Rollerball
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Winner of the BAFTA for Best Art Direction in 1976
In 2018, large economic corporations have replaced the states. To channel the population, rollerball championships, a violent sport, aim to promote individual self-abnegation. Veteran player Jonathan E.'s growing popularity undermines this ideology, and everything possible is done to force him out. The investigation he embarks upon leads him to the supercomputers that rule this futuristic society. A must-see in dystopian film.
Norman Jewison
Norman Jewison was a Canadian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter. He was known for directing films which addressed topical social and political issues, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences. Among numerous other accolades, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades, for In the Heat of the Night (1967), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), and Moonstruck (1987). He received the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1999. Born and raised in Toronto, Jewison began his career at CBC Television in the 1950s, moving to the United States later in the decade to work at NBC. He made his feature film debut in 1962, with the comedy 40 Pounds of Trouble, and embarked on a motion picture directing career that spanned over 40 years. His notable films included Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Rollerball (1975), ...And Justice for All (1979), and The Hurricane (1999). In 1988, Jewison founded the Canadian Film Centre. He received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement for his multiple contributions to the film industry in Canada in 2003.
