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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Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth, Mary Zophres, Alexandre Desplat - THREE Global Greek Nominations at Tonight's 83rd Academy Awards

How many of these can our Global Greeks take home tonight?

The Nominations for the 2011 Oscars were announced a few weeks ago. When we heard that we have not just one, not just two but at least three Global Greeks nominated for an Oscar this year, we must say we were thrilled!

The Greek presence in Hollywood has always been particularly strong, right from the days of the legendary Skouras Brothers,  and tonight is no exception as the countdown begins for the 83rd Academy Awards, which will take place in just a few hours in Los Angeles. 

After last year's win by Louie Psyhoyos for the Best Documentary Film, the tremendous 'The Cove' (incidentally he was on Greece's Skai TV today),  this year the Global Greek World's eyes will be on our three Global Greek nominees!  

Greek American  Mary Zophres, born Areti-Maria Zafeiropoulou in Florida, has been nominated for the Best Costume Design Award for her great creations in 'True Grit' by Joel and Ethan Coen - her first Oscar nomination.

 

 Source: LAGFF

Greek Director Yorgos Lanthimos whose film Dogtooth has been nominated for best foreign film, in the photo with fellow Global Greek Twentieth century Fox's Jim Gianopulos at the meet and greet function given for the film crew by the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival team on Tskinopempti, last Thursday, 24 February!

A great deal has been written about Yorgos Lanthimos and this excellent film which is one of the best contemporary films to come out of Greece recently and one of the favourites tonight.  The prestigious New York Times had this to say... 




Greek French composer Alexandre Desplat was nominated for the Best Original Score in The King's Speech...   

Born to a Greek mother and a French father who met at Berkeley in the USA, Alexandre Desplat has already won the BAFTA for Best Original Music for The King's Speech, and collected it from none other than Sir Paul Mc Cartney! If he wins the Oscar tonight he will be in great company - Vangelis Papathanassiou also won the Oscar for this category, for his magnificent Chariots of Fire score! You can read more about the very talented Alexandre Desplat here
 

By the way, we loved what Mary Zophres said to Christos Iereidis in Friday's Ta Nea newspaper If she wins the Best Costume Design Award tonight, she's going to try to say Thank you in Greek... We hope you do, Mary!  With  a bit of luck, and since this year is a great year for Greek films, we really hope we'll be hearing that  Ευχαριστώ πολύ - Efharisto poly -  a few times! 

Whatever the result, however, just landing the nomination was a major achievement and our congratulations go to ALL our Global Greek nominees tonight!

Καλή Επιτυχία, Good Luck, Bonne Chance!!!  

Watch the Oscars Red Carpet livestream here

PS If you are in LA, the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival and Hollywood Greek Reporter invite you to Watch the Oscars® with members of the cast and crew of DOGTOOTH, TODAY AT 4:30 p.m.at ISLA Cantina, 8788 W. Sunset Boulevard. Go have a drink,mingle with the guests and guess who will be taking home the gold statues!