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There are a lot of reasons I wish I was 10 years old again — the free food and lodging, the still-tempered cynicism, the safe knowledge that there were only three Indiana Jones movies — but chief among them on this Oscar Nomination Eve is that if I was, I’d have the 1993 Academy Award […]
Class of 1993
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:05 pm · January 24th, 2011
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LIFE WITHOUT OSCAR: 1993 and 1994
Posted by Chad Hartigan · 4:52 pm · November 23rd, 2010
Catch up with the idea behind this series here. 1993 was the year I first became interested in making movies and tracking box office. There are two words responsible for both and they rhyme with Yourassic Lark. The director of that beast would also helm our Best Picture winner that year, finally earning the Academy’s […]
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THE LISTS: The top 10 Best Picture winners of all time
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:30 am · September 22nd, 2009
With the Oscar season officially here it seemed only logical to dedicate an installment of The Lists to the little golden guy. And as we push forward past the fests and into the thick of it, I figured the best idea would be a broad assessment of the Academy’s chosen best through the years, a […]
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Could Kubrick’s Holocaust film get made after all?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:39 am · August 10th, 2009
“Aryan Papers” is a title that is probably familiar to keen students of the great Stanley Kubrick, representing as it does a sadly missed opportunity in his abruptly curtailed career. For the uninformed, however, it’s the name of a Holocaust-themed Kubrick screenplay that he was due to direct for Warner Bros. in early 1990s, before […]
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The films you’re supposed to love, but don’t
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:49 am · July 24th, 2009
Bound to raise many a film buff’s hackles, The Guardian carries an entertaining piece today by novelist Tim Lott on the subject of “the worst best films ever made” — in other words, the roundly lauded and canonized classics that routine appear on “all-time greatest” lists but, well, simply aren’t all that. It’s a wholly […]
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More history than that
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:29 am · February 1st, 2009
Sasha Stone points out a bit of sweep trivia that an Awards Daily reader passed her way. But I think it goes even deeper than a SAG/DGA/BAFTA/Globe/BFCA sweep. To the best of my knowledge, the only film to ever FULLY dominate by winning the WGA, PGA, DGA, Golden Globe, USC Scripter and BAFTA — six […]
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And often, the Academy gets it right…
Posted by John Foote · 10:53 am · July 30th, 2008
As much as I rant about some of the bizarre choices made by the Academy, let’s be fair…there are times when they are right on the money. The AMPAS allowed for an embracing of the New American cinema with their awards for Best Picture and Best Director for “Midnight Cowboy” in 1969, and only they […]
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Best of the 90’s
Posted by John Foote · 7:43 am · July 4th, 2008
Time is the enemy of all films as it erodes what was once exciting and original. Truly great movies are able to withstand the test of time, but I wonder if enough time has passed to take a look back at the 1990s cinema and make some decisions. There was a major breakthrough in the decade with […]
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