Special Oscar retrospective at Iffi this year

Panaji: ‘Outstanding films’— most of them classics—which have won the best film award at the Academy Awards will be showcased in the

Oscar

Retrospective section during the 50th edition of the International Film Festival of India (

Iffi

) next month.

The special Oscar Retrospective section will celebrate not just films that bagged the top Oscar, but also those that have been nominated in other categories at the Oscars, and won awards in other categories.

They comprise the most popular and evergreen Hollywood

classics

which cinephiles and film enthusiasts can enjoy on a big screen at the festival. The special section will also be a tribute to these all-time classics, made by some of the most respected names in Hollywood.The films to be showcased in this section include Casablanca by Michael Curtiz, Gone With the Wind by Victor Fleming , Ben Hur and The Best Years of our Lives by William Wyler, All About Eve by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lawrence of Arabia by David Lean, The Sound of Music by Robert Wise, The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola, The Silence of the Lambs by Jonathan Demme, and Forrest Gump by Robert Zemeckis.