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Champion (1949 film)

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Champion is a 1949 American film noir drama sport film based on a short story by Ring Lardner. [1]

49 relations: Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, American Film Institute, Arthur Kennedy, Body and Soul (1947 film), Bosley Crowther, Boxing, Boxing ring, California, Carl Foreman, Chicago, Cinematography, Diamonds (1999 film), Dimitri Tiomkin, Directors Guild of America, Esther Howard, Eulogy, Film noir, Franz Planer, Golden Globe Award, Harry Shannon (actor), Harry W. Gerstad, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Kirk Douglas, Lola Albright, Luis van Rooten, Marilyn Maxwell, Mark Robson, NBC, Paul Stewart (actor), Ralph Sanford, Ring Lardner, Rotten Tomatoes, Ruth Roman, Screen Directors Playhouse, Shotgun wedding, Stanley Kramer, Sunday Mail (Adelaide), The New York Times, The Set-Up (1949 film), United Artists, Variety (magazine), Writers Guild of America.

Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (often referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes

Part of The American Film Institute (AFI 100 Years... series), AFI's 100 Years...

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 most exciting, action-packed, suspenseful or frightening movies in American cinema.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Arthur Kennedy

John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914January 5, 1990) was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the original casts of Arthur Miller plays on Broadway.

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Body and Soul (1947 film)

Body and Soul is a 1947 American film noir directed by Robert Rossen, and features John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere and William Conrad.

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Bosley Crowther

Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist and author who was film critic for The New York Times for 27 years.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

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Boxing ring

A boxing ring is the space in which a boxing match occurs.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carl Foreman

Carl Foreman, CBE (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai and High Noon, among others.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Cinematography

Cinematography (also called Direction of Photography) is the science or art of motion-picture photography by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as film stock.

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Diamonds (1999 film)

Diamonds is a 1999 American comedy film directed by John Mallory Asher and written by Allan Aaron Katz.

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Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor.

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Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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Esther Howard

Esther Howard (4 April 1892 – 8 March 1965) was a stage and film character actress who played a wide range of supporting roles, from man-hungry spinsters to amoral criminals, appearing in 108 films in her 23-year career.

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Eulogy

A eulogy (from εὐλογία, eulogia, Classical Greek, eu for "well" or "true", logia for "words" or "text", together for "praise") is a speech or writing in praise of a person(s) or thing(s), especially one who recently died or retired or as a term of endearment.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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Franz Planer

Franz F. Planer, A.S.C. (March 29, 1894 – January 10, 1963) was a cinematographer born in Karlsbad, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic),.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Harry Shannon (actor)

Harry Shannon (June 13, 1890 – July 27, 1964) was an American character actor.

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Harry W. Gerstad

Harry W. Gerstad, born Harry Donald Gerstad (June 11, 1909 – July 17, 2002) was an American film editor who sometimes directed films.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch, December 9, 1916) is an American actor, producer, director, and author.

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Lola Albright

Lola Jean Albright (July 20, 1924 – March 23, 2017) was an American singer and actress.

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Luis van Rooten

Luis van Rooten, (November 29, 1906 – June 17, 1973) was a Mexican-born, American film actor. He was christened Luis d'Antin van Rooten. Van Rooten earned his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and worked as an architect before deciding to pursue film work in Hollywood during World War II. His facility with languages made van Rooten an in-demand military radio announcer during the war, and he conducted a variety of broadcasts in Italian, Spanish, and French. This led into film work, often in roles requiring an accent or skill with dialects.

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Marilyn Maxwell

Marvel Marilyn Maxwell (August 3, 1921 – March 20, 1972) was an American actress and entertainer.

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Mark Robson

Mark Robson (4 December 1913 – 20 June 1978) was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and editor.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Paul Stewart (actor)

Paul Stewart (born Paul Sternberg; March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor, director and producer who worked in theatre, radio, films and television.

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Ralph Sanford

Ralph Sanford (May 21, 1899 – June 20, 1963) was an American film actor.

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Ring Lardner

Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner (March 5, 1885p. xiv – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Ruth Roman

Ruth Roman (December 22, 1922September 9, 1999) was an American actress, principally appearing in dramas including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Strangers on a Train (1951).

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Screen Directors Playhouse

Screen Directors Playhouse (sometimes written as Screen Directors' Playhouse) is an American radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949.

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Shotgun wedding

A shotgun wedding is a wedding that is arranged to avoid embarrassment due to premarital sex possibly leading to an unintended pregnancy, rather than out of the desire of the participants.

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Stanley Kramer

Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous "message films".

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Sunday Mail (Adelaide)

The Sunday Mail (originally titled the Mail) is an Adelaide newspaper first published on 4 May 1912 by Clarence Moody.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Set-Up (1949 film)

The Set-Up is a 1949 American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan from The Hudson Review and Audrey Totter.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Writers Guild of America

The Writers Guild of America is the joint efforts of two different US labor unions representing TV and film writers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_(1949_film)

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