"American Graffiti" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, but lost to "The Sting". Further nominations at the 46th Academy Awards included Best Director (George Lucas), Best Original Screenplay (Lucas, Willard Huyck, and Gloria Katz), Best Supporting Actress (Candy Clark) and Best Film Editing (Verna Fields and Marcia Lucas). The film won Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) at the 31st Golden Globe Awards, while Paul Le Mat won Most Promising Newcomer. Lucas was nominated for Best Director and Richard Dreyfuss was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. More nominations included Cindy Williams by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Lucas for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, and Lucas, Huyck, and Katz by the Writers Guild of America for Best Original Comedy.
Accolades
American Graffiti
American Graffiti | Accolades
It won "Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy)" at the 31st Golden Globe Awards. Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) at the 31st Golden Globe Awards. "Publishers Weekly" praises the novel's "recognizable yet delightfully distorted" world where "engaging characters play out a suspenseful and satisfying story".
where was the movie american graffiti filmed at
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Petaluma, "Mel's Drive-In" in San Francisco, Sonoma, Richmond, Novato, and the "Buchanan Field Airport" in Concord were some of the locations.
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when was it screened?
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1973
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who were the actors in this film?
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Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, Charles Martin Smith and Cindy Williams, to name a few.
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when was the last actor mentioned born?
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August 22nd, 1947.
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where is the actor from?
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"Van Nuys", a district of Los Angeles, California.
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whom was this person married to?
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Bill Hudson
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where is the first actor mentioned earlier from?
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Brooklyn, New York
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which books did he write?
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He co-authored with science-fiction writer Harry Turtledove for the novel "The Two Georges”.
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when was this novel published?
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1995
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which genre is this novel?
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It is an "alternate history" and "detective thriller".
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which awards did the aforementioned movie win?
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The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
American Graffiti | Accolades
"American Graffiti" received widespread critical acclaim. Based on 49 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of the critics enjoyed the film with an average score of 8.43/10. The consensus reads: "One of the most influential of all teen films, "American Graffiti" is a funny, nostalgic, and bittersweet look at a group of recent high school grads' last days of innocence". Roger Ebert gave the film a full four stars and praised it for being "not only a great movie, but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie's success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant".
American Graffiti | Critical reception
"American Graffiti" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, but lost to "The Sting". Further nominations at the 46th Academy Awards included Best Director (George Lucas), Best Original Screenplay (Lucas, Willard Huyck, and Gloria Katz), Best Supporting Actress (Candy Clark) and Best Film Editing (Verna Fields and Marcia Lucas). The film won Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) at the 31st Golden Globe Awards, while Paul Le Mat won Most Promising Newcomer. Lucas was nominated for Best Director and Richard Dreyfuss was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. More nominations included Cindy Williams by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Lucas for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, and Lucas, Huyck, and Katz by the Writers Guild of America for Best Original Comedy.
American Graffiti | Accolades
Dave Kehr, writing in the "Chicago Reader", called the film a brilliant work of popular art that redefined nostalgia as a marketable commodity, while establishing a new narrative style.
American Graffiti | Critical reception
Gene Siskel awarded three-and-a-half stars out of four, writing that although the film suffered from an "overkill" of nostalgia, particularly with regards to a soundtrack so overstuffed that it amounted to "one of those golden-oldie TV blurbs," it was still "well-made, does achieve moments of genuine emotion, and does provide a sock (hop) full of memories." Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" wrote, ""American Graffiti" is such a funny, accurate movie, so controlled and efficient in its narrative, that it stands to be overpraised to the point where seeing it will be an anticlimax." A.D. Murphy from "Variety" felt "American Graffiti" was a vivid "recall of teenage attitudes and morals, told with outstanding empathy and compassion through an exceptionally talented cast of unknown actors".
American Graffiti | Critical reception
Charles Champlin of "The New York Times" called it a "masterfully executed and profoundly affecting movie." Jay Cocks of "Time" magazine wrote that "American Graffiti" "reveals a new and welcome depth of feeling. Few films have shown quite so well the eagerness, the sadness, the ambitions and small defeats of a generation of young Americans." Pauline Kael of "The New Yorker" was less enthused, writing that the film "fails to be anything more than a warm, nice, draggy comedy, because there's nothing to back up the style. The images aren't as visually striking as they would be if only there were a mind behind them; the movie has no resonance except from the jukebox sound and the eerie, nocturnal jukebox look." She also noted with disdain that the epilogue did not bother to mention the fates of any of the women characters.
American Graffiti | Critical reception
without a dramatic glue to hold the disparate story elements together, "Graffiti" is too disorganized for its own good, and the cross-cutting between different film styles only accentuates the problem." Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" gave the film 2 stars out of 4 and called it "one long confusing movie" that is "really too ambitious for its own good." On "Sneak Previews", Roger Ebert said he thought it was a "much better film" than Siskel did, that he "had no trouble following it" and that "it's a film worth seeing." Charles Champlin of the "Los Angeles Times" was also positive, writing that "the protagonists are affecting as before and 'More American Graffiti' is an uncommonly evocative trip back to our common past—a stirring reminder in both style and substance of what we've been through." Gary Arnold of "The Washington Post" wrote "All this fussy, arbitrary switching of scenes, years and aspect ratios may wow them back in film school, but the complicated framework reveals nothing but one inconsequential or misleading vignette after another.
More American Graffiti | Critical reception
Although it is full of the material of fashionable nostalgia, it never exploits nostalgia. In its feeling for movement and music and the vitality of the night—and even in its vision in white—it is oddly closer to some early Fellini than to the recent American past of, say, "The Last Picture Show" or "Summer of '42"." Verna Fields and Marcia Lucas were nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing in 1974 for their work on "American Graffiti"; while the film won no Academy Awards, Marcia Lucas, Murch, and Fields all won Academy Awards for later work.
Verna Fields | George Lucas and "American Graffiti"
The novel was nominated for the 1989 Anthony Award for Best Novel.
&quot;E&quot; Is for Evidence | Awards
The American Mystery Award is a major award given by "Mystery Scene" magazine in past years. For example, Richard Hoyt's book "Siege" (1987) won the American Mystery Award for Best Espionage Novel. The award has been discontinued.
Mystery Scene | Awards given by the magazine
The financial success of "Graffiti" also gave Lucas opportunities to establish more elaborate development for Lucasfilm, Skywalker Sound, and Industrial Light & Magic. Based on the success of the 1977 reissue, Universal began production for the sequel "More American Graffiti" (1979). Lucas and writers Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz later collaborated on "Radioland Murders" (1994), also released by Universal Pictures, for which Lucas acted as executive producer. The film features characters intended to be Curt and Laurie Henderson's parents, Roger and Penny Henderson. In 1995, "American Graffiti" was deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
American Graffiti | Legacy
This would allow the studio to advertise "American Graffiti" as "From the Man Who Gave You "The Godfather"." Production proceeded with virtually no input or interference from Universal. The film was released in the United States on August 1, 1973 to sleeper hit reception. The film cost only $1.27 million to produce and market, but yielded worldwide box office gross revenues of more than $55 million. It had only modest success outside the United States, but became a cult film in France. Universal reissued "Graffiti" in 1978 and earned an additional $63 million, which brought the total revenue for the two releases to $118 million.
Gary Kurtz | "American Graffiti"
More American Graffiti is a 1979 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Bill L. Norton. It is the sequel to the 1973 film "American Graffiti". Whereas the first film followed a group of friends during the summer evening before they set off for college, this film shows where they end up a few years later. Most of the main cast members from the first film returned for the sequel, including Candy Clark, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, Bo Hopkins, and Harrison Ford. Richard Dreyfuss was the only principal cast member from the original film not to appear in the sequel.
More American Graffiti | Introduction
The film received negative reviews from critics, in contrast to the critical acclaim received by its predecessor. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 20% of critics were positive based on 10 reviews. Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" called it "grotesquely misconceived, so much so that it nearly eradicates fond memories of the original ... The times — the story is scattered like buckshot from 1964 to 1967 — have grown dangerous, but these people haven't awakened at all. They're still the same fun-loving rock-and-rollers, and there's nothing they can't trivialize. So here is a comic look at campus rioting. Here are the beach party aspects of the Vietnam War." Dale Pollock of "Variety" stated in his review that ""More American Graffiti" may be one of the most innovative and ambitious films of the last five years, but by no means is it one of the most successful ...
More American Graffiti | Critical reception
The film won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best film/screenplay.
American Friends | Awards
The movie was written and directed by Bill L. Norton who was picked by Lucas as being suitable due to his California upbringing and experience with comedy. Lucas was involved in the production by acting as the executive producer, editing both Norton's screenplay and the finished motion picture, and even manning a camera for sequences set in the Vietnam War.
More American Graffiti | Production
""B" Is for Burglar" was awarded the 1986 Anthony Award for Best Novel at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, in Baltimore, Maryland. The novel also won the 1986 Shamus Award for Best Novel from the Private Eye Writers of America.
&quot;B&quot; Is for Burglar | Awards
It was the final live-action theatrical film in which Ron Howard would play a credited, named character.
More American Graffiti | Introduction
It was nominated for the 1988 Eisner Award for "Best New Series".
The American (comics) | Awards
The film was released in the United States on August 11, 1973 to sleeper hit reception. The film had cost only $1.27 million (equivalent to $ million in ) to produce and market, but yielded worldwide box office gross revenues of more than $55 million (equivalent to $ million in ). It had only modest success outside the United States, but became a cult film in France.
American Graffiti | Release
Young Artist Award
An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster | Accolades
American Graffiti is a 1973 American coming-of-age comedy film directed and co-written by George Lucas starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Bo Hopkins, and Wolfman Jack. Suzanne Somers, Kathleen Quinlan, Debralee Scott, and Joe Spano also appear in the film. Set in Modesto, California, in 1962, the film is a study of the cruising and early rock 'n' roll cultures popular among Lucas's age group at the time. Through a series of vignettes, the film tells the story of a group of teenagers and their adventures over the course of a single night.
American Graffiti | Introduction
In 2005, the book was placed on "Time Magazine"'s list of the top 100 novels written in English since 1923.
An American Tragedy | Awards
George Lucas has been credited for perfecting the genre by writing and directing "American Graffiti" (1973).
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The film, set over the course of four consecutive New Year's Eves from 1964 to 1967, depicts scenes from each of these years, intertwined with one another as though events happen simultaneously. The audience is protected from confusion by the use of a distinct cinematic style for each section. For example, the 1966 sequences echo the movie of Woodstock using split screens and multiple angles of the same event simultaneously on screen, the 1965 sequences (set in Vietnam) shot hand-held on grainy super 16 mm film designed to resemble war reporters' footage. The film attempts to memorialize the 1960s with sequences that recreate the sense and style of those days with references to Haight-Ashbury, the , the beginnings of the modern woman's liberation movement and the accompanying social revolt.
More American Graffiti | Plot
"American Graffiti" depicts multiple characters going through a coming of age, such as the decisions to attend college or reside in a small town. The 1962, setting represents nearing an end of an era in American society and pop culture. The musical backdrop also links between the early years of rock 'n' roll in the mid- to late 1950s (i.e., Bill Haley & His Comets, Elvis Presley, and Buddy Holly) and the early 1960s British Invasion, which Don McLean's "American Pie" and the 1972 revival of 1950s acts and oldies paralleled during the conception and filming. The setting is also before the outbreaks of the Vietnam War and the John F.
American Graffiti | Themes
The novel won the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction.
The Bird Is Gone | Awards
Kennedy assassination and before the peak years of the counterculture movement. "American Graffiti" evokes mankind's relationship with machines, notably the elaborate number of hot rods—having been called a "classic-car flick", representative of the motor car's importance to American culture at the time it was made. Another theme is teenagers' obsession with radio, especially with the inclusion of Wolfman Jack and his mysterious and mythological faceless (to most) voice.
American Graffiti | Themes
One character burns his draft card, showing a younger audience what so many Americans had done on the television news ten years before the movie's release. Other characters are shown frantically disposing of their marijuana before a traffic stop as a police officer pulls them over, and another scene shows the police brutality during an anti-Vietnam protest. The fates of the main characters listed at the end of "American Graffiti" are updated at the end of this sequel. Wolfman Jack briefly reprised his role, but in voice only. The drag racing scenes were filmed at the Fremont Raceway, later Baylands Raceway Park (now the site of automobile dealerships), in Fremont, California.
More American Graffiti | Plot
2003 "New York Times" Nonfiction Notable Book 2004 Western Heritage Award Literary Winner for Outstanding Nonfiction Book
American Massacre | Awards
Lucas held firm—his was a story about West Coast teenagers in the early 1960s. Walter was paid the $10,000, and he began to expand the Lucas/Huyck/Katz treatment into a screenplay.
American Graffiti | United Artists
Veronica tracks down the family of the car that was used in the paintball incident and finds that it is under the control of a group of young people. Keith's underlings state that the bars are actually good at keeping out minors. Veronica reviews security cameras at the restaurant and tracks a person down to be a Jewish man with whom the restaurant owner's daughter has been having an affair. An employee named Nasir (Haaz Sleiman) has taken explicit photos of the two, and Amira's father will disown her if the father finds out. Veronica goes to a photo-developing store and retrieves the photos, but one is stuck in the printer and Nasir gets it.
Un-American Graffiti | Plot synopsis
""C" Is for Corpse" was awarded the 1987 Anthony Award for Best Novel at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
&quot;C&quot; Is for Corpse | Awards
The book won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel.
Zombie (novel) | Awards
Afterwards, Wallace informs her that Piz does have a crush on her. Veronica realizes that she has not realized this because of her preoccupation with her breakup with Logan. She talks to Piz on the deck at the party, and he suddenly kisses her. Piz retreats to the elevator, but Veronica appears and kisses him back. The elevator opens, revealing Logan.
Un-American Graffiti | Plot synopsis
Among the lists ranking "American Gangster" as one of the best of the year were those of "The Miami Herald", "Rolling Stone" and the Associated Press.
American Gangster (film) | Accolades
The film won the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI prizes at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. Jean Gruault's screenplay was nominated at the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay. At the French César awards in 1981 the film received six nominations, including Best Film and Best Director (lost to Francois Truffaut's "The Last Metro" in both categories).
My American Uncle | Accolades
"American Blood" received an honorable mention in the "Americana" section of the International Songwriting Competition.
American Blood | Awards
Norton doesn't achieve a true dramatic convergence of parallel stories; and his historical vision is confined to cheerleading reaffirmations of all the old counterculture cliches about war, cops, Women's Liberation, you name it." Veronica Geng of "The New Yorker" called the film "a mess of time shifts and pointless, confusing split-screen techniques that make the images look dinky instead of multiplying their impact. For as busy a movie I have seen, it is visually one of the most boring. Norton trades in the grammar of moving pictures for a formula that says the sixties equals fragmentation equals split screen—and split screen we get; baby's first jigsaw puzzles of simultaneous action, until we long for a simple cut from a moving car to a closeup of the driver." David Ansen of "Newsweek" wrote "This is all very film-school fancy, but what does it mean? Alas, precious little.
More American Graffiti | Critical reception
This film was selected in 95 festivals worldwide, it has won 20 awards:
God Is American | Awards
It has been long-listed for the 2008 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil | Awards
The novel won a National Book Award in 1970.
Them (novel) | Awards
It went on to win the Inaugural Roman Noir Nouvel Observateur Prize in 2009, the Best Thriller 2009 by New York's Strand Magazine, along with the Prix des Libraires Du Quebec Laureat 2009, the Livre De Poche Award, the Southern Independent Booksellers' Award 2010, the Quebec Booksellers' Prize, and the USA National Indie Excellence Award 2010 for Best Mystery.
R. J. Ellory | Awards
1992 - Delacorte Young Adult Novel Award for Joker and the Thief 1981 - Nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Award for Dead Heat 2013 - NAACP Image Award for What Color Is My World
Raymond Obstfeld | Awards
It won a Satellite Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
American Tragedy (film) | Introduction
The novel won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Pulitzer Prize Board noted that the novel was an "inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed".
A Visit from the Goon Squad | Honors
The film American Graffiti was one of the suggestions. Tagasauris found nearly two dozen unkeyworded photos taken on the film's set. ""Computers couldn’t ID humans in the photo but humans couldn’t know the context.""
Tagasauris | Introduction
He has received the Tony Award nomination for the books of: "An American in Paris" (2015), "Light in the Piazza" (2005) and "Prelude to a Kiss". He was nominated for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Prelude to a Kiss".
Craig Lucas | Awards
Additionally, Hood has been nominated for awards in the speculative fiction field on numerous occasions. He has been twice nominated for the Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story - in 2001 for "That Old Black Graffiti" and in 2002 for "Rotten Times". He has received eleven Ditmar nominations for his short fiction for works including: "Ground Underfoot" and "Primal Etiquette" for Short Fiction in 2000; "That Old Black Graffiti" for Short Story in 2001; "Rotten Times" for Short Fiction in 2002; "Moments of Dying" for Short Story in 2009 and "Creeping in Reptile Flesh" for Australian Novella or Novelette in 2009.
Rob Hood | Awards and Award Nominations
Adding in semiautobiographical connotations, Lucas set the story in his hometown of 1962 Modesto. The characters Curt Henderson, John Milner, and Terry "The Toad" Fields also represent different stages from his younger life. Curt is modeled after Lucas's personality during USC, while Milner is based on Lucas's teenaged street-racing and junior-college years, and hot rod enthusiasts he had known from the Kustom Kulture in Modesto. Toad represents Lucas's nerd years as a freshman in high school, specifically his "bad luck" with dating. The filmmaker was also inspired by Federico Fellini's "I Vitelloni" (1953). After the financial failure of "THX 1138", Lucas wanted the film to act as a release for a world-weary audience:
American Graffiti | Inspiration
"The Americans" is nominated for Best Drama Series for the 71st Writers Guild of America Awards.
The Americans (season 6) | Accolades
Despite unanimous praise at a January 1973 test screening attended by Universal executive Ned Tanen, the studio told Lucas they wanted to re-edit his original cut of "American Graffiti". Producer Coppola sided with Lucas against Tanen and Universal, offering to "buy the film" from the studio and reimburse it for the $775,000 (equivalent to $ million in ) it had cost to make it. 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures made similar offers to the studio. Universal refused these offers and told Lucas they planned to have William Hornbeck re-edit the film. When Coppola's "The Godfather" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in March 1973, Universal relented and agreed to cut only three scenes (about four minutes) from Lucas' cut—an encounter between Toad and a fast-talking car salesman, an argument between Steve and his former teacher Mr.
American Graffiti | Release
It would have helped so much."
Drama (graphic novel) | Awards
Stonewall Book Award 1997
Hood (novel) | Awards
Jay Presson Allen
Gotham Independent Film Awards 1992 | Writer Award
In January 1968, the film won first prize in the category of Dramatic films at the third National Student Film Festival held at the Lincoln Center, New York, where it was seen and admired by Steven Spielberg, who had not previously met Lucas. It also came to notice of parts of the mainstream film industry, such as Los Angeles Times film critic Charles Champlin, and Ned Tanen, then a Universal Studios production executive, who was later involved with Lucas' "American Graffiti".
Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB | Reception
Widely considered to be an inferior rip-off of "American Graffiti", today the film is primarily notable for the début performances of many well-known actors.
The Hollywood Knights | Legacy
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1985, and was made into a made-for-TV movie. "Foreign Affairs" was also nominated for the 1984 National Book Award for fiction and the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.
Foreign Affairs (novel) | Awards and nominations
"The Last Policeman" won the 2013 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category Best Paperback Original.
The Last Policeman | Awards and recognition
The film won the audience award at Seattle's True Independent Film Festival.
The Book of Zombie | Awards
Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage are American cinematographers best known for their work with film director George Lucas on the sleeper hit film, 1973's "American Graffiti". "American Graffiti" is a nostalgic portrait of teenage life in 1962 which spawned numerous imitations such as the TV series, "Happy Days", and films like "The Lords of Flatbush". The budget of "American Graffiti" was a mere $750,000 dollars, on a tight 28-day shooting schedule. Nonetheless, the film went on to gross more than $55 million, making it a blockbuster of its day. "American Graffiti" was shot entirely on location in small Northern California towns between the cruising hours of 9:00 p.m., when it was just dark enough, and 5:00 a.m., before the sun would come up.
Jan D'Alquen and Ron Eveslage | Introduction
Screenwriter Sergio Casci was also nominated for the BAFTA Carl Foreman Award.
American Cousins | Awards
The Writer's Network gave him an award for his screenplay "A Gentleman's Game". He also received a certificate of recognition from the African-American Heritage Celebration Coalition, Inc. of Westchester for being an outstanding artist in the community. In 2018, the Joseph M. Klein Memorial Library in Greenburgh, NY awarded him the Distinguished Laureate Award for 2018 for his book "Invisible".
M. E. Holland | Awards
"There are three seemingly equal interpretations: that "Veronica Mars" writers believe that the cartoon is worth ruining someone's life over; that Rashad is a complex character who can be petty and vindictive; or, it's just a bunch of stuff that happens and there is no moral."
Un-American Graffiti | Reviews
Both Marcus and Turner were nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama.
Petulia | Awards
However, despite claims made on a number of websites, Crumley does not seem to have been either a winner or a nominee for a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for "The Last Good Kiss" or any other novel.
James Crumley | Awards and honors
During the production of "THX 1138" (1971), producer Francis Ford Coppola challenged co-writer/director George Lucas to write a script that would appeal to mainstream audiences. Lucas embraced the idea, using his early 1960s teenage experiences cruising in Modesto, California. "Cruising was gone, and I felt compelled to document the whole experience and what my generation used as a way of meeting girls," Lucas explained. As he developed the story in his mind, Lucas included his fascination with Wolfman Jack. Lucas had considered doing a documentary about the Wolfman when he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but he ultimately dropped the idea.
American Graffiti | Inspiration
At the end of its theatrical run, "American Graffiti" had one of the best cost-to-profit ratios of any motion picture ever. It was the thirteenth-highest-grossing film of all time in 1977, and, adjusted for inflation, is currently the forty-third highest. By the 1990s, "American Graffiti" had earned more than $200 million in box office gross and home video sales. In December 1997, "Variety" reported that the film had earned an additional $55.13 million in rental revenue.
Gary Kurtz | "American Graffiti"
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating 65% based on 214 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's critical consensus states: "As beautifully shot as it is emotionally restrained, "The American" is an unusually divisive spy thriller—and one that rests on an unusually subdued performance from George Clooney." On Metacritic the film has an average score of 61 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D–" on an A+ to F scale. This was attributed to disappointment after the film was marketed as being action-packed instead of focusing on suspense and drama.
The American (2010 film) | Critical response
Winner Nominees
Hurston-Wright Legacy Award | Contemporary Fiction
"American Gangster" earned various awards and nominations, in categories ranging from recognition of the film itself to its screenplay and music, to the performances of Ruby Dee and Denzel Washington. Prior to the film's release, it was observed as a candidate for the Academy Awards based on its style and the performances of its actors, including the possibility of an Academy Award for Best Director for Ridley Scott. The film was recognized as a candidate for best film by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. In addition, the film was included on 54 reviewer lists of the ten best films of 2007, three of them at the top spot.
American Gangster (film) | Accolades
The genesis of "American Graffiti" was in Lucas' own teenaged years in early 1960s Modesto. He was unsuccessful in pitching the concept to financiers and distributors, but found favor at Universal Pictures after every other major film studio turned him down. Filming was initially set to take place in San Rafael, California, but the production crew was denied permission to shoot beyond a second day. As a result, production was moved to Petaluma.
American Graffiti | Introduction
Internet reviewer MaryAnn Johanson acknowledged that "American Graffiti" rekindled public and entertainment interest in the 1950s and 1960s, and influenced other films such as "The Lords of Flatbush" (1974) and "Cooley High" (1975) and the TV series "Happy Days". Alongside other films from the New Hollywood era, "American Graffiti" is often cited for helping give birth to the summer blockbuster. The film's box-office success made George Lucas an instant millionaire. He gave an amount of the film's profits to Haskell Wexler for his visual consulting help during filming, and to Wolfman Jack for "inspiration". Lucas's net worth was now $4 million, and he set aside a $300,000 independent fund for his long-cherished space opera project, which would eventually become the basis for "Star Wars" (1977).
American Graffiti | Legacy
For both the 7th Critics' Choice Television Awards and 74th Golden Globe Awards, Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell were nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Drama Series, respectively. For the 69th Writers Guild of America Awards, the series won the award for .
The Americans (season 4) | Accolades
Lucas spent the rest of 1971 and early 1972 trying to raise financing for the "American Graffiti" script. During this time, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Columbia Pictures all turned down the opportunity to co-finance and distribute the film. Lucas, Huyck and Katz rewrote the second draft together, which, in addition to Modesto, was also set in Mill Valley and Los Angeles. Lucas also intended to end "American Graffiti" showing a title card detailing the fate of the characters, including the death of Milner and the disappearance of Toad in Vietnam. Huyck and Katz found the ending depressing and were incredulous that Lucas planned to include only the male characters.
American Graffiti | Universal Pictures
1. Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson – "Lost in America" 2. Woody Allen – "The Purple Rose of Cairo" 3. Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown – "Brazil" 3. Richard Condon and Janet Roach – "Prizzi's Honor"
1985 National Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Screenplay
1. Buena Vista Social Club 2. "" 3. "American Movie"
1999 National Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Non-Fiction Film
Timberg's book "Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class" won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award in 2015. The "New Yorker" called it "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life".
Scott Timberg | Awards
The novel received much attention from the mystery community. It won the 2006 Shamus Award and Macavity Award for "Best Novel". It was also nominated in the 2006 Anthony Awards for the same honor. Additionally, in 2010 it was nominated in the "Best Mystery Novel of the Decade" category of the Barry Awards, although it lost to Stieg Larsson, author of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".
The Lincoln Lawyer | Awards
The film won a Peabody Award in 2012.
Eames: The Architect and the Painter | Awards
The novel was nominated for the 1989 Anthony Award in the "Best Novel" category.
Blood Shot (novel) | Awards
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 94% approval rating, based on 186 reviews, with an average rating of 8.29/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Exhilarating both stylistically and for its entertaining, moving portrayal of an everyman, "American Splendor" is a portrait of a true underground original." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 90 out of 100, based on 42 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim." "American Splendor" won the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, in addition to the award for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. At the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, the film received the FIPRESCI critics award.
American Splendor (film) | Reception
Lucas argued that mentioning the girls meant adding another title card, which he felt would prolong the ending. Because of this, Pauline Kael later accused Lucas of chauvinism. Lucas and producer Gary Kurtz took the script to American International Pictures, who expressed interest, but ultimately believed "American Graffiti" was not violent or sexual enough for the studio's standards. Lucas and Kurtz eventually found favor at Universal Pictures, who allowed Lucas total artistic control and the right of final cut privilege on the condition that he make "American Graffiti" on a strict low budget. This forced Lucas to drop the opening scene in which the Blonde Angel, Curt's image of the perfect woman, drives through an empty drive-in cinema in her Ford Thunderbird, her transparency revealing she does not exist.
American Graffiti | Universal Pictures
It also won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Miniseries or Television Film and Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Sarah Paulson.
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Introduction
It won the 1996 Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award.
Popcorn (novel) | Awards and nominations
"American Lion" received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. When the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded the book in 2009, the judges described it as "an unflinching portrait of a not always admirable democrat but a pivotal president, written with an agile prose that brings the Jackson saga to life". "American Lion" was also nominated for a 2008 "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for Best Biography, losing to "Ida: A Sword Among Lions", the Paula Giddings biography of African-American investigative journalist Ida B. Wells.
American Lion (book) | Awards and honors
Each of more than 40 scenes in the film had a continuously playing background song that had been popular around 1962, when the film's story was set. Michael Sragow has characterized the effect as "using rock 'n roll as a Greek chorus with a beat". Fields then left "American Graffiti". It took another six months of editing to create a shorter, 110-minute version of the film, but upon its release in 1973 "American Graffiti" was extremely successful both with critics and at the box office. Shortly after its release, Roger Greenspun described the film and its editing: ""American Graffiti" exists not so much in its individual stories as in its orchestration of many stories, its sense of time and place.
Verna Fields | George Lucas and "American Graffiti"
Adult Fiction Winner: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury) Adult Fiction Honor Books: Adult Nonfiction Winner: Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson (Random House)
Indies Choice Book Awards | 2005
1. "Latin Americans Still Tweaking the Novel." San Francisco Chronicle. July 16, 2006. .
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter | References
""K" Is for Killer" was awarded the 1995 Shamus Award for Best Novel from the Private Eye Writers of America and was nominated for the 1995 Anthony Award in the same category.
&quot;K&quot; Is for Killer | Awards
The film's story earned Leonard Spigelgass a nomination as Best Story for the 23rd Academy Awards.
Mystery Street | Introduction
"American Splendor" - Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
56th Writers Guild of America Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay
Along with "Easy Rider" (1969), "American Graffiti" was one of the first films to eschew a traditional film score and successfully rely instead on synchronizing a series of popular hit songs with individual scenes. "THX 1138" was released in March 1971, and Lucas was offered opportunities to direct "Lady Ice", "Tommy", or "Hair". He turned down those offers, determined to pursue his own projects despite his urgent desire to find another film to direct. During this time, Lucas conceived the idea for a space opera (as yet untitled) which later became the basis for his "Star Wars" franchise. At the 1971 Cannes Film Festival, "THX" was chosen for the Directors' Fortnight competition.
American Graffiti | United Artists
"The Poet" won the 1997 Anthony Award, presented by the Mystery Writers of America and the Dilys Award, presented by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.
The Poet (novel) | Awards and nominations
"The Walking Dead" won this category seven straight times.
Eagle Award (comics) | Favourite Black & White Comicbook
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52nd Writers Guild of America Awards | Best Original Screenplay
The Writers Guild Award for Best Written Film Concerning American Scene was an award presented from 1949 to 1952 by the Writers Guild of America, after which it was discontinued.
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Film Concerning American Scene | Introduction
"Us" was nominated for one Art Directors Guild, four Critics' Choice Movie Awards, one Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild, three MTV Movie & TV Awards, eight NAACP Image Awards, four People's Choice Awards, one Bram Stoker Award (won), seven Saturn Awards (winning one), one Screen Actors Guild Award, and one World Soundtrack Awards (won).
Us (2019 film) | Accolades
He won the 2008 Best Fan Writer Ditmar award for film reviews on his website, the 2009 Ditmar Award for Best Fan writer for his blog Undead Backbrain and also was nominated for the 2009 William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism for his essay "George A. Romero: Master of the Living Dead."
Rob Hood | Non-fiction
He finds that the deputy does not check closely and resents Keith as well. Due to this fact, Keith fires the people who disobeyed his orders. The two restaurant owners meet with Derrick, who does not react politely to them. However, they decide not to turn in Derrick. The husband/father has an awakening about Amira as well and forgives her, turning in Nasir to the police for an expired visa. At Parker's party, Mac (Tina Majorino) connects with Max (Adam Rose), and Veronica shows mild jealousy when Piz shows her his new fling. Logan gets Parker a romantic cake. In order to escape from an awkward suitor whom Logan introduces her to, Veronica asks Piz to pretend to be her boyfriend.
Un-American Graffiti | Plot synopsis