Homework Help: Film class

[PoPPeR]

Been searching my textbook for hours for the answer to this stupid question (basically needle in the haystack). Hoping someone on AT knows the answer by chance to either question

1) What was the first movie to sweep the Oscars?
2) What was the first film to use a motion control camera?

thx 🙂

 

[her209]

1) Titanic?
2) Define motion control.

 

[yukichigai]

Arrghh... hrm... Citizen Kane is ringing a bell, though I'm not sure if it was an oscars sweep or something else.

It's one of those "greats" though. Some iconic old movie.

Oh yeah, I know Lord of the Rings did it, but there has to have been one before that.

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: her209
1) Titanic?
2) Define motion control.

#1 is wayyyyy too recent. This link implies it was Ben-Hur.

Edit: This link says Star Wars was the first to use motion control

 

[CanOWorms]

G.I. Joe the Movie would be my bet

 

[neovan]

Originally posted by: PoPPeR
Been searching my textbook for hours for the answer to this stupid question (basically needle in the haystack). Hoping someone on AT knows the answer by chance to either question

1) What was the first movie to sweep the Oscars?
2) What was the first film to use a motion control camera?

thx 🙂

1) ben-hur?
2) ?

 

[Anubis]

1) lawrence of arabia
2) ??? possibily Citizen Kane

 

[her209]

Only three films have even won all top five Oscars - Best Film, Actor, Actress, Director and Writing. They are: It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Silence of the Lambs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/showbiz/the_oscars/newsid_1881000/1881956.stm

 

[neovan]

Originally posted by: neovan

Originally posted by: PoPPeR
Been searching my textbook for hours for the answer to this stupid question (basically needle in the haystack). Hoping someone on AT knows the answer by chance to either question

1) What was the first movie to sweep the Oscars?
2) What was the first film to use a motion control camera?

thx 🙂

1) ben-hur?
2) star wars?

 

[pulse8]

1) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051658/ -- There were only 3 movies to do a clean sweep at the Oscars. (Meaning they won every award they were nominated for. This was the first.)

2) I'm still looking up.

 

[Anubis]

something is amiss here check it out

"One of those annoying musicals that found a commercial audience and was a big enough commercial success to dominate come Oscar time. "Gigi" won nine Oscars after being nominated for nine, a rare feat in the Academy's history."
and
"The Return of the King is the only film ever to have won every single Oscar it was nominated for."

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: Anubis
something is amiss here check it out

"One of those annoying musicals that found a commercial audience and was a big enough commercial success to dominate come Oscar time. "Gigi" won nine Oscars after being nominated for nine, a rare feat in the Academy's history."
and
"The Return of the King is the only film ever to have won every single Oscar it was nominated for."

This is because most reporters assigned to the Oscars are retards.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: KingNothing

Originally posted by: her209
1) Titanic?
2) Define motion control.

#1 is wayyyyy too recent. This link implies it was Ben-Hur.

Edit: This link says Star Wars was the first to use motion control

No it doesn't. Keep reading.

Ben-hur won 11 oscars, but it was nominated for more. The same thing with Titanic.

"Return of the King" matched the record 11 Oscar wins of "Titanic" and "Ben-Hur" and became only the third movie to sweep every category in which it was nominated, following "Gigi" and "The Last Emperor," which both went nine-for-nine.

Gigi was the first as it was made in 1958.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: Anubis
something is amiss here check it out

"One of those annoying musicals that found a commercial audience and was a big enough commercial success to dominate come Oscar time. "Gigi" won nine Oscars after being nominated for nine, a rare feat in the Academy's history."
and
"The Return of the King is the only film ever to have won every single Oscar it was nominated for."

This is because most reporters assigned to the Oscars are retards.

apperently

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: Anubis
something is amiss here check it out

"One of those annoying musicals that found a commercial audience and was a big enough commercial success to dominate come Oscar time. "Gigi" won nine Oscars after being nominated for nine, a rare feat in the Academy's history."
and
"The Return of the King is the only film ever to have won every single Oscar it was nominated for."

This is because most reporters assigned to the Oscars are retards.

apperently

I bet they know how to spell apparently, though. 🙂

 

[esun]

Q77: Starring reporter Clark Gable and runaway heiress Claudette Colbert in a cross country bus trip, what was the first movie to "sweep" the Oscars (winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Actor)?
A77: "It Happened One Night."

From a trivia page. I'm working on the second question.

And the second answer:

"Cardozo also pointed out that it was in Samson and Delilah that the first motion control camera system was used in the climactic destruction of the temple scene."

from http://www.cecilbdemille.com/legacy.html

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: esun
Q77: Starring reporter Clark Gable and runaway heiress Claudette Colbert in a cross country bus trip, what was the first movie to "sweep" the Oscars (winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Actor)?
A77: "It Happened One Night."

From a trivia page. I'm working on the second question.

That isn't sweeping the oscars. It did not win EVERY award it was nominated for.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: yukichigai

Originally posted by: Anubis
something is amiss here check it out

"One of those annoying musicals that found a commercial audience and was a big enough commercial success to dominate come Oscar time. "Gigi" won nine Oscars after being nominated for nine, a rare feat in the Academy's history."
and
"The Return of the King is the only film ever to have won every single Oscar it was nominated for."

This is because most reporters assigned to the Oscars are retards.

apperently

I bet they know how to spell apparently, though. 🙂

i bet they care as well

 

[esun]

It depends on what "sweeping" is. That's one interpretation.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: esun
It depends on what "sweeping" is. That's one interpretation.

Isn't sweeping when you win everything and don't lose?

In the playoffs of a professional sport, there is no sweeping unless one team beats the other in every game they play.

 

[esun]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: esun
It depends on what "sweeping" is. That's one interpretation.

Isn't sweeping when you win everything and don't lose?

In the playoffs of a professional sport, there is no sweeping unless one team beats the other in every game they play.

I don't think any movie has one every Oscar. If you consider that it's winning all that you've been nominated for, then that's still not "sweeping" the Oscars IMO. Ah well, the OP can choose for himself.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: esun

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: esun
It depends on what "sweeping" is. That's one interpretation.

Isn't sweeping when you win everything and don't lose?

In the playoffs of a professional sport, there is no sweeping unless one team beats the other in every game they play.

I don't think any movie has one every Oscar. If you consider that it's winning all that you've been nominated for, then that's still not "sweeping" the Oscars IMO. Ah well, the OP can choose for himself.

You can't win Oscars you aren't nominated for. 😕

 

[esun]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: esun

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: esun
It depends on what "sweeping" is. That's one interpretation.

Isn't sweeping when you win everything and don't lose?

In the playoffs of a professional sport, there is no sweeping unless one team beats the other in every game they play.

I don't think any movie has one every Oscar. If you consider that it's winning all that you've been nominated for, then that's still not "sweeping" the Oscars IMO. Ah well, the OP can choose for himself.

You can't win Oscars you aren't nominated for. 😕

Obviously, but then you haven't won them at all, have you? You lost by default, I suppose you could say. I think every movie is in consideration for every Oscar until the nomination process begins. That's how I view it anyway. Any movie has the ability to win an Oscar initially, then nominating and voting whittles down the field to the nominees and winnners.

 

[silverpig]

It seems fairly clear from the links in this thread that a sweep is defined as a movie winning the oscars for best picture, actor, actress, writing, and director.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: esun

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: esun
It depends on what "sweeping" is. That's one interpretation.

Isn't sweeping when you win everything and don't lose?

In the playoffs of a professional sport, there is no sweeping unless one team beats the other in every game they play.

I don't think any movie has one every Oscar. If you consider that it's winning all that you've been nominated for, then that's still not "sweeping" the Oscars IMO. Ah well, the OP can choose for himself.

You can't win Oscars you aren't nominated for. 😕

So I've swept the oscars then too... Nominated: 0, Won: 0. Count. Yep, that's all of them.

🙂