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TB #2: The Best Song Change
A lot of ink, both on this blog and elsewhere, has been spilled already about the major upheaval of the Best Picture category, but little attention has been paid to the other major change the Academy made last week to their nominating procedure. Starting this year, in the Best Song category, there may be 2,…
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OG #5: R.I.P. Karl Malden and Harve Presnell
Oscar winner and former Academy president Karl Malden has passed away. His Oscar was for Best Supporting Actor in 1951 for A Streetcar Named Desire. The UAADB notice is here: http://uaadb.oscarguy.com/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=27;t=11828 We also lost actor Harve Presnell who appeared in musicals Paint Your Wagon, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Annie and the non-musical Fargo. The UAADB…
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1947 at the Oscars
If 1946 cracked open the door for foreign films at the Oscars, 1947 swung it wide open. It wasn’t just the acting, directing and writing categories that were invaded this time, but the sacred domain of the technical world. Two British imports, Great Expectations and Black Narcissus won the Cinematography and Art Direction awards, Great…
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The DVD Report #110
Mae West asked if he was carrying a gun in his pocket or if he was just glad to see her, and a star was born. Audiences have been glad to see him ever since. I’m speaking of course of Cary Grant, whose entire screen career can be traced through the magic of DVD. The…
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1946 at the Oscars
European film-making, which had been suppressed during World War II, re-emerged in earnest after the war. Beginning in 1946, films made at the end of the war, and some that had managed to get made during the war, found their way to the States and Oscar took notice. From the United Kingdom came such films…
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OG #4: The Oscar Hopefuls
Although my annual Oscar Hopefuls page has been put together since some time in March, I haven’t really put much effort into it. Then, Friday, I decided I would finally get it together, encouraged by the rules change in an effort to try and make my impression known on what could come out on top…
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1945 at the Oscars
Handicapping the 1944 Oscars for the ten most likely Best Picture nominees was relatively easy compared to 1945. 1945’s five Best Picture nominees were Anchors Aweigh; The Bells of St. Mary’s; The Lost Weekend; Mildred Pierce and Spellbound. The directors of three of them, Leo McCarey (The Bells of St. Mary’s); Billy Wilder (The Lost…
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Everything Old Is New Again: 1944 at the Oscars
The last time Oscar had ten nominees for Best Picture was way back in 1943. The nominees that year were Casablanca; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Heaven Can Wait; The Human Comedy; In Which We Serve; Madame Curie; The More the Merrier; The Ox-Bow Incident; The Song of Bernadette and Watch on the Rhine, a…
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TB #1: More of the Same?
It seems to me like Wesley could not have picked a better time to start this new blog than right now, the week that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the biggest change to the Oscar set up since at least 2002, if not before. 2002 was the year that the Academy…
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OG #3: The Academy Awards: Top Ten Edition
As everyone in the Oscar world has already heard and spent hours analyzing, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided yesterday to go back to a 1930s/40s model of honoring ten films as the Best Picture nominees of the year. I’m of mixed opinion. First, I’m afraid more limited-quality pictures will make it…
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OG #2: The Film Generations
There are more than a dozen definitions of the word “generation”. Most of them are a purely academic differences, but the decision to call these blogs “The Film Generations” is manifold. Contributing to this blog are people from very different generational backgrounds. Whereas Peter is more of the Baby Boomer era, I’m more akin to…
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The DVD Report #109
It won the National Board of Review award for Best Film of 2008 and numerous international film awards and was an early Oscar favorite for the triple crown of Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary and Best Foreign Film. Alas, Ari Folman’s Israeli film Waltz With Bashir ended up being nominated only in the latter category,…
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OG #1: Welcome to The Oscar Guy Blogs
While it isn’t much yet and we’re still in the process of getting things set up, this will be a primary spot for new and fun information regarding the Oscars, movies, other awards and a myriad other things that pop into our minds. Please be patient as we get things set up.
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The DVD Report #108
No less than three of 1959’s Best Picture Oscar nominees were about the indomitability of the human spirit. Two of them, William Wyler’s Ben-Hur and Fred Zinnemann’s The Nun’s Story, won the lion’s share of the year’s awards, yet it is the third, George Stevens’ The Diary of Anne Frank, that has increased in reputation…
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Review: Push (2009)
Push Rating Director Paul McGuigan Screenplay David Bourla Length 111 min. Starring Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Djimon Hounsou, Camilla Belle, Neil Jackson, Corey Stoll, Scott Michael Campbell, Maggie Siff, Cliff Curtis, Ming-Na, Nate Mooney MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, brief strong language, smoking and a scene of teen drinking. Buy/Rent…
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