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The following is a list of the Top 10 Films chosen annually by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, ... 1933: Topaze; Berkeley Square; ... 2020: Da 5 Bloods
First movie with African-American interracial marriage: One Potato, Two Potato, [81] actors Bernie Hamilton and Barbara Barrie, written by Orville H. Hampton, Raphael Hayes, directed by Larry Peerce First African-American man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor : Sidney Poitier ( Lilies of the Field , 1963) (See also: James Baskett , 1948)
The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934, at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.They were hosted by Will Rogers and Rogers also presented all of the awards. This was the last time that the Oscars' eligibility period was spread over two different calendar years, creating the longest time frame for which films could be nominated: the seventeen months from August 1, 1932, to December ...
Twentieth Century Pictures merged with Fox Studios in 1935 to form 20th Century-Fox (the hyphen was dropped half a century later in 1985 under Australian Rupert Murdoch), and in 2020 was purchased by The Walt Disney Company and renamed "20th Century Studios". For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have been founded in 1915.
A list of American feature films released in 1933. Hollywood was dominated by the eight major studios Fox Film, MGM, Paramount, RKO, Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures and United Artists. Cavalcade won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
The first major Arabic work of astronomy is the Zij al-Sindh by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. The work contains tables for the movements of the Sun, the Moon, and the five planets known at the time. The work is significant as it introduced Ptolemaic concepts into Islamic sciences. This work also marks the turning point in Arabic astronomy.
They are the first evidence of the center of the Milky Way, and the firsts experiences that founded the discipline of radio astronomy. 1933 – Edward Milne names and formalizes the cosmological principle. 1933 – Fritz Zwicky shows that the Coma cluster of galaxies contains large amounts of dark matter. This result agrees with modern ...
This is a list of science fiction films that premiered between 1 January 1930 and 31 December 1939. In Phil Hardy's book Science Fiction (1983), the 1930s were described as a period where both science fiction literature and cinema were "in turmoil" and that by examining films of decade that "it is clear that Science Fiction, in no sense, can be seen as an ongoing genre in the thirties".