Topic: voa
Subject: OSCAR / FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM (S-ONLY) By ALAN SILVERMAN/LOS ANGELES
From: "Demetrios E. Paneras" <dep@bu.edu>
 
DATE=3/28/95
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-176156
TITLE=OSCAR / FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM (S-ONLY)
BYLINE=ALAN SILVERMAN
DATELINE=LOS ANGELES
CONTENT=
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INTRO: THE AMERICAN MOTION PICTURE ACADEMY HAS GIVEN RUSSIA ITS
FIRST-EVER OSCAR.  V-O-A'S ALAN SILVERMAN REPORTS ON THE ACADEMY
AWARD-WINNING BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

TEXT:  "BURNT BY THE SUN," AN UNSENTIMENTAL LOOK AT THE TRAGEDY
OF STALINISM AS EXPERIENCED BY ONE FAMILY ON A SUMMER WEEKEND IN
1936, IS THE OSCAR-WINNER.  THE DRAMA THAT PREVIOUSLY WON THE
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL GRAND JURY PRIZE IS CO-WRITTEN AND DIRECTED
BY ITS STAR, NIKITA MIKHALKOV -- FINALLY WINNING AN OSCAR AFTER
BEING NOMINATED TWICE BEFORE:

                   /// MIKHALKOV ACTUALITY ///

         (RUSSIAN/IN TRANSLATION) THE PICTURES FOR ME ARE LIKE
         COOKING RAVIOLI OR FISHING.  YOU THROW 10 HOOKS IN THE
         WATER AND YOU WAIT UNTIL THE FIRST ONE FINALLY CATCHES.

                      /// END ACTUALITY ///

ACCOMPANYING THE FILMMAKER TO ACCEPT THE AWARD, HIS SIX-YEAR-OLD
DAUGHTER NADIA -- WHO CO-STARS WITH HER FATHER IN "BURNT BY THE
SUN." ACADEMY VOTERS PICKED THE RUSSIAN FILM OVER ENTRIES FROM
MACEDONIA, TAIWAN, BELGIUM AND CUBA.

THE MOTION PICTURE ACADEMY ALSO PRESENTED A LIFE ACHIEVEMENT
OSCAR TO ITALIAN FILMMAKER MICHAELANGELO ANTONIONI.   (SIGNED)

NEB / DM / WOD

28-Mar-95 12:27 AM EST (0527 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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