Black Orpheus [SEP] nominated for
won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the 1960 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film and the 1961 BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In the last case, Brazil was credited together with France and Italy.
Influence.
"Black Orpheus" was cited by Jean-Michel Basquiat as one of his early musical influences, while Barack Obama notes in his memoir "Dreams from My Father" (1995) that it was his mother's
The Einstein Intersection
The Einstein Intersection is a 1967 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1968. Delany's intended title for the book was "A Fabulous, Formless Darkness".
The novel is purportedly influenced by Marcel Camus' 1959 film "Black Orpheus". The protagonist, Lo Lobey, is loosely based on the character of Orpheus, and the character of Kid Death is likewise based on Death