Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American family comedy-drama film directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks, adapted from Larry McMurtry's 1975 novel of the same name. It stars Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. The film covers 30 years of the relationship between Aurora Greenway (MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Winger).
Shirley MacLaine is an American actress and author. Known for her portrayals of quirky, strong-willed, and eccentric women, she has received numerous accolades over her eight-decade career, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Volpi Cups, and two Silver Bears. She has been honored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute in 1995, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1998, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2013.
Bernice Rubens was a Welsh novelist. She became the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970, for The Elected Member.
John Richard Schlesinger was an English film and stage director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood, often directing films dealing frankly in provocative subject matter, combined with his status as one of the rare openly gay directors working in mainstream films.
Shabana Azmi is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Her career in the Hindi film industry has spanned over 160 films, mostly within independent and neorealist parallel cinema, though her work extended to mainstream films as well as a number of international projects. One of India's most acclaimed actresses, Azmi is known for her portrayals of distinctive, often unconventional female characters across several genres. She has won a record of five National Film Awards for Best Actress, in addition to six Filmfare Awards and several international accolades. The Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri in 1998 and the Padma Bhushan in 2012.
The Accused is a 1988 American legal drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and written by Tom Topor, loosely based on the 1983 gang rape of Cheryl Araujo in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Starring Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi, Ann Hearn, Carmen Argenziano, Steve Antin, and Tom O'Brien, the film follows Sarah Tobias (Foster), a young waitress who is gang raped by three men at a local bar. With the help of District Attorney Katheryn Murphy (McGillis), she sets out to prosecute the rapists as well as the men who helped induce the assault. Principal photography began in Vancouver on April 27, 1987, and concluded on June 22.
Two for the Seesaw is a 1962 American romantic-drama film directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine. It was adapted from the 1958 Broadway play written by William Gibson with Henry Fonda and Anne Bancroft in the lead roles.
Navin Chowdhry is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Indra Ganesh in Doctor Who, Sunil Mitesh in The Job Lot and as Nish Panesar in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Best Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.
Gorillas in the Mist is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The film is based a book of the same name by Dian Fossey and the article by Harold T. P. Hayes. It stars Sigourney Weaver as naturalist Dian Fossey and Bryan Brown as photographer Bob Campbell. It tells the story of Fossey, who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Lahu Ke Do Rang is a 1979 Hindi movie directed by Mahesh Bhatt. This was his first movie as director. The film stars Vinod Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Danny Denzongpa, Helen, Ranjeet. The music and lyrics for the film are by Bappi Lahiri and Farooq Qaiser respectively.
Jonathan "Yonty" Solomon was a South African pianist. He played with many of the world's best-known orchestras.
Coco Chanel is a 2008 biographical drama television film directed by Christian Duguay and written by Ron Hutchinson, Enrico Medioli and Lea Tafuri. It stars Shirley MacLaine as Coco Chanel, the pioneering French fashion designer. MacLaine was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her work in the film.
Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Carrie Fisher is based on her 1987 semi-autobiographical novel of the same title. The film stars Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid.
Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed and written by Saeed Akhtar Mirza. The film stars Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi and Smita Patil in the lead roles.
Gerry Humphreys OBE was a Welsh sound engineer. He won BAFTA Film Awards for Best Sound for A Bridge Too Far and Cry Freedom, was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound for Sunday Bloody Sunday, Gandhi, Blade Runner, and A Chorus Line, as well as receiving Oscar nominations in the category Best Sound for Gandhi and A Chorus Line and an Australian Film Institute Award nomination for Best Sound for The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. He worked on 250 films between 1952 and 2002. He was appointed OBE in the 1995 New Year Honours.
Harold Rubens (1918–2010) was a Welsh pianist and anti-apartheid activist.
The 45th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 29 August to 9 September 1988.
Maria Epstein Levinskaya, often known as Madame Levinskaya, was a Russian pianist, a pupil of Vasily Safonov at the Moscow Conservatory. But she also worked with many other teachers - 19 in all, including Leopold Godowsky in Berlin, Isidor Philipp in Paris and Tobias Matthay in London - "some celebrated, others obscure, from whom I tried to glean a ray of light". She made her debut as a pianist in Cologne in 1913, appeared in England as a soloist under Henry Wood, Dan Godfrey and others, and set up her own piano school in London in 1925.
