Oscar History: October 23 (2026)
Looking at Film from Every Angle
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1985 at the Oscars
Something happened to 1985’s most eagerly anticipated film on the way to the Oscars. Though it won an impressive eleven nominations, its director was ignored and the film itself ended up losing in every category it was nominated for. Steven Spielberg’s film of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Color Purple, did not start…
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1984 at the Oscars
Two films by former Oscar winning directors dominated the 1984 awards season. Daivd Lean, who previously won for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrenece of Arabia, was represented by A Passage to India while Milos Forman, who previously won for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was represented by Amadeus. Lean’s elaborate production…
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The DVD Report #127
It’s a sad commentary on the current state of movie affairs when a by-the-numbers romantic comedy is hailed as the “best comedy of the year”, but The Proposal is nevertheless a pleasant time-killing experience thanks to the charm of its stars. Sandra Bullock is a cold fish publishing executive whose Canadian visa has expired. In…
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Oscar Show Producers Announced…
The Academy has announced the producers of this year’s telecast. Basically, the guys behind Coraline, Dark Water, Hairspray, Bedtime Stories and The Wedding Planner are producing. I know this might be exciting news for fans of crappy movies (yes, I realize Hairspray’s a good movie and everything I’ve heard about Coraline is it’s wonderful, but…),…
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The DVD Report #126
Paramount has re-mastered Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic, Chinatown in high definition but has released it only on standard DVD, presumably to make more money when they get around to producing a Blu-ray in another year or two. The perfect film noir, it was made thirty years after the genre peaked but with situations and themes…
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65 Countries in Competition for 2009 Foreign Language Film Oscar®
Here’s the press release. I’ll have more about it later when I have time to look at the list. Beverly Hills, CA (October 15, 2009) — Sixty-five countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards®, Academy President Tom Sherak announced today. The 2009 submissions are: Albania,…
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The DVD Report #125
Today’s kids are raised on full length animated features on DVD practically from birth.They tend to develop favorites at an early age without any understanding of a particular film’s place in history.After all, what parent is going to entertain an infant with films in proper chronological order? I was fortunate enough to have seen Snow…
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1983 at the Oscars
Domestic dramas were in vogue at the 1983 Oscars and indeed, throughout the year-end awards season. The National Board of Review got things started things rolling by naming TV director James L. Brooks’ first theatrical film, Terms of Endearment the year’s best, but the film won in what was a surprise tie with Betrayal, the…
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1982 at the Oscars
The Academy continued the historical trend it began the year before with Chariots of Fire in giving the 1982 Oscar to Gandhi but Gandhi was one of three films in a very tight race. Steven Spielberg’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial started off awards season with its win from The Los Angeles Film Critics, which also named…
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The DVD Report #124
Things change. The world today is not the same as we knew it even just a few years ago. One thing that remains constant is old movies. Everyone, I suppose, remembers the first time they saw The Wizard of Oz. For me, the year was 1949. I was five year old, the film was already…
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1981 at the Oscars
The 1981 Oscar race was generally expected to be a showdown between Warren Beatty’s Reds, a critically acclaimed historical drama about American expatriate journalist, John Reed, and On Golden Pond, Mark Rydell’s much loved film version of the stage hit featuring the first ever teaming of screen legends Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn. The L.A.…
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1980 at the Oscars
By the end of the 1980s several critics’ polls had declared Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull to be one of the greatest films ever made and the best film of the decade. That it was a good movie was never in dispute, but it is a cold, distant, difficult to like film, especially when compared with…
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1979 at the Oscars
1979 was the first year in which the L.A. and N.Y. Film critics agreed on the year’s Best Picture – the domestic drama, Kramer vs. Kramer, though they disagreed on Best Director. L.A. went with Kramer’s Robert Benton while the N.Y. group went with Woody Allen for the second time in three years, for Manhattan.…
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The DVD Report #123
The quality of TV drama has never been better than it is right now, but the ways in which people watch their favorite series have changed dramatically over the years. From the late 1940s through the 1970s, three major networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, dominated broadcast TV in the U.S. Although PBS and local channels…
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1978 at the Oscars
The 1978 Oscar race is best remembered as the year of the dueling Vietnam War movies but it almost didn’t happen. Universal had planned The Deer Hunter for a February 1979 release and didn’t decide on limited New York and L.A. runs in mid-December until late November. The L.A. Film critics were the first to…
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