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1971 at the Oscars
1971 continued the Oscar trend of nominating two bold, innovative films (A Clockwork Orange; The Last Picture Show), two decidedly old-fashioned entertainments (Fiddler on the Roof; Nicholas and Alexandra) and one somewhere in-between (The French Connection). The New York Film Critics led off awards season with a Best Picture nod to Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork…
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1970 at the Oscars
1970 was somewhat of a replay of 1969 at the Oscars, albeit one with a different outcome. Again there were two critically acclaimed films embraced younger audiences and Academy members (Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H and Bob Rafelson’s Five Easy Pieces), two by the older crowd (Franklin J. Schaffner’s Patton and George Seaton’s Airport) and one squarely…
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1969 at the Oscars
Oscar said goodbye to the turbulent sixties with a curious batch of Best Picture nominees – the new, bold and daring were represented by Midnight Cowboy and Z, the old-fashioned and safe by Anne of the Thousand Days and Hello, Dolly! and the middle-of-the-road by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Now that the Hollywood…
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The DVD Report #119
Tony Gilroy has been a busy man this year. He not only wrote and directed Duplicity (reviewed here last week) but co-wrote this week’s top DVD release, State of Play, as well. Kevin Macdonald’s film version of the 2003 British TV miniseries of the same name crosses the Atlantic, moving the location of the original…
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1968 at the Oscars
1968 was a year of surprises at the Oscars. Early on, Paul Newman, who had failed to win any of the four times he was nominated for Best Actor looked like he might finally win as Best Director for Rachel, Rachel. He had won the New York Film Critics Award and the Golden Globe and…
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1967 at the Oscars
The 1967 Oscar ceremony had to be postponed a week due to the assassination of Martin Luther King. Appropriately the winning film was In the Heat of the Night about a black detective from Philadelphia who joins forces with a redneck sheriff to solve a murder in the deep South. The Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger starrer,…
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The DVD Report #118
I’m of two minds about Duplicity, the new crime thriller from Tony Gilroy, the long time screenwriter who won writing and directing Oscar nominations for his directorial debut Michael Clayton. On the one hand, it’s nice to have smart, witty dialogue delivered in high style by a cast of gifted actors. On the other hand,…
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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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