Oscar’s Best Pictures
November 23rd, 2011
This is a montage of the history of Oscar’s Best Pictures. Hope you enjoy! Let me know what you think! Thanks!
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“Gladiator” winning Best Picture
November 21st, 2011
Michael Douglas presenting producers Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, and Branko Lustig with the Oscar® for Best Picture for “Gladiator” at the 73rd Academy Awards® in 2001.
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Gigi – Trailer [1958] [31st Oscar Best Picture]
November 19th, 2011
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. Gaston, the scion of a wealthy Parisian family finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress of his uncle and her outgoing, tomboy granddaughter, Gigi. When Gaston becomes aware that Gigi has matured into a woman, her grandmother and aunt, who have educated Gigi to be a wealthy man’s mistress, urge the pair to act out their roles but love adds a surprise twist to this delightful turn-of-the 20th century Cinderella story.
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Release: 15 May 1958
Running Time: 116 min
Awards: Won 9 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 5 nominations
Producer: Arthur Freed
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner
Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
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What’s a book(s) you think could win Best Picture at the Oscars if they made a movie adaptation?
November 14th, 2011
I think The Jungle by Upton Sinclair could definitely win. Maybe Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac could win too.
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“Million Dollar Baby” winning Best Picture
November 9th, 2011
Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand presenting producers Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, and Tom Rosenberg with the Oscar® for Best Picture for “Million Dollar Baby” at the 77th Academy Awards® in 2005. Introduced by Chris Rock.
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Sandy’s Picks the Best Picture Oscar
November 7th, 2011
Sandy is all ready for The 83rd Academy Awards by picking this years Best Picture Oscar from the field of “The Kids are All right” “The Fighter” “Inception” “Black Swan” “The King’s Speech” “127 Hours” “The Social Network” “Toy Story 3″ “True Grit” and “Winter’s Bone”
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Midnight Cowboy – Trailer [1969] [42nd Oscar Best Picture]
November 5th, 2011
Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real ‘hustler’, he finds that he is the one getting ‘hustled’ until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial ‘country cousin meets city cousin’ relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend. Written by alfiehitchie
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Release: USA 25 May 1969 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
Awards: Won 3 Oscars. Another 23 wins & 12 nominations
Producer: Jerome Hellman, Kenneth Utt
Director: John Schlesinger
Writer: Waldo Salt (screenplay), James Leo Herlihy (novel)
Cast: Viva , Arthur Anderson, Bob Balaban, Paul Benjamin, Richard Clarke, Linda Davis, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Holland, Barnard Hughes, Paul Jabara, Paul Jasmin, Georgann Johnson, T. Tom Marlow, John McGiver, Taylor Mead, Sylvia Miles, Paul Morrissey, Joan Murphy, Gary Owens, Gil Rankin, Jennifer Salt, Al Scott, Brenda Vaccaro, Ultra Violet, Jon Voight, Ruth White
Genre: Drama
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Is it rare for a movie you like to win best picture at the oscars?
October 10th, 2011
BQ: do you think the kings speech should have won the Oscar for best picture?
BQ: for people who saw the kings speech, do you think it should be rated R
It was rated R based on one scene where the King is practicing getting over stuttering by running off a string of expletives, and that’s the only reason. Colin Firth, who played the King, didn’t feel the studio should’ve re-released it with the scene deleted because he scene was true-to-life and actually part of the King’s speech therapist’s procedure, but they did anyway once it got the Oscar nod. It seems to me there was another nominated picture I’d hoped would win, and now can’t remember what it was, but "King’s Speech" was definitely a worthy contender. Te one I wanted to win was a smaller indie film. It’ll come to me eventually.
euronews cinema – Samoan film to compete for Oscar
October 9th, 2011
http://www.euronews.net/ The first ever Samoan feature film, The Orator – which recently had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival – has been put forward by New Zealand for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language category.
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Grand Hotel – Trailer [1932] [5th Oscar Best Picture]
October 5th, 2011
Berlin’s plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag “People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.”. The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya’s pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company’s lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing’s mistress, Flaemmchen, but she doesn’t end up with either one of them in the end… Written by Gary Jackson
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Release: 11 September 1932
Running Time: 112 min
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 1 win
Producer: Irving Thalberg
Director: Edmund Goulding
Writer: Vicki Baum
Cast: Greta Garbo (Grusinskaya – the Dancer), John Barrymore (The Baron), Joan Crawford (Flaemmchen – the Stenographer), Wallace Beery (General Director Preysing)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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