Film Preview: Bring Them Down (2025)
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TB #3: Summer Science Fiction in the Best Picture Race?
First off, I wanted to thank Peter for the great hypothetical Oscar scenarios he has been running on this board. They have been fun to read, and really have helped put this major change in retrospect for me. The talk on other blogs I have come across the past week is the fact that bloggers…
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1966 at the Oscars
Stage to screen transfers reached their zenith with the release of 1966’s Oscar front-runners, A Man for All Seasons and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Mike Nichols’ film version of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? led the nominations with 13, while Fred Zinnemann’s film of Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons tied…
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1965 at the Oscars
1965 is remembered as the year of The Sound of Music. It opened in the U.S. in March and quickly became the biggest box-office hit since Gone With the Wind. People, it seems, couldn’t get enough of its wholesome charms, going to see it over and over again. By year’s end was a phenomenon around…
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1964 at the Oscars
There was very little suspense at the 1964 Oscars. From the day it opened on Broadway in March, 1956, My Fair Lady was a cultural phenomenon. It spawned two best selling cast recordings, the Original Broadway Cast recording in mono and the 1959 London Cast recording with the same stars, Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews,…
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Tom Sherak elected President of the Academy
Two bits of recent news out of the Academy. The first is that, in a run-off election for the open Directors Branch seat, Edward Zwick has beaten out almost-perennial Oscar director Gil Cates. This was the Academy’s first tie in voting. It’s an interesting turn of events, but has a certain amount of humor in…
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The DVD Report #117
For years now, Hollywood comedies have either had to be raunchy or sentimental or both to sell. The latest case in point is the March hit, I Love You, Man which walks a fine line between the two elements. Written by John Hamburg and Larry Levin and directed by Hamburg, the film starts with the…
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1963 at the Oscars
Handicapping a ten nomine Best Picture race in 1963 becomes more daunting as the Directors Guild drops its by then traditional long list of semi-finalists and announces only the finalists. The DGA finalists for 1963 were Federico Fellini for 8 ½; Elia Kazan for America America; Ralph Nelson for Lilies of the Field; Tony Richardson…
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1962 at the Oscars
1962 has to be one of the oddest years in Oscar history in that only two of the five Best Picture nominees and their directors were nominated – Lawrence of Arabia’s David Lean and To Kill a Mockingbird’s Robert Mulligan. But then, they were the two most likely to win anyway. With ten nominations to…
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1961 at the Oscars
Three films dominated the year-end awards in 1961: West Side Story, Judgment at Nuremberg and La Dolce Vita, with the latter becoming the first serious foreign language contender for a Best Picture Oscar nomination since Grand Illusion way back in 1938. Alas, when the nominations were announced, the Italian film had to settle for just…
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The DVD Report #116
While DVD companies continue to rush recent releases into the marketplace, classic films become harder and harder to find. While we get a few crumbs here and there – the recent screwball comedy sets, the hits and misses form the Warner archives – there are still way too many classics languishing unreleased on commercial DVD…
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1960 at the Oscars
1960 was an interesting year at the Oscars. Adult themes were much more in evidence than ever before. Sex was one of the themes, if not the major one in The Apartment; Sons and Lovers; Home From the Hill; Elmer Gantry; Psycho; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Never…
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The 13th Annual OFTA Television Awards
The winners for the 13th Annual Online Film & Television Association Television Awards have been announced. The following link will take you to the winners list which is led by Mad Men and Grey Gardens. http://ofta.oscarguy.com/Awards.html
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1959 at the Oscars
1959 was a year of many big films – Ben-Hur; North by Northwest; Some Like It Hot; On the Beach; Imitation of Life; The Diary of Anne Frank; Anatomy of a Murder and The Nun’s Story to name a few with room for only five in Oscar’s Best Picture line-up. Four of them, Ben-Hur; The…
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The DVD Report #115
Expectations ran high for The Soloist throughout 2008. Then the film was pulled by Paramount at the last minute and bumped to an April 2009 release date giving the impression there was something wrong with the film. There isn’t. What’s wrong is the proliferation of Oscar prognosticators on the internet who build up expectations for…
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1958 at the Oscars
1958 was an interesting year at the Oscars. The two films now regarded as the greatest of the year, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil were not on Oscar’s short list. Nevertheless some very good films were. Oscar chose to embrace instead, Morton Da Costa’s film of the irrepressible stage hit, Auntie…
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