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Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Film Archive
The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of motion picture history.
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Aparajito
Aparajito (অপরাজিত Ôporajito; The Unvanquished) is a 1956 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray (1921–1992), and is the second part of The Apu Trilogy.
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BAFTA Award for Best Film
The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.
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Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.
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Bengali novels
Bengali novels occupy a major part of Bengali literature.
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Bengali theatre
Bengali theatre primarily refers to theatre performed in the Bengali language.
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Bengalis
Bengalis (বাঙালি), also rendered as the Bengali people, Bangalis and Bangalees, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group and nation native to the region of Bengal in the Indian subcontinent, which is presently divided between most of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Jharkhand.
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BFI London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival held in the United Kingdom, running in the second half of October with cooperation from the British Film Institute.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (12 September 1894 – 1 November 1950) was an Indian Bengali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bengali literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel Pather Panchali (The Song of the Road), which was later adapted (along with Aparajito, the sequel) into The Apu Trilogy of films directed by Satyajit Ray. The 1951 Rabindra Puraskar, the most prestigious literary award in West Bengal, was posthumously awarded to Bibhutibhushan for his novel, Ichhamati.
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British Academy Film Awards
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.
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British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.
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Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts (Conseil des Arts du Canada), commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts.
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Chhabi Biswas
Chhabi Biswas (ছবি বিশ্বাস Chabi Biśbās) (12 July 1900 – 11 June 1962) was a Bengali character actor, primarily known for his performances in Tapan Sinha's Kabuliwala and Satyajit Ray's films Jalshaghar (The Music Room, 1958), Devi (The Goddess, 1960) and Kanchenjungha (1962).
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Cinema of Asia
Asian cinema refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia, and is also sometimes known as Eastern cinema.
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Cinema of India
The Cinema of India consists of films produced in the nation of India.
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Cinema of West Bengal
The cinema of West Bengal (ṭôliuḍ), also known as Tollywood refers to the Indian Bengali language film industry based in the Tollygunge region of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Cinemaya
Cinemaya is an influential film magazine established in 1988 devoted exclusively to coverage of Asian film.
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Directorate of Film Festivals
The Directorate of Film Festivals in India is an organisation that initiates and presents the International Film Festival of India, the National Film Awards and the Indian Panorama.
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Drama (film and television)
In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.
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Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is an annual fortnight of cinema screenings and related events taking place each June.
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Filmsite.org
Filmsite.org is a film-review website established in 1996 by film critic Tim Dirks, and owned since 2008 by AMC Networks.
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GreenCine
GreenCine was an online DVD rental service similar to Netflix.
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Gregory Nava
Gregory James Nava (born April 10, 1949) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Jalsaghar
Jalsaghar (জলসাঘর Jalsāghar, "The Music Room") is a 1958 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray based on a popular short story by Bengali writer Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay and starring Chhabi Biswas.
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Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic.
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Khulna
Khulna (খুলনা) is the third-largest city of Bangladesh.
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List of films considered the best
This is a list of films considered "the best ever", so voted in a notable national or international survey of either critics or the public.
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List of Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
India has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1957, a year after the incorporation of the category.
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List of submissions to the 32nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
The following 13 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 32nd Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Man in the Dark (novel)
Man in the Dark is a novel by Paul Auster published in August 2008.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.
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Maternal mortality in fiction
Maternal death in fiction is a common theme encountered in literature, movies, and other media.
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Metro Silicon Valley
Metro is a free weekly newspaper published by the San Jose, California, based Metro Newspapers.
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My Family (film)
My Family is a 1995 independent American drama film directed by Gregory Nava, written by Nava and Anna Thomas, and starring Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, and Esai Morales.
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National Board of Review
The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures is an organization dedicated to discuss and select what their members regard as the best film works of each year.
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National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the annual awards given (since 1934) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.
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National Board of Review Awards 1960
32nd National Board of Review Awards December 22, 1960 The 32nd National Board of Review Awards were announced on December 22, 1960.
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National Film Award for Best Feature Film
The National Award for Best Feature Film is one of the categories in the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India.
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National Film Awards
The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremonies in India.
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New Hollywood
New Hollywood, sometimes referred to as the "American New Wave," refers to a movement in American film history from the mid-to-late 1960s to the early 1980s when a new generation of young filmmakers came to prominence in the United States.
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Parallel cinema
Parallel cinema is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema, represented especially by popular Hindi cinema, known today as Bollywood.
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Parash Pathar
Parash Pathar (পরশ পাথর Porosh Pathor; English: The Philosopher's Stone; French: La Pierre Philosophale) is a 1958 Bengali language Indian fantasy comedy film.
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Paul Auster
Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American writer and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning.
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Philip Kaufman
Philip Kaufman (born October 23, 1936) is an American film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a career spanning more than five decades.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Ṭhākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শঙ্কর) (7 April 192011 December 2012), born Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury, his name often preceded by the title Pandit ('Master'), was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music.
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Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic artist, music composer and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.
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Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore (also known as Begum Ayesha Sultana; born 8 December 1944) is an Indian film actress known for her works in Hindi cinema as well as Bengali cinema.
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Sight & Sound
Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).
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Sisir Bhaduri
Shishir Kumar Bhaduri or Sisir Kumar Bhaduri (2 October 1889 – 30 June 1959) was a stage actor and theatre founder.
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Soumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay O.L.H. (Shoumitro Chôttopaddhae; born 19 January 1935) is an Indian Bengali film and stage actor and poet.
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Subrata Mitra
Subrata Mitra (12 October 1930 – 7 December 2001) was an Indian cinematographer.
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Sutherland Trophy
The Sutherland Trophy was created in 1958 by the British Film Institute as an annual award for "the maker of the most original and imaginative film introduced at the National Film Theatre during the year".
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Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, and starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks and Leonard Harris.
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The Apu Trilogy
The Apu Trilogy comprises three Bengali films directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959).
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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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 Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Time's All-Time 100 Movies
"All-Time" 100 Movies is a compilation by ''TIME'' magazine featuring and celebrating 100 of "the greatest" films released between March 3, 1923 (when the first issue of TIME was published) and early 2005 (when the list was compiled).
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Writer's block
Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work, or experiences a creative slowdown.
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15th British Academy Film Awards
The 15th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1962, honoured the best films of 1961.
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32nd Academy Awards
The 32nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was held on April 4, 1960 and took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre to honor the best films of 1959.
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7th National Film Awards
The 7th National Film Awards, then known as State Awards for Films, presented by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1959.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_of_Apu
