The Bridge on the River Kwai order to continue working. As a result, Boulle, who did not speak English, was credited and received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; many years later, Foreman and Wilson posthumously received the Academy Award. The film was widely praised, winning seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture) at the 30th Academy Awards. It used lush colour to bring out the British stiff upper lip of the colonel, played by Alec Guinness in an Oscar-winning performance. In 1997, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library
The End of Time (Doctor Who) The End of Time (Doctor Who) The End of Time is a two-part story made up of the fourth and fifth of five special episodes of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who" broadcast between December 2008 and January 2010. "The End of Time" was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 25 December 2009 and 1 January 2010, and is the fifth "Doctor Who" Christmas special. This is the last story for lead actor David Tennant, who handed over the role of alien time traveller the Doctor to Matt Smith. It is also the last