And the Oscar goes to...
Bridgeman celebrates achievements in painting, sculpture and photography over the ages.
Best Picture
And the nominees are: The Ghent Altarpiece by Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, Guernica by Pablo Picasso, The Coronation of the Virgin by Enguerrand Quarton, The 'Shahnama' (Book of Kings) written by Firdawsi, The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch and The Bathers by Paul Cezanne.
And the Oscar goes to.... hint: this work is credited with being the first painting of the Renaissance period, and has been stolen more than any other painting in Western Civilization.
Best Actor
The nominees are: Marat in David's Death of Marat, Washington in Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware, Ichikawa Danjuro VII in this woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Van Eyck's A Man in a Turban, Augustus of Prima Porta and Olaudah Equiano in Ramsay's Portrait of an African.
And the Oscar goes to... hint: his subtle performance is mesmerizing, with the memorable line, "I Do as I Can."
Best Actress
The nominees are: da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Mary Magdalene in Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece , Waterhouse's Cleopatra, Liberty in Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, The Victory of Samothrace, and Victorine Meurent in Manet's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe.
And the Oscar goes to... hint: she's the art world's Meryl Streep (nominated often and always a draw), her smile has intruiged us for centuries and we still spend inordinate amounts of time and money trying to figure her out.
Best Costume
The nominees are: Toulouse-Lautrec for Dressage des Nouvelles, Rembrandt van Rijn for Portrait of Saskia van Uylenburgh, Geishas in An Afternoon Call, Punjabi women in an illuminated manuscript by the Pahari School, Velazquez for Las Meninas and Jan de Bray for The Managers of the Haarlem Orphanage.
And the Oscar goes to... hint: this artist's mastery of details such as the texture of clothing, jewelry and skin is incredible.
Adapted Screenplay
The nominees are: The Bayeux Tapestry, Sacagawea with Lewis and Clark during their expedition of 1804-06 by Newell Convers Wyeth, Delacroix's Dante and Virgil in the Underworld, An Allegory of the Tudor Succession by Lucas de Heere, Watson and the Shark by Copley and the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
And the Oscar goes to... hint: at approx. 225 feet long, it is a beautiful history lesson about the events leading up to a seminal year in modern history, 1066.
