America, America is a 1963 Elia Kazan film about a young Greek who leaves his small town in Anatolia in 1900 dreaming of a better life in America. It was directed and written by Kazan, from his own book, and stars Stathis Giallelis , Frank Wolff, Elena Karam and Lou Antonio.
The film was nominated for Oscars for:
and won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White.
In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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