Sandakan No. 8 1974

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Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (Winners & Nominees)

Source: https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/best-japanese-film-every-year

"The best Japanese film of every year – from 1925 to now"
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From Chapter 3 of A Dream is a Genius, 1999. Akira Kurosawa discusses his top 100 films with his daughter, Kazuo. Kurosawa limits his choices to one film per director.

All nominees including the winners of the Honorary Award.

Note: Un lugar en el mundo (1992) was declared ineligible and removed from the final ballot.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees_for_Best_Foreign_Language_Film#Winners_and_nominees

List of Nominees and Winners.

• Actor

Walter Matthau in "The Sunshine Boys"
Jack Nicholson in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" - WINNER
Al Pacino in "Dog Day Afternoon"
Maximilian Schell in "The Man in the Glass Booth"
James Whitmore in "Give 'em Hell, Harry!"

• Actor in a Supporting Role

George Burns in "The Sunshine Boys" - WINNER
Brad Dourif in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Burgess Meredith in "The Day of the Locust"
Chris Sarandon in "Dog Day Afternoon"
Jack Warden in "Shampoo"

• Actress

Isabelle Adjani in "The Story of Adele H."
Ann-Margret in "Tommy"
Louise Fletcher in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" - WINNER
Glenda Jackson in "Hedda"
Carol Kane in "Hester Street"

• Actress in a Supporting Role

Ronee Blakley in "Nashville"
Lee Grant in "Shampoo" - WINNER
Sylvia Miles in "Farewell, My Lovely"
Lily Tomlin in "Nashville"
Brenda Vaccaro in "Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough"

• Art Direction

"Barry Lyndon" Art Direction: Ken Adam, Roy Walker; Set Decoration: Vernon Dixon - WINNER
"The Hindenburg" Art Direction: Edward Carfagno; Set Decoration: Frank McKelvy
"The Man Who Would Be King" Art Direction: Alexander Trauner, Tony Inglis; Set Decoration: Peter James
"Shampoo" Art Direction: Richard Sylbert, W. Stewart Campbell; Set Decoration: George Gaines
"The Sunshine Boys" Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Marvin March

• Cinematography

"Barry Lyndon" John Alcott - WINNER
"The Day of the Locust" Conrad Hall
"Funny Lady" James Wong Howe
"The Hindenburg" Robert Surtees
"One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" Haskell Wexler, Bill Butler

• Costume Design

"Barry Lyndon" Ulla-Britt Soderlund, Milena Canonero - WINNER
"The Four Musketeers" Yvonne Blake, Ron Talsky
"Funny Lady" Ray Aghayan, Bob Mackie
"The Magic Flute" Henny Noremark, Karin Erskine
"The Man Who Would Be King" Edith Head

• Directing

"Amarcord" Federico Fellini
"Barry Lyndon" Stanley Kubrick
"Dog Day Afternoon" Sidney Lumet
"Nashville" Robert Altman
"One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" Milos Forman - WINNER

• Documentary (Feature)

"The California Reich" Walter F. Parkes and Keith F. Critchlow, Producers
"Fighting for Our Lives" Glen Pearcy, Producer
"The Incredible Machine" Irwin Rosten, Producer
"The Man Who Skied down Everest" F. R. Crawley, James Hager and Dale Hartleben, Producers - WINNER
"The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir" Shirley MacLaine, Producer

• Documentary (Short Subject)

"Arthur and Lillie" Jon Else, Steven Kovacs and Kristine Samuelson, Producers
"The End of the Game" Claire Wilbur and Robin Lehman, Producers - WINNER
"Millions of Years Ahead of Man" Manfred Baier, Producer
"Probes in Space" George V. Casey, Producer
"Whistling Smith" Barrie Howells and Michael Scott, Producers

• Film Editing

"Dog Day Afternoon" Dede Allen
"Jaws" Verna Fields - WINNER
"The Man Who Would Be King" Russell Lloyd
"One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" Richard Chew, Lynzee Klingman, Sheldon Kahn
"Three Days of the Condor" Fredric Steinkamp, Don Guidice

• Foreign Language Film

"Dersu Uzala" Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - WINNER
"Land of Promise" Poland
"Letters from Marusia" Mexico
"Sandakan No. 8" Japan
"Scent of a Woman" Italy

• Music (Original Score)

"Birds Do It, Bees Do It" Gerald Fried
"Bite the Bullet" Alex North
"Jaws" John Williams - WINNER
"One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" Jack Nitzsche
"The Wind and the Lion" Jerry Goldsmith

• Music (Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation -or- Scoring: Adaptation)

"Barry Lyndon" Adaptation Score by Leonard Rosenman - WINNER
"Funny Lady" Adaptation Score by Peter Matz
"Tommy" Adaptation Score by Peter Townshend

• Music (Original Song)

"How Lucky Can You Get" from "Funny Lady" Music and Lyrics by Fred Ebb and John Kander
"I'm Easy" from "Nashville" Music and Lyrics by Keith Carradine - WINNER
"Now That We're in Love" from "Whiffs" Music by George Barrie; Lyrics by Sammy Cahn
"Richard's Window" from "The Other Side of the Mountain" Music by Charles Fox; Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
"Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" from "Mahogany" Music by Michael Masser; Lyrics by Gerry Goffin

• Best Picture

"Barry Lyndon" Stanley Kubrick, Producer
"Dog Day Afternoon" Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand, Producers
"Jaws" Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, Producers
"Nashville" Robert Altman, Producer
"One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" Saul Zaentz and Michael Douglas, Producers - WINNER

• Short Film (Animated)

"Great" Bob Godfrey, Producer - WINNER
"Kick Me" Robert Swarthe, Producer
"Monsieur Pointu" René Jodoin, Bernard Longpré and André Leduc, Producers
"Sisyphus" Marcell Jankovics, Producer

• Short Film (Live Action)

"Angel and Big Joe" Bert Salzman, Producer - WINNER
"Conquest of Light" Louis Marcus, Producer
"Dawn Flight" Lawrence M. Lansburgh and Brian Lansburgh, Producers
"A Day in the Life of Bonnie Consolo" Barry Spinello, Producer
"Doubletalk" Alan Beattie, Producer

• Sound

"Bite the Bullet" Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz, Richard Tyler, Al Overton, Jr.
"Funny Lady" Richard Portman, Don MacDougall, Curly Thirlwell, Jack Solomon
"The Hindenburg" Leonard Peterson, John A. Bolger, Jr., John Mack, Don K. Sharpless
"Jaws" Robert L. Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery, John Carter - WINNER
"The Wind and the Lion" Harry W. Tetrick, Aaron Rochin, William McCaughey, Roy Charman

• Writing (Original Screenplay)

"Amarcord" Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
"And Now My Love" Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
"Dog Day Afternoon" Frank Pierson - WINNER
"Lies My Father Told Me" Ted Allan
"Shampoo" Robert Towne, Warren Beatty

• Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material)

"Barry Lyndon" Stanley Kubrick
"The Man Who Would Be King" John Huston, Gladys Hill
"One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman - WINNER
"Scent of a Woman" Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi
"The Sunshine Boys" Neil Simon

Thanks to all who’ve made this a very popular list, in spite of glitches causing dozens of fans to suddenly disappear :(

A big welcome to the land of cinematic wonders!

I’ve aimed for a rounded overview to include not only personal favourites but popular hits and international award winners, animé landmarks, avant-
garde films, the New Wave, erotic “pink films” and the great classics that are still the glory of world cinema.

Much of silent cinema before the 1930s has been lost, its Benshi narrators displaced but good finally to have the landmark film Souls on the Road on Mubi. In the 20s directors were able to learn their trade through prolific practice, aware of and encorporating developments in both the Soviet Union and the West… and then, what a wealth of wonders! Older masters: the unequalled aesthetic refinement of Mizoguchi, the charm of Shimizu, the quiet observational wisdom of Ozu, the tragically curtailed promise of Yamanaka, the balanced restraint of Naruse, the muscular humanism of Kurosawa… Then, a new generation from the late 50s, in full swing in the sexually freer 60s: the idealism of Kobayashi, the political bite of Oshima, the earthy subversion of Imamura, the cool of Suzuki and Masumura. the avant-garde Terayama.. So many to explore: Yoshida, Ichikawa Kon, Teshigahara, Shinoda, Wakamatsu, Kumai, the documentaries of Ogawa and Hara, the stop motion master Kawamoto, the blood soaked Fukasaku.. the rise of animé, with the international success of Studio Ghibli and Miyazaki’s beautiful flights of fancy, the spiky Tsukamoto, the popular appeal of Kitano, the prolific shocker Miike.. up to the present with Koreeda, Naomi Kawase, Sono, Kurosawa Kiyoshi… oh and i almost went without mentioning Samurai and Godzilla.

Source: http://mubi.com/lists/kenjis-japanese-canon

Missing on TMDB as of now:
ID: tt0242845, Title: Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress, Year: -

The 100 "Top Films" Kurosawa listed in the book "A Dream is a Genius".

Akira Kurosawa discusses his top 100 films with his daughter, Kazuo. Kurosawa limits his choices to one film per director.

Source: http://ww.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7192

PART 1 (1929-1946)
PART 2 (1947-1964)
PART 4 (1985-2002)
PART 5 (2003-2019)
PART 6 (2020-2024)

1-13 — 1965 Winners
14-56 — 1965 Nominees

57-71 — 1966 Winners
72-108 — 1966 Nominees

109-120 — 1967 Winners
121-160 — 1967 Nominees

161-174 — 1968 Winners
175-207 — 1968 Nominees

208-224 — 1969 Winners
225-258 — 1969 Nominees

259-272 — 1970 Winners
273-303 — 1970 Nominees

304-318 — 1971 Winners
319-351 — 1971 Nominees

352-364 — 1972 Winners
365-399 — 1972 Nominees

400-411 — 1973 Winners
412-446 — 1973 Nominees

447-459 — 1974 Winners
460-492 — 1974 Nominees

493-505 — 1975 Winners
506-541 — 1975 Nominees

542-553 — 1976 Winners
554-595 — 1976 Nominees

596-607 — 1977 Winners
608-645 — 1977 Nominees

646-657 — 1978 Winners
658-694 — 1978 Nominees

695-708 — 1979 Winners
709-742 — 1979 Nominees

743-755 — 1980 Winners
756-796 — 1980 Nominees

797-808 — 1981 Winners
809-844 — 1981 Nominees

845-855 — 1982 Winners
856-886 — 1982 Nominees

887-899 — 1983 Winners
900-933 — 1983 Nominees

934-944 — 1984 Winners
945-979 — 1984 Nominees

All the Oscar nominees in the Best International Feature Film category (1956 - to date, reverse chronological order display).
Winners list > https://trakt.tv/users/oropher_e/lists/academy-awards-best-international-feature-film-winners?sort=rank,desc

Japan's oldest film award. Awarded yearly by Kinema Junpo magazine since 1927.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinema_Junpo_Award_for_Best_Film_of_the_Year

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Movies released during the 1970s to watch

The 100 "Top Films" Kurosawa listed in the book "A Dream is a Genius".

Akira Kurosawa discusses his top 100 films with his daughter, Kazuo. Kurosawa limits his choices to one film per director; Check the link for his comments for each pick http://ww.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7192