Jirí Menzel
- Biography
- With his debut feature film Closely Watched Trains (1966), Czechoslovakian filmmaker Jiøí Menzel became an important member in Czech New Wave cinema and won an Academy Award.
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- Born
- February 23, 1938
Awards
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
| Year | Result | Award | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Nominated | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
Best Foreign Language Film Vesnicko Má Stredisková |
| 1967 | Won | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
Best Foreign Language Film Closely Watched Trains |
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
| Year | Result | Award | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Nominated | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
Best Picture Closely Watched Trains |
Directors Guild of America
| Year | Result | Award | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Nominated | Directors Guild of America |
Best Director Closely Watched Trains |
Venice International Film Festival
| Year | Result | Award | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Won | Venice International Film Festival |
Gold Medal of the Presidency of the Senate The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin |
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REVIEW | Dite-moi: Jiri Menzel's "I Served the King of England"
08/26/08 For the last decade American movie audiences have been bludgeoned so mercilessly with poorly and vacuously executed whimsy ("We're drowning in quirk," Michael Hirschorn famously wrote in the September 2007 issue of Atlantic Monthly , and I wholeheartedly agree) that an even partially successful excursion into magical realism like Czech New Waver Jiri Menzel 's " I Served the King of England " comes as nearly a relief, a rare contemporary example of how fanciful, wide-eyed filmmaking can be employed not simply for the sake of ironic condescension or set design window-dressing but for genuine emotional and political exploration. | indieWIRE