First person to turn down an Oscar

Who was the first person to turn down an Oscar?Fri 3rd Mar 2023 17.30 GMT          The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science was formed in 1927 by Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM. Initially designed to give the blossoming film industry a respectable image and discuss labour disputes, the organisation began to consider handing out awards the following year. In 1929, the first Academy Awards ceremony occurred at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, hosted by the actor and filmmaker Douglas Fairb...

Slave Ship - The Clotilda Arrives In Alabama - African American Registry

The Slave Ship Clotilda Arrives In Alabama Clotilda's remains *On this date in 1860, the last American slave ship (on record) docked in Mobile Alabama. Called the Clotilda, the ship was a two-massed schooner...

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Ultraviolence: On Color Out Of Space And Adapting Lovecraft

After a 10-year hiatus, director Richard Stanley returns with Color Out Of Space, a technicolor nightmare-scape based on a short story by horror author HP Lovecraft. Stanley takes the 19th-century work, one written with scientific detachment, and creates an intensely emotional narrative fit for 21st-century horror cinema. A colour, unable to be classified or defined, has consumed the very thoughts of a family who have descended onto an ancestral land as a respite from the city. Madness descen...