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This past Sunday night ( 2/22/15 ) I watched the Academy Awards ceremonies ( yes I still want to call it that ) as I’ve done every year since I saw Sidney Poitier and Julie Christie win. I just want to say a couple of words about it while it’s still fresh in my mind… …and before the read more

THE OSCARS Yep, that’s me. Thanks to my friend Paula, I attended an industry screening a few weeks ago…and there it was. Oscar. Oscar, standing gold and tall. That may be the closest I will EVER come to being near an Academy Award. << Sigh! >> But it doesn’t mean I can read more

List of Academy Award Winners for Best Actor and Best ActressAwards presented on the Decade and Half Decade Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) November 5, 1930: The 3rd Academy Awards honors films screened and Irving Thalberg with wife Norma Shearer and read more

  Turner Classic Movies: 31 Days of Oscar CMH Picks: Week Four ….. Sunday February 22nd: One Flew Over the Cuckcoo’s Nest at 10:30pm EST Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Milos Forman director) If you’re feeling in the mood for something read more

Bolão do Oscar 2015 Carnaval, Quarta-Feira de Cinzas, início das aulas, bolão do Oscar organizado pelo blog DVD, Sofá e Pipoca: estes são os eventos obrigatórios do mês de fevereiro. E com certeza as apostas para o Oscar são minhas preferidas. Apesar de não ter tanta certeza em minhas read more

Bolão do Oscar 2015 Carnaval, Quarta-Feira de Cinzas, início das aulas, bolão do Oscar organizado pelo blog DVD, Sofá e Pipoca: estes são os eventos obrigatórios do mês de fevereiro. E com certeza as apostas para o Oscar são minhas preferidas. Apesar de não ter tanta certeza em minhas read more

I have to say that Cecil Beaton is my favourite photographer, but he was also an incredible costume designer. He created the costumes of 14 movies: Kipps, Dangerous Moonlight, On Approval, The Young Mr. Pitt, Anna Karenina (1948), An Ideal Husband, Beware of Pity, Dandy Dick, The Truth about Women, read more

  Turner Classic Movies: 31 Days of Oscar CMH Picks: Week Three ….. Sunday February 15th: The Bridge Over River Kwai at 8:00pm EST William Holden in Bridge On the River Kwai (1957, David Lean director) Ok, so I will admit I have never this one. So, how abut you all tune in, and we’l read more

I apologize for my spacing out. For some reason, I thought Oscar Snubs were at the end of the month. :/ Silly me! I do apologize for the lateness, but perhaps I have taken a cue from my first subject in the Oscar Snubs category – Marilyn Monroe. To anyone who knows me, I am a HUGE Marilyn Mon read more

Every year, when the Academy Award nominations are announced, I excitedly print out the list of nominees and set about seeing as many films as I can before the night of the big event. I usually don’t think about films or performances that didn’t make the cut, or give much consideration to “Oscar read more

This post is part of the 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon, hosted by Paula’s Cinema Club, Outspoken & Freckled, and Once Upon A Screen. Check out all the posts here! Women have been a part of the film industry since the very beginning, yet looking at the list of Oscar nominees throughout history read more

31 Days of Oscar Blogathon Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candiate In 2013, the Academy Awards corrected what was, in my humble opinion, one of its biggest mistakes. No, it did not reverse its 1942 Best Picture decision and give it to Citizen Kane (no offense to How Green Was My Valley lovers). read more

Introduction Film is an ever-changing artform, so it stands to reason that the awards that Hollywood created to help celebrate the industry should evolve. It’s more apparent when you realize that the Oscars began when the industry was in flux as sound was in its infancy. Film has twice adapted itse read more

This post is part of the 31 Days of Oscar blogathon. I’m taking part in the Oscar Snubs segment, hosted by Once Upon a Screen! There are so many amazing posts. Check them out here. Also see Paula’s Cinema Club & Outspoken & Freckled for the other great Oscar topics. I’m rarely puzzled read more

  Turner Classic Movies: 31 Days of Oscar CMH Picks: Week Two ….. Sunday February 8th: Gaslight at Midnight EST Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Joseph Cotten in Gaslight (1944, George Cukor director) This is one of those movies where you are in the theater (or on the laptop) thinking: read more

Introduction Whatever I do manage to see this year during 31 Days of Oscar will be covered in a wrap-up post. In the meantime, those films that previously got buried in conglomerated posts will get their own due here. In the wrap-up I will continue the tradition of attempting to see 31 new-to-me Fil read more

Introduction Whatever I do manage to see this year during 31 Days of Oscar will be covered in a wrap-up post. In the meantime, those films that previously got buried in conglomerated posts will get their own due here. In the wrap-up I will continue the tradition of attempting to see 31 new-to-me Fil read more

Helen Hayes as Ada Quonsett in Airport I didn’t know what to expect, but when I saw it for the first time,  Airport became one of my favourite movies of the 70’s. Directed by George Seaton ( Miracle on 34th Street, Apartment for Peggy, The Country Girl) in 1970, it tells the story of read more

If you followed this link I know what you’re likely thinking: How many actors have been awarded Oscars that both not in a competitive category (meaning there were no nominations announced), and also not honored in a Lifetime fashion. It’s true there aren’t too many, but they are wo read more

Paul Lukas 1891 - 1971 It's that time of year again! The 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon hosted by Kellee of Outspoken and Freckled, Paula of Paula's Cinema Club and Aurora of Once Upon a Screen to coincide with TCM's popular annual programming schedule. Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Pau read more