A speaker at VIESHA won an Academy Award for what 1969 film?
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VEISHEA VEISHEA (pronounced "VEE-sha") was an annual week-long celebration held each spring on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The celebration featured an annual parade and many open-house demonstrations of the university facilities and departments. Campus organizations exhibited products, technologies, and hold fund raisers for various charity groups. In addition, VEISHEA brought speakers, lecturers, and entertainers to Iowa State, and throughout its over eight-decade history it has hosted such distinguished guests as Bob Hope, John Wayne, Tony Bruno, Presidents Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, and Lyndon Johnson, and performers Diana Ross, Mike Jones (rapper), Billy Joel, Sonny and Cher, the Goo Goo Dolls and The Black Eyed Peas. VEISHEA was the largest student run festival in the nation, bringing in tens of thousands of visitors to the campus each year.
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John Wayne Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed Duke, was an American actor and filmmaker. An Academy Award-winner for "True Grit" (1969), Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades.
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1959 in film The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with "Ben-Hur" winning a record 11 Academy Awards.
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1969 in film The year 1969 in film involved some significant events, with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" dominating the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time and "Midnight Cowboy", a film rated X, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Juicio de faldas Juicio de faldas is a 1969 Spanish motion picture. The film was directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, and stars Manolo Escobar, Concha Velasco, José Sazatornil, and Gracita Morales.
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27th Golden Globe Awards The 27th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1969 films, were held on February 2, 1970.
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21st Directors Guild of America Awards The 21st Directors Guild of America Awards were given on 22 February 1969.
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Spain Again Spain Again (Spanish: España otra vez ) is a 1969 Spanish drama film directed by Jaime Camino. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 41st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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The Trouble with Girls (film) The Trouble with Girls, the full title of which is The Trouble with Girls (and How to Get into It), is a 1969 film starring Elvis Presley. It was one of his final acting roles, along with the same year's "Change of Habit". It is based on the 1960 novel "Chautauqua" by Day Keene and Dwight Vincent Babcock.
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The Upthrown Stone The Upthrown Stone (Hungarian: "Feldobott kő" ) is a 1969 Hungarian drama film directed by Sándor Sára. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. The film was also selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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Dionysus in '69 Dionysus in '69 is a 1970 film by Brian De Palma. The film records a performance of The Performance Group's stage play of the same name, an adaptation of "The Bacchae". It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Varakatnam Varakatnam is a 1969 Telugu film directed by N. T. Rama Rao. It was awarded National Film Award for the best film in Telugu language category in 1969. The film is based on the widely prevalent custom of "Varakatnam" in the telugu society of those times.Varakatnam means Dowry.
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All My Compatriots All My Compatriots, also known as All My Countrymen (Czech: "Všichni dobří rodáci" ), is a 1968 Czechoslovak film directed by Vojtěch Jasný. Considered the "most Czech" of his contemporary filmmakers, Jasný's style was primarily lyricist. It took nearly 10 years to complete the script and it was his greatest work. The film was banned and the director went into exile rather than recant. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival where Jasný won the award for Best Director.
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68th Academy Awards The 68th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1995 in the United States and took place on March 25, 1996, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Quincy Jones and directed by Jeff Margolis. Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the second time, having previously presided over the 66th ceremony in 1994. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Richard Dreyfuss.
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La Vida continúa La Vida continúa is a 1969 Argentine film.
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An Event An Event (Croatian: "Događaj" ) is a 1969 Yugoslav feature film directed by Vatroslav Mimica, based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
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Metti, una sera a cena Metti, una sera a cena (a.k.a. "One Night at Dinner" and "Love Circle") is a 1969 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
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Any Second Now Any Second Now is a 1969 TV film starring Stewart Granger and Lois Nettleton. It was directed by Gene Levitt. The film score was composed by Leonard Rosenman.
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Khamoshi Khamoshi (Hindi: ख़ामोशी, Urdu: خاموشی, translation: "Silence") is a 1969 black-and-white Hindi drama film directed by Asit Sen, starring Waheeda Rehman and Rajesh Khanna. It especially remembered for its songs with excellent music by Hemant Kumar and some excellent lyrics by Gulzar in songs like "Tum pukar lo…tumhara intezaar hai" sung by Hemant Kumar, "Woh shaam kuch ajeeb thi" by Kishore Kumar and "Humne dekhi hai in aankhon ki mehekti khushboo" sung by Lata Mangeshkar. Though what really made this film stand out was the B&W cinematography by Kamal Bose, who won the Filmfare Award for his work in the film and critical acclaim received for Rajesh Khanna's performance. The film is considered Waheeda Rehman's finest acting feat, as she carries the entire film through her powerful yet understated acting, she received a Filmfare nomination for it. This movie is often considered to be most successful film of Waheeda Rehman box-office wise as it ran due to the craze for Rajesh Khanna.
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Change of Mind Change of Mind (1969) is a science fiction/drama film starring Raymond St. Jacques, Susan Oliver, Janet MacLachlan, and Leslie Nielsen.
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Kanku Kanku is a 1969 Gujarati social drama film, starring Kishore Bhatt, Kishore Jariwala, Pallavi Mehta, directed by Kantilal Rathod. The film was adapted from Pannalal Patel's short story of the same name. The film won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Gujarati at the 17th National Film Awards.
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Topaz (1969 film) Topaz is a 1969 American espionage thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on the 1967 Cold War novel "Topaz" by Leon Uris, the film is about a French intelligence agent who becomes entangled in the Cold War politics of the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and later the breakup of an international Soviet spy ring in France. The story is closely based on the 1962 Sapphire Affair, which involved the head of French Intelligence SDECE in the United States, and spy Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli—a friend of Leon Uris—who played an important role in "helping the U.S. discover the presence of Russian offensive missiles in Cuba". The film stars