Other movies about Olympic athletes
include Chariots of Fire, Cool Runnings and Jim Thrope: All American.
Not exact matches
In previous years, winners
of the audience award
included Oscar winners «American Beauty» and «
Chariots of Fire,» as well as «Where Do We Go Now,» «Tsotsi,» «Hotel Rwanda,» «Whale Rider,» «Shine,» «Strictly Ballroom,» «The Fisher King,» «Roger & Me,» «The Princess Bride» and «The Big Chill.»
Additional documentaries
included are «Wings on their Heels: The Making
of Chariots of Fire» and «
Chariots of Fire: A Reunion».
He patronizes Michael Powell and Humphrey Jennings (accorded one measly clip each); fails to mention Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, or Richard Lester (presumably regarding all three as American interlopers); reduces Ken Russell and Mike Leigh to the worst single clips imaginable (and has nothing to say about the TV work
of either); limits John Boorman, Bill Douglas, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Isaac Julien, and Sally Potter to one fleeting movie poster apiece; and omits virtually the entire English documentary movement (though he
includes a disparaging nod to Night Mail), along with the cycle
of Hammer horror movies — while paying abject obeisance to the Academy Awards and every crumb they've offered British cinema (special points to
Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, and Four Weddings and a Funeral).
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.
He carried out sculpture performances employing natural elements: winds, water and
fire; he also made monumental sculptures,
including Prometheus Shot Dead (Kuźnice 1964), Iron Organ (Snozka 1966), Golgotha (Montevideo 1969),
Chariot of the Sun (Södertälje near Stockholm 1972 — 1976).