Monday, May 3, 2010

The Wizard of Oz

Dorothy and her dog Toto go through a tornado in her home state of Kansas and get swept to a magical land called Oz. They are met by the Munchkins of oz and show Dorothy how to get home is to go to see the wizard and ask him to get them home. She follows the yellow brick road to the wizard on the way she meets a scarecrow who needs to get a brain a lion who needs courage and a tin man who needs a heart they go through a bunch of different obsticles including the wicked witch of the west who wants the red slippers off of Dorothy's feet that belonged to her sister the wicked witch of the west. the crew get to the castle finally and go and talk to the wizard who is actually just a man behind a curtain. Dorothy finds out all she has to do is click her heels three times and say no place like home to get home. This movie has been remastered digitally and was an expensive movie for its time in 1939.
Director Victor Fleming
Writers Noel Langley
Florence Ryerson
Release Date Aug 25th 1939
Genre Adventure, Family, and Fantasy.
Academy Awards, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1940 Won Oscar Best Music, Original Score
Herbert Stothart

Best Music, Original Song
Harold Arlen (music)
E.Y. Harburg (lyrics)
For the song "Over the Rainbow"
Nominated Oscar Best Art Direction
Cedric Gibbons
William A. Horning

Best Cinematography, Color
Harold Rosson

Best Effects, Special Effects
A. Arnold Gillespie (photographic)
Douglas Shearer (sound)

Best Picture

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2006 Won Saturn Award Best Classic Film DVD Release

Cannes Film Festival
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1939 Nominated Golden Palm
Victor Fleming

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2009 Won Sierra Award Best DVD (Packaging, Design and Content)
For the 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition.
National Film Preservation Board, USA
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1989 National Film Registry
Satellite Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
2005 Won Satellite Award Outstanding Classic DVD
(Three Disc Collector's Edition).
Nominated Satellite Award Outstanding DVD Extras
(Three Disc Collector's Edition).
Outstanding Overall DVD
(Three Disc Collector's Edition).
Outstanding Youth DVD
(Three Disc Collector's Edition).
Young Artist Awards
YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)
1985 Jackie Coogan Award

Cast

(Complete credited cast)

Judy Garland ... Dorothy Gale
Frank Morgan ... Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Doorman / The Wizard of Oz

Ray Bolger ... Hunk / The Scarecrow
Bert Lahr ... Zeke / The Cowardly Lion
Jack Haley ... Hickory / The Tin Man

Billie Burke ... Glinda
Margaret Hamilton ... Almira Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West / The Wicked Witch of the East
Charley Grapewin ... Uncle Henry
Pat Walshe ... Nikko
Clara Blandick ... Auntie Em
Terry ... Toto (as Toto)
The Singer Midgets ... The Munchkins (also as The Munchkins

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