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short documentury about georgian silent film star nato vachnadze, Real name Nato Andronikashvili. Mother was Polish. Her father came from an old noble family which has roots from last Byzantine Emperors. She was the megastar of the Soviet screen in the twenties and thirties. Studio Sakhkinmretsvi gave her almost Hollywood splendor and glamour. Her name was on the top of billboards and magazines, and her photos were on the first pages of papers. Red producers created a legend which broke box-offices. It helped studio Sakhkinmretsvi to become the biggest for those days in the Soviet Union
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The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
