The Academy Awards of 2009 was the last year in which there were only five nominees for Best Picture. Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire beat The Reader, Milk, Frost/Nixon, and The Curious Case...
The Academy Awards of 2010 honored The Hurt Locker as Best Picture, and gave its director, Kathryn Bigelow, the first female Best Director award. The Best Picture nominees ranged from major technological...
In 1930, Ruth Chatterton earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sarah and Son. In doing so, director Dorothy Azner made history as the first female director...
The Academy Awards of 2011 had an excellent assortment of Best Picture Nominees. There were some “traditional” films, such as The King’s Speech (which was the winner). There were fresh, innovative stories...
The period piece is the most difficult film to get right. Time marches on and if an audience member catches a Starbucks cup left on a 1930s tenement stoop, the illusion is...
Change comes to the Oscars not with a nod in a back room, but often with an outcry or at least a strong shift in opinions. After The Elephant Man, David Lynch’s...
The Oscars of 2012 had, in my opinion, some pretty bland nominees. The Artist took home the main prize, but, while charming, it’s a pretty forgettable film. The Help is entertaining, based...
At the 85th Academy Award nominees for Best Picture, Argo won Best Picture, despite not receiving a Best DIrector nomination for Ben Affleck. There were some interesting films this year; The LIfe...
