Hollywood Industry Research

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MOST POPULAR FILM INDUSTRY

Hollywood

What is HollywoodHollywood  is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable for its place as the home of the entertainment industry, including several of its historic studios. It is also the term used for the American film industry and has produced several notable films.

The Origins of Hollywood

In 1886 Landowners Harvey & Daeida Henderson Wilcox name their ranch Hollywood after Daeida met a woman in Ohio whose country house was called “Hollywood” for the English holly and woods. In 1911 The first motion picture studio in Hollywood was built by the Nestor Motion Picture Company on Sunset and Gower corner. Nestor Studios merged one year later with Universal Film Company.Eventually this place evolved into the Hollywood we know today and became a significant place in the history of film production.

Rise to success The first film for motion photography was invented in 1885

by George Eastman and William H. Walker, which contributed to the advance of motion photography. Shortly thereafter, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere created a hand-cranked machine called the cinematographe, which could both capture pictures and project still frames in quick succession.

The 1900’s were a time of great advancement for film and motion picture technology. Exploration into editing, backdrops, and visual flow motivated aspiring filmmakers to push into new creative territory. One of the earliest and most famous movies created during this time was The Great Train Robbery, created in 1903 by Edwin S. Porter.

Over time many film companies emerged such as warner bros, paramount and of course our favourite, Disney.

The Big Six

1. Walt Disney2. Warner Bros3. 20th Century Fox4. Universal Studios5. Columbia Pictures6. Paramount Pictures

Hollywood Film Industries Walt Disney: Founded in 1926 Disney has evolved into the

second largest broadcasting company in the world and is famous for the first animated clip with sound called steam boat willy.

Warner Bros:  the Warner's founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company It started distributing movies by 1912 and was involved in distributing one of the most influential movie of all time called “The Great Train Robbery” It also produces film, television and music entertainment. As one of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner.

20th Century Fox: It is one of the six major American film studios. The studio is credited for distributing the movie Avatar and Titanic. Both are one of the most highest grossing films of all time.

Hollywood Film Industries Universal Studios: It is an American Film studio and is one of

Hollywood's Big Six studios. Universal was founded in 1912 by the German Carl Laemmle and is the worlds Forth oldest major Film studio. Some of Its famous movies are Jaws, E.T, Jurassic Park, Furious 7 and Jurassic World all of these movies broke box records.

Columbia Pictures: it is an American film production and distribution studio of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group. It is one of the members of the Big Six and used to also be a member of the little three back in Hollywood's Golden Age.

Paramount Pictures: It is a Film studio and also a member of the Big Six. Paramount is the fifth oldest Studio in the world and America’s oldest running studio being founded in 1912. By 2014 Paramount Pictures has become the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its Films in Digital form only.

Hollywood's Influential

Christopher Nolan

Steven Spielberg

Quentin Tarantino

Christopher NolanChristopher Nolan born 30 July 1970 is an English-American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has directed several of the most acclaimed and commercially successful films of the early 21st century. His nine films have grossed over US$4.2 billion worldwide and garnered a total of 26 Oscar nominations and seven awards. Nolan's films are rooted in philosophical, sociological and ethical concepts, exploring human morality, the construction of time, and the malleable nature of memory and personal identity. His body of work is permeated by metafictive elements, temporal shifts, solipsistic perspectives, nonlinear storytelling and analogous relationships between visual language and narrative elements. Nolan is described as "one of the most innovative storytellers and image makers at work in movies today", and he is often admired by critics for integrating elements of art film into the blockbuster format. He is famous for his Memento, The Prestige, Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy.

Steven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg born in December 18, 1946 is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Spielberg is considered as one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular and influential directors and producers in film history. In a career spanning more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. His other notable films include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones film series, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993)—achieved box office records, originated and came to epitomize the blockbuster movie. The unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. His personal net worth is estimated to be more than $3 billion.

Quentin TarantinoQuentin Jerome Tarantino was born in March 27, 1963 is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His films are characterized by non-linear storylines, satirical subject matter, and an aestheticization of violence, as well as features of neo-noir film. Tarantino grew up an obsessed film fan and worked at Video Archives, a video rental store while training to act. His career began in the late 1980s, when he wrote and directed My Best Friend's Birthday, the screenplay of which formed the basis for True Romance. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992; regarded as a classic and cult hit, it was called the "Greatest Independent Film of All Time" by Empire. Its popularity was boosted by the release in 1994 of his second film, Pulp Fiction, a neo-noir crime film that became a major critical and commercial success and judged the greatest film of the past 25 years (1983–2008) by Entertainment Weekly. Tarantino's films have garnered both critical and commercial success. He has received many industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme d'Or, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time in 2005. Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him "the single most influential director of his generation".

Academy AwardsThe Academy Awards most commonly known as Oscars, is an annual American awards ceremony honoring achievements in the film Industry. Winners are awarded with a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit. Oscars are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored the best films of 1927 and 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks hosted the show. Tickets cost five dollars, 270 people attended the event and the presentation ceremony lasted fifteen minutes. Now by 2015 the 87th Academy Awards has been held on February 22, 2015, a total of 2947 Oscars have been Awarded since the first at 1929.

Some Famous Male Celebrities That Define Hollywood

Some Famous Female Celebrities That Define Hollywood

Some Famous Movies That Defined Hollywood

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