What Each Best Picture Winner Tells Us About Hollywood
A new video posted by All Talking Pictures on Youtube is an excellent, must-watch overview of the history of Best ...
Tag: oscar history
Oscar History: American Experience profiles Walt Disney
Very brief programming alert. Tonight and tomorrow, Sept 14-15, PBS American Experience will be airing a 2-part profile of Walt ...
Fandor’s “Alternative History” of the Academy Awards
Our friends at Fandor have created a cool digital flip book detailing an "alternative history" of the Academy Awards. In ...
Our Shawshank, Our Selves
On September 10, 1994, Frank Darabont debuted The Shawshank Redemption at the Toronto Film Festival. Two weeks later it opened ...
Summer of ’82: Today is tomorrow’s nostalgia
32 years ago today. Friday June 25, 1982. Newborn Prince William was 3 days old. Sidney Lumet was celebrating his ...
William Friedkin on casting The Exorcist
Harper has made available a generous excerpt from William Friedkin's newly published autobiography, The Friedkin Connection. Anyone familiar with Sidney ...
The State of the Race: Climbing the tree and finding Best Picture, branch by branch
In the circle of gal pals we're playfully calling Oscar's Angels, I discuss with Anne, Thelma and Susan the Best ...
Learning Oscar history off the Tee-Vee news
True or False: "Peter Guber has earned 50 Oscar nominations" (Answer: Number of Oscar nominations earned by Peter Guber)
83rd annual Oscars to revisit 1970 template?
(Which of these filmmakers actually won the Oscar they're posing with?) As already reported tonight, the Academy is discarding the ...
All About Eve gets Blu-ray makeover
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced that it will bring the 1950 classic All About Eve to Blu-ray on ...
Studios to AMPAS: Fix your shit quick, or else.
Last night I made an off-the-cuff remarks about how I wouldn't mind if the Oscars just went full retard this ...
It’s a honor just to be nominated… (dammit)
There's a Thai saying that translates roughly as "pick your face up off the floor." Good subtitle for this Salon ...
Tally ho!
THE JOKER: It's not about money. It's about sending a message... Well, ok. It's a little bit about the money. ...
Interesting that you guys have Elvis winning the two exact categories that Moulin Rouge did. And MR got the exact…
I like Top Gun: Maverick quite a bit but it's odd to me that it was pushed for best picture…
Let put EEAAO into perspective shall we? -virtually NO central character definition that truly stands out and ANY sincerity even…
yes, but when average movie goer goes and tell you, he almost fell asleep... there's a problem, there, to appeal…
although I didn't hate it, in fact finding it charming in some places, in all honesty many should be able…
