Tag: Peter Yates

• How Carol Reed Stole an Oscar from Stanley Kubrick – 1968 Academy Award for Best Director

  

  Explore the reasons behind Carol Reed’s surprising Best Director win for Oliver! at the 1968 Academy Awards, despite facing tough competition from groundbreaking films.

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  March 15, 2024

  Rewind: Academy Award for Best Director

  1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Academy Awards, Anthony Harvey, Carol Reed, film, Franco Zeffirelli, Gene Saks, Gillo Pontecorvo, Ingmar Bergman, Jiri Menzel, Lindsay Anderson, movies, Norman Jewison, Oliver!, oscars, Paul Newman, Peter Yates, Richard Lester, Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, William Wyler

• Ranking The Godfather’s Possible Directors

  

  Francis Ford Coppola wasn’t the first pick for director of The Godfather. Paramount had some other people in mind: inc Sergio Leone & Peter Bogdanovich. Let’s rank them to see who’d be the best of the rest.

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  August 18, 2023

  Filmmaker Lists, Lists

  Arthur Penn, Costa-Gavras, Francis Ford Coppola, Otto Preminger, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Yates, Richard Brooks