The old saying goes is that if you want to win an Academy Award then the best way is to undertake playing a disabled part or portraying a famous personality in a biopic. In some cases, actors have accomplished both themes and reached their Oscar-attaining goals (see Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker or Daniel-Day Lewis in My Left Foot for instance).
In Able to Disable: Top 10 Oscar-Winning Disability-Bound Movie Characters we will look at the top movie characters that became Academy Award-winning figures within their films. Interestingly, there have been a couple of performers that were real-life disabled individuals that convincingly embodied their fictional disabled alter egos (see Harold Russell from The Best Days of Our Lives or Marlee Matlin from Children of a Lesser God).
Anyway, this selection of Able to Disable: Top 10 Oscar-Winning Disability-Bound Movie Characters are (in alphabetical order according to film title):...
In Able to Disable: Top 10 Oscar-Winning Disability-Bound Movie Characters we will look at the top movie characters that became Academy Award-winning figures within their films. Interestingly, there have been a couple of performers that were real-life disabled individuals that convincingly embodied their fictional disabled alter egos (see Harold Russell from The Best Days of Our Lives or Marlee Matlin from Children of a Lesser God).
Anyway, this selection of Able to Disable: Top 10 Oscar-Winning Disability-Bound Movie Characters are (in alphabetical order according to film title):...
- 7/13/2014
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
Film producers given the chance to discover 11 new literary works that could make good movies.
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has revealed the 11 titles that will be presented to film producers at its Books at Berlinale event on Feb 11.
The selected novels, chosen from 120 books from more than 25 countries, will be presented and pitched at the Berlinale Co-Production Market - part of the European Film Market (Efm).
At the preceeding networking event, invited producers will have an opportunity to meet with right-holders – international publishers and literary agents – and to make and cultivate contacts in the book world or perhaps even to option film rights directly.
Festival director Dieter Kosslick said: “In the past years, ‘Books at Berlinale’ has established itself worldwide as the first market for literary material at an international ‘A’ film festival.
“We would now like to expand the idea of a network between books and film further, and open the...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has revealed the 11 titles that will be presented to film producers at its Books at Berlinale event on Feb 11.
The selected novels, chosen from 120 books from more than 25 countries, will be presented and pitched at the Berlinale Co-Production Market - part of the European Film Market (Efm).
At the preceeding networking event, invited producers will have an opportunity to meet with right-holders – international publishers and literary agents – and to make and cultivate contacts in the book world or perhaps even to option film rights directly.
Festival director Dieter Kosslick said: “In the past years, ‘Books at Berlinale’ has established itself worldwide as the first market for literary material at an international ‘A’ film festival.
“We would now like to expand the idea of a network between books and film further, and open the...
- 1/21/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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