2005), Hugh Jackman in The Prestige (2006), Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight (2008), and Marion Cotillard in The Dark Knight Rises (2012))

Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight

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3. Frequently in his films the protagonists, at some crucial moment, feel let down or betrayed by their mentors whom they have been following blindly and with respect. (e.g. The protagonist being cheated by Cobb inFollowing (1998), Leonard “discovering” that Teddy is the culprit in Memento (2000), Hilary Swank’s character respecting Al Pacino as a great detective in Insomnia (2002) only to find out that he is also flawed, Bruce Wayne andLiam Neeson’s character’s confrontation inBatman Begins (2005), Cutter not supporting Angier in The Prestige (2006), Ariadne feeling betrayed by her mentor Cobb when he doesn’t tell her about Mal’s domain over his dreams inInception (2010), Blake feeling let down by Gordon when his lie about Dent’s death is exposed in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Cooper gets angry when come to know about Prof. Brand’s secret in Interstellar (2014). ( that’s how we feel after watching your movie Nolan..cheated. )

Christopher Nolan movies

 

2. As He Displays the title before the end credits began (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar).

Interstellar Movie

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1. The original scores of his films usually play over most of the film, or one piece of music will play over many small scenes, as if they are edited in a montage; there are few moments in his films when there is no music playing in the background. ( Think Think 😉 )

Inception music

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AVJ