Καλή Επιτυχία - Good Luck to our Global Greeks at the Oscars 2014

Oscar night in Los Angeles tonight and we look forward to seeing at least one of our Global Greeks below collecting an Academy Award and joining the ranks of our glorious Global Greeks who took home a prestigious Academy Award!

 

Alexander Payne - 
Best Picture/Best Director / Best original Screenplay  
Nebraska
In the photo he accepts his Oscar in  
2012 for Best Adapted Screenplay for
The Descendants, saying Σ'αγαπώ Μαμα - I love you Mom! 

Phedon Papamichael

Best Cinematography
Nebraska

 Alexandre Desplat 
Best Original Score 
Philomena



Alexandre Gavras (right)
Best Short film 
Before Losing Everything - Avant que de Tout Perdre

and of course, let's not forget our Honorary Global Greek 
'Mr 110% Greek' Tom Hanks
Best Picture/Best Director 
Captain Phillips 

Last but not least we just have to include the film whose setting is
Greece, beautiful Greece!

 

Greece  and the Southern Peloponnese are the stars of this fascinating film 
Best Adapted Screenplay
Before Midnight

Filmed in Messinia and the Costa Navarino

Good luck to all  - Καλή Επιτυχία σε όλους!
At Global Greek World we'll be watching with special  interest as we wait to see if our list of Global Greek Oscar winners gets to grow even more!

Here are a few of our past winners:

1960 Manos Hadjidakis 
Best Original Song 
Never on Sunday

Vassilis Fotopoulos
1962 Best Art Direction America-America
1964 Best Art Direction (Black and White) Zorba the Greek  

1975 for designing costumes for "The Great Gatsby, - See more at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2011/01/theoni-v-aldredge-tony-and-oscar-winning-costume-designer-dies-at-78.html#sthash.tw62yQD1.dpuf

1969 Costa Gavras
Best Foreign Language Film
Z

1975  Theoni V Aldredge 
 Best Costume Design 
The Great Gatsby

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1982 Vangelis Papathanassiou 
Best original Score  
Chariots of Fire

2010 Louie Psihoyios   
Best Documentary Feature
The Cove

1975 for designing costumes for "The Great Gatsby, - See more at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2011/01/theoni-v-aldredge-tony-and-oscar-winning-costume-designer-dies-at-78.html#sthash.tw62yQD1.dpuf

 Alexander Payne 
2005 for Best Adapted Screenplay
Sideways
2012 for Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants

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And the Oscar Goes to... Global Greek Alexander Payne! Μπράβο Αλέξανδρε!

Mom, this one's for you. Σ'άγαπώ πολύ

With a very sweet Σ' Αγαπώ Πολύ! (I love you very much) Alexander Payne (Alexander Constantine Papadopoulos) dedicated the Oscar he received for The Descendants, his 2nd Oscar, to his mother who was in the audience! We loved it!  Any mother would have loved to be in her place - bursting with pride and joy - let alone a Greek mother listening to her son thanking her and telling her he loves her in Greek on the stage at the Oscars!! It made all of us in the Global Greek World feel very proud of him. Almost as if we had won that Oscar ourselves! 

Congratulations Alexander!

 With the most beautiful words in the Greek language, you gave Greece, and every Greek around the world who heard you, a shot in the arm at this difficult moment! 

We are all very proud of you!

Mrs Payne looks on as her son dedicates his 2nd Oscar to her

Alexander Payne gives the acceptance speech 

while Nat Faxon and Jim Rash look on

 Angelina Jolie gives Alexander Payne 

his 2nd Oscar for the Descendants

In a brief but very warm acceptance speech, trying to speak over the laughs which erupted at the parody his fellow writer Jim Rash put on of Angelina Jolie's pose on the stage as she prepared to hand over the Oscar for the Best Adapted Screenplay for 2012 to them, Global Greek Alexander Payne received his 2nd Oscar last night at the 84th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. 

This is Jim and this is Nat. I’m Alexander. We bow to our fellow nominees. Help, stop the counter. We bow to our fellow nominees. We want to thank Fox Searchlight and producer Jim Burke for all their good works. We share this with George Clooney and the rest of the cast for interpreting our screenplay so generously. And we also share it in particular with Kaui Hart Hemmings, our beautiful Hawaiian flower for her novel. And on a brief personal note, if I may, my mother is here with me from Omaha and, hold the applause, and after watching the show a few years ago she made me promise that if I ever won another Oscar, I had to dedicate it to her just like Javier Bardem did with his mother. So Mom, this one’s for you  S'Agapo Poly. And thanks for letting me skip nursery school so we could go to the movies. Thanks a lot.

 


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Global Greeks at the Oscars: The Descendants - 6th Oscar Nomination for Alexander Payne

The 84th Academy Awards take place tonight in Los Angeles and this year all of us in the Global Greek World are proud to see one of our Global Greeks amongst the nominees once again ! 

Alexander Payne

We will all be hoping to see Alexander Payne, Greek American Director and Screenwriter and one of our Global Greek of the Year Nominees,  get his 2nd Oscar, this time for The Descendants with the inimitable George Clooney and a very talented Shailene Woodley. 

The Descendants has been nominated for 5 Oscars and is, like all Payne's films, about the complexities of life, death and family relations. In this case they challenge a man faced with losing his wife. When Elizabeth King is left comatose following an accident, her husband Matt finds himself thrust into the unfamiliar role of caregiver to their two daughters, while at the same time facing a difficult financial decision that may put him at odds with other family members....

Alexander Payne's success at the Golden Globes for The Descendants started the ball rolling for his 6th Oscar nomination.  It was wonderfu to see Alexander Payne and the rest of his Global Greek Dream Team, Jim Gianopulos and Phedon Papamichael, present when The Descendants opened Greece's Thessaloniki Film Festival in 2011. All three are board members of the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF). 

Jim Gianopulos

Source: LAGFF

 Phedon Papamichael 

Source: LAGFF

Payne's Ad Hominem Enterprises and Gianopulos' Fox Searchlight Pictures have already won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (Drama) for THE DESCENDANTS while Phedon Papamichael served as Director of Photography. 

The Descendants also won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) for George Clooney, whilst Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash recently won Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards for the film!

We'll all be keeping our fingers crossed tonight! From all of us at Global Greek World we wish your latest film all the very best!

Καλή Επιτυχία, Αλέξανδρε!  

Good Luck, Alexander!