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The lives of a widow and her housekeeper are united first in mutual need, then success and ultimately, in heartache in this Academy Award-nominated Best Pict...
The 6th Academy Awards | 1934. Fiesta Room of the Ambassador Hotel. Friday, March 16, 1934. Honoring movies released from August 1, 1932 - December 31, 1933.
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Imitation of Life is a 1934 American drama film directed by John M. Stahl. The screenplay by William Hurlbut, based on Fannie Hurst 's 1933 novel of the same name, was augmented by eight additional uncredited writers, including Preston Sturges and Finley Peter Dunne. [1] The film stars Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers, Warren William, Rochelle ...
The film won two Academy Awards, one for Best Writing (Adaptation), awarded to Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis and W. P. Lipscomb, and another for Best Screenplay, awarded to Shaw. When Shaw learned of his Academy Award, he was quoted as saying: "Of course it was a good picture. It was the only picture, but it wouldn't have been if Hollywood had ...
It was Columbia's first Best Picture winner and the first major Academy Awards sweep of the "Top Five" awards categories (with five nominations and five wins - Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Adaptation by screenwriter Robert Riskin), un-equaled and un-duplicated until One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). [In each case ...
