The British director, whose films have won 10 Oscars and 10 Golden Globes, also explored US race relations withThe US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science called Parker “an extraordinary talent”.
He made his first film for the BBC before blossoming in the 1970s with a rapid succession of standout hits, starting with the unusual 1976 gangster musical comedy, about a US student who was thrown into a Turkish prison for drug smuggling, got Parker his first Oscar nomination., which was spun off into a popular US TV series and led to other dance musical films., whose dark themes and powerful imagery helped build up the British rock group into superstars in 1982.
Parker moved from exploring music to asking questions about US treatment of African-Americans in the Deep South in the 1960s with the 1988 dramaThe film, which was based on the FBI’s investigation into the disappearance of three civil rights leaders, created controversy.
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