Art,the first thing I want you to understand is, what exactly is "Method" acting"?
Art Doss Training: Part I
"The Method" was first popularized by the Group Theatre in New York City in the 1930s, and subsequently advanced by Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in the 1940s and 50s. It was derived from Stanislavski's 'system', created by Constantin Stanislavski, who pioneered similar ideas in his quest for "theatrical truth.
"This was done through friendships with Russia's leading actors, collaborations with playwright Anton Chekhov, as well as his teachings, writings, and acting at the Moscow Art Theater (founded in 1897). Strasberg's students included many of America's most famous actors of the latter half of the 20th century, including Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Vic Morrow, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Marilyn Monroe, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, and many others.
In Stanislavski's 'system' the actor analyzes deeply the motivations and emotions of the character in order to personify him or her with psychological realism and emotional authenticity.
However, using the Method, an actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed.In Hindi/ Indian (Bollywood) film industry, Naseerudin Shah and Pankaj Kapur are enviable in their school of method acting. Naseer has given master pieces like Paar and Ardhsatya, whereas Pankaj created waves in Maqbool.
Mammootty, a Malayalam actor, is also a perfect example of methodical acting as exemplified in his films like 'Amaram' and 'Ponthen Mada'.Some consider method acting difficult to teach.This is partially because of a common misconception that there is a single "method."
"The Method" (versus "the method" with a lowercase m) usually refers to Lee Strasberg's teachings, but really no one method has been laid down. Stanislavski himself changed his System constantly and dramatically over the course of his career.This plurality and ambiguity can make it hard to teach a single method.
It is also partially because sometimes method acting is characterized by outsiders as lacking in any specific or technical approach to acting, while the abundance of training schools, syllabi, and years spent learning contradict this.In general, however, method acting combines a careful consideration of the psychological motives of the character, and some sort of personal identification with, and possibly the reproduction of the character's emotional state in a realistic way.
It usually forms an antithesis to clichéd, unrealistic, so-called "rubber stamp" or indicated acting.Mostly, however, the surmising done about the character and the elusive, capricious or sensitive nature of emotions combine to make method acting difficult to teach.
Depending on the exact version taught by the numerous directors and teachers who claim to propagate the fundamentals of this technique, the process can include various ideologies and practices such as "as if," "substitution," "emotional memory in acting," and "preparation."Sanford Meisner, another Group Theatre pioneer, championed a separate, though closely related school of acting, which came to be called the Meisner technique.
Meisner broke from Strasberg on the subject of "sense memory" or "emotional memory," one of the basic tenets of the American Method at the time.
Those trained by Strasberg often used personal experience on stage to identify with the emotional life of the character and portray it. Meisner found that too cerebral, and advocated fully immersing oneself in the moment of a character and gaining spontaneity through an understanding of the scene's circumstances, and through exercises he designed to help the actor gain emotional investment in the scene and then free him or her to react as the character.
Stella Adler, the coach whose fame was cemented by the success of her students Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and Robert De Niro, as well as the only teacher from the Group Theatre to have studied Acting Technique with Stanislavski himself, also broke with Strasberg and developed yet another form of acting.
Her technique is founded in the idea that one must not use memories from their own past to conjure up emotion, but rather using the Given Circumstances. Stella Adler's technique relies on the carrying through of tasks, wants, needs, and objectives. It also seeks to stimulate the actor's imagination with the use of as-if's. As she often preached, "We are what we do, not what we say.
Art Doss Training: PART II
Art, these are the 'scripts' upon which I would like you to throughly "immense" yourself first.
There are more to follow. Also please study and view the DVD list below.
Art Doss Training: Part I
"The Method" was first popularized by the Group Theatre in New York City in the 1930s, and subsequently advanced by Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in the 1940s and 50s. It was derived from Stanislavski's 'system', created by Constantin Stanislavski, who pioneered similar ideas in his quest for "theatrical truth.
"This was done through friendships with Russia's leading actors, collaborations with playwright Anton Chekhov, as well as his teachings, writings, and acting at the Moscow Art Theater (founded in 1897). Strasberg's students included many of America's most famous actors of the latter half of the 20th century, including Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Vic Morrow, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Marilyn Monroe, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, and many others.
In Stanislavski's 'system' the actor analyzes deeply the motivations and emotions of the character in order to personify him or her with psychological realism and emotional authenticity.
However, using the Method, an actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed.In Hindi/ Indian (Bollywood) film industry, Naseerudin Shah and Pankaj Kapur are enviable in their school of method acting. Naseer has given master pieces like Paar and Ardhsatya, whereas Pankaj created waves in Maqbool.
Mammootty, a Malayalam actor, is also a perfect example of methodical acting as exemplified in his films like 'Amaram' and 'Ponthen Mada'.Some consider method acting difficult to teach.This is partially because of a common misconception that there is a single "method."
"The Method" (versus "the method" with a lowercase m) usually refers to Lee Strasberg's teachings, but really no one method has been laid down. Stanislavski himself changed his System constantly and dramatically over the course of his career.This plurality and ambiguity can make it hard to teach a single method.
It is also partially because sometimes method acting is characterized by outsiders as lacking in any specific or technical approach to acting, while the abundance of training schools, syllabi, and years spent learning contradict this.In general, however, method acting combines a careful consideration of the psychological motives of the character, and some sort of personal identification with, and possibly the reproduction of the character's emotional state in a realistic way.
It usually forms an antithesis to clichéd, unrealistic, so-called "rubber stamp" or indicated acting.Mostly, however, the surmising done about the character and the elusive, capricious or sensitive nature of emotions combine to make method acting difficult to teach.
Depending on the exact version taught by the numerous directors and teachers who claim to propagate the fundamentals of this technique, the process can include various ideologies and practices such as "as if," "substitution," "emotional memory in acting," and "preparation."Sanford Meisner, another Group Theatre pioneer, championed a separate, though closely related school of acting, which came to be called the Meisner technique.
Meisner broke from Strasberg on the subject of "sense memory" or "emotional memory," one of the basic tenets of the American Method at the time.
Those trained by Strasberg often used personal experience on stage to identify with the emotional life of the character and portray it. Meisner found that too cerebral, and advocated fully immersing oneself in the moment of a character and gaining spontaneity through an understanding of the scene's circumstances, and through exercises he designed to help the actor gain emotional investment in the scene and then free him or her to react as the character.
Stella Adler, the coach whose fame was cemented by the success of her students Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and Robert De Niro, as well as the only teacher from the Group Theatre to have studied Acting Technique with Stanislavski himself, also broke with Strasberg and developed yet another form of acting.
Her technique is founded in the idea that one must not use memories from their own past to conjure up emotion, but rather using the Given Circumstances. Stella Adler's technique relies on the carrying through of tasks, wants, needs, and objectives. It also seeks to stimulate the actor's imagination with the use of as-if's. As she often preached, "We are what we do, not what we say.
Art Doss Training: PART II
Art, these are the 'scripts' upon which I would like you to throughly "immense" yourself first.
There are more to follow. Also please study and view the DVD list below.
"Training Day" Script: http://www.twiztv.com/movies/trainingday.htm
"Pulp Fiction" Script: http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/pulp.shtml
"Jackie Brown" Script: http://corky.net/scripts/jackiebrown.html
"Mean Streets" Script: http://sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=mean_streets
Art, one of my all-time top favorite films, and one of my top favorite directors, young Thomas Vinterberg .
"The Celebration". Read about it (CLICK LINK). Rent it. Englist sub-titles.
"The Celebration" was made with a small Sony camcorder, no lights, really no rehersals, and made for really 'no money'. The actors are all Incredible.The story is better than 90% of what Hollywood puts out.Incredible film.
http://www.answers.com/topic/the-celebration-film
Read about Thomas Vinterberg: http://www.answers.com/topic/thomas-vinterberg
"The Celebration"
The Celebration (original Danish title: Festen) (1998) is an acclaimed Danish movie, directed and written by Thomas Vinterberg, which centers around the resolving of deep family issues.Much respected family patriarch and businessman Helge (Henning Moritzen) is celebrating his 60th birthday at a magnificent old hotel. Gathered together are his loyal wife Elsa, his daughter Helene, sons Michael and Christian (Ulrich Thomsen), and other guests.After more than thirty years his son Christian breaks the spell of the loyalty to his father and receives in response from other guests and his family a dismay, disbelief, denial, insensitivity, re-victimization and hypocrisy.
His battle with their responses to the truth reflects his inner struggle with the same truth within himself that he has managed to avoid for so long.The film shows the long lasting grip of consequences of the childhood sexual abuse by parental figures and domestic Stockholm syndrome.The film is mostly known for being the first Dogme 95 film and thus its full title is Dogme 1 - The Celebration.
Being a dogme film the movie has to follow strict rules in the production. The whole film must be shot on location that only uses natural lighting and the music should also be played live instead of dubbing it over later.The camera has to be handheld so that it can follow the actors more naturally, which gives the whole experience a shaky feel.The Celebration's use of the dogme rules makes the film look like a home video. The overall effect is that it looks like a video that could have been taped at any 60th birthday, except for the story. This gives the film a very realistic feeling.
"21 Grams" 2003
Script: http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/t/21-grams-script-transcript.html
21 Grams is a 2003 drama written by Guillermo Arriaga and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo and Clea DuVall.Like Arriaga's and González Iñárritu's previous movie, Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams is a movie which interweaves several plotlines, this time around the consequences of a tragic automobile accident.Penn plays a critically ill academic mathematician, Watts plays a grief stricken mother, and Del Toro plays an ex-convict whose newly discovered Christianity is sorely tested in the aftermath of the accident.
The movie was shot in chronological order, but is edited in a non-linear arrangement where the lives of the characters are depicted before and after the accident.The three main characters each have 'past' 'present' and 'future' story threads, which are shown as non-linear fragments which punctuate elements of the overall story, all imminently coming toward each other and coalescing as the story progresses.Iñárritu may have been influenced by the silent film Intolerance (1916), though his approach is more complex. While some viewers can assemble the story and appreciate the director's motives, many others find the sequencing obstructive and confusing.
Positive and negative opinion of the style appears to be highly polarized.The movie was nominated in the 2003 Academy Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Benicio Del Toro) and Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Naomi Watts).The title of the movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall, who in the early 1900s sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death.MacDougall weighed dying patients in an attempt to prove that the soul was material and measurable.These experiments are widely considered to have had little if any scientific merit, and although MacDougall's results varied considerably from 21 grams, for some people this figure has become synonymous with the measure of a soul's mass. [1].
"Goodfellas" 1990
Script:http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/g/goodfellas-script-transcript.html
Goodfellas(also spelt GoodFellas) is a 1990 film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the true story of mob rat Henry Hill.The film stars Ray Liotta as Henry Hill, Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway, Joe Pesci, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the irascible Tommy DeVito (based on Tommy DeSimone), Lorraine Bracco as Hill's wife, Karen, and Paul Sorvino as Paulie Cicero.
"Casino" 1995
Script:http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/c/casino-script-transcript.html
"Pulp Fiction" 1994
"Pulp Fiction" Script: http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/pulp.shtml
"Jackie Brown" Script: http://corky.net/scripts/jackiebrown.html
"Mean Streets" Script: http://sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=mean_streets
Art, one of my all-time top favorite films, and one of my top favorite directors, young Thomas Vinterberg .
"The Celebration". Read about it (CLICK LINK). Rent it. Englist sub-titles.
"The Celebration" was made with a small Sony camcorder, no lights, really no rehersals, and made for really 'no money'. The actors are all Incredible.The story is better than 90% of what Hollywood puts out.Incredible film.
http://www.answers.com/topic/the-celebration-film
Read about Thomas Vinterberg: http://www.answers.com/topic/thomas-vinterberg
"The Celebration"
The Celebration (original Danish title: Festen) (1998) is an acclaimed Danish movie, directed and written by Thomas Vinterberg, which centers around the resolving of deep family issues.Much respected family patriarch and businessman Helge (Henning Moritzen) is celebrating his 60th birthday at a magnificent old hotel. Gathered together are his loyal wife Elsa, his daughter Helene, sons Michael and Christian (Ulrich Thomsen), and other guests.After more than thirty years his son Christian breaks the spell of the loyalty to his father and receives in response from other guests and his family a dismay, disbelief, denial, insensitivity, re-victimization and hypocrisy.
His battle with their responses to the truth reflects his inner struggle with the same truth within himself that he has managed to avoid for so long.The film shows the long lasting grip of consequences of the childhood sexual abuse by parental figures and domestic Stockholm syndrome.The film is mostly known for being the first Dogme 95 film and thus its full title is Dogme 1 - The Celebration.
Being a dogme film the movie has to follow strict rules in the production. The whole film must be shot on location that only uses natural lighting and the music should also be played live instead of dubbing it over later.The camera has to be handheld so that it can follow the actors more naturally, which gives the whole experience a shaky feel.The Celebration's use of the dogme rules makes the film look like a home video. The overall effect is that it looks like a video that could have been taped at any 60th birthday, except for the story. This gives the film a very realistic feeling.
"21 Grams" 2003
Script: http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/t/21-grams-script-transcript.html
21 Grams is a 2003 drama written by Guillermo Arriaga and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo and Clea DuVall.Like Arriaga's and González Iñárritu's previous movie, Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams is a movie which interweaves several plotlines, this time around the consequences of a tragic automobile accident.Penn plays a critically ill academic mathematician, Watts plays a grief stricken mother, and Del Toro plays an ex-convict whose newly discovered Christianity is sorely tested in the aftermath of the accident.
The movie was shot in chronological order, but is edited in a non-linear arrangement where the lives of the characters are depicted before and after the accident.The three main characters each have 'past' 'present' and 'future' story threads, which are shown as non-linear fragments which punctuate elements of the overall story, all imminently coming toward each other and coalescing as the story progresses.Iñárritu may have been influenced by the silent film Intolerance (1916), though his approach is more complex. While some viewers can assemble the story and appreciate the director's motives, many others find the sequencing obstructive and confusing.
Positive and negative opinion of the style appears to be highly polarized.The movie was nominated in the 2003 Academy Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Benicio Del Toro) and Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Naomi Watts).The title of the movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall, who in the early 1900s sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death.MacDougall weighed dying patients in an attempt to prove that the soul was material and measurable.These experiments are widely considered to have had little if any scientific merit, and although MacDougall's results varied considerably from 21 grams, for some people this figure has become synonymous with the measure of a soul's mass. [1].
"Goodfellas" 1990
Script:http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/g/goodfellas-script-transcript.html
Goodfellas(also spelt GoodFellas) is a 1990 film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the true story of mob rat Henry Hill.The film stars Ray Liotta as Henry Hill, Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway, Joe Pesci, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the irascible Tommy DeVito (based on Tommy DeSimone), Lorraine Bracco as Hill's wife, Karen, and Paul Sorvino as Paulie Cicero.
"Casino" 1995
Script:http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/c/casino-script-transcript.html
"Pulp Fiction" 1994
Pulp Fiction is an Oscar-winning 1994 film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote the screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is structured around a fragmented storyline and includes eclectic dialogue, ironic and campy influences, unorthodox camerawork, and numerous pop culture references. Tarantino and Avary won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and the film was nominated for seven Oscars in total, including Best Picture; it also took home the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes.[1][2]
The plot, in keeping with most other Tarantino works, runs in nonlinear order.The unconventional structure of the movie is an example of a so-called postmodernist film. The film's title refers to the pulp magazines popular during the mid–20th century, known for their strongly graphic nature.Much of the film's dialogue and many of its scenes are based on other works of "pulp" fiction, that is to say bits of other, less acclaimed, works.The film had a significant impact on the careers of many of its cast members. It provided a breakthrough role for Samuel L. Jackson, who became an international star in a part Tarantino wrote especially for him.[3]It revived the fortunes of John Travolta, whose career was slumping at the time, and allowed Bruce Willis to move away from the action hero reputation he had gained through films such as Die Hard.
It raised the profile of Uma Thurman and led to greater recognition for character actors such as Ving Rhames and Harvey Keitel.Eric Stoltz was also acclaimed for his role as Lance, the bathrobe-clad heroin dealer.
"Jackie Brown" 1997
The plot, in keeping with most other Tarantino works, runs in nonlinear order.The unconventional structure of the movie is an example of a so-called postmodernist film. The film's title refers to the pulp magazines popular during the mid–20th century, known for their strongly graphic nature.Much of the film's dialogue and many of its scenes are based on other works of "pulp" fiction, that is to say bits of other, less acclaimed, works.The film had a significant impact on the careers of many of its cast members. It provided a breakthrough role for Samuel L. Jackson, who became an international star in a part Tarantino wrote especially for him.[3]It revived the fortunes of John Travolta, whose career was slumping at the time, and allowed Bruce Willis to move away from the action hero reputation he had gained through films such as Die Hard.
It raised the profile of Uma Thurman and led to greater recognition for character actors such as Ving Rhames and Harvey Keitel.Eric Stoltz was also acclaimed for his role as Lance, the bathrobe-clad heroin dealer.
"Jackie Brown" 1997
Jackie Brown is a 1997 motion picture directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Pam Grier and Robert Forster, Robert De Niro, Samuel L. Jackson, Bridget Fonda, and Michael Keaton.The screenplay is based on the novel Rum Punch by American novelist Elmore Leonard, although Tarantino made considerable changes to the story line and characters. Pam Grier plays Jackie Brown, a middle-aged airline flight attendant who gets coerced by ATF agent Ray Nicolet (Keaton) to help them bring down arms smuggler Ordell (Jackson) and his accomplices Louis Gara and Melanie (De Niro and Fonda).
In true Tarantino form, this film has a substantial amount of violence and profanity. It has been criticized, as was Tarantino's previous film Pulp Fiction, for the frequent use of the word "nigger" in the dialogue. Also noteworthy was the casting of Grier and Forster in lead roles. Both were veteran actors, but neither had performed a leading role in many years. Jackie Brown revitalised both actors' careers, Grier's to a greater degree.De Niro and Keaton were major stars, but were cast in supporting roles.
The film is in somerespects a homage to earlier blaxploitation films, many of which also featured Pam Grier, and the movie's soundtrack is reminiscent of those earlier films as well.It received several major awards nominations, with Robert Forster earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and Samuel L. Jackson and Pam Grier nominated for Golden Globe Awards.
"The Godfather" 1972
The Godfather is a 1972 crime film directed and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola based on the the novel of the same name authored by the screenplay's co-writer Mario Puzo. The film starred Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and James Caan. The film was subsequently followed with The Godfather Part II in 1974, The Godfather Part III in 1990, and a 2006 video game based on the film.
The film's story spans nine years from late 1945 to late 1954 as the leader of a New York mafia organization hands his family business over to his reluctant son.It is ranked as the third best American film in history by the American Film Institute and as the greatest film of all time according to the Internet Movie Database's Top 250 list with a 9.1/10 rating, despite the fact that The Shawshank Redemption has a 9.2 rating[1]. It is also the number one movie on Metacritic's top 100 list.
"The Godfather Part II" 1974
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 motion picture directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script he co-wrote with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, chronicling the continuing saga of the Corleone family following the events of the first film while also providing an in-depth look at the rise to power of a young Vito Corleone.
The film is also ranked as the 3rd greatest movie of all time by the Internet Movie Database with its predecessor, The Godfather, ranked as the number one movie of all time.
"Raging Bull" 1980
Raging Bull is a 1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese, adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from the memoir Raging Bull: My Story.It stars Robert De Niro (Academy Award - Best Actor) as Jake LaMotta, a temperamental and paranoid but tenacious boxer who alienates himself from his friends and family. Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci (Academy Award nomination - Best Supporting Actor) as La Motta's brother and manager, Joey, and Cathy Moriarty as his abused wife.
The film features strong supporting roles from Nicholas Colasanto (who was eventually to play the character "Coach" on the TV sitcom Cheers), Theresa Saldana, and Scorsese regular Frank Vincent."Mean Streets"Charlie (Keitel) is an Italian-American man who is trying to move up in the local mob and who is hampered by his feeling of responsibility towards his childish yet destructive friend Johnny Boy (De Niro). Charlie works for his uncle (who is the local mob boss), mostly collecting debts.
He is also having a hidden affair with Johnny Boy's cousin, Teresa, who has epilepsy and is ostracized because of her condition - especially by Charlie's uncle.A major figure in the plot is the conflict between Charlie's devout Catholicism and his Mafia ambitions.
"Casino" 1995
Casino is a 1995 movie directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Pileggi and Larry Shandling. Robert De Niro stars as Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a top gambling handicapper who is called by the Mob to oversee the day-to-day operations at the fictional Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas. The story is based on Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, who ran the Stardust, Fremont and the Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for The Mob from the 1970s until the early 1980s.Joe Pesci plays Nicky Santoro, based on the real-life Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro, an intimidating enforcer for the Chicago Outfit. Santoro is sent to Vegas by the bosses to make sure that money from the Tangiers is skimmed off the top and that the casinos and mobsters in Vegas are kept in line.
Sharon Stone plays Rothstein's wife, the self-obsessed, spoilt, devious and sly Ginger, a role that earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.Pileggi has described Casino as Scorsese's last installment to his gangster trilogy, supplementing Mean Streets and Goodfellas.However, the film has more obvious stylistic connections to the latter (Goodfellas), Scorsese's 1990 cinematic masterpiece[citation needed]. Also, both films were based on a book by Pileggi and starred De Niro and Pesci.For these reasons, some people even consider Casino an unofficial sequel to Goodfellas[citation needed].
"The French Connect" 1971
The French Connection is a 1971 Hollywood film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore. It tells the story of two New York City policemen who are trying to intercept a heroin shipment coming in from France. It is based on the actual, infamous"French Connection"It stars Gene Hackman (as porkpie hat-wearing New York City police detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle), Roy Scheider (as his partner Cloudy), and Fernando Rey.
It also features Eddie Egan and Sonny "Cloudy" Grosso, the real-life police detectives on whom Hackman's and Scheider's characters were based.It was the first R-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture since the introduction of the MPAA film rating system.It also won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gene Hackman), Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (ErnestTidyman).
It was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Roy Scheider), Best Cinematography, and Best Sound.Tidyman also received a Golden Globe Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and an Edgar Award for his screenplay.
"The Exorcist" 1973
The Exorcist is a horror novel written by William Peter Blatty first published in 1971. It is based on a supposedly genuine 1949 exorcism Blatty heard about while he was a student in the class of 1950 at Georgetown University, a Jesuit and Catholic school. The exorcism was partially performed in both Cottage City, Maryland [1] and Bel-Nor, Missouri. [2]Several area newspapers reported on a speech a minister gave to an amateur parapsychology society, in which he claimed to have exorcised a demon from a thirteen-year-old boy named Robbie, and that the ordeal lasted a little more than six weeks, ending on April 19, 1949.
