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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner 1967
The screen best bombshell duo, Tracy and Hepburn where together up until two weeks before he died.,The screen best bombshell duo, Tracy and Hepburn where together up until two weeks before he died.
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How to Predict the Oscars
If you want to predict Oscar winners, here's what UCLA researchers say are the strongest factors in making Oscar predictions and forecasting Academy Award winners!
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Best Foreign Film Oscar
The nominees for Best Foreign Film at the 80th annual Oscars are a varied group, and with La Vie en Rose out of the running, this year's crop has no clear front-runner.
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Daughter Of Troy
Maureen Stapleton died this week at the age of 80. Her list of credits is long - but could have been even longer
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Daughter Of Troy
Maureen Stapleton died last week with over 25 films to her credit - but there could have been one more.
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Elmer Gantry
Burt Lancaster's Oscar winning performance as a dishonest preacher.
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First Oscar Winners
Only 14 statuettes were handed out, but the recipients - Louis Milestone, Janet Gaynor & Charles Chaplin, among them - are still well known to classic movie fans today.
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French Actress 2007 Oscar Winner
Thirty-two year old Marion Cotillard is the 2007 best actress Oscar winner for her role in the movie "La vie en rose." Is she about to become an international star?
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Great World War II Movies
The movies made during the war, even the classics, emphasized patriotism. The perspective of time introduced more realism.
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Oscar Winner Luise Rainer
After winning best actress awards for "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936) and "The Good Earth" (1937), Luise Rainer's acting career faded, much of it due to her strong beliefs.
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Oscar Winners 2005
The Aviator won six out of the eleven awards that it was nominated for, sweeping the night, thickly-browed director Martin Scorsese however was again snubbed for the honour.
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Oscar Winners for Best Picture - 1950s/1960s
In two decades, the last filled with political and social unrest, movies went from dramas and romances to epics and musicals. The Academy Awards reflected these changes.
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Oscar Winners for Direction - 1950s/1960s
The 1950s and 1960s saw several records for film directing set. It was also a period when several directing veterans affirmed their place in movie history.
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Oscar Winners from the Early 1970s
These Oscar winning best pictures from 1970 to 1974 included a war movie, a buddy-cops film, one featuring an elaborate scam, and the two best gangster movies ever made.
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Oscar Winners from the Early 2000s
The films included a Roman spectacular, a bio-pic, the first musical to win since 1968, the conclusion of a Tolkien epic, and a boxing movie that was more than that.
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Oscar Winners from the Late 1960s
These five best picture winners from the first half of the 1960s included two musicals, an historical epic, a racial drama, and the only X-Rated film to win an Oscar.
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Oscar Winners Now Include Fans
Win a trip to the Oscars; FREAKS AND GEEKS is cancelled; ONE LIFE TO LIVE has a special episode; This Week in TV History; and my television viewing picks for the week.
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Oscar Winners of the Early 1990s
These years are memorable in that all five best pictures from this period also appear on the American Film Institute's original list of 100 best American movies.
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Recent Oscar Winners and Nominees
Movie buffs who love Oscar trivia and movies in general may already know all,or most, of these tidbits. For others, it may give new insight into Academy Awards history.
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The 20 Greatest of the Best Picture Oscar Winners
Of the 71 Best Picture winning films, what are the 20 greatest of those films?
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The Shattered Dreams of Joe Buck and Ratso Rizzo
Midnight Cowboy, the groundbreaking film about the dismal street life of New York City.
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Oscar Trivia: Do You Know the Answers About Movies?
A series of Oscar trivia which will give you some extra knowledge at your next Oscar party!
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A Woman Who Knows How To Believe
Cher has had a powerful impact on the music and film industries. After being away from both for a short time, she's back-- better than ever.
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Academy Award Winners from the Late 1980s
Although these best films from the late 1980s did not leave as rich a legacy as other decades, the Academy did select some good, if not great, movies.
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Academy Awards History and Trivia
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will shortly name the 2008 nominees for the Oscars. Now's time to test your knowledge of winners from the 1920s & 1930s.
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AMPAS honours Norman McLaren
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents "A Salute to Norman McLaren" on August 18 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills.
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Oscar Winning Movies from the Late 1990s
Although not all the Oscar winners from the later 1990s were as good as those from the first half of the decade, most were entertaining and are worth at least one viewing
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The Academy Award Winners That Should Have Been: Part 1
With the 73rd Academy Awards now a memory, I present the first film in a new series where I discuss and defend truly great motion pictures which failed to receive major Academy Award recognition because they were deemed too controversial at the time ... this week, I begin a 2-part review and defense of one of the most controversial of all time ... Martin Scorsese's masterpiece, <i>The Last Temptation of Christ</i>.
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The Last King of Scotland Review
Forest Whitaker lands his Oscar winning portrayal of General Idi Amin in the film adaptation of the book The Last King of Scotland - available on DVD April 17th.
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Academy Awards Youngest and Oldest
No other twenty year period in Academy Awards history probably had such a wide range of ages among its Oscar nominees. Here they are from Tatum O'Neal to Groucho Marx.
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50 Greatest Oscar Moments Of The 20th Century : Countdown Numbers 50 to 41
This week, the countdown begins for the 50 greatest moments in Academy Awards history! This week, the bottom ten that just made the cut.
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Academy Award Firsts - 1940s
The 1940s saw several firsts that became part of Academy Award history and trivia. From the first foreign film Oscar to the youngest director to receive a nomination.
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Acting in Film by Michael Caine
Michael Caine's master class on acting in film is still relevant after 20 years and contains information about role preparation, behavior, professionalism and other tips.
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Best Acting Oscars - 1950s/1960s
The 1950s and 1960s Oscar winning actors were a mixture of old and new faces including the first African-American actor to receive an Oscar.
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First Recap of the 71st Academy Awards 1999
A recap of Sunday's 71st Academy Awards, going over the films that won, the worthwhile moments, and memorable events.
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Girly: The 1969 Cult Classic
Directed by two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Freddie Francis and starring Vanessa Howard, this rare comedy/horror cult classic is still waiting for its due.
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Oscar Gold and Film Structure
Film structure and writing for an Oscar.
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Pixar Short Films Collection 1
Pixar has taken 13 of their best animated short films and compiled them onto a single DVD or Blu-Ray disc. Due in Region 2 October 8th.
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Some 1950s Oscar Nominees and Winners
An African-American actress nominated for her role in a musical and a man who was nominated twice as best actor after he had died were among the unusual Oscar highlights.
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The Top Ten Oscar Moments of the 20th Century: Countdown Numbers 10 to 6
Now we're down to the final two weeks of the series, as we reveal our choices for the ten most memorable and best Academy Awards moments of the 20th century! This week, numbers 10 to 6 ...
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A Great Week for Awards to American Beauty
This past week, American Beauty dominated the last of the major Oscar precursors, winning big at the Screen Actors and Director's Guild, and by the Chicago Film Critics.
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Nominations for 77th Annual Academy Awards
Oscar-winner Adrian Brody (The Pianist, and upcoming pictures The Village and The Jacket) will join Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Frank Pierson on January 25th to announce the 77th Annual Academy Award nominees. Brody is the youngest male performer to win a leading actor Oscar.
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Celebrities Bumps Again
It must still be in the water. In last week's post Golden Globes review I mentioned some celebrity moms (and dads)-to-be prominent at the GG Awards show.
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The 13 Worst Moments in Academy Awards History
Time to reflect back on the moments that did NOT make Oscar proud ... the worst moments from Oscar's first 71 years.
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9 animators join Academy
Hayao Miyazaki, Steve Box, John Canemaker among the 9 animators invited to join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and vote for next year's Oscars.
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Bill Kovacs (1948 - 2006)
Computer animation pioneer dies in his sleep at age 58.
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Robin Williams Enters Rehab
High-profile, beloved actor enters rehab for alchol abuse
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Celebrities and their Charities
From Idol Gives Back to Oprah's Big Give to Angelina's work with the UN, stars are working 'for a good cause' like never before
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Celebrity Scraps
A grab-bag of troubling developments in the celebrity world this week: Kudos for bad behaviour; Paris Hilton’s new CD. Ugh.
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Christmas Cheer- Selected Holiday Specials
A collection of family-friendly movies, specials and special episodes to air this holiday season, on American and Canadian television.


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