Actor - Paul Muni in "The Life of Emile Zola" Assistant Director - Russ Saunders. Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American to win an Academy Award, but at the ceremony in 1940, she was made to sit in a segregated area from her co-stars.
We meet Zola's mother Émilie Aubert (Florence Roberts) and his girlfriend Alexandrine Meley (Gloria Holden), who find him a job clerking at the La Rue Publishing company. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director, Columbia Studio Sound Department, John Livadary, Sound Director, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department, Douglas Shearer, Sound Director, Universal Studio Sound Department, Homer G. Tasker, Sound Director, Hal Roach Studio Sound Department, Elmer A. Raguse, Sound Director, Paramount Studio Sound Department, Loren L. Ryder, Sound Director, Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, John Lee Mahin, Marc Connelly, Dale Van Every, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson. The Austin Chronicle said this film is "just about as great as a movie's ever gonna be.".
A new administration finally admits that Dreyfus is innocent, and those responsible for the cover-up are dismissed or commit suicide; Walsin-Esterhazy flees the country in disgrace. Likewise, filmmaker William Dieterle was the studio's first choice for director, having recently worked with Muni on the triple-Oscar winner "The Story of Louis Pasteur" (1936) as well as the crime Drama "Dr. Socrates" (1935). A clerk lets his bosses use his apartment for illicit trysts, all in hopes of a promotion, in this 1960 film.
The characters in this 1963 British adventure-comedy occasionally break the fourth wall and speak directly to the audience. The movie won three major awards: Best Picture (producer Henry Blanke), Screenplay (Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine), and Supporting Actor to Joseph Schildkraut, playing the role of the wrongly accused Jewish Captain, Alfred Dreyfus. Ray Milland stars as Don Birnam, an alcoholic writer who goes broke and nearly kills himself before he chooses to stop drinking in this 1945 drama. Dreyfus’s loyal wife Lucie (Gale Sondergaard) pleads with Zola to take up her husband’s cause. Let us envy him! Marlon Brando won his first Oscar in 1955 for his portrayal of dockworker Terry Malloy.
Nine other movies competed with “The Story of Emile Zola” for Best Picture, including Leo McCarey’s marital comedy “The Awful Truth,” with six nominations, and Gregory La Cava’s “Stage Door,” with four. 2017, Listed among the Academy Awards' Best Picture winners.
Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times wrote, "Rich, dignified, honest, and strong, it is at once the finest historical film ever made and the greatest screen biography, greater even than The Story of Louis Pasteur with which the Warners squared their conscience last year ... Paul Muni's portrayal of Zola is, without doubt, the best thing he has done. Contemporary reviews were unanimous in their praise. What happens if the president doesn't accept the election results? In 2003, The New York Times' Bosley Crowther revisited this movie, calling it "a shatteringly realistic and morbidly fascinating film.". by Ben Urwand, C-SPAN Program, 11 December 2013, "Statue Needs a Home : The Dreyfus Affair--It Never Dies", "The 10th Academy Awards (1938) Nominees and Winners", "Scholar Asserts That Hollywood Avidly Aided Nazis", "A Rebuttal to Ben Urwand and The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler", The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Life_of_Emile_Zola&oldid=981666022, Films featuring a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award-winning performance, United States National Film Registry films, Films whose writer won the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award, Cultural depictions of Georges Clemenceau, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Rolla Gourvitch as Jeanne Dreyfus, Dreyfus's daughter, This page was last edited on 3 October 2020, at 18:30. The drama leads the Césars with 12 nominations while the Oscar-nominated Les Miserables and the riveting queer romantic drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire were right behind with 10 nominations each. This World War II drama was particularly timely as it was released in the midst of the war, in June 1942. His body is buried in the Pantheon in Paris, to a hero and warrior's farewell. Zola begins getting known as a muckraker, criticizing the police, the government and unsafe industrial practices. In addition, Urwand wrote that Georg Gyssling, the Nazi consul to the United States in Los Angeles, occasionally was allowed to review and make recommendations on films before they were released, and producers sometimes required changes based on his comments. Studio Music Department, Leo Forbstein, head of department (Score by Max Steiner), Columbia Studio Music Department, Morris Stoloff, head of department (Score by Dimitri Tiomkin), Principal Productions, Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld, musical director (Score by Dr. Hugo Riesenfeld), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Music Department, Nat W. Finston, head of department (Score by Herbert Stothart), Republic Studio Music Department, Alberto Colombo, head of department (Score by Alberto Colombo), Selznick International Pictures Music Department, Alfred Newman, musical director (Score by Alfred Newman), RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Roy Webb, musical director (Score by Roy Webb), Walt Disney Studio Music Department, Leigh Harline, head of department (Score by Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith), Grand National Studio Music Department, C. Bakaleinikoff, musical director (Score by Victor Schertzinger), Paramount Studio Music Department, Boris Morros, head of department (Score by W. Franke Harling and Milan Roder), Hal Roach Studio Music Department, Marvin Hatley, head of department (Score by Marvin Hatley), Sweet Leilani in "Waikiki Wedding" Music and Lyrics by Harry Owens, Remember Me in "Mr. Dodd Takes the Air" Music by Harry Warren; Lyrics by Al Dubin, That Old Feeling in "Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938" Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Lew Brown, They Can't Take That Away From Me in "Shall We Dance" Music by George Gershwin; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin, Whispers In The Dark in "Artists and Models" Music by Frederick Hollander; Lyrics by Leo Robin, United Artists Studio Sound Department, Thomas T. Moulton, Sound Director, Grand National Studio Sound Department, A. E. Kaye, Sound Director, RKO Radio Studio Sound Department, John Aalberg, Sound Director, 20th Century-Fox Studio Sound Department, E. H. Hansen, Sound Director, Warner Bros.
After 1934 Breen had even more influence over movies. The other nominees were: William Wyler’s social drama set in a New York City slum, “Dead End,” Frank Capra’s utopian comedy “Lost Horizon,” and Henry King’s adventure “In Old Chicago.”. After 35 minutes, the film focuses in on the so-called "Dreyfus Affair" of 1894, when French-Jewish artillery officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus (Joseph Schildkraut) was arrested for giving military secrets to the German Embassy and convicted of treason. Joel and Ethan Coen wrote and directed this 2007 Western thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. Zola's keen sense of injustice is awakened and he publishes "J'Accuse," a front-page open letter to France's president, accusing the army of falsely convicting Dreyfus. William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) falls for a wealthy young woman (Gwyneth Paltrow) in this 1998 rom-com. Michael Keaton plays a self-involved actor trying to make a comeback with his career and his estranged daughter. In 2000, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Battleground Tracker: Biden leads in Wisconsin, has edge in Arizona, A behind-the-scenes look at how mail-in ballots are processed. Set in the mid through late 19th century, the film depicts Zola's early friendship with Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne, and his rise to fame through his prolific writing. "The English Patient" beat out "Fargo" and "Jerry Maguire" for best picture.
Still, I feel like I have a good spread here–there was no one film that triumphed over the others (though there are two that were left completely Kristin-less, one of which surprised me). The film premiered in 1942, just a few weeks after the Allied invasion of North Africa. In this 1976 film, Sylvester Stallone plays a small-time fighter in Philadelphia who gets a chance to compete for the world heavyweight championship. In the 1988 film, Tom Cruise plays a Los Angeles hustler who discovers that he has an older brother, a savant, living in a mental health facility in Ohio. He publishes an open letter, known as "J'accuse", in the newspaper L'Aurore accusing the High Command of covering up the monstrous injustice, which causes a firestorm up and down Paris.
Addressing the courtroom, Zola states: “Not only is an innocent man crying out for justice, but more, much more–a great nation is in desperate danger of forfeiting her honor!” So do not take upon yourself a fault, the burden of which you will forever bear in history! In this 1947 flick, Gregory Peck plays Philip Schuyler Green, a journalist who poses as a Jewish man to investigate anti-Semitism in New York. The 1993 film is based on true events. "The Life of Emile Zola" (Rotten Tomatoes Score: 81; Audience Score: 73) This 1937 biopic about French author Emile Zola was nominated for 10 Oscars and won three. Star Shirley MacLaine was nominated for best actress four times before finally winning her first Oscar for this movie in 1983. Instead of waiting to the end of this project to start listing my favorites, I’m going to have a Kristin Ceremony every tenth movie. At the end, Morris Carnovsky offers a grand, pompous eulogy of Zola in the film’s last lines: “France is once again today a land of reason and benevolence, because one of her sons through an immense work and great action gave rise to a new order of things based on justice and the rights common to all men! Bonita Granville (Violet) is in studio records/casting call lists for this movie, but she did not appear. The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 American biographical film about 19th-century French author Émile Zola, starring Paul Muni and directed by William Dieterle, a German émigré. "As a motion picture, this is fairly worthless," writes Matt Brunson for Creative Loafing, "with its casual cruelty and condescension toward Native Americans, blacks... Jews and the handicapped. This 1937 biopic about French author Emile Zola was nominated for 10 Oscars and won three. The New York Times described it as "romantic nonsense and sentiment.". Dreyfus is widely known for having been the subject of anti-Semitic discrimination by the French Army. Four years have passed since Dreyfus's degradation. And although not depicted here, he brought down the wrath of the Catholic Church, too.
Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger star in this 1967 police drama about racism in small-town Mississippi.
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