Film Critics Announce Award for Upstream
January 10, 2011—The National Society of Film Critics presented the NFPF a 2010 Film Heritage Award for the rediscovery of John Ford’s Upstream (1927), one of 75 American silent-era films returned from the New Zealand Film Archive this past year. The award honors the many organizations that collaborated in the restoration of this long-lost feature, most notably the Academy Film Archive, New Zealand Film Archive, Park Road Post Production, and Twentieth Century Fox. Many thanks to NFPF consultants Leslie Lewis and Brian Meacham (AFA), who inspected thousands of feet of nitrate film on behalf of the American archival community.