The 90th Academy Awards telecast aired in March to all time low record. Disney-ABC Television Group executives met with leaders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to convey a message: You are facing irrelevance. A year and a half earlier, ABC had set a long-term pact with the Academy to broadcast the […]
Oscar 2018: New Category, Best Popular Film, Criticized and Ridiculed
August 8, 2018 by
Should the new Academy category for best popular film be called: Oscar Box-Office Award?
Oscar Actors: Connery, Sean–Supporting Actor Winner, The Untouchables (1987)
August 8, 2018 by
First-time nominee, Sean (Bond 007) Connery, who won the 1986 Supporting Actor Oscar for “The Untouchables,” began his acceptance speech by saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, friends, and a few enemies.”
Oscar Actors: Redmayne, Eddie as Transgender–The Danish Girl
August 5, 2018 by
Eddie Redmayne won the 2015 Best Actor Oscar at his first nomination for the transgender drama, The Danish Girl. “I believe that I am a woman,” Redmayne tells his wife. “And I believe you too,” she says supportively. Redmayne portrays Danish artist Einar Wegener, later known as Lili Elbe — one of the first people […]
Oscar Directors: Foreign Filmmaker in Hollywood–August, Bille (The House of the Spirits) (Strangers in Paradise)
August 3, 2018 by
“The House of the Spirits,” his first American feature, was both a critical and commercial failure, thus qualifying him to my category of “Exiles in Hollywood,” or “Strangers in Paradise.”
