'Kon-Tiki' Remake Nominated For Academy Award
The nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were announced Thursday from Beverly Hills, Lincoln leading many worthy films with 12 Oscar nominations. Janson Media was particularly excited to see a nod for Best Foreign Language Film go to Kon-Tiki of 2012. The film about an anthropologist that develops an widely unsupported theory that native Polynesians came originally from the Americas rather than Asia is a modern remake of the classic film from the Janson Media catalog, also an Academy Award winner (Best Documentary).
Kon-Tiki (1 x 60') is the classic Academy-Award winning documentary film of an astonishing adventure, a journey spanning 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, Norwegian biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by the mythical hero Kon-Tiki.
On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and his five crew members embarked from Peru on their daring voyage to the Marquesas Islands, on a balsa wood raft which was built according to the traditions of South America"s pre-Columbian Indians. After 101 suspenseful days on the open sea, alone amid raging storms, whales, and countless sharks, they landed on the Polynesian island of Raroia.
You can watch the original Kon-Tiki documentary in it's entirety on HULU.
For a complete list of this years nominees, visit the Academy website.
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