Film about Norman Corwin Wins Oscar.

[Glenn Anders]

In an upset, "A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin" won an Oscar tonight for Best short live action film. Corwin, who is now in his 90's was not there at the Kodak Theater, but he was acknowledged by the makers of the picture from the stage. He continues to write and produce.

In my (usually disastrous) Oscar Predictions at Epinions.com, I wrote:

. . . I remember the great Norman Corwin, now in his 90's, who was Orson Welles' equal, perhaps superior, in advancing American Radio as an art form. Anyone who heard "On a Note of Triumph" (in its own way as cautionary and predictive as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Farewell Address to the Nation") remembers the powerful emotions it evoked -- LIVE -- on V-E Day, 1945. Or Welles and Olivia DeHaviland in Corwin's "14 August," which assessed the entry of the Atom Bomb into human events. When Corwin, that lean, handsome, now a bent genius, comes on camera to be honored (whether he wins or not), I shall rise applauding at the Balboa Theater, where I'm going to take in the Oscars. I plan to have a DVD of this film. Corwin is still writing, still producing, by the way. If you have never heard of him, he and what he created are more important than any of the nominated people and things on Sunday Night. Check him out:

http://www.lodestone-media.com/corwin.html

I did applaud all through the acceptance speech.

And it was one of my relatively few correct predictions.

Glenn

[mteal]

That looks like an interesting documentary. With an Oscar win, there's little doubt it'll get some kind of DVD release. I can remember Welles saying that Norman Corwin was probably the best writer in the history of old-time radio. In addition to 14 AUGUST (aka GOD AND URANIUM WERE ON OUR SIDE in it's expanded edition), Welles also appeared in these other Corwin-scripted shows:
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS
THE PLOT TO OVERTHROW CHRISTMAS
NEW YORK- A TAPESTRY FOR RADIO
JANE EYRE ( 30-minute adaptation for the Mercury Summer Theatre)

[Store Hadji]

Those shows are all fabulous. Corwin was the Walt Whitman of radio's Golden Age. I had no idea he's still around. I have some other episodes of the Columbia Presents Corwin series without Welles. Fantastic stuff. As an original writer, Corwin had no equal. Welles was not in the same league. Welles was a great adaptor, but no teller of original stories.

What's Corwin been up to since 1945? :p

[NoFake]

http://www.normancorwin.com/