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^^^ Well, The Artist was all sub-titled, too. I was just reading a discussion about that, some are saying that film was the first Foreign Film to win best picture as it was produced by a non-English-speaking country. The film was predominantly financed by France with some money coming from...

Since my remark seems to have offended several people I will offer my reasoning when I wrote it. I was reacting to the meme created all last awards season about Green Book and the numerous attacks on it by people who preferred another film to win Best Picture. It became more about everything...

^^^ One can certainly argue greatness, but repeatability is something I take into account for a great film. I do not care to watch Cries & Whispers again, but I do watch The Sting occasionally. Love everything about it. I'm reading David S. Ward's inspiration for it currently, as a matter of...

I was reading that in the last decade only one Best Director winner was American, too. And his father was born in France. In addition to Parasite beating the odds in that the DGA winner usually wins the Oscar and that no foreign language film had won Best Picture, no film had won the Palme d'Or...

There were at least three separate posts in that vein, as though it shouldn't have won a la Shakespeare in Love and Crash, I thought I'd offer a counter-point. I'm recalling a Wayne Dyer quote: Don't take it personally. Unless it is.

For the first fifty years at least, maybe longer, most people didn't see the films, or saw very few, until after the Oscars had been awarded. The Oscars were like a commercial for movies to go see.

it also won Art Direction.

And stop bashing Green Book. I wanted it to win. I've watched it a few times. And though I don't care for Shakespeare in Love, a lot of people do. And a lot of those people are women.

This might be the best year I've had predicting the he Oscar winners. I got 21 of 24 correct. I was stoked at the end of the evening feeling like I might get 23 of 24, but then... I didn't consider Ho for Best Director as it's almost a given the DGA winner will win the Oscar and I didn't...

Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh were both nominated for their roles as Henry V in adaptations of Shakespeare's Henry V (the 1944 and 1989 versions, respectively). Coincidentally, they both also directed. 2. Anthony Hopkins and Frank Langella were both nominated for playing Richard Nixon "“...

My picks. It is raining pretty hard in Hollywood right now! (WINNER) = What I'm guessing will win. (*) = What I think will win if my choice does not. I didn't include this in all categories. A. BEST PICTURE 1917 (WINNER) Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood (*) B. BEST ACTOR Joaquin Phoenix, JOKER...

If very recently you mean the last ten years... Anytime in the history of the awards when there were more than five Best Picture nominees they've used that system, 1934-1945, and that last.year there were only five nominees.

Since AMPAS kept snubbing Doris Day for an Honorary Award (the public wanted it) it wouldn't surprise me if they left her out, unless there's a Douglas clip of Young Man with a Horn with her in it.

No Foreign Language film has ever won the Oscar for Best Picture and if Roma didn't, I'm pretty confident that Parasite won't. (By the way, I did not care for Roma, but did like Parasite.) Ryan was my preference that year, too, but a lot of people, particularly women, love Shakespeare in Love...

Since they re-instituted the Best British Film category in 1992, until last night only two films had won both that category and Best Film. The King's Speech and 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Jake, I liked your post. You put more time into your post than most actual Oscar voters do each year. After reading it, I'm wondering if a lot of the chatter each year about the Oscars isn't really people looking for solutions to problems that aren't really problems. Here's what I mean... The...

I won't claim to be definitively accurate, but I believe the answer to be no. I can find only two years that had three films with double-digit nominations: 1964 - Mary Poppins (13), Becket (12) and My Fair Lady (12) 1977 - Julia (11), The Turning Point (11) and Star Wars (10)

Bryan, this is what I'll offer. I have many ideas like you about films, as we all do, and what appeals to us all can vary widely. I have a few friends who are in SAG and I get invited to movie screenings many times. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to see movies that I never would've...

Why is there this idea because she's a woman and did this high profile movie she has to be awarded? I'd award her for Ladybird, but not this. Even a lot of people that like Little Women, didn't like the device of the shifting timeline aspect, so she gets a nomination for it?

1917 was not nominated for editing, nor was Birdman which had a similar one-shot technique.