Two Soldiers
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Two Soldiers is a 2003 short drama film
directed by Aaron Schneider with a score by Alan Silvestri
. It won an Academy Award in 2004
for Best Short Subject
. It is based on a 1942 short story by William Faulkner
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Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Aaron Schneider with a score by Alan Silvestri
Alan Silvestri
Alan Anthony Silvestri is an American film composer and conductor.-Career:Silvestri is best known for his collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis, having scored Romancing the Stone , the Back to the Future trilogy , Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Death Becomes Her , Forrest Gump , Contact ,...
. It won an Academy Award in 2004
76th Academy Awards
The 76th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films of 2003 and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST, February 29, 2004 . The show was produced by Joe Roth and was hosted for the eighth time by comedian Billy Crystal.The...
for Best Short Subject
Academy Award for Live Action Short Film
This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate...
. It is based on a 1942 short story by William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career...
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Cast
- Jonathan Furr - Willie Grier (as Jonathan 'Furrball' Furr)
- Ben Allison - Pete Grier
- Ron PerlmanRon PerlmanRonald N. "Ron" Perlman is an American television, film and voice over actor. He is known for having played Vincent in the TV series Beauty and the Beast , a Deathstroke figure known as Slade in the animated series Teen Titans, Clarence "Clay" Morrow in Sons of Anarchy, the comic book character...
- Colonel McKellog - David AndrewsDavid Andrews (actor)David Andrews is an American actor, best known for his role as General Robert Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.Andrews was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
- Lieutenant Hogenbeck - Mike Pniewski - Sheriff Foote
- Deacon Dawson - Mr. Grossnickel
- Joanne Pankow - Mrs. Habersham
- Danny Vinson - Pap Grier
- Suellen Yates - Maw Grier
- David Hall - Private
- D. H. Johnson - Colonel's Driver
- Al Wiggins - Man on the Bus
- Allan Hamilton - Bus Driver
- Warren Hendon - Old Man Killegrew (as Warren Jack Hendon)
- Nancy SaundersNancy SaundersNancy Saunders is a former actress of film and television. She appeared in over 20 films between 1946 and 1957.To modern viewers, Saunders is known for her roles in several Three Stooges films from the Shemp Howard era, specifically I'm a Monkey's Uncle and as Lady Godiva in The Ghost...
- Old Lady Killegrew - Lorenzo Meachum - Blues Guitarist
- Lisa Boston - Woman on Street