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Noir Noir: Oscar Omission – Barbara Stanwyck It’s about that time again – awards season! My favorite time of year. As I write this, I’m in the midst of my annual quest to see as many Oscar-nominated films and peformances as possible. (Luckily, with streaming, I’m now able to see all of read more

I walked into Barbie with sky-high expectations. I had been tracking the career of its co-screenwriter (and Greta Gerwig’s spouse) Noah Baumbach since 1995’s Kicking and Screaming played on my VCR in college. My roommates and I–and my sister–had fallen deeply and completely i read more

It’s that time again–my chance to rant about the films that shouldn’t have been nominated and moan about better films that weren’t. Next time, I’ll discuss Oscar nominees I loved or at least liked. But for this post, I’m going to embrace the snark. Past Lives. If read more

Noir Nook: Oscar Omission – Edward G. Robinson One of my favorite times of the year is awards season. For years now, as soon as the Academy Awards are announced, I set upon a quest to see as many Oscar-nominated films and performances as possible. And I’m pleased to say that in 2022, because read more

Noir Nook: Oscar Omission – Edward G. Robinson One of my favorite times of the year is awards season. For years now, as soon as the Academy Awards are announced, I set upon a quest to see as many Oscar-nominated films and performances as possible. And I’m pleased to say that in 2022, because read more

Oscar Season: Walter Huston in The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) On March 26, 2022 By CarolIn Uncategorized Image in doctomacro It’s Oscar season! Woohoo! I was going through the Garden’s previous Oscar posts, and I realized I have never talked ab read more

Six classics, zero Oscar nominations On February 13, 2020February 13, 2020 By CarolIn Uncategorized It’s Oscar season! For the past four years during the month of February, I’ve talked about Oscar races – Best Actress of 1942/43 and Best Su read more

OK, so Carole Lombard never won an Academy Award. That's not stopping Turner Classic Movies from including her in its 31 Days Of Oscar celebration tomorrow night.At 8 p.m. (Eastern), TCM will show the 1942 Ernst Lubitsch classic dark comedy "To Be Or Not To Be," whose only Oscar nomination came for read more

Classic Conversations: Oscar Winners Sandy Powell and John Myhre on How the Classic Film Inspired Their Work on ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins (1964) and Emily Blunt in Mary Poppins Returns (2018) Mary Poppins was one of the first films I saw in a movie theater as a child read more

STARDUST AND SHADOWS takes a brief break from our content to offer an opinion of on the troubled institution for Film fans which of course is The Academy Awards. Unless you live some place where there is no News or frankly you really “don’t give a damn” you would know that the Aca read more

Silêncio de ouro: filmes mudos no Oscar / Golden silence: silent films at the Oscars O primeiro prêmio da Academia para Melhor Produção foi dado para o maravilhoso sucesso de público “Asas” (1927). No ano seguinte, com o som invadindo Hollywood, o vencedor do prêmio foi um read more

31 Days of Oscar Blogathon – Best Supporting Actress nominees of 1952/53 On February 23, 2019 By CarolIn Uncategorized I’ll be honest with you, out of the four acting categories at the Oscars, Best Supporting Actress is probably my least fa read more

Time again for our best bib and tucker as Once Upon A Screen, Outspoken and Freckled, and Paula's Cinema Club host the gala blogathon 31 Days of Oscar. Thanks, Aurora, Kellee, and Paula! Irving Berlin, born Israel Isadore Baline May 11, 1888 - September 22, 1989  A poor lad from a read more

It's that wonderful time of year! Paula's Cinema Club, Outspoken and Freckled, and Once Upon a Screen are our hosts for the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon. Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.   During his Hollywood career, Merian C. Cooper produced a variety of quality films, but is most reve read more

It's that wonderful time of year! Paula's Cinema Club, Outspoken and Freckled, and Once Upon a Screen are our hosts for the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon. During his Hollywood career, Merian C. Cooper produced a variety of quality films, but is most revered for the creation of King Kong. 1935s Sh read more

Celebrating Oscar Month with Kino Lorber! DVD/Blu-Ray Giveaway, Winner’s Choice of 4 Classic Titles Now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our Kino Lorber Oscar Giveaway Contest! This time we’ll be giving away TWO Kino Classic titles via Facebook and this blog, courtesy of Kino Lorber. Each read more

Celebrating Oscar Month with Kino Lorber! DVD/Blu-Ray Giveaway, Winner’s Choice of 4 Classic Titles This month we celebrate the Oscars courtesy of Kino Lorber! We are happy to say that we have TEN classic DVD or Blu-Rays to giveaway on Twitter this month, winners’ choice of four titles. But please read more

A Carole Lombard trivia question: Which Academy Award winners did she co-star with? The catch is this: They already had to have won the award at the time they appeared on screen with Carole, so Clark Gable, James Stewart and Paul Lukas don't count. (Lukas won his Oscar for 1943's "Watch on the Rhine read more

Excluding prologue and epilogue, Oscar has a present action of roughly four hours. The movie runs just shy of two hours. A lot happens with a lot of characters. And, while the film’s based on a play–which explains the limited setting–and even though it’s not like director Landis does anything read more

‘What? They never won an Oscar?!’ Part 3 On February 25, 2017 By CarolIn Uncategorized Myrna Loy She had quite a prolific career. And she was one of those people who could do anything, from Pre-Code to screwball to drama. One of her best pe read more