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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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Akkara Paha
Akkara Paha (Sinhala, Five Acres of Land) is a 1969 Sri Lankan drama film Dr.
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Ammawarune
Ammawarune (Elegy for a Mother) (අම්මාවරුනේ) is a 2006 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama film directed by Dr.
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Ananda Weerakoon
Ananda Weerakoon (Sinhala:ආනන්ද වීරකෝන්) was one of the most handsome Sri Lankan film actors in the 1950s.
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Asian Tribune
The Asian Tribune is an online newspaper that provides news and editorial on the current affairs of Asia, with a special emphasis on South Asia but mostly concentrates its news on the current Civil conflict in Sri Lanka.
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Awaragira
Awaragira (අවරගිර) is a 1990 Sri Lankan film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by Dilman Jayaratne for Dil Films.
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Beddegama (film)
Beddegama Adaraneeya Kathawak (The Village in the Jungle) is a 1980 Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka.
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British Ceylon
Ceylon (Sinhala: බ්රිතාන්ය ලංකාව, Brithānya Laṃkāva; Tamil: பிரித்தானிய இலங்கை, Birithaniya Ilangai) was a British Crown colony between 1815 and 1948.
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Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Cinémathèque Française
The Cinémathèque Française is a French film organization that holds one of the largest archives of film documents and film-related objects in the world.
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Cinema of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan cinema encompasses the films made in Sri Lanka.
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Colombo
Colombo (translit,; translit) is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.
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Daily News (Sri Lanka)
The Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka.
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Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (දෙහිවල-ගල්කිස්ස Dehiwala-Galkissa, தெஹிவளை-கல்கிசை), population 245,974 (2012) is the second largest Municipality in Sri Lanka, and covers an extent of 2109 hectares.
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Delovak Athara
Delovak Athara (Sinhala, Between Two Worlds) is a 1966 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Dr.
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Desa Nisa
Desa Nisa (English: A Certain Look) is a 1972 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries.
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Gamini Fonseka
Sembuge Gamini Shelton Fonseka (Sinhala:සෙම්බුගේ ගාමිනි ශෙල්ටන් ෆොන්සේකා) (born 21 March 1936, died 30 September 2004) was a Sri Lankan film actor, film director and politician.
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Gamperaliya (film)
Gamperaliya is a 1963 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Dr.
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Golu Hadawatha
Golu Hadawatha (Translation: The Silent Heart) was a popular 1968 Sinhalese language romance movie directed by Maestro Lester James Peiris.
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Henry Jayasena
Kala Keerthi Dr Henry Jayasena (Sinhala: හෙන්රි ජයසේන) (6 July 1931 – 11 November 2009) born in Bendiyamulla, Gampaha was a Sri Lankan film actor and dramatist.
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International Film Festival of India
The International Film Festival of India (IFFI), founded in 1952, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia.
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Iranganie Serasinghe
Kala Keerthi Iranganie Roxanna Serasinghe (née Meedeniya) (born 21 June 1927) is a Sri Lankan actress.
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Ivan Peries
Ivan Peries (31 July 1921 – 13 February 1988) was a founder member of the Colombo '43 Group of Sri Lankan artists, and one of its four leading painters, along with George Keyt, Justin Daraniyagala and Harold Peiris.
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Joe Abeywickrama
Deshabandu Gammana Patabendige Don John "Joe" Abeywickrama (Sinhala:ජෝ අබේවික්රම) (22 June 1927 – 21 September 2011), known as Joe Abeywickrama, was a Sri Lankan actor.
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Kaliyugaya (film)
Kaliyugaya is a 1981 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries; it was adapted from the novel Kaliyugaya by Martin Wickramasinghe, and follows the events of the film Gamperaliya.
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Kamal Addararachchi
Kamal Addararachchi - කමල් අද්දරආරච්චි (born Addararachchige Gunendra Kamal on 5 February 1962) is an award-winning Sri Lankan film and teledrama actor, singer and presenter.
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Kodascope
Kodascope is a name created by Eastman Kodak Company for the projector it placed on the market in 1923 as part of the first 16mm motion picture equipment.
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Leigh Lawson
Allan Leigh Lawson (born 21 July 1945) is a British film and stage actor, director and writer.
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Lucky Dias
Palandha Pathirage Lakshman Calistus Dias, popularly as Lucky Dias (born 5 February 1951), is an award-winning Sri Lankan cinema and teledrama actor and producer.
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Madol Duwa
Madol Duwa (Sinhala, Mangrove Island) is a 1976 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries.
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Malini Fonseka
Wanniarachchige Malani Senehelatha Fonseka, popularly as Malani Fonseka (Sinhala:මාලිනී ෆොන්සේකා) (born 30 April 1947 in Kelaniya) is an award-winning Sri Lankan film actress, also known as the "Queen of Sinhalese cinema".
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Martin Wickramasinghe
Lama Hewage Don Martin Wickramasinghe commonly Martin Wickramasinghe, MBE (මාර්ටින් වික්රමසිංහ) (29 May 1890 – 23 July 1976) was a Sri Lankan novelist.
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Movie projector
A movie projector is an opto-mechanical device for displaying motion picture film by projecting it onto a screen.
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Nidhanaya
Nidhanaya (The Treasure) is a 1972 Sinhalese language film Dr.
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Oliver Tobias
Oliver Tobias Freitag (born 6 August 1947), known professionally as Oliver Tobias, is a Swiss-born UK-based film, stage, and television actor and director.
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Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) is an Order of France, established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture, and its supplementary status to the Ordre national du Mérite was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963.
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Paboda Sandeepani
Rashmi Paboda Sandeepani, (born in January 16, 1982) is an award winning Sri Lankan actress in Sri Lankan cinema, theatre and television.
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Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Punya Heendeniya
Punya Heendeniya (De Silva Nanayakkara) is a Sri Lankan cinema actress who currently resides in England.
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Radio Ceylon
Radio Ceylon (ලංකා ගුවන් විදුලි සේවය Lanka Guwan Viduli Sevaya, இலங்கை வானொலி, ilankai vanoli) is the oldest radio station in Asia.
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Ramani Bartholomeusz
Ramani Elizabeth Bartholomeusz (රමනී බර්තෝලමියුස්; 1 September 1966 – 30 June 1987) was a Sri Lankan model and actress.
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Ran Salu
Ran Salu (In Sinhala: The Yellow Robe) is a 1967 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries.
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Ranjan Ramanayake
Sadda Vidda Rajapakse Palanga Pathira Ambakumarage Ranjan Leo Sylvester Alphonsu (born 11 March 1963), best known by his mononym Ranjan Ramanayake, is a Sri Lankan film actor, film director, singer and a writer who appears in Sinhala language films and also a politician.
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Ravindra Randeniya
Ravindra Randeniya (Born Boniface Perera) (born 5 June 1946) is a Sri Lankan actor and politician.
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Rekava
Rekava (Sinhalese language word means "Line of Destiny") is a 1956 film based on village life and their mythical beliefs in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon).
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Richard de Zoysa
Richard Manik de Zoysa (Sinhala:රිචඩ් ද සොයිසා) (18 March 1958– 18 February 1990) was a well-known Sri Lankan journalist, author, human rights activist and actor, who was abducted and murdered on 18 February 1990.
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Roshan Pilapitiya
Roshan Pilapitiya (රොශාන් පිලපිටිය), is an award-winning Sri Lankan actor and singer.
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Sanath Gunathilake
Somsiri Sanath Julien Gunatilake (Sinhala:සෝමසිරි සනත් ජුලියන් ගුණතිලක) is a Sri Lankan film actor and film director (born 27 October 1955).
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Sandesaya
Sandesaya (Sinhalese language word meaning The Message) is a 1960 film.
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Sarasaviya Awards
Sarasaviya Awards (Sinhala:සරසවිය සම්මාන) is an award bestowed to distinguished individuals involved with the Sinhala cinema, each year by the Sarasaviya weekly newspaper in collaboration with the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House), Sri Lanka in recognition of the contributions made by them to the Sri Lankan film industry.
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Sarasaviya Best Director Award
The Sarasaviya Best Director Award is presented annually by the weekly Sarasaviya newspaper in collaboration with the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited as part of the Sarasaviya Awards Festival.
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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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Short film
A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.
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Sinhalese language
Sinhalese, known natively as Sinhala (සිංහල; siṁhala), is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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Sri Lankabhimanya
Sri Lankabhimanya (translit; translit; The Pride of Sri Lanka) is the highest national honour of Sri Lanka awarded by the President of Sri Lanka on behalf of the Government.
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Sriyani Amarasena
Kalasuri Sriyani Amarasena is a Sri Lankan actress and producer.
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St Peter's College, Colombo
St.
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Sumitra Peries
Sumitra Peries (born 24 March 1934) is the first Sri Lankan female filmmaker and is known by all as the "Poetess of Sinhala Cinema".
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The God King
The God King is a 1974 British-Sri Lankan historical film directed by Lester James Peries.
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The Island (Sri Lanka)
The Island is a daily English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka.
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The Times of Ceylon
The Times of Ceylon was an English language daily newspaper in Sri Lanka published by Times of Ceylon Limited (TOCL).
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Thesara Jayawardane
Dr.
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Tissa Abeysekara
Tissa Ananda Abeysekara (7 May 1939 – 18 April 2009) was a Sri Lankan filmmaker, actor, writer, director, and screen playwright.
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Titus Thotawatte
Titus Thotawatte (Sinhala:ටයිටස් තොටවත්ත) was a Sri Lankan director and editor who made several popular Sri Lankan action movies in the 1960s and 1970s and later developed Sinhala children's programmes.
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Tony Ranasinghe
Ranasinghe Hettiarachchilage Ignatius Anthony Silva, or popularly as Deshabandu Tony Ranasinghe (31 July 1937 – 16 June 2015) was a veteran actor in cinema, teledrama and stage drama in Sri Lanka.
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Vasanthi Chathurani
Vasanthi Chathurani (Sinhala:වසන්ති චතුරානි) is an award-winning Sri Lankan film and teledrama actress.
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Veera Puran Appu (film)
Veera Puran Appu (italic) is a 1978 Sri Lankan Sinhala epic biographical film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by former cabinet minister Tyronne Fernando for Shalanka Films.
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Vijaya Kumaratunga
Kovilage Anton Vijaya Kumaranatunga (කොවිලගේ ඇන්ටන් විජය කුමාරණතුංග; விஜய_குமாரணதுங்க; 9 October 1945 – 16 February 1988), also known as Vijaya Kumaranatunga, was a Sri Lankan film actor and politician, married to former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaranatunga from 1978 until his assassination in 1988.
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Wekande Walauwa
Wekande Walauwa (Mansion by the Lake) (වෑකන්ද වලව්ව) is a 2002 award winning Sinhalese language drama film directed by Lester James Peries and co-produced by Asoka Perera and Chandran Rutnam.
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White Flowers for the Dead
Ahasin Polowata (Sinhala, White Flowers for the Dead) is a 1978 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Dr Lester James Peries and written by Dr Tissa Abeysekara.
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Yuganthaya (film)
Yuganthaya is a 1983 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries; it was adapted from the novel Yuganthaya by Martin Wickramasinghe, and deals with the beginning of labor unions in Sri Lanka.
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14th Moscow International Film Festival
The 14th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 28 June to 12 July 1985.
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1957 Cannes Film Festival
The 10th Cannes Film Festival was held from 2 to 17 May 1957.
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3rd Moscow International Film Festival
The 3rd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 21 July 1963.
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8 mm film
8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the film strip is eight millimeters wide.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_James_Peries
