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America, America Overview:

America, America (1963) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Elia Kazan and Charles H. Maguire.

America, America was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2001.

Academy Awards 1963 --- Ceremony Number 36 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best DirectorElia KazanNominated
Best PictureElia Kazan, ProducerNominated
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America, America Quotes:

Aratoon Kebabian: [Sleepily in his bed aboard ship] Bertha... how do flies get on a ship?
Garabet: [Talking about money] Now then, big money. Big money is fertile. It procreates. How I don't know. But it reproduces itself. Every time you look, there's more, but there's only two ways men like us can get big money... steal it, or, if you're young, marry. But you can't get it by work.
Garabet: [Philosophically] There's too much dirt for a broom.
Aratoon Kebabian: [to Stavros] You know, I've never seen a face like you except in a cage.
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America, America Facts
Of all the films he had directed, this one was Elia Kazan's favorite film, as it was very personal to him.
Kazan speaks the credits at the end but omits voicing his own name.
Estelle Helmsley, who plays the Greek grandmother, was actually an African-American actress.
Kazan began shooting in Istanbul, but was concerned that Turkish officials would object to some of the material content and moved his base of production to Greece.
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