Sentences with phrase «for chariots of fire»

Not exact matches

The Academy Award - winning film Chariots of Fire (1982) illustrates well the value of play for its own sake.

Snakes talk, men live in whales for 3 days, bread rains down from the sky, a man parted the sea, chariots of fire come and go from heaven, and there's a flaming sward guarding this garden of fruit... Anyone who believes this stuff is a dummy of the highest order..

In Chariots of Fire when Jenny reminds her brother Eric of God's purpose for him (his missions work in China, for which he is still remembered today), he pauses briefly and then delivers that memorable line: «Oh, Jenny.

For those of us not caught up in the patriotic fervour of the Olympics, it would be tempting to dismiss Chariots of Fire as an outdated, backward piece of filmmaking.

While they won gold on the big screen's racetrack, «Chariots of Fire» would go on to win Oscar gold for best picture.

Chariots of Fire will thrill you and delight you and very possibly reduce — or exalt — you to tears... Chariots of Fire is for everyone; it's exactly what a popular film ought to be: superb work by first - rate people out to achieve the highest standards of excellence.

He has been composing movie soundtracks since the mid -»70s, and first won acclaim and recognition for his Oscar - winning score of Chariots of Fire (1981).

Of the faux - David Lean white elephants that proliferated in the early «80s, Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India; it now exists in that dreary realm of antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignmentOf the faux - David Lean white elephants that proliferated in the early «80s, Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India; it now exists in that dreary realm of antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignmentof Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India; it now exists in that dreary realm of antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignmentof antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignments.

Five TIFF audience winners have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture: «12 Years a Slave» in 2013, «The King's Speech» in 2010, «Slumdog Millionaire» in 2008, «American Beauty» in 1999 and «Chariots of Fire» in 1981.

2010 The Social Network 2009 UP IN THE AIR 2008 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE 2007 NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN 2006 Letters from Iwo Jima 2005 Good Night, And Good Luck 2004 Finding Neverland 2003 Mystic River, Clint Eastwood, presented by Laura Linney 2002 The Hours, presented to Scott Rudin by Julianne Moore 2001 Moulin Rouge, presented to Baz Luhrmann, by Stanley Donen 2000 Quills, presented to Peter Kaufman, Julia Chassman and Philip Kaufman by Geoffrey Rush 1999 American Beauty, presented to Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinx by David Denby 1998 Gods and Monsters, presented to Bill Condon by Clive Barker 1997 L.A. Confidential, presented to Curtis Hanson by David Denby 1996 Shine, presented to Scott Hicks and Jane Scott by Isaac Stern 1995 Sense & Sensibility, presented to Lindsay Doran by Alan Pakula 1994 Pulp Fiction, presented to Laurence Bender by Jennifer Beals Forrest Gump, presented to Wendy Finerman by Inez Glucksman 1993 Schindler's List 1992 Howards End 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 1990 Dances With Wolves 1989 Driving Miss Daisy 1987 Empire of the Sun 1986 A Room with a View 1985 The Color Purple 1984 A Passage to India 1983 Betrayal 1982 Gandhi 1981 Chariots of Fire 1980 Ordinary People 1979 Manhattan 1978 Days of Heaven 1977 The Turning Point 1976 All the President's Men 1975 Nashville 1974 The Conversation 1973 The Sting 1972 Cabaret 1971 Macbeth 1970 Patton 1969 They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Designer Miriam Buether was recognised for her Wild Swans at the Young Vic, but not for her arguably even more startling transformation of the theatre into a running track in Chariots of Fire, or for her quickfire creation of around 70 different settings for Caryl Churchill's Love and Information.

Previous winners of the Audience Award include «Chariots of Fire,» «Precious,» «No Country for Old Men,» «Michael Clayton,» «Crash,» and the Argentine film «The Secret in Their Eyes,» which won this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

crowed screenwriter Colin Welland from the Oscar stage in 1982, hoisting aloft his just - awarded awarded statuette for «Chariots of Fire» — and anticipating one of the bigger upsets in the history of the Best Picture race, as the modest British sports drama upended Warren Beatty's grand political epic «Reds.»

Rufflets have 5 bedrooms and three self catering lodges that have direct access to the hotel gardens, not to mention the fabulous West Sands at St.Andrews famous for the start of Chariots of Fire just 10 minutes away if that.

Mind you, Sprog 1 has been practising the theme song from Chariots of Fire over and over and over again on her trumpet this week, in preparation for her Spring Spectacular concert.