The Academy Awards event, which is all set to be held on March 2, 2014, will honor the 1939 classic musical film “The Wizard of Oz,” which was nominated for the best film at that time. The 75th anniversary of the film will be celebrated as part of the Oscars. The film was produced by Mervyn LeRoy, while it was directed by more than one persons including Victor Fleming, George Cukor, and Norman Taurog. It had received 6 Oscar nominations and even though it was not able to get the Best Picture award, but it grabbed 2 awards for Original Score and best Song of the year.
The story of one of the highest rated classic fantasy movies revolves around a girl from Kansas who comes across and follows a Yellow Brick Road and is transported to the supernatural world of Oz.
"We are delighted to celebrate the birthday of one of the most beloved movies of all time at this year’s Oscars.” The great show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron publically announced.
The show will take place at Hollywood & Highland Center and will be shown live on the ABC channel in above 225 countries and districts around the world.
A new promo of the Oscar award featuring renowned host Ellen DeGeneres wearing tuxedo and dancing along with hundreds of other dancers has already been released almost a month back and can be watched on the YouTube. It was also reported some days back that the Academy awards show will also pay tribute to real-life heroes, super heroes, famous heroes and animated heroes — both from earlier period and current era — plus the producers and directors who enliven them.
A number of parties and celebration events are going on for some months these days, with previous fall’s spectacular 3D IMAX re-launch of the this classic picture. An influential book “The Making of the Wizard of Oz” on how the movie was created was issued with an improved re-publication last year. The book was written by Aljean Harmetz. It has turned out to be an essential book to read, with inspirational stories of the complicated casting progression, the party-happy Munchkins, and the several types of vintage costuming, carrying out makeup and direction aspects which the movie went through to prove to be what we see and admire today.
Do you like “The Wizard of Oz”?
I have not seen the film, but I hope to enjoy it too, like the films, I pray that it may be more successful
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