weblogs.variety.com - 7/2/2009
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A film historian of the 60s and 70s sent me his best guesses at what ten best Oscar lists would have been between 1967 and 1979. What's fascinating, assuming he's making reasonably inside-ballpark calls here, is that adding five sometimes improves the choices, and often does not. But while my ...
guardian.co.uk - 6/29/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
Oscars committee ratifies decision to only bestow the
music award in years when there is a worthy
nominee It retains the dubious distinction of boasting a list of past winners that includes Phil Collins and Celine Dion. Now the Oscar for best song ...
And the Oscar for best song goes to ... no one
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Counting to ten
In Contention —
... Anne Thompson, however, offers by far the most interesting backward-glancing “what-if” piece I’ve yet read, in which an unnamed (but clearly authoritative) film historian digs a little further back to consider what a ten-nominee Best Picture category might have looked like in the years from 1967 to 1979. ...
Were 1967-1979 Oscar's Most Fascinating Years?
Film Experience Blog —
Anne Thompson has a detailed piece up on the Oscars that I meant to link to yesterday (I was at the movies instead of blogging. Yay, me!). It's detailing what a film historian acquaintance of hers thinks might have happened had there been 10 Best Picture nominees during the Academy's most provocative decade (roughly speaking, the 1970s). And speaking of those years... If you haven't yet heeded my advice and bought your copy of the instant classic " ...
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The Oscars is cutting the good stuff out of the show
seriouslyomg.com 6/29/2009 —
Last week AMPAS announced that they were going to make the show longer by nominating 10 films for Best Picture (stupid idea) and this week they announced what will be missing from the telecast. The first thing (which really p!sses me ...
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filmexperience.blogspot.com 7/2/2009 — A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947 [ via ] This past week has been very rough on the entertainment industry and our cultural history. Today, with Karl Malden's death, we've lost the last remaining principal cast member of Tennessee William's ...
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The Wrap RSS 6/30/2009
Seth Rogen, Danny Boyle also among 134 new Oscar invitees for 2009. By Amy Kaufman The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 134 artists, executives and members of the film community to become a part of its ranks on Tuesday.
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