Academic literature on the topic 'Christopher Award'

Clark, Emma Chichester. I love you, Blue Kangaroo! Doubleday Book for Young Readers, 1999.

Clark, Emma Chichester. Te quiero mucho, Canguro Azul! Beascoa, 2001.

Clark, Emma Chichester. I love you, Blue Kangaroo! Andersen Press, 2003.

French, Diana. Christoph Waltz Adult Coloring Book: Academy Award and Golden Globe Award Winner, Hans Landa from Inglourios Bastards and Django Unchained Star Inspired Adult Coloring Book. Independently Published, 2018.

Jackson, Lydia. Christoph Waltz Coloring Book: Legendary Academy Award and Golden Globe Award Winner, Famous Hans Landa from Inglorious Bastards and Django Unchained Icon Inspired Adult Coloring Book. Independently Published, 2019.

"Born in Iran and currently residing in London, Hossein Amini initially thought that he wanted to be a writer-director after helming a few shorts while at Oxford. But once he started making a living as a writer on other people’s projects, he discovered that he enjoyed focusing on screenwriting. His career began with television movies, The Dying of the Light (1992) and Deep Secrets (1996), but even then Amini knew that his interest was in features. A chance encounter with director Michael Winterbottom at the BAFTA awards in the mid-1990s led to their collaboration on the feature Jude (1996), an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure that starred Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet. Amini’s next adaptation was The Wings of the Dove (1997), based on Henry James’ novel—the film went on to receive four Academy Award nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Soon after, Amini signed an exclusive overall deal with Miramax Films, working on the independent company’s diverse projects like Gangs of New York (2002) (for which he didn’t receive a credit) and The Four Feathers (2002). After his Miramax deal ended, he was approached by Universal Pictures to work on an adaptation of a book by crime author James Sallis about an enigmatic getaway driver. The project, Drive (2011), was eventually independently financed and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, receiving rave reviews in competition at Cannes. Though Amini has primarily written for indie and art-house films, he has recently been involved with some major studio projects, including Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and 47 Ronin (2013). Currently, he’s directing The Two Faces of January, his adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, which stars Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst." In FilmCraft: Screenwriting. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780240824857-2.

"A writer celebrated equally for his work on the stage and the screen, Christopher Hampton was born in the Archipalego of the Azores, living as a child for a time in Egypt and Zanzibar because of his father’s job with the communications company Cable & Wireless. Studying French and German at university in England, Hampton knew from a young age that he wanted to be a writer, but after an unsuccessful stab at a novel, he turned his attention to playwriting. He wrote the play When Did You Last See My Mother? when he was only 18—it was produced at The Royal Court Theater two years later, to much acclaim. From there, Hampton enjoyed a flourishing theatrical career with works such as Total Eclipse and The Philanthropist. His success as a screenwriter began with Carrington (1995), which he wrote in the mid-1970s after being moved by Michael Holroyd’s extensive biography of writer Lytton Strachey. Carrington took 20 years to reach cinemas, but Hampton had a much quicker turnaround with his screenplay for Dangerous Liaisons (1988), which was based on his hit play and adapted from the 18th-century novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Written in three weeks in the late fall of 1987, the film landed in theaters a little over a year later, winning Hampton an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Hampton’s career has encompassed translations of the plays God of Carnage and Hedda Gabler, and he has also co-written the book and lyrics for the 1990s musical based on Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950). Hampton adapted his own play for the film Total Eclipse (1995) and received a second Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for Atonement (2007). In 2011, he turned his play The Talking Cure into the script for director David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method. Other notable screenplay adaptations include Mary Reilly (1996), The Quiet American (2002), and Chéri (2009). Hampton has also directed three of his scripts: Carrington, The Secret Agent (1996), and Imagining Argentina (2003)." In FilmCraft: Screenwriting. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780240824857-31.

"If a statement relates to the description of the subject matter of the contract, is this too fundamental a matter to be treated as no more than a representation? If the statement does relate to the identity of the very thing which is the subject of the contract, is it to be regarded as an absolute guarantee that what has been described will be delivered or is there room for the reliance-based approach of the majority? That reliance is a key factor even in relation to descriptive statements is also borne out in the following case: In Harlingdon & Leinster Enterprises Ltd v Christopher Hull (Fine Art) Ltd, the defendant company was asked to dispose of two paintings described in an auction catalogue as being by Gabriele Münter, a German expressionist painter. Hull, the owner of the defendant company had no expertise in this particular area. The paintings were to be sold at Christies. The plaintiffs were known to have an interest in German expressionist art and were contacted by the defendant. Subsequently, the plaintiffs bought the paintings, being aware that Hull had no interest or expertise in this type of art. A price of £6,000 was agreed for one of the paintings, but it was later discovered that it was not a genuine Münter. In an action by the plaintiffs against the defendant company, the Court of Appeal held that the descriptive statement did not give rise to an action for breach of contract. The reason for this was that, in order to give rise to liability, it was necessary for the descriptive statement to have been relied upon by the person to whom it was addressed. In the present case, it was sufficiently clear that the defendants did not profess to have any particular skill in relation to this type of art and that it was, therefore, not reasonable for the plaintiffs to rely on what the defendant had said: Harlingdon & Leinster Enterprises Ltd v Christopher Hull (Fine Art) Ltd [1990] 3 WLR 13, CA, p 18." In Sourcebook on Contract Law. Routledge-Cavendish, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781843141518-102.