1.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
–
Tulsa /ˈtʌlsə/ is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. As of July 2015, the population was 403,505 and it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 981,005 residents in the MSA and 1,151,172 in the CSA. The city serves as the county seat of Tulsa County, the most densely populated county in Oklahoma, with urban development extending into Osage, Rogers, Tulsa was settled between 1828 and 1836 by the Lochapoka Band of Creek Native American tribe. For most of the 20th century, the city held the nickname Oil Capital of the World, once heavily dependent on the oil industry, Tulsa experienced economic downturn. Subsequent diversification efforts created a base in the energy, finance, aviation, telecommunications. The Tulsa Port of Catoosa, at the head of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, is the most inland port in the U. S. with access to international waterways. Two institutions of education within the city have sports teams at the NCAA Division I level, Oral Roberts University. It is situated on the Arkansas River at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in northeast Oklahoma, the city has been called one of Americas most livable large cities by Partners for Livable Communities, Forbes, and Relocate America. FDi Magazine in 2009 ranked the city no.8 in the U. S. for cities of the future, in 2012, Tulsa was ranked among the top 50 best cities in the United States by BusinessWeek. People from Tulsa are called Tulsans, the area where Tulsa now exists was considered Indian Territory when it was first formally settled by the Lochapoka and Creek tribes in 1836. They established a settlement under the Creek Council Oak Tree at the present day intersection of Cheyenne Avenue. This area and this tree reminded Chief Tukabahchi and his group of trail of tear survivors of the bend in the river and their previous Creek Council Oak Tree back in the Talisi. They named their new settlement Tallasi, meaning old town in the Creek language, the area around Tulsa was also settled by members of the other so-called Five Civilized Tribes who had relocated to Oklahoma from the Southern United States. Most of modern Tulsa is located in the Creek Nation, with parts located in the Cherokee Nation, although Oklahoma was not yet a state during the Civil War, the Tulsa area did see its share of fighting. The Battle of Chusto-Talasah took place on the side of Tulsa. After the War, the tribes signed Reconstruction treaties with the government that in some cases required substantial land concessions. On January 18,1898, Tulsa was officially incorporated and elected its first mayor, Tulsa was a small town near the banks of the Arkansas River in 1901 when its first oil well, named Sue Bland No. Much of the oil was discovered on land whose mineral rights were owned by members of the Osage Nation under a system of headrights
Tulsa, Oklahoma
–
Downtown Tulsa's skyline in May 2008.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
–
The Meadow Gold sign has greeted Route 66 travelers in Tulsa for decades.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
–
Cain's Ballroom came to be known as the "Carnegie Hall of Western Swing" in the early 20th century.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
–
A 1909 panoramic view of Tulsa
2.
Santa Monica, California
–
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. The Census Bureau population for Santa Monica in 2010 was 89,736, due in part to an agreeable climate, Santa Monica became a famed resort town by the early 20th century. The city has experienced a boom since the late 1980s through the revitalization of its core, significant job growth. The Santa Monica Pier remains a popular and iconic destination, Santa Monica was long inhabited by the Tongva people. Santa Monica was called Kecheek in the Tongva language, the first non-indigenous group to set foot in the area was the party of explorer Gaspar de Portolà, who camped near the present-day intersection of Barrington and Ohio Avenues on August 3,1769. Named after the Christian saint Monica, there are two different accounts of how the name came to be. One says it was named in honor of the feast day of Saint Monica, another version says it was named by Juan Crespí on account of a pair of springs, the Kuruvungna Springs, that were reminiscent of the tears Saint Monica shed over her sons early impiety. In Los Angeles, several battles were fought by the Californios, following the Mexican–American War, Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which gave Mexicans and Californios living in state certain unalienable rights. US government sovereignty in California began on February 2,1848, in the 1870s the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, connected Santa Monica with Los Angeles, and a wharf out into the bay. The first town hall was a modest 1873 brick building, later a beer hall and it is Santa Monicas oldest extant structure. By 1885, the towns first hotel was the Santa Monica Hotel, around the start of the 20th century, a growing population of Asian Americans lived in and around Santa Monica and Venice. A Japanese fishing village was near the Long Wharf while small numbers of Chinese lived or worked in Santa Monica, the two ethnic minorities were often viewed differently by White Americans who were often well-disposed towards the Japanese but condescending towards the Chinese. The Japanese village fishermen were an economic part of the Santa Monica Bay community. Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. built a plant in 1922 at Clover Field for the Douglas Aircraft Company, in 1924, four Douglas-built planes took off from Clover Field to attempt the first aerial circumnavigation of the world. Two planes returned after covering 27,553 miles in 175 days, the Douglas Company kept facilities in the city until the 1960s. The Great Depression hit Santa Monica deeply, one report gives citywide employment in 1933 of just 1,000. Hotels and office building owners went bankrupt, in the 1930s, corruption infected Santa Monica. The federal Works Project Administration helped build several buildings, most notably City Hall, the main Post Office and Barnum Hall were also among other WPA projects
Santa Monica, California
–
Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue at Sunset
Santa Monica, California
–
An 1840 Santa Monica adobe home (photographed in 1890).
Santa Monica, California
–
A busy day on the beach, 1880
Santa Monica, California
–
Exterior view of the Bank Building at the corner of Third Street and Broadway, Santa Monica, ca.1900
3.
Boston University
–
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The university has more than 3,900 faculty members and nearly 33,000 students and it offers bachelors degrees, masters degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on two urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Bostons Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, BU is categorized as an R1, Doctoral University in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. BU is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education, the University was ranked 39th among undergraduate programs at national universities, and 32nd among global universities by U. S. News & World Report in its 2017 rankings. In 1876, BU professor Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in a BU lab, American Civil Rights Movement leader and 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received his PhD in Theology from BU in 1955. The Boston University Terriers compete in the NCAAs Division I, BU athletic teams compete in the Patriot League, and Hockey East conferences, and their mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier. Boston University is well known for hockey, in which it has won five national championships. The University organized formal Centennial observances both in 1939 and 1969, on April 24–25,1839 a group of Methodist ministers and laymen at the Old Bromfield Street Church in Boston elected to establish a Methodist theological school. Set up in Newbury, Vermont, the school was named the Newbury Biblical Institute, in 1847, the Congregational Society in Concord, New Hampshire, invited the Institute to relocate to Concord and offered a disused Congregational church building with a capacity of 1200 people. Other citizens of Concord covered the remodeling costs, one stipulation of the invitation was that the Institute remain in Concord for at least 20 years. The charter issued by New Hampshire designated the school the Methodist General Biblical Institute, with the agreed twenty years coming to a close, the Trustees of the Concord Biblical Institute purchased 30 acres on Aspinwall Hill in Brookline, Massachusetts, as a possible relocation site. The institute moved in 1867 to 23 Pinkney Street in Boston, in 1869, three Trustees of the Boston Theological Institute obtained from the Massachusetts Legislature a charter for a university by name of Boston University. These three were successful Boston businessmen and Methodist laymen, with a history of involvement in educational enterprises and they were Isaac Rich, Lee Claflin, and Jacob Sleeper, for whom Boston Universitys three West Campus dormitories are named. Lee Claflins son, William, was then Governor of Massachusetts, on account of the religious opinions he may entertain, provided, nonetheless, that this section shall not apply to the theological department of said University. Every department of the new university was open to all on an equal footing regardless of sex, race. The Boston Theological Institute was absorbed into Boston University in 1871 as the BU School of Theology, in January 1872 Isaac Rich died, leaving the vast bulk of his estate to a trust that would go to Boston University after ten years of growth while the University was organized. Most of this bequest consisted of real estate throughout the core of the city of Boston and was appraised at more than $1.5 million, Kilgore describes this as the largest single donation to an American college or university to that time
Boston University
–
688 Boylston Street, the early home of the College of Liberal Arts, the precursor to the College of Arts & Sciences
Boston University
Boston University
–
Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone at Boston University
Boston University
–
Helen Magill White, the first woman to receive a Ph.D. from an American university
4.
Democratic Party (United States)
–
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The Democrats dominant worldview was once socially conservative and fiscally classical liberalism, while, especially in the rural South, since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition in the 1930s, the Democratic Party has also promoted a social-liberal platform, supporting social justice. Today, the House Democratic caucus is composed mostly of progressives and centrists, the partys philosophy of modern liberalism advocates social and economic equality, along with the welfare state. It seeks to provide government intervention and regulation in the economy, the party has united with smaller left-wing regional parties throughout the country, such as the Farmer–Labor Party in Minnesota and the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota. Well into the 20th century, the party had conservative pro-business, the New Deal Coalition of 1932–1964 attracted strong support from voters of recent European extraction—many of whom were Catholics based in the cities. After Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal of the 1930s, the pro-business wing withered outside the South, after the racial turmoil of the 1960s, most southern whites and many northern Catholics moved into the Republican Party at the presidential level. The once-powerful labor union element became smaller and less supportive after the 1970s, white Evangelicals and Southerners became heavily Republican at the state and local level in the 1990s. However, African Americans became a major Democratic element after 1964, after 2000, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Asian Americans, the LGBT community, single women and professional women moved towards the party as well. The Northeast and the West Coast became Democratic strongholds by 1990 after the Republicans stopped appealing to socially liberal voters there, overall, the Democratic Party has retained a membership lead over its major rival the Republican Party. The most recent was the 44th president Barack Obama, who held the office from 2009 to 2017, in the 115th Congress, following the 2016 elections, Democrats are the opposition party, holding a minority of seats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a minority of governorships, and state legislatures, though they do control the mayoralty of cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Washington, D. C. The Democratic Party traces its origins to the inspiration of the Democratic-Republican Party, founded by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and that party also inspired the Whigs and modern Republicans. Organizationally, the modern Democratic Party truly arose in the 1830s, since the nomination of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, the party has generally positioned itself to the left of the Republican Party on economic issues. They have been liberal on civil rights issues since 1948. On foreign policy both parties changed position several times and that party, the Democratic-Republican Party, came to power in the election of 1800. After the War of 1812 the Federalists virtually disappeared and the national political party left was the Democratic-Republicans. The Democratic-Republican party still had its own factions, however. As Norton explains the transformation in 1828, Jacksonians believed the peoples will had finally prevailed, through a lavishly financed coalition of state parties, political leaders, and newspaper editors, a popular movement had elected the president
Democratic Party (United States)
–
Andrew Jackson was the first Democratic
President of the United States
Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic Party (United States)
–
The three leaders of the Democratic party during the first half of the 20th century: President
Woodrow Wilson (nominated in 1912 and '16) Sec. of State
William J. Bryan (nominated in 1896, 1900 and 1908),
Josephus Daniels,
Breckinridge Long,
William Phillips, and
Franklin D. Roosevelt (nominated for VP in 1920 and for president in 1932, 36,'40 and 44)
Democratic Party (United States)
–
John F. Kennedy,
35th President of the United States (1961–1963)
5.
Academy Awards
–
The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
Academy Awards
–
Academy Awards
Academy Awards
–
31st Academy Awards Presentations,
Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, 1959
Academy Awards
–
81st Academy Awards Presentations,
Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, 2009
Academy Awards
–
Pantages Theatre, 2008
6.
Grammy Award
–
A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
Grammy Award
–
Grammy Awards
Grammy Award
7.
Emmy Award
–
An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, recognizes excellence in the television industry, and corresponds to the Academy Award, the Tony Award, and the Grammy Award. Because Emmy Awards are given in various sectors of the American television industry, Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local and statewide television. In addition, International Emmys are awarded for excellence in TV programming produced, each is responsible for administering a particular set of Emmy ceremonies. The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy Awards ceremony took place on January 25,1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony. In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, in 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming, the ATAS still however maintained its separate regional ceremony honoring local programming in the Los Angeles Area. Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States, in 1974, the first Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony was held to specifically honor achievement in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies soon followed, also, the International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U. S. was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, in 1977, due to various conflicts, the ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties. However, they agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statue and trademark. With the rise of television in the 1980s, cable programs first became eligible for the Primetime Emmys in 1988. The ATAS also began accepting original online-only web television programs in 2013, the Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, was designed by television engineer Louis McManus, who used his wife as the model. The TV Academy rejected a total of forty-seven proposals before settling on McManus design in 1948. The statuette has become the symbol of the TV Academys goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television, The wings represent the muse of art. When deciding a name for the award, Academy founder Syd Cassyd originally suggested Ike, however, Ike was also the popular nickname of World War II hero and future U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the Academy members wanted something unique. Finally, television engineer and the third president, Harry Lubcke, suggested the name Immy. After Immy was chosen, it was feminized to Emmy to match their female statuette
Emmy Award
–
TV producer
Bruce Kennedy holding an Emmy
Emmy Award
–
Actress
Dana Delany holding an Emmy, 1992
Emmy Award
–
TV producer and writer
Bradley Bell accepting Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on the daytime soap opera
The Bold and the Beautiful, 2010
Emmy Award
–
Brazilian actress and TV host
Fernanda Lima holding
Rede Globo 's six medals of nominations to the International Emmys in 2012
8.
Golden Globe Award
–
Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Golden Globe Award
–
The Golden Globe statuette
9.
Screen Actors Guild Award
–
The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called The Actor. It is 16 inches tall, weighs over 12 pounds, is cast in solid bronze, SAG Awards have been one of the major awards events in Hollywood since 1995. It is considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards, the awards have been telecast since 1998 on TNT, and since 2007 have been simulcast on TBS. The inaugural SAG Awards aired live on February 25,1995 from Universal Studios Stage 12, the second SAG awards aired live from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, while subsequent awards have been held at the Shrine Exposition Center
Screen Actors Guild Award
–
Trophy of the award
10.
Remember My Name
–
Remember My Name is a 1978 American thriller film, written and directed by Alan Rudolph and produced by Robert Altman. Geraldine Chaplin stars as a woman, determined to get back her husband. Rudolph explained what he wanted to achieve, an update of the classic womans melodramas of the Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and it had a successful run in Paris before opening in New York City. Neil Curry is living a life with his second wife Barbara in California after abandoning his first wife, Emily. Their life of bliss is interrupted when Emily comes back from prison. She arrives in California to wreak havoc and also to claim back Neil and they praised Perkins and described Chaplins performance as extraordinary, and that she adopts a unique speech pattern as Emily. She says everything as though shes rehearsed it and now is blurting it out in what she hopes will be accepted as a replica of casual speech. Emilys manner only loses its furtive, dodging quality when she feels in control or when she flies into a rage, the Washington Post described it as a neurotic film noir that is also a gripping tale of sexual frustration. The reviewer was impressed with Chaplins performance, Chaplin is spooky, spookier even than Perkins. Jack Kroll of Newsweek praised Rudolphs direction, he has an eye for the visual paradox. The review praised Perkins as a specialist at playing the nice guy whose smile, Kroll also heaped praise on Chaplin as her performance creates something new in the modern pantheon of weirdos. She is chilling in her ability to be guilty and innocent, victim and predator, catatonic and driven by feelings so deep they draw blood
Remember My Name
–
Remember My Name
11.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
–
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Gale Sondergaard was the first winner of award for her role in Anthony Adverse. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 78 actresses. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have received the most awards in this category with two awards each, despite winning no awards, Thelma Ritter was nominated on six occasions, more than any other actress. As of the 2017 ceremony, Viola Davis is the most recent winner in category for her role as Rose Maxson in Fences. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, inside Oscar, The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. New York, United States, Ballantine Books, oscars. org Oscar. com The Academy Awards Database
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
–
Alice Brady won for her performance in 1937's
In Old Chicago.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
–
Hattie McDaniel won in 1939 for her role as Mammy in
Gone with the Wind, thus becoming the first black performer to win an Oscar.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
–
Jane Darwell won for her performance as Ma Joad in
The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
–
Teresa Wright won for her role in 1942's
Mrs Miniver.
12.
NBC
–
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
NBC
–
The
Comcast Building in
New York City (or the GE Building, originally the
RCA Building) serves as the headquarters of NBC.
NBC
–
National Broadcasting Company
NBC
–
Radio City West was located at
Sunset Boulevard and
Vine Street in Los Angeles until it was replaced by a bank in the mid-1960s.
NBC
–
Entrance at the GE Building.
13.
Hill Street Blues
–
Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that aired on NBC in primetime from 1981 to 1987 for a total of 146 episodes. The show received acclaim, and its production innovations influenced many subsequent dramatic television series produced in the United States. Its debut season was rewarded with eight Emmy Awards, a season record surpassed only by The West Wing. The show received a total of 98 Emmy nominations during its run, MTM Enterprises developed the series on behalf of NBC, appointing Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll as series writers. The writers were allowed considerable freedom and created a series that brought together, for the first time. Each episode features a number of intertwined storylines, some of which are resolved within the episode, the conflicts between the work lives and private lives of the individual characters are also large elements of storylines. In the workplace there is also a focus on the struggle between doing what is right and what works. Almost every episode begins with a sequence consisting of briefing. Many episodes are written to take place over the course of a single day, Frank Furillo and public defender Joyce Davenport in a domestic situation, often in bed, discussing how their respective days went. The show deals with issues and employs commonly used language. In terms of production, the camera is close in. The extensive use of overheard or off-screen dialogue gives a feel to the action. Rather than studio cameras, handheld Arriflex cameras were used to add to the documentary feel, although filmed in Los Angeles, the series is set in a generic unnamed inner-city location with a feel of a U. S. urban center in the Midwest or Northeast. Bochco had intended this fictional city to be a hybrid of Chicago, Buffalo, however, at the beginning of season 7, episode 17, one of the police cars is driving past a sign indicating an approach to Interstate 90 and Interstate 94. Pittsburgh is in Allegheny County while Interstate 90 only runs in Erie County, although Interstate 90 does run to Buffalo, Interstate 94 goes no farther east than Michigan. The only major city where both Interstate 90 and Interstate 94 run is in Chicago, also, the police cars are duplicates of the Chicago Police Dept. vehicles, except that instead of saying Chicago Police on the sides of the cars it says Metro Police. Additionally, a corner tavern sporting a Heileman Old Style beer sign appears in the title sequence. A regional beer brewed in Wisconsin, Heilemans was a dominant product in the Chicago–Milwaukee area during the time the show was in production
Hill Street Blues
–
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
–
Hill Street Blues cast, circa 1986, left to right, from bottom: Taurean Blacque, Daniel J. Travanti, Michael J. Warren; Second Row: Betty Thomas, James B. Sikking; Third Row: Robert Clohessy, Dennis Franz, Kiel Martin, Joe Spano; Top Row: Jon Cypher, Peter Jurasik, Robert Prosky, Megan Gallagher
14.
L.A. Law
–
L. A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC, from September 15,1986, to May 19,1994. The series often also reflected social tensions between the senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. In addition to its main cast, L. A. Sanders, James Avery, Gates McFadden, Bryan Cranston, pounder, Kevin Spacey, Richard Schiff, Carrie-Anne Moss, William H. Macy, Stephen Root, Christian Slater, and Lucy Liu. Several episodes of the show included celebrities such as Vanna White, Buddy Hackett. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series. The series was set in and around the fictitious Los Angeles-based law firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, the exteriors for the law firm were shot at the Citigroup Center in downtown Los Angeles, which was known as the 444 Flower Building at the time. The show often combined humor and drama in the same episode. In the pilot episode of the series, only the back and hand of law partner Chaney, one of Chaneys final acts was to hire a new secretary, who began work on the morning Chaneys body is discovered. Later in that episode, in front of his partners, friends and his wife, the secretary at Chaneys eulogy reveals that she is transsexual, Chaney had been financially supporting her gender transition, and hired her as part of her real life test. She is then fired from her job by Douglas Brackman. This once caused problems when a client used him to set up her husband to be murdered, a running gag during Harry Hamlins tenure was to have his character, Michael Kuzak, always shown picking, scrutinizing, and eating pastries or fruit at the morning staff meetings. He was the one who ate from the mountains of food provided. To some extent, the sexual peccadilloes of almost the entire cast would become fodder for episodes of the series. After Grace van Owen makes a comment that Michael Kuzak would have to be a monkey before shed be interested in him, Douglas Brackman becomes involved with a sex therapist. Benny Stulwicz, an intellectually disabled clerk at the office, has sex with the disabled daughter of a client of the firm. Leland McKenzie and Rosalind Shays, antagonists, secretly become lovers, Douglas Brackman, their boss, is also arrested in the mayhem of the riots as he is on his way to get remarried. In one scene later in the series, the writers enacted an inside joke, in her final scene, the character of Rosalind Shays steps into the empty shaft and falls to her death. The name Chaney remains in the name of the law firm, despite changes in personnel
L.A. Law
–
L.A. Law
15.
List of St. Elsewhere characters
–
This is a list of characters from the medical drama St. Elsewhere. He was the one other characters went to for a kindly word, Dr. Westphall started his association with the hospital as a troubled youth under the influence of hospital founder Fr. He initially resigned in 1985 and travelled to Africa to do volunteer work. However, upon his return from Africa, he was back as Director of Medicine. During his second stint, Westphall became noticeably more demanding on the residents and he pushed for residents to complete community service and asked for funds to open up a new hospital ward that would feed the hungry. Once again feeling burnt out and being pressured by the new owners, Dr. Westphall quit his job. His delivery of his resignation is one of the most famous and controversial scenes in American television, as it shows Westphall with his pants down, the scene was preserved by NBC censors as it was not considered erotic. Portrayed by William Daniels Irritable and irascible, Dr. Mark Craig was the hospitals lone superstar, an arrogant but brilliant heart surgeon, Craigs tenure with the hospital goes back to the 1950s when he was an intern under the similarly intolerant Dr. David Domedion. Feeling he was too good for St. Eligius, he took a position at rival Boston General. However, he was lured back to St. Eligius in the mid 1960s with the promise of high-tech equipment and a higher salary. While he could have left at any time after that, he not to and stayed on to act as mentor and tormentor to the hospitals young doctors. Dr. Craig would not hesitate to toss a bullying and sarcastic barb at any doctor, nurse, Craigs celebrity status and exposure would be boosted when he performed a heart transplant on Eve Leighton. Though the transplant was successful, Leighton would die from complications of the surgery. A few years later, Dr. Craig developed an artificial heart, the failure of the heart brings a fleeting moment of self-reflection to the otherwise supremely confident doctor. In one of St Elsewheres most-compelling moments, Dr. Craig witnessed the autopsy of his only son Steven, from whom he had been estranged due to his own autocratic ways and his sons drug abuse. Holding his sons heart, Dr. Craig spoke tenderly of the times when he used to read Green Eggs, together, he says, the two would read the final lines of the book. Mark Craig would be ranked #41 in TV Guides 1999 ranking of the 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time, throughout the run, Daniels is the only actor to appear in every episode of the series, with the exception of 8. Portrayed by Norman Lloyd, James Stephens as young Daniel in Time Heals episode,1985 Dr. Auschlander was the Chief of Services at St. Eligius, fair and kind, he was well thought of by nearly everyone at St. Eligius
List of St. Elsewhere characters
–
The cast of St. Elsewhere (first season, 1982–1983). Click on character for actor biography.
16.
St. Elsewhere
–
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama black comedy television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26,1982, to May 25,1988. St. Known for its combination of gritty, realistic drama and moments of black comedy, the series also earned critical acclaim during its run, earning 13 Emmy Awards for its writing, acting, and directing. St. Elsewhere was ranked No.20 on TV Guides 2002 list of The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, in 2013, TV Guide ranked the series #51 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. St. Elsewhere was set at fictional St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Bostons South End neighborhood, just as in Hill Street Blues, St. The staffs problems, and those of their patients, were often contemporary in nature, with storylines involving breast cancer, AIDS, the producers for the series were Bruce Paltrow, Mark Tinker, John Masius, Tom Fontana, John Falsey and Abby Singer. Tinker, Masius, Fontana, and Paltrow wrote a number of episodes as well, other writers included John Tinker, John Ford Noonan, Charles H. Eglee, Eric Overmyer, Channing Gibson, and Aram Saroyan. The shows main and end title theme was composed by famed jazz musician, noted film and TV composer J. A. C. Redford wrote the music for the series, St. Elsewhere ran for six seasons and 137 episodes, the first season aired Tuesdays at 10 p. m. with remaining seasons airing Wednesdays at 10 p. m. St. Elsewhere was noteworthy for featuring episodes with unusual aspects or significant changes to the status quo. Some of those included, Original air date, November 9,1983 Dr. Morrison learns of the death of his wife, Nina. Ninas heart is donated to a heart transplant patient—a patient of Dr. Craig, the poignant final scene of the episode finds Morrison entering the patients room and, with a stethoscope, hearing the patients new heart—Ninas heart—steadily beating. Eligius two years earlier for the birth of her baby, the scene ends with Westphall announcing to his two colleagues that he has decided to leave St. Eligius and medicine, a short-lived departure as Westphall would return in the Season 4 premiere. Original air date, February 19 and 20,1986 This two-part episode featured storylines that fleshed out the 50-year history of St. Eligius, the storylines included the hospitals 1936 founding by Fr. TV Guide ranked Time Heals #44 on its 1997 list of 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time, calling the episode a masterwork of dramatic writing. As the staff try to save him, Fiscus ventures back-and-forth between Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, where he has a conversation with God, who presents Himself as a spitting image of Fiscus. Just as Fiscus shakes hands with Lou Gehrig, his colleagues successfully revive him back to Earth, Original air date, May 27,1987 In the season-five finale, all attempts to save St. Eligius from closing seem to have failed. As demolition begins, a frail Dr. Auschlander, accidentally left in the hospital after a relapse, Original air date, September 30,1987 St. Eligius is saved, but it falls under the new ownership of Ecumena Corporation, a national managed health care concern. This scene, which would normally be considered controversial, was preserved by NBCs censors as they did not consider Westphalls display to be erotic in nature
St. Elsewhere
–
St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere
–
Tommy holds the St. Eligius snow globe in the final moments of "The Last One."
17.
Grand Canyon (1991 film)
–
Grand Canyon is a 1991 American drama film directed and produced by Lawrence Kasdan, and written by Kasdan with his wife Meg. Featuring an ensemble cast, the film is about events affecting a diverse group of people, exploring the race-. The film was produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox and was released on Christmas Day,1991, Grand Canyon was advertised as The Big Chill for the 90s, in reference to an earlier Kasdan film. After attending a Lakers basketball game, a lawyer named Mack finds himself at the mercy of potential muggers when his car breaks down in a bad part of Los Angeles late at night. The muggers are talked out of their plans by Simon, a tow truck driver who arrives just in time, Mack sets out to befriend Simon, despite their having nothing in common. In the meantime, Macks wife Claire and his best friend Davis, Claire encounters an abandoned baby while jogging and becomes determined to adopt her. The film chronicles how these characters—as well as various acquaintances, co-workers, in the end, they visit the Grand Canyon on a shared vacation trip, united in a place that is philosophically and actually bigger than all their little separate lives. Critic Rita Kempley, in discussing the film, pointed to this scene as proof that, the filmmaker and his team ha truly caught society on the verge. The character Davis is based on aggressive action film producer Joel Silver, Grand Canyon, Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released in 1992 on Milan Records. R. Robinson, Drums Michael G. George Thatcher, Trombones David Duke, Joe Meyer, Brian OConnor, if the ambition to do this is ultimately more impressive than the hazy, unfocused outcome, Mr. Kasdan still deserves a lot of credit for what he has tried. This City of the Angels captured by Kasdan, its skies buzzing with helicopters, but this is not war, its suicide, America in the latent stages of self-inflicted apocalypse. Kasdan validates our fears, but he doesnt strip us of all hope, the view from the edge can be awesome. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly chided the film for its, solemn zeitgeist chic, and called it. Way too self-conscious, but ultimately decided that Grand Canyon is finally a very classy soap opera and its the sort of movie that says, Life is worth living. After a couple of hours spent with characters this enjoyable, the message — in all its forthright sentimentality — feels earned. Film critic Roger Ebert gave the four out of four stars. Eberts television reviewing partner Gene Siskel also loved the film, with Ebert placing it at the #4, the film won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. The screenplay was nominated for the Oscar, the Golden Globe, Grand Canyon was considered a minor failure at the box office, taking in $40.9 million, and did not reap notable profits until it was released on video
Grand Canyon (1991 film)
–
Theatrical release poster
18.
Heart and Souls
–
Heart and Souls is a 1993 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Ron Underwood. The film stars Robert Downey, Jr, in San Francisco,1959, four people embark on the same bus. A single mother named Penny Washington leaves her three children at home to work in her shift as a telephone operator. A singer named Harrison Winslow is afraid of the stage and quits his audition, a waitress named Julia regrets turning down her boyfriend Johns marriage proposal and leaves her job to seek him out. A small-time thief named Milo Peck fails to retrieve a collection of stamps that he had conned out of a young boy. The bus driver, Hal, has an accident, killing himself. Meanwhile, Frank Reilly is driving his pregnant wife Eva to the hospital, Frank successfully swerves to escape the bus, just before it drives off an overpass, but Eva delivers their baby in the car. Hal ascends into the life, but the souls of the four passengers become the guardian angels of the boy, Thomas Reilly. Seven years later, the parents and teachers begin to worry about his obsession with these imaginary friends. After realizing their presence is harming Thomas, the quartet decides to become invisible also to him, unknown to Thomas, they remain by his side. Twenty-seven years later, in 1993, Hal returns with his bus, the quartet learns from Hal that theyve been with Thomas all these years because he serves as their corporeal form, they were supposed to ask him for help in resolving the problems they left behind. If he ever refused, one of them should have inhabited his body, in the end, Thomas becomes a better man and he dances with Anne as four stars twinkle in the night sky, symbolizing that Penny, Julia, Harrison, and Milo are finally at peace. Heart and Souls received mixed reviews critics, as it currently holds a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 22 reviews. Saturn Award - Robert Downey Jr, list of ghost films Heart and Souls at the Internet Movie Database Heart and Souls at Box Office Mojo Heart and Souls at Rotten Tomatoes
Heart and Souls
–
Theatrical release poster
19.
Crooklyn
–
Crooklyn is a 1994 semi-autobiographical film co-written and directed by Spike Lee. The film takes place in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York during the summer of 1973 and its primary focus is a young girl, Troy, and her family. Throughout the film, Troy learns life lessons through her four brothers, her loving but strict mother. A two-volume release of the soundtrack became available on CD along with the release of the film, similarly to School Daze, Do the Right Thing, and Shes Gotta Have It, Spike Lee appears in Crooklyn. He plays a young stoner named Snuffy, who likes to bully the local children, Crooklyn is one of only two films directed by Spike Lee to earn a PG-13 rating in the USA, the other being 1992s Malcolm X. In 1973, nine-year-old Troy Carmichael and her brothers Clinton, Wendell, Nate, the children live with their parents, Woody, a struggling musician, and Carolyn, a schoolteacher. The neighborhood is filled with colorful characters, the Carmichaels next-door neighbor, Tony Eyes continuously sings. Snuffy and Right Hand Man are glue sniffers, Vic Powell is a war vet who lives upstairs from the Carmichaels. One day, the Carmichael children get into a dispute with Tony who alleges that they are always throwing trash into his area, the argument escalates when Carolyn and several neighborhood children get involved. Tony is still yelling when Vic comes downstairs, Vic then punches Tony in the face. Troy, who has sneaked out to the store, sees Vic getting arrested as she leaves the store. One night, Woody and Carolyn argue about money, Carolyn resents Woody because he isnt earning money as a musician, the argument escalates as Carolyn yells for the children to turn off the television. Carolyn later turns off the TV, Carolyn grabs him for disobeying her and Woody grabs her and carries her out of the room. Woody drags Carolyn down the stairs and Nate jumps on Woodys back, the other children hold Carolyn and Carolyn hurts her ankle in the struggle. Carolyn kicks Woody out of the house, Woody brings flowers to Carolyn and the two reconcile. The family then decides to go on a trip, as they are leaving, a worker from Con Ed comes by to shut off the electricity due to an unpaid bill. The trip is postponed and the family has to use candles for light, a few days later, Nate and Troy travel to the South to stay with relatives. Troy stays with her cousin, Viola, who was adopted by Uncle Clem, Troy has fun with Viola despite a dislike of Aunt Song and her dog, Queenie
Crooklyn
–
Theatrical release poster
20.
How to Make an American Quilt
–
How to Make an American Quilt is a 1995 drama film, and an adaptation of the 1991 novel of the same name by Whitney Otto. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, the film stars Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, the film received a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Following a proposal of marriage from her boyfriend Sam, Finn decides to visit her aunt and grandmother to finish her thesis. At her grandmothers house, a quilting group congregates, and shes shocked and surprised to discover that the current quilt that theyre working on is a gift for when she gets married. The theme of the quilt is where love resides, as Finn is unsure whether shes ready for marriage or whether hes The One, the stories of the women in the quilting group open her eyes to the different kinds of love that exist. During her time at her grandmothers house, she meets Leon at the local pool, eventually, wrapped in her quilt and following a crow, she comes across Sam and chooses to stay with him. When she was in her twenties, Sophia was a talented diver with dreams of escaping her small town. One day she meets Preston Richards while diving at the local pool, hes attracted by her fearlessness and she believes he can take her away from her current, oppressive way of life. However, motherhood turns out to be just as, if not more, oppressive, and married life soon grinds her down. With three children and little help from her husband who is frequently away because of his job, she no longer has time to dive and eventually forgets the feeling of freedom, One day she snaps at her husband for digging a pond in the back garden. In an attempt to remind her of the girl he fell in love with, after she rejects his efforts, he realizes that her free spirit is gone. One morning he leaves for work, never to return, abandoned, bitter, and trapped in a life she didnt want, Sophia ironically ends up like her overbearing mother, particularly in her relationship with Finn. Years later, when the wind blows part of Finns thesis into the pond, with her feet in the pool, she remembers what her husband tried to remind her of all those years ago, and one of the last scenes shows her diving off the high dive. Em marries young, like most of the women in the story, despite the promiscuity of her artistic husband Dean, she stays with him for a period of time. Eventually, after discovering yet another affair, she leaves him whilst pregnant and she returns to her parents home, but it still takes three months before Dean comes to find her. He begs forgiveness yet again, and her parents pack her bags, at this point, Em has no choice but to return to her broken life. Years later, she suspects Constance is having an affair with Dean, gladiola Joe and Hyacinth are Finn’s great aunt and grandmother and sisters to one another. At one point, Hy goes to visit her husband in the hospital
How to Make an American Quilt
–
How to Make an American Quilt
21.
Primal Fear (film)
–
Primal Fear is a 1996 American neo-noir crime-thriller film, based on William Diehls 1993 novel of the same name and directed by Gregory Hoblit. The film tells the story of a Chicago defense attorney who believes his altar boy client is not guilty of murdering an influential Catholic Archbishop, primal Fear was a box office success and earned mostly positive reviews, with Edward Norton making a strong showing in his film debut. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, martin Vail is a Chicago defense attorney who loves the public spotlight and does everything he can to get his high-profile clients acquitted on legal technicalities. One day, he sees a report about the arrest of Aaron Stampler, a young altar boy from Kentucky with a severe stutter. Vail jumps at the chance to represent the young man pro bono, during his meetings at the county jail with Stampler, Vail comes to believe that his client is innocent, much to the chagrin of the prosecutor, Janet Venable. The Archbishop received numerous death threats as a result, Vail is now in a dilemma, introducing this evidence would make Stampler more sympathetic to the jury, but it would also give his client a motive for the murder, which Venable is unable to establish. When this incident is over, Stampler once again becomes passive and shy, molly Arrington, the psychiatrist examining Stampler, is convinced that he suffers from multiple personality disorder caused by years of abuse at the hands of his father. Vail does not want to hear this, because he knows that he enter a insanity plea during an ongoing trial. Vail slowly sets up a confrontation in court by dropping hints about the Archbishops pedophilia, Vail puts Stampler on the witness stand and gently questions him about the abuse he suffered at the Archbishops hands. After Venable questions him harshly during cross-examination, Stampler turns into Roy in open court and attacks her and he is subdued by courthouse marshals and rushed back to his holding cell. The judge dismisses the jury in favor of a trial and then finds Stampler not guilty by reason of insanity. Venable is fired for losing the case and allowing the Archbishops crimes, Vail visits Stampler in his cell to tell him of the dismissal. Stampler says he recalls nothing of what happened in the courtroom, just as Vail is leaving, Stampler asks him to tell Miss Venable I hope her neck is okay, which he could not have been able to remember if he had lost time. When Vail confronts him, Stampler reveals that he had faked multiple personality disorder, no longer stuttering, he brags about having murdered Archbishop Rushman, as well as Linda. When Vail says There never was a Roy, Stampler replies, There never was an Aaron, a stunned and disillusioned Vail walks away as Stampler taunts him from his cell. The soundtrack included Portuguese fado song Canção do Mar sung by Dulce Pontes, primal Fear received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 74% positive rating based on reviews from 43 critics, the sites consensus states A straightforward, entertaining thriller with a crackerjack performance by Edward Norton. According to Janet Maslin, the film has a deal of surface charm
Primal Fear (film)
–
Theatrical release poster
22.
Star Trek: First Contact
–
Star Trek, First Contact is a 1996 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the feature film in the Star Trek film franchise. In the films plot, the crew of the Starship USS Enterprise-E travel back in time to the mid-21st century to stop the cybernetic Borg from conquering Earth by changing the past. After the release of the film, Star Trek Generations, Paramount tasked writers Brannon Braga. Braga and Moore wanted to feature the Borg in the plot, after two better-known directors turned down the job, cast member Jonathan Frakes was chosen to direct, to make sure the task fell to someone who understood Star Trek. It was Frakes first theatrical film, the script required the creation of new starship designs, including a new USS Enterprise. Production designer Herman Zimmerman and illustrator John Eaves collaborated to make a ship than its predecessor. Principal photography began with weeks of shooting in Arizona and California before production moved to new sets for the ship-based scenes. Effects company Industrial Light & Magic rushed to complete the special effects in less than five months. Traditional optical effects techniques were supplemented with computer-generated imagery, Jerry Goldsmith and his son Joel collaborated to produce the films score. First Contact was the film on its opening weekend, making $30.7 million. The film made $92 million in the United States & Canada, critical reception was mostly positive, critics including Roger Ebert considered it one of the best Star Trek films. The Borg and the effects were lauded, while characterization was less evenly received. First Contact was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup, the film has been released on videotape, LaserDisc, DVD and Blu-ray home video formats. Scholarly analysis of the film has focused on Captain Jean-Luc Picards parallels to Herman Melvilles Ahab, Captain Jean-Luc Picard wakes from a nightmare in which he relived his assimilation by the cybernetic Borg six years earlier. Starfleet informs him of a new Borg attack against The Federation, intercepting the overwhelmed fleets audio communications, Picard disobeys orders and heads the Enterprise for Earth, where a single, damaged Borg Cube destroys opposing Starfleet vessels. The Enterprise arrives in time to save the crew of the USS Defiant, Picard takes command of the fleet and, after hearing Borg communications in his mind, orders it to concentrate its firepower on a seemingly non-vital section of the Borg ship. The Cube is destroyed but manages to launch a smaller sphere ship towards the planet before disintegrating, the Borg sphere generates and enters a temporal vortex
Star Trek: First Contact
–
Having directed several episodes of
Star Trek: The Next Generation,
Jonathan Frakes made his feature film directorial debut with First Contact.
Star Trek: First Contact
–
Theatrical poster and home video art
Star Trek: First Contact
–
A fiberglass capsule was fitted over this decommissioned missile to convert it into Cochrane's Phoenix.
23.
Passion Fish
–
Passion Fish is a 1992 American film written and directed by John Sayles. The film stars Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Vondie Curtis-Hall, David Strathairn, Leo Burmester, may-Alice Culhane, a New York daytime soap opera actress, is left paralyzed after an accident on her way to getting her legs waxed, which she finds ironic. As the film opens, she lies in a bed, confused and scared, watching her own show on TV and shrieking. With no other options, she returns to her familys old and empty home in Louisiana and her outlook begins to change with the arrival of Chantelle, a nurse with her own life problems. The two gradually find a connection with each other, and as a result, their lives subtly change. It holds a 100% Certified Fresh and average rating of 7. 7/10 on review site Rotten Tomatoes, Passion Fish was limitedly released on December 9,1992, running for one week, the minimum required to make it eligible for consideration at the next years Academy Awards. The film earned $36,332 in the week from showings in two theaters, after receiving Academy Award nominations in February 1993, the film was released to 191 theaters, where it earned over 99% of its gross of $4.8 million. Passion Fish at the Internet Movie Database Passion Fish at AllMovie Passion Fish at Rotten Tomatoes Passion Fish film trailer on YouTube
Passion Fish
–
Theatrical release poster
24.
Down in the Delta
–
Down in the Delta is a 1998 drama film directed by Maya Angelou. The film stars Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr. Esther Rolle, Loretta Devine, rosa Lynn, an elderly woman, sends her daughter Loretta and her children to live with her brother-in-law in Mississippi. Loretta is an addict and does not want to go, especially since uncle Earl lives in the dry, uncle Earl already has his hands full with his business and a wife who suffers from Alzheimers disease. He has Loretta help him in his restaurant, and the family begins to find strength in their roots, an important recurring object throughout the film is a silver candelabra, a family heirloom. The candelabra, which refers to as Nathan, has strong significance to the family. It is finally revealed that Lorettas great-great grandfather and Jesses father was a slave named Nathan, jesse stole back the candelabra, and it has been passed through the generations, along with Nathans story, ever since. She almost single-handedly shores up this somewhat simplistic movie. er instincts for drama and humor provide a welcome dose of human reality, the film was successful on limited release. The following soundtrack was released from Virgin Records
Down in the Delta
–
Theatrical release poster
25.
HBO
–
Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
HBO
–
The RCA Satcom domestic communication satellite launched on December 13, 1975, spurred the
cable television industry to unprecedented heights – with the assistance of HBO.
HBO
–
Filmmaker
Alexandra Pelosi and former
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey at the New York City premiere of Pelosi's HBO documentary about McGreevey,
Fall to Grace, in March 2013.
HBO
–
Example of Festival's monthly guide provided to subscribers (January 1988).
26.
K-PAX (film)
–
The film is about a psychiatric patient who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX. During his treatment, the patient demonstrates an outlook on life that ultimately proves inspirational for his fellow patients, after claiming he is an extraterrestrial from the planet K-PAX,1,000 light years away in the Lyra constellation, prot is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan. There, psychiatrist Dr. Mark Powell attempts to him of his apparent delusions. However, prot is unwavering in his ability to provide cogent answers to questions about himself, K-PAX, and its civilizations. His medical examination only reinforces his story, as prot can see light, which no human can. Dr. Powell introduces him to a group of astrophysicists who are befuddled when prot displays a level of knowledge about his claimed star system that was unknown to them. Prot also exhibits total control over the patients at the Institute. Prot, who claims to have journeyed to Earth by means of light-travel, thereafter, most of the patients at the Institute ask to be taken by prot on his journey back home. Upon learning that many of his patients expect to leave Earth on July 27, Dr. Powell confronts prot, However, Powell believes this to be a significant date in prots life, a day on which he suffered a severe psychological trauma. Powell decides to subject prot to regression hypnosis, which works well, Powell tries to confront prot with this knowledge, but prots reaction is one of bemusement, and he cryptically tells Powell that he hopes he will take good care of Robert now that he has found him. On July 27 as the staff watch, the camera in Porter/prots room cuts to static at the precise time prot said he would leave Earth. Powell finds Porter lying on the floor in his room, catatonic, the other patients do not recognize Robert as he is being wheeled out of the room. In addition, one of them is missing, Bess, a woman who had remained mute since her home was destroyed in a fire and who had been among the patients that asked to go to K-PAX with prot. Powell continues to care of the catatonic Porter and tells him about how the patients he helped have gone on to live normal lives again. With this in mind, Powell reconciles with his estranged son. The movie works best as a showcase for Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges. ”A. O. However, Claudia Puig at USA Today concluded, Besides being saddled with the years worst title this misguided movie is shackled by its own overreaching sense of importance and foggy earnestness. Complaints of plagiarism of the 1986 Argentinian film Man Facing Southeast were made by its director, subsequently, Gene Brewer and others connected with the K-PAX film were sued in November 2001. The complaint was withdrawn as the trial stretched over time
K-PAX (film)
–
Theatrical release poster
27.
The Core
–
The Core is a 2003 American science fiction disaster film. The film focuses on a team whose mission is to drill to the center of the Earth, the film was directed by Jon Amiel, and stars Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, Tchéky Karyo, DJ Qualls, Bruce Greenwood and Alfre Woodard. Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes and scientists Serge Leveque and Conrad Zimsky become aware of an instability of Earths magnetic field after a series of incidents across the globe. Backed by the U. S. Government, Keyes, Leveque, to prevent a worldwide panic, Keyes enlists computer hacker Theodore Donald Rat Finch to scour the Internet and eliminate all traces of the pending disaster or their plan. Virgil is launched through the Marianas Trench from an offshore platform, the crew repair and restart the laser array in time, but Iverson is killed by a falling crystal shard that hits him in the helmet and subsequently fell into magma, while returning to the ship. As Virgil continues, it clips a huge diamond that breaches the hull of the last compartment, Leveque sacrifices himself to save the nuclear launch codes before the compartment is crushed by extreme pressure. Meanwhile, on the surface, the public aware of problems after super storms and unfiltered patches of ultra-violet radiation destroy Rome. Finch is unable to stop worldwide panic but instead learns of the top-secret project DESTINI, Finch relays his information to Keyes, who discovers that Zimsky was one of DESTINIs lead scientists. DESTINI, according to Zimsky, was designed as a weapon to propagate earthquakes through the Earths core, Zimsky reveals the government will use it again to attempt a restart of the core. Keyes is convinced it will have disastrous results and has Finch hack into DESTINIs system and cut its power supply to buy the Virgil more time. Virgil eventually reaches the core, and, as they take readings, they discover that the density of the core is far different from what they expected. However, because Virgil was not designed to jettison undamaged compartments, Brazzelton volunteers and deactivates the switch, dying shortly afterwards. Keyes and Zimsky race to reset the nuclear charges, and Zimsky gets trapped in one of the detaching compartments, Keyes believes they still may have too little yield, but Zimsky suggests they use the ships nuclear fuel source as well, which will leave the Virgil without power. Keyes deploys the nuclear core in the last compartment and detaches it just as the triggered detonations start and they break through the crust underwater, leaving them safe on the ocean floor but lacking power and communications. They believe themselves lost but use the power to activate a weak sonar beacon. The beacon attracts a nearby whale pod, and Finch is able to trace their whale songs to locate the Virgil, a week after the mission, Finch unleashes the full details of the mission, including those lost, and of DESTINI to the public via the Internet. Aaron Eckhart as Dr. Joshua Josh Keyes, a scientist, Delroy Lindo as Dr. Edward Braz Brazzelton, the designer of Virgil and the ultrasonic laser. Stanley Tucci as Dr. Conrad Zimsky, Earth specialist and designer of Project D. E. S. T. INI and he went on high alert after the magnetic instability caused an attack in Trafalgar Square by an enormous flock of pigeons
The Core
–
Theatrical release poster
28.
The Forgotten (2004 film)
–
The Forgotten is a 2004 American science fiction psychological thriller drama film, directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julianne Moore and Dominic West. The films plot revolves around a woman who thinks that she lost her son in a plane crash 14 months ago, only to wake up one morning and be told that she never had a son. All of her memories are intact but with no evidence that contradicts the claims of her husband and her psychiatrist. It was produced by Revolution Studios for Columbia Pictures and was released in the United States, Dr. Munce tells her that Sam was merely a figment of her imagination and that she is just imagining a life that might have been. He recommends that she be sent to a hospital, but she runs away and meets with a man named Ash whom she thinks is the father of a girl named Lauren who was Sams friend and died in the same crash. At first he dismisses her, claiming he never had a daughter, after she is taken into custody, he remembers his daughter and rescues Telly. Together they escape and go into hiding, pursued by National Security agents, Telly and Ash capture and threaten an agent, who reluctantly reveals that he and other agents are merely helping ″them″ in order to protect humankind. Without warning, the roof of the house blows off and the agent, along with the roof, is sucked into the sky—presumably taken by ″them″—and Telly and Ash flee. Eventually, Telly visits Dr. Munce takes Telly to an airport and the hangar of Quest Airlines. He tells the agent that its over and to stop the experiment, but the agent replies that its not over. He reveals to Telly that she has been a part of an experiment to test whether the bonds between mother and child can be diminished, in her case, her memories could not be fully erased. Telly refuses to deny her sons existence, the agent mentions that if he fails to erase her memory then he will look like a failure. The agent then subdues her and convinces her to think of the first memory she had of Sam, Telly thinks of the day he was born in the hospital, which allows the agent to successfully erase Sams memory from existence. All of her memories of Sam return, before the agent can comprehend whats happening, part of the hangar roof is suddenly blown off, and hes yanked into the sky himself, supposedly for his failure to erase her memory. Telly finds herself living a life, although she remembers everything that has happened. She reunites with Sam at a park, also at the park is Ash, watching over his daughter. Like Sam, he has no memory of what has happened, Telly reintroduces herself, and the two sit and watch the kids play in the playground. The film was released theatrically on September 24,2004, the film was released on DVD on January 18,2005
The Forgotten (2004 film)
–
Theatrical release poster
29.
The Practice
–
The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The Practice focused on the law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates, plots typically featured the firms involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirror current events. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme, Kelley claimed that he conceived the show as something of a rebuttal to L. A. Law and its romanticized treatment of the American legal system and legal proceedings. At the start of the series, attorney Bobby Donnell employs associate attorneys Ellenor Frutt, Eugene Young, Lindsay Dole, by the fourth episode, Bobbys friend Jimmy Berluti is hired as an associate. Before that, Jimmy is a working as a loan officer. When he falsifies loan documents to help Bobbys struggling practice, he loses his job, Bobby maintains sole control over the firm until an ultimatum by Lindsay motivates him to name Ellenor, Eugene, Lindsay, and Rebecca as junior partners. To maintain control over the firm, Bobby writes into the charter that each received one vote in partnership meetings. While this decision prevents Lindsays power play from becoming ugly, it causes some tension when Bobby and Lindsay later become romantically involved. The partnership agreement also initially alienates Jimmy who feels insulted that he was the one on staff not named a partner. This is exacerbated by the fact that Rebecca is made partner despite her being the receptionist, Rebecca earns her law degree in Season 3, and Jimmy is eventually made partner at the end of Season 7. Bobby and his associates all share a friendship with A. D. A, Helen Gamble, who even shares a brief romance with Bobby – all highly unusual, considering how often Helens job places her in opposition to the firm. While the strategy is effective, it would occasionally backfire once the D. A. s office grew familiar with the strategy. This tactic invariably causes great distress for the attorney employing the plan when they know that the target is most likely innocent. Thus, in cases, Plan B is used only as a last resort. In 2003, Bobby Donnell leaves the firm, fearing he had become the blue-chip lawyer he had long resented and he names Eugene as senior partner. Along with Ellenor, Eugene decides to make Jimmy a full partner and extends an offer to Lindsay, and her associate Claire Wyatt to return to the firm. This occurred at the end of seven, at the end of which most of the cast was fired for budgetary reasons as ABC agreed to renew the show only if the budget per episode was drastically cut. Season eight began with half the original cast missing
The Practice
–
The Practice
